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Educational Technology

Teacher Resources

• Blue Web'n - a library of great learning sites on the web  
• Busy Teachers Website K-12 - great kid-tested sites for busy teachers  
• Discovery Channel Teacher page – create crossword puzzles, pull up lesson plans, find clipart lots of great stuff (Clip art licensed from the Clip Art Gallery on DiscoverySchool.com) 
• Education World This important resource has a wealth of information
  
• Education Place - Houghton Mifflin - Resources for elementary-school
  teachers, students, and parents. Includes Reading/Language Arts, Math, Science,
  and Social Studies Centers, Intervention, Professional Development, searchable
  activity database, educational games, and textbook support. 
• Enchanted Learning - comprehensive educator resource   
• Filamentality This tool guides you through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet links, and turning them into online learning activities.
• Federal Resources for Educational Excellence - hundreds of teaching and learning resources
  supported by the federal government 
• 4 Teachers- A great site with helpful tools and resources, especially for integrating technology into the curriculum
  
• Gateway to Educational Materials - free educational
  resources and lessons that are searchable by topic and grade level   
• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - a nicely organized resource for teachers   
• Lessonplanz.com  This site has lesson plans organized by grade level that are easy to use and easy to follow 
• Marco Polo Resource Center - This site has resources aligned to the California K-12 Standards 
• ProTeacher Very helpful resouce for professionals
• SCORE  Schools of California Online Resources for Education
  
• SRA Online- a link to Open Court Tools
  
• Teacher Vision - variety of educational links and resources 
• Teaching Tolerance- a website devoted to fighting hate, speading tolerance, and celebrating diversity.
  
• WebQuest - This contains a matrix of prepared lessons to develop student technology projects organized by grade level and area of the curriculum 
• WWW Objects Elementary- A well organized indexed site of lesson plans 

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Instructional Sites

• A.Word.A.Day - a vocabulary word and definition each day  
• BellSouth's Education Gateway - links to many internet projects for students  
• Brainpop  filled with standards based short films and quizzes, very entertaining and enriching. Log in: Allesandro2068 Password: 2210 
• Classroom Connect - share ideas and read about how teachers are integrating technology into the curriculum  
• CyberGuide to Internet Literature Resources -arranged by grade level  
• Edhelper – another good site for creating worksheets, planning units, and creating reading comprehension tools 
• Educator’s Reference Desk  -formerly Ask ERIC, the largest data base of lesson plans and activities for teachers on the web. An outstanding resource! 
• EnergyQuest- This awesome science site was create by the California Energy Commission
  
• Eisenhower National Clearinghouse - a central repository for information on math and science education  
• Microsoft in Education - instructional resources for schools 
• Rubrics - create rubrics online  
• The Rudiments of Wisdom - an encyclopedia of cartoons on almost every subject. Higly entertaining and enlightnening. The experiments are especially fun.
  
• Schools of California Online Resources for Education  
• Teachnet - smart tools for busy teachers  
• Teach-Nology – full of helpful easy to use teacher tools 

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Classroom Management

• Fred Jones Tools For Teaching  Fred is the new classroom management guru Check him out.
  
• Harry K. Wong The First Days of School summarized
  
• The Really Big List of Classroom Management Resources  This is just what the title says. You can find a link to juts about any problem here.
• Proteacher Classroom Management
  

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Science

• BBC Science Clips- great interactive lessons, graphics, and quizzes on science standards organized by age 
• Bill Nye the Science Guy^TM - Click "Home Demos" for science projects. 
• EcoKids- wonderful earth and life science resources. 
• Exploratorium go on in and explore
  
• For Kids Only - NASA's Earth Science Enterprise
  
• Hands-on Science Centers Worldwide - links to public museums with an emphasis on interactive science education  
• Keystone Science Network A Central Directory for science resources.
  
• KidSpace @ Internet Public Library - Science Fair Project Resource Guide 
• Physical Science Lesson Links
  
• Life Science Lesson Links 
• Earth Science Lesson Links
  
• National Geographic for Kid's an Interactive site for yournger students
  
• Science Club - Kids' Science Projects
  
• Science Fairs HomePage - from the Eastern Newfoundland Science Fairs Council with a sit for primary projects as well as elementary projects
  
• Score Science - Kid's Corner - Hot links to science activities 
• Spike's Science Projects - More than 400 science projects for teachers and students to browse, download or just read.
  
• Science Master - We are the Internet's science learning web site, for students, parents and teachers. We offer a friendly environment to support public & private school science education and home learning.
• Ms. Black's Science Page
  

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Language Arts

• Web English Teacher  This is an outstanding resource for teachers of Language Arts at every grade level. 
• Starfall  Another exceptional site that features interactive talking storybooks that teach early decoding skills. You can also request free resources.
  
• Reading Games to Print and Play - This site offers the emerging reader printable reading games that are engaging, effective and fun.
  
• The Literacy Web  This site is organized by grade level and offers a great collection of links  
• Imaginary Lands  A very fun and helpful site for English/Language Arts  
• Dave's ESL Cafe' This site has many relevant links for ESL teachers.
• Ms. Black's Language Arts Page
  

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 Special Education

• Special Education Resources on the Internet  One of the best sites for special education resources 
• Special Education Resources from Bowling Green  This site includes links to national organizations, legal resources, educational interventions, and materials for students with particular needs  
• The Council for Exceptional Children  A major professional organization for Special Education Instructors 
• National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities  This site is available in both English and Spanish 
• Read Please a free text reader available for windows users
• TextAloud MP3 a speech reader that converts text from most media types and turns them into MP3's 
• Learning Disabilities Resource Community  This excellent site prmotes learning differences awareness among many other things. 
• The National Center for Learing Diabilities designed to help parents and educators, this is an outstanding site 
• All Kinds of Minds  This is the home page of Dr. Mel Levine
• LDOnline The world's leading website on Learning Disabilities and ADHD
  
• BBB Autism Online - an online community for families who are living with and loving someone with Autism Spectrum Disorder, also known as ASD (or PDD, Pervasive Developmental Disorder).
• Ariel's Autism Support Page - Created by the mother of Ariel, a child diagnosed with Autism. The site was created to tell others about theer fascitnating story and educate about this very complex disorder. Provides good information on Autism.
• AspergerGifted - Share the story of this parent's experience
• Conduct Disorders.com - A parent support sitecreated by a group of parents who are raising challenging children. Their kids have many different diagnoses but all of them are oppositional and resistant to parenting.
• Ms. Black's Special Needs Page
  

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Social Studies

• American Memory This is the U.S. Library of Congress website providing primary source documents for reading, writing, and critical thinking.
• History Matters  Yes it does 
• Historical Speeches  This is brought to you by the History Channel  
• Academy of Achievement This is an outstanding online museum with achievers from all areas of society
• American Cultural History facts and photos of all areas of culture.
• Historical Voices audio and text files of historical speeches and more. Warning, this site takes awhile to load.
• My Hero read stories and biographies of famous heroes. You can also submit your own stories.
• National Geographic Society Homepage
• The Smithsonian Homepage Known as the nation's treasure house for learning.
• Ms. Black's Social Studies Page
  

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Math Lessons and Resources

• Project Interactive for Elementary Math Topics  unbelieveable interactive math lessons and practice, a must view
  
• Fractals  this site has cool lessons on fractals
• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
• Math Olympiads for Elementary and Middle Schools, this has many sample problems available to everyone
• California Mathematics Council
• Webmath - instant solutions to math problems 
• Math Forum - an essential site for all math teachers 
  
• A great place for teaching time
• Ms. Black's Math Page
  

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Last Revised: 04/22/07
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