New Teacher Survival Kit

New Teacher's Start Up Aids

This year, I was a mentor to several new teachers in our school district. These new teachers often didn't know where to start looking for ideas for resources that would support the lessons they had to teach. As I worked with them, I discovered many valuable resources on the internet that would make their job easier.
I discovered wonderful lesson plans, rubrics and bulletin board ideas sent in by experienced teachers that can be used to guide a new teacher during the challenging first few years of teaching.
Teachers become better teachers because of master teachers who have shared their knowledge from their own teaching experiences. The collection of sites on this page contains just a sampling of ideas shared by these teachers and other professionals who were willing to share their ideas.

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This site is under construction. I am currently trying to include a short description of the sites to make your search more effective. Please check back regularly to see what's new and email me with problems and additions that other teachers might find useful.

Beginning of the year help	Search Engines	Lesson Plans
Bulletin Board Ideas	Student Sites	Projects
Internet and more	Rubrics and Assessment	For the Love of Reading
Write On!	Math Links	Just for Alaska Teachers

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Beginning of the year help

Ice Breakers from Education World
Volumes of excellent ideas to use at the beginning of the year or to introduce new groups of students to each other.
Beginning of the year bulletin board ideas
Wonderful collection to choose from - taken from teachers.net mailring teachers.

Rubrics and Assessment sites:

Rubistar from 4teachers.org
One of my favorite sites for rubrics. Lots and lots of ideas that you can customize to use for all your lessons.
Kathy Schrock's Guide
Kathy Schrock's guide gives more resources than you would ever need. Search the wide array of links she lists on her page.
Teach-n-ology
This rubric generator allows you to add a clip art to your rubric. Good selection of templates.
Project based checklist
The ideal templates for your rubric if you are planning a project based activity.
Sample rubrics from WebQuest projects
Planning to put together a WebQuest project? Check this link out.
Teachervision.com - creating rubrics
Those who are new to the arena should check out this site before creating a rubric. Helpful articles and examples.
Creating Rubrics to Promote Thinking and Learning
Another helpful article for those who are new to rubrics.
Rubrics from UNI Professional Development
Geared more for middle school but these samples can provide ideas for intermediate teachers as well. Many are in Word and pdf formats.

Search Engines

Google
AltaVista
All the Web
Ask Jeeves
HotBot
LookSmart

KartOO this is a map based meta search engine that uses Flash Player

Lesson Plans

DiscoverySchool.com
A comprehensive collection of lesson plans written by teachers from DiscoverySchool.com. You can browse by subject and/or grade.
Lesson Plans Page
Over 2000 lesson plans for grades PreK to 12. The brief description of the lesson in the menu makes it simple to use.
National Geographic - experiments and activities
A variety of activities for young and old. The Xpeditions section is excellent for social studies lessons. Options given for younger and older students.
SeaWorld lessons
Theses lessons that were developed at Sea World and Busch Gardens show how people interact with the environment and how we can best care for Earth's resources. Lessons are mini booklets and can be downloaded in pdf format.
Teachers Helping Teachers Page
Wonderful collection of ideas sent in by teachers for all grades.
Starchild Project
Almost anything you'd want to know about astronomy will be found on this page. It's a service of High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center at NASA/ GSFC. The glossary section is especially helpful.Lessonplanz.com
Many links to lesson plans created by teachers from around the world.
Teams Distance Learning site
An extensive collection of sites you can visit to look for K12 lessons.
Webenglishteacher.com
A wide array of literature lessons especially for intermediate teachers. The grammar, mechanics and usage section is especially useful.
School Express site with downloadable worksheets
Over 6000 free downloadable worksheets and a few free thematic units.
Edhelper link with lots of units
A collection of lesson plans and worksheets from teachers who have submitted them to Edhelper.com.
Lessons from abcteach.com
A wide range of teacher aids including flashcards, units, puzzles and more.
Puzzlemakers from Discoveryschool.com
Create custom crossword, word search and math puzzles.

Internet tutorials
Research tools from Techlearning.com
University of Albany site
Tech Corp tutorials
PBS internet information and tutorials

Clip art online
Clipart gallery from school.discovery.com Good list to choose from
http://www.theteachersguide.com/Freebies.html
Free educational clipart
Web-clipart.com
http://www.clip-art-gallery.com/
large collection of free clipart
Clipart from Teachernet
A small collection of clipart for education

Free internet web page site
Angelfire.com

Write On!

Geocities Page
Link to information on how to write a 5 paragraph essay from ICRA
Six Traits of Writing Link
Six traits of writing for beginners from the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory
Guide to grammar and rules of writing
Site by Jack Lynch who has a guide to grammar and style. Samples and definitions are helpful.
Link to ideas and resources for writing
Site sponsored by the International Reading Association that covers lessons and resources for reading and writing
Commnet link -guide to grammar and writing
A wealth of information on parts of speech and grammar as well as different types of writing.
ProTeacher.com link
A good resource for lesson ideas from ProTeacher.com
Rhymezone and thesaurus online
A definite aid for those who want to write - search for rhymes, synonyms, antonyms, etc.
Bob Byway's Glossary of Poetic Terms
A guide for the study of poetic language

Math Links

Coolmath4kids link
Fun math games for kids
http://www.col-ed.org/cur/math.html
Math lesson plans for grades K-12
http://www.aaamath.com/
Hundreds of pages of basic math skills and interactive practice.
Fun Math lessons by Cynthia Lanius
Interactive games as well as games teachers can play with the whole class.
http://www.webmath.com/
Lots of interactive math activities for elementary to high school level.
http://www.mathgoodies.com/
Mrs. Glosser's math goodies site has lessons for intermediate through high school. Many have exercises that are interactive.
http://www.aplusmath.com/
Aplusmath.com has interactive flashcards, math puzzles and worksheets.

Sites of interest for Alaska teachers

Content standards for Alaska students
Alaska standards in pdf format
Anchorage School District Page

New Teacher's Start Up Aids

Beginning of the year help

Rubrics and Assessment sites:

Search Engines

Bulletin Board Ideas

Fun Sites for Kids

For the Love of Reading

Projects

Internet and more

Write On!

Math Links

Sites of interest for Alaska teachers