Check out these amazing sites for your students!  Martin Sargent, Tech TV host, searched the Internet for the best sites to help students overcome the homework blues.  They never had this kind of stuff when we were kids!

1. BigChalk -- Big Chalk is a massive resource covering every imaginable subject. With over 100,000 links, it provides resources for students at every grade level, elementary school through high school. Each link leads to a large selection of subtopics. Select a subject and age group to browse hundreds of resources or search for selections that match your keyword.

2. BJ Pinchbeck's Homework Helper -- BJ Pinchbeck is 14 years old. In 1996, with the help of his dad, this homework wizard started building a collection of helpful homework links at bjpinchbeck.com . Today, his collection resides at DiscoverySchool.com and includes more than 700 links for everything from math to gym class.

    

3. Multnomah County Library -- The librarians in Multnomah County, Oregon, do an amazing job of bringing together homework resources. Tap into this no-frills topical guide for sites on everything from animals to social issues. The library also provides helpful advice on evaluating websites and using search engines.

    

4. Jiskha Homework Help -- Ask your homework questions to Jiskha Homework Help. The homework help forums are a wonderful resource, as are all the wonderfully written, interesting articles covering an extensive range of subjects that are posted on the site.

    

5. Help from the Big Guys -- Check out AOL's homework resources. Choose your grade and subject, and you'll receive a list of helpful resources. Yahoo's Yahooligans division also offers an extensive directory of sites you can use to research your projects.

* ASCD Tutorial Series *

ASCD, the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, is an international, nonprofit, nonpartisan education association committed to the mission of forging covenants in teaching and learning for the success of all learners. The ASCD provides professional development in curriculum and supervision through their online free tutorial services. These tutorials are short multimedia lessons on topics for all levels of educators. Each lesson includes a definition, short articles on the topic, video and audio files of experts and practitioners, and a listing of resources that can be used to continue your professional development.

The New York Times Learning Network

The New York Times Learning Network is a FREE service for grades 3-12 students,
their teachers and parents that uses today's New York Times to create a
variety of activities for the classroom. On our site you'll find daily lesson
plans and lesson plan archives, News Snapshot, On This Day in History, daily
and weekly news quizzes, Word of the Day, crossword puzzles, Ask a Reporter,
special news packages and many more innovative, interactive and content-rich
features for you to use in your classroom. The site is updated Monday through
Friday throughout the year, and it's TOTALLY FREE- just come to the URL and
use the resources!

Quia - Quintessential Instructional Archive

Welcome to Quia, the leader in online education. Quia helps teachers teach better by giving them the tools to create, customize, and share learning activities. Quia helps students learn more by bringing the resources of hundreds of thousands of educators together in one place.

The Quia Directory is a great starting point for new users. It is a collection of thousands of activities categorized into 40 subject areas. All of the activities in the directory were created by teachers using Quia's tools and templates. These activities are the best of the more than 400,000 activities that Quia's users have created since the site's inception. Quia's editors continually update the directory with new games and new categories.