Criteria 1 Students are actively engaged in learning.

http://www.cln.org/subjects/astronomy_inst.html
This site provides many hot links that will allow teachers to select activities dealing with Astronomy. It offers lesson plans, projects, classroom ready handouts, Internet activities, and 6-8 week courses and hands on activities for students in grades K-12. This site also offers links for lesson plans, materials and activities in General Science, Life Science and Physical Science. (Becky Robins)

http://www.education-world.com
This site uses lesson plans, curriculum, and books in education and educational programs in order to engage students in learning. (Julie Pace)

http://forum.swarthmore.edu/paths/fractions/e.fraclessons.html#real
This web site gives teachers of grades 2-5 with great lessons and activities that involve teaching fractions. It provides lessons that introduce fractions, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of fractions, mixed numbers, equivalent fractions and parts of wholes. It lists great activities to engage all students in learning, links learning to real life situations, as well as, promote higher-level thinking. (Becky Robins)

http://teachingcircles.lacoe.edu/
This web site is your yellow pages for K-12 lesson plans in the following subjects: Mathematics, Science, History/Social Science, Language Arts, The Arts and Multi-Subject Lesson Plans. There are 18 web links in Mathematics, 37 web links in Science including lessons in Aeronautics, Biology, Life Science, Astronomy, Astrology, Weather and more, 16 web links in History/Social Science, 14 web links in Language Arts, 11, web links in The Arts and 44 web links in Multi-Subject lessons. The links found on this web site will help you to successfully engage your students in learning by giving you activities that will reach all types of learning. It will allow you to find lessons that will link learning to real life situations and promote higher-level thinking. The site will also provide activities that can be student initiated and creative thinking can take place. (Becky Robins)