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Copyright
The website below teaches students the basics of copyright law.
Copyright for Kids
BibMe--A free Web 2.0 bibliography maker that auto-fills. Can be done in the following formats: MLA, APA, Chicago and Turabian.
BibBuilder--A free program which allows the user to subdivide the task of constructing a bibliography entry, focusing on just one item at a time.
NoodleTools--A free, simplified MLA version for creating a Works Cited list.
More Google Products--Provides you more specific tools for searching, exploring as well as communicate, show and share.
Google Earth Lessons--Provides you with the tools needed to enhance your instruction using Google Earth.
Microsoft for Educators--Has lesson plans, how-tos, product tutorials, free clipart and templates.
Brainy Betty PowerPoint Templates--Free site of educational PowerPoint templates.
Education Templates--Another free site of educational PowerPoint templates.
Microsoft Office Online Templates--A variety of templates to use with the Office products.
Hewlett Packard Templates--A variety of templates to use. Note: At the bottom of the screen, there are templates for Microsoft Office.
Graphicsland--Free site of educational PowerPoint templates. Note: Is a Zipped file.
TeacherWeb--You simply type in new homework assignments & special announcements while viewing your website. Your updates will be instantly available to your students using any Internet access! Security is built-in--only you will be able to make updates to your website, using your own password. You can use TeacherWeb to point students to Internet information sources for further study. If you choose, your students can also email you directly from your TeacherWeb. Annual fee.
Think.com is an online suite of tools available free to school districts. Tools are available to create your personal web site, read and send email, and store all your content in a file cabinet. Teachers can create classes, projects, and a place to share material with students.
Links for K-12 Teachers. The web portal which we call i4c is free to anyone who wants to find high-quality, free Internet resources to use in their classroom instruction. The portal is used by teachers on six of the seven continents (there are not many classrooms in Antarctica) and is available to anyone with an Internet connection. No subscription fee is charged.
NY Times Daily Lesson Plan Archive. URL connects you to the archive of daily lesson plans posted over the past few years at the NY Times Learning Network.
EDSITment's Lesson Plan Library. Brings online humanities resources from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities directly to your classroom.
Thinkfinity. You'll find a wealth of free top-quality, exciting and engaging educational resources that support the skills we all need for success in the 21st century.
Columia Education Center's Lesson Plans. Created by teachers, these ready-to-use lessons are organized by subject and grade level.
Dr. LeBeau's Home Page. An extensive list from all subject areas and topics including technology.
Learning Exchange for Teachers and Students. Provides models for integrating the Internet into the classroom through several dozen web-based units.
Teach-nology Lesson Plans. Has over 26,000 lesson plans organized into 20 different categories.
Library of Congress. The Library's mission is to make its resources available and useful to the Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations. The Office of the Librarian is tasked to set policy and to direct and support programs and activities to accomplish the Library's mission.
Ben Franklin's Guide to Government. Ben will teach how our government works.
Country Reports. Contains 23,000 pages of information on 260 countries. Can access for basic information in over 20 categories including: population, language, currency, landmass, industries and types of government. There is a subscription available which will allow users to access the entire site.
Student News from CNN. CNN news for students.
Archiving Early America. Is a unique array of primary source material from 18th Century America. Scenes and portraits from original newspapers, maps and writings come to life on your screen just as they appeared to this country's forebears more than two centuries ago.
Eyewitness to History. History through the eyes of those who lived it.
History Matters. Designed for high school and college teachers and students, History Matters serves as a gateway to web resources and offers other useful materials for teaching U.S. history.
HyperHistory. Over 2,000 files covering 3000 years of world history. Can select by people, history, events, and maps.
Maps and Geography. Can print large or small maps of the world and continents. Has interactive maps and map puzzles to learn continents, countries, states, capitals, borders, physical features and cultural monuments.
World Atlas. Has clickable map of the globe, country and state flags, map clipart, continents population and sizes, current time and date.
Maps of War. These maps trace a series of historical events.
American Presidents: Life Portraits. Contains a complete video archive of all American Presidents: Life Portraits programming, plus these additional resources: Biographical facts, Key events of each presidency, Presidential places, Reference material
World of Reading. Service of the Ann Arbor District Library which allows a student to search or browse book reviews written by students.
The English Teacher. Has lesson plans and teaching strategies for a variety of novels. Teaching Creative Writing has lessons on dialogue, narrative writing, and poetry listening. Teaching Composition focuses on writing analogies, impromptu writing and research papers.
Poets.org. Has biographies of 500 poets, 1,400 poems, and 100 audio clips as well as a search feature that allows visitors to find a particular poet or poem.
Biography Maker. Allows you to create an exciting biography,
by following these steps: 1. Questioning, 2. Learning, 3. Synthesis, 4. Story-Telling, 5. Six Traits of Effective Writing.
Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL). Has free resources on Writing, Research, Grammar and Mechanics and MLA and APA Style Guides.
Guide to Grammar and Writing. Students can seek help with sentences, paragraphs, essays, and research papers. There are also quizzes, PowerPoint presentations, and FAQs on grammar usage.
Vocabulary University. A free resource used to enhance vocabulary mastery & written/verbal skills with Latin & Greek roots.
Rhyming Dictionary. A free online rhyming dictionary.
A. Pintura Detective. Art history adventures.
Arts Connected. Has art collections, lesson plans, and curriculum units.
Vincent van Gogh Gallery. Approved from the van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, you can view 4,000 images of van Gogh's paintings, drawings, watercolors, graphic works, letters, and letter sketches. Search van Gogh's works chronologically, by medium, or by subject. The interactive map locates paintings by current geographical location.
Louvre Museum in Paris. Has virtual tour, collections, exhibits, activities and resources.
New York Philharmonic Kidzone. New York Philharmonic's web site for kids.
Essentials of Music. Basic information about classical music.
NIH: Health Education. Organized by topics, resource formats, and grade levels.
Kids Health for Kids. Let's kids discover and explore the systems of the body with a click of a mouse. Written by doctors, this site includes a Scavenger Hunt Challenge, colorful diagrams, embedded terms that link to detailed facts, and definitions in the Flossary of Medical Words.
Bam! Body and Mind. The CDC has created this site for kids to build and maintain health bodies and minds.
Weather Channel Storm Encyclopedia. Find out about all types of weather.
Science Net Links. Site provides lessons, resources, and science updates.
Climate Discovery Teacher's Guide. The site offers three units: The Sun-Earth Connection, The Little Ice Age Case Study, and Cycles of the Earth System.
Middle School Science. Developed by Elizabeth LaRosa, a middle school science teacher, she has lessons/activities in chemistry, physics, earth science and life science.
Geology.com. A variety of science topics with interactive experiments.
The Why Files. Relates science to recent events and everyday occurences.
What is Chemistry?. American Chemical Society has resources to help students study the historical and academic perspectives of chemistry.
Creative Chemistry. Contains worksheets and notes, crossword puzzles, word searches, hangman, concentration, jigsaw puzzles, and more. It reinforces chemistry knowledge and skill with an emphasis on fun.
Decimals. Provides a clear introduction to decimal notation.
Decimals. Another site which provides several topics and lessons on decimals.
Decimal Squares. An interactive games which reinforces the topic on decimals.
Decimal and Whole Number Jeopardy. A Jeopardy-style game involving decimals and whole numbers.
Calculator. Offers the most popular calculators for fractions, percents, graphing currency, temperature and time.
Illuminations. Has math activities, lessons, as well as links.
The Math Forum @ Drexel University. Is the leading online resource for improving math learning, teaching, and communication since 1992.
Math Goodies. A free math help portal featuring interactive lessons, worksheets, and homework help.
Jamit Fractions. Ten individual lessons, plus a "Big Test" on all about working with fractions.
Visual Math Learning. Students can review natural numbers, counting, addition, subtraction, integers, multiplication, factors, division, fractions, inverses, equivalence, common denominators, sets, functions, and equations.
Geometry Lesson Plans. Many of the activities listed has a real-life focus.
NoodleQuest allows your students to develop the optimum Web-based search strategy, based on your research topic.
TrackStar is an online interface that helps instructors organize and annotate Web sites (URLs) into lessons. The list of resources acts like a table of contents and remains visible through the lesson allowing the user/student to easily browse through the lesson and stay on track.
ALA's Web Site Evaluation Provides guidelines in evaluating web sites.
Kathy Schrock's Web Site Evaluation Provides a series of evaluation surveys for authenticity, applicability, authorship, bias, and usability.
Cyberbee's Cyberguide for Web Site Evaluation Another site which provides a series of evaluation surveys for authenticity, applicability, authorship, bias, and usability.
Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students, and parents. Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your word lists. Build your own maze or print their speciality hand-drawn mazes created around holidays and classroom projects.
Teach-nology Worksheet Generator same as above.
QuizStar With this web-based utility, you will be able to create a custom quiz that others can take online! If you have a lesson plan centered around Internet websites, or if you want students to be able to do take-home assignments over the Internet, then QuizStar is for you! Sixty Day free trial then subscription.
Landmark Project Rubric Builder--This is another site to create rubrics online. Need to sign-up for access.
RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch. RubiStar provides generic rubrics that can simply be printed and used for many typical projects and research assignments. The unique thing about RubiStar, however, is that it provides these generic rubrics in a format that can be customized. The teacher can change almost all suggested text in the rubric to make it fit his or her own project.
Teach-Nology--This site offers 17,000 lesson plans, 2,000 worksheets, downloads teaching themes, and teaching advice.
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