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  • Cmap tools allow for creation of concept maps in a new and collaborative way.  Two or more students may work on a map.

  • World Digital Library

    (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.  Beneath the image, click on "Hear the Page" and it will read the page!

  • Microsoft Live 2010 - SkyDrive

    • Free

    • Access and share files

    • Work with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

    • 25G of free online storage space

    • Home, School, or Work

  • Interactive Websites from Jefferson County Schools offers a collection of sites in all core content areas plus assessment that enhance online learning opportunities.

  • Teacher Shortcuts provides a collection of printable teacher resources and strategies designed to engage learners and save teachers time. 

  • Tech Tutorials offers basic instruction on many technology applications including  Web 2.0 Tools.

  • Google Tools Tutorials

  • TeAchnology

  • Teacher Tube provides an online community for sharing instructional videos.  Teachers may share videos with the public or make them private.

Internet4Classrooms has posted a huge assortment of specific subject area links for K-12 Teachers. The site, managed by Bill Byles and Susan Brooks, provides a Daily Dose of the Web listed for all subjects or grade levels.  The Links for Teachers directory is endowed with resources for all educators and their latest addition, the Online Practice Modules present step-by-step directions for the most common applications for both the novice and the advanced user. 

Songs 4 Teachers - more than
125 Teacher Songs and Teacher Poems - ALL FREE!

With WebAssign, you can:

  • Create, post, and review assignments   24 hours a day, 7 days a week

  • Deliver, collect, grade, and record    assignments instantly

  • Offer more practice exercises, quizzes, and  homework                                                   

  • Assess student performance to  keep abreast of individual progress

Weekly Reader online  and  has activities for teachers, kids, and teens!

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Free Classroom Clipart

Visit Reading A-Z  for 30 free downloadable books.

Check out the innovative tips at I Love That Teaching Idea and find a collection of worksheets, lesson plans, and teaching activities.

Download - a - Dinosaur gives the opportunity to download directions for many types of dinosaurs.

Time for Kids Reproducibles is a goldmine of high-interest materials in 15 categories, from "Animals" through "Holidays" to "World History."
Visit The 1900 House and take a tour of the 1900 house and see what home life was like through the eyes of a family who actually lived in it.
Fun games...exciting exercises...involving interactive lessons to boost a student's success in school can be found at Dositey .  Check out the new math and language arts activities for grades 5-8.

At I Love Teaching you can learn from the experiences and wisdom of a veteran teacher:  Click "Tid-Bits" for a list of things a rookie teacher wishes she had known before stepping into the classroom.

Are you a  puppy lover?  Visit the Daily Puppy for your a daily dose of fun and stress relief!

Ask the Experts contains an unbelievable page of experts on everything!

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Primary

Kindergarten and preschool resources

Shapebooks

Scholastic for Teachers provides standards-based and classroom tested ideas and resources.

Stickers and Charts offers freeprintable stickers, free printable sticker charts, incentives sheets, stamp sheets and printable seals.

K-2 Interactive sites

  Primary art activities can be found at KinderArt.

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Math

Classrooms That Excel Resources is a site filled with tutorials, lessons, activities, and guides for using Microsoft Excel in the classroom.  Activities and ideas for elementary, middle, and high school students.
Primary Resources provides hundreds of lesson plan ideas and worksheets for primary grade math teachers.
Fresh Baked Fractions -The word on the street is that Fraction Jackson is a dog who loves pie (pi?). If you answer 24 problems correctly, you can put your name on Jackson's list of Master Pie Bakers.
Online Conversion is the most comprehensive of today's calculator sites, covering over 5,000 units and 50,000 conversions.
Multiplication. COM offers Interactive Internet  Games for students.
Create a Graph is a great site for learning to create all types of graphs.
SuperKid Math Worksheet Creator

Interactivate - a collection of activities for exploration of science and mathematics

 
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Science

   Engaging Science Online Games
Science Lab Generator creates Science labs for your students. It follows the scientific inquiry model of discovery. You can create the lab and copy it as a handout or have your students create their own customized version for printing!
Online Periodic Table
Zephryus is an interactive educational site that explores all areas of science.  Here you will find information, puzzle and printable worksheet sections, and homework help for students.
Weather Resources for Students is a collection of resources.
Weather Whiz Kids is hosted by ABC affiliate in Indianapolis and is a wonderful educational site for teachers, parents, and students.
Molecular Workbench

 

Design Squad from PBS has full length video, downloadable video clips, lesson, hands-on activities and much more!

BBC - Science Living Things

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Technology

Technology Integration Made Easy shares Nineteen activities and nearly 50 Web sites to help you integrate technology into your daily routine.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators provides links to subject areas as well as technology tips!
50 Awesome Resources for On-line Writers a list of fifty open source tools that you can use to make your writing even better
4Teachers.org works to help you integrate technology into your classroom by offering FREE online tools and resources.

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Language Arts

Language Arts Lesson plans
For a fun way to practice vocabulary visit ClueMaster, an interactive website with crossword, word search, and word puzzles.
The Write Site is an interactive journalism project for middle schools.
Every Poet offers the opportunity to (1) read classic poems by any of some 40 poets, from Bellau to Wordsworth; (2) read contemporary poetry submitted by readers to the "PFFA" or Poetry Free For All; (3) browse a portal page that links to hundreds of poetry-related sites under headings such as "What's New," "What's Cool," "What's Popular"; (4) or play with words at the "Absurdities" page.
MyVocabulary.com - a free resource used in over 24,000 schools to enhance vocabulary mastery & written/verbal skills with Latin & Greek roots.
.Visuwords - an online visual dictionary
Everyday Edits use this site to build language skills, test scores, and cultural literacy with students in grades 4 and above.
Read Write Think Interactive tools for reading & writing
Spelling City is a must for all teachers!

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Social Studies

Coffee Tycoon allows to build coffee roasting plants and plantations, hire coffee shop employees, build stores, set the menus, manage stocks, run advertising in major markets, and experiment with new coffee-making machinery.
Make Social Studies fun with games from Primary Games.
Students will love National Geographic News for keeping up to date!  Also check out Podcasts from National Geographic for the latest in nature and science news!
Do not forget to visit Tennessee History for Kids they have added new resources to the web site.
World Culture from Fun Social Studies
National Council for Social Studies Teachers.
Interactive Maps - customizable free interactive maps
Teaching with Historic Places provides locations from the National Park's Register of Historic Places to bring history and social studies alive!
From Aphrodite to Zeus, Michael Wiik covers the immortals of Greek Mythology with brief bios and a pronunciation key.
Academic World Fact book contains country background information, maps, flags, economics and much more..
  • Library of Congress is filled with information for young and old alike.  The online exhibits include all the interactive kioske in the museum.  As the fourth of July draws near be sure to visit Creating  the United States to gain insights into how the nation’s founding documents were forged and the role that imagination and vision played in the unprecedented creative act of forming a self-governing country.  Individual may create an account at myLOC and then may collections of their favorite treasures

  • Library of Congress Teacher Page has links to lesson plans, ready to use materials for primary source, themed resources, class starters such as Today in History and timelines, and much more.

 

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Specialty Areas

Sesame Music Zone brought to you by the letter
A great collection of Basic Art Lessons
Musiclopedia  is music research
portal. There is a long list of resources here for music studies from lists of composers to today's recording artists and bands
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Business Education Lesson Plans and Resources contains plans and resources for Accounting, Business Law, computers, Economics, General Business, and Keyboarding.
Find marketing education's Best Practices at Career and Technical Education, KnowThis?.com, and Marketing Teacher.
The @rt room provides a collection of classroom art projects for grades 3-12.
Health education lesson plans, web-based activities, and interactive games abound at Learn to be Healthy.
BAM Body and Mind - Physical Activity
Cards.
Visit Healthy JCS for a fantastic collection of health and fitness resources
Mama Lisa's World is a grade K-6 collection of children's songs from all over the world.
French Classroom Games
P.E. Central is the ultimate web site for physical education teachers which contains lesson plans, teaching resources, job listings, current research, professional information and a message board.   More sites can be found at Physical Education Teacher Resources.

ELL
Clip Art Collection for Foreign/Second Language Teachers is a growing collection of royalty free clipart.
ESL KID LAB  offers: Printable ESL Worksheets, Games for ESL Classrooms, EFL Videos, PPT Lessons Videos, Interactive Kids Vocabulary & Grammar Quizzes,Powerpoint downloads for English teaching and learning.
Podcast in English -the podcast site for learners and teachers of English.
Dave's ESL Cafe - many games and links for teachers and students
MES English has  printable card set and printable gameboards!

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