Educational Search Engines

• Education World
  http://www.education-world.com/
  Education World wanted to create a home for educators on the internet, a place where teachers could gather and share ideas. They wanted to create a complete online resource guide where educators could start each day to find the lesson plans and research materials they were looking for. And so they created a search engine for educational websites only, a place where educators could find information without searching the entire internet. They did a pretty good job.
  
  
• EDinformatics.com
  http://www.edinformatics.com/index.htm
  EDInformatics supplies you with numerous resources for all your education needs. Connect with searchable databases, use calculators, dictionaries, and maps, or search their index of over 1,000,000 reviewed sites. This is an excellent source for education information of all kinds.
  
  
• SearchEdu.com
  http://www.searchedu.com/
  A very handy search engine, SearchEdu.com has indexed over 20 million education and university pages. Also included are some reference tools, including links to calculators and websites that will aid you with converting various units of measurement.
  
  
• Education Planet
  http://www.educationplanet.com/
  Education Planet delivers high quality educational resources, tools and services that empower K-12 teachers, students, parents and administrators to effectively and creatively utilize the web for education. Currently, Education Planet hosts over 100,000 teacher approved educational resources, including 16,000+ lesson plans. One of the coolest features of this site is the fact that you can search specifically for educational sites, lesson plans, maps, videos, software, books, or supplies, all individually.
  
  
• Study Web
  http://www.studyweb.com/
  Study Web is exactly what it says it is - a place for anyone doing research to find the information they need as easily as possible. The categories are sorted according to the approximate appropriate grade level which makes them valuable tools for teachers looking for lesson plan and curriculum ideas. The information for each topic also notes the presence of downloadable or printable images for use as visual aids of school reports or projects. The variety of subjects and categories should allow most users to narrow in on a topic for a report, find background material for a story, begin research for a paper or just increase their knowledge of a particular topic.
  
  
• ERIC
  http://ericir.syr.edu/Eric/
  ERIC is a very large source of education information, with more than 1 million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. Try out this search engine; you won't be disappointed.
  
  
• National Education Association (NEA)
  http://www.nea.org/search/
  The National Education Association (NEA) is America's oldest and largest organization committed to advancing the cause of public education. Founded in 1857 in Philadelphia and now headquartered in Washington, D.C., NEA claims 2.5 million members who work at every level of education, from pre-school to university graduate programs. NEA has affiliates in over 13,000 local communities across the United States.
  
  
• Education Week on the Web's
  http://www.edweek.org/edsearch.cfm
  Search through Education Week on the Web's archives to find that obscure education article you've been looking for. Their searchable archive provides access to education news articles from the past twenty years up to the present, plus the organization's Quality Counts research reports. While you're there, jump over to their main page and check out their links to the latest issues of Education Week and Teacher Magazine, as well as the daily news and hot topics.
  
  
• 4Education
  http://4education.4anything.com/
  At the 4Education portal, you'll find everything that the teacher, parent, or student needs to research an educational topic.
  
  
• Open Directory Project: Education
  http://dmoz.org/Reference/Education/
  Another vast array of links from DMOZ. Open Directory Project: Education has every educational link you could imagine, and then some.
  
  
• The Library in the Sky
  http://www.nwrel.org/sky/
  Containing over 15,000 links to some of the best educational resources on the internet, The Library in the Sky guides teachers, students, parents, librarians, and members of the community on their journeys through cyberspace.
  
  
• Education Resource Organizations Directory
  http://www.ed.gov/Programs/EROD/
  The Education Resource Organizations Directory is intended to help you identify and contact organizations that provide information and assistance on a broad range of education-related topics.
  
  
• Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM)
  http://www.thegateway.org/
  The Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) project is a consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to the substantial, but uncataloged, collections of educational materials found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial internet sites. This site enables you to search for educational resources by keyword, while at the same time selecting a grade level desired so that the results returned will be relevant to the target audience.
  
  
• MyAcademicOnlyHomepage.com
  http://www.myacademiconlyhomepage.com/
  A kids-safe, fully searchable and translatable site loaded with all manner of academic information from Home School to Grad School. MyAcademicOnlyHomepage.com contains an ever growing selection of the best academic resources available for the internet savvy student of today. Sites are screened for academic value.

Distance Learning Search Engines

• EduPoint
  http://www.edupoint.com/
  EduPoint is the premiere online marketplace for continuing education, providing centralized access to over 1.5 million learning opportunities through more than 4,000 learning providers. By uniting Corporate America with the education community, EduPoint helps corporations streamline business processes, increase productivity and decrease costs.
  
  
• The Globewide Network Academy
  http://www.gnacademy.org/
  The Globewide Network Academy is dedicated to the promotion of access to educational opportunities for anybody, anywhere. To do this, GNA pioneers and develops distance learning relationships and facilities for the worldwide public to use.
  
  
• Virtual University
  http://www.vu.org/
  Virtual University is a member-supported, worldwide learning community and the largest educational portal on the Internet today. As the world's first and largest online learning community, VU is a pioneer in Internet-based education.
  
  
• MindEdge Inc.
  http://www.mindedge.com/home/index.phtml
  MindEdge Inc. serves this emerging market by providing the web's premier resource for personal development, distance learning, continuing education, on-campus and corporate training courses.
  
  
• Pacific Bell Education First Videoconferencing Directory
  http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/vidconf/directory.html
  The Pacific Bell Education First Videoconferencing Directory is a searchable database of ISDN videoconferencing sites for the K-12 school, community college, and public library communities. Their directory includes contacts, program descriptions, and equipment information for over 600 sites.
  
  
• http://www.schoolvoice.org/default.htm
  This database is a collection of content for K-12 videoconferencing programs. Many content providers furnish specific educational programs for students along with professional development programs for teachers. Many are also willing to create customized programs to meet your needs. This database can be searched by subject area, grade level, program cost, as well as the content provider's name.

K-12 Search Engines

• The American School Directory
  http://www.asd.com/
  The American School Directory is the Internet guide to all 108,000 K-12 schools, providing information, communication and payment tools for teachers, students, parents, local communities and families planning a move.
  
  
• Education World
  http://www.education-world.com/
  Education World is the Educator's Complete Resource Guide to the internet. Education World's goal is to make it easy for educators to integrate the Internet into the classroom. With 95% of the nation's public schools expected to be online by the year 2000, the need for a complete online educational guide is evident.
  
  
• http://web66.coled.umn.edu/schools.html
  This is a huge registry that tries to encompass every school on the planet. It's doin a pretty good job thus far.
  
  
• Awesome Library
  http://www.awesomelibrary.org/
  The Awesome Library organizes the Web with 15,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education.
  
  
• BigChalk.com
  http://www.bigchalk.com/
  BigChalk.com uses the internet to put everyone closer to the information they need. Teachers use bigchalk.com to shape their passion and skill into a learning environment that breaks the barriers of classroom walls, fixed hours, and limited school resources. BigChalk.com opens a world of information to teachers, students, and parents — enhancing learning, helping with homework, and offering limitless paths of exploration.

Teaching Search Engines

• TeAch-nology.com
  http://www.teach-nology.com/
  TeAch-nology.com offers a wide variety of resources intended to bring educators into the world of teaching with technology. As a portal, it provides links to valuable and useful information relative to current and past practice in the field of education. As a vehicle for professional development of teachers, TeAch-nology.com offers tutorials that are process oriented and that are designed to minimize frustration levels associated with technology use.
  
  
• Teachnet.Com
  http://www.teachnet.com/
  Teachnet.Com educator services include lesson plans, web links, interactive forums & mailing lists and a weekly email newsletter. This is a good resource for teachers searching for tips and advice, lesson plans and teaching ideas.
  
  
• Adprima
  http://www.adprima.com/
  Designed for new teachers and education students, but also for anyone interested in education, Adprima is a source of serious, quality information. Adprima contains detailed, practical, straightforward information on lesson planning, teaching methods, home schooling, classroom management, assertive discipline, study skills, thinking skills, job searching, education reform, discussions, contrary opinions, and a whole lot more.
  
  
• Teachers Network
  http://www.teachnet.org/
  Teachers Network, designed by teachers, for teachers, features a variety of teacher opportunities and resources supported by more than 20 years of local and national educational experiences.
  
  
• American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education's
  http://www.aacte.org/
  The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education's newly redesigned website has new graphics and features to serve you better. AACTE is a national, voluntary association of colleges and universities with undergraduate or graduate programs that prepare professional educators.

Special Education Search Engine

• Special Education News
  http://www.specialednews.com/
  Special Education News answers a need in education for in-depth, timely news related to educating students with disabilities. The Web site and newsletter are journalistic publications centered on the news of the special education field. The Web site is also designed to offer unique resources to special education professionals in one convenient place. These include places for educators and others to exchange their views, find links to important information at other sites on the Web and keep track of news and events across the country.