Especially great for elementary is starfall.com. It engages a wide range of beginning readers in fun activities as they learn to read.
Scholastic.com has hundreds of various educational and fun activities.
pbs.org has thousands of stories, historical and nature videos, and current events.
Most text book publishers now provide online sites to extend and expand their text lessons. For instance, Houghton Mifflin's online resource for teachers and students is eduplace.com
Another engaging site is funbrain.com
As a teacher, I refer to ERIC, the educational data base for research as well as lessons.
The New York Times online educational link is Teaching and Learning with the Times.
The International Public Library is at ipl.com. This link is the largest public library resource in the world.
Second anguage learners' activity links are available via TOEFL.
Personally I love "exploring" the world via Google Earth.
ERIC is great! We used that database for a research paper for a class we took earlier in the year. I also like using Academic Search Premier. It would be great if you worked for a larger school district that was willing to pay for a subscription (the UO has one) because you can narrow your search to only peer reviewed articles. This would be a great tool for teaching students about author reliability and responsibility. I also would love to be able to use GoogleEarth in my classroom because it would be a great way to do a virtual tour of a foreign country, thus making the second language seem more relevant and tangible.
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