Related Online Resources
The following websites provide information and resources related to Read to Feed interest areas.
And Heifer International is constantly looking for additional quality, online resources. If you feel your organization has such to offer, please send a request for inclusion in this list to readtofeed@heifer.org. Requests will be reviewed periodically and may be granted or denied without notification. Thank you!
Environment & Hunger Related Resources
Resources for Schools
- Lesson Plan Search provides a variety of information on all of the most searched topics by teachers and students.
http://www.lessonplansearch.com
- The Internet Public Library provides library services to Internet users. Activities include: finding, evaluating, selecting, organizing, describing, and creating information resources, and direct assistance to individuals.
http://www.ipl.org
- The Gateway to Educational Materials Project focuses on providing educators with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites.
http://www.thegateway.org
- DicoverySchool.com is a site for parents, teachers and students. It provides a library of creative curriculum resources, personalized classroom materials, crosswords and puzzles.
http://school.discovery.com
- Bigchalk delivers resources to 43,000 schools in the U.S. and abroad. By harnessing the power of online content, they create learning environments that promote student achievement.
http://www.bigchalk.com
- The National Association for Elementary School Principals (NAESP) offers member benefits, professional development opportunities, news, research, conventions, and more.
http://www.naesp.org
- The Math Forum is a center for mathematics and mathematics education on the Internet. Its online community includes teachers, students, researchers, parents, educators, and citizens at all levels that have an interest in math and math education.
http://www.mathforum.org
- NetAid is an organization devoted to fighting extreme poverty around the world. It has games that teach kids about poverty and access to education.
http://www.netaid.org
- The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) tries to raise levels of nutrition and standards of living, to improve agricultural productivity, and to better the condition of rural populations. It seeks to alleviate poverty and hunger by supporting sustainable agricultural development.
http://www.fao.org
- The World Bank is one of the world's largest sources of development assistance. Its primary focus is on helping the poorest people and the poorest countries. This site provides an overview of how the Bank uses its financial resources, its highly trained staff, and its extensive knowledge base to help developing countries onto paths of stable, sustainable, and equitable growth.
http://www.worldbank.org
- The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) tries to enable the rural poor to overcome their poverty.
http://www.ifad.org
- The Hunger Center's mission is to fight hunger by developing leaders-leaders who have a shared commitment to a nation and a world free from hunger. This site also provides national and international news about poverty, actions and solutions. The Congressional Hunger Center is a private organization that sends young Americans to work with the poor around the globe. The Center gives the volunteers the experience and training to become America's future leaders in the global fight against hunger.
http://www.hungercenter.org
- American Fact Finder is a source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data coming from the U.S. Census Bureau.
http://factfinder.census.gov
- The Kaboose Network Funschool offers learning games for ages Preshcool to 6th Grade. These challenging games cover math, history, science, geography, reading & vocabulary and thinking skills. These games would act as great supplements to many classroom lessons!
http://games.funschool.com
- Internet 4 Classrooms helps teachers to use the Internet effectively. Links for K-12 Teachers is a good starting point for web searching. There are several large collections of links to help with specific subject areas, or areas of interest to K-12 teachers, as well as Standardized Testing Practice links. Daily Dose of the Web offers web sites which can be used in the classroom daily. These are sites which change content on a daily or weekly basis such as Quotation Sources, Interesting Trivia Questions, Brain Teasers, etc. On-Line Practice Modules offers Step-by-step tutorials for learning a variety of applications commonly used in K-12 classrooms. In School Integration Support (ISIS) shows several workshops that are available for schools/districts to provide training for teachers to make effective use of technology in their classrooms.
http://www.internet4classrooms.com
Service Learning Related Resources
- The Learn and Serve America National Service-Learning Clearinghouse (NSLC) supports the service-learning community in higher education, kindergarten through grade twelve, community-based initiatives and tribal programs, as well as all others interested in strengthening schools and communities using service-learning techniques and methodologies.
http://www.servicelearning.org
- The BBB Wise Giving Alliance collects and distributes information on hundreds of nonprofit organizations that solicit nationally or have national or international program services. It routinely asks such organizations for information about their programs, governance, fund raising practices, and finances when the charities have been the subject of inquiries.
http://www.give.org
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