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Free virtual ruler
for your computer screen
This Screen Ruler is a great tool that allows you to accurately
measure anything on your screen. Screen Ruler can display Pixels,
Inches, Picas or Centimeters.
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Hoagies' Gifted Education
Page provides a
collection of resources for teachers and parents of gifted students. |
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Looking for time-saving resources online?
Check out the
Online
Teacher Tools or
I'm Dreaming of Online Teacher Tools. |
Using Internet Data Meaningfully
is an awesome site for teachers of math,
science,
 and social studies. This site uses authentic data
for students to research and investigate.
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Musiclopedia
is a music portal with a long list of resources here
for music studies from
lists of composers to today's recording artists and bands. |
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 Classrooms
That Excel
Resources is a site filled with tutorials, lessons,
activities, and guides for using Microsoft Excel in the classroom.
Activities and ideas for elementary, middle, and high school
students. |
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Gliffy.com
is
a concept mapping tool that you use right through your browser - no
downloads, no cost. Save your diagrams online, share them between
different users for collaborative work, and save them back to your
computer. |
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The
Online Books Page
is a website that provides access to books that are
freely readable over the Internet. |
With
WebAssign, you can:
- Create, post, and review
assignments
24 hours a day, 7 days a week
- Deliver, collect, grade,
and record assignments
instantly
- Offer more practice
exercises, quizzes, and homework
- Assess student
performance to keep abreast of
individual progress
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If you are
searching for a particular speech like "I Have A Dream" or the JFK
Inaugural? You'll find it at
American Rhetoric,
along with many other categories of speeches that have stood the
test of time. |
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Learn to be Healthy has health
education site with activities for teachers and students (grades K -
6). |
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Graphic organizers offer a large
selection of printable multiple purpose organizers for all subject
areas. |
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Are you looking for royalty free
music to download for pod casts or movie making? Try
incompetech. |
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The Activity
Place: 123 Child.com provides over 1650 activity ideas for
Early Childhood Educators. |
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Educational Web
Adventures creates immersive, interactive, and in-depth
adventures about art, science and history. |
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Daily Lesson Plan,
developed by the "New York Times on the Web's Learning Network," is
a wonderful resource of lesson plans for Grades 6 - 12 in just about
every subject. |
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The
Glossary of Instructional Strategies is
a planning resource for classroom teachers and instructional
designers. The glossary lists, describes, and provides links for over
600 educational strategies, theories, and activities. |
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Brain
Teasers is a colorful
site that offers thought-provoking questions for three age groups:
3-4, 5-6,and 7-8. |
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The
Jigsaw
Classroom is a cooperative
learning technique that reduces racial conflict among school children,
promotes better learning, improves student motivation, and increases
enjoyment of the learning experience. |
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Teaching Treasures
offers K-12 resources, projects, links, and worksheets. |
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Scott Foresman
reading site for grades K-6 |
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Teacher Helpers is collection of lesson plans, unit
plans, resources, and teacher web pages.
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Pics4Learning, a copyright-friendly image library for
teachers and students, consists of thousands of images that have been
donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers. |
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Want to feel like a kid in a candy shop?
Check out the wealth of teaching materials found at
Scholastic's
Teacher Resources. |
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Awesome
Library organizes
reviewed resources for teachers, students, parents, and librarians.
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Explore the new look of
Ed Gate
(formerly Copernicus Education Gateway) which offers
curriculum resources, online tools for teachers, reference materials
for students, and more.
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Teachers.Net
links educators to resources on the World Wide Web. |
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I Know That
is a great interactive site with lessons for math, science, art,
language arts, social studies, and thinking games for preK-6.
This site is excellent for the lower grades. |
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ABCTeach
contains fun ideas and activities for kids, parents, student teachers, and
teachers.
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ThinkQuest is the largest and fastest-growing Internet-based education program in the world that encourages students and educators to work in teams to build high-quality, educational Web sites on a variety of subjects.
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Word of the Day is an
excellent place for high school students to work on their vocabulary
skills, especially if they plan to take the SAT or ACT. Each day the
page offers its Word of the Day followed by a Merriam-Webster
definition plus an example of the word as used in a recent NY Times
article. |
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ELL |
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Authentic American Pronunciation
is a
fantastic site for ESL/ELL students and teachers. |
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Mingoville is the world's most comprehensive English
language course online for kids all ages. You must register
for the site but registration is free. |
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Mark's ESL World - Teaching Jobs, Lesson Plans, and Other Resources
Find hundreds of ESL
teaching jobs, huge lesson plan resource area, and a multitude of
teacher resources |
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Free Printables for Teachers
1500+ flashcards,
phonics cards, theme LESSON PLANS, multilingual handouts for foreign
language teachers, worksheets, COLORING sheets, wordsearches,
projects, ESL games, teaching advice, and activities; Flash cards
span 40+ categories and a holidays section including Halloween,
Thanksgiving, Christmas and more. |
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Mr. Nussebaum's
Social Studies page has many graphics, interactive sites and
games to aid the learning process. |
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Teach English! Courses, games, tests...
Resources to learn/teach
English - for ESL/EFL learners/teachers:courses, documents, games,
exercises, tests, interactive pages, videos, cliparts, plays... |
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Math |
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Villainy, Inc.: Thwarting World Supremacy through Mathematics
is a site devoted to helping middle grade students build and use
problem-solving skills to solve unique and complex mathematical
problems. Here, they become undercover agents working to thwart the
evil Dr. Wick, ID and his half-baked and often-zany schemes to take
over the world. |
Visual fractions -
on-line tutorial
offers instruction and practice in identifying, renaming, and
operating on fractions. All examples are modeled with number lines
or circles. Fractions are better understood when seen! Great site! |
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No Matter What Shape Your Fractions Are In
is another visual site for understanding and learning about
fractions. The focus of this site is on determining the
relationships between shapes and their components. |
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The Pi Pages gives all the "stuff" on Pi! |
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At
StocksQuest: A Global Stock Market Game
play the market risk free. With simulated money it costs nothing,
but provides learners a first-hand experience on how the stock
market operates. |
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Are your students starved for information
about fractions? At
Hungry
For Math you'll find fractions and recipes all mixed in
together. YUM! |
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MathWorld is an excellent
site for mathematics. It is a comprehensive and interactive
encyclopedia for students, educators, researchers, and math
enthusiasts.
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Looking for math drill worksheets? Create
your own at SuperKids
Math
Worksheet Creator
for free! Select
the type of problem, the maximum and minimum numbers to be used in the
problems, and click on the button! Your worksheet will be created,
ready to be printed for use.
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Science |
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The
Science Spot
is a collection of teaching reference materials, puzzles, trivia and
other science ideas.
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The Dynamic Earth - the
story of Plate Tectonics |
 Argosy's
Visible Body is the
most comprehensive human anatomy visualiz ation
tool available today. The Visible Body includes 3D models of over
1,700 anatomical structures, including all major organs and systems
of the human body. |
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Visit
NasaQuest
dedicated to bringing NASA people, space, and science to classrooms
through the Internet.
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Science Made Simple's Online Metric Converter
does instant conversions for 13 categories, and it's as simple as
entering a number and selecting the input and output choices. |
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Check out one of the true wonders of
nature at
Plants in Motion.
The wonderful movie clips and thorough scientific explanations will
entice the most jaded student. |
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Hubbards' Cupboard is a website for early childhood
educators and parents. |
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Science Master
is the Internet's science learning web site, catering to students, parents and teachers.
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Science Online
is a collection of lesson plans, interactive activities, and
worksheets based on the Tennessee Science Curriculum Framework. |
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Graphics
Gallery from Access Excellence is a series of
labeled diagrams with explanations representing the important
processes of biotechnology. Each diagram is followed by a summary of
information, providing a context for the process illustrated. |
Nobel
Prize Site Offers Up Educational
Games that include
Pavlov’s Dog, Split Brain Experiments, Malaria, MRI, Immune System,
Genetic Code, Electrocardiogram, DNA; The Double Helix and Control
of the Cell Cycle. Games are accompanied by readings and information
on educational outreach.
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Technology |
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The
Magic of Computers K-8
shares tremendous resources for
teaching with technology. Explore spreadsheets, writing, art
activities, and much more. |
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At
The
JigZone you can work a
variety of jigsaw puzzles or upload your photos and make your own.
These can be made into free online jigsaw puzzles which can be placed
on your webpage. |
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NetDayCompass.org
is a comprehensive education technology web site designed to assist
decision makers and educators in meeting educational goals through the
effective use of technology. |
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eduScapes
strives to assist teachers in the effective integration of technology
into teaching and learning environments. |
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iEARN
(International Education and Resource Network)
enables young people to use the Internet and other new technologies to engage in collaborative educational projects.
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Language
Arts |
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Imaginary Lands brings us
Picturing Books,
the
Children's
Literature Navigator, and
Passport,
a guide to international children's literature. |
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The student resources found at
The Magnificent 9 provide
great tools for freshmen as they tackle Ninth Grade English. |
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Explore
eBooks,
free digital textbooks that can be read in handheld devices and shared
by the Internet! |
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Travel
down
Literacy Lane
and explore how to create a balanced literacy program using the Four
Blocks framework with reading specialist, Jeannette Mulholland.
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At
Venn Diagram teachers
can create a Venn Diagram, seach/view the Venn Diagrams database, or
learn the top 10 ways to utilize them. |
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Grade
Level Reading Lists, created by elementary school teachers,
is designed to help parents and
educators select appropriate grade level books for children.
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Explore a
Teacher's
Guide to Folklife Resources for K-12 Classrooms.
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VOCABULARY
offers
a free, online interactive vocabulary development activities for grades
4-9.
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Integrate
MS Word into the
Language
Arts
curriculum or check out the
composition resources available at
Write On.
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KidBibs
supports children's reading, writing, and learning development and
includes a section on learning tips.
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Social Studies |
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Looking for economics unit?
EconEdLink has lesson
plans for all grades, K-12, and many have interactive games and
on-line instructional links. |
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Mexico for Kids, available
in English, Spanish, French, and Italian, provides a kid-friendly look
at our neighbor to the south. |
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Explore 27 periods or American history at
A Biography of
America with maps, key events, and interactive resources. |
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Social studies teachers will welcome the
chance to make history come alive for their students at
American Rhetoric: Top 100 Speeches.
Listen to some of the most famous speeches in history in MP3 or
RealAudio formats. |
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The People's Vote: 100 Documents That Shaped America
focuses on the 100 Most Significant Documents in U.S. History as
determined by a nationwide vote conducted by the National Archives
and Records Administration (NARA) in conjunction with National
History Day and U.S. News and World Report. Best of all, each of the
100 is a hotlink, which brings up a digitized image of the actual
document. |
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Geography World
is superb for the amount of useful resources it provides as well as
for the links to maps and games that will make your learning
experience exciting and interesting. |
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Walk Through Time is a
delightful History Web Site for 7 to 9 Year Olds. The home
page offers a choice of six modules with a range of fascinating
history-related activities. |
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Specialty Areas |
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Special Education Resources on
the Internet (SERI) is a
collection of Internet accessible information resources for those
involved in fields related to Special Education. |
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Take a fascinating look at Line,
Shape, Color, Space, and all of the other building blocks that
artists use at the
Artist
Toolkit. |
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Mindworks
provides links and articles regarding learning disabilities for
teachers, parents, and students.
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Learning English Online provides the opportunity to
learn English words, practice grammar, study basic rules, practice
for tests, or just play games. |
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Eyes on Art: A Learning to Look Curriculum
offers instructions of how to use the five modules, all of which are
dedicated to helping students look at and understand art.
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French in a Click is an interactive
site for learning French.
The site contains thousands of sounds; you
will be able to practice reading, writing, listening and speaking
skills |
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Musictheory.net
offers interactive tutorials on topics such as staff, clef, and
ledger lines, note duration, dots and ties, and more. |
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Mymusicindex.com is a
quick-reference, informational music resource. |
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