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| Comprehensive websites for teachers |
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| Education World |
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A comprehensive site for teachers with lesson plan ideas, articles, teacher tools and templates. |
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| A to Z Teachers Stuff |
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A to Z Teachers Stuff has over 3,000 lesson plans that you can search by grade level and topic. |
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| Core Knowledge |
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Since each lesson is reviewed and rated for quality, Core Knowledge is a great site to visit for pre-K through grade 8 lesson plans in most content areas, including art and music. |
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| Edhelper |
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Edhelper has over 11,000 lesson plans, 5000 free worksheets, and numerous test prep materials. |
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| The Educator's Reference Desk |
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This website contains more than 2,000 lesson plans in all content areas submitted by teachers across the country. Browse lesson plans by subject, or search by grade level for a lesson on a specific topic. |
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| Federal Resources for Educational Excellence |
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More than 30 Federal agencies formed a working group in 1997 to make hundreds of federally supported teaching and learning resources easier to find. The result of that work is the FREE website. |
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| The Innovative Classroom |
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The Innovative Classroom has suggestions on designing learning centers, complete thematic units you can download, and tips on classroom management. |
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| Learner.org |
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Learner.org, a website produced by Annenberg/CPB to advance excellence in teaching, contains classroom videos and other multimedia resources designed to increase teachers' expertise in their fields and assist them in improving their teaching methods. Browse teacher resources by discipline and grade level to find the best online video workshops and web-based courses; you'll find titles such as Insights into Algebra I, The Science of Teaching Science, and Teaching Reading: K-2 Workshop, among many others. The high-quality videos contain clips of teachers describing their strategies and using them in their classrooms, as well as specific content-area information for you to brush up on your own knowledge. |
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Learning Page
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A great site for teachers with free PDF files and worksheets for use in the classroom. |
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| Lesson Plans Page |
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Lesson Plans Page has over 1,500 lesson plans for K-12 classrooms organized by subject. Check out the Weekly Science Experiments and the Seasonal Lesson Plans. |
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| PBS |
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PBS has over 3,500 lesson plans and activities that can be used alone or in conjunction with PBS TV and radio broadcasts. PBS has recently released the Liberty’s Kids series, an animated television show that provides students age 7-12 an exciting view of life in colonial America. |
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| Scholastic's Teacher Resources |
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Scholastic’s Teacher Resource Center has lesson plans for K-8, tips for new teachers, articles from education experts, and other useful resources.
Scholastic.com also offers free classroom websites for teachers, targeted towards K-8 classrooms but available to all instructors. You can use your website for a multitude of purposes, including: keeping families informed about your class' progress and activities; posting printable materials, such as forms and homework assignments online; and setting up links for parents and students to contact you via e-mail. |
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Songs for All Subjects
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Songs for science, melodies for math, tunes for transition times...find the lyrics and hear the music. |
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It takes money to build a professional teaching library...unless the books are online. Check out the books you can read for free online through Stenhouse Publishers. |
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| Stenhouse Publishers |
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It takes money to build a professional teaching library...unless the books are online. Check out the books you can read for free online through Stenhouse Publishers. |
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| Teachers First |
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TeachersFirst.com is a collection of lessons and web resources for K-12 teachers and their students. Materials are arranged by subject area and grade level: check out the Content Matrix to help you get started in the right place. Also included are recommended reading lists for students, weekly featured websites, and professional resources. |
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| Teacher Vision |
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Teacher Vision is a great website jam-packed with lesson plans, cross-curricular activities for all grade levels, classroom management tips and professional development information. |
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| Teach-nology |
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Teach-nology has rubric makers, graphic organizer generators, and a lesson plan center. |
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| Time for Kids |
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Do you integrate current events into your classroom? Time for Kids has lesson plans and activities to use with the latest news stories in all subjects. You can print the story off the website, and then use their suggested classroom activities. |
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| Differentiation |
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| ASCD Differentiation Tutorial |
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Take the online tutorial on differentiation from the Association for the Supervision of Curriculum Development (ASCD) to develop professionally in this challenging instructional technique. |
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| Differentiation Examples and Techniques |
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Differentiation techniques and examples from Montgomery County Public Schools, such as tiered lessons, anchor activities, cubing, and learning centers will help you create a differentiated classroom that meets the needs of all your students. |
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| HottLinx |
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Developed by the University of Virginia, HottLinx has strategies, lesson plans, unit plans, and assessments that will support you as you differentiate your instruction. |
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| 4 Teachers Individual Projects |
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Individual Projects allow you to individualize your instruction for each student. The 4 Teachers site helps you plan projects and create personalized student checklists (in English and Spanish) for activities in writing, science, multimedia, and presentation tasks. Be sure to check "Rubistar" and "Casa Notes" to customize class rubrics, certificates, and letters. |
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| Diversity in the classroom |
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| The Pride and the Journey |
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The Pride and the Journey website contains written and spoken biographies of famous (and not-so-famous) men and women throughout Black history. While by no means exhaustive, the website features dozens of prominent individuals, ranging from Frederick Douglas and Harriet Tubman to Mohammed Ali and Duke Ellington. |
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| Teaching Tolerance |
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Teaching Tolerance serves as a clearinghouse of information about anti-bias programs and activities being implemented in schools across the country. Teaching Tolerance also produces and distributes free, high-quality anti-bias materials, which are available to teachers in the Expand Your Resources section. Some of the free videos and teachers guides include:
- Shadow of Hate, which chronicles episodes of intolerance throughout U.S. history – from the plights of Quakers in colonial New England to the 1991 riots in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, N.Y.
- Starting Small, a training tool for educators of the early grades. The film and supplementary text profile exemplary pre-K through 3rd grade classrooms in which peace, equity and justice are guiding themes.
A Place at the Table, which tells the story of our nation's struggle to ensure liberty and justice for all. Narrated entirely by young people, the book and video explore this history in greater depth, while the teachers' guide provides 13 detailed lesson plans for use in the middle and upper grades. |
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| The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network |
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The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network strives to assure that each member of every school community is valued and respected regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression. The GLSEN website has teacher training materials and inclusive curricular resources in their Action Center. |
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COLAGE is a national organization that offers support for people with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender parents and families. Recently, youth with LGBT parents created several resources to help make schools more respectful and safe for children of LGBT parents. The youth-produced materials include a guide for educators called Tips for Making Classrooms Safer for Youth with LGBT Parents and Focus on MY Family, an anthology of writing art and poetry. |
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| Early elementary |
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| Kinder Korner |
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Kinder Korner is a great resource for pre-K through 2nd grade teachers. You’ll find tips on how to assess early elementary students, thematic units, lesson plans, great books to read during story time, and more. |
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| ABC Teach |
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ABC Teach has thematic units, activities, and other free printable materials for parents and teachers. |
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| ESL / BILINGUAL |
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| National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition (NCLEAR) |
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The National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition (formerly the National Council for Bilingual Education) provides several research-based lessons, activities, and resources for teachers working with pre-K through adult English language learners in bilingual, ELS, or English-only settings. |
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| National Council of La Raza (NCLR) |
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The National Council of La Raza features a new publication Educating English Language Learners: Understanding and Using Assessment, which provides information and resources on the development of an assessment program for schools serving English language learners. |
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| Integrating the Arts |
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| Integrating the Arts |
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The group Americans for the Arts shares research on the importance of integrating arts into education. Also, check out their Resources page for where to go to get more information on Arts education. |
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| Joy2Learn Foundation |
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The Joy2Learn foundation is dedicated to improving the visbility and importance of the arts while encouraging the innovative use of technology in education. Its website features a series of free, interactive e-presentations starring artists like Wynton Marsalis, Gregory Hines, Alan Gampel, Elizabeth Murray, and Hector Elizondo. Students find the page's animated and interactive navigation, images, and text incredibly engaging. Likewise, teachers are consistently pleased with the cross-curricular nature of the accompanying classroom resources, which address visual and performing arts, history, science, mathematics, and literacy standards. |
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| Math |
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| Math Problems to Build Literacy |
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Filled with practice problems and solutions for every grade level, from kindergarten through high school. Questions are divided by skill into sections like number sense, measurement, geometry, probability and statistics, and logic. Most questions are in open-ended format to encourage the incoporation of literacy and writing skills into your math class. Designed to help your students make sense of mathematics. |
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| Math.com |
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The Teacher Center at Math.com allows you to create your own math worksheets and quizzes for Kindergarten through High School math. You choose the specific focus of the test (double digit addition, reducing improper fractions, two-step equations, etc.), the level of difficulty, the number of questions, and the general format, and the worksheet, along with an answer sheet, is ready to print! |
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| See Math on SeeingMath site |
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View one full lesson entitled "Pre-Algebra: Pan Balance Equations" and brief video clips of elementary and middle school math strategies on topics such as fractions and 3D figures.
*QuickTime video player necessary. |
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| Reading and writing |
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| Writing Samples and Rubrics |
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Having trouble explaining to your students - or yourself - the specific skills needed to move writing from average to exemplary? Build a series of lessons around a few documents from the extensive collection of graded student work, rubrics and reproducibles in the Glencoe Writer's Choice collection. Inform and involve parents in your writing goals by sharing the student writing samples found in Glencoe's Parent Site. |
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| Random House |
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Read book summaries of new and old favorites for students in grades K-12. Find free, downloadable Teachers Guides with an overview of the book, questions for group discussion, interdisciplinary connections, and websites for online resources related to the book. |
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| Writer's Notebook Techniques |
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Visit sites with Tips for Young Writers and ideas for stories, Writing Topics for all grade levels, or Vocabulary games to encourage students to acquire word knowledge. |
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| The Online Poetry Classroom |
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Links to sites that provide resources on how to teach poetry and what poetry to teach. |
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| Book Adventure |
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Book Adventure, sponsored by the Sylvan Learning Company, features challenges for more than 5,000 books by award-winning authors. Students use the "Book Finder" to find good reads by matching their grade level with topics of interest such as "History," "Family," and "Humor." After reading a book offline, they test their comprehension of the story using the site's "Quiz-O-Matic" challenges. Teachers can view students' scores and monitor class progress. Teachers should also visit the "Teacher's Lounge" for award-winning book lists, reading activities, and incentive ideas. |
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| The Grammar Guide |
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The Grammar Guide explains it all -- the parts of speech, sentence types, punctuation, and spelling rules. You'll also find full-text examples of good usage, as well as cartoons and songs that explain rules. Students can read definitions, get writing tips, ask advice, and take quizzes. Teachers can check "Peripherals" for a list of "grammar goofs" and "PowerPoints" for demos that introduce "The Mighty Apostrophe," "Our Friend, the Semicolon," and more. |
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Merlyn's Pen
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Teen Ink Magazine |
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Want to publish your students’ writing? Check out Merlyn's Pen or Teen Ink Magazine. |
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| Mighty Book |
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Mighty Book features a growing catalogue of free “Read-Aloud Books” for ages 2 to pre-teen. If you have a computer and internet connection in your classroom, consider using this site as a reading center. |
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| Reading A-Z |
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Reading A-Z has thirty leveled readers that are perfect for use in small-group guided reading instruction or as take-home books to be read with parents and other family members. Print them for free off the website and make as many copies as you wish. |
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| Reading Rockets |
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Reading Rockets offers strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help young children learn how to read and engage them in the reading process. Teachers may be particularly interested in the section on "Helping Kids Who Struggle" with reading. |
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| Science |
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| Newton's Apple |
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Newton's Apple is an award-winning national science program for kids and adults. You are invited to pick a lesson from the teachers' guides developed in co-operation with National Science Teachers Association. These are also rich stand-alone resources. |
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| EcoHealth |
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The EcoHealth website takes graduate-level material on the impact of environmental change on our health and makes it accessible to middle school and high school students and teachers. Key features of the site include: lesson plans, student projects, an extensive glossary, Q & A's from science experts, and news updates on emerging crises in global environmental health. |
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| Forensic Science Units |
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In cooperation with NSTA, Court TV has developed forensic science units. These free online units range in difficulty but all require students to perform observations, data collection and analysis, and draw conclusions. |
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| Froguts |
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Biology teachers without access to a lab or money for dissections should check out Froguts for a free on-line frog dissection lesson. You’ll need a good Internet connection for this, however. |
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| Performance Assessement Links in Science (PALS) |
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Looking for Science Performance Assessments? Tasks on this site are aligned with national standards and grouped according to grade level. |
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| Science Fair Central |
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The Science Fair Central site provides a complete guide to science fair projects. Check out the 'Handbook' which features information from Janice VanCleave, a popular author who provides everything you need to know for success. Students can even send her a question about your project. |
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| World Wildlife Fund |
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The World Wildlife Fund is a great resource life science or biology teachers – read about the “critter of the day” or use the maps, quizzes and games in the “fun stuff” section. |
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| Online History Textbooks of Different Views |
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DigitalHistory.com provides free online textbooks for teaching and research, many of which highlight voices that have often been overlooked in the presentation of American history. Textbooks are available for Mexican-America, Asian American, African-American, and Native American voices. |
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| Websites for Primary Sources |
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Check out the websites below to help you integrate primary source material into your instruction.
These websites were recommended by Robert Carreon, RGV '03. |
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| Write to "Any Soldier" |
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Make the current state of international affairs more relevant to your students by sending a care package to "Any Soldier." Send a soldier food, supplies, or just a friendly letter to both boost morale overseas and connect your students to current events in Iraq and Afghanistan, whether you support the war or not. Visit the website to find out more. |
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National Geographic's
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National Geographic's Map Machine, a great resource for science and social studies teachers, allows you to search for nearly any place on Earth - and view the location at the street level or from a satellite's perspective. Check out the physical, historical, political, or topographic maps and print them for classroom use. |
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| National Archives Digital Classroom: Teaching with Documents |
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A wonderful set of lesson plans, arranged by historical era, which includes reproducible copies of many primary documents held by the US National Archives and Records Administration |
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Justice Learning
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From global warming to gun control, Justice Learning helps you give students the skills they need to understand today's complex issues. A free series from NPR's Justice Talking & The New York Times Learning Network, Justice Learning connects civics to your students' daily lives. |
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| Time for Kids |
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Do you integrate current events into your classroom? Time for Kids has lesson plans and activities to use with the latest news stories in all subjects. You can print the story off the website, and then use their suggested classroom activities |
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| C-SPAN |
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C-SPAN has classroom materials for topics such as the US policy towards Iraq, Black History Month, and Women’s History Month. |
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| National Geographic |
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The National Geographic website has a section for teachers with lesson plans, maps, photos, and other activities appropriate for the geography classroom. |
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| Save Our History |
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Request a copy of the Save our History Educator's Manual, a resource designed to help teachers connect standards-based historical content to the history that exists in their communities. The manual includes lesson plans, activities, and project guides appropriate for elementary, middle, and high school students. |
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| On This Day |
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"On This Day," by the New York Times, lists key events, birthdays of current and historic leaders and celebrities, and features the paper’s front page from the most prominent day in history. |
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| Special Education |
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| The Access Center: Online Special Education Tools |
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If you are searching for resources to help you work with your students with disabilities, check out the Access Center, a national technical assistance center funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs. The Access Center provides direct technical assistance to states and local school districts around the country. The Access Center's website contains teacher-friendly resources, information briefs, and interactive materials (such as webinars that can be used for professional development) centered around providing all students with access to the general education curriculum. You may be particularly interested in the following briefs:
- Using Mnemonics in Instruction
- Peer Tutoring
- Differentiating Reading Instruction
If you have questions about the website, please contact Melissa Storm (South Louisiana '94), who works on the Access Center as part of her job at the American Institutes for Research, at MStorm@air.org. |
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| Behavior Contracts |
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Find downloadable behavior contracts (in word or pdf format) that you can use with students who may require more structured support for meeting the behavioral expectations of your class. |
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| Inclusive Education |
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Looking for strategies for successful inclusion? University of Northern Iowa’s College of Education has great articles on inclusion, inclusion teaching strategies, and resources for inclusion teachers. |
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| LD Online |
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LD Online has strategies for working with learning disabled students, important information on special education law, and articles written by experts in the field of special education. |
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| Schwab Learning |
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Schwab Learning provides a rich menu of information, resources, publications, and strategies for parents and teachers of children with learning differences. |
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| "Special Education Inclusion" |
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The Wisconsin Education Association Council has a comprehensive article that details inclusion’s history, pros, and cons. |
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