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Tennessee Board of Education adopted  new academic standards called the “common core.”    on July 30, 2010.   The Tennessee Curriculum standards are 85% aligned with the

Common Core Standards. 

Learn more about the standards.
 
PLN (Professional Learning Network) Yourself - Great site guiding you to develop a professional online network.
 

Preparing Students for Tomorrow with the

National Education Technology Standards.  The National Education Technology Plan for 2010 is available at http://www.ed.gov/technology/netp-2010

Don't miss the wealth of resources and Activities for ESL/EFL Students or the Interesting Things for ESL Students.  Want even more?  Try Games and Activities for ESL/SFL Classroom.

Need Pumpkin worksheets and ideas to students to practice their skills?  Check out these pumpkin worksheets from Worksheets4 teachers

EduOle, Quizzes Plus lists printable quizzes that test Spanish skills from many different approaches.

Classroom 2.0 is a free, community-supported network. They hope that those who are "beginners" will find this a supportive comfortable place to start being part of the digital dialog.
October Events Lessons

Fire Prevention Lesson Plans for K-5  Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires:  Smokey the Bear's Educator resources.

Worksheets and Activities for Fire Safety

Beyond Christopher Columbus This year, observe Columbus Day by helping your students explore Web sites that put the controversial explorer's achievements into historical perspective. Included: Links to on-line lesson plans for teaching about Columbus across the grades!

Explore the Explorers On-Line This Education World site offers an armada of activities for all disciplines.

Christopher Columbus lesson plan ideas, activities and clip art for Columbus Day Activities.

Christopher Columbus This site offers a variety of Columbus Day activities,

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Portals

Several educational portals provide tremendous printable and downloadable resources for classroom use: 

  • The Education Portal strives to bring the best of the web

  • Gale Schools offers an excellent portal to educational content.

  • The Minnesota Historical Society provides an excellent Educator's Portal. Choose a theme, grade level, and/or skill.

  •  About School shares online activities and printable worksheets for all age levels covering a range of subjects.

  • The Learning Web  has creative project ideas, lesson plans, maps, and clipart in geology, biology, geography, and hydrology.

  • The Teacher's Corner is a portal to lesson plans, lesson plans, thematic units, and teaching activities.

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Lesson Plans
Microsoft's lesson plans are arranged by grade, subject, and theme.

Lesson Plans Search is an easy to use search engine organized by categories.

More Lesson Plans:
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Technology
Teacher Web provides and instructs teachers with and to a way of creating their own website to communicate with students outside of class.

Podcasting!  

All teachers should have their own web page. Now it's as easy 1-2-3 and Webpages4Teachers will host it for FREE.
Yahooligans, This Day in History , is a great way to spend time on the web.  The site provides controls that enable you to travel to any day in history.  Another resource from Yahoo contains links to the Word of the Day, Cool Site of the Day, Animation of the Day, Computer Tip of the Day, Daily Grammar, Daily Motivator, Thought of the Day, and much more. 
 
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Teaching Resources

The Futures Channel:  Connecting Learning to the Real World features online movies connecting science and math to the real world action.  This site also provides "Algebra in the Real World" and "Hands on Math".  TERRIFIC resources.

The Top 10 Milestone Documents in History as voted by the people.  The site links to the document and gives the history behind the document.

eTheme Resources Listed by Title is collection of teacher-created
resources offering one a wide varieties of web-oriented lessons.  You can search by title or by grade level.

Book Adventure  is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 7,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes. Book Adventure was created by and is maintained by Sylvan Learning.

How can you not check out a site with this title, The Really Best List of Classroom Management Resources.

Green Teacher is a magazine by and for educators to enhance environmental and global education across the curriculum at all grade

Find a good set of annotated links to articles, resources for both teachers and students, on Plagiarism.

Looking for challenging method to teach vocabulary and reading skills?  Find quizzes and word activities that make words come alive at Vocabulary.

At Kidspace students can submit book reviews and read reviews submitted by other students.

Discovery School Clipart has free clip art and It’s organized by curriculum for teachers and students. 

The most complete list of helpful Online tools for teachers can be found at Ultimate Teacher Tools.

Teachers-Pet has free tools to make teaching and learning more fun.

Discover Schools has developed useful resources that will save teachers valuable time.  Use Lesson Plan Maker to create and store your lesson plans for easy access.  Develop your own puzzles and worksheets at Puzzle Maker.
Substitute Packets

More assistance for substitutes can be found at A Packet for Substitute Teachers by Robert Jackson, a retired educator, who gives lots of tips, tricks, and practical activities for substitute teachers.

A "fill-in-the-blank" substitute packet is online at Jefferson County Schools.  Simply click and type your information and print!
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Subjects

History:

English: 

Science:

  • Get Oriented includes lesson plans for varying age levels on how we navigate.
  • MAIS K-6 Science Inquiry, Investigation, and Design Technology  There are two components to this project: (1)The first is a group of lesson QuickPlans, that exemplify science and design technology lessons for elementary school use. (2) The second component is a list of Instruction Links
  • Biomes of the World, Freshwater Ecosystems, and Saltwater Ecosystems is an organized and convenient Web site for habitat research.
  • Simply Science contains material for Elementary School teachers and children around a number of themes including science teaching ideas, ideas and tutorials.
  • Middle School Science is the place for lesson plans and links for the following science classes: Life Science, Physics, Chemistry, and Earth Science. Lab sheets are provided for a variety of hands on activities. .

MATH

  • Figure This: Math Challenges for Families provides students, teachers, and parents with creative problems related to algebra, geometry, measurement, numbers, statistics, and probability. A Spanish language version is also available.
  • Math Stories has math word problems for children (available in Spanish & aligned with state standards).
  • At Multiplication.com teachers will find tips and resources designed to help all students learn the multiplication tables.  The site contains worksheets, games, activities, and strategies to make every student successful in this necessary task.
  • Algebra Help provides a complete review of the basics of Algebra with lessons, calculators that show step-by-step solutions, and interactive worksheets.
  • Whether you solve them at home or in the classroom, individually or as a group, you'll find our Math  Brain Teasers both entertaining and mentally challenging. Each Wednesday evening we will provide you with one new Brain Teaser at each of three grade ranges. Solutions will be posted on the following Wednesday
  • Create custom graph paper at Class Brain.com.  This site has many more possibilities for the math classroom.

 

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Primary Teachers
I Can Read is a great site for young readers.  The child is read a sentence and then asked to answer questions.
Little Animals Activity Centre from BBC helps with learning first sounds, end sounds, and rhymes.  Click on home for more fun and learning.
Lego.com is a wonderful site with games that aid children with design and engineering skills as they build structures with legos online.
Primary Games features educational games, coloring pages, interactive e-books, holiday activities, musical postcards, crafts, stationery, puzzles, certificates and more!

The Teacher's Guide shares lesson plans, thematic units, book activities, teacher freebies, children's music, and much more.
Over 1450 free theme based lesson plan ideas for preschool and kindergarten teachers at Activity Idea Place.
Biomes of the World, Freshwater Ecosystems, and Saltwater Ecosystems is an organized and convenient Web site for habitat research.

Anything needed to teach English can be found at E. L. Easton English Online.

Latin Teachers will enjoy Latin Grammar with information on Latin nouns and verbs.

EduOle, Quizzes Plus lists printable quizzes that test Spanish skills from many different approaches.

Simply Science contains material for Elementary School teachers and children around a number of themes including science teaching ideas, ideas and tutorials.
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Activities
Kidnetic
A healthy eating and active living Web site designed for kids aged 9 - 12 and their families; and is a resource for kids and their families to inspire them to move toward healthier lifestyles. There is a lot to do on the site!
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Online learning and interactive games can be found at Syvum where you will find math, English, and educational fun activities.

Scholastic Teachers  contains links to current events, online activities and several ready to ready to use reproducibles.

Teaching Treasures provides several online quizzes and games in the area of math, science, and grammar.

Templates for games include:
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Dynamic Curriculum is a collection of resources for educator aligned to the TN Curriculum Standards