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Are you looking for last
minute, easy to use resources for TCAP tests, end of course tests,
and Gateway exams? Visit
Lots of Luck for Testing 2009
for links to help in test preparation. |
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Have you checked out the
online resources available through your school textbook publisher?
A listing of websites is found below.
Reading/Language Arts
Math
Science
Social Studies
World Languages
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This site
from
Smartboards
provides links and a few great interactive games. Click on the
game to play. |
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 Earth Day
Visit this
collection of
earth day lesson, games and activities to find just the right activity for
implementation in your classroom
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The
Teacher's Guide has many resources for celebrating Earth Day.
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Earth Day online games at Kaboose
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 Make another trip to Seussville to help the Lorax "Save
the Trees"!
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Earth Day is almost here! To recognize this special day -- April 22 --
Education World offers five original lesson plans that will engage
students in creating maps of an astronaut's view of Earth, exploring issues of
junk mail and hazardous household waste, and learning about endangered species.
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If your habits resemble those of average Americans, you generate
about 4.6 pounds of solid trash per day. This adds up to big trouble for the
environment. Americans are generating waste products faster than nature can
break them down and using up resources faster than they can be replaced.
Visit this interactive
Garbage
site to learn ways to reduce waste.
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Trees
Are Treasures - an activity for lower elementary grades
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Clip
art for Earth Day
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Looking for sounds to help spice up your PowerPoint
or podcast? Visit
findsounds for a large selections of
sounds. |
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Cool Text
is a free graphics generator for web pages and anywhere else you
need an impressive logo without a lot of design work. |
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Edupics.com
is a great
resource to find pictures on a variety of topics. Teachers can
use these pictures in class to enhance teaching, while students can
use them to expand their knowledge and/or review subject matter. |
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Fact Master is an award winning site that features an atlas,
almanac, dictionary, encyclopedia, and individualized homework
help. Students can get facts on a range of subjects including math,
the world and news, U.S., science, sports, people, and more. There
are games and quizzes also. |
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Don't Buy It: Get Media
Smart is a media literacy website to help young people
become smart consumers. The site provides activities which gives the
skills and knowledge needed to question, analyze, interpret and
evaluate media messages. |
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Encyclopedia.com,
Google Scholar, and
eLibrary provide
powerful research tools. |
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Ever been at a loss for words when it
comes time to describe a child's performance on a report card? Use
Report Card
Comments to put the perfectly proper words on the page! |
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At
Design Your Own Tracing Paper you can create custom tracing
paper using whatever words you want! Great for spelling words,
thematic units, and more! |
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Classroom Clipart has free clip art for your classroom
projects. This searchable database is also categorized into topics,
such as dinosaurs, weather, and maps. |
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With the
Personal Educational Press you can print flashcards, word
lists, and worksheets from your own desktop printer. You can
customize the format and even print items that correlate to popular
primary age books. |
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The Write
Fonts share free fonts that help kids learn how to write.
Third grade teachers will really appreciate the cursive fonts that
are ready for you to download and use in the classroom. |
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The Learning Page has free, downloadable worksheets and
lesson plans for teachers and parents. |
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The American Library Association's Great Websites for Kids
provides links to some of the best history, biology, math,
literature and social studies sites. |
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Explore the strategies
available at
Classroom
Management Technology Tools. A wealth of materials are
available addressing five key areas,
coordinate, communicate,
check, coach, and
consistency. |
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At
School Counselor
Resources
handy forms, certificates, checklists, and tips for teachers and
parents can be downloaded or printed. |
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Mystery Net for Kids
- Solve the mystery (a great whole class activity). |
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Online Teacher Tools
provides teachers with the resources for all aspects of the
curriculum. |
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Bloom's Taxonomy is an important teaching tool that helps
you ask just the right questions to guide your students through the
critical steps of learning. |
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At
Teach R Kids Math
students can
learn number basics, addition, subtraction, fractions, and much more
with these interactive online math worksheets. Exercises are
designed for preschool through 3rd grade students. |
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Visit
Math Activities and Resources for a collection of resources
defined for elementary, middle and high school classes plus online
games. |
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Interactive games from
multiplication.com is site for both fun and learning! |
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Mathematics Materials for Tomorrow's Teachers
covers all
aspects of middle school mathematics |
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Place Value to Thousands
is an interactive game that helps primary children to learn and
practice place value - very entertaining! |
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Find a variety of
Graphing Paper in PDF format
online. |
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A great site for
online calculators! |
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Engage your students with “NUMB3RS” classroom activities
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Create your own online
math worksheets. |
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Science |
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The Pizza Explorer combines history, biology, chemistry, and
agriculture in an unique and entertaining manner. |
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Science NetLinks
provides a wealth of resources for K-12 science educators, Science
NetLinks is your guide to meaningful standards-based Internet
experiences for students. |
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Eric Weisstein's World of
Science offers scientific knowledge and education by
placing an interlinked framework of mathematical exposition and
illustrative examples at the fingertips of every internet user.
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Science-Teachers.com
shares teaching resources including lesson plans, worksheets, and
activities for upper elementary and middle school science teachers. |
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Planet Science is by operated by NESTA,
the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts.
The site is designed to support creative and fun approaches to
science teaching and learning that help teachers inspire their
students. |
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Secrets of the Dead - Students learn the story of the
1918 influenza pandemic and about the use of electrophoresis and DNA
fingerprinting to identify an unknown, using UPC barcodes to represent
the DNA banding patterns. Lesson from PBS for middle school and high
school students. |
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Seven Bioscience
Challenges website is maintained by the American Institute
of Biological Sciences and has links and articles in seven high
priority areas of the biological sciences. |
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AWESOME website on cloning...be sure to watch the video clips! |
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Genetics Education Center,
University of Kansas
the foods
they eat for various different nutrients. |
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Create a customized color image of any
planet in our Solar System at
NASA's Solar System Simulator. |
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Technology |
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Awesome Clipart
for Educators
is part of EduHound.com and has FREE educator clipart,
coloring pages, banners, backgrounds, fonts, icons, lines,
worksheets and wallpaper. |
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The Jordan School
District shares a wealth of technology integration through their
website,
Transforming Teaching Through Technology. |
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Real-life educator Wanda Wigglebits
designed
Building a School Web Site to help
even the most hesitant techno-phobe to build a quality school web
site with little sweat and tears. |
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Have you received an email lately that
warns of a virus? Chances are you have just received a virus
hoax, but in these times of malicious damage caused by computer
viruses, how can you be sure? Be in the know by exploring
McAfee Online Virus Information Library or
Truth or Fiction. |
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ELL |
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Activities
for ESL students |
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Inclusive Science and Special Education Needs share a
variety of PowerPoint science resources that can be used to
encourage student participation and visually illustrate scientific
ideas. |
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Literature |
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Reading Rockets offers
a strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help young
children learn to read. |
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Learn about
Guys Read, a literacy initiative
designed to connect boys with books they will want to read. |
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Reading Level Estimator is a useful tool for parents and
teachers alike who need to help children choose appropriate texts.
Simply have a child read a sample passage and this web site teaches
you how to estimate the student's reading level! |
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American
Literature provides web resources, and downloadable
images. |
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Mr. Shakespeare and the Internet helps make sense of
Shakespeare and provides a wealth of online resources. |
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IPL Author Page
from the Internet Public Library has lots of author sites with bios,
pictures, and answers to Frequently Asked Questions. |
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Poetry Sites
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Summer may seem like a long time away,
but it's not too early to start planning. Don't just let your
students languish over the summer! Give them something worthwhile to
do by suggesting appropriate books from
Summer Reading Lists Abound on the Web. |
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The Children’s Book Council (CBC) is a
non-profit trade organization dedicated to encouraging literacy and
the use and enjoyment of children’s books. |
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American Literature on the Web site is
maintained by Akihito Ishikawa, Department of English at Nagasaki
University of Foreign Studies, Japan. The is mainly a collection of
links to sites on the Internet especially dealing with American
literature and its social, cultural contexts. It includes homepages
and documents on
over 300 authors and electronic texts of
their works. |
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A super collection of myths, legends, and tall
tales is
American Folklore. |
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Social Studies |
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PBS has
just one of the most comprehensive Web undertakings in
years with the debut of PBS Teachers, PBS' portal for pre-K-12
educators—check it out at
www.pbs.org/teachers. |
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First People - the Legends
contains legends of the first Nation
people. There are legends and stories told by the elders of
many of the Native American Indian tribes. The site includes
many links to related resources. |
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Best History Websites
is a portal created for students, history educators, and general
history enthusiasts. Sites are rated for usefulness and accuracy,
that will help studies or teachers in a wide variety of topics and
periods in history. |
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Printable blank outline map
of each US State can be found at
50 States. |
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Check out these
video lectures
on-line. |
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Need online tools for economics? Check the
EconEdLink
Tools from the National Council on Economic Education
containing many online interactive exercises to help students
understand basic economic terms. |
Civil War - Visit this site from
Surfnet for Kids
for excellent resources. More than 600,000 Americans gave
their lives for their country in the Civil War (1861-1865), more
than any other war in our history. Although the North prevailed over
the South, the grief and bitterness caused by such violence healed
very slowly. Learn more at these fine sites.
Camp Life: Civil War Collections from Gettysburg
http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/gettex/
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Our Documents features
100 milestone documents of American history from the National
Archives. Including images of original primary source documents,
lesson plans, teacher and student competitions, and educational
resources. |
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America's History in the Making |
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History Matters is
the site for U.S. History teachers.Talking History offers
online dialogues with leading historians and teachers about the
teaching of major topics in U.S. history. Digital Blackboard
provides successful Web-based assignments as practical models for
integrating new media into the classroom. |
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The
United States Flag has taken on a much deeper significance
in the months following September 11. Explore its rich
heritage and symbolism at this award-winning site. |
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Elementary History Pages
with lessons form grades 4 - 6 |
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Health Education |
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Nutrition for Kids publishes materials that take a fun,
positive approach to a subject that affects children, poor eating
habits, obesity, and inactivity. |
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