TEACHER RESOURCES
Virtual Classroom Space
Classroom
Connect
http://www.classroom.net/home.asp
This site combines the possibility of a virtual classroom, with direct
online instruction for your students. It is a fee-based site, but
may be worth the money for some. It connects you with college credit
online courses, curriculum and assessment tools for your classroom,
and more. Check out the demo of their services. It is quite interesting.
Discovery
School's Custom Classroom
http://school.discovery.com/teachers/index.html
This free site allows you the full use of several online programs
offered by the Discovery School site, including Puzzle Maker, Quiz
Center, and a new service to create classroom handouts. By setting
up your virtual classroom with this site you get to save all the work
you create. Some tools work without signing up.
Education
Planet
http://www.educationplanet.com/
This is one terrific site! It contains hundreds of links to websites
that can aid in student learning across the curriculum. The site also
includes online tools to create a virtual classroom space, a newsletter
for students and parents, lesson plans, and your own online storage
space for documents you want to create or share.
Edu-Hound
http://www.eduhound.com
This site is filled with a lot of really neat stuff. You can place
your classroom on the Internet, follow lots of links to great education
sites, or create your own "hot list" of sites from Edu-Hound's
directory. This hot list can be accessed by your students and/or their
parents to go to sites you have personally endorsed. Also available
in Spanish.
Classroom
Builder
http://classroom.tripod.com/
Tripod's classroom builder is a little different than others. You
can sign up for a personal teacher's page, or sign on as a group to
get a classroom page. You also have the ability to produce message
boards and chat rooms (could be used with parents to discuss upcoming
events, etc). Students can produce pages to post their work as well.
You can limit the people who see your site (parents and students only)
or leave it for the world to see.
ePals
http://www.epals.com/
A little different twist on the virtual classroom. This site offers
your students the opportunity to become e-penpals with other students
from around the world. Could be used for lessons on missions or cross-cultural
studies.
The
Gateway
http://thegateway.org/
Provides access for teachers to lots of lesson plans, curriculum ideas,
and many other resources, most of them free.
Internet Tutorials
The
Learning Space
http://www.learningspace.org/
The mission statement for this site reads: "Providing educators
with opportunities and tools to develop, implement and share effective
uses of technology to improve student learning." It is a fee-based
site (as near as I can tell). You might want to check out the link
for "Teaching and Learning" at http://www.learningspace.org/teach_learn/internet/
Web
Teacher
http://www.webteacher.org/winnet/indextc.html
This site contains many useful tutorials on how to construct a webpage
and more. Easy to follow. It is designed for all ranges of previous
skill, including those with no skill whatsoever.
Information
Age Consultants
http://www.iage.com/bklinks.shtm
This site contains dozens of links to help teach students more about
using the Internet. It also includes links for teachers to various
sites that will aid in lesson planning, student research, and much
more.
Tammy's
Technology Tips for Teachers
http://www.essdack.org/tips/index.html
I have not looked real close at this site, but it appears to have
some good information for those just beginning to use various forms
of technology in the classroom, including the Internet. Also, the
PowerPoint information could prove helpful to some.
Curriculum
Ideas
http://www.cyberbee.com/intclass.html
Okay, I want to use the Internet in my teaching…now what? This
site gives some good advice and ideas for several content specific
instruction areas. Might be a good starting point for some.
Great Sites for Elementary Kids
Searching
for ABC's
http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/abc/index.html
Created by elementary school children, this site organizes children's
websites alphabetically. Designed to teach young children how to surf
the Internet
Awesome
Clipart For Kids
http://www.awesomeclipartforkids.com/
This site is filled with lots of clipart for printing or using in
kid-created web pages. Also includes coloring pages, web icons, and
special type fonts for their creations.
Bonus.com
: The SuperSite for Kids!
http://bonus.com/
This is a terrific site with lots of resources for kids, teachers,
and parents. Includes games, homework help, ideas for fun at home,
and a lot more. The site will open in a second window. Involves several
mouse clicks to get to where you want to go.
Fun
Brain's Game Site
http://funbrain.com/teachers/curric.html
This site contains many games for kids grouped by subject matter.
Great online fun. Each game reinforces content areas from your classroom.
Little
Explorer's Picture Dictionary
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Dictionary.html
Nearly 2,000 entries with picture identifiers. The site is searchable
by letter of the alphabet. It is also available in other languages.
Yahooligans
http://www.yahooligans.com/
A great web guide for kids. Sponsored by Yahoo, Yahooligans is a database
of websites grouped by categories. Includes games, movies, jokes,
science, reference, and more! This could prove to be one of your most
important websites for student searches.
The
Learning Network: Grades 3-12
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/
This is a great site for teachers, students, and parents, exploring
various topics. Sponsored by the New York Times. Students can learn
how to apply for college. Teachers can access lesson plans. Parents
can read about how to better connect with their children.
Teacher Development Sites
Education
Search Engine
http://www.searchedu.com/
This site is a searchable database of education links. You are not
searching the Internet. Rather, you are searching through the sites
that have been pre-selected for this database (much like Yahoo). However,
there are currently over 15 million sites in the database, so you
should find something of value every time you search!
4
Education
http://4education.4anything.com/
The 4 Anything site contains helpful information on a number of issues.
This link will take you directly to the site on education. One caution:
it contains pop-under advertising that can be annoying.
The
Global Schoolhouse
http://www.gsn.org/
From their mission statement: "Global SchoolNet is the leader
in collaborative learning. We continue to provide online opportunities
for teachers to collaborate, communicate, and celebrate shared learning
experiences." Lots of great links and resources for teachers.
Really worth checking out!
I
Love Teaching
http://www.iloveteaching.com
This site is run by a teacher and has information for education students,
new teachers, mentor teachers, and more. There are a lot of good information
articles on this site, including information on using the Internet
in the classroom.
Teacher.net:
The Ultimate Teacher's Web Resource
http://www.teachers.net/
This site contains chat rooms for teachers, bulletin boards, lesson
plans, curricular activities, and much, much more. You could spend
hours here.
Teach-Nology
http://www.teach-nology.com/
This great site may have absolutely all you will ever need to help
you incorporate the use of technology in your teaching. Spend your
first few times at this site exploring the links in the blue navigation
bar at the top of the page. Excellent tools are available to make
your work so much easier!
Blue
Web'n
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
A list of blue ribbon websites from around the Internet, conveniently
organized by content area and type of site. This site also provides
an email update to inform you about new sites added every week. I
have used this email update and found it quite helpful.
Web
66
http://web66.coled.umn.edu/
Reminiscent of "Route 66," this site takes teachers on a
journey. It has valuable links to education sites, information on
using technology in the classroom, and a very good email newsletter
and forum to post questions and receive answers from other teachers.
Kathy
Schrock's Guide for Educators
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/index.html
http://school.discovery.com
This is one of the best sites I have found to help teachers with a
number of classroom and curriculum related interests. Especially helpful
are the links for various assessment practices. Although Kathy has
her own web page (see below), this one seems easier to navigate. Also,
you get the full exposure to the Discovery Channel's school website.
Education
World
http://www.education-world.com/
This is one of my favorite education sites on the Internet. It has
everything. Links are included for teachers, new teachers, administrators,
using technology, and much more. Make sure you go all the way to the
bottom of the page to look at links to archives of links most often
used at the site.
The
Learning Workshop
http://www.thelearningworkshop.com
This site includes information for teachers, students, and parents.
Great articles for all readers. It also includes a search module to
look for online tutors for various student needs such as ADHD, learning
disabilities, reading disabilities, and the like.
Technology
Sites
http://www.wam.umd.edu/~mlhall/teach_tech.html#courses
This is a very large list of education links for college instructors,
k-12 teachers, conferences and workshops, and other great sites. All
sites have to do with using technology in the classroom.
Literacy
and Technology
http://campus.fortunecity.com/newton/40/home.html
The site is divided into six sections: Education Links, Computer and
Technology Specific Links, Government Links, Media Links, Reference
Links, and Virtual Field Trip Links. Education Links range from multi-level
lesson plans and teacher tips to professional organizations. Find
out how a bill becomes a law, get assistance with genealogy, or e-mail
the White House in the Government Links area. On the downside, the
site includes those nuisance pop-up ads.
Marco
Polo
http://marcopolo.worldcom.com/
The MarcoPolo program provides no-cost, standards-based Internet content
for the K-12 teacher and classroom, developed by the nation's content
experts. Online resources include panel-reviewed links to top sites
in many disciplines, professionally developed lesson plans, classroom
activities and materials to help with daily classroom planning, and
powerful search engines.
American
Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
http://www.aacte.org/
An excellent site complete with grant resources for teachers, articles,
teaching tips, and more.
Center
for Research on Education, Diversity, and Excellence
http://www.crede.ucsc.edu/
Center
for the Future of Teaching and Learning
http://www.cftl.org/home.html
Education
In Our Communities
http://www.studycircles.org/pages/issues/educationhome.html
Lots of resources for help with community partners, student success,
diversity, and other issues facing teachers, parents, and schools.
Communities
In Schools
http://www.cisnet.org/
Council
for Basic Education
http://www.c-b-e.org/teachered/step.htm
Information about the Standards-based Teacher Education Project (STEP),
helping universities redesign teacher preparation programs to ensure
that candidates are able to support changing standards in education.
The
Southeast Center for Teaching Quality
http://www.teachingquality.org/
Best practices, research findings, PowerPoint presentations, articles,
and more useful tools for teachers to improve quality of classroom
instruction.
Resources for Creating Quizzes and Handouts
Game-O-Matic
http://clear.msu.edu/dennie/matic/
This site has "wizards" to help you create both quizzes
and learning games based on the content taught in your classroom.
I especially like the "drag-and-drop" game that is used
to pair up words on the computer. Students drag the word from the
right column to its match in the left column. They know immediately
if they are correct or not.
Discovery
School's Puzzle Maker
http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/
Create online puzzles for kids. Puzzles include mazes, word searches,
crosswords, cryptograms, and more. You enter the words, sentences,
or numbers you want to use and then simply click a button to create
the puzzle. Print out to use as a handout for your kids. It is that
easy!
Discovery
School's Quiz Center
http://school.discovery.com/quizcenter/quizcenter.html
Quiz Center is a powerful tool you can use to create, administer,
and grade quizzes online. Without any Web development background whatsoever,
you'll be able to make online quizzes that provide instant feedback
to you and your students. You must sign up to create a custom classroom
to use this feature.
E.
L. Easton's Quiz Links
http://eleaston.com/quizzes.html
http://eleaston.com
This list of links will take you to a large array of online quiz,
puzzle, and test sites. I especially like the link to Math Flashcards.
These sites can be shared with parents who may choose to create review
quizzes for their children at home. This is just one page on a fairly
large English and Foreign Language site.
Curriculum and Content Sites
The
Gateway
http://www.thegateway.org/
This site allows you to search the Internet for curriculum, lesson
plans, and other materials by grade level (k-12). You can also search
for only those resources that are free. If you click on a "broad
subject" category, the search engine allows you to choose more
"narrow subject" categories in order to minimize the number
of site results. Very useful.
Global
Access to Educational Sources
http://www.learning.caliberinc.com/index6.html
This site specializes in middle school and beyond. Each content area
has dozens of links from across the Internet giving you hundreds and
hundreds of ideas for your classroom!
Subject Areas
Greek
Mythology Link
http://homepage.mac.com/cparada/GML/
This is a virtual encyclopedia of Greek mythology. It includes pages
on mythology, biographies, people and places, and more. A lot of great
artwork for research purposes.
Absolute
Shakespeare
http://absoluteshakespeare.com/
Everything you always wanted to know about William Shakespeare and
more! This site contains nearly all of his published works in their
complete form. Also includes trivia sections, his biography, a complete
list of film adaptations, and more.
The
Endeavor Project
http://coombs.anu.edu.au/~cookproj/
This site requires Shockwave or Flash to view the journals of James
Cook's First Pacific Voyage (1768-1771). A little hard to navigate,
but may be worth the trouble for some research projects.
Fifty
States
http://www.50states.com
A great place for students to begin researching the history and other
facts of each of the fifty states. Also provides links to other sites
and a search engine for further research.
Social
Studies School Service
http://www.socialstudies.com/
This site contains helpful information for teaching social studies.
It includes lesson plans and more. Requires a login to access some
information.
American
Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/
American Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating
to the history and culture of the United States. The site offers more
than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections.
Humanities
Interactive
http://www.humanities-interactive.org/a_base.html
This is an impressive site that uses a lot of visual media to cover
a broad range of subjects in the Humanities. This site is great for
cross-cultural studies as well.
Hyper
Grammar
http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/
This site can help your kids learn how to use grammar correctly. It
could be used as a tutorial or review site for classes studying the
parts of speech.
Common
Errors in English
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/index.html
An extremely detailed look at how we use the wrong words or phrases
in the English language. Definitely for the high school grades.
The
Science Room
http://www.howe.k12.ok.us/~jimaskew/
This site is maintained by a local school and offers information on
the classes held there. It is of limited use outside that one school
except for the glossary of terms at the bottom of the web page. This
link alone makes it worth inclusion in this list.
This
is Mega Mathematics!
http://www.c3.lanl.gov/mega-math/
This site is sponsored by the Los Alamos National Laboratory. It looks
rather childish on its opening page, but the content would be good
all the way through high school. Math is shown in a very different
light. For instance, one set of links will take the student on a tour
of the mathematics of knots. Highly recommended.
Science
U
http://www.scienceu.com/
Science U is for people who like science. Interactive exhibits make
science fun. Engaging multimedia articles and activities make Science
U a great place to learn about science.
The
Tree of Life Web Project
http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html
The Tree of Life is a collaborative web project, produced by biologists
from around the world. On more than 2000 World Wide Web pages, the
Tree of Life provides information about the diversity of organisms
on Earth, their history, and characteristics.
Access Excellence @ the National Health Museum
http://www.accessexcellence.org/
Access Excellence, launched in 1993, is a national educational program
that provides high school biology and life science teachers access
to their colleagues, scientists, and critical sources of new scientific
information via the World Wide Web.
Busy
Teacher's Website K-12
http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/
Lots of subjects covered at this site, including: art, English, math,
science, and more! Most subjects include lesson plans to help you
plan your own teaching time in the classroom. In addition, you can
send students to this site for homework, tutoring, or group projects.
Some web pages were developed by students doing just this type of
work.
EDSITEment:
The Best of Humanities on the Web
http://edsitement.neh.gov/
Bring online educational resources from some of the world's great
museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities directly
to your classroom. Sponsored by several government agencies.
eHistory
http://www.ehistory.com/
eHistory consists of over 130,000 pages of historical content; 4,000
timeline events; 400 battle outlines; 300 biographies; and thousands
of images and maps. Explore the site and satisfy your curiosity. Start
your exploration in one of our historical eras: Ancient, Middle Ages,
American Civil War, World War II, Vietnam War, World History. Or dive
into a category: Books, Battles, Biographies, Images, Maps, or Timelines.
History
Channel
http://historychannel.com/
This is a great history site. The homepage puts up some historical
event that happened on the day your reached the site. Students can
search to see what happened on their birthday in history (President
Nixon resigned on mine!). Most important, the site includes a section
for teachers on how to use the site for classroom instruction.
Miscellaneous Sites
The
Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org/
Sponsored by the University of Michigan, this site is a must! It provides
thousands of links to education sites sorted by categories. Many links
provide teachers with sites to use for classroom instruction. In addition,
there are links specifically for elementary students and others for
junior and senior high students. For instance, small children can
find sites that have complete picture books on the Internet for reading
assignments. You can also link this site to your virtual classroom.
Awesome
Library
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/
Awesome Library organizes the Web with 20,000 carefully reviewed resources,
including the top 5 percent in education. The library has links for
teachers, students, parents, librarians, and college students. A little
something for everyone!
Education.com
http://www.education.com/home/index.jsp
A great site for families, kids, and teachers. A lot of interesting
articles for everyone. Worth sharing with the parents of your kids.
Create
On-Line Classrooms -- Free!
http://www.nicenet.org/ica/ica_info.cfm
Free web-based learning environment for classrooms, distance learning
programs and collaborative academic projects. This site explains and
has a link to the site for class set-up to permit scheduling, document
sharing and feedback between teachers and students, and conferencing.
The FAQ link is also a good introduction to the possibilities of this
classroom setpup.
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