Resources For Teachers
Ideas and Lesson Plans
Sites
On-line Tools
Misc.

Ideas and Lesson Plans
a to z Teacher Stuff - designed to help teachers find online lesson plans and resources more quickly and easily.

Blue Web'N - A library of Blue Ribbon learning sites on the web.

Edunet Educator's Resource Center - The Educator's Resource Center is a place where educators can quickly and easily find lessons, activities, and programs to facilitate the teaching of environmental issues, human rights, and connect K-12 education with social action for a variety of interest areas.

Education-World.com - a searchable database of over 100,000 education links for teachers, parents, and students.

Eduscapes -resources and strategies for linking the Net to learning" for K--12 grade levels and professional (development) area. A great starting point for any teacher beginning their unit and lesson planning is the 42explore link on this website.

Elementary theme pages

The Idea Box - Early Childhood Education and activity resources.

Learningpage.com - A huge collection of professionally produced instructional material for you to download and print. Membership is free.

Lesson Locator - Standardized lesson plans for Indiana Teachers

PBS Teacher Source- Teaching resources and tips to help make curricular connections with PBS programming.

Scholastic - Lots of teacher ideas and lesson plans, kids and parents sections, book clubs.

Schoolhouse - By Encarta; current topic, ask an expert, learning activities, teachers' lounge, lesson collections, and upcoming lessons.

Tammy's Tidbits - an excellent resource. Look for the "especially for educators" section. This contains "bumper stickers" - desk name tags.

Teachers.net - Those teaching or looking into the 4-Block Literacy model will want to look at this site.

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Sites

Classroom Connect - A premier site for K -12 teachers and students; best K -12 links, latest on-line info, thousands of schools on-line, resource center, and teacher contact database. Now a subscription based site.

Internet Public Library's Kid Space - POTUS (President of the US), culture quest, science fair, and say hello in multiple languages including Braille and sign, plus more

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - A premiere site for educators!!!

LessonPlanz.com

Lesson Plans and Teaching Strategies - A plethora of links, listed in alphabetical order; geography, technology, library, social studies, environment,United Nations, Holocaust, and more.

PIZZAZ! - People Interested in Zippy and Zany Zcribbling - a resource for English teachers

Scholastic - Suggestions for web sites for targeted areas.

Science Fair Central

Sites for Teachers - A MUST SEE!

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On-line Tools
ABC teach - Has 5000+ free printable pages and worksheets. Its partner site abcteachit.com has a subscriber fee.
American Sign Language - in moving photos!

Ask an Expert - Science and technology questions.

Babelfish - Translates passages up to 150 words in length into different languages, extremely helpful in ESL situations.

Brainpop.com - Math, science, technology, and health movies, up to30 free a day, for upper elementary- high school.

Color Landform Atlas - of the 50 states.

EasyBib citation builder

Educational Press - Creates free educational worksheets such as flashcards, game boards, and quizzes to print directly from your browser. Simply choose a word list and an output style.

Eyewitness.com - Frst person accounts of historical events from the ancient world through today, voices of the 20th century, and snapshots

Learning Page.com - Free worksheets for preschool - third grade.

My Virtual Reference Desk - Loads of reference materials; Webster's Dictionary, Thesaurus, calendar, atomic clock, calculator, national debt, population clock, comics, crosswords, magazines, best sites, free stuff, headlines around the world, fact pages, etc.

My Virtual Reference Desk for Kids - Similar to the above sight but more kid oriented. A great place to find more links to use in the classroom.

Posters This FREE tool allows educators to create a lesson, worksheet, or class page and immediately publish it online. Teachers can also set up classes and assign projects to students. Students complete the assignments by creating their own online projects or reports. Teachers and students can even add images and links to their pages.

PacBell - Online learning resources (Blue Web'n, Filamentality…)

Pics for Learning -Copyright-friendly images for education.

Puzzlemaker.com - Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your word lists. Build your own maze or print our specialty hand-drawn mazes created around holidays and classroom topics.

School Notes - This site offers a free and easy way to post a classroom web site by just typing. Also offers flash card option for your page.

Teachers First resources

TeachNet.com - An online teaching magazine.

Worksheet Generator from Discovery School.

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Misc.

ePals- The world's largest online K-12 classroom network, connecting more than 27,000 self registered classrooms

The Global Schoolhouse - Provides online opportunities for teachers to collaborate, communicate, and celebrate shared learning experiences.

Research Links - A writing resource.

Teachers' Parking Lot - The ultimate graphics site.

Teachersplanet.com - Jobs and professional development.

Webquests

 

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Cindy Newton cnewton@fayette.k12.in.us

Revised: June 26, 2007