Recommended Web resources for teachers
The following sites are free web-based resources that can be used in your classroom. Most of the resources have been recommended by Eudora Schools teachers and administrators.
http://www.kerc-ks.org/
The Kansas
Education Resource Center contains tools for teachers to use in
aligning classroom instruction and assessment to Kansas’ academic
standards. Standards resources are divided into sections by
standard. Within each section you will find the
following:
- Information on how each standard spans previous and next grade level
- Worksheets for assessing alignment of current curriculum to the standards.
- A series of instructional activities provided for teachers across Kansas and geared toward the teaching of each standard. The activities also feature opportunities to incorporate technology, other content areas, and other standards as well as tips for meeting the individual needs of students and extending the activities.
- Classroom assessments designed to measure what students know and what they need to learn in relation to the standards.
- A list of helpful materials to turn to for additional information on teaching and assessing each standard.
http://www.teachersdomain.org/
The
“Teachers' Domain” is an online educational service with two
related components — Collections and Courses — that help teachers
enhance their students' learning experiences and advance their own
teaching skills.
Teachers' Domain Collections feature:
- High-quality multimedia from NOVA, American Experience, and other public television productions and partners;
- Video and audio clips, interactives, images, and documents;
- Explanatory background articles for each resource;
- Correlations to state and national curriculum standards;
- Media-rich lesson plans;
- Resource Management tools.
Teachers' Domain Courses feature:
- Many of the same high-quality multimedia resources from NOVA, American Experience, and other public television productions and partners;
- Classroom video clips of exemplary practice;
- Inquiry based methodology;
- Smart integration of technology in the classroom;
- All content correlated to state and national standards.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/index.asp
Teacher
lesson plans for Pre-K thru 12 in a variety of content areas. Also
includes links to online activities and scholastic news for
Kids.
http://jc-schools.net/
Link to
the Jefferson County School District of Tennessee website. This is
an excellent resource for projector powerpoints in writing, as well
as other subject areas. It also has jeopardy, who wants to be
a millionaire, etc. templates.
http://www.eduplace.com
Pre-K–6
resources from Houghton-Mifflin for teachers, students, and
families to support instruction in the classroom and at
home.
www.marcopolo-education.org
Site
provides browseable links by grade level and subject area for
lesson plans and interactive games.
http://www.mrnussbaum.com/sitedirectory.htm
Interactive games for
every subject area.
http://internet4classrooms.com
A decade
ago Susan Brooks and Bill Byles began a collaborative effort to
extend assistance to fellow teachers. In November of 2000 that
project expanded to a web presence known as Internet4Classrooms.
This web portal provides links for K-12 teachers in a variety of
subject areas.
http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/index.jsp
TrackStar
is your starting point for online lessons and activities. Simply
collect Web sites, enter them into TrackStar, add annotations for
your students, and you have an interactive, online lesson called a
Track. Create your own Track or use one of the hundreds of
thousands already made by other educators. Search the database by
subject, grade, or theme and standard for a quick and easy
activity.
http://nobelprize.org/
Home page
for the Nobel prize. Provides information and stories about Nobel
Laureates. Also includes links to educational games for a variety
of subject areas.
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/
PBS
Teachers is PBS' national web destination for high-quality preK-12
educational resources. Here you'll find classroom materials
suitable for a wide range of subjects and grade levels. They
provide thousands of lesson plans, teaching activities, on-demand
video assets, and interactive games and simulations. These
resources are correlated to state and national educational
standards and are tied to PBS' award-winning on-air and online
programming like NOVA, Nature, Cyberchase, Between the Lions and
more.
Intel's Design and Discovery
Design and
Discovery offers an inquiry and interdisciplinary approach to
engineering. Students are introduced to engineering principles and
guided through the design process, as they identify a personally
meaningful problem and develop a prototype to solve the problem.
Design and Discovery engages students who might otherwise not be
interested in science and engineering and prepares them for science
and engineering fairs. It is most appropriate for informal
education settings. Learn more about the benefits of Design and
Discovery and its impact on students.
www.google.com/educators/index.html
Google for
Educators site. Here, you’ll find a teacher’s guide to Google Tools
for Your Classroom, as well as a number of additional tools. And to
spark your imagination, you'll find examples of innovative ways
that other educators are using these tools in the classroom.
While you’re here, you can sign up for the
quarterly Google for Educators newsletter, as well as check out the
latest from The Infinite Thinking Machine, a Google-sponsored,
WestEd-produced blog for educators, by educators. We also invite
you to visit the Google for Educators Discussion Group to catch up
on what's happening with Google's K-12 Education initiatives, and
to share information, ideas and lesson plans with other
educators.
http://www.netsmartzkids.org
The
Netsmartzkids website was developed to provide lesson plans and
interactive activities for the purpose of teaching computer and
internet safety.
http://www.learningpage.com/free_pages/home.html
Learning
Page provides a huge collection of professionally produced
instructional materials you can download and print. Lesson plans,
books, worksheets, and much more can be found here. Sign up to get
all this and more for free.
http://www.teachers.net
Teacher
resource site sponsored by Harry Wong. Includes lesson plans,
resources, activities and chat rooms for teachers.
www.funbrain.com
Funbrain
website is sponsored by Pearson Education, Inc. and provides access
to resources, games, and blogs for teachers, students and
parents.
http://school.discovery.com/
Discovery
School is dedicated to making teaching and learning an exciting,
rewarding adventure for students, teachers, and parents. To that
end we provide innovative teaching materials for teachers, useful
and enjoyable resources for students, and smart advice for parents
about how to help their kids enjoy learning and excel in school.
The site is constantly reviewed for educational relevance by
practicing classroom teachers in elementary school, middle school,
and high school.
http://www.bestevidence.org/
This
website presents reliable, unbiased information on high-quality
evaluations of educational programs. It includes:
- Brief, readable “educator’s summaries of research on educational programs.
- Full-text reviews on each topic.
http://www.microsoft.com/education/lessonplans.mspx
Microsoft
lesson plans for students and educators. You can find new ways to
enhance student learning through technology. Provides links to view
lesson plans from Microsoft by subject that cover grades
K-12.
http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html
The National Library of
Virtual Manipulatives (NLVM) is an NSF supported project that began
in 1999 to develop a library of uniquely interactive, web-based
virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials for mathematics
instruction (K-12 emphasis).
http://www.mathematicshelpcentral.com/graph_paper.htm
Are you stumped on a
math problem? Help is on the way! Mathematics is a challenging
subject that mystifies many. Imagine the problem as a
complicated puzzle that you must solve. All the pieces must
fit in order for you to realize your success. This web site is
devoted to helping you through your math worries! Take a look
around! There's plenty of lecture notes, helpful links,
personally developed graph paper, and a little section about why I
love math. Enjoy!
www.aplusmath.com
Aplusmath.com was
developed to help students improve their math skills
interactively. Visit the game room
and play exciting games like Matho and Hidden Picture. Test your
math skills with Flashcards. Try out the Math Word Find puzzle.
Create and print your own set of flashcards online using the
Flashcard Creator! See the Worksheets section, where you can print
worksheets to practice offline. Try the Homework Helper to check
your homework solutions.
www.aaamath.com
AAA Math
features a comprehensive set of interactive arithmetic lessons.
Unlimited practice is available on each topic which allows thorough
mastery of the concepts. A wide range of lessons (Kindergarten
through Eighth grade level) enables learning or review to occur at
each individual's current level.
Immediate feedback
prevents practicing and learning incorrect methods, which is a
common result of traditional homework and worksheets. Practice can
continue as long as desired in a non-threatening format which helps
build self-esteem and confidence.
The lessons from the
website as well as additional lessons are on the CD which is
available in English or Spanish language versions. The CD runs on
Windows and Macintosh computers. You do not need to be connected to
the internet to use it which is desired by many parents of young
students. There are no advertisements on the CD.
http://www.mathforum.org/pow/
The
Mathematics Forum provides a variety of resources for mathematics
educators. Watch for the problem of the week.
Language
arts sites
http://www.writingfix.com/
WritingFix
is purposely organized around the 6 traits of writing. The
6-Trait model is an analytic way of thinking about writing skills.
It helps give developing writers a vocabulary so they can identify
and talk about their personal strengths as writers. It also
helps them develop a vocabulary for talking about where their
writing might benefit from some further rethinking and revision.
The WritingFix website is dedicated to giving students and teachers
a better ability to use 6-Trait language in the
classroom.
Free-Reading.net
Free-Reading
is an “open source” instructional program that helps teachers teach
early reading. Because it’s open source, it represents the
collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and
researchers. It’s designed to contain a scope and sequence of
activities that can support and supplement a typical “core” or
“basal” program.
http://www.readwritethink.org/
ReadWriteThink,
established in April of 2002, is a partnership between the
International Reading Association (IRA), the National Council of
Teachers of English (NCTE), and the Verizon Foundation. NCTE and
IRA are working together to provide educators and students with
access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading
and language arts instruction through free, Internet-based
content. The website includes
great teacher lesson plans with interactive computer
activities.
http://www.ncte.org/
Since
1911, The National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) has worked
to advance teaching, research, and student achievement in English
language arts at all scholastic levels. This web page provides
links to explore many of the programs, services, positions, and
structures that the Council has established in pursuit of its
ambitious mission. Check ou the teaching resource
collections.
http://www.thewritingsite.org/default.asp
This website has
excellent examples of student work and gives you the opportunity to
rate the papers using the 6-traits and then compare your ratings
with experts. Also includes a variety of links to instructional
resources for writing.
http://www.webenglishteacher.com
At
Web English Teacher educators can take advantage of online
technology to share ideas and to benefit from the work of others.
Beginning teachers can find guidance; experienced teachers can find
inspiration.
http://nancykeane.com/rl/#Readership
There
are close to 1,000 books listed on this site. It's all here: author
lists, award books, genre studies, library “must haves”,
read-a-likes, targeted student interests, etc.
http://www.mypyramid.gov/
United
States Department of Agriculture website on nutrition.
http://www.accessexcellence.org/
The access
excellence at the National Health Museum is a website for health
and bio- science teachers that provides a variety of resource and
activities
http://www.learningcenter.org/index.html
The Kansas
Learning Center for Health offers health education programs for
students both At the Center and On the Road. Both formats adhere to
the Kansas State Science and Health Standards and emphasize tobacco
and drug free living and other healthy lifestyle choices. Website
includes resources as well as a great list of other web links for
health education.
http://bensguide.gpo.gov/
Ben's
Guide to U.S. Government for Kids is brought to the World Wide Web
as a service of the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government
Printing Office (GPO). Ben's Guide serves as the educational
component of GPO Access, GPO's service to provide the official
online version of legislative and regulatory
information.
This site provides
learning tools for K-12 students, parents, and teachers. These
resources will teach how our government works, the use of the
primary source materials of GPO Access, and how one can use GPO
Access to carry out their civic responsibilities. And, just as GPO
Access provides locator services to U.S. Government sites, Ben's
Guide provides a similar service to U.S. Government Web sites
developed for kids.
http://readingquest.org
It's estimated that
anywhere from 85 to 95 percent of the content addressed in social
studies emerges from the textbook. As a curriculum area driven by
content coverage unlike any other, social studies teachers face a
particular challenge in helping students access and make sense of
content. ReadingQuest: Making Sense in Social Studies is a
website designed for social studies teachers who wish to more
effectively engage their students with the content in their
classes. ReadingQuest is designed to provide you with the
philosophical bases for sound comprehension strategy instruction,
directions for a range of comprehension and content reading
strategies, and printable handouts and masters for transparencies.
You will be invited to think about how a social studies skills
framework might help you choose the right strategies for your
lessons.
http://www.kshs.org/index.htm
The Kansas
State Historical Society website. This site contains a variety of
information and resources on Kansas History along with links to
other state sites. Also contains links to information on Kansas
History Day contest.
http://www.virtualjamestown.org/page2.html
The
virtual Jamestown website includes resources, and activities on the
first successful English colony in America at Jamestown,
Virginia.
http://www.kansastravel.org/quantrillslawrenceraid.htm
This site
sponsored by Kansas Travel provides a self-guided tour of sites
within Lawrence of Quantrill’s raid during the US Civil War. Also,
provides a link to Kansas Travel and tourism sites for Kansas
History resources.
http://bridgecontest.usma.edu/
Bridge
building website through the United States Military Academy at West
Point. In some years West Point sponsors a national bridge building
contest for students. Still the bridge building software is
available free on a yearly basis. If you are interested in
downloading this software you will need to contact the district's
IT department.
http://volcano.und.edu/
Volcano
World website provides images and information on volcanos as well
as student instructional activities. This website is a
Collaborative Higher Education, K-12, and Public Outreach project
of the North Dakota and Oregon Space Grant Consortia administered
by the Department of Geosciences at Oregon State
University
http://williamson-labs.com/
Williamson
Labs website provides free online tutorials in
electronics.
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~scdiroff/lds/main.html
Harvard
Univeristy provides visual demonstrations for a wide variety of
topics to supplement lectures including physics, chemistry,
astronomy, and biology. Lecture demonstrations have two important
purposes: to increase student understanding of the concepts
demonstrated, and to increase student enjoyment of
class.
The
Natural Science Lecture Demonstrations consists of a team of
physicists and chemists who develop, construct, and present
scientific demonstrations for lectures in the Harvard Science
Center. Working with members of faculty and testing our skills in
machining, electronics, and dazzling imagery, we aim to clarify and
enhance the scientific concepts presented in lectures with visible,
memorable, and sometimes mind-blowing effects.
http://rockyweb.cr.usgs.gov/outreach/mapcatalog/culture.html
The
United States Geological Survey (USGS) serves the Nation by
providing reliable scientific information to describe and
understand the Earth; minimize loss of life and property from
natural disasters; manage water, biological, energy, and mineral
resources; and enhance and protect our quality of life. As an
unbiased, multi-disciplinary science organization that focuses on
biology, geography, geology, geospatial information, and water, we
are dedicated to the timely, relevant, and impartial study of the
landscape, our natural resources, and the natural hazards that
threaten us. This website is a great source for teacher
resources in science as well as maps for geography.
http://www.hippocampus.org/
This
site offers free materials tied to high school textbooks and
several college-level open-source projects.
