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February Tech Update
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Teacher Resources
Need activities for Groundhog Day?  Visit the great sites page from Education World for a variety of ideas!  Also check out the  Shadow of Yourself lesson plan which integrates math, science and social studies.
"Free Technology Guides, Tutorial and How To's"
Want to create .pdf files for FREE?  PrimoPDF is a free utility that creates pdf documents from anything that can be sent to a printer. It's very simple to download, install and use - and is readable by any pdf reader, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Gokidding is a web site to be used by children for learning English, mathematics and other subjects in a fun way.
Valentine Day teaching activities galore can be found at ABC Teach and Valentine Activities.
Coloring pages for Dental Health Month
Need help learning vocabulary?  Quizlet was developed by a high school student  to make learning vocabulary not a chore.  Give it a try!
Billy Bear's Valentine's Day Page
Make your own 3D text graphics at the 3D Text Maker.

Need a Map?  Go to Worldmapper!

Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest. There are now nearly 600 maps.

 
Teachers' Domain is a great source for digital media for classroom as well as professional development.  Resources may be searched by  content area and grade span.
La Bamba Spanish Lessons are fun, musical, and interactive.
SFS KIDS Fun With Music provides a great way for people of all ages to hear, learn, and have fun with music. Instruments of the Orchestra.
Loads of online games wait for you at Oswego's Interactive Games.
Think.com is available to teachers providing the opportunity to build an interactive, multimedia project in minutes.  This FREE service includes a "Parent Page" in which teachers can post information and email, giving schools the choice to block all attachments, turn off external email, and monitor messages for bad language.
I Keep Bookmarks are free online services in which users can store bookmarks to be used anywhere, anytime.
Learning Page is a collection of professionally produced instructional material for you to download and print. Lesson plans, books, worksheets and much more can be found on the site.
In 2 Edu, a colorful New Zealand site, where over 500 themes, lesson plans and downloads abound.
The Music Room offers songs to help students remember academics for language art, math, science, and social studies
To track down anything related to K-12 education, visit Edhound.
Online games from Bob Rankin offers a wide variety of games.
2Learn.org provides a variety of fun and useful educational activities, resources, and products.

Primary
Under5s Early Years website has a varied of activities for young children
KiddoMatrix is an interactive site for the younger set. Students can use to design pictures and color them. It also has "Puzzleomatic" which is a good site for early childhood learners who are just learning to use the mouse.
Children's Storybook offers on-line stories for young readers as well as mazes, coloring pages and other fun activities.
K-3 Learning Pages provides resources for kindergarten to Grade 3 teachers.
The Virtual Vine, created as a resource for Early Childhood and primary level teachers, has ideas and activities for themes and units, displays, links galore, as well as literacy ideas.
Have you made a visit to EduPuppy? providing a search directory and clipart for primary students and their teachers. 

ELL

President’s Day ESL

Story Plant will help guide students in planning and writing a story.
Bitesize English provides many writing activities.
Kidport for ESL
Interesting Things for ESL Students

Science
Science lesson plans that teach literacy for K-2.  This website is devoted to providing lesson plans and ideas for teachers who want to include science instruction for young children. Here, each month, you can find highly tactile lesson plans that can really inspire your students to read and write with the purpose of inquiry
The complete works of Charles Darwin
Science teachers will want to add Biology In Motion to their list of favorites.  This site offers a collection of learning activities, animations, and cartoons designed to help explain difficult, but widely taught, biological concepts.
The Lunar Cycle for grades k-2.  
Science NetLinks is a great site for teachers grades K-12. Providing a wealth of resources for K-12 science educators, Science NetLinks is your guide to meaningful standards-based Internet experiences for students.
The Biology Corner is a resource site for biology teachers and science teachers.  This site has lesson plans, web lesson, web quest, quizzes and more.
EdHeads is a unique, educational Web experience designed to make hard-to-teach concepts understandable using the power and interactivity of the Internet. 
Creative Chemistry has lots of full-color worksheets and teaching notes for fun activities suitable for a chemistry club, over two hundred pages of question sheets and practical guides, power point slides, and a chemistry calculator.
C.O.O.L Classroom - Welcome to the classroom under the Atlantic Ocean. The folks at Rutgers Marine and Coastal Sciences have built a special website for you and your teachers so that you can join the scientists in the COOLroom as they explore the waters off New Jersey.
Classes wanting to learn more about tsunamis will enjoy Forces of Nature with information on volcanoes, earthquakes, hurricanes and tornadoes.
Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling the World guides us on a journey into the fascinating world of the senses and the nervous system, where researchers are working to understand problems of great potential benefit. 
Gizmos offers a variety of resources to teach mathematic and science, including multimedia learning activities that enable teachers to illustrate difficult math concepts with interactive simulations.
Put your science lesson to music provided by Singing Science.  This resource provides mp3 files of catchy tunes with a science lesson.  Download the files to use offline by right-clicking the linked "32" and choosing Save Target As (for Internet Explorer Users) or Save Link As (for Netscape users).
SCIENCE NEWS FOR KIDS is a great site to keep current in the world of science.  The site also features a Puzzle zone, ScifiZone, LabZone, and a Teacher Zone.
Physics Central, from the American Physical Society, covers a variety of needs of physics teachers at all levels. Check out the Interactive section for ideas for all classrooms.

Math
Printable paper rulers
The Global Stock Game is designed for individuals and teachers who want to learn/teach about the stock market.
MathTools is a library of technology tools, lessons, activities, and support materials for teaching and learning mathematics.
Teaching Treasures
Looking for help in teaching fractions?  visit these sites.

 

Mathwords: Terms and Formulas
from Beginning Algebra to Calculus
 
MathDork offers Algebra Tutorials, a unique learning experience using animation to make math more intuitive and fun.
Math and Science Gateway is a very comprehensive database of resources in mathematics and science for educators and students in grades 9-12, although teachers of other levels may find these materials helpful.
Excel-ling Classroom Activities offers a variety of ways to utilize the Excel program as a teacher tool.
Table of Mathematical Symbols
MathNerds offers help on grade school to college level math questions by live mathematicians. Large archive of answered questions and collection of detailed solutions.
MathMatic Calculator is a program for learning and drilling multiplication tables 1 to 12. Best of all...it's FREE!

Social Studies
Choose two countries and InfoNation will compare them statistically, economically, and more.
The Biography Maker is designed to help students write a fascinating and effective biography. It is meant to inspire lively story telling and vivid writing.
Need a quick map?  Check out the Outline Maps from Hougton Mifflin.
If you are looking for high quality Black History resources to use in their classrooms, explore the list at Internet4Classrooms.
Create your own interactive timeline at Read Write Think.
Find a lesson plan with links to online African tales at African Folk Tales.
Archiving Early American provides a wealth of resources from 18th Century America.  Bring the era alive through scenes and portraits from this country's forebears more than two centuries ago.
Econoclass promotes active learning in economics classes through games and simulations, case studies, debate topics, brainteasers, and other interactive activities.
Welcome to Bank,Jr.  Make a visit here to this site to learn about budgets and test your knowledge of money.  Site is divided into elementary resources and grade 6 and up.
When They Were Young: A Photographic Retrospective of Childhood is a Library of Congress exhibit that captures the experience of childhood.
Presidents' Day Teacher Activities has materials for teachers and students. 
American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of the United States.
America's Stories provides an interactive map in which learners can explore a state's history.
View American History online at Rough Rider Link to the Past and explore a tremendous wealth of Internet resources.
The Constitution, A Living Document is an online unit from Yahoo's Teacher Guide.

Language Arts
Get to know the life and work of Edgar Allen Poe.
Story Arts Online addresses story telling in the classroom providing stories that you can use, contacts and forums, a newsletter and of course, lesson plans and curriculum connections.
Essay Punch and Paragraph Punch provide an interface for students to develop an essay online. The site provides a guided approach to writing an essay that includes help with an introduction, 2-3 paragraph body, and conclusion.
Reading Rockets provides reading resources for teachers of young children and help for those struggling with reading.
Meet author's and check out the latest children's books at Kids Read.
Stone Soup, the magazine for children is now online.  Young people from all over the world contribute their stories, poems, book reviews, and art work to Stone Soup.
Resources for extra skill practice, remediation, or enrichment activities for children, parents, and teachers can be found at  Language Arts Resources.

 

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