Artwork: by Brooks William

Olympia Middle School Library

 

 911 E. 800 North Road

 Stanford, IL  61774

 Phone: 309-379-5941

Fax: 309-379-5411


Find a Book

Databases

Links for Students

Teen Reading

Reference Desk

College and Career

Pathfinders

Links for Teachers

OMS Library Home Page

Olympia Front Page

 

 

Links for Teachers

 

This page contains links to online resources for lesson plans, booklists, learning standards, professional organizations, and anything else we find that might be helpful.  If you have a site you'd like to see added, email it to brenda.thompson@olympia.org.

Book Discussion Links:

 

Sahara Special:

http://www.nutmegaward.org/2006/docs/saharaspecial.doc

 

Bill Nye Videos

 

General links for educators
National Education Association
Illinois Education Association
Illinois High School Association
Illinois State Board of Education
Smithsonian Education Guide
Library of Congress
Copyright Guidelines

 

Links for Middle School
http://www.aims.uiuc.edu/links.html

http://www.nmsa.org/

 

Professional Organizations
For links to subject area standards, see the Learning Standards Resource site.
 National Council for the Social Studies
National Council of Teachers of English
National Science Teachers Association
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
 

Teaching Resources
These sites contain lesson plans, suggestions for activities, databases of information - all kinds of resources to help you plan your classes.

Learning Standards
Standards are the keyword in education today.  Click here for links to general standards and specific subject area standards.

Reading Rules
For students AND teachers!
This page contains links to online book lists, clubs and all kinds of reading sites.

Recommended School and Library Sites
University High School, Illinois State University
North High School Library, Downers Grove

 

Subject Area Information Sites
Many of these sites were found through lists on other school and library sites.  To visit these sites, see the list of recommended school and library sites.

Art and Music:
        Art Institute of Chicago
        Art History Resources on the Web
        Metropolitan Museum of Art
        Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
        Worldwide Internet Music Resources

Business:
        Consumer Information Center (Pueblo, CO)
        Hoover's company information

Health:
        Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
        Healthfinder
        Medline Plus (National Library of Medicine)

Literature: See also our READING RESOURCES page
        Shakespeare links

 

Mathematics

          National Science Digital Library

 

Science:
       Adler Planetarium
       Animal Diversity Web
       Environment links
       The Field Museum
       Mars Pathfinder
       Nine Planets
       Periodic Table of Elements
       The Weather Channel
       The Whyfiles: Science Behind the News

       National Science Digital Library

 

Social Studies:
        American Heritage magazine - also available in the library in print
       At Home in the Heartland, 300 years of Illinois history
       CIA World Factbook
       Illinois in the Civil War
       Inventor of the Week
       Native Peoples
       Statistical Summary of America's Major Wars
       The U.S. Civil War Center
       U.S. Supreme Court database
       Vietnam: Yesterday and Today
       Virtual Religion index
       The Web of Culture
       The White House

Sports:
        ESPN Sportszone
          Sports Halls of Fame: Baseball, Basketball, Football