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 Need
ideas for engaging students following TCAP test? Don't miss
Connie Campbell's classroom activities designed to motivate
students as the school year wraps up at
Teaching After
TCAP. |
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Science
Daily - Your source for the latest in news for all field of
science and what is in the headlines! |
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Understand Test Scores: A Primer for Parents is a
wonderful tool for those confused by the jargon of standardized
testing. |
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PC Show and Tell
offers over 40,000 animated, voiced tutorials, on more than 100 of
your favorite software applications,
awesome! Try the trial subscription. |
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Make your own PowerPoint
games by downloading one of the many templates at
Parade of Games in
PowerPoint. |
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KinderKare
Resource Website
for teachers and others interested in early childhood education,
Pre-K through 2nd Grade.
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In planning for the
upcoming school year and looking for a source for educational
supplies, toys, etc. visit
Connie's Educational
for a
variety classroom needs. |
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Math and science have never been more important to
the future of our children and our nation.
ENC provides the resources and support for math and science
educators needed to help raise student achievement in these vital
subjects. Visit ENC for great teacher resources |
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Rona's Ultimate Teacher
Tools provides preparations, reference, search, and
interactive tools for educators. |
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Best WebQuests
evaluates webquests and only selects approximatley 15% of sites to be
included in the collection which may be searched by title, subject,
grade, or date. |
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Urban Impact Project focuses on improving the preparation of
preservice teachers for culturally diverse urban contexts and
ensuring beginning teachers' success and long-term employment in
high need schools across Tennessee. |
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If you are a K-2 teacher
and haven't visited
Primary Games you are in for a treat!
Check out the
Curriculum Guide to find the right game or activity to meet
your classroom or child's needs. The guide is broken up into four
areas: Math, Language Arts, Science and Social Studies. |
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Abiator's
Active Classroom
is an educational
resource for teachers and students. Designed by a teacher in
New Zealand, it is chocked full of interactive activities for
reading, math, and social studies. |
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A wealth of resources
for educators awaits at
Ed Helper. There teachers can
access thousands of lesson plans, worksheets, and view the latest
educational headline. |
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ReviseWise
contains English, math and science activities, test and worksheets
for ages 4-11. |
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KidSites
The site is a collection of great sites for K – 3, including
educational activities, coloring pages, comics, crafts, sports,
story books, and more |
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Primary teachers will love
Jazzle. Choose
a letter and hear a song about it, plus download a coloring sheet and students
can color while they sing along. |
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Daily Lesson Plan is a wonderful resource of lesson plans
for Grades 6 - 12 in just about every subject, from American History
through Technology. |
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1001 Uses
for a Digital Camera offers ideas and lesson plans
incorporating digital camera. Lesson are categorized by
subject area. |
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ALPS - Harvard's
Teacher Lab includes model lesson plans and activities;
curriculum design tools; online educational publications;
interactive forums, workshops and conferences; and
teacher journals reflecting on practice. |
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Activities for celebrating Cinco de Mayo
may be found at:
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Math |
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Excite and motivate
students at Math, It
All Adds Up, by demonstrating the relevance of mathematics
in the world today. |
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Tennessee Sports Math Project
The project was designed to provide sports-related
activities for mathematics teachers in the sixth through ninth grade
classrooms. The goal is to stimulate "at-risk" students who
might be willing to do activities related to their interests. |
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Number
Time, produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation
(BBC), uses interactive animation to help children in grades pre
through 2 practice number basics. The site contains online games for
children, printable work sheets, and songs as well as information
for parents and teachers. |
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A
Creative Encounter of the Numerical Kind can help middle
grades math students better understand the base ten number system by
creating an imaginary civilization develop a base four number
system. |
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Mrs. M’s Math Mania
is an great site that involves the use of the Internet and math
skills. |
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Are your students still
struggling with fractions? Visit
AAA math for a progression of instruction and practice using
fractions |
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At
Math Fact Card Cafe' you can challenge your students with
online interactive flash cards on several math functions or create
your own! |
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Count Us In is an interactive site for
primary children which includes math games and activities designed
to help them understand basic number concepts. |
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Highly interactive math
activities for students and teachers are found at
Explore Math. |
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Math Competition for students.
Are you looking for ways to challenge and motivate your students?
Visit the is Education World site for ideas on different
competitions. |
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Looking for good
math activities for student practice visit this bbc site for children
ages 7 - 11. For students 11- 16 visit
maths for skill explanation, practice and assessment activities. |
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Find a variety of
Graphing Paper in PDF format
online. |
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Science |
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Science Daily - Your
source for the latest in news for all field of science and what is
in the headlines! |
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Teaching plate
tectonics? Visit
Mountain
Maker, Earth Shaker, by PBS. |
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Science Kingdom Clip Art
has free biology clip for all grade levels. |
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Science
Graphic Galley
from Access Excellence provides a wide variety of graphics that will
be usefull to teachers of multiple grades |
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Lawrence Hall of Science
offers both online and offline activities for students in the areas
of math and science and showcases student work. |
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The Bones - A Virtual lab
is a terrific site produced
by a collaboration with the National Science Digital Library (NSDL)
and the University of Texas. Students compare bones and skull for a
very interesting experience! |
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The eSkeleton Project is
devoted to the study of human and primate comparative anatomy.
eSkeletons enables you to view the bones of both human and non-human
primates ranging from the gorilla to the tiny mouse lemur. All of
the large apes are represented as well as other species from
different parts of the world. Many of these primates are rare or
endangered species. |
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Boil, Boil,
Toil and Trouble was designed to allow students to
participate in an international inquiry to discover which factor
(room temperature, elevation, volume of water, or heating device)
has the greatest influence on boiling point. |
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NASA –
Kennedy Space Center allows you to keep up with activities
in the space program. |
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Creative Chemistry
is a delightful, bright site that makes chemistry
fun. |
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A
Look Inside
the Human
Body
allows students to learn
more about bones, muscles, heart and the digestive system. |
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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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ELL and Special
Education |
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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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Casa Notes is designed to
allow teachers to quickly make, and customize, typical notes that
are sent home to parents in English or Spanish. |
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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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The Nutrition Analysis Tool
(NAT) is a web based program that allows anyone to analyze the foods
they eat for various different nutrients. |
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Maintained by the
Exploratorium,
Sport
Science contains information related to the scientific and
technological components of sports. |
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BAM!
- (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention) Learn about
yummy foods that are good for you. Play in the game room and take
the BAM challenge quiz. Find out ways to make your body and mind
healthier, stronger, and safer |
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Take 10
- Get kids active 10 minutes
at a time. This site has classroom based physical activities
for grades K-5. |
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Technology |
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Web Monkey
provides tools and resources to make you net savvy. |
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2000Shareware.com
provides a collection of Shareware software with ratings for Windows
2000. A variety of categories are available:
Kids,
Math,
Language, Science,
and
Miscellaneous offerings. |
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Get Tech Teacher
The
role of technology has become more important in a teacher's world.
Check out the many resources as they need to help our students
become well trained in math and science, including the
GetTech
Teacher Lesson Guide
that has six teaching modules you can fit into your curriculum. |
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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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Classrooms that EXCEL Resources
provides guides, tutorials,
applications and lesson plans for using Excel in the classroom. |
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Computer Strategies
is a professional development company that provides customized,
focused, and relevant coaching on-site and online for teachers. |
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Language
Arts |
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Crayon – Create your own
newspaper |
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Barking Spiders
includes poems written from a child's perspective, stories, tongue
twisters, printable mazes, tips for budding authors |
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Basic Steps in the Research Process
provides help for students in the process of creating a research
project. |
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Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun
is an interactive and educational site was designed to give younger
students an opportunity to learn vocabulary in a fun way.
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Book Browse
provides excerpts from selected current books, reviews,
interviews, and more. |
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Reading Online is an
online journal from the International Reading Association that
primarily focuses on literary practice and research in K-12
Classrooms. |
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Learning in Motion
– top 10 language arts picks. Visit this site for new
ideas for your lessons. |
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Romeo and Juliet aids, such as online quizzes, a
Jeopardy Game, and an online guide are collected at
Romeo and Juliet Resources. |
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For free printable patterns and coloring
pages visit
Shape Books. Try the
FREE ready-made skill books, poem forms, or make your own
worksheets, word wall words, report covers, and more. |
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Grade Level Reading Lists
was created by elementary school teachers to help parents and
educators select appropriate grade level books for children. |
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Looking for new ways to motivate
children to read? Check out the resources at the
Reading Corner. |
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SRA/McGraw-Hill
has more than 60 years of experience in working to help every child
learn. Check out the
free student resources. |
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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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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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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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A-Book-A-Week Instruction is a guide to appropriate story
books for each week of the school year with coordinating lesson
plans and activities. Lessons are in PDF format. |
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Social Studies |
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The Social Studies Online teachers have
developed a wealth of resources aligned with the Blueprint for
Learning. Check out the PowerPoint
lessons,
games, and
Word Game Board class activities for grades 2-8. |
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At
Turn of the Century Child browse old photos, dating from
around the turn of the century, of children from diverse
backgrounds, an excellent resource to use when teaching to the
standards involving historical research and inquiry. |
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Google Maps is a new service that offers a map and a
satellite image, unfortunately some rural areas are not accessible
through this service. |
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Social Studies
Online teachers have prepared a collection of PowerPoint
games aligned with the Blueprint for Learning for elementary
students. These whole class activities are a great way to
practice skills. There is also a collection of game boards
and question cards available for small group activities. |
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History Happens provides
music videos about U.S.
history and promises to keep even the most skeptic student
spellbound! |
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Hyper-History
is an interactive timeline that covers 3,000 years of history. |
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It's no surprise they won a Webby and a
People's Choice Award for Education,
National Geographic has a extremely comprehensive site. |
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Biography of America
uses uses media and telecommunications to advance teaching of the
history of America. |
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Need a little variety in class, try
these sites?
Geography games
History
games |
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Memorial Day at History. com
provides the history of Memorial Day, activities, lesson plans and
more. |
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Best of History Websites
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Best of History Web Sites features categorized and
annotated lists of links to hundreds K-12 history lesson plans,
teacher guides, activities, games, quizzes, and more throughout its
pages. |
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Selected Civil War
Photographs provides a historic time line of the American
Civil War illustrated by an outstanding collection of 1,118
photographs taken between 1861 and 1865. |
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Social Studies teachers looking for
Civil War information need look no farther than the
Index of
Civil War Information. |
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Specialty Areas |
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Peak English
offers
interactive games, dictionaries, reference materials, and other
materials to help teachers and students learning English as a Second
Language and English as a Foreign Language. |
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A one-stop collection of language
translators can be found at
Rona's
Teacher Tools. |
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Foreign language teachers will love the
Really Useful
German
Teaching Site where students can participate in interactive
lessons and listening exercises. |
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The Online Guide for Student Drivers
is designed for
those studying for their drivers license test or researching traffic
law and rules of the road.
It was created to augment your state's
official driving manual, this online guide for new (and licensed)
drivers features illustrative animation, sample test questions and
rules of the road every driver needs
to know. |
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Sports Media is full
of lesson plans,
tips on coaching each sport, pen pals, ask the expert, practical
links and more! |
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Band Directors will want to check out
the collection of resources at the
Band
Teachers Toolbox. |
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Classical Music Archives offers 3,000 midi files of
classical music. |
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Internet Art Resources is the site to use for art
education. |
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