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March into Spring:
Resources for Teaching About March's Special Days from Education World |
Please join us as we celebrate
Read Ac ross
America and Dr. Seuss
Birthday.
Do not miss these sites that are loaded with links
for activities and ideas for a fun-filled day! |
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Venn
Diagram Shape Sorter |
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Regents
Exam Prep Center has resources for high school course work in English,
Mathematics, Social Studies and Science. These align with New York
standards but are excellent resources offering a variety of exam questions and
practice. |
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Worthwhile Websites for Learning is a Canadian site that has interactive site for math, science,
language arts, health, social studies, and the arts. |
 Check out
Dynamic Curriculum an
innovative technology project produced by teachers for teachers to provide
classroom teaching resources in the core content areas content areas. |
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Be sure to
Seussville University,
where you can have "lots of good fun that is funny" while learning basic
reading, math, science, and reasoning skills. |
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I Love that Teaching
Idea
is a
collection of practical, easy to use ideas for the classroom that you can
implement today! |
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Search over 3,000 lesson plans at
PBS
Teacher Source. |
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At our online
PowerPoint Collection,
more multimedia resources are added each day. |
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NOVA Teachers offers educators access to a comprehensive collection of Viewing
ideas, classroom activities, and interactives for students. |
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Research
Launchpad is a collection of Internet research tools and
resources including tutorials, features, news, and reviews. |
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Interactive Websites provide standards-based cross curricular web resources designed
to enhance online learning opportunities. |
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Cool Clips
and
Microsoft
Clipart are great places to find clipart of almost
anything. The clipart is arranged in a variety of categories and also
provides a search feature. |
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Piggybacks
for Teachers contains projects for teachers and
librarians to share with their classes. |
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Future State
provides the who, what, where, when, and why of the U.S. State department at its
official site for young people. |
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You Can Handle Them All
is a comprehensive guide to managing a long list of disruptive classroom
behaviors. For each behavior, the site provides behavior examples, effects on
other students, and suggestions on how teachers should and should not respond to
these behaviors. |
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Teachers@work reviews education sites on all curriculum areas and levels with
comments, teaching suggestions, and age and presentation ratings. |
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ESL |
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LANTERFISH offer printable
teaching resources for language arts and ESL plus many links to other sites and
lesson plans. |
 Check out the
ESL Page from
Jefferson County Schools offering links to websites for students and teachers. |
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ESL
English Forum offers interactive activities aimed at
improving vocabulary and grammar usage. |
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SEN Teacher
provides cost-free teaching & learning resources for students with special needs
and learning disabilities. |
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Technology |
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180 Technology Tips
offers quick and simple technology ideas and five minute computer lessons. |
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The Arts |
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Check out these great sites to celebrate Music in
Your Classroom Month.
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Perfect Pitch
will introduce the instruments of the orchestra and then allow you to make
music..
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Music education -
Listen
and repeat music is a free online music flash game.
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Classics for kids is a place to learn about rhythm,
composers, and even compose your own music
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Primary Grades |
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Practice Letters and Sounds using On-line Games (ages 4 - 8) |
| Want more practice with your math skills in a
challenging but fun way…check out
Number
Time Games at BBC. These are
designed for children ages 4 – 11. |
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EduPuppy
offers everything for the preschool to second grade teacher. |
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Literacy Center,
from the Early Childhood Education Network, provides lots of early literacy
learning activities for young children. |
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Play and Learn
at the
Literacy center has activities for writing, letters, numbers,
colors, and even keyboards. What is better – This site is in
English, Spanish, French, or German! |
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Rock and Boll
Kindergarten has new and exciting ideas for the classroom. Check it out
and see what you think! |
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Construct a Word |
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Take a Sound Hike Boom! Br-r-ring!
Cluck! Moo!—everywhere you turn, you’re bound to find exciting sounds. |
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Science |
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The
Physical Science Activity Manual contains 34 hands-on
activities to bring excitement to your classroom. |
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Fun Science has an awesome collection of movies on Protista and
bacteria. |
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Attack those germs where they live at
Infection, Detection, Protection. |
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Habitats is a great interactive site for students to
identify an appropriate living site for different organisms. |
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The
Interactive Library
is about "real interactivity, classroom activities, or use one of the more
advanced applets as a starting point for a science project. |
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Learn the basics of physic at
Physics Classroom.
A complete online resource for teachers and students. |
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The goal of The
Biology Project is to improve biology understanding worldwide by
providing FREE access to high quality learning materials for all levels.
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Science teachers,
Science Games
is a site you will want to bookmark! |
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Science Interactives provide an exciting way to explore
the world. |
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Chem4kids -
includes information on
matter,
atoms,
elements,
the
periodic table,
reactions,
and
biochemistry. |
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ChemTutor - Basic chemistry
help is available here for high school or college students. Chemtutor begins
with the fundamentals and gives expert help with the most difficult phases of
understanding your first course in chemistry. |
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Gardening for Kids provides curricular resources related
to the study of gardening. |
| Online activities for
learning biology, including animated cartoons, an evolution simulation
laboratory, and drag-and-drop quizzes are available at
Biology In Motion. |
| Science Meets Pop Culture - Explore
the
Science of Godzilla and more. |
| Need new ideas for lessons? Go
to
Texas Instruments Activities Exchange. |
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Recycle City is an interactive community in which students can see, find,
learn, and get a clue about recycling. |
| Looking for a
simple way to teach
Simple Machines? |
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Math |
 Pattern
Generator has three difficulty levels for exploration of patterns using
shapes, letters and numbers. After looking at the pieces of the pattern
that are already in place, click and drag the missing pieces onto the board. |
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MathBits offers fun, yet challenging,
lessons and activities in high school (and college level) mathematics and
computer programming for students and teachers. Created by two teachers. |
| Visit
A Matter of Time, a
wonderful teaching tool for those teaching the concept of telling time. |
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Rainforest Maths is terrific collection including over 800 online
mathematics activities for grades k-6 |
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Maths Dictionary for Kids
is an interactive online dictionary explaining over 500 math terms in simple
language, |
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Middle School Math
Games provides activities based on fractions, integers,
graphs, rounding and more. |
| Students can
practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division at
Spacey Math. |
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Sense and Dollars teaches teens about financial literacy (money: earning it, saving
it, and spending it). |
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Practical Money Skills
is designed to help educators, parents and students practice better money
management for life. The site offers a free teacher's guide, student
worksheets and quizzes and interactive brainteasers that students can play
online or on CD (a free resource). |
| Marvelous math
games may be manipulated at Harcourt's
Math Advantage, which offers learning for kids in
kindergarten through eighth grade. |
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Interactive Math
provides
a series of math activities designed for Grades
K-12. |
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High School Hub Math
offers a treasure trove of links for teachers in the areas of Algebra, Geometry/Tessellations,
Stock Market Projects Puzzles and Games and much more. |
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Have a need for 3D shapes such as a cube or pyramid? You
can print free patterns for these shapes at
SEN Teacher. |
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E-Z Geometry designed for
high school teachers and students includes an interactive textbook, class video
clips, projects, glossary, and resource links. |
| Need new ideas for lessons? Go
to
Texas Instruments Activities Exchange. |
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History |
Famous Irish
Americans
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day exploring biographies of
Famous Irish Americans, including 11 U.S. Presidents. |
| Women's
History Month from the Library of Congress. |
| Learn more about
historical eras at
Mr. Dowling's World,
or try your hand at an
interactive history quiz.
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Education World
provides a
U.S and
World History hyperactive
timeline for grades 5-12.
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Best History Websites is a
portal created for students, history educators, and general history enthusiasts.
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| Get Free
Blank Outline Maps
and
Outline Maps
for every country and U.S. state. |
| Need to brush your
students up on
Social Studies Skills before the Terra Nova testing? |
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HistoryWiz
is a collection of history resources for students, teachers, and lovers of
history. |
| New new ideas for lesson plans in
history? Visit the
Awesome Library for
history lesson K - 12. |
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United States History Lesson Plans from TeAchnology |
| A unit for grades 8 - 11
Women in American History |
| Test your
knowledge of world geography by playing
Geosense, alone or
with a partner. |
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Language Arts |
Word
Wizards: Students Making Words is an online active, hands-on activity in
which students learn how to look for patterns in words and how to make new words
by adding or changing the sequence of letters.
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Writing Fun uses text organizers to assist students with the writing
process. This site includes downloads for all organizers. |
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Apples4theTeacher posts a list of language arts games. More activities are
available at
Houghton
Mifflin. |
| Explore Scholastic's
best practices at the
Reading Resources Network. |
| Looking for new ideas for reading?
Visit Scott Forseman Reading. |
| The
Reading Games Room has
games for learners along with word charts and motivational posters for teachers. |
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Reading Quest.org
offers clear, concise descriptions of reading and writing strategies. |
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Instant Poetry Forms
has online interactive tools to create your own poetry. |
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English to Go
incorporates international issues into daily lesson plans. |
| If you teach
writing or composition Guide to Grammar and Writing
is a must on
your surfing list and don't forget to explore the resources at
Write On. |
| Terrific resources are
available for teachers and students studying
The Odyssey and
Romeo and Juliet. |
