Teacher Mega Sites
Homeschool Mega Sites
Commercial Mega Sites
TV Mega Sites
 
TEACHER MEGA SITES:

These are Mega Teacher sites, usually set up for Teachers by Teachers.  Many have great resources, worksheets, print out pages, and activities you can use. They also may have things you cannot use, such as classroom advice, ideas against your world view, or public school format of teaching. Take what you need, leave the rest.

Curriculum ideas and lesson plans from the university

Core Knowledge
A fast growing site with lots of information. ~Jube

Education World
A more professional looking site with lesson plans and ideas for lessons. ~Jube

TeachNet
Constant updates and the discussion group of teachers feeds this website so when they find new things, it's updated on the site. ~Jube

Windows Education Programs & Teacher Utilities
This page has an enormous amount of downloadable program links that are all educational and covers just about every subject!

BOBCAT's Homeschool Links
loads slow, but has great links and lesson plans ~Jube

Estaury-Net Curriculum
The lessons are divided into three levels, each containing 14 activities that address topics in the four primary high school science disciplines: biology, chemistry, physics, and earth science. Level 1 introduces students to watershed variables and processes through hands-on classroom activities. In addition, these topics are investigated using current water quality monitoring data available on the Internet. In level 2, students develop and utilize a water sampling plan that is then applied to a local stream site. Level 3 incorporates quality assurance into action plans. Students focus on improving the quality of data they collect.

USFWS Shorebird Sister School Program
shorebird curriculum guidebook GOOD

The Lessons Plan Page
Put in your grade and see what you find

Explorer
The ExplorerTM is a collection of educational resources (instructional software, lab activities, lesson plans, student created materials ...) for K-12 mathematics and science education. You may browse through mathematics and science education curricula (we plan to expand to other curricula) or conduct searches that focus on specific interests. Many resources are available in the Adobe Acrobat format that is readable by Macintosh, Windows

LessonPlanZ
Lesson Plans & Resources for Teaching Math, Science, Social Studies, Language Arts, Reading, Writing, Thematic Units, Themes, Classroom Activities - preschool, kindergarten, elementary, middle school, high school

Newsletter Center
This is a great site lots of fun ideas for teachers.

Parenting Advice, child development, and family reference
Another large site with lots of ideas. ~Jube

School World
Set up for the teacher. ~Jube

The Educator's Toolkit
The Teacher's Toolbox, and that's what is really is! ~Jube

HOMESCHOOL Mega SITES:

These are some of the premiere sites devoted to home schooling. Some are by organizations, others by individuals who have been pioneers and leaders in the online home school movement.

National Home Education Network

Texas Home School Coalition

Jon's Homeschool Resource Page
Granddaddy of all Home School Sites

The Homeschool Oasis
High School Home School info

Karen's Cyber-Garden
Karen's page with the greatest directory of home school lists

Annie's Homepage
Annie's Page with lots of links

Homeschool World
Mary Pride's site

COMMERCIAL Mega SITES:

By Commercial, I'm talking about Educational sites that are for profit, or business sites that have an educational page or pages in them. They offer lots of amenities that private individuals who have websites cannot offer, but watch for charges for items of interest.

Homeschool.com
I checked this site out, they have Dr. Raymond Moore as one of their advisors. This is the sister site of http://www.edusource.com ~Jube

About Homeschooling
About.com has been at the forefront of gathering information for home schoolers since they began as the Mining Company.  This section of their site is well done and very extensive. ~Jube

Kaleidoscapes
Another great homeschool Mega site, this has an impressive group of home school parents as advisors, lots of boards for every discussion and lots of information. ~Jube

Teaching And Learning with Mircrosoft
from microsoft, software freebies and other great information. ~Jube

Scholastic - Teacher's Homepage
from the people at Scholastic, lots of links and lesson plans ~Jube

Homeschool Convention
An online convention. Great idea for missionaries or others who cannot attend a convention. This convention is open all the time and has great vendors and workshops on it. ~Jube

Education Index
Follow the weasel as you check out this education index site. It rates education site (not home school sites). Have your tea ready. ~Jube

Homeschool Internet Resource Center
The Homeschool Internet Resource Center from the people at the Home School Academy in PA
Pro Quest has many freebies, and even subscriptions just for homeschoolers.  You can start with the freebies and/or the free trial and get a lot done.  They are generous with their freebies.
Apple Computer has lesson plans on all subjects by grade.

TV Mega SITES:

These are the sites that many educational TV shows have for lesson plans and follow up information on their show.

Arts and Entertainment Network

Animal Planet Show

Biography Network

CENET Downloads
lesson plans, software and other freebies. Check to be sure they are free. If they are shareware, you will need to pay for them after 30 days in most cases. ~Jube

Discovery Channel

Discovery Channel School

Discovery Channel Lesson Plans

Discovery Channel School - Educator Guide
Discovery's Educator Guide is a complete reference to the educational programming on Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel, Travel Channel, and Animal Planet. It includes an illustrated catalog of all their videos and CD-ROMs for sale. ~Jube

History Channel
They have a place on this page where you put in your Birth date and it takes you to a page telling you what happened on that day in history. Very cool. ~Mouse

History Channel International

PBS Kids: TechKnow

PBS TeacherSource

The Learning Channel

Today In History

Travel Channel

Billy Bear 4 Kids
Great Kids site. Lots to see for the younger set.