Teacher Resources
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Click on the content area above to find resources available on the internet. Newly added sites will be listed at the top of each resource area.
Software
Microsoft Word (word
processing)
Microsoft Excel
(spreadsheets)
Microsoft
PowerPoint (presentations)
Microsoft Publisher
(desktop publishing)
Microsoft FrontPage
(webpages)
Inspiration
(Concept Mapping)
www.BarbBumgardner.com ~ this website is full of useful hands on activities coving all content areas and has many direct links to websites below.
www.sasaustin.org/library/ElementaryOrganizer.htm ~ this site helps create organizers with research skills
www.ncrtec.org/tl/lp ~ online lesson planning tool
http://thinktank.4teachers.org/ ~ designed to help students develop a Research Organizer for reports and projects
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/ ~ activities using inquiry-oriented learning activity in which students utilize resources on the internet and use technology
Search
Tools:
Google for Kids/Teens
InfOhio
http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/
www.kidsclick.org/
www.EnchantedLearning.com
www.ajkids.com
www.nettrekker.com (on infohio.org
until March 15th )
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php
http://pblchecklist.4teachers.org/
http://teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/
• http://www.oslis.k12.or.us/elementary/index.php ~ use this tool to cite resources (citation maker)
• www.ttms.org ~ ideas for writing and good student samples
• www.kidsreads.com ~ gives reviews of books and able to take book quizzes on line!
• http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/
• www.readwritethnk.org ~ wonderful lesson plans
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Inkspot for Young Writers
Under 18
A wonderful resource for young writers interested in learning from
experienced authors and getting writing tips and feedback on their drafts.
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Children's Literature Web Guide
If you are interested in children's and young adult literature, this is the
place for you. This location contains an extensive collection of the best
resources in children's and young adult literature including links to
stories, teaching ideas, and the sites of award-winning authors.
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Book Raps
Here, classes reading the
same work of literature could exchange responses to what they read via
e-mail.
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CyberGuides
Here, you will find an extensive set of links to outstanding works of
children's literature organized by grade level.
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The Read In Foundation
A non-profit group, organizes a special day to culminate several weeks of
preparatory activities around the reading of important works of literature.
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The
Author Page
This site provides biographies and interviews with many popular authors of
children’s and adolescent literature.
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Authors and Illustrators on the Web
Probably the most extensive set of links to popular authors for K-12.
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The BBC Web Guide
A great resource from the BBC in UK. Go to this site and select "English."
Then search for the name of a specific author or search using the more
general term "authors."
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Ask the Author
This location of the Internet Public Library, a non-commercial site,
contains information about a number of popular authors including Lois Lowry,
Avi, Matt Christopher, Natalie Babbitt, Daniel Pinkwater, Jane Yolen, Gary
Paulson, Charlotte Zolotow, and others. Photos of the authors, a biography,
and answers to questions submitted by kids are available. Some of these
locations are quite impressive, containing extensive information about the
author and his/her life. Some even have listservs or bulletin boards to
discuss the author's work. Some contain curriculum materials for using the
author's work in your classrooms. .
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Into the Wardrobe: The C.
S. Lewis WWW site
This is the one of the best author sites around. Many rich resources
including a biography, an album of photographs, recordings of the author's
voice, many links to other Lewis sites, a listserv address, a usenet
address, and even a live chat location
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Interactive Quizzes
Here is the place for students to test themselves on most of the important
grammar principles. Great fun! There are even grammar crossword puzzles.
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Principles of Composition
This provides your students with all the important information to get them
writing with style while they communicate their ideas clearly.
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Ask Grammar
Got a grammar question? Ask grammar has the answer. Just send your question
to this web site and you will get an answer to that burning question: What
are split infinitives?
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A
Time for Rhyme
Having a hard time with rhyming poetry? This site will show you and your
students all the tricks to write great rhyming poetry.
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Carol Hurst’s
Children’s Literature Site
A useful central site for children’s literature, but more commercial than
others mentioned in this chapter. Still a useful resource with book reviews,
instructional ideas, and links to literature sites.
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Eric Carle Web
Site
The web site for this popular children’s author. It contains a bulletin
board for exchanging ideas with other teachers about how best to use Carle’s
books in the classroom. It also contains his snail mail address in case your
children wish to write him.
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Help Your
Child Learn to Write Well
A brochure for parents from the U.S. Department of Education that may be
printed out and distributed at "Back-to-School Night." This provides useful
information for parents about ways to assist their child with writing.
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Helping Your Child Learn to Read
An on-line book for parents written by recognized experts in the field of
reading for the U.S. Department of Education. This book contains
useful information on how parents may help their child to read.
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Readers' Theater
This location contains links to locations on the WWW devoted to readers
theater. Several locations contain readers theater scripts you can print out
and use in your classroom. If you use this instructional method in
your class, this is the location for you!
• www.eduplace.com/ss/maps/index.html ~ get blank map outlines
• www.sheppardsoftware.com/geography.htm ~ FREE Geography game
• www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/ ~ many kid friendly resources
• www.globalschoo.net.org/gsh/project/gg/index.cfm ~ Geo Game good idea for computer time!
• www.kidsnewsroom.org/ ~ select “Weekly News”
• www.timeforkids.com/TFK/news/index.html ~ current events
• www.bensguide.gpo.gov/ ~ really neat activities with practice in nonfiction reading
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The Living Africa
A wonderful resource for studying this important continent developed as part
of a ThinkQuest competition by three students: One in the US, one in The
Netherlands, and one in India. The development of this resource is a story
that will be increasingly repeated by our students in the future.
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The
Constitution: A Living Document
A complete unit with lesson plans, activities, and evaluations for students
in grade 6-8 who are studying this important document.
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Historian's Sources
An introduction to using primary source documents
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Lesson Ideas, the Learning Page of the Library of Congress
This location got [Bob] started with the Internet since it provided
everything he needed, from units and lessons developed by teachers for other
teachers, to links to historical documents located at American Memory.
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History/Social Studies Web Site for K-12 Teachers
An exhaustive collection of links to resources for K-12 social studies
education organized by topic and maintained by a social studies educator.
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American
Memory
This is the location where the US Library of Congress put its priceless
collection of historical artifacts and documents online, making them
available with an Internet connection.
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The Library of Congress Home
Page
There probably is no better location for multimedia access to primary source
documents about the United States. Your students can view items ranging from
the original draft of Declaration of Independence in Thomas Jefferson's
handwriting to the Vietnam War POW/MIA database. It is a most impressive
resource for your social studies program. Included in separate sections are:
Thomas, the official
source of legislative information for the U.S. Congress;
Exhibitions, a
collection of recent exhibitions at the Library of Congress;
Using the Library,
providing you with access to the extensive catalogs of the Library of
Congress and many others, and
The Library Today,
containing information about the most recent information and events at our
nation's library.
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Nebraska
Department of Education Social Science Resources Home Page
This location, developed by the state of Nebraska, contains an extensive set
of resources for social studies education organized area (history,
civics/government, economics, and geography) and themes. The server tends to
run a bit slowly sometimes. Be patient. Your wait will be rewarded.
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The
Cornell Theory Center Arts and Social Science Gateway
A nice collection of excellent resources can be found at the Social Studies
section of this location developed at Cornell.
The Ancient Olympic Games Virtual Museum
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Journey Back in Time to Ancient Rome
A WebQuest intended for upper elementary and middle school students using a
jigsaw approach. Students use teamwork and the Internet to explore ancient
Rome and learn about daily life, myths, and governments. Each person on the
team learns one piece of the puzzle and then comes together to get a better
understanding of the topic.
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The Smithsonian Home Page
The Smithsonian Institution calls itself "The nation’s treasure house for
learning." This site certainly does it justice. Many outstanding links to
the wonderful resources of this fine institution.
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The
White House for Kids
Have your students take a tour of the White House and visit the president
and his family. Students may also leave a message for the President, read a
newsletter for students, and experience several important historical moments
that have recently taken place. A great location for Internet Activity in
the elementary grades.
Dictionaries:
• www.harcourtschool.com/glossary/math2/indext_temp.html
• www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com
• www.intermath-uga.gatech.edu/dictnary/
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/graphing/ ~ create own graphs
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/Games.asp
www.zoomerang.com ~ create survey questions and then graph results
Connect Literature and Math:
http://illuminations.nctm.org/
www.elm.maine.edu/assessments.teacher.million.describe.stm
www.kokogiak.com/megapenny
www.forsyth.k12.ga.us/kadkins/spreadsheet.htm
~ activities using Excel
http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html ~ virtual manipulatives
http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/Lessons/index.html ~ lesson plans
Math Games:
www.shodor.org/interactivate ~ a list of interactive projects to explore math topic
Everyday Math
Resources
for teachers including tips from other teachers, internet links, assessment
samples and additional resources.
Math
Archives
This site has an especially good collection of interactive math experiences
and free software you may wish to download and use in your classroom.
Dr. FreeMath
Dr. FreeMath is an electronic mail project where one mathematics question
per month will be researched and answered from each elementary class. Past
examples of questions include: How much water evaporates in the ocean each
year? Why is any number to the zero power equal to one? Why is pi not really
equal to 22/7? Have individuals bring their best questions to Internet
Workshop and then work together to pick one that is sent to Dr. FreeMath.
Interactive Mathematics
Miscellany and Puzzles
Forget the title. Check this site out! It has an incredible list of links to
games, activities, and puzzles that will keep your class busy all year with
Internet Workshop! Set a bookmark!
Brain Teasers or
The Elementary
Problem of the Week
The problems provide an avenue for healthy competition as well as practice
and discussion within the classroom.
Flashcards for Kids
This location lets you view a set of flashcard experiences for your students
for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division at several different
levels of difficulty. It also lets you run flashcards in a timed or untimed
mode and keeps your score for you. A great resource for students learning
their basic facts.
Middle School
Problem of the Week
Great challenges for your middle school math classes, these problems are
brought to you by The Math Forum. Conduct a brief Internet Workshop each
week to solve each puzzle.
NCTM Standards
This is the document that has had a powerful effect on the way many people
think about mathematics instruction. Reading it can provide you with useful
insights about this area of the curriculum. New standards for math education
will appear in 2000. Be certain to visit the
NCTM site to get links to the
new standards when they appear.
Geometry Problem
of the Week
Part of the exceptional math forum site, this location provides you and your
students with a challenging geometry problem to solve each week. Use it for
a quick Internet Workshop and have a short workshop session at the end of
the week to compare solutions.
The
"Action" section of the Eisenhower National Clearing-house for Mathematics
and Science Education
Looking for immediate resources to use in your K-12 math or science
classroom? Here's the place for you. Be certain to visit the "Action"
section of this site for teaching resources and ideas.
The Math Forum
An exhaustive collection of hands-on resources for immediate use in math
classrooms, K-12.
Collaborative Projects:
http://k12science.ati.stevenstech.edu/curricuhome.html
www.learner.org/jnorth/index.html
http://ga.water/usgs/gov/edu/index.html
http://school.disvoery.com/sciencefaircentral/ (good science fair projects)
Eisenhower National
Center for Mathematics and Science Education
This federally-funded project provides K-12 teachers with a central source
of information on mathematics and science education.
Science Learning Network
A central site for museums and science educators around the world.
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National Science
Teachers Association Recemmended Websites
Here, members and non-members may recommend a useful website in science
education. Recommendations are organized by area.
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Frank Potter's Science
Gems.
It contains over 11,000 links to outstanding science resources on the WWW.
What is especially nice about this location is that resources are organized
by science area and by topic within each area.
Lessons and Activities for Science
Within the Eisenhower National Center for Mathematics and Science Education,
it contains many links to outstanding locations containing lesson plans and
activities.
The Exploratorium Science Snackbook.
This allows you to quickly replicate many of the exciting exhibits at one of
the world's premier science museums.
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The Nine
Planets Tour
This is the best tour through the solar system that exists. At each stop,
beautiful photographs of each planetary object are displayed along with
information about the object. Short sound clips and videos are also
available. Many links take you to related sites. A wonderful journey!
Digital Dozen
Each month the 13 best sites for math and science are carefully selected by
the team at the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Math and Science and
posted here. One of the finest sites for great ideas on the web
• The Exploratorium
A palace of hands-on science learning in San Francisco, this site makes
outstanding interactive adventures in science available to the world. A
great location for science, fun, and learning.
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The Particle Adventure
Developed by the Laurence Berkeley National Laboratory, here is a tour of
the inner workings of the atom and tools for discovery used by scientists.
The Particle Adventure is an award-winning site that introduces the theory
of fundamental particles and forces, called the Standard Model. It also
explores the experimental evidence and the reasons physicists want to go
beyond this theory.
VolcanoWorld
Study volcanoes around the world, talk to a volcanologist, obtain real time
data on active volcanoes, and many more fun activities for kids and adults.
Web Earth Science for Teachers, a location within USA Today. This is an especially good resource for integrating weather resources into instruction
Hands-on Science Center Worldwide- an excellent collection of links to interactive science museums around the world
The Cow's Eye Dissection. Here students are taken step-by-step through the dissection with supporting glossary terms for the parts of the eye; RealAudio sound clips from the Exploratorium staff explain what is taking place.
Earth
Day Groceries Project
Each year participating classes obtain grocery bags from local supermarkets,
decorate them with environmental messages, and then return them to be used
at the grocery store by customers. Students share photos and reports of
their accomplishments at a central site.
Ask an
Expert
This is a general site with links to a wide range of experts.
Ask a Mad Scientist
This wonderful resource will put you in touch with a wide range of
scientists around the world.
Ask a Science Expert
Obtain answers from experts in many scientific fields from the experts at
the journal Scientific American.
Ask a Science Expert
Obtain answers to questions about science from the Franklin Museum in
Philadelphia.
Ask an Expert
This is a general site with links to a wide range of experts.
Ask a Mad Scientist
This wonderful resource will put you in touch with a wide range of
scientists around the world.
Ask
a Science Expert
Obtain answers from experts in many scientific fields from the experts at
the journal Scientific American.
Ask a Science Expert
Obtain answers to questions about science from the Franklin Museum in
Philadelphia.
Bill Nye The Science Guy
A great resource related to the popular series on your local Public
Broadcasting System television station.
Kit and Kaboodle
A creative science curriculum with many exciting science learning
experiences for grades 3-5. Registration is required but the resources are
free. Funded by the National Science Foundation.
Rainforest Action Network
If you are engaged in an ecology or rainforest unit, here is a great
location to find out about the latest efforts to preserve these important
parts of our ecosystem.
Science
Resource Center
A great collection of demonstrations, simulations, labs and other resources
contributed by science teachers around the world.
Virtual Frog
Dissection Kit
An outstanding demonstration of the potential of the Internet for science
education. Think of all the poor frogs that will be saved!
Virtual Labs and Simulations
If you are looking for a way to demonstrate different scientific phenomenon
with virtual modeling and simulations, here is the place for you. A
wonderful set of simulations including things such as Galileo's Law of
Falling Bodies, Newton's First Law--Inertia, Hooke's Law, Kinematic Friction
and Kinetic Energy, and much more.
Special Education Resources on the Internet (SERI)
This is one of the best central sites on the Internet for special education
resources. It contains a comprehensive and well organized set of links to
locations important for special education issues.
Family Village
This is an excellent central site about mental retardation and other
disabilities.
Internet
Resources for Special Children
This is another central site, very useful, with extensive resources on
special education.
The Council
for Exceptional Children
A major professional organization in special education.
Autism
Resources
A site with many links to resources related to Autism and Asperger's
Syndrome including links to on-line discussions, mailing lists, news,
treatment methods, research, and much more.
ESL/LINC Learner Sites
Here is a useful site which links to many ESL reading, writing, and
listening sites; it provides site quality ratings and lists grade levels.
ESL
Multimedia Language Learning
This is a site with links to reading, writing, and listening sites; it also
includes an academic section and cultural information section.
Inclusion Resources
A nice collection of links related to inclusive education. The information
at this location can provide useful background information to teachers new
to inclusion.
Inclusion
An outstanding collection of resources designed for the teacher who
practices, or will soon practice, an inclusion model in the classroom. Links
to teaching strategies, strategies to prepare for inclusion, and many
supportive Internet resources.
Learning Disabilities
This website contains a booklet from the National Institutes of Mental
Health. It explains learning disabilities to parents.
Special Needs and
Technology Resources
Here is an extensive collection of links to a wide variety of technology
resources.
School Behavior
A website dedicated to information and intervention strategies.