The New School Year will be here soon!

Looking for new ideas and skills to excite and engage your students?  Check out these site for a spark to your teaching!

Teacher Tools:

• Cmap tools allow for creation of concept maps in a new and collaborative way.  Two or more students may work on a map.
• Microsoft Live 2010 - SkyDrive
  • Free
  • Access and share files
  • Work with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
  • 25G of free online storage space
  • Home, School, or Work
• Interactive Websites from Jefferson County Schools offers a collection of sites in all core content areas plus assessment that enhance online learning opportunities.
• Teacher Shortcuts provides a collection of printable teacher resources and strategies designed to engage learners and save teachers time. 
• Tech Tutorials offers basic instruction on many technology applications including  Web 2.0 Tools.
• Google Tools Tutorials
• TeAchnology
• Teacher Tube provides an online community for sharing instructional videos.  Teachers may share videos with the public or make them private.

Language Arts:

• .Visuwords - an online visual dictionary
• Everyday Edits use this site to build language skills, test scores, and cultural literacy with students in grades 4 and above.
• Spelling City is a must for all teachers!
• Read Write Think Interactive tools for reading & writing

Math:

• NCTM's Illuminations Activities and Lessons

• Create a Graph is a great site for learning to create all types of graphs.

• SuperKid Math Worksheet Creator

• Interactivate - a collection of activities for exploration of science and mathematics.

Science:

• Molecular Workbench

• Design Squad from PBS has full length video, downloadable video clips, lesson, hands-on activities and much more!

• BBC - Science Living Things

• Teacher's Domain You need to register but it is FREE

Social Studies:

• Library of Congress is filled with information for young and old alike.  The online exhibits include all the interactive kioske in the museum.  As the fourth of July draws near be sure to visit Creating  the United States to gain insights into how the nation’s founding documents were forged and the role that imagination and vision played in the unprecedented creative act of forming a self-governing country.  Individual may create an account at myLOC and then may collections of their favorite treasures

• Library of Congress Teacher Page has links to lesson plans, ready to use materials for primary source, themed resources, class starters such as Today in History and timelines, and much more.

• World Digital Library

   (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.  Beneath the image, click on "Hear the Page" and it will read the page!

Primary Grades:

• Kindergarten and preschool resources

• Shapebooks

Interactive Boards:

• Seterra a challenging geography program with 70 different exercises. Learn about countries, capitals, flags and cities all over the world!  You will have to download the program to your computer.
• Interactive Whiteboard games from PBS
• Promethean Planet

Games:

• Great site for educational games for grades k-12 - all areas  
  • K-2 Interactive sites
  • 3-6 Interactive sites
  • 7-12 Interactive sites

Events in July:

• Celebrate the Fourth online!
• National Ice Cream Month -

• Making  ice cream in a bag is great summer activity for kids of all ages!

• National Hot Dog Month

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