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General Sites
Education World - This is a great place to start looking for lesson plans on the web. Recent articles, web site reviews, and technology in the classroom are also highlighted.
Teachers.Net – Teacher discussion boards and chatrooms. Lesson plans, project ideas and teaching tools. Searchable teacher job listings and career resources.
Teachers.Net Gazette – The Teachers.Net Gazette features education news, commentary, teaching tips, lessons, pedagogy, classroom crafts, recipes, inspiration, humor, and free printables for the classroom.
Teachers.Net Lesson Bank – The Teachers.Net Lesson Bank is your opportunity to share your most precious asset - your teaching ideas and lesson plans! Now your genius and creativity can be used to touch lives around the world, and to help teachers reach students in ways they had never imagined before!
Excuse
Busters! - You're supposed to meet your mom at 5:00 and
it's now 5:30... and there isn't any reason, or at least not one that you're
going
to
tell.
So then.... you have to make an Excuse!
What are excuses?
Why do we give them?
Which ones do we tend to give over and over? Does this tell us something about
ourselves? What happens when we give them?
'Excuse Busters!' will explore all these questions and more. What will you
come out knowing at the end of this assignment? More about yourself and a plan
to help you get where you're going- without excuses!
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
First-Day-of-School Icebreakers - Help Students and Teachers Warm Up!
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - A categorized list of sites on the Internet found to be useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth. It is updated daily to keep up with the tremendous number of new World Wide Web sites.
Discovery School - Associated with TLC and Discovery, this site links to pages that also include lesson plans with their videos. I have used the TLC videos and they are quite effective.
Teachers Helping Teachers - This site is designed by Dr. Scott Mandel. His site is full of great lesson ideas from all subjects.
Educational Hotlinks for Middle School People - This website has been developed by the New Jersey Consortium for Middle Schools
Cybrary Man's Educational Web Sites – Cybrary Man’s Educational Web Sites is an attempt to provide a “one-stop educational links shopping” experience for students, teachers, administrators & parents. Originally started as a school library web site it is constantly being revised with up-to-date links for all grade levels.
Thinking Maps - Thinking Maps integrate thinking skills and mapping techniques. Learning to use these strategies helps students develop good writing skills. These techniques also help students become better learners as they develop life-long skills that help them to study.
Graphic Organizers - Here you will find 58 graphic organizers. They are PDF files. You will need an Adobe Reader to view and print them. If you do not have a Reader, you may download one here for free. Note: Some of the graphic organizers may be filled out (and then printed).
More Grahpic Organizers - Planning charts, sequence charts, four column charts, idea wheels, ladders, persuasion maps.... These are just some of the numerous graphic organizers available to you here.
PowerPoint Games – These games were created in PowerPoint. Download the templates and modify the games to fit your curriculum needs.
PowerPoint Activities – The following links include templates and examples of Jeopardy, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, and Hollywood Squares games and other lesson ideas that were created using PowerPoint.
Stick It To ‘Em: Velcro Learning for Middle Years – How Does Talking Improve Student Learning? When students are talking, more oxygen gets sent to the brain. If we don’t have our students actively engaged or talking about their learning, the brain becomes deprived of oxygen and it goes to sleep. A yawn is the brains way of giving itself oxygen. Talking also stimulates the frontal lobe of the brain where most of the learning takes place. If your students are yawning, get them talking!
PBS Teachers - PBS Teachers contains over 3000 free lesson plans and activities that you can search by subject, grade level, keyword, or format. Subjects are Arts & Literature, Health & Fitness, Math, Science, Social Studies, Pre K-2, and Library Media. Some lessons align with National Standards, some are accompanied by video clips.
AwesomeStories - AwesomeStories.com uniquely uses the Internet to link its story content to hundreds of thousands of the world's best on-line primary sources. Enjoy an interactive learning experience as you see relevant maps, pictures, artifacts, manuscripts and documents, IN CONTEXT, within each story. Take advantage of human-based searches for a safe, fast and fun way to learn the real story behind historic events, famous people, heroic exploits, legends, disasters, movies, plus topics of current and general interest.
Building Bridges Between Middle Schools and High Schools
What Pupils Tell Us About Teachers and Lessons
Best of the Icebreakers from Education World
Critical Thinking and Bloom's Taxonomy
Bloom's
Taxonomy - This is a great way to get your students to ask higher-level
thinking questions as well as learning how to ask them yourself.
Themes & Essential Questions - Framing Inquiry & Promoting Critical Thinking
Bloom's Critical Thinking Questioning Strategies
Critical and Creative Thinking - Bloom's Taxonomy
Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum Project
Costa's Levels of Questions
Costa's Levels of Inquiry
Examples of Costa's Levels of Questions
Strategies for Reading Comprehension - 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.
Teachley's Amazing Talking Brain - Quick & Easy Strategies That Yield Dramatic Results in the Classroom - How Brain Research Can Impact Achievement in Your Classroom
Educational Uses for Digital Storytelling - Digital Storytelling is a fantastic way to engage students, teachers and just about anyone else who has ever wanted to be the next Ken Burns or Steven Spielberg. There are many different definitions of "digital storytelling," but in general, all of them revolve around the idea of combining the longstanding art of telling stories with any of a variety of available multimedia tools, including graphics, audio, video animation, and Web publishing.
The World Heritage - This amazing site has panoramic pictures and interactive virtual reality movies for all sites registered as World Heritage by the UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). It is a must see!
The Biography Maker - The Biography Maker is like those homework machines we have been hearing about for many years. It is designed to help you convert facts into insights, dull and boring information into fascination and magic. It will help you do a good job, but you must provide some of the "steam" to make it work well.
Links for K-12 Teachers - Helping Teachers use the Internet Effectively
CrosswordPuzzleGames.com - Create your own on-line crossword puzzles for free!
Templates for Teachers - printable welcome letters to parents, seating charts, award certificates, and much more.
Internte Tools Which Make a Teachers Life Easier
Songs for Teaching - Using Music to Promote Learning
America Taking Action - A National Network of School Web Sites
Middle Web Curriculum and Resources - Web Sites for middle school teachers of all disciplines
FunBrain - On this site students can take quizzes on all kinds of subjects. You can also create your own quizzes. The world history quiz mirrors the 7th grade curriculum.
Quia.com is another site to make quizzes with. Games include hangman presidential quiz.
The New York Times Learning Network
Education Index® - an annotated guide to the best education-related sites on the Web. They're sorted by subject and lifestage, so you can find what you're looking for quickly and easily.
Blue Web'n - Blue Web'n is an online library of 1900 outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects)
PBS.org - The PBS site has lots of great links including PBS programs and lesson plans.
BBC - Skillswise - Games - This is a great site that will have your English and math students playing educational games.
No Dentist Left Behind - A must read for all teachers
Do You Remember When? - Anyone 50 or over will appreciate this one.
Free Clip
Art
Classroom Clipart
FreeFoto -
Free Pictures
Patriotic Clip Art
Free
Animated Gif's
Animated
State Flags
Animated
World Flags
SCORE History - This site has links related to the teaching of history in California. A must see.
Mr. Donn's History Lessons and Activities - This site is so amazing. Don and Lin Donn do a wonderful service to all history teachers with this site. It could take you weeks just to go through the whole thing.
Mr. Dowling's Electronic Passport - Browse the world in a Virtual Classroom
Mr. Roughton's Classroom 2.0 - History Unit Guides with great ideas on how to use media in your classroom
CROSSROADS: Middle School History Curriculum - The middle level CROSSROADS curriculum is the collaborative product of the entire middle school social studies department at Niskayuna School District. The goal of these units of instruction is to translate the work of Project Historian Richard B. Bernstein into materials that will promote successful classroom instruction in grades seven and eight.
Speaking of History – Speaking of History is a podcast and blog maintained by an 8th grade American History teacher in Missouri who attempts to use technology to enhance the curriculum. Teaching about George, Thomas and Abe using the latest technology. Eric is currently representing Missouri as the 2007-2008 Missouri Teacher of the Year.
EyeWitness to History - History through the eyes who live it
Benchmarks of Historical Thinking – What should students know after 12 years of studying history in school? What should they be able to do with their knowledge? Surely they should have more than an accumulation of memorized facts to show for years of study. The Benchmarks Project combines the research of historians and educators with the experience and skills of classroom teachers to create practical ways of encouraging historical thinking in realistic classroom settings.
Kidipede - History for Kids - Homework Help for Middle School
California History-Social Science Course Models - Includes model lessons and standards. Very helpful to teachers incorporating California standards into their curriculum.
Social Studies Regents Examinations - Good multiple-choice tests to get your students ready for their state tests in history
Digital History - ...a deep and well-done site "developed to support the teaching of American History in K-12 schools and colleges"; it includes a textbook, essays, multimedia presentations, a database of links, classroom handouts, and much more to make history come alive for students.
HistoryWiz for students, teachers and lovers of history - A great site full of multimedia exhibits
Interactive History Lessons - This site offers a number of different Interactive lessons and forms part of the Teaching History Online group based on the Spartacus Encyclopedia website.
Planning Constitution Day - Education World has gathered resources that should help you figure out just how you might recognize Constitution Day. Below you will find links to dozens of lesson ideas and other resources that should provide the tools you will need to recognize Constitution Day this year and in years to come.
Mr. Langhorst's Web Classroom - An eighth grade teacher at South Valley Junior High School in Liberty, Missouri, is using podcastes to enrich his social studies curriculum and to help prepare his students for exams. "StudyCasts", audio reviews (podcastes) help his students prepare for upcoming unit tests. He also uses his "Speaking of History" podcasts as a tool to share with his students) interviews he's conducted with historians, museum directors, and tour guides from historic sites.
Constitutional Rights Foundation - Constitutional Rights Foundation seeks to instill in our nation's youth a deeper understanding of citizenship through values expressed in our Constitution and its Bill of Rights and to educate young people to become active and responsible participants in our society. CRF is dedicated to assuring our country's future by investing in our youth today.
Images of American Political History – Over 500 public domain images related to American political history from the colonial era to the present. Users can search the collection by keyword or browse by era or one of four special topics. Teachers and other users are free to download the images for classroom or other use.
Primary Sources
Using
Primary Source Documents in the Classroom – Suggestions for using primary
sources were compiled from the National Digital Library's Educators' Forum
Teaching with Primary Sources – Using the rich online sources of the Library of Congress to help students learn about congress, representative democracy, and citizen participation
NARA Digital Classroom - Teaching With Documents – Teaching with primary documents encourages a varied learning environment for teachers and students alike. Lectures, demonstrations, analysis of documents, independent research, and group work become a gateway for reasearch with historical records in ways that sharpen students' skills and enthusiasm for history, social studies, and the humanities.
Links to Primary and Fundamental Documents – This page contains links to a growing number of documents, dating back almost 3800 years to the time of Hammurabi, that have been among the cornerstones of human civilzation. They have influenced our perceptions and practice of statecraft, diplomacy, and the rights and responsibilities of communities, and of individuals. Their influence has persisted, often over centuries, as part of the conditions in which we live now and envision the future.
Constitution Toolkit – Primary Sources related to the Constitution
Her Story – Primary Source set on Women's Suffrage
Jim Crow in America – Primary Source set on Civil Rights
The Library of Congress – The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscripts in its collections.
Smithsonian - History and Culture - A must see site with thousands of photographs
Teaching American History – Free seminars and Summer Institutes for Social Studies Teachers
Calisphere - Calisphere is the University of California's free public gateway to a world of primary sources. More than 150,000 digitized items — including photographs, documents, newspaper pages, political cartoons, works of art, diaries, transcribed oral histories, advertising, and other unique cultural artifacts — reveal the diverse history and culture of California and its role in national and world history. Calisphere's content has been selected from the libraries and museums of the UC campuses, and from a variety of cultural heritage organizations.
Interactives – Become a document detective! Use your sleuthing skills to figure out when and where an historical event took place by examining some primary sources and using an educated guess to pinpoint them on a map and timeline. Then, test your document expertise and analytical skills by answering questions about them.
Geography Links and Lesson
Plans
Mr.
Donn's World Geography Page - A must see for geography teachers.
Maps and Geography Lesson Plans – Geology.com is a collection of map and geography resources. This collection of map and geography resources includes state and world maps, satellite images, lesson plans, classroom activities, projects and much more.
Xpeditions - National Geographic - Xpeditions is home to the U.S. National Geography Standards—and to thousands of ideas, tools, and interactive adventures that bring them to life.
Geography Lesson Plans - Educator's Reference Desk
Geography Teaching Ideas - Links to some wonderful Geography toys and games, recommended books about Geography, and some links to other useful Geography sites.
Online Map Games - Fun online interactive map games from Maps.com
Archival Maps – Most of the old maps in Archival Maps' collections are scanned from the archives of the Library Of Congress. These reproductions of antique maps are made from the highest quality paper and best inks available.
Journey of Mankind – Peopling the World
All About the United States - Reinforce state facts with these free interactive online games from Sheppard Software.
National Geographic Lesson Plans
Geography Lessons for 7th Grade Teachers
Lesson Plan Library - Geography
Geography A-Z Activity - Education World presents three fun printable geography features for your students. These work sheet series will challenge students to learn about geography as they explore famous places around the world one letter at a time, learn about Europe's most famous landmarks, and track Mrs. Waffenschmidt to all corners of the Earth. Click each headline below to see our three different Geography A to Z features.
A World of Learning: Geography Activities for Geography Week
Discovery School Geography Lesson Plans
GeoNet Game - Students can practice their geography knowledge on this interactive game. Choose from the United States or the World Map to start, then select from a variety of knowledge categories for each division.
The Five Themes of Geography - National Geographic
U.S.A. Atlas: Maps and Geography of the United States
Color Landform Atlas of the United States
I Know That – Tons of different kinds of map games that are informative and fun.
Nations Illustrated – Over 7,700 pictures from around the world
Placespotting – Students are shown a spot on the map, and given a series of riddles to help them determine what it is.
Mapping Our World – A series of animated and audio lesson on maps, and the accuracy and inaccuracy of their projections affect our view of the world.
Outline
Maps
Free outline maps of the world
Free Blank Outline
Maps of the Countries and Continents of the World
Prentice Hall's
Online
Map
Bank
The
Internet Medieval Sourcebook - An index of selected and excerpted texts for teaching purposes. Since it
had grown too large for many users to manage, as of October 10 1998, it has
been extensively reorganized. For teachers who wish to refer students to
the Sourcebook, this page is the best starting point.
ClassZone - Creating America: Beginnings through World War I - Want to become an American history expert? With all the exciting resources, activities, and links right at your fingertips, you're well on your way! Click on one of the chapters below to begin your exploration. It's that easy!
Historical Tect Archive - The HTA publishes high quality articles, books, essays, documents, historical photos, and links, screened for content, for a broad range of historical subjects. A Must see for primary source documents.
American Women's History: A Research Guide
Middle Web Social Studies Resources
Popular Songs in American History
You’re Sure to Ratify These Lessons! - Lessons for Teaching about the U.S. Constitution
I Love That Teaching Idea - Social Studies
Establishing Borders - The Expansion of the United States, 1846-48
Letters from the Japanese American Internment
Winning the Vote - How Americans elect their president
Ancient Mesopotamia Teacher Resource Center
Fabulous Fun with the Greek Myths - Take a class voyage into the world of the Greek mythology's rich and powerful stories
Ancient Egypt - Student Activity Sheets
Lessons
about the Middle Ages
The
Middle Ages - Twelve Activities Take Students Back in Time!
Kids in the Castle -
Lessons, Activities, and Virtual Tours!
Days and Days of Knights -
A Unit on the Middle Ages
Mapmaking with Lewis and Clark
National Geographic Education Guide
The History Place - A magazine of the past that's filled with pictures, helpful historical timelines, and homework help. Don't forget to click the picture of the week.
George Washington Lives! -- On the Internet!
Explore the Civil War - Links to many Civil War web pages and activities
Holocaust Unit - Many links and activities relating the the Holocaust
SCORE Language Arts - Online resources for the language arts teacher with activities aligned with the California state standards.
Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun - Crosswords, WordSearch, Hangman, Quiz, MatchGame
Vocabulary, Free Word Puzzles and Activities
BBC - Skillswise - Games - Great word games to use with your students
SuperKids Vocabulary Builder - Word of the Day
SCORE Science - Online resources for the science teacher with lesson plans and activities aligned with California state standards.
The Teaching Sourcebook for Teaching Science - Strategies, Activities, and Internet Resources
NASA's Kids Science News Network - NASA's KSNN™ is a standards-based program that uses the Web, animation, and video to introduce science, technology, engineering, math, and NASA concepts.
Seeing in the Dark - A companion site to a PBS television documentary, this site includes information, videos, classroom and family activities, and much more in the area of astronomy
Amazing Space - Capture the cosmos by delving into our storehouse of goodies on galaxies, black holes, comets, the solar system and more…
Hubble Telescope - A must see for some amazing pictures.
Astronomy Picture of the Day - Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.
101 Amazing Earth Facts - Some of Earth's valleys dip below sea level. Mountains soar into thin air. Can you name the lowest spot? The tallest peak? Do you know how far it is to the center of the planet or what's there? Where are the planet's hottest, coldest, driest and windiest places? and many more...
Geography4Kids! - If you are looking for physical geography or earth science basics, stay on this site. This site offers and introduction to the earth sciences that include topics on the Earth's structure, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere (for a start).
Teen Health - This site answers questions about numerous teen issues.
Science & Nature - Human Body & Mind - Numerous topics for science and health teachers
Don't Buy It - Get Media Smart - Buying smart - See through the sales pitch. Take the junk food quiz as well.
Computers
Mouserobics!
What font!
Search engine lesson
Musical computers
Posters with Word
Keyboarding Resources
A long list of computer lesson plans
More computer lesson plans
Internet
Scavenger Hunts
SCORE Math- Online resources for the mathematics teacher with activities and lesson plans aligned with California state standards.
Hotmath.com - Math Homework Help - View step-by-step answers to math homework problems from your textbook. Hotmath is the leader in math help for pre-algebra through calculus.
Illuminations - Activities, Lessons, Standards, Web Links. Illuminations is designed to: Provide Standards-based resources that improve the teaching and learning of mathematics for all students.
AAA Math - 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.
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
Math.com - The World of Math Online
Create a Haunted House.....if you dare! - Follow the directions to sharpen your graphing skills, create a cool haunted house and then morph it using math.
Cool Math Sites - Really Cool Math Websites! Cool Algebra Sites! Cool Geometry Sites! Even Cool Discrete Math, Trigonometry and Calculus Sites! Cool Math Puzzles and Cool Math Brain Teasers Sites! Cool Math Web Quest Sites! Cool Math Humor! Cool Elementary, Middle School, and High School Math Teacher Resources!
Mathwire.com - Field-tested math activities and worksheets which support the constructivist approach to learning mathematics
Visual Fractions – Fractions are better understood when seen.
Who Wants Pizza? A Fun Way to Learn About Fractions
Math Games
Education World The Math Machine – Links to more than 50 online games that will help you teach and reinforce important math skills.
Figure This! - Math Challenges for Families
ABIATOR'S Times Table Emporium - Have fun practicing your multiplication tables. Simply look at the MENU bar to the left and click on a times table you wish to practice and try and keep up with the flashcards!
FunBrain - Kids Center - Lots of math games plus other subjects
BBC - Skillswise - Games - Great math games to use with your students.
A+Math - This web site was developed to help students improve their math skills interactively.
Cool Math - math lessons, games, and much more
King's List of On-line Math Activities
Math Advantage - for students in K-12
Play Kids Games - online math games
Math's Mavens Mysteries - Calling all math detectives! Mysteries are popping all over town, and our chief sleuth needs your help to crack each case.
Cool Math 4 Kids - Math games, puzzles, and lessons
Math Cats - Fun Math for Kids
SuperKids Math Worksheet Creator - Create your own multiplication math facts worksheets. Use them in the classroom for practice or timed drills, or at home.
AVID - Advancement Via Individual Determination
Acceleration, Not Remediation: Closing the Achievement Gap with AVID Strategies
Costa's Levels of Questions
Costa's Levels of Inquiry