Teacher Resources

Teaching ideas, lesson plans, reading lists, and more...


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Over 4,000 videos and 40,000 video clips;  20,000 still images;  quizes;  lesson plans;  over 50 PD titles from ASCD;  tied to NJ State Standards;  and much more!  
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NJN - New Jersey Public Television and Radio 

 

SciLinks by NSTA (National Science Teachers Association).  Our subscription to Science & Children provides us with membership privileges to access these resources. Lesson plans, weblinks, hands on investigations, and much more.
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EBSCOhost is our online source to newspapers, magazines, and encyclopedias. Special features include Searchasaurus and Kids Search. 
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World Book Online  is not just an encyclopedia.  The website has a newly revised main page and many additional features.  Explore all the resources available at this site.  
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The Mailbox Companion provides you with unlimited access to tons of ideas and activities that complement the magazine. 
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IDEportal for teachers of a new generation of learners

  • Problem based tasks with rubrics

  • Technology how-to sheets

  • Tools for differentiating instruction

  • Articles to promote out-of-the-box thinking

  • On-line workshops
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Google Apps for Education allows you to create and share your work online.  Teachers and students can set up their own accounts on the Washington Township Schools' private domain.  Information coming soon.

Oncourse Systems - websites, planner, and more.

Welcome to one of the best animated educational sites for kids.  Teachers, check out the great lesson plans, videos, and activities that will make your lessons POP!!!

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Meet Tim and Moby and have fun as you explore Science, Health, Technology, Math, Social Studies and English  through movies and comic strips.  There are lots of great activity pages and school homework help for kids too.

This is a brand new online subscription for our school.  
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  Papera's Fun & Fantastic Finds: 

  Tablet Tools

Resource Center

  • How to links for Microsoft applications and much more.  This site is created by IDEportal (Innovative Designs for Education) and offers much more for educators.  

Teacher Book WizardScholastic's "Quick Search site is where teachers can type in a title and find the DRA or Reading Level of many books. 
Enchanted Learning:  Teachers, check out the great lessons, activities, worksheets and information on this kid friendly site. 
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Baycon Group provides tutorials on a growing list of computer-related topics. All tutorials are in depth, comprehensive, online, and -- best of all -- absolutely free.

   

Lesson Plans and Activities

Tools & Other Neat Sites!

AskERIC Lesson Plans - Collection of more than 2,000 lesson plans written and submitted to AskERIC by teachers around the world. Amazing Picture Machine - An index of graphical images from Internet resources that can be used to create classroom lessons.
EdHelper.com - "Links provided to thousands of lesson plans arranged by curriculum area." BINGO Card Generator - Create and print your own BINGO cards with your choice of words, definitions, or math problems.

The Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) - More than 6,500 quality Internet lesson plans, units, and resources.

BrainTeasers - Part of the Brain Connection site from Scientific Learning Corporation.  
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." Flashcard Exchange - 160,000+ reproducible flashcards divided by age level and curriculum area.
Search MarcoPolo:  Find Quality Internet Content for Your Classroom!  The MarcoPolo Search Engine provides access to all of the educational resources created by the MarcoPolo Partners plus Partner reviewed materials.  Funbrain - K-8 teachers and kids will enjoy lots of fun games, activities, and quizzes.
PBS TeacherSource - Over 3,000 lesson plans and activities arranged by subject areas. Portaportal is a web based bookmarking utility that lets you store links to your favorite websites online. Now your bookmarks are no longer limited to any one machine. Registration is free.
S.C.O.R.E. Cyberguides:  Teacher Guides and Student Activities - Collection of guides to a selection of classic and popular K-12 literature. Puzzlemaker - Create word searches, crosswords, cryptograms, and other puzzles from your own word list.
SESD Teacher Resources - Saskatoon (East) School Division - A collection of links to webquests, field trips, Internet projects, keypals, and Internet scavenger hunts. RubiStar  is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch. Read more ... Go to the tutorial (it includes information on changing categories, their headings and content)
Teachers.Net Lesson Plans - Hundreds of lesson plans and teaching ideas.

Wordle   is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

Classroom Connect - Teachers previewed this site in our December Inservice.   Great lessons in all subject areas!!

Worksheet Generator - is not longer available free at its original link.  Login to your Discovery Education account and you'll find it there.

Global Schoolhouse - Global SchoolNet is a leader in online collaborative learning. We continue to provide online opportunities for teachers to collaborate, communicate, and celebrate shared learning experiences.  

Internet for Classrooms I4C : Lesson plans and online activities by grade level and subject.

  1. Kindergarten Links

  2. PreK - 12 Internet Links

 
   

Super Content Sites

Links to Children's Literature

Awesome Library for Teachers - information on different subjects, lesson plans, and integration ideas. Association for Library Service to Children's Notable Lists Each year the ALSC identifies the best of the best in children's books, recordings, videos, and computer software.
Blue Web'n is an online library of 1200+ outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level. Notable Social Studies Books for Young People
Community Learning Network (CLN) -is designed to help K-12 teachers integrate technology into their classrooms with over 260 theme pages and more than 5,000 links to educational sites. Outstanding Science Trade Books
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence - FREE Scholastic.com for Teachers

          

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