Monday, October 6, 2008

Teacher links by category

General education

  • Video Placement Worldwide distributes free, sponsored educational materials to teachers. An online newsletter helps teachers discover new videos, including titles that deal with health & safety, life skills, volunteerism, careers, and environmental awareness & protection.
  • International Distance Learning Course Finder - This online directory includes information on a number of institutions offering courses via the web.
  • The Copernicus Education Gateway is an Internet-based, customized network of online learning communities. These communities provide schools with the highest quality K-12 resources and tools from trusted sources.
  • Federal Resources for Education Excellence - On April 18, 1997, President Clinton asked federal agencies to determine what "resources you can make available that would enrich the Internet as a tool for teaching and learning." In response, more than 30 federal agencies formed a working group to make hundreds of federally-supported education resources available at this web site.
  • Classroom Connect 's goal is to help teachers integrate the Internet into the classroom. There are free lesson plans, a monthly calendar, a web newsletter, and links screened by a "cybrarian".
  • TeacherVision , hosted by the Family Education Network, offers lesson plans, recommended reading lists, discussion boards, and links to other hot web sites.
  • Yahoo! Lesson Plans - Search by topic or browse through the 25 or so featured links.
  • BellSouth's Education Gateway - Organized for students, teachers, and parents, this site contains links to many education locations, including Teacher 2 Teacher, which offers information about professional growth, technology planning guides, collaborative projects with other schools, and more.
  • Blogging and RSS: the “what’s it?” and “how to” of powerful new web tools for educators ( article) -- read about the hottest new tool to get students to write and think!
  • Technology as cognitive tool: Learners as designers - successful integration of emerging tools such as MSN and web logs will challenge educators to rethink how they teach.
  • New times demand new ways of doing things
  • AT&T Learning Network - This site offers the Virtual Academy, a centralized resource of online courses from accredited colleges and universities. Courses are designed to help educators effectively integrate technology into their curriculum, while updating their professional credentials at their own pace.
  • The New York Times Learning Network - This new site brings the news into classrooms in engaging ways. A daily feature story from the Times is accompanied by lesson plans developed in conjunction with New York's Bank Street College of Education.
  • Information Searcher Online: The Newsletter for CD-ROM, Online Searching and the Internet in Schools - This site is an interactive learning environment for educators. Learn about web evaluation, reference sites, search engines, and new technologies. Discover strategies, tips, practical advice and valuable information on the best web sites to support and enhance the curriculum.
  • Federal Resources for Educational Excellence - This site is a guide to free educational web sites created by federal government agencies. It's a clearinghouse for ALL government resources: materials from NASA and the Departments of Energy, Agriculture, Treasury, Defense, Labor, & National Institutes of Health, just to name a few. Search by subject, or scroll through and ogle all the offerings.
  • Education World - This free site is an online resource that helps simplify the education community's ability to use the Internet, from teachers and administrators to parents and students.
  • Schwab Foundation for Learning - This site focuses on learning differences. SCL is one of the only online organizations that offers individualized information and personal responses from specialists in the field. It boasts an impressive collection of articles, lesson plans, publications, and other valuable resources for teachers and parents.
  • PBS Teacher Source - A constantly growing inventory of more than 1,000 free lesson plans, teacher guides, and online activities; most are designed to compliment PBS programming.
  • Education Week on the Web - American education's online newspaper of record. Includes Teacher Magazine online, daily news, special reports, products & services, and archives.
  • Filling the Tool Box - Subtitled "Classroom Strategies to Engender Student Questioning", this web site is not a collection of lesson plans so much as it is a way to re-shape and direct classroom inquiry. Within this web site you'll find practical, effective activities that help shift the focus of classrooms from teacher-orchestrated mastery and memory of information to student processing of information to create understanding and problem-solving. Whether it's problem-solving, foreign language, writing and editing, or taking a test, these tactics will turn your students into critical thinkers.
  • Purdue Online Writing Lab - This site has vast resources for writers and teachers of writing. The sections titled "Writing Across the Curriculum" and "Writing in the Disciplines" will assist you in everything from creating short, single writing assignments to newsletters.
  • Banned Books Online - In a tribute to freedom of thought and speech, "Banned Books Online" offers a representation of texts that have been - or still are - kept from readers by nervous authorities. The site was created by free speech advocate John Ockerbloom, and includes a section called "Unfit for Schools and Minors?" which should be of special interest to educators.
  • Pro Cartoonists Index Page - This teacher's guide to the Professional Cartoonists' Index site offers suggestions for using political cartoons in elementary, middle-school, and high-school classes such as civics, current events, and English and to reinforce skills such as interpretation, forming opinions, and persuasion. Follow the links to daily cartoons from top names in the field, including Pulitzer Prize winners Jim Borgman, Jeff MacNelly, and Mike Peters.
  • The Library Spot - This site is designed to provide an easy and fast way to find category-specific information on the web. It provides links to an interactive atlas and encyclopedias as well as to law, medicine, and music reference materials. Library Spot also has a collection of its own articles on topics including job searching, teacher planning, term-paper writing, and parenting.
  • Vocabulary University - Free interactive cartoon word puzzles for students in grades 4-12, foreign students, and adults. There are also puzzles designed specifically for improving vocabulary for the SAT and ACT and puzzles with vocabulary words from books such as Catcher in the Rye and The Joy Luck Club.
  • Gateway to Education Materials - One-stop clearinghouse for educational materials sponsored by the National Library of Education. Search by subject, keyword, title, and grade level. All results include a content summary and a direct link to the Internet.
  • Classroom Applications for the Internet . Helps teachers design and/or find programs that meet their students' needs on the Internet.
  • Blue Web'n . A goldmine of information and links by subject area.
  • Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators . Classified list of sites on the Internet found to be useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth.
  • Ask Eric . A personalized Internet-based service providing education information to teachers, librarians, counselors, administrators, and parents. Includes a virtual library, lesson plans, and a database of documents & journal articles (citations and abstracts) published since 1989.
  • Evaluating Web Resources . Help for teachers and students in evaluating web sites.
  • The Landmark Project - As popular as it has become in recent years, the Internet is still a vast wilderness. For this reason, it still takes the explorer in us to seek out those net-based gems that can bring life to our learning environments. - Most educators, however, have little time to go exploring on the Net, as much as they would like to. To serve these professionals, David Warlick and The Landmark Project have utilized 20 years of experience inventing instructional applications of computer and communication technologies for teaching and learning. Landmarks for Schools (LFS) serves as a hub for these and other resources available to teachers to help them prepare students for the 21st century.

  • eThemes - eThemes is an extensive database of content-rich, age-appropriate resources (i.e., web links) organized around specific themes. These resources are created for educators to use in their classrooms. eThemes is a service of the eMINTS National Center. eThemes resources are created and maintained by University of Missouri-Columbia College of Education staff and graduate students from the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies. Topics range from aerodynamics to Yellowstone.

  • Tapped In - Tapped In brings educators together both locally and worldwide to cultivate a community that supports each teacher as a professional. We build the capacity of teachers to support one another through peer networks supported by the Tapped In community. Educators:

    • Plan and conduct learning projects with colleagues and students.
    • Participate in or lead topical discussion and groups.
    • Manage and attend online courses offered by TPD providers.
    • Mentor other educators.
    • Try out new ideas in a safe, supportive environment.

  • TagTeacherNet  - Based in the United Kingdom, this site is the ultimate teacher resource. Registration, which is free, is required. The site offers educators the opportunity to create online communities, develop skills, find lesson plans, and share resources. In addition to math, science, history, and English, subjects also include drama, which features links to contemporary and classic plays. Information Communications Technology offers free graphics, templates, and tutorials. The geography section lists journals, current expeditions, Webcams, and useful statistics. Showcase features ideas on how to produce stunning multimedia presentations as well as information on audio software.

      Administration

    • School Administrator's Resources - Web sites that may be of interest to school administrators, school professional staff, and other school officials. The site also contains a listing of several school web pages which serve as an excellent example of how to use the Internet to distribute school policies and information.

    English

    • Score's CyberGuides - CyberGuides are supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature. Each CyberGuide contains a student and teacher edition, standards, a task with a process by which it may be completed, teacher-selected web sites and a rubric, based on California Language Arts Content Standards.
    • Center for Liberal Arts - At this University of Virginia site, English teachers will find an extensive collection of links to sites about literature, reading, writing, oral skills, and teacher resources. Literature links are organized by period, genre and nationality. There are also links to materials in the fields of art & music, classics, and foreign languages.
    • National Council of English Teachers - Check out teaching ideas, class activities, composition, critical thinking, gender language & diversity, literature, reading, research, technology, whole language, writing, and more!
    • Education Resources - Compiled by Dr. Sue LeBeau, this site includes links to lesson plans, assessment and rubrics, graphics organizers, character education and anti-bullying, classroom management and discipline and more.
    • The Aegean Enquirer - View this ninth-grade on-line historical newspaper built by ninth-grade humanities students. It’s a great example of how to incorporate technology into the learning process, link disciplines and teach students writing, editing and visual organizational skills. This is also an excellent way to bring the past to life for students. The project includes reviews of ancient art, music, films of Greek plays, analyses of Greek plays, sports coverage on the history and rebirth of the Olympics and the upcoming games in Athens, articles on Greek architecture, and more. It also includes on online PowerPoint presentations on Greek history and culture.
    • Purdue Online Writing Lab - This site has vast resources for writers and teachers of writing. The sections titled "Writing Across the Curriculum" and "Writing in the Disciplines" will assist you in everything from creating short, single writing assignments to newsletters.
    • Vocabulary University - Free interactive cartoon word puzzles for students in grades 4-12, foreign students, and adults. There are also puzzles designed specifically for improving vocabulary for the SAT and ACT and puzzles with vocabulary words from books such as Catcher in the Rye and The Joy Luck Club.
    • Poetry class - This is the solution for teachers wanting to bring poetry alive in the classroom.
    • Online poetry classroom - OPC provides both professional development for high school Language Arts teachers and a virtual teaching community enabling teachers across the country to access free poetry resources online, including innovative, classroom-tested curricula.

    Fine arts for teachers

    • Center for Liberal Arts - At this University of Virginia site, English teachers will find an extensive collection of links to sites about literature, reading, writing, oral skills, and teacher resources. Literature links are organized by period, genre and nationality. There are also links to materials in the fields of art & music, classics, and foreign languages.
    • Music Education Launch Site - This central "web ring" offers links to hundreds of related sites from Mr. Note, an online character who teaches kids the basics of music, to actual lesson plans written by real-world educators.

    Foreign language

    History

    • History Channel.com - Along with basic research tools such as a searchable database of articles, time lines linked to explanatory texts, and "This Day in History" facts, the History Channel web site offers a wealth of supplemental activities and materials for classroom use.
    • History Link 101 helps history teachers sift through thousands of potentially usable sites for good curriculum material. Sites are organized by culture and are most appropriate for middle-school students.
    • History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web was designed for high-school and college teachers of U.S. history courses, and serves as a gateway to web resources and offers useful materials for teaching U.S. history.
    • Social Studies Lessons - This page boasts some terrific ready-to-use teaching tools, such as role-playing activities (e.g., put Napoleon on trial), generic strategies (debate or group presentation generators), assignments, and Internet strategies. There's also a list of useful links for history and social studies teachers.
    • The Aegean Enquirer - View this ninth-grade on-line historical newspaper built by ninth-grade humanities students. It’s a great example of how to incorporate technology into the learning process, link disciplines and teach students writing, editing and visual organizational skills. This is also an excellent way to bring the past to life for students. The project includes reviews of ancient art, music, films of Greek plays, analyses of Greek plays, sports coverage on the history and rebirth of the Olympics and the upcoming games in Athens, articles on Greek architecture, and more. It also includes on online PowerPoint presentations on Greek history and culture.
    • History/Social Studies Web Resources - This exhaustive site contains thousands of links for K-12 history teachers in 32 categories. It has a veritable multimedia online bibliography for history teachers. In addition to lesson plans and curricula, there are links to topical lecture notes, magazines, radio programs, television shows, photographs, and more.
    • Ethics in Education - Mr. Tiatorio questions the wisdom of pursuing a virtues or character education model for teaching ethics, and calls for a history-based, critical-thinking approach. Through teaching ethics, he offers to share his work, and hopes to create a clearinghouse where teachers can contribute their own concerns, experiences and creativity in this area. The basic postings on teaching ethics are two ethics workbooks for students in grades 7 through 12. These workbooks present ways to embed ethics education into standard world and American history programs. 
    • Using cultural artifacts & primary-source documents in the classroom - Includes links to primary source documents for the U.S. and world wide as well as tips, strategies, lesson plans and worksheets for using them.
    • Native Americans - This site from James Madison University is a super resource if you'd like to investigate the history and culture of native Americans, but don't want to re-teach the same history and stories. Included are more than 50 relevant sites, bibliographies of juvenile and young-adult literature, online poetry, a list of Indian nations recognized by the U.S. government, and a list of nations that maintain their own web sites.

    Math for teachers

    • National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Illuminations - On this website for students, teachers and families, teachers will find online multimedia math investigations, classroom video vignettes, Standards-based lesson plans, links to reviewed websites, and full access to the e-version of NCTM Principles & Standards.
    • The Math Forum is an award-winning site from Drexel College. Among its numerous features are math resources by subject, innovations & concerns in math education, key issues in math, discussion groups, and web units & lessons.
    • TERC , a non-profit research and development organization committed to improving mathematics and science learning and teaching; includes information relating to hot topics in math & science education, descriptions of new projects, and research studies.
    • Annenberg/CPB Math and Science Project - Searchable database of more than 1,500 reform initiatives, resources, organizations, and conferences.
    • Eisenhower National Clearinghouse - K-12 mathematics and science resources on the Internet.

    Physical education for teachers

    • PE Central - In addition to several hundred PE lesson plans, organized by age group and activity, this site has lessons for classroom teachers, including suggestions for forming teams, strategies for lining up, lots of fun getting-acquainted games, and classroom-management suggestions.

    Psychology/counseling for teachers

    • Adolescence Directory On-Line - Electronic guide to information on adolescent issues. Target audience includes counselors, parents, and teens. Also has a teens-only section.

    Rubrics and assessment (all subject areas)

    Science for teachers

    • The Journal of Chemical Education Online allows teachers to search the current and past issues of the Journal of Chemical Education by issue, title and author. Access to full-text articles requires a password, which is available in the library. Also included is a section on peer-reviewed instructional computer software (Windows and Mac OS) and video (on CD-ROM, videotape and laser videodisk) and access to Internet publishes articles which are impossible to print - articles that include animation, video, embedded or linked documents, interactivity, etc.
    • TERC , a non-profit research and development organization committed to improving mathematics and science learning and teaching; includes information relating to hot topics in math & science education, descriptions of new projects, and research studies.
    • Annenberg/CPB Math and Science Project - Searchable database of more than 1,500 reform initiatives, resources, organizations, and conferences.

    • Jefferson Lab Teacher Resources - Under the auspices of the Dept. of Energy and a consortium of 62 universities, Jefferson lab conducts research on atomic structure and searching the nuclei of atoms. For those with a more basic grasp of science, there are also some wonderful educational materials available through their Web site. The site includes hands-on activities, Design and Engineering projects, and downloadable worksheets, games and reference materials.

    • Ocean Quest - Oceanography lesson plans developed by the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command.

    • National Institutes of Health: Science Education - Resources organized by topics (provides subject-specific materials), resource formats (lesson plans, online exhibits, posters, tutorials), and grade levels.

    • The Science Learning Network  - An international online community of educators, students, schools, science museums and other institutions demonstrating a new model for inquiry science education using museums and teacher resources developed by educators.

    Webquests

    Creating a WebQuest is easier than you think! Here's how you can use -- and create -- WebQuests in your own classroom

    • Oz-line.comWebquests and More Bernie Dodge and Tom March have been working since early 1995 to develop the WebQuest as one strategy for effectively integrating the Web into classroom instruction. This page gathers Tom's work in creating and teaching WebQuests.
    • Webquest Templates Templates provide an easy way to get started creating your WebQuest. Since 1995, we've provided templates for the Student and Teacher pages as simple, single-page documents. Now, to keep up with the state of the art in web page design, we're adding framed versions in several flavors.
    • The Webquest Page Everything from training materials to a portal to existing webquests.
    • Web Worksheet Wizard This web-based utility will allow you to create a lesson, worksheet or class page on the World Wide Web. All you need to use this utility is your browser and some time.
    • The Webquest Design Process
    • Building Blocks of a Webquest Defines each segment of a webquest with excellent examples.
    • Filamentality Quick and dirty webquest maker. Will also post your webquest on the web.



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