GENERAL
These are
websites that teachers can use for lesson plans, activities, and
ideas for classroom instruction.
Education
World – The Educator’s Best Friend
This website is useful for all a teachers needs. The site highlights school
issues and includes a section
for educators to talk to one another and
share their experiences. This is a great resource for looking at
journal
articles, lesson plans, and finding
links to other websites.
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Welcome
to DiscoverySchool.com! DiscoverySchool offers…
This website is affiliated with the Discovery Channel and offers the user
anything they are looking for. Their lesson plans cover multiple subjects
and offer educational activities as well. They have their own clipart gallery
that has animations and classroom images the educator may
need.
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Theme Units, Lesson Plans, Worksheets and Teacher Tools!
This website serves as a resource for educators in
all facets of
instruction. Themes or subject areas can be explored and
guides for classroom forms are available.
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How Stuff Works – Learn How Everything
Works
This website was offered as a
resource for learning about computer
viruses, and it could be used for
many different types of technological
help. There is a section on how computers work that
can assist the
teacher or student who is not so
proficient with computers and
software and may want to
troubleshoot for themselves.
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Kathy Schrock’s Guide for
Educators is a Teachers Resource Offering Ideas to Enhance Curriculum
This website offers links for
teachers that help with classroom instruction.
Teachers can find information on a
variety of subjects and e-mail Kathy
Schrock directly.
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MATH
These are websites that are particularly useful for
elementary math teachers.
This website is a great resource for the math
educator. There are lots of
different areas to choose work from that will help with
instruction. A
feature that I liked allows the lesson to be linked to a
mathematical
standard. This
helps when assessing what benchmarks have been met.
another interesting area here is that they show how
different subject areas
can incorporate mathematics and vise versa.
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National
Council of Teacher Mathematics – More and Better Math for all Students
The
NCTM website is useful for information on Principles and Standards or other
facts about the organization. The best
thing about this site is the
Illuminations
link to it. It is a great source for
helping to teach math to
elementary
students at any level. The I-Math
section is useful because this is an area that can be difficult for
students. In many schools, technology
needs to be incorporated into the curriculum; this is a tool teachers can use
to help with lessons.
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This
website is the National Council for Education Statistics and offers activities
for young children to do that enhance their understanding of various mathematical
concepts. There is a section that
explores building graphs, probability, and allows kids to
Navigate
for themselves.
This resource can definitely help teachers with their lessons. Math can be difficult for elementary students
to grasp.
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visited: 11/28/03 http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/
Mathematics Archives WWW Server
This
is a good resource for teaching mathematics, finding teaching materials for
mathematics, accessing other links to mathematics sites, and obtaining
information on mathematics and the internet.
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LANGUAGE ARTS
These websites are particularly useful for teachers
with author studies or to supplement the ILA curriculum.
The Official Eric Carle Website
This website allows teachers and students to find out all there is to know
about one of the most popular children’s authors. Eric Carle’s books are
famous
for showing kids different skills in hands-on fashion. Each book has an insect character, a fun fact
about that character and colorful
illustrations that appeal to children.
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Mona Kerby’s website is filled
with great books to read. This site
includes
book reviews and interesting literature information. There is a section to
meet children’s authors and illustrators and links to
other websites are
provided. An
excellent resource for media specialists and teachers alike.
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This
website lists favorite authors and information about them. The site offers tools to help with writers
workshops and transcripts of author interviews.
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http://www2.scholastic.com/teachers/authorsandbooks/authorstudies/authorstudies.jhtml
Carol Hurst’s Children’s Literature Site –
Reviews and Teaching Ideas for Kids Books
This website had book reviews of children’s literature
and provides other
links related to the topic of the book. Activities are included that go along
with the subject of the book and hints are given to
teachers on where to
focus their instruction with the book.
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This
is a good website for children. It could
be a useful program for
elementary
kids during ILA. The site is easy to
navigate so students can have fun while they learn. There is a word of the week section that
helps
students extend their vocabulary, and links to popular book websites are
provided.
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This
website allows students to search virtually any subject for information
or
reference. The site is organized by
theme and subcategorized under
each
heading. The site is a valuable resource
for children to use to
further
learning in the classroom.
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FOR THE CLASSROOM
These are sites that can help teachers find clipart
of interest, lesson plans to use, and other educator websites
Pro Teacher! The Web’s Little Secret For
Elementary School Teachers
There
is an archive that teachers can pull lesson plans from as well as current
lesson plans in a variety of subject areas. Teachers can also get help
writing lesson plans here and discuss certain lesson plans with their
colleagues.
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The Clipart Gallery offers
educational clipart –
This
website starts each page with instructions to download the pictures from the
site. That may be what users need to see
first, even before the images. There are
animated clips as well as educational tips for instructors.
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Mrs. Buchel’s
Kindergarten Class
This
is Mrs. Buchel’s Kindergarten class’s website. This website is nice because it doesn’t
include any information that is of no use to the visitors. The topics to search
are areas that are of most interest to parents and there is a section offering
suggestions to parents to help their children in school. This could serve as a guide for a teacher
that wanted to start their own web page.
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A great resource for teachers, this site includes a
resource center and activity center that has ideas and information for
educators. Teaching strategies and
online activities are also featured.
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This
search engine is useful for educators in that there is a feature where the user
can choose what site they want to use for their search. There is also a list of reference links for
further information.
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This website can help educators with any topic, subject
area, or article
need for classroom instruction. The site is designed to allow the user
to browse for lesson plans, help with educational
technology, or general
information.
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