Welcome to our Teacher Resource Page!
Everything you need to create a universally designed classroom is right at your fingertips. Enjoy taking the time clicking through the resources below and creating new ideas as you do!
21st Century Skills
Change in Bloom's Taxonomy
Online Lesson Plans
- New York Times Learning Network
- PBS Lesson Plans
Math
AAA Math Practice problems for all grades and topics
A Plus Math Master addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
Chameleon Graphing An introduction to the coordinate plane
Cool Math.com "An amusement park of mathematics"
Everyday Mathematics Student help, parent resources, glossary
Function Machines Enter the value for x and out comes y.
Interactive Math Games Practice math skills with pre-made games or design your own
Math Baseball Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division problems
Mathematics University Resources to support our math program
Megapenny Project How much is a million...a billion
NCTM Illuminations Interactive, multimedia, math investigations
Pattern Blocks Create pattern block designs
Kids Math Games Math games for kids
Science
Bill Nye Bill Nye the Science Guy
Hawai'i Volconoes National Park
NASA For Kids Only - Earth Science Enterprise
National Aquarium in Baltimore
National Geographic - For Kids
NOVA On LineOcean Creatures World Records Page
Pfizer Fun Zone - Cool Science for Kids
Science and Technology Sites for Kids
The Yuckiest Site on the Internet
Language Arts
Take an AR Test! Renaissance Place
Comic Strips Common Errors in English Usage
Free Rice - a vocabulary site that donates 10 grains of rice through the United Nations with each word you define correctly.
Poe, Edgar Allen, Quote the Raven
Social Studies
Antiques Roadshow, Jr. - A History Game
The Outline of American History
The Library of Congress American Memory Project
Amistad and the History of Slavery
Benjamin Franklin : Glimpses of the Man
The American Revolution: Maps and Charts
Historic Steps of Lewis and Clark
World War I: Trenches on the Web
The Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
American History 1945 - Present
Selected Civil War Photographs
Computers and Technology
Tech Posters- The Web
Teach-nology- lesson plans, daily tips
Magazines & Newspapers
Kids@National Geographic Stories about different times and places
Time for Kids Current events magazine for kidsWeekly Reader Easy to read current events news.
Time Magazine Current events
Yak's Corner Weekly news magazine from Detroit Free Press
Observer and Eccentric Newspapers
Online Newspapers Thousands of newspapers online
NewsVoyager A Gateway to local newspapers
Art
ArtEdventures Interactive online games
KidzDraw Art activities
Online Coloring Color on your computer
Space Crafts Cool space crafts using household objects
Art Room Art projects and history
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Physical Education
Dole 5 a Day Learn about fruits and vegetables
Unusual Sports in the Olympics
Jump Into a Healthy Life Learn jump rope tricks
For Fun
Mouse Practice by Original
Searching Tools
Animal Search Search for animal related websites
Ask Jeeves for Kids Ask Jeeves a question
Berit's Best Sites for Children Search 1000+ reviewed sites
Classroom Clipart Art, pictures and illustrations
CyberSleuth Kids Internet guide for k-12 students
Kids Click Search engine
Kid's Image Search Tools Images for student use
Yahooligans A Web guide for kids
Spanish
Excelente Biblioteca - Directory of education web sites.
EduHound Espanol - Web sites for primary and secondary Hispanic education.
Internet Math Forum - Spanish web sites.
Teens Health- in Spanish
Super Spanish Web Sites - Huge collection of Spanish language web sites prepared by Jim Becker.
Zona Latina - Spanish language web sites for children.
Campaign for Our Children- Teen guide to pregnancy prevention.
Latin American Information Network - Directory of web sites in Latin America.
Foreign Language News and Newspapers - Links to newspapers in 8 languages (including Spanish)
Federal Citizen Information Center - Information on a wide variety of topics from the US government in Spanish.
Spanish Unlimited Game Site/Rich!
Elementary online drills, quizzes and games
Dozens of Fun Drill/Games Here
Gamequorium Vocabulary in Spanish
A whole variety of games for Spanish
Kokone.com in Spanish | Very colorful
Sites for creating free Wiki's
- What is a Wiki? Find out by watching Wikis in Plain English by the Commoncraft Show
- Wetpaint- is the largest network of free websites. Wetpaint sites are great for fansites, groups, classes, and more
- Wikispaces
- PB Wiki
Sites for creating free Blogs
- What is a Blog? Find out by watching Blogs in Plain English by the Commoncraft Show
- Blogger- Create your own free blog. It's easy to post text, photos, and videos. Flexibility to personalize your blog with themes, gadgets, and more.
- Wordpress- A semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.
- Edublogs- is focused on providing a fast, reliable, secure and safe blogging environment for teachers and students.
- Typepad- is the premier blogging service for professionals and small businesses.
- Moveable Type- Movable Type 5 takes a new approach to social publishing by starting with a website and adding blogs.
RSS
- What is RSS (rich site summary)? Find out by watching RSS in Plain English by the Commoncraft Show
- Bloglines-
Online Photo Sharing
- What is Online Photo Sharing? Find out by watching Online Photo Sharing in Plain English by the Commoncraft Show
- Flickr-
- Picasa
- Shutterfly
- SmugMug
- MorgueFile- free photos, public images
- Kodak Gallery
- Cooliris- photo walls from search results (plug-in for browsers)
- Tag Galaxy- world of photos from search results
Image Games and Generators
- Spell with Flickr-
- Flickr Color Pickr- lets you find public photos in Flickr that match a specific color.
- Flickr Montager- Enter a tag and this site will create a mosaic comprised of images.
- Flickr Memry- Traditional memory game created with Flickr images.
- Big Huge Labs - Here you might want to try the motivational poster, badge maker, magazine cover, movie poster, Jigsaw, or trading cards.
- ImageGenerator.org - This site represents one-stop shopping for image generators. You may find it more challenging to use than Big Huge Labs, but it definitely has possibilities.
- Sketch Up - free computer-aided design
Presentations
- SlideShare
- Zoho Show create, edit and share your presentations online
- PreZenit- Create presentations in a few clicks, wherever you are. Work with your team in the same presentation at the same time.
- Animoto- upload pictures. Animoto analyses the images, feels the music, customises the video. Publish to any webpage
- Animoto for Education: http://animoto.com/education
- Flixtime (similar to Animoto)
- Prezi- Create maps of texts, images, videos, PDFs, drawings and present in a nonlinear way. Move beyond the slide.
- xtranormal: http://www.xtranormal.com/
- Slidesix- Upload your presentations and share them with your friends (publicly or privately). You can even add video and/or audio by recording it directly within the site!
Word Clouds
- Wordle- is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide.
- WordSift: http://www.wordsift.com/
- Word It Out: http://worditout.com/
- Visuwords: http://www.visuwords.com
- Tagul Word Clouds (Word Cloud Shapes): http://tagul.com/
Podcasts
- What is a Podcast? Find out by watching Podcasting in Plain English by the Commoncraft Show
- Watch these two episodes of RESA's Tech to Go for a guided tour of educational podcasts.
Great Educational Podcasts - Part 1
Great Eduational Podcasts - Part 2 - Education Podcast Network
- Podcast Alley
- Audacity- Free Download. You will also need LAME in order to convert to MP3s.
Copyright Friendly Music
- PodSafeAudio
- Jamendo - music you can use
- PartnersInRhyme - both royalty-free and free sound effects
Online Productivity-
- What is Google Docs? Find out by watching Google Docs in Plain English by the Commoncraft Show (you need to scroll down for this one)
- Google Docs
- Google Voice
- DocStoc- is a community for people to find and share professional documents
- bubbl.us brainstorm online with this free, concept mapping tool
- Remember the Milk create task list, share it, get reminders
- 30 Boxes online calendar
- LibraryThing personal online bookshelf
- Trailfire create a "trail"of annotated web pages on any subject
- Dropbox- is the easiest way to store, sync, and, share files online. There's no complicated interface to learn.
- Google Calendar - (Other Calendars -> Add -> Browse Interesting Calendars) lots of fun stuff!
Polls and Surveys
Online Video
- YouTube
- TeacherTube
- SchoolTube
- Ustrem.tv- allows you to set up a free account and post videos and stream live
- Next Vista for Learning
- United Streaming
- Photo Story 3
Download and/or Convert Online Video
Widgets
- Miniclock just what it says, a mini clock
- ClustrMaps visual map of who visits your blog
- Voki
- Google Gadgets collection of Google widgets
- Widgetbox huge assortment of widgets
- Widgetbox: Education list of education related widgets
- PBS Teacher Activity Packs education related widgets
- Wallwisher- is an online notice board maker.
Social Bookmarking & Tagging
- What is Social Bookmarking? Find out by watching Social Bookmarking in Plain Enlish by the Commoncraft Show
- Delicious- Keep, share, and discover the best of the Web using Delicious, the world's leading social bookmarking service.
Make Flashcards
- Knowtes create a deck of virtual flashcards for study
- Flashcarddb- is the smarter, faster and more elegant way to create, study and share flash-cards online.
Social Networking
- What is Social Networking? Find out by watching Social Networking in Plain English by the Commoncraft Show
- Facebook- is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them.
- MySpace- Find friends & classmates, meet new people, listen to free music & build playlists, share photos, watch videos.
- Twitter- is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets.
- Classroom 2.0- the social network for those interested in Web 2.0 and Social Media in education.
- Fresh Brain - a place for teens to be wildly creative
- Ning- An online service to create, customize, and share a social network.
- Edmodo - Educational form of facebook
- Schoology - Schoology is the ultimate way to manage lessons, engage students, share content, and connect with other educators.
- Edu2.0 - simple, powerful, e-learning platform
- Pinterest - virtual pinboard....twitter meets bulletin board
Misc
- Voice Thread- Transforming media into collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting.
- Urban Dictionary
- Tinyurl- Free URL redirection service. Turns a long URL into a much shorter one.
- Evernote- a clever, worthwhile way to organize your thoughts, documents, and ideas.
Citations:
Misc.:
xtranormal.com - movies
moourl.com - shortens long URLs
back channeling- peer collaboration, assisting other, making meaning
letterpop.com- see what you can do with letters (Free to cost involved)
buddy.com
Audacity - free audio editing software for Podcasting and editing audio files.
commons.wikimedia.org - images
flickr - image and video hosting site
Zoho - entire suite of web-based tools
The Newspaper Clipping Generator
Embed You Tube into PPT Version10
Teach-nology- lesson plans, daily tips
Bookmarking:
Social Collaboration:
Google docs
Social Networking:
Facebook.com
Edmodo.com
Blogs:
blogger.com
forum..
Surveys:
polleverywhere.com
NJ Arts Education
Microsoft Education Tools
http://www.microsoft.com/education
Apple Education Tools
http://www.apple.com/education/teachers-professors
Google Educator Tools
http://www.google.com/educators/tools.html
Edutopia: The Digital Generation Project
http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation
EdTech Solutions
http://teachingeverystudent.blogspot.com/
Florida Diagnostic and Learning Resources System
The Moving Forward Wiki
http://movingforward.wikispaces.com/
Universal Desgin for Learning Tech Toolkit
http://udltechkit.wikispaces.com/
Edmodo
YouTube
Google Docs
Delicious
Edutopia
Voice Thread
Survey Monkey
Think Quest
Classroom 2.0
The Committed Sardine
http://www.committedsardine.com/
Tammy's Technology Tips for Teachers
Wordle
School Tube
Flickr
Slideshare
Understanding the Digital Generation
http://understandingthedigitalgeneration.com
Glogster- Poster yourself
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