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Teacher Resources |
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Interactive
Whiteboard Activities has activities for Language Arts, Social Studies,
Math and Science, as well as Learning Games. This is a great resource for
ideas. |
 Game
Classroom is the next generation of homework help for grades
K-6.
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Kindersite has numerous
games, stories and songs. The site was originally pre-school and
kindergarten but has expanded with resources for children up to 12 years old.
Site is grouped into Children's Directory and
Educational Games 7-12 Years (arranged by curricular topics). |
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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. |
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"Free
Technology Guides, Tutorial and How To's" |
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Visit the
Winter Olympic Games, a collections of resources, activities, and lesson
plans |
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Celebrate
Black
History during the month February. |
Valentine Day teaching activities galore can
be found at
ABC Teach and Valentine’s
Day |
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Coloring pages for Dental Health Month |
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Need help learning vocabulary?
Quizlet was developed
by a high school student to make learning vocabulary not a
chore. Give it a try! |
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Billy Bear's
Valentine's Day Page |
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Make your own 3D text graphics at the
3D Text Maker. |
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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.
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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. |
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La Bamba Spanish Lessons are fun,
musical, and interactive. |
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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. |
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Snowflake Workshop
is a cool place to make "old fashion" paper snowflake online. |
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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. |
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I Keep Bookmarks
are free online services in which users can store bookmarks to be used anywhere,
anytime. |
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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.
WWild Team is a collection of PowerPoint games. |
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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. |
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Online games from
Bob Rankin
offers a wide variety of games. |
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2Learn.org provides a
variety of fun and useful educational activities, resources, and products. |
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Primary |
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Kindersite has numerous
games, stories and songs. The site was originally pre-school and
kindergarten but has expanded with resources for children up to 12 years old.
Site is grouped into Children's Directory and
Educational Games 7-12 Years (arranged by curricular topics). |
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Under5s Early Years website has a
varied of activities for young children |
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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. |
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Children's Storybook
offers on-line stories for young readers as well as mazes, coloring pages and
other fun activities. |
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K-3 Learning
Pages provides resources for
kindergarten to Grade 3 teachers. |
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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. |
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Have you made a visit to EduPuppy? providing a
search directory and clipart for primary students and their teachers. |
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ELL |
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President’s Day ESL
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Story Plant will help guide students in planning and
writing a story. |
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Gokidding
is a web site to be used by children for learning English,
mathematics and other subjects in a fun way. |
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Kidport for ESL |
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Interesting Things for ESL Students |
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Science |
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Middle School Portal for Math and Science Resources |
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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 |
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The complete works of
Charles Darwin |
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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.
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The
Lunar Cycle for grades k-2. |
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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. |
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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. |
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EdHeads is a unique, educational Web experience
designed to make hard-to-teach concepts understandable using the power and
interactivity of the Internet. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Classes wanting to learn more about tsunamis will
enjoy
Forces of Nature
with information on volcanoes, earthquakes, hurricanes and tornadoes. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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). |
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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. |
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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. |
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Math |
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Cool Math 4 Kids is a math site
specially designed for what kids like and how they learn! Math really CAN be
fun and really CAN be easy to learn. For Pre-algebra and up, visit
Cool Math. |
| The
Global
Stock Game is designed for
individuals and teachers who want to learn/teach about the stock market.
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MathTools is a
library of technology tools, lessons, activities, and support materials for
teaching and learning mathematics. |
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Teaching
Treasures |
| Looking for help in teaching fractions? visit
these sites.
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Mathwords: Terms and Formulas
from Beginning Algebra to Calculus |
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How to Make Math Fun |
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MathDork
offers Algebra Tutorials, a unique learning experience using animation to make
math more intuitive and fun. |
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Printable paper
rulers |
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Excel-ling
Classroom Activities offers a variety
of ways to utilize the Excel program as a teacher tool. |
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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. |
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MathMatic Calculator
is a program for learning and drilling multiplication tables 1 to
12. Best of all...it's FREE! |
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Social Studies |
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February is
Black History Month - resources |
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The
Newseum
displays these daily newspaper front
pages from around the world in their original, unedited form. Some
front pages may contain material that is objectionable to some
visitors. Viewer discretion is advised. |
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Choose two countries and InfoNation will compare them statistically, economically, and more. |
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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. |
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Econoclass
promotes active learning in economics classes through games and simulations,
case studies, debate topics, brainteasers, and other interactive activities.
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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. |
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American Memory is a
gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the history and culture of
the United States. |
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America's Stories
provides an interactive map in which learners can explore a
state's history. |
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Drop Me Off in Harlem
is a rich multimedia exploration of the sights and sounds of this time period,
designed for 9-12 audiences. Students can explore the creative and intellectual
intersections of the Harlem Renaissance. Each section has a wealth of primary
sources to read, listen to, and watch. |
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Language Arts |
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Drop Me
Off in Harlem is a rich multimedia exploration of the sights
and sounds of this time period, designed for 9-12 audiences.
Students can explore the creative and intellectual intersections of
the Harlem Renaissance. Each section has a wealth of primary sources
to read, listen to, and watch. |
| 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. |
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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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The Arts |
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Blues Journey
is a virtual tour that
traces the blues from its early beginnings in southern American
fields to its global impact on music today. |
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The Art Zone is an
interactive art site from the National Gallery of Art. |
| This
Xploring Xtremes Interactive site allows students to explore extremes in
several key elements of music, while listening to musical selections from the
Xploring Xtremes concert performed by the world-renowned National Symphony
Orchestra (NSO)! and a unique opportunity to
Meet the Conductor. |
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National Museum of Wildlife Art
offers podcasts, vodcasts, streaming video, and links to
Virtual Tours,
Games, and much more. Do
not miss My Life as
an Elk. |
