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Teacher Resources and librarian, too
- Activities for the first day of school KimsKorner4TeacherTalk
- Back to School great site with lots of useful stuff - bulleitn boards, coloring pages, activities, clipart, worksheets - Canadian Assoc. Second Language Teachers
- Back to School - Education World
- Back to School from TeAch-nology.com - icebreaker activities, first day, rest of year
- Back to school activities - great list, by grade level groups - TeachersCorner - bulletin boards to activities and resources
- Back to school resources - Kathy Schrock Discovery School
- First day of school activities - collected by a teacher Kevin Kearney in Victoria - Time Capsules, Me Boxes, or Class Photo Books. Play the Name Game, Toilet Paper?
- Ideas for the first day of school - a nice collection of energizers, icebreakers, and all types of ideas for the important beginning of the school year - bulletin board ideas - by teacher and workshop presenter Sue LeBeau
- MiddleWeb's first day of Middle School
- Preparing for the first day of school - Teachers.Net
- Thinking about the first day of school - The Art of Teaching from TeacherVision.com
- Welcome Back to School from Tammy's Tidbits ...elementary level back to school items to print out for students - bookmarks
Education portals and starting points - "best of the web" for educators - TeacherTap
- 21st Century Learning
- ABCteach
- Archdiocese of Seattle
- AtoZteacherStuff preK-12 educational network
- AwesomeLibrary organizes the Web with 14,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education
- Blue Web'N a libray of blue ribbon learning sites on the web grouped by grade, content and subjest areas, by Pacific Bell Knowledge Network Explorer
- The Digital Classroom from the National Archives - resources about primary sources, activities and training for educators and students
- Digital Library for Earth Sciences System - find websties for links by grade and subject in Earth sciences
- Discovery School's Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
- EdHelper.com over 10,000 lesson plans, webquests, etc. - need to register $
- Education World "where educators go to learn" with search engine for teachers
- Educational CyberPlayground
- Eduscapes "helps educators address common technology integration questions by providing practical, online resources and activities"
- 4teachers.org integrating technology
- Filamentality - AT&T - guides you through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet links, and turning them into learning activities
- *The Gateway to Educational Material from ERIC "The key to one-stop, any-stop access to high quality lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources on the Internet!"
- HomeroomTeacher.com with general resources and clipart
- Internet4Classrooms - online links to skills based assessment activities - by grade level
- Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Discovery School
- KidsHealth
in the Classroom tips from teachers, information about common
childhood health problems, health-related news, and other resources - teacher's
guides, handouts, and quizzes - all aligned to recently updated national health
education standards.
- Landmark Project One of the earliest educational websites on the Internet with links to teaching and learning resources on the Net and valuable Web tools - images, primary sources, subject areas.
- LessonPlanPage
- New York Times Learning Network (gr. 3-12)
- Religious education resources - Sue LeBeau
- Teachers.net - teacher resources
- Teachnet.com lesson plans for all grades, postcard and buddy exchanges, Teacher-2-Teacher email forums, a free newsletter, how-to projects for the classroom, commentaries, reviews and much more
- Teach-nology for integrating technology "giant collection of resources"
- Thinkfinity - new MarcoPolo site- online educational resources
- TrackStar - find internet links/lesson plans by keyword, subject or theme
Bookmarked by Barb
There are hundreds more: these are sites I bookmarked from recommendations
based on listservs to which I subscribe.
- Adventures of Cyberbee with curriculum ideas, treasure hunts and web links by the author of Net Curriculum: An Educator's Guide to Using the Internetand of a regular column for MultiMedia Schools magazine
- Gail Lovely - variety of reading, web, tech ideas for Word and PowerPoint and resources (NECConf 2006)
- KathiMitchell.com - great set of curiculum related subject sites
- Marc Sheehan's lesson plans - resources and plans at different grade levels - from Pacific Lutheran University
- MIKIDS a k-8 educational site of safe links, book reviews, etc.
- ReadWriteThink.org - great ideas, online activities under Student Materials
- Resources for Teachers and Parents Stetson MS, Philadelphia
- S.C.O.R.E online resources for education, Schools of CA
- Songs for Teaching - songs by curriculum area: math, language arts, transitions
- Sue LeBeau's Educational Resources
- Teachers@work over 1,000 of the best Internet curriculum resources for teachers
- TheTeachersCorner.net an excellent site with thematic units with web sites, lesson plans and books
Clip Art, Coloring pages, crafts and more
- Clip art
- AwesomeClipart for Kids
- Books
and reading clip art - About.com list of links
- Books/Library clip art - ClipsAhoy
- Reading/Journaling clip art - ClipsAhoy
- ClassroomClipArt.com
- Clip art - lists from Grosse Point School
- DailyClipArt.net
- DiscoverySchool Clipart Gallery (for books see language arts)
- DK Clip art
- Educational Clip Art
- IconArchive.com
- IconBazaar - with book icons under documents
- IconMania - Kids Domain
- TeacherFiles icons
- Library Media & PR -clipart and banners
- Phillip Martin - wonderful site -- and also PowerPoint templates *****
- School and educational clipart - with section on books and reading
- Soo Hyoung's Library Clip Art
- TeacherFiles.com
- WiseGorilla.com free educational clip art and icons
- Coloring pages
- Games
- Create your own Bingo - DLTK
- Create your own Bingo Cards - Teach-Nology
- Game templates - links to several sites with game templates
- PersonalEducational Press - create flash cards, bingo, quizzes, word lists
- Puzzlemaker
Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles
using your word lists
- I love that teaching idea - worksheets, reproducibles, bookmarks galore
- Online activities
- Lunch
bag lessons - scroll down to find articles and ideas about
- Adventures - by Eduweb.com - web adventures iin art, science and history
- America on the move - Smithsonian
- Gliffy.com - diagraming online (uses Flash)
- Invention at play and inventors' stories and games
- National Atlas.gov
- Newspaper Clipping Generator - create own newspaper article
- ReadWriteThink.org
with lesson plans
- Alphabet organizer
- Animal Inquiry
- Book Cover creator and Book Cover guide
- also stuff for poetry, mysteries, biographies, etc.
- Lunch
bag lessons - scroll down to find articles and ideas about
- Readers'
Theater - Power
of Readers Theater
- Aaron Shepard
- Internet resources for readers theater
- Readers Theatre resources - Gander Academy
- Readers Theater scripts and plays - teachingheart.net
- Copyright basics
- Copyright challenge - take the test - http://www.copyrightkids.org/
- Copyright Clearance Center get permission to reproduce copyrighted content such as articles and book chapters in your journals, photocopies, coursepacks, library reserves, Web sites, e-mail and more
- Copyright in an Electronic Environment quick general guidelines - NC Public Schools
- Copyright Guidelines - Jefferson County - "permitted" and "not permitted" columns by area
- Crash Course Copyright Tutorial University of Texas' highly interactive "Crash Course" covering all media
- 10 Big Myths about copyright explained
- Visit
to Copyright Bay interactive - fun - to inform and
entertain educators about copyright issues in a non-profit setting - U of St.
Francis
- Fair Use Harbor U of St. Francis
- Ethics across the curriculum - U San Diego and Seattle Prep
- Free Graphic Organizers - Excellent site- Freeology.com
- Education Week on the web
- MiddleWeb.com exploring the challenges of middle school reform, and brimming with resources for educators and parents, with an e-mail list
- MidLink Magazine digital magazine for students by students 8-18, with teacher resources links
- National Catholic Education Association (NCEA)
- The Scout Report A weekly publication of new and newly discovered Internet sites for researchers and educators. These sites are REVIEWED by educators!! To receive the electronic mail version of the Scout Report each week, join the scout-report mailing list by sending an email to:listserv@cs.wisc.edu in the body of the message, type: subscribe scout-report yourfirstname yourlastname
- Multicultural Calendar KidLink
- Multicultural literature
- Children's Picture Book database Miami U. searchable by keyword
- Disabilities booklist, by type -Disabilities booklist by grade level Nancy Keane
- Examining
Multicultural Picture Books for the Early Childhood Classroom: Possibilities and
Pitfalls J Mendoza & D Reese
- Oyate an organization that reviews and provides insider perspectives on Native Americans in literature - books to avoid
- Fakelore, Multiculturalism, and the Ethics of Children's Literature Eliot A. Singer
- Lee and Low Books - catalog: multicultual literature for children
- Making Multicultural Connections through books by cultural group, grade, subject - Montgomery County Public Schools
- Multicultural Book Reviews though last updated '96
- Multicultural Review - quarterly journal for teachers
- Multiculturalism and children's literature NEA
- Skipping Stones: a multicultural magazine, features global, multicultural and nature themes
- Multicultural Resources for Children
SmartBoard and Interactive activities and ideas
Interactive sites - shockwave online activities
- Interactive Websites k-12 - listing by subject area - Jefferson County
- Internet4Classrooms - "helping teachers use the internet effectively" - interactive sites by grade and subject matter
- Interactive games and activities for kids - Woodlands-Junior School
- Interactive Literacy activities - words, letters, alphabet, synonyms, etc.
- Interactive Math activities - ages 7-11
- Interactive Science activities
- Interactive Internet Resources - Center School District - by subject areas
- Interactive Math - resources for Smartboard - Kenton county School District- with spinners, etc.
- Interactive Resources - HUGE list with popup preview - Internet4Classrooms
- Interactive Whiteboards in the Classroom - tutorials, web sites, software to download - recommended by Kathy Schrock
- Lunch bag lessons - scroll down to find articles and ideas about
- Adventures - by Eduweb.com - web adventures iin art, science and history
- America on the move - Smithsonian
- Gliffy.com - diagraming online (uses Flash)
- Invention at play and inventors' stories and games
- National Atlas.gov
- Newspaper Clipping Generator - create own newspaper article
- Ohio TreasureChest - interactives by subject areas - linked to online activities
- ReadWriteThink.org with lesson plans
- Alphabet organizer
- Animal Inquiry
- Book Cover creator and Book Cover guide
- also stuff for poetry, mysteries, biographies, etc.
PowerPoint sites
- Pete's PowerPoint Station - already done powerpoint presentations on every imaginable topic
- alphabetical listing by topic or theme
- Powerpoint Collection - Jefferson County - by subject area
- PowerPoint Palooza - AP history - US, European - and Global studies - plus others
Whiteboard/Smartboard sites
- BrainPop - online subscription to curricular videos with Moby the robot - but some free
- Content for White Boards - links
- Interactive Whiteboard Links - Ed Tech Training Center
- Interactive Whiteboard Resource Links - by subject area - SchoolSource
- Interactive White Board Resources - set of links
- Resources for teachers - good list of Smartboard and Interactive resources from North Barrington Library
- Smartboard and AirLiner activities - Witchita Public Schools
- Smart Board resources - links - Lee's Summit School District
- SmartBoard Downloads - classic board games, jeopardy, measurement mayhem, chicka chicka
- Smarter Smart Board use - Carter Elementary
- Phonemic Awareness
- Reading Awareness - phonemic awareness games, activities, worksheets
- ReadWriteThink.org - Lesson plans - choose grade, "learning about language" and "phonemic awareness" in drop down menues - activies and lesson plans
- Songs for Teaching Books that help teach phonemic awareness
- Get Ready to Read.org early literacy screening, tools, and activities
- Phonemic Awareness activities - TEAMS Educational Resources - rhyming words, syllable segmentation, beginning sound substitution, isolation, segmentation
- Phonics
- Words and Pictures - BBC Schools
- Phonics Skills Chart - Scholastic
- Nonsense Word Test - Scholastic (PDF file)
- Reading games rooms - Adrian Bruce.com
- Fluency
- Coaching reading fluency (PDF file) - basic model
- Readers Theatre - Power
of Readers Theater
- Aaron Shepard
- Internet resources for readers theater
- LisaBlau - scripts of the month - free download
- Readers Theatre evaluation
- Readers Theatre resources - Gander Academy
- Readers Theater scripts and plays - teachingheart.net
- Peer tutor training manual - paired reading
- Teaching fluency through poetry - Poetry 4 Kids.com
- Oral Fluency calculator - for grades 3-5
- Vocabulary
- Vocabulary instruction - Vocabulary University" lists, lesson plans, worksheets
- Chapter books to read aloud - KinderKorner.com
- Vocabulary lesson plans - LessonPlanCentral
- Vocabulary lists - downloadable lists grades 1-5 350 high frequency words
- Online vocabulary development - links to activities
- Text comprehension
- Children's Literature Web Guide - lists of award winning books, plus ideas
- BookAdventure.org - motivated reading program
- Literary lessons - literature circles, literary lunch, book buddies, Rocket Reader Program, Reading workshops
- Reading strategies - links to
- Comprehension rubric to DRA
- BrainPop ---USERNAME = sjseattle PASSWORD = jaguars
- BrainPopJr. ---USERNAME = sjseattle PASSWORD = jaguars
- Science Online - need King County Library card #
- Teacher Tube - free
- United
Streaming (trial) --USERNAME = sjseattle PASSWORD = jaguars
- can't see full videos - once you find a video look under "segments"-for a selection to see
Webquests : an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web
- All about webquests - Sue LeBeau
- Educational Cyberground Webquest
- IWebquest wide selection of webquests, hotlists, and treasure hunts.
- Kathy Scrock's WebQuest page
- Webquest Portal
- WebQuest template
- Webquests Spartanburg SD, with elementary webquests
- Welcome to Questville
Writing
- Writing
prompts
- Bright ideas for writing - Houghton Mifflin - with photos for extra inspiration
- Journal writing every day - article with prompt ideas at the end - Education World
- Story Starters - 50 ideas to get the creative juices flowing. Click Writing Process at the bottom of the page for help with brainstorming, graphic organizers, the first draft, revising, editing, and the final copy
- Writing Bugs - Education World.
- Writing
Fix
- Picture Book prompts idea development, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency
- Writing
tips from children's authors
- SmartWriters.com for everyone who reads, writes, or teaches literature for kids
- Writing tips from children's authors - author BethanyRoberts.com
- Writing Resources
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