Thursday, April 12, 2007

Additional Resources!

www.brainpop.com
A subscription site with some free lesson plans. This site has science, math, English, social studies, health, arts & humanities and technology lesson plans. Each section has several free BrainPops for you to try out.
www.primaryresources.co.uk
This site has lesson plans, activity ideas and resources for primary teachers.

www.historyplace.com
Good site for teachers to use to find different events in history to use for lesson plans.

www.nutrition.gov
Providing easy, online access to government information on food and human nutrition for consumers.

www.marionschools.org/holocaust
This website goes into how one school learned about the holocaust. It is a great website to use for a history class.

www.eduhound.com
Everything from k-12. This is a great website, you can find excellent information here.

www.starfall.com
Where children have fun learning to read! The Starfall learn-to-read website is offered free as a public service. Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade.

www.literacycenter.net
The LiteracyCenter.net serves as many as 1.7 million free literacy lessons a day to children in more than 160 countries. They provide safe learning activities for parents and teachers to share with young children. All online lessons are free of advertising and free of charge.

www.gamequarium.com
This is a site that is good for a teacher to use to get their students to learn while playing a game. There are games for all subject areas.

www.schoolexpress.com
This is a useful site because you can download free activities, software programs, e-books, and lots more.

www.byteachers.org/
This is a great website for teaching resources.

www.teachingtips.com
Ideas to inspire and support teachers.

www.teach-nology.com
This site provides free and easy to use resources for teachers dedicated to improving the education of today's generation of students.

www.succeedtoread.com
Dedicated to the thousands of children who need to improve
their reading skills, and to their parents who want to help them succeed.

www.lessonplanspage.com
Lots of lesson plans.

www.teachernet.com
Provides links to instructional resources and materials for all subjects to keep elementary teachers current.

www.middleweb.com
Links and resources for middle school teachers, parents and students.

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

More Educational Resources

www.teachersfirst.com

TeacherFirst is a rich collection of lessons, unit and web resources designed to save teachers time by delivering just what they need in a practical, user-friendly, and ad-free format.

http://www.theteacherscorner.net/

The place for Primary & Intermediate Teacher Resources.

http://www.apples4theteacher.com/

A Fun Educational Website for Teachers and Kids

http://edhelper.com/

An excellent resource. Most of the site is membership only, but it is reasonable and worth it. Lots of free stuff as well.

http://www.brainpopjr.com/

Interactive video site. Take advantage of the free trail.

http://www.free.ed.gov/

Teaching and learning resources from Federal agencies.

http://www.accessart.org.uk/index.php

Access art is an evolving collection of visual arts learning resources.

http://www.teacherhelpers.homestead.com/

Where you can come to get ideas for your classroom.

http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/index.html

A big list of elementary resources.

http://www.reallygoodstuff.com/default.aspx

Fun and creative teaching tools for today’s classroom.

www.myteachertools.com

This website has almost everything a teacher could need. It has lesson plans, theme units, worksheets, rubrics, grade books and even freebies for teachers.

www.teachers.net

This site has chatboards, classified ads, job postings and free printables. It has a mailring you can join for free to hear from teachers around the world.

http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php

Website that helps make rubrics for assessment.

http://kids.discovery.com/

Fun site for kids.

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Educational Resources

www.sitesforteachers.com
Hundreds of educational websites for teachers have been rated by popularity. There is a lot of interesting information such as: lesson plans, worksheet activities, reading, math, science, social studies, clip art and more.

http://4teachers.org
Online space for teachers integrating technology in to the classroom. This site includes: quiz star, academic skill builder, classroom architect, teacher tackle box, and much more.

www.primarygames.com
this website is very educational. There are core class games and pules for the kids to play while learning.

www.kidsastronomy.com
This website introduces things about the Solar System and space.

www.pbs.org
This website is educational because it gives information about what’s on PBS.

http://school.discovery.com
A great tool for teachers. It has puzzle maker, quiz maker, homework helper, study starter, clip art and much more.

http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-us
This site has technology in the classroom information, lesson ideas, software information and online classroom resources.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonplans

This site gives you information on lesson planning resources, tips for first year teaching, incorporating new technologies for cooperative learning, and much more. It has 12,000 pages of classroom ready plans, pintables and resources.

http://eduscapes.com/tap
An online professional development resource for educators that provides technology integration tips and activities.

www.insectlore.com
This site has science related material for all ages.

www.aolatschool.com
This website has many cool links that are really helpful!

http://k-6educators.about.com/mbody.htm
Lots of links, lesson plans, and discussions.

www.songsforteaching.com
Great songs for teaching!

www.everythingesl.net
Very helpful if working with Spanish speaking students.

www.creativecurriculum.net
This website is a great asset for ideas on different areas for lesson plans.

www.preschoolexpress.com
This website has many ideas for songs, patterns and calendars.

http://abcteach.com
This is a very helpful website for teachers. It has everything…from worksheets to ideas for bulletin boards.

http://busyteacherscafe.com
This is a good site for busy teachers who need to come up with good ideas in a hurry.

www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/index.html
This website has a lot of resources to pull from and allows you to choose grade specific material. It also allows you to choose lesson plans.

www.funbrain.comThis website offers educational games. The games offered on this webpage cover every subject.

www.teacher.scholastic.com/
Awesome resource from Scholastic!

www.moneyinstructor.com/interactive.asp
Interactive money exercises.