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MindStretchTutoring.com
Jan Filitti offers professional tutoring services in the Asheville, North Carolina area. Jan can tutor in a variety of subjects and is trained in the Orton-Gillingham method.

MindStretch Travel Adventures
Looking for a really great summer educational adventure for boys? Mark runs MindStretch Travel Adventures and each summer he takes a group of kids to some fantastic places.

CarolinaGeocaching.com
Geocaching is a great way to get kids outdoors while still enjoying the technology they love. Geocaching is a high-tech treasure hunt where you look for hidden "treasures" using handheld GPS receivers.

Cache-Advance.com
Need a place to buy geocaching supplies? Cache-Advance has everything a beginner or experienced geocacher might need or want. Check them out.

WEMA-SFL.com
Steve Longenecker in Asheville, North Carolina is an outdoor educator without comparison. He is licensed to keep raptors and other animals that have been injured and can't be returned to the wild. Steve uses these in leading some wonderful educational programs. Steve is also the developer of WEMA, the Wilderness Emergency Medical Aid program.

Camp Spring Creek
Camp Spring Creek is a summer residential camp in the North Carolina mountains serving bight children with dyslexia. They are one of only three residential camp programs in the US accredited by the Academy of Orton-Gillingham Practitioners and Educators.

Instructional Design and Technology  - Purdue Online Program's Master of Science in Education in Learning Design and Technology prepares students to learn instructional design and technology.

OnlineMastersDegrees.com
This sites offers plenty of test prep tips, study strategies, and a lot of info on college grants and scholarships for students.

AcademicInfo
AcademicInfo is an incredible starting point for research on a vareity of topics. There are links to over 25,000 sources. The website features hundreds of subject guides as well as educational resources and online degree information.

http://www.proteacher.com/030001.shtml
Extensive resource of behavioral management links.

http://www.ncrtec.org/picture.htm
Searchable index of pictures that can be used in the classroom.

http://www.wordcentral.com/
Wonderful site all about words from Merriam-Webster.

http://www.kidshealth.org/
Wonderful index of health-related resources for kids, teens, and parents.

http://www.webmath.com/
This exceptional site uses the immediacy of the Internet to provide students with help for math problems they're working on right now!

http://www.how-to-study.com/
Use this website to learn study strategies for listening and note taking.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bridge
Teacher's guide and resources from NOVA challenging students to determine four types of bridges. Extensive resources on bridge construction and design.

http://www.education-world.com/
A leading education community. This site has the Internet's largest education-specific search engine linking to over 115,000 education-related sites.

http://www.new-teacher.com/
Features articles on motivating students, starting the school year, and helpful links for the new teacher.

http://www.herp-edia.com/
Herp-edia, the "herptile" encyclopedia - all about reptiles.

http://www.nespa.org/
The homepage of the National Elementary Schools Press Association, an organization that helps elementary and middle schools start and improve school and class newspapers as a means of teaching real-world writing skills.

http://www.connectforkids.org/
Resources on issues facing today's child. Ideas and projects helping kids. Links to organizations and data to make the community better for our children.

http://www.s9.com/biography
18.000 brief biographies of Notable Citizens of the Planet Earth.

http://www.pantheon.org/mythica
Well-organized site on Ancient Rome with background information and dozens of links.

http://www.nsta.org/
Homepage of the National Science Teachers Association.

http://www.ncte.org/
Homepage of the National Council of Teachers of English

http://www.ncss.org/
Homepage of the National Council for the Social Studies

http://www.nctm.org/
Homepage of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

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