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Web Awareness Day is an
internationally recognized public education program designed to provide
parents and other adults with resources to help young people be safe,
well-informed and ethical when they go online. This site provides
information on safe and responsible web usage, helpful sites for kids as
well as protecting kids from online predators. |
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Teachers Planet is a community for teachers who are interested in
growing their careers. :-) The site is well organized and contains
subject-specific professional guides and comprehensive resources for the
classroom. |
| Interested in using a Palm Pilot?
Pennsylvania teacher, Gary Ankney, wrote in about his site,
EduPalm: "In EduPalm I'm
working on providing basic resources for the new Palm-type PDA user (with a
focus on education). I maintain a features table of ALL standard Palm
handhelds, advice on choosing a PDA, selective annotated links and original
articles. I think your members will find EduPalm useful." Also
provides several links to other sites that provide information on using Palm
Pilots. |
| An interesting article on
teacher salaries,
job descriptions, and qualifications. |
| Take a look at 10 cool things kids are doing
with technology on
CNN. |
| Interesting
Teacher Salary
Information Site |
Check out the Teacher List Top Ten Sites for
2002-2003:
 | Ellen's Place - contains
art, photography, biographies, history, travel, and more |
| Fun Brain - This site claims
to be the Internet's #1 site for K-8 teachers and students. It is a
site worth checking out! |
| Handwriting
for Kids has lessons featured on their own page, and kids are shown in
simple steps how to write the numbers, letters, and sentences. Kids can
trace uppercase and lowercase letters, and even blank sheets are provided
for kids to practice more before their next lessons! |
| Insectclopedia
contains numerous links dealing with insects. |
| The Internet Archive
is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural
artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to
researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public. |
| Kathy Schrock's
site is one of the best available to educators. Definitely too much
to list here! |
| KidsKonnect has kid's
homework and educational help.....created and maintained by
educators.....a safe gateway to the Internet for kids. |
| Paper Models of Polyhedra
offers over 80 paper models of polyhedra available for free. |
| Switcheroo Zoo allows you to
change the body parts of animals to make your own animal! |
| Discipline Help
is an awesome site that offers a great listing of tips in handling all
kinds of students. |
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All Kinds of Minds
provides programs, tools, and a common language for parents, educators, and
clinicians to help students with differences in learning achieve success in
the classroom and in life. |
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Teacher Universe is an e-learning company dedicated to elevating the
status of teachers through individualized
professional
development -- accessible anytime, anywhere. |
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Power
Point Projects and Resources offers tutorials, downloads, sound files
for presentations and much more. This site could make life easier for
teachers! |
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The University of Victoria offers free online services for teachers.
You have to register to download the software, but it's free. The Hot
Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive
multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword,
matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. |
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The Best on the Web
for Teachers offers an excellent listing of websites geared towards
teachers. |
| Find the
Top 100 Educational Sites and put them to good use! |
| Teaching Treasures
contains online interactive activities, projects, worksheets, and much more. |
| This is a highly important site.
The State Department of
Education contains Gateway Proficiencies, Gateway Testing Initiative,
Curriculum Frameworks, and more. Click on "For Education" to find this
information. |
| Kids Domain is a beautiful site
that has games, sports, graphics, and activities for holidays. |
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Tech LEARNING offers a "site of the day" with a detailed description of
the site. Visit this site DAILY! |
| AOL@School
contains numerous resources for teachers and students as well. Each
level of learning contains a theme of the week. |
| More than any generation before them, the
children and youth of today are growing up in a world shaped by global
developments. To be informed, students need to learn more about what is
going on, not only within their own country, but also on the international
stage. You can find more information at
G8 Summit Site. |
| Not so sure about these "webquests"?
Tech Web offers some excellent tips on using them. |
| Check out
Verizon Wireless's website for information on grants. |
| Although parts of this site are still under
construction, you will still find a lot of activities and information on
children's books at The
Scoop. |
| Need an idea for an activity to do with your
students? Visit Family Fun
and that's just what you will find. |
| You can find 700+ great sites for "kids and
the adults who care about them" at
American
Library Association. This site would be a great resource to send
home to parents. |
| Virtual
Museum of Canada of Canada offers a teacher center. You will want
to check it out and make use of its valuable resources. |
| Check out TEACH Magazine
online. |
| The Canadian
Protection Portal has resources for teachers and students relating to
safe use of the Internet. Read about case studies and
projects being run by groups like Media Awareness Network, Friends of
Simon Wiesenthal Centre, LiveWire's design team and Industry Canada's
Brian Tobin. |
| Post notes, homework, and other information
for your students and parents at
School Notes. |
| April is National Zoo Month.
Marco Polo has some
excellent ideas for your use. |
| Wow! How can you list all of the great
links that can be found at Homework
Spot? It's impossible! |
| Check out
Can
Teach for great links! |
| Need help with your classroom management?
It can be found at The Honor Level
System. |
| Adobe offers
PhotoShop Elements project-based tutorials. Check out their web
site for more information. |
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ED's Oasis offers a wealth of resources in a variety of area. |
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San Diego
County Office of Education offers a nice listing of K-12 Resources. |
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The Classroom
Flyer offers daily email on this day in history, integrating technology,
comments from teacher-to-teacher, and much, much more. |
| K-12 World is a
collection of quality links to educational sites and resources. |
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Classroom
Connect lists the five best sites the Web has to offer along with lesson
plans to go with those sites. |
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Kathy Schrock has
designed an awesome website that you will use daily when you become familiar
with it. Bookmark it - it's worth it! Here are a few things you
can do at her site:
Be sure to check out her links that are divided by subject area. |
| Netscape
and Yahoo offer calendars and "to
do" lists that are capable of displaying your schedule to yourself or others
on the Web. |
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SearchEdu contains resources in several areas of education. |
| Visit
National PTA for their news and new ideas concerning parent involvement. |
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IBM has educational
sites for grades K-12. |
| You will enjoy the educational resources
you find at Turner Broadcasting. |
| Use
USA Today to teach in your classroom. Resources pertaining to
daily news. |
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New York Times Learning
offers daily lesson plans that correlate with the news. |
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CNN brings current events to
the classroom. |
| The
ERIC Calendar of Education-Related Conferences will keep you up-to-date
on international, national, regional, and state conferences that are coming
up. |
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Newsweek publishes a special online edition that is designed to help
teachers build bridges to real-world issues. |
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Find out about new
guidelines for Special Education in Tennessee. |
| Special Education Links:
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| Gifted Education Links:
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| Help your students' parents take an
active role in their education by visiting
Family Education. |
| FREE Stuff!!
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| Find out how to search the Internet like
a pro by visiting
Microsoft's bCentral. |
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The Teacher List is an awesome site that will send a daily email with
some awesome teacher-tested and approved sites. |
| The
Faculty Shack is a web magazine that combines irreverent humor with
thoughtful insight into the world of education. |
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Custom Guide offers
an awesome listing of training materials for teacher and students that are
downloadable in PDF format. |
| SEN Teacher Resources
provides excellent downloads, links, documents, and resources that target
the special education class. Downloads are mainly .zip files that are
freeware. |
| Kid
Info is an excellent resource for all subject areas. When you
visit this site, you will want to add it to your list of favorites! |
| Great holiday sites:
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| You will be amazed at what 14-year old
B.J. Pinchbeck has to offer at his homework site. Links for each
subject area as well as for students and parents. |
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What's on the Web? is a sorting strand of the Web for educators.
Visit it to learn more about what the Internet has to offer educators. |
| Free online jigsaw puzzles are available at
Jig Zone. |
| ABC Teach
provides a wealth of resources ranging from theme units to games to the
simple basics. |
| Houghton Mifflin's
K-8 Education Place has numerous
resources for parents, teachers, and students. |
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Big Chalk offers lesson plans, contests, resources, study skills, plus
much more.....check it out! |
| Awesome Library
organizes the Web with 19,000 carefully reviewed resources. |
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Teacher Focus site is a great
discussion forum where teachers of all backgrounds can get together, ask
questions, share ideas, and discuss methodology. It should really help
new teachers who are just starting out and prove to be a great resource for
who have been in the profession for a long time
also. |
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Education World has more then
115,000 site links. Contains original content, articles, weekly
mailings, and more. |
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In the Staffroom is TimePlan's
teacher recruitment's resource centre, full of ideas and information for
teachers. |
| You will find thousands of links for just
about anything you could dream of at
Can Teach. |
| Find information on getting a grant for a
Smart Board and projector at
SMART Technologies. |
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