'What we need is people who specialize in the impossible'- Theodore Roosevelt
I think Teddy had teachers in mind when he said that! Managing a classroom is a challenge. Integrating technology and the thinking it encourages presents you, the teacher, with the dilemma of how to manage it all.
The sites listed below will help you to run your classroom smoothly and show you and your students how to have fun while learning too!
Please Bookmark this page and return often to find exciting new sites. Feel free to e-mail me (see bottom of page) with comments, questions, and suggestions.
Teacher Resources
Nassau BOCES-NYIT-NYS Teacher Centers
- was selected as a winner of the New York State Virtual Learning Space (NYSVLS) Web Content Development Grant. In partnership with our CIT Department, New York Institute of Technology and Teacher Centers, and with a Statewide collaborative effort of all grant winners, this webpage contains links to online professional development,Marco Polo database of 2500 lessons aligned to the NYS Standards,and online self-paced course modules on assessment and learning.
The Study Zone-Oswego City School District
- The goal of this nonprofit site is to help high school students meet the New York State Regents requirements in English, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies. This project is supported by a federally-funded Title III Technology Literacy Challenge Grant.
Cattaraugus-Allegany BOCES:"School Tools”
- Curriculum development and learning management tools and resources for educators, administrators, students and parents via both the internet and handheld devices
Accelerate U-Data Mentor
- a web based tool that allows teachers to analyze individual district assessment data, then offers a wide variety of educational resources to support instruction, decision making and planning.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
- Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.
Rubric Construction Set and Citation Machine
- An easy to use tool to create rubrics for all you classroom projects, also have your students use the citation machine for all of their research projects.
Ad Access
- The Ad*Access Project, funded by the Duke Endowment "Library 2000" Fund, presents images
and database information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.
Creating Web-based Lessons
-This page is designed to model how productivity tools and Internet-based research can fit into the information problem-solving process
- lesson plans and links for the six levels of internet use in the classroom
EvaluTech
- a searchable database that contains more than 5000 reviews of instructional materials recommended for classroom use in kindergarten through grade 12
Educational Technology Resources
- Links, links, links and more links to great resources for teachers who want to infuse their curriculum with technology.
Exworthy Educational Resources
- A very comprehensive education website. If you can't find what your looking for on this site, it's not out there!
MiKids.com
- excellent site full of activities, lesson plans, links and more for the K-6 crowd
wNetSchool
- wNetSchool is where you go to find outstanding lessons for core curriculum topics, specific strategies for using technology in the classroom, and the rich resources of Thirteen/WNET, public television's flagship station
AfriCam
- Hang out by a water hole in Africa's Djuma game reserve.
Measure for Measure
- this site can link you to the best calculator for ANY job--from determining the worth of precious metals to tabulating bowling scores to converting volume measurements from friendly quarts and gallons to those sinister liters (and six other common units of volume measurement).
Digital Cameras in Education
- Digital cameras are one of the single most successful Information and
Communications Technology purchases you can make in a school.
Promote visual literacy - encourage students to use digital cameras!
KinderKorner-one of the bes sites for primary teachers, just keep scrolling down, it's jam-packed with activities, thematic units, resources, checklists, etc. etc. etc.
Ivy's Educational Sites for Children
- Here are links to site for kids with educational value. Don't worry, they're also fun or we wouldn't put them here.
A World of Kindergartens
- Early childhood teachers from around the world have joined together to provide curriculum support to each other and anyone who needs ideas.
Multicultural Issues
- articles providing insight into a number of different definitions, goals, assumptions and principles of multicultural education as described by various people in the field
Multiculural Pavilionresources for educators to explore and discuss multicultural education
Language and Education
- Internet resources relating to aspects of language, culture, and education.
The Human Languages Page
- more than 1800 links for online language lessons, translating dictionaries, native literature, translation services, software, etc.
Visual Push-ups
-Like athletes, artists develop their "visual muscles" by continuous practice and use. They practice by looking at things closely, drawing them, and recording them in their minds' eye. Here are some "push-ups" you can do in your classroom or home to exercise your "visual muscle." Each one can be done again and again for practice.
Art Attack!
-really fun ideas for art projects arranged in catagories such as:"Wrong Colour Pictures": A great Art Attack for those felt-tip and crayon sets which have lots of colours missing.
- a series of teacher created websites on artists, perfect for student background knowledge and a wonderful resource for project based learning
The Lourve
- stroll through one of the world's greatest art galleries
Educational Web Adventures
- immersive, interactive, and in-depth adventures about art, science and history
Web Gallery of Art
- The Web Gallery of Art is a virtual museum and searchable database of European painting and sculpture of the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods (1200-1700)
Ancient Art
- the Detroit Institute of Arts ancient art page
The Concept and Teaching of Place-Value
- Author Richard Garlikov examines the difficulties many
students experience in learning and comprehending the concept of place value
Illuminations
- here you will find lesson plans, internet resources & interactive math investigations designed to improve the teaching and learning of mathematics
Illusion Works
-excellent source of science activities for the classroom
BioEd Online from Baylor College of Medicine
- BioEd Online was produced by Baylor's Center for Educational Outreach, and provides middle and high school science teachers with a wide array of free
instructional resources, such as slide sets, streaming video presentations, and laboratory activities.
A Celebration of Women Writers
- The Celebration of Women Writers recognizes the contributions of women writers throughout history.
the ABC's of the Writing Process
- The purpose of this site is to provide a user friendly online resource,for students or teachers, no matter what they are being challenged to write
Book Adventure
- Book Adventure is a FREE, reading incentive program dedicated to encouraging kids in grades K-8 to read
World Wide School
- Find the full text of many author's works including Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Shakespeare and many more.
Early Elementary Library
- offers children, young and old, interactive reading activities based upon familiar themes
Book Reviews by Students
-Best clicks are the links to authors' own Web sites, which you'll find under Meet the Author
BookHive
- Book reviews for kids up to age twelve are written by librarians and categorized into twenty topics including African-American, Beginning Chapter Books, Classics, Fantasy, Historical and Scary Fiction
The Gutenberg Project
- You will find the FULL TEXT of classic books from the start of this century and previous centuries, from authors like Shakespeare, Poe, Dante, as well as well-loved favorites like the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the Tarzan and Mars books of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Alice's adventures in Wonderland as told by Lewis Carroll, and thousands of others
Time for Kids
- current events articles for kids, lessons and activties for teachers
Inkspot.com
- an award-winning resource and community for writers of all ages and levels of experience.
Scriptito's Place
- Creative Writing Resource Center for Elementary Students
The Definitive Laura Ingalls Wilder Pages
- This is the original home page devoted to Laura Ingalls Wilder and her nine Little House books, and is the most comprehensive.
Frodo's Notebook
- links to sites for young writers and a place for them to publish their work, too
The Write Site
- An interactive language arts and journalism project for middle schools
Best of History Sites
- Best of History Web Sites features links to K-12 history lesson plans, teacher guides, activities, games, quizzes, and more throughout its pages!!
Southern Poverty Law Center
- teaching tolerance is national education project dedicated to helping teachers foster equity, respect and understanding in the classroom & beyond
Primary Source Materials
- primary source materials...such as George Washington's letters, Walt Whitman's
journals, historic documents like the Gettysburg address, civil war maps and photographs and much, much more!!
Timelines
-Browse the Past and some Futures... a collection of Timelines on the Web
Cleveland Museum of Art
-Using posterboard and a template available to download
at this site, students can create their own medieval armor for your Middle Ages Faire
Kindercasles
- from fairy tales to castles, literature to songs,poetry, and recipes, this site offers a good deal
of resources for creating a castle, fairy tale, or Middle Ages unit
The Food Timeline
-Who invented the potato chip...and why? What is the history of salad? Food is the fun part of social studies! Find historical recipes you can make in a modern kitchen, with ingredients bought at your local supermarket.
The History Place
- dedicated to students, educators and all who love history
Social Studies K-12
- a comprehensive site covering all aspects of the Social Studies
The United States Congress Official WebSite
- this site is named Thomas in honor of Thomas Jefferson, find out what's happening daily on the floor of Senate and the House of Representatives
3-D Atlas
- 3D Atlas Online, your ultimate geographic resource!
National Geographic's Map Machine
- lets you create and save your own customized maps. A few examples of your mapping choices include Degree of Ecosystem Threats, Annual Precipitation, Recent Earthquakes or Mineral Resources.
The Technology Source
- a peer-reviewed bimonthly periodical, is to provide thoughtful,illuminating articles that will assist educatorsas they face the challenge of integrating information technology tools into teaching and into managing educational organizations.
FedWorld.com
-a complete listing of government Web sites, documents & links available on the Internet
Tutorials on Multimedia Authoring Tools
- tutorials on PowerPoint, Hyperstudio, link to ClarisHomePage tutorial site, Adobe Photoshop, use a scanner, burn a CD
Filamentality
- Create a text-based web page, it's easy and fun.
Inflation Calculator
- go here to find out what a dollar from the 1800's would be worth today.
Angelfire
- Create a graphic-based webpage, not as easy as Filamentality but it looks great!
Hotmail
- Open a free e-mail account, (you will need an e-mail address to create a web page).
PaperFolding.com
- Tired of making the same old cranes? Then it's time to travel to Paperfolding.com for detailed intructions to make wonderful origami creations.
Puzzlemaker
Create your own puzzles to share with students. Mazes in all shapes and sizes, word searches of varying complexity, number blocks and math
squares are among the choices
Brainbashers
- puzzles to tease your brain and stimulate thinking
Grey Labyrinth
- The Grey Labyrinth is a playground of mental calisthenics for curious minds
Discovery Channel WebCam Page
- check out Times Square in New York, the Panama Canal, Big Ben in London & many more!
Library of Congress
- Search their huge database to find primary sources such as diaries, recordings, photographs, and more.
6 Billion Human Beings
- Watch the population grow on a continually updating clock; find out how many people who were born the same year you were born are still alive and much more.
The Official WebQuest Page
-The WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web.
Can You Hear Me Now?
- at last, a WebQuest based on using Algebra in real life (recommended by Bernie Dodge, "Inventor of the WebQuest")
The Realm of Fairy Tales
- Fairy tales contain elements of magic, wonder, and enchantment that enhance their appeal and contribute to their continuing popularity.
Council for Exceptional Children
- provides information on special education issues, legislation,
scholarships and awards for students with special needs, and CEC services
Curry School of Education, University of Virginia
- contains information about special education, including the history of the field and types of disabilities. It also offers discussion groups, electronic addresses of special
educators, and much more
