• Teacher's Zone: A new Man and Mollusc Zone specifically designed just for educators. If you are needing additional information or hands-on materials or you would like to add or request additional information to be placed on this page, just notify me (Avril Bourquin)

• Avril's Fun Things to Do and See Page:

• Educational Links Page: For Mollusc specific educational links pages

• Ocean-Related Professional Careers: This page is provided as a service to those interested in pursuing an Ocean-Related Career and is intended for self-directed learning.

• Science Related Pages:

  • Marine Pages
  • Animals (A to L)
  • Animals (M to Z)
  • Science Pages

  • Ecology Pages

• Students! This Page is For You! There's a lot of good pages for teacher's here as well even though I have just tried to set it up to assist students

• Mrs. Seagraves' QUEST Class and Thematic Units:

  • Snails: A fun site to learn all about snails (K -8)

• Cody's Science Education Zone: Lesson Plans. Lesson plans on insects, parasites, and seashells.

  • Seashell Discovery: A lesson in Inductive Classification (Grades 4 to 8)

• Enchanted Learning.com: Kids!!!! Be sure to "Tell your teachers about EnchantedLearning.com! and their "Mollusk Pages to Color Online" This a GREAT site for kids and teachers alike. Help teachers to bring molluscs into your classroom.

• Mollusks Printouts. Check out the section on Oceans and Coral reefs as well
  • Mollusks Pages to Color Online.

• Education Planet: good listings of materials and lesson plans available
  • Invertebrates:
  • Mussels
  • Nautilus & Cuttlefish:
  • Nudibranchs:
  • Octopus:
  • Shellfish:
  • Squid:

• Environment Canada: Teacher's Resources: Environment Canada has produced many useful brochures and activity publications designed for the classroom. Materials can be ordered free of charge via the Web. Several publications also are available in PDF format.

• Teach-Nology.com: "TeAch-nology.com offers teachers FREE access to 19,000 lesson plans, 5,600 printable worksheets, over 200,000 reviewed web sites, rubrics, educational games, teaching tips, advice from expert teachers, current education news, teacher downloads, web quests, and teacher tools for creating exciting classroom instruction."

• The Secret Lives of Snails and Slugs: Level N: "Just mention the word slime and you are likely to have the attention of many early readers. The Secret Lives of Snails and Slugs not only mentions slime, it discusses the many fascinating purposes of slime in the lives of snails and slugs. This informative book also examines these animals' body parts, how they move, what they eat, and how their young are born. Captioned photographs of a wide variety of snails and slugs are sure to delight readers who love all things slimy. .."

• Web Quest.com: Lesson Plans Page

  Marine Mollusk Unit: Jeanette Bratcher : MDCPS Competency Based Curriculum Science Grade 5

• Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute: Shells by Nancy Wyskiel "Lesson Plans available online!!!

• Zebra Mussel Lesson Plan (Grade 12 level)

• 3-2-1 Classroom Contact: "The award-winning science series '3-2-1 Contact' has been reformatted especially for the classroom. Designed to supplement science core curricula, '3-2-1 Classroom Contact' offers balanced instruction in the physical, biological and earth sciences. Each program presents a portion of the original televised series plus new wrap-around material, table-top demonstrations and a recap of main ideas..."
  

• Classroom Connect: has determined, at the time of review, that all information is current, accurate, and organized; it's free of grammar and spelling errors; it's useful for the chosen grade level; all hyperlinks work

• Clipart for the Classroom:

• Classroom Clipart:
• Creative Insanity, Inc.: Some quite unique and enjoyable clip art gallery. However, many items are copyrighted so seek permission from the owner to use
• Discovery School's Clipart Gallery: by the Teacher's Files.
• Educational Clip Art:
• Kid's Domain.com: a part of Kaboose net

• Science Clips

• Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Translators, Homework Helpers, International News stations, Family Friendly and Child Proof Search Engines, Science Fair Projects, Writing Resources, etc.: can be found on the Man and Mollusc Student Page

• FREE World Flag Center!: National Anthem Midis, Lyrics and World Flags "Over 1800 world flags representing some 275 countries and territories in 10 different sets! Each numbered link to a flag on the Anthems pages corresponds to one of the Flag Sets below. ..."

• The Great Globe Gallery: "Get the whole world in your hands with globes that speak your language."
  You have to visit this site ! Every conceivable map of the world that you could ever use and most are beautiful! By clicking on the map shown on each page you go on to the original site or owner of that map. This site gives you links for: software to make your maps, wonders of the world, where is is day and night NOW , live satellite maps, interactive maps, mapping tools, interactive maps....

• Helping Your Students with Homework The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Research & Improvement (OERI) produced this site. Filled with ideas from teachers for helping make homework effective, the site is organized around 18 tips for getting homework done.
  For the user's convenience, this document is also available in portable document format (PDF) [85K].

• K12 News: "Find exciting new resources for educators, parents & students"
  Our mission, "to facilitate the dissemination of educational material," is made possible in part by your efforts and we truly appreciate it. Working together, we can deliver free and cost effective educational material to every educator, parent and student.

• The Lesson Plan Page:   University of Alberta. Instructions on how to build your own lesson plan. Plus, this page has a collection of hypertext links to pages that have lesson plans.

• Little Planet Learning: The Art ands Science of Learning:

• Maps 101.com: Content for the Classroom: "Over 4,000 up to date maps available for immediate download and printing. Try our interactive maps, check out Africa from space, or get metro maps on over 20 U.S. cities. Great for Social Studies, History, Art, Geography and more!"

• www.maps.com/:
  • Outline Maps: Black and white outline maps with text for all continents and regions.
  • Interactive Maps: Watch as history unfolds
    

• Professional Cartoonist Teacher Guide: The Professional Cartoonists' Index offers newspaper editorial cartoons. The teachers' guide helps to interest students in  current events, symbolism, satire, metaphor and irony.  Lesson plans use games to encourage students to discuss current events and explore and interpret the symbolism in cartoons.

• Project Happy Child: Project HappyChild is non-profit and this site is here to offer free educational resources, link up children and schools across the world, and also highlight the needs of less fortunate kids.

• Teachnet.com: Classroom management, Time to Deck Out Your Classroom, Pets in the classroom, Teaching and Discipline and much, much more!

• Teaching Tips Index: by the University of Hawaii; Site Includes Lesson Planning Procedures & Forms for effective teaching and how to from a Faculty Development Document
  

• ThinkQuest for Tomorrow's Teachers: "The New ThinkQuest for Tomorrow's Teachers (T3) program brings a new approach to technology use and integration for teacher education faculty, pre-service and current K-12 Educators and their students. "

• University of Georgia: Science Box Project: those involving molluscs are:
  • Invertebrates Box 1
  • Invertebrates Box 2
  • Invertebrates Box 3
  • Marine Mammals Oceans
  • Invertebrates

• Adopt An Escargot: "Adopt an Escargot is for French classes and their teachers. Students can have fun exploring the francophone web while practicing their French. If students adopt Escargots, they will be able to exchange e-mails en français with Le Grand Escargot and may submit stories, pictures, etc. en français for possible inclusion on the Adopt an Escargot site.
  
  Adopt an Escargot est pour les classes de français et leurs profs. Les élèves peuvent explorer le web francophone pendant qu'ils s'amusent à pratiquer le français. Si les élèves adoptent des Escargots, ils peuvent communiquer en français avec Le Grand Escargot et envoyer des histoires, des images, etc. pour le site. Nancy"

• 2Learn.ca "NetSplore" Activity Pages: "At your fingertips! 2Learn 'NetSplore™ Activity Pages are prepared and shared primarily by Alberta teachers on a variety of curricular areas, topics, units and themes. Unlike traditional lesson plans, NetSplore™ activity pages incorporate web resources to create multidimensional learning activities."

• American School Directory: Find vital school information on all 108,000 K-12 schools in America. View calendars, menus, contact information, wish lists and even student artwork.
  • Educators, find what you need NOW! With over 7,000 educational vendors represented, you are sure to find the items to fit your needs.
  • Fun Learning activities for the classroom!
  • Find great Web Sites reviewed and indexed by Vanderbilt University.
  • Teachers, try the Certificate Maker & the time saving ready-made forms free for you to print and use anytime.
    

• American Sign Language Browser "Welcome to Michigan State University's ASL Browser web site, an online American Sign Language (ASL) browser where you can look up video of thousands of ASL signs and learn interesting things about them.
  This web site contains the signs found in MSU Comm Tech Lab's award winning Personal Communicator CD-ROM. The CD-ROM runs on laptop or desktop computers and is designed for deaf children to use at school and at home."

• For more ASL sites; go to Man and Mollusc Medical Page

• Ask Eric.com:

• Lesson Plans: Search or browse over 1100 lesson plans. Submit your own!

• ERIC Database: Search the world's largest educational research database via the Web.

• Q&A: Ask a question about educational theory or practice and receive a personalized e-mail response in two business days.

• Virtual Library: Explore our Q&A response & mailing list archives, TV series materials, and more.

• Awesome Library:  "Awesome Library organizes the Web with 16,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education."

• Busy Teachers Web Site K-12: Developed by Georgia Tech. Subject category links ranging from chemistry to art makes searching for education related sites easy. There is also a Teachers Reference section that lists current educational topics and additional links.

• Canada's School Net: "SchoolNet's Learning Resources includes over 5,000 quality educational materials evaluated and approved by professional educators. From power learning tools to Mathematics and Social Sciences, you can easily access all of the information you need thanks to SchoolNet's very own Metadata-driven search engine."

• Classroom Connect: Member Logon required

• Community Learning Network:  "Welcome to the Community Learning Network WWW home page. CLN is designed to help K-12 teachers integrate technology into their classrooms. We have over 265 menu pages with more than 5,800 annotated links to free resources on educational WWW sites -- all organized within an intuitive structure."

• Computer Lesson Plans for Tired Teachers:  Proven Computer Lesson Plans for Teachers and Trainers. At Lesson Plans for Tired Teachers we do our best to provide you with quality lessons which have been tested and will work in your classroom.

• D & W Teacher Resources:  This site, developed by two teachers, provides lesson plans, education links and even gives advice to the new teacher.

• Discovery.com: Free Lesson Plans: "Find hundreds of original lesson plans, all written by teachers for teachers. Use the pull-down menus below to browse by subject, grade, or both"

• EdHelper.com: "10847 Lesson Plans , 1201 WebQuests, 679 File Downloads, 8641 Additional Educational Sites, 4200 Free Worksheet Generators; 1000 Word and Critical Thinking Problems; Exams and Puzzles for Standardized Tests, Educational News Updated Daily! "

• EdsOasis by Classroom Connect;  Welcome to THE meeting place for teachers!

• Education Index:  This is an annotated guide to the best education-related sites on the Web. They're sorted by subject and lifestage, so you can find what you're looking for quickly and easily.

• Education Virtual Library:  Search Engine by Charles Sturt University.  Sites are sorted by, Education Level, Resources Provided, Type of Site, and Country

• Education Planet The K-12 education Web guide has links to help teachers, students and parents find quality educational resources, Science Sections: Science: Earth, Life, Physical. This is only a fraction of the subjects available.

• Education World: Safe search of over 500,000 web resources. This provides a search engine, lesson plans, classroom issues, and much, much more. "A country-by-country and state-by-state guide to K12 Schools, Universities, and Education Resources around the world."

• Encata.MSN.com:Learning and Research search Engine Page

• Enchanted Learning.com:  Don’t miss this exciting web resource; Zoom School is an on-line elementary school classroom with lessons in geography, biology, language arts, and early childhood activities.
  Enchanted Learning.com is a great beginners spot for learning about molluscs. I highly recommend this site
  • Molluscan Printouts:
  • OceanLife Printouts

• EvaluTech is a searchable database that contains more than 5000 reviews of instructional materials recommended for classroom use in kindergarten through grade 12.

• Federal Resources for Educational Excellence: Besides having a good search engine, this site offers a treasure trove of historical documents, scientific experiments, mathematical challenges, famous paintings, and other tools for teachers & students.

• The Gateway to Educational Materials: "The key to one-stop, any-stop access to high quality lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources on the Internet!" This is a GREAT site and easy to search
  

• Holocaust: Teachers Guide to the Holocaust: An overview of the people and events of the Holocaust through photographs, documents, art, music, movies, and literature.  The site provides a factual but chilling account of the Holocaust, its victims and perpetrators. Teacher resources, classroom activities, Web links, a Holocaust glossary and timeline are featured.

• Houghton Mifflin K-8 :  The Education Place Activity Search is a searchable database of 400+ original K-8 classroom activities and lesson plans for teachers and parents. You may search for activities by both curriculum area and grade level.

• Intel in Education Home Page:  The Intel Education Destination is a free, noncommercial online toolbox developed for and by teachers and technologists. It provides the most current information and resources to plan, implement, manage and facilitate teaching and learning with technology.

• JITT (Just in Time Training): "Two years ago a group of people(from ISTE Academy) decided to do a project on making an online resource available to educators for the purpose of teaching, providing links to lessons and projects, and other resources to answer their tech. and software questions. It has evolved into a very successful site providing a huge resource library of links that range from "how do I turn on my computer?" to "How can I integrate this lesson into my curriculum?".

• K -12 School Programs: "The Center offers a wide variety of programs focused on enhancing the science and mathematics education of the communities and school districts in the five western counties of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. " http://emmap.mtu.edu/gem/education/forest2.html

• Learning Page:  "Teachers, Parents, Homeschoolers: this is the place for lesson plans, worksheets, activities and more.All resources are downloadable and printable. The curriculum is written and designed for preschool, kindergarten, first, second,and third grade students."

• Lesson Planet: Search from over 16,000 online lesson plans by keyword and grade!

• Lesson Plan Collections: Science resources and teacher's tools.

• Lesson Plans from the Teacher's Desk: Geared to grades 5 & 6, this site contains a collection of over 250 lesson ideas for Spelling, Writing, English, Reading, and Vocabulary activities, with a few extras thrown-in.

• The Lesson Plan Page:   University of Alberta. Instructions on how to build your own lesson plan. Plus, this page has a collection of hypertext links to pages that have lesson plans.

• The Learning Space:   Learning Space was created by teachers for teachers.  The space offers online lesson plans, Internet projects classroom web pages, a teacher chat room, tutorials and much more.
  "Our mission is to provide educators with opportunities and tools to develop, implement and share effective uses of technology to improve student learning."

• Library of Congress: A great spot to search for historical graphics, articles, sounds, words, etc.

• Meet historical characters, explore the states...

• Watch a movie, hear a song, play a tune from America's past.

• Lightspan.com:  Lightspan.com is a free education portal for educators, parents, and students, providing resources, research tools, and grade-specific activities.

• LISTSERV listing by name:
• LISTSERV list by Subject:

• Mad Scientist Network: "MadSci Network represents a collective cranium of scientists providing answers to your questions. For good measure we provide a variety of oddities and other ends as well. "

• Magic School Bus: (PreK to 8)
  • Teacher's Page: Easy to use site of resources. It even has a search engine
  • Kid's Page: come in and see what they are offering the kids
  • Parent's Page:

• New York Times Learning Network: (Grades 3-12) This site offers daily lesson plans (and achieve) based on current events.   Content is outstanding.  Editors link the plans to national standards.

• Open Learning Agency: Open School: Courses and programs for K-12 students and their teachers in British Columbia and beyond.

• PacBell's Knowledge Network Blue Web'n: One of the great sites for educators on the web, Blue Web'n has a searchable data based of K-12 applications. Almost everything posted is excellent and useable. The site is categorized by subject, grade level and type.

• SchoolPage: This is a massive site with so much to offer.  Everything from lesson plans, templates, book reviews, college application help tips and so much more. 

• Schoolhouse Encarta:  At this site, you can contribute lesson plans, check other lessons, search student resources, or explore teacher resources. 

• Small Planet: Links for Teachers: Lesson Plans:  ... for K-12 Educators -- A well-organized and nicely designed site with links to loads of resources for teachers, including lesson plans by content area. 

• Stats Canada: Learning Resources: Data, publications and teaching tools created and selected for school teachers and teacher librarians.
  

• Study Web: Search our collection of over 162,000 Research Quality URLs: Homework Companion provides quick access to an encyclopedia, dictionary, and thesaurus; plus maps, calculators, converters and more

• Tapioca.com: Learn more, surf less: Search engine

• Teachnet.com:  Providing educators with lesson plans, tips & more.  Share with thousands of teachers around the world with our Teacher.  Also an online “Shop & Save.

• Teachers First: resources on specific authors frequently found in middle and high school curricula, as well as listings for complete texts.

• Teachers Helping Teachers: Designed by teachers, this site has a vast amount of useful information for teachers. Among the highlights are Teaching Ideas & Tips, categorized according to subject area, an area to post lesson plans that you would like to share, and links to Educational Resources. Best of all, this site is updated, weekly, and has new information available regularly. Also be sure to visit the “Stress Reducer Page” just for fun.

• Teachers.Net:  The Teachers.Net Lesson Bank is your opportunity to share your most precious asset - your teaching ideas and lesson plans! Now your genius and creativity can be used to touch lives around the world, and to help teachers reach students in ways they had never imagined before!

• Teaching Media: " For your convenience, we've gathered together the best classroom ideas, teaching units, student handouts and background information from our site, on specific media topics."

• Time for Kids: An online version of the magazine Time for kids contains articles and multimedia. Articles are archived so that teachers can create many links for students.

  Also online is their Little Planet Times - an interactive online newspaper for kids, by kids that promotes reading, writing, and communication skills for K-5.

• Utah Education Network:  Resources for Public Education This site features some outstanding core curriculum activities, lesson plans, and features.  Career planning information is also available.

• Virtual School House: The many hypertext links are nicely categorized for ease of use. If you are searching for lesson plans and other resources, click classrooms. They also have The Playground, a place for teachers or students to have a bit of fun!

• Web 66: This is a must visit site for teachers and students. Wonderfully arranged, and witty, the site contains information on technology, lesson plans separated into subject area categories, an e-mail discussion group of educators, and an interactive map that has a comprehensive list of K-12 WWW sites. There is also an absolutely marvelous kids page. For ease of traveling, they have created the mustang, a web cruising vehicle which links you to what appears to be limitless resources. If you want lesson plans or you want to find out how to publish on the web, this site is for you.

• Web Quest Place: This site is hosted by the Educational Technology Department at San Diego State University.

• Matrix of Examples: Sorted by grade level and subject
  

• wNet School: wNetSchool, designed by classroom teachers and technology experts, offers K-12 teachers diverse information, from standards-based lesson plans and classroom activities to reviews of curriculum-based Web sites.

• Worldware by Compass Learning: Member Logon required Web site for curriculum, current events, and interactive fun! You'll find activities here to fit grades K-12, in subjects including the arts, science, language arts, mathematics, and social sciences. Our activities encourage critical thinking and are a terrific way for students to enhance classroom learning. The primary goal of Worldware is to help teachers and parents integrate the Internet into the curriculum in a meaningful and useful manner.

• WWW Sites and Resources for Teachers: This California State University with the help of Morgan Cain and Associates, offer great links to sites categorized into 25 curriculum topics. 

• Acorn Naturalists:  Welcome to Acorn Naturalists' Science and Environmental Education Website;  new resources for the trail and classroom

• BioMedia: by the Glasgow University Zoology Museum: This is a definite must see site for the entire animal kingdom

• Chem Lab: Software Download: "del ChemLab for Windows is a real-time 2D simulation of a chemistry lab in which the user interacts with animated lab equipment. Each lab simulation is contained in a separate simulation module, thus many different labs are possible using the common lab interface. ChemLab allows users to run through chemistry labs quickly, in a fraction of the time of an actual lab, while emphasizing the critical principles and techniques of experimental chemistry. "

• Discovery.com:  An invaluable source of online science materials.

• Lesson Plans:  Search hundreds of lesson plans by grade, subject, or both to find complete curriculum materials written by teachers for teachers.
• Teaching Tools:  From quizzes to puzzles to clip art, we've got an array of powerful tools to help you produce creative new teaching materials.
• A-to-Z Science:  Don't be mad, scientist — find it fast in our A to Z science encyclopedia.
• Understanding the Universe:  Learn to think universally, not just globally, on our tour of the almost unthinkably massive universe.
• The Yuckiest Site on the Internet:  by Yucky Kids at Discovery.com.  The best site for science entertainment.

• Environmental Education Resources on the Internet. 

• The Field Trips Site has a range of field trips on nature topics: Rainforests, Endangered Species, Salt Marshes, Volcanoes, and more! Perfect for classroom use, we provide teacher's objectives and resources for each trip.

• Lesson Plan Collections: Science resources and teacher's tools.

• Man and Mollusc Science Links Page: Watch for EduSnail to point out sites that are good for the classroom

• Marine Biology Web: "MBWEB is an educational resource for marine biology students with reference lists organized by subject. Many other links are here including links to marine stations, tide information, and lots more!"

• NEWTON'S APPLE: "NEWTON'S APPLE's 15th Season is filled with exciting new adventures and fascinating discoveries of science in the world around us.

• The Ocean of Know: has worked to reconfigure the ways in which marine biology is taught and learned, and to explore the educational potential of distance learning.

• PBS:  WNET's Educational Publishing Department prepares educational kits to accompany NATURE television programming. These guides are available in print and electronically, as PDFs (Portable Document Format), through the Web.

• ScienceLinks: Reviews of quality educational web sites for Science Teachers:  Mollusca

• SeaWorld/Busch Gardens Tampa, (USA):  the Animal Information Database and many more areas to explore online

• Educational Materials Associated with the Ocean Planet:  A large number of educational materials have either been developed specifically for the Ocean Planet Exhibition, or have been developed for other purposes but are a good complement to the materials presented in the Exhibition. If the materials are available in electronic form, you can retrieve them for use in your classroom. We will continue to add new materials as they become available.

• Think Quest; Truth About the Monsters of the Deep Lots of information on sharks.  Movies, glossary, quiz and lots more.

• Volcano World - includes current eruptions, world volcano listings by region, and images.
• Teaching and Learning: Teachers! lots of GREAT info here

• College View: "Search from over 3,000 colleges to find your perfect fit"

• ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION & TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES WORLDWIDE: This is an electronic version of the extensively revised and up-dated UNEP Directory ET Worldwide, which gives a listing of environmental education and training (EE&T) opportunities around the world, as well as information on financial assistance for environmental studies abroad.

• The Franklin Institute Online: "What career should you pursue if you're interested in science and technology? "

• Man and Mollusc's "Ocean-Related Professional Careers": This page is provided as a service to those interested in pursuing an Ocean-Related Career and is intended for self-directed learning. ...

• Sea World / Busch Gardens: Career Choices

• Your Career Choices.com:

Free Resources:

• High School@Home®: "Keystone National is an accredited High School that provides students with the means to earn high school credits or a diploma from home. "

• Learning Page:  "Teachers, Parents, Homeschoolers: this is the place for lesson plans, worksheets, activities and more.All resources are downloadable and printable. The curriculum is written and designed for preschool, kindergarten, first, second,and third grade students."

• Education/Theory_and_Methods/Home_Schooling by YAHOO: Search Engine

• YAHOO: Homeschooling Support

Commercial Resources:

• At Home Bookstore:

• Homeschool Products: Commercial link

• MommySchool.com: "We're a family-operated business, bringing the best homeschooling products and educational supplies to you. "

• YAHOO Listings

• Questique is an educational word game --- ideal aid for teaching English language: "Questique is a strategy crossword board game that can be played in a home, school or further educational environment. Rare amongst skill based games, it is suitable for children, families and adults. Play is possible from elementary to advanced levels. A simple handicapping system allows players of mixed abilities to all compete as equals. This could even be a highly educated language teacher and a below average ability child of eight! It is an excellent language teaching aid, especially in relation to spelling and vocabulary development. The game includes many options, one of these being "fast play". This is ideal for active minds and impatient players of all ages --- no need for an egg timer here to keep the game moving! Questique is fun, challenging and educational and can be played solo or by up to four players." David J English
  

• Snail Stories online:

  • Story Lovere SOS: A good links page just on snail stories and such
  • A Snail Just the Same
  • Andersen's Fairy Tales: by Hans Christian Andersen
  • Bubba and the Holy Snail
  • Children's Chants & Rhymes
  • Jonathan, the Fastest Snail in the Meadow (Concise version) © Jan Luthman - Bedtime Stories from Farmhouse Fables
    
  • Mr. Snail:
  • Preschool Nursery Rhymes
  • Sammy the Snail:
  • Snails in Literature
  • Snail Tales
  • Stories, Poems and Songs by Kiddy House
  • The Tale of Christopher Caterpillar and Sammy Snail: written and illustrated by Evelyn Sichi