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- A to Z Teacher Stuff
Another source of quite a variety of lesson plans, printables, tips, and discussion.
- ABCTeach
Offers a variety of free printable pages and worksheets.
More is available if you become "member" for $25/year.
- Brain Boosters
Need a daily brain teaser to post? Check out this collection.
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Bulletin Board Ideas
In a bulletin board rut? Maybe this
will help.
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Dr. LeBeau's HomePage
Extensive list of recommended links by a veteran online instructor. Strong selection of sites covering writing, science, math, social studies, geography, reading. Includes "Cool Sites for Kids."
- Earth Calendar
NEW LINK--Fall '08!
"A daybook of holidays and celebrations around the world."
- Education World
As you can imagine, this site is vast. Includes links to tools, reference sources, current
issue articles, subject links, website reviews, etc., etc.
- The Educator's Reference Desk (Formerly AskERIC)
The Educational
Resources Information Center, administered by the U.S. Department of Education, provides 16 subject-specific
clearinghouses on topics of interest to educators.
- Ethemes
Created by the Missouri
Research & Education Network, this is an awesome collection of over 400 teacher-created lists of links
arranged by common themes taught in the classroom. Can search by subject or grade level.
- Filamentality
Afraid you don't know enough
to create a webpage activity for your students? This fill-in-the-blanks site will have you up
and going in no time. Remember the friendly librarian in the LRC is available for assistance.
- First Day of School Help
Lots of hints here aimed at
getting off to a great start.
- The Gateway
This nifty site lets you search
for lesson plans by grade level or keyword. Thousands of lesson plans indexed here.
- Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
This frequently updated, well organized website is so complete that you may not need any others
bookmarked! Helpful links in categories entitled "Subject Access" and "Teacher Helpers."
Absolutely amazing.
- More Brain Teasers
This collection is rated according to
difficulty.
- Mr. Donn's Pages
Tremendous number of lesson plans in many
subjects, especially social studies.
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MrNussbaum.com
Free premium membership to this site. Several subjects, especially interactive math and language arts activities...can record student progress.
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New York Times Learning Network
This site is a rich collection of timely information useful to students and teachers. There are lessons and handouts, questions to �discuss at home,� articles to be used in most every subject area, and daily �test prep questions.�
- Oh!Teach
Information for Ohio's teachers, educators, and school library media specialists. Provided by OPLIN and Infohio.
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Online Tools for Teaching and Learning
Kathy Schrock has created this site to provide links to useful, no-cost online tools for teachers and students.
- Pandora Radio
Create your own radio station(s) with your favorite type of music / artists.
- Philologus
NEW LINK--Fall '08!
Designed by teachers for teachers. Create interactive versions of popular games (Millionaire, Deal or No Deal, etc.) to make learning fun.
- Printable Brain Twisters
Select either "middle
school" or "elementary" level. Changes weekly.
- PBS for Teachers
PBS lists featured lessons and programs here. Over 4,000 lesson plans.
- Puzzlemaker
Make a variety of puzzles for your students here.
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Quote-a-Day
Education World provides a list of short "inspiring" quotes--
enough for each school day.
- Sites for Teachers
Interesting site lists a wide variety of "teacher sites" listed according to popularity of
use.
- The Solution Site
Click on "Find a Unit" and you'll be able to search by subject or grade level. A huge collection of
detailed lesson plans here.
- Study Stacks
An interesting take on the old "flash card" method. Organized into subjects, such as: math,
history, science, etc. Also can make your own.
- Teach Net
Many useful links here--bulletin board ideas, lesson plans, subject links, instructions
for "Homeworkopoly" and other tools, etc., etc.
- Teacher Tidbytes
Site, administered by
Linda Guterba, provides a variety of web resources, lesson plans and tutorials. Linda
also provides homework help and other resources through
KidInfo.
- Teach-nology
Another site which provides thousands of lesson plans and materials for free. If you become a member,
more items are available.
- Thinkfinity
55,000 standards-based K-12 lesson plans, student materials, interactive tools and reference materials.
- Works4Me Tips
Library
Teachers from all over share what has
actually worked for them in a wide range of areas. Topics include
taking care of paperwork,using technology, handling discipline,teaching specific subjects,
and much more.
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- Best Sites in Art History
Amazing list of rated sites.
- ARTiculation
Lavish site covering elements of art, principles of design, and the art
critiquing process. Includes over 50 activities for students.
- Artist's Toolkit
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts provides a fascinating look at line, color, space, shape, balance, movement/rhythm through
animated demonstrations. Allows students to create own examples. Includes encyclopedia for artistic terms.
- Arts Ed Net
J. Paul Getty Trust's collection of curriculum plans and exhibitions.
Sortable by grade level or alphabetically.
- The Arty Factory
Free online workshops for artists of any age. Each workshop has an interactive quiz or game.
- Viscosity
NEW LINK--Fall '08!
Generate and post your own modern art. Click here for:
Instructions
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General Links in Language Arts
- The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation
The rules are here, plus exercises and tests.
- Common Errors in English
Award-winning site details the many common mistakes made
as well as some "mistakes" that actually aren't!
- Creative Writing Prompts
Supplies writing prompts for each day of the year. Archives
available.
- Elementary Writing Prompts
A list of about 200 prompts. Most okay for middle school.
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Grammar Bites
Free exercises and tutorials on proper punctuation, irregular verbs, and word us.
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Instant Poetry Forms
Many poetry-writing ideas here from cinquain to "verb verse." (See column on left side.)
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Interactive Punctuation Test
Need practice on whether to use their, there, or they�re? You can find an online quiz here.
- Literacy Net from CNN
NEW LINK--Fall '08!
Provides links to nonfiction news stories with comprehension activities.
- OWL
The "Online Writing Lab" site of Purdue University
offers printable practice sheets on various grammar and usage problems. Of course, these are
designed to help remediate college kids, but some of the exercises may be of help--particularly
the ones designed for "English-as-a-second-language." Some of our more advanced students might
find the whole site's offerings a help.
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Sentence Clubhouse
Identify sentences and build a clubhouse.
- ThinkReadWrite
Sponsored by a
partnership between the International Reading Association (IRA),
the National Council of Teachers of English
(NCTE), and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation.
Remarkable gathering of excellent lesson plans and web resources.
You�ll want to bookmark this one.
- Web English Teacher
Web site states that it "presents the best of K-12
English/Language Arts teaching resources: lesson plans, WebQuests, videos, biography, e-texts, criticism,
jokes, puzzles, and classroom activities." It just might.
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WritingFix
Sponsored by the Northern Nevada Writing Project, this site is designed to provide interactive online writing assignments.
There are a lot of ideas here, plus several writing prompt generators. You can even arrange to have 6 prompts e-mailed to you every
Sunday.
Literature
See also the
Language Arts page in this website.
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Aplus Math
Source of flashcards for a huge variety of online flashcards (the usual plus money, square roots, order of operations, etc) Students can even compete with other students world wide.
- Figure This
Quite a variety of math problems...searchable via a "math index." If you'd like to get
parents involved in the "Figure This" project, here's the PowerPoint presentation and hand-outs
you need.
- Franklin Institute Online Math Collection
Offers variety of math problems, including mulicultural lesson
plans and seasonal math.
- Graph Paper!
Run out of graph paper? Print off what you need here.
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Johnnie's Math Page
Great collection of interactive math activities gathered by a California math teacher; �great for individual practice or whole-group interactive whiteboard use.�
- Math in Daily Life
The Annenburg Foundation and the
Corporation for Public Broadcasting have joined forces to provide practical lessons using math in
real-life situations--probability in beating a casino, earning the most interest for your savings, plus
math in cooking and home decorating.
- Math Manipulatives
A large collection of
interactive manipulatives including number puzzles, an abacus, a factor tree, fractions, geoboards,
Platonic solids, and much more.
- Math Tools
A project of "Math Forum," it presents "software for teaching and learning mathematics: preK - calculus." Activities are aligned to NCTM
Standards.
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Mathematics in Movies
A collection of movie clips in which mathematics appears. Did you know that you could use �The Simpson�s� to teach math?
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Mega Math
Puzzle-like scenarios are brought to math classrooms via the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Interesting.
- More Than Math
Introduces and explores concepts shared by mathematics and the visual arts such as pattern, symmetry,
proportion, perspective, balance and geometric form. Eight hands-on interactive activities.
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Ohio Math Works
Award-winning site showing how math is used in the real world. Offers several projects, plus an archived section with excellent math questions-of-the-month.
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Purplemath--Help with Algebra
Math teacher Elizabeth Stapel offers both lessons and links to
helpful sites for free online tutoring and lessons, quizzes and
worksheets.
- U.S. Mint's Site for Kids
Includes games, lesson plans.
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Watch and Learn Math Clips
Short videos made by students from a gifted math class explain basic concepts.
See also the
Math page in this website.
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- AE Mystery Spot
Online and offline activities for students to solve mysteries
using science.
- Astro-Venture
Students enter "astro-training," are quizzed on their knowledge,
and use scientific process to find or design habitable planet.
- Creative Chemistry
"Over two hundred pages of question sheets,
practical guides, chemistry puzzles, interactive revision quizzes,
molecular models, and the 'Tune-up Garage' to help improve science
investigations."
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Ed Heads
Your students can work on simple machines, predicting weather, and even perform virtual surgery.
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The ExperiMENTALS
Award winning site from Australia that makes science fun. Great videos. Will make you laugh out loud.
See also the
Science page in this website.
General Help
- Asia for Educators
Teaching materials categorized by subject area and time period.
- Best History Sites
Impressive, award-winning site
which rates history resources on the web.
- CNN Learning Resources
Provides current news stories to students. Includes lesson plans,
and interactive learning activities.
- Digital History Help for Teachers
Amazing site. Links to printable fact sheets and hand-outs, learning madules, lesson plans,
and resource guides.
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EHistory
The OSU History Department has made available a substantial collection of historical documents and images.
- Flag Game
Allows the player to guess the name of the country
based on clues including; capital, continent, neighbors, map outline,
currency & anthem. Fun, but tough!
- A Food Timeline
Need to liven up
the history lesson? Check out the food of the time.
- Liberty
PBS gathers much information here from its 6-hour series,
Liberty: The American Revolution. Includes the "American Revolutionary
Game."
- Mr. Donn's Pages
Tremendous number of lesson plans in many
subjects, especially social studies.
- National Geographic for Educators
Offerings especially for educators. Searchable.
- New York Times Learning Network
Need some current event connections? This website provides that and more in an interesting
format designed for grades 3-12. Check out the "test prep question of the day," theme-based crosswords,the
"Daily Lesson Plan," plus news summaries and quizzes.
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Old Magazine Articles
Primary source site with PDF versions of magazine articles covering the American Civil War, World War I, Prohibition, fashion history, art history, immigration history, the sinking of the Titanic and much more.
- Outline Maps
All maps are designed to print on one page. Quite a variety. Includes U.S. history.
- Social Studies Lesson Plans
Award-winning site offers access to resources for lessons and online activities.
- Teaching with Historic Places
Lessons plans for teachers (grades 5-12)categorized into theme,
location, time period, and National Standards.
- Winged Sandals
Hermes the messenger god directs a tour of Who's Who in Classical Mythology. Includes interactive
activities and games.
See also the
Social Studies page in this website.
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- Big 6:An Information Problem-Solving Process
This website gives a well-organized explanation of the "Big 6" process. There are many links to
related topics, such as: graphic organizer examples, assessment ideas, evaluation of sources, etc.
- Filamentality
Afraid you don't know enough
to create a webpage activity for your students? This fill-in-the-blanks site will have you up
and going in no time. Remember the friendly librarian in the LRC is available for assistance.
- Evaluating Web Pages
Although this
is part of Duke University's research tutorial,it offers simple steps to check on the quality of
the websites you use for research.
- The Webquest Page
This site gets over
1700 hits a day. Look over the examples of webquests and see if you are ready to try a
new approach.
- Webquests for
Junior High
Large collection of various webquests for
the middle school group.
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