Websites for Teachers
Some tips for keeping your websites organized and useful:
Don't expect to remember that perfect website or Internet activity for a unit. Print out the webpage and put it with your unit plans. The specific web address for that activity will print on either the top or bottom of the page.
Organize your website bookmarks by unit or use a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us to keep them organized.
Sign up for those monthly e-newsletters on the sites you really like if for no other reason than to get a reminder to go visit the site and see what is new.
Related Links
WatchKnow
A directory of some of the best educational videos on the Web and features more than 10,000 videos across 2,000 categories. It is designed to be safe and useful for students ages 3-18.
Kids Click
This is a website of searched organized by topic done by librarians for kids. It is well organized, easy to navigate and comprehensive. fun pages on this site include the special search engines in the grey box on the top of the page. You can search images or sounds. the search engine pages pulls up different ways to do searches and includes a search feature of lesson databases for teachers. Each description of the website has estimated reading levels and an indication of how many illustrations are in the site.
Graphic Organizers
Clean, simple graphic organizers
http://books.heinemann.com/comprehending/graphicOrganizers.html
Awesome Library
* This site provides over 35,000 lesson plans and links to resources for all subject areas. The plans and resources have been carefully selected and represent the best in each field.
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/
Eduscapes
A useful website for ways to use technology in the classroom.
Thinkfinity (formally Marco Polo)
Resources and lessons plans tied to NYS standards for all areas.
http://www.nyiteez.org/MarcoPoloNY/
Easy test maker
It does what it says and makes all kinds of quizzes and tests.
http://easytestmaker.com/default.aspx
Spelling City
Log-ins are free and allow you to save your spelling lists. Students can log-in by your last name, see their spelling list, practice their words, and the site makes games off each list for practice.
Caesar Rodney's Elementary Site
This comprehensive site includes DIBEL activities and activities for all elementary grades and subject areas. It is nicely organized.
http://www.teachers.cr.k12.de.us/~galgano/elemkids.htm
Kathy Schrock's Site
Individual subject areas are easily searched. The links under "teacher helpers" provides information related to instructional technology. The main page also links to several search engines. Make sure you sign up for the new website that is emailed weekly.
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/index.html
Classroom 2.0
Web 2.0 features collaborative sites such as twitter, del.icio.us, a link to Kathy Schrock's Second Life community. This is a comprehensive site on cutting edge Internet technology.
Pics 4 Learning
Free and copyright free pictures for educational use. Well-organized and each picture provides a bibliographic reference. The unfiltered alternative to Google images.
Go Animate
A free site that allows anyone to make short animated features. How about having your students make an animated report instead of a book report? They could animate a key battle of a war, scientific processes, etc... Easy to use but for middle and high school grades. You can watch other animation shorts and a few of them are rather colorful. Have a classroom discussion about what is appropriate and what is not acceptable first.
Slide Share
Great resource for Power Point presentations
Noodle tools
A site dedicated to students and teachers and the on-line research process. Provides support for searching, evaluating the quality of the results, using the internet ethically to do research, etc...
Children's Library
An International Children's Digital Library. A fascinating website that allows you to read children's books in a variety of languages or read the English version of books published in other countries.
http://www.childrenslibrary.org
Center on Instruction
Information on Research Based Instruction for all subject areas.