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MarcoPolo - Internet Content for the Classroom
MarcoPolo: Internet Content for the Classroom is a consortium of premier national education organizations, state education agencies and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation dedicated to providing the highest quality Internet content and professional development to teachers and students throughout the United States.
The MarcoPolo partner sites, professional development train-the-trainer sessions, the program's training materials and participation in the MarcoPolo listserv are offered free to educators.
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*NEW* The International Reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of English have joined MarcoPolo to be featured in a joint reading/language arts web site, scheduled to launch in the Fall of 2002.
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ARTSEDGE – The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts focuses on Arts integration.
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EconEdLink – The National Council on Economic Education provides content in Economics.
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EDSITEment – The National Endowment for the Humanities and the Council of the Great City Schools focuses on Humanities.
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Illuminations – The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics centers on Mathematics.
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Science NetLinks – The American Association for the Advancement of Science offers Science content.
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Xpeditions – The National Geographic Society explores Geography.
MarcoPolo provides quality Internet curriculum content for K-12 teachers, offering approximately 700 original lesson plans through the partner web sites. The MarcoPolo web site is a gateway to a world of original content, panel-reviewed links to top web sites, a search engine that helps teachers find important information quickly, and extensive supplemental resources across multiple disciplines.
Find out how MarcoPolo Discovered Florida.
MarcoGrams are valuable curriculum e-mail newsletters distributed monthly to MarcoPolo educators across the country. This MarcoPolo content tool features motivating warm-ups for classroom discussion and links to K-12 interdisciplinary lessons and resources from the MarcoPolo standards-based partner sites. We encourage you to share MarcoGrams with fellow educators either via e-mail or print and distribution methods. To receive MarcoGrams by e-mail each month, subscribe here.
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