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Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment Resources
Common
Core Standards.
http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards
Online
printable flashcards.
http://www.flashcardexchange.com
Internet4classrooms website - some good links for teachers getting
started. This particular link is for differentiation.
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/di.htm
This site
has thousands of full text books free to download.
http://www.fullbooks.com
A free
online audio book download site---All are public domain.
http://librivox.org
An
amazing set of links to everything from newspapers and libraries to
museums and books. It is called TeacherXpress - the education web all
in one place for busy teachers.
http://www.teacherxpress.com
TrackStar
is your starting point for online lessons and activities. Simply collect
Web sites, enter them into TrackStar, add annotations for your students,
and you have an interactive, online lesson called a Track. Create your
own Track or use one of the hundreds of thousands already made by other
educators. Search the database by subject, grade, or theme and standard
for a quick and easy activity. There is a fun Track already made for
each day of the year, too!
http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/
This site
has literally hundreds of great links for educators on just about
anything you can imagine.
http://www.wylieisd.net/train/Websites.htm
Technological tools for collaboration in co-taught classrooms. In
addition to the Power of 2 website (www.Powerof2.org
), here are some really neat opportunities for teachers to use the 'net
to create collaboration communities with as few or as many people as
they like (e.g., could be a classroom team, all the special education
teachers in a district, a grade level in a building). Here's a free
collaboration site, designed for educators.
http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~mjd/Team/Team.html
Adolescent
literacy information.
http://www.kucrl.org/featured/adollit.shtml
Another
great resource on literacy. If you click on Instruction there is a
listing of strategies with an explanation of how to do each one-http://www.learningpt.org/literacy/adolescent/
Learn what Pod Casting
is and how to download and apply to your classroom.
http://www.wccsk12.org/dfolts/Digital Recording and Podcasting for
All.cfm
The place to explore
careers related to a student's strengths, skills and talents.
http://www.nycareerzone.org/
The Livingston County
Business/Education Alliance website now has A TEACHER RESOURCE CENTER
just for you!. There you will find: Virtual fieldtrip DVDS
that will enhance career awareness in your classroom. Sample mini grant
applications designed to help you easily draft your own mini grants.
Distance learning opportunities for all ages. Business lunch series
forms (High school only). Job shadow request forms (High school only).
Outstanding educator nomination form. Training/Workshop opportunities
for teachers, and other resources provided by the BEA FREE OF CHARGE to
your district.
www.gvboces.org/bea and then click on the "Teacher Resource Center"
link. Contact the Business/Education Alliance with any questions
at 991-5085 or 991-5086.
Resources:
Free Websites and
Resources (That look great on the SMART Board)
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Google Earth:
http://earth.google.com/
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Stellarium: A
Planetarium you can Download for your classroom:
http://www.stellarium.org/
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Scholastic
Activities: Excellent website that provides online activities in
language Arts, Science, Social Studies and math grades K-12:
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/learn.jsp
Test Prep
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Regents Prep:
http://www.regentsprep.org/
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Sample NYC State Tests
Grades 3-8:
http://www.edinformatics.com/testing/ny.htm
General Resources
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Puisson Rouge:
An open ended website to explore for
young students. Turn the volume on and then just click and see
whathappens, there are no instructions
http://www.poissonrouge.com/
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Arcademic
Skill Builders:This
site features many interactive games for primary grade students. They
can choose to play against other users or host private games.
http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/
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Primary Interactive:
This site has many flash based games categorized by early childhood,
math, English, science and other.
http://www.primaryinteractive.co.uk/index.htm
Literacy
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Into the Book:
A website with interactive activities
for reading comprehension. One of my favorites!
http://reading.ecb.org/
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Kerpoof:
A creative open ended storybook and
picture designing tool
http://www.kerpoof.com/
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Starfall:
Excellent digital resources for the emergent reader. Great interactive
elements for use on your SMART Board. The Starfall Method of reading
instruction was developed for the emergent reader. It is based in part
on research by the National Institute of Child Health and Human
Development about how children learn to read.
www.starfall.com
Websites for Big Books
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Sebastian Swan:
Interactive non-fiction stories geared towards early readers.
www.sebastianswan.org.uk/
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BAB Books Online
www.sundhagen.com/babbooks/
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Wacky Web Tails:
Created for 3rd grade and above. Students create their own stories by
filling in the blanks like in mad-libs.
www.eduplace.com/tales/
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International Children’s
Library
http://en.childrenslibrary.org
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Reading is Fundamental:
Animated stories you can read along with
www.rif.org/readingplanet/content/read_aloud_stories.mspx
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Storyline Online:
A website put together by the Screen
Actors Guild with actors reading high quality children’s literature
http://www.storylineonline.net/
Math
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National Library of
Virtual Manipulatives:
The National Library of
Virtual Manipulatives (NLVM) is an NSF supported project that began in
1999 to develop a library of uniquely interactive, web-based virtual
manipulatives or concept tutorials, mostly in the form of Java applets,
for mathematics instruction
http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivitySearch.aspx
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Math in Movies
Harvard site with clips of mathematical scenes from movies.
http://www.math.harvard.edu/~knill/mathmovies/
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More Math in the Movies:
Major motion pictures with
scenes of real Mathematics.
http://world.std.com/~reinhold/mathmovies.html
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Furbles:
Random population generator for teaching
Sorting, Shapes, Statistics, Graphs, and Probability.
http://www.ptolemy.co.uk/software/furbles/
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Cool Math 4 Kids:
A lot of well organized math
activities for students.
http://www.coolmath4kids.com/
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National Council of Teachers of
Mathematics (Journals, research, lessons and resources):
http://www.nctm.org/
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Teaching and Learning Resources from
Federal Agencies (Free Math resources from the federal government):
http://www.free.ed.gov/
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Interactives –
provides educators and students with strategies, content and activities that
enhance and improve students’ skills in a variety of curricular areas (for
math - short interactives about geometry 3D shapes,
math in daily life, metric conversions, and statistics).
http://www.learner.org/interactives/
Social Studies:
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Abraham Lincoln Treasure
Hunt:
http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/lincoln/index.html
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States Game:
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/states_experiment_drag-drop_Intermed_State15s_500.html
Website
for Songs
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Bus Songs:
(http://bussongs.com)
– This website has many songs divided by genres. For all the songs it
lists lyrics and for some they have videos and/or audio clips.
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KIDiddles:
(http://www.kididdles.com/lyrics)
– This website has song lyrics and audio. Sign up for free printable
lyrics sheets and put them up on your
SMART Board for the whole class to follow along.
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Mama Lisa’s World:
(http://www.mamalisa.com)
– This website has songs from around the world. The songs can be
searched for by continent and the lyrics are written out in the original
language and also translated into English. Some of the songs have sound
clips and sheet music.
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Dream English:
This website has lots of
downloadable songs and matching activities for the early childhood
classroom.
www.Dreamenglish.com
Music:
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NY Philharmonic Kids:
– There is a composition workshop where students can put together their
own minuet or decide the orchestration of a famous piece of music.
There is a composer gallery with information of a variety of composers.
There is also a game room with a variety of music/composer based games
http://www.nyphilkids.org
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DSOKids:
– Instrument encyclopedia with information on the instruments of an
orchestra.http://www.dsokids.com
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San Francisco
Kids:
– Great activities on different music concepts.
http://www.sfskids.org
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Creating Music:
Musical activities and games
http://creatingmusic.com
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Carnegie Hall
Listening Adventures:
Go under Explore & Learn and then Interactive Resources. The Listening
Adventures have an interactive listening map for Dvorak’s Symphony 9
and a game for Benjamin Britten’s Young Person’s Guide to the
Orchestra. http://www.carnegiehall.org
Foreign Language Resources
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Spanish Culture:
http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/SLC/
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Interactive
Games: Multiple Languages: http://www.digitaldialects.com/index.htm
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Language Skills:
Multiple Languages: http://oye.languageskills.co.uk/index.html
The Arts
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National Gallery
of Art:
http://www.nga.gov/kids/
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Artists Zone:
http://www.artisancam.org.uk/pages/activities/zone/index.php
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Art Pad:
http://artpad.art.com/artpad/painter/
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Art Rage:
http://www.ambientdesign.com/
Smartboard Websites
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