Educational
Resources 
This month’s Digital Dozen by Eisenhower National
Clearinghouse
A
Teacher’s Guide to Plagiarism
The Annenberg/CPB Web site - Visitors with broadband
access can click on the "View Channel Live" link on the Channel page:
and watch a continuous
stream of Channel programming. Windows Media Player and broadband access
are required.
Ask Eric – “This collection contains more than 1100
unique lesson plans which have been written and submitted to by teachers from
all over the United States.
Baltimore
County Schools - Has put together a nice list of teachers resources and
K-12 grade level Web sites.
Beginning Teacher’s Toolbox –
resource for beginner or veteran teachers.
Best Practices of Technology
Integration - Many neat lessons
involving technology sorted by level and subject area.
Beyond Books – Unit on Working with the
Web - Use as a resource for yourself or your students. We have a subscription to this
resource. Get teacher username and
password from J. Callahan, Middle Division.
BigChalk – “Provides a broad spectrum of educational
Internet services to teachers, students, parents, librarians and school
administrators in the K-12 educational and public library markets.”
Brenda and
Robins’s Tech Tips (MicroSoft)
Busy Teacher’s Website K-12
– A good collection of technology links.
Cool Math Sites
– From elementary to high school listings help integrate computers and math.
Copyright with CyberBee
– Great way to teach students about copyright rules.
Discovery
School Teacher Tools – Puzzle maker, quiz center etc.
DiscoverySchool – “Dedicated to making
teaching and learning an exciting, rewarding adventure for students, teachers,
and parents. They provide innovative teaching materials for teachers, useful
and enjoyable resources for students, and smart advice for parents. The site is
constantly reviewed for educational relevance by practicing classroom teachers
in elementary school, middle school, and high school.”
Doucette Index - K-12
Literature Based Teaching Ideas
Early Education
- Get resource for those elementary years.
EdHelper – Lesson plans, worksheets,
WebQuests and lots more!
Education World - "Education
World is an Educator's Complete Resource Guide to the Internet...a place where
teachers can gather and share ideas. It's a search engine for educational Web
sites only, a place where educators can find information without searching the
entire Internet. It's an information source on the Web with news from USA
Today, monthly site reviews and employment listings to keep educators up to
date, lesson plans, articles written by education experts, and information on
how to make the best use of technology in the classroom."
Education
World’s “Best of Education” Site Reviews divided into grade levels and
topic areas.
EduPuppy - Early childhood education for
Preschool to grade 2, includes a newsletter.
EduHound – Everything for K-12
education
Evaluating
Web Resources – Widener University Wolfgram Library
Field Trips – This is just one
of many resources for electronic field trips.
Florida Center for Instructional Technology
– USF provides workshops, publications and a software preview center.
Florida’s Instructional Technology Resource
Center – UCF provides publications, online courses, and other information.
4Teachers - Online site for
teachers integrating technology,
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
– Free resources for a variety of educational topics.
From Now On – an Educational Technology Journal
FunBrain – You can find quizzes made by
other teachers or make some of your own.
Student results are mailed to you.
Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) Easy
search for lesson plans, curriculum units and Internet-based education
resources.
GLEF – George Lucas Educational Foundation –
Great place for education. Visit the
Video Gallery for professional development.
Hot Topics – From Teachers First.
Intel – provides
great resources for teachers including “teaching with technology”, grants,
educational programs, and managing technology.
Internet Pocket Guide for Teachers – in
pdf form
Jeopardy
Games – A variety of topics created by teachers and a blank
one for you.
Kathy Schrock's
Guide for Educators – “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.” Schrock’s “Site
of the Day” archives for 2000-2001
Key
Sites From Blue-Web'n -
Blue Web'n is a
searchable database of outstanding Internet learning sites categorized by
subject area.
Kids, Safety, and Ethics in
the Digital Classroom – Links for copyright, ethics, safety, and Web
evaluation.
Landmarks for School “Provides links to information building
blocks: websites, pages, and interactive tools that provide information in the
form of a raw material…which can be imported into other information processing
tools and used in the meaningful construction of unique and valuable
information products, within the context of social studies, science,
mathematics, and other disciplines.”
Learning Network at
TeacherVision.com
Librarian’s
Guide to CyberSpace for Parents and Kids- from the American Library
Association.
Library of Congress
– America’s Story from America’s Library
Links for Learning
– Web sites for educators recommended by the Computer Learning Foundation.
MarcoPolo “Internet
content for the K-12 teacher and classroom, developed by the nation's content
experts. Online resources include panel-reviewed links to top sites in many
disciplines, professionally developed lesson plans, classroom activities,
materials to help with daily classroom planning, and powerful search engines.” Send for their free
guide.
Math Sites -
Suggested by Kathy Schrock’s Guide for
Educators
Math TV – Online video lessons for
trigonometry
Microsoft –
Teaching and Learning with MS Office – Tutorials, Tricks and Tips, Templates,
Certificates, Clipart Projects and other resources offered by Microsoft.
Museums
– Guide to museum related information including links to museums, virtual
exhibits, and educational activities related to art, science and history.
National Geographic – Educational site with online lessons,
adventures, maps and more.
National Science Teachers
Assoc. – Laptop learning challenge page.
NCES - Education information and
activities for students everywhere, including an on-line graph creation tool to
make and print graphs.
NetFiles – Television show about
integrating technology into the classroom – video online.
NOVA – Educational resources
from NOVA, including a searchable database.
One Computer in a Classroom?
– Site with great ideas and resources for elementary grades.
Pacific Bell’s Knowledge Network – A Northern
California teacher development program offers lessons, WebQuests and more with
the Blue Web’n searchable library of Internet sites for education.
PBS Teacher Source - Lesson plans, activities, and info tied into
their TV programming.
Presenters Online – Great resource
for PowerPoint users—training tips, templates, clipart and more!
Project-Based Learning with Multimedia – San
Matao County Office of Education
Resource List – Lots of topics
here from a Saskatchewan
school district including one teacher’s long bookmark list (many history).
Road Map to the Web for
Educators – The Journal’s suggested list of teacher resources both general
and topic listings.
School Express – Free worksheets and
online activities.
SCORE,
Connecting California's Classrooms to
the World - Includes
math, science, history and language arts with CyberGuides to literature (K-12 and foreign language).
Scout Report – “ Scout Report is one of
the Internet's longest-running weekly publications, offering a selection of new
and newly discovered online resources of interest to researchers, educators
The, and anyone else with an interest in high-quality online material.”
Site Evaluation –
Kathy Schrock supplies several useful forms and articles about Web
evaluation. Students need to evaluate
whether a site is worth using. Who is
the author? From where does the site originate? Is the information current and
correct? Does it apply to my needs? Does it show bias? Etc.
Social Studies Links
– One teacher’s list of helpful links.
Studying about China?
– These links from Pacific Bell Knowledge Network will help
T.H.E. Journal Educator’s Road Map to the Internet – a wonderful list of educational resources and subject specific Web sites.
Tammy’s Technology Tips for
Teachers – Rich with information.
Teacher
Resources – WebQuests, tutorials, Internet projects, scavenger hunts, key pals,
virtual fieldtrips and more.
Teacher Universe – Links to a wealth of information on many
educational topics such as grants, professional development, and teaching
tools.
Teaching and Learning on the Web
– Hundreds (776) of examples of how the web is being used as a medium for
learning.
Teaching with the Web –
Resources divided by grade level.
Teachnet – Smart tools for busy teachers
Technology in
Education - 180
Ideas and Resources for Teachers who want to Integrate Technology.
The One Computer
Classroom - Overview, Planning, Management, Tips & Ideas, Links and
Books on the topic.
The Teacher’s Online Notebook –
“containing links to and descriptions of the best K-12 education resources
available on the Internet.”
TrackStar - Ideas for integration of technology into all grades levels and
all subject areas created by educators.
J. Callahan, MD Tech Coordinator
Berkeley Preparatory School
June 2002