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Resources for Teachers
A to Z Teacher Stuff- Thematic Units Index
http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/
A to Z Teacher Stuff is teacher-created, and
designed to help teachers find online resources more quickly and easily. We
offer lesson plans, thematic units, teacher tips, teacher discussion forums,
downloadable teaching materials, printable pages, themes, and more.
http://www.teachers.net/lessons/
The Teachers.Net Lesson Bank is your opportunity to
share your most precious asset - your teaching ideas and lesson plans! Now your
genius and creativity can be used to touch lives around the world, and to help
teachers reach students in ways they had never imagined before! Lesson
plans here will spark plenty of new ideas. You'll be amazed at how much has
been squeezed onto the page.
Columbia Education Center's Mini Lessons
http://yn.la.ca.us/cec/cec.html
This group of lesson plans came from the
http://www.teacher.com/
Includes a Teacher Sites (Reviewed ). This list
of useful links for teachers has been collected by the Teacher Information
Network.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/
Zoom School is an on-line elementary school classroom with lessons in
geography, biology, language arts, and early childhood activities.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/
Scholastic.com is an award-winning portal for school-based professionals
including teachers, administrators, librarians, families and kids. Featuring
rich content, community and live events, productivity and communication tools,
and e-commerce, Scholastic.com helps teachers integrate technology into the
classroom and supports the way today's students learn. It also provides a
unique link between the home and the classroom to enable parents to supplement
their child's education at home.
http://www.eagle.ca/~matink/
This site has a wide variety of information and materials for teachers, including
resources on technology, kids, themes, projects, and lesson plans. The
teachers' and technology resource links are especially worth exploring. Carolyn
Bierworth has spent a lot of time creating and
maintaining this site.
Piggybacks for Teachers by Jan Brett
http://www.janbrett.com/piggybacks.htm
The web projects are ongoing adventures. The goal is to provide educational information that can enhance and enrich any elementary school curriculum. Each project begins with a Jan Brett book in hand. Books included in the web projects are connected to five subject or curricular areas. lessons, links and activities related to a book are located under the subject areas. The web projects are intended for use by elementary students, teachers and librarians. The lessons, links and activities can be adapted to fit the backgrounds and experiences of individual children or an entire class.
http://www.kidlink.org/
Global, non-commercial, virtual, user-owned organization
based in Norway. Focus:
Empower kids and youth with free educational programs to help them mature, get better control over their lives, encourage creativity, create social networks, and collaborate with peers around the world, individually or through their classrooms. Since the start in 1990, children from 162 countries have participated.
Funbrain.com
This site for kids of all ages has learning games of
all sorts from math to language. It also offers teachers quizzes for students
that will be automatically graded and returned by e-mail. You can even share a
quiz you've made.
thunk.com
To provide kids with unique web-based entertainment that is fun, educational
and safe.
Includes:
·
The American Heritage® Dictionary
of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights
reserved.
· Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
· WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University
· The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2001 Denis Howe
· Jargon File 4.2.0
· CIA World Factbook (1995)
· Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
· Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
· U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau
Your Dictionary.com
yourDictionary.com is a language products and services company that maintains
the most comprehensive and authoritative language portal on the web with more
than 2500 dictionaries and grammars in over
300 languages, games that build
language skills, and a forum (The Agora)
for discussing language issues with the logophile
community.
http://www.onelook.com/
Think of this web site as a search engine for words and phrases: If you have a
word for which you'd like a definition or translation, we'll quickly shuttle
you to the web-based dictionaries that define or translate that word. If you
don't know how to spell the word, we'll help you do that too. No word is too
obscure: More than 5 million words in more than 900 online dictionaries are
indexed by the OneLook® search engine.
Whatis?com
whatis.com® is a knowledge exploration and
self-education tool about information technology, especially about the Internet
and computers. It contains over 4,500 individual encyclopedic
definition/topics, a number of "Fast Reference" pages and learning
tools. The topics contain about 12,000 hyperlinked cross-references between
definition-topics and to other sites for further information. The site is
constantly updated.
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm
Information about the word's pronunciation, function, etymology (origin), and meaning. If you spell the search word incorrectly, M-W will even pop up a list of alternate spellings.
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
http://www.bartleby.com/61/
Over 90,000 entries feature 10,000 new words and senses, 70,000 audio word pronunciations, 900 full-page color illustrations, language notes and word-root appendixes.
On this site you will
find articles and images on nearly every aspect of
Encyclopedia.com, the Internet's premiere free encyclopedia, provides users with more than 57,000 frequently updated articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Each article is enhanced with links to newspaper and magazine articles as well as pictures and maps - all provided by eLibrary.
http://encarta.msn.com/
Encyclopedia Articles: Search more than 4,500 articles on the world of knowledge--from aardvark to Zambia. Sidebars: Historic documents, famous speeches, literary excerpts, and more. Literature Guides: Perspectives on authors, characters, and themes of renowned works of literature. Archives: Year-by-year wrap-up of important events from 1938 to 1999. Homework Starters: Get going on papers, presentations, and more with step-by-step guides.
http://www.britannica.com/
Search three encyclopedias, images, magazines, websites, and Merriam-Webster's dictionary and thesaurus. Browse Britannica's student encyclopedia by subject, including history, technology, religion, science, and others.
www.libraryspot.com
A free virtual library resource center for educators and students, librarians and their patrons, families, businesses and just about anyone exploring the Web for valuable research information.
Internet Public Library of IPL
www.ipl.org
The first public library of and for the Internet community. Check out the KidSpace link.
www.howstuffworks.com
The Web site is an award-winning online destination for anyone who wants to know how anything works.
www.gutenberg.org
Project Gutenberg is the oldest producer of free electronic books (eBooks or etexts) on the Internet. Our collection of more than 12.000 eBooks was produced by hundreds of volunteers. Most of the Project Gutenberg eBooks are older literary works that are in the public domain in the United States. All may be freely downloaded and read, and redistributed for non-commercial use