http://www.kde.state.ky.us – Kentucky Department of Ed. (2004).

The web site offers many great things for teachers or future teachers of Kentucky.  It provides information about all of the schools and districts in the state, tests results from previous years, teacher standards, core content for assessment, program of studies, and much more.  Any information about education in Kentucky can  be found on this site.

http://www.scholastic.com/index.asp – Scholastic.  (2004).

Scholastic provides links for families to encourage the love of learning at home.  The teacher’s section contains lessons and activities for the classroom, tips about teaching with technology, book talks, and  much more.

http://www.teachers.net -The Ultimate Teacher’s Resource (2004).

The Ultimate Teacher’s Resource contains resources such as lesson plans, chat rooms, live meetings, articles, a virtual library, plus much more.

http://www.lessonplanspage.com -Lesson Plans Page.com. (2004).

Some of the many features other than providing lesson plans are improving reading, efficient reading, teacher magazines, science projects, math sheets, and much more.

http://www.atozteacherstuff.com - A to Z Teacher Stuff. (2004).

A to Z offers lesson plans by grade, subject, or topic.  This site is wonderful for planning a thematic unit. The newest section on the site is the printable activities you access and print out to use in the classroom. This site also offers tips from other teachers. 

http://4teachers.org - World Wide Web 4 Teachers. (2004).

This wonderful site has links for integrating technology, professional development, and a site of the week.  Some of the wonderful tools teachers can utilize are lesson plans, work sheets, and stories from kids.

http://www.lessonplanz.com – Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources. (2004).

This site contains many lessons, activities, and thematic units posted by teachers who have already used them and have had success!

http://www.teach-nology.com– The Web Portal for Educators. (2004).

This web page provides many free lesson plans and activities for teachers.  It has a very helpful search engine to find just about anything you want.

http://www.wbko.com - WBKO 13 Bowling Green Television Station. (2004).

This web page provides up to the minute weather updates for the local area and would be very useful in and out of the classroom to be informed about school closings, the weather (for recess), and for the current news.

http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocAPA.html – APA Documentation Style. (2004).

This web site provides a guide for using APA style documentation. The components include parenthetical citations, reference lists, headings, usage and style, formatting your paper, and citing electronic sources.