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SUBJECT AREAS |
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The purpose of the site is to use the
Internet to share students’ creativity with the world. In order to accomplish
its goal, the site offers schools the ability to publish student art work
free of charge. The process is easy and guards student privacy. (Parents and
students can help with the publishing process.) A visit to Frequently Asked Questions will
provide specific help in dealing with copyright and parental permission
issues. There is also a section that provides lesson plan ideas for Pre-K
through high school. Students can view the art work of their
peers and even interact with them. Parents and extended family members can
view their children’s creative work and provide them encouragement and
appreciation online. There are even fundraising options available. |
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This site is striving to
be a comprehensive
index of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image
archives, and other online resources. At present there are indexed over 2,300 art sites and offer, over
95,000 links to an estimated 180,000 artworks by 8,200 artists. |
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This
site offers easy, free photo editing. Any uploaded picture can be
modified with special effects or inserted into different settings where it
looks to be part of the original image. Your
masterpiece can be saved to your local hard drive. |
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The website includes the Journal of Chemical Education --- some
of the articles are freely accessible and others are available by paid
subscriptions. Excellent links. |
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The table of contents of all of the
American Chemical Society journals is accessible from this site. Look at the
Chemical and Engineering News link. Also, check out the link to “What’s that
Stuff” which will explain such items as ink, marshmallows, and other common
chemical substances. |
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The home page has links to many items from
the Chemical Heritage Foundation. Be sure to check out the sections entitled
Resources for Teachers and Traveling Exhibits. |
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This site gives the table of contents for
issues of Scientific American. |
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The home page is a periodic table.
Information is available on each element by clicking on the element in the
table. |
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This site provides an opportunity for middle school students to “practice”
shopping on the Internet while, staying within a specified budget. |
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Cherry Carl, the creator
of the site, retired in 2003 after 35 years as a teacher and Language Arts
Specialist and is now an instructor at the |
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Television station KAIT in |
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This unique site offers thousands of
activities based on the books written and illustrated by Jan Brett. |
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Although
this site does promote author Susan Wittig Albert’s
books, it does much more. Folks who enjoy gardening and cooking with fresh
herbs will enjoy this site. Podcasts and a weekly
newsletter (http://www.abouthyme.com/dayletters/)
expand on these topics. Susan, who now lives in |
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This
site provides streaming video featuring famous actors and actresses reading
children’s books aloud. Each story is accompanied by lesson plans and
activities. |
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At this site, you can listen to professional
storytellers. Click on an age group to see a list of story titles. Click on
any title and the story will play. The site is volunteer-developed and run,
so there is no subscription fee. |
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This 6th grade class brings
Aesop’s Fables into the 21st Century. Visitors will see videos
created by students. These videos include images from the Internet, with
students doing a voice- over of the fable. Next, the students dramatize their
version of a fable. |
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Real life stories at this site provide a
springboard for important discussions about Internet safety with middle
school and high school students.
Activities and related news articles are included at the site. |
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Audio-enhanced navigation allows young
children to use this site on their own. Stories, games, and video clips are
all designed to reinforce literacy skills. Audio, music, and character video
downloads are also available at the site. |
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Western Illinois Math Professor’s List of
Sites: problem solving databases, lesson plans, topic sites, computer hints, web
page development, grant funds, and teaching careers in Math |
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This
interactive site offers opportunities for students and teachers to engage in
on-line learning about classical music. Home page tabs like Music Resources,
Instrument Lab, Great Composers, and Activities and Games, offer information
and activities for a wide range of interests and abilities. |
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NIEHS (National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences) Kid’s Page |
This site helps students learn about the impact of the
environment on human health and explains possible careers in health,
medicine, science, mathematics, and the environment. Music is considered an
important part of our environment. There are hundreds of songs to choose.
Lyrics and melodies are available along with links to terms in the songs that
relate to environmental issues. |
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This unique site offers information about the history of popular American folk songs from the 17th century to the early 1900s. Songs are categorized and alphabetized for easy use. Each song has melody, lyrics, history and links to additional resources, if available. |
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DSO (Dallas Symphony
Orchestra) Kids |
Both sites use a familiar room as an
interface to entice students to explore music through instruments, composers,
and listening activities. The Dallas Symphony uses a music room metaphor
while the New York Philharmonic uses an orchestra hall. In both cases, the
user simply runs the mouse over figures in the picture to uncover links.
Clicking on an icon takes the user to a wide variety of engaging activities
and valuable information. Each site has specific resources for parents and
teachers too. |
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The goal of this site is to allow children to experience creative play in the creation of music. Special emphasis is placed on the written tradition. Children will enjoy opportunities to compose music, play with musical performance, music games and music puzzles |
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Designed for older students, this site’s
goal is to communicate the value and importance of orchestras and the music
that they perform. Visitors are invited to meet a young composer,
concertmaster or instrument builder, take a seat in the orchestra, or try
writing music. There is also a link to the Carnegie Hall’s Listening
Adventure site. |
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Everything from ATisket, A Tasket to Yankee Doodle can be found at this site. Melodies, lyrics, and cute graphics will make this site attractive to mothers, grandmothers, or teachers of young children. |
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Chris Kirwan of St. Mary’s |
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This site
provides lesson plans using the story, Thank You, Mr. Falker.
The lessons help students become more sensitive to the effects of teasing,
bullying, and discrimination. |
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The goal
of the site is “to assist teachers, parents, and others who work with youngsters
to guide them in the process of becoming physically active and healthy for a
lifetime”. |
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This site features thousands of in-depth
articles, animations, games, and resources developed by experts in the health
of children and teens. It was created by the Nemours Foundation’s Center for
Children’s Health Media, with separate areas for kids, teens, and parents so
that navigation is quick and information is age appropriate. Teachers will
find excellent curriculum resource material that is constantly being
updated. |
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This site is intended to help
consumers use nutrition labels to make quick, informed food choices that
contribute to a healthy diet. |
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Grade school, middle school, and high
school teachers can find information and activities for their students
here. The Environmental Protection
Agency designed the site to help students explore their environment and learn
how to protect it. There is also an Ask
the EPA section where students or teachers can formulate questions to be
answered by experts at the agency. |
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Community Learning Network, a site designed to
help K-12 teachers integrate technology into the classroom, provides
educators with curricular resources and links to instructional materials related to global warming and climate change. |
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Here, high school teachers will find a
thorough lesson plan to address the issues surrounding global warming. This lesson is designed for social studies,
debate, language arts, government/citizenship, and current events classes,
grades 9-12. |
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This site links users to specific web
sites that can help them to better understand the scientific method. There
are also links to help in choosing project ideas, as well as completing and displaying
their project. Each link is expertly summarized, so that students can quickly
choose only the sites that they really need |
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This site gives users over 500 science
projects ideas divided into 10 different categories. The Science Fair “Coach” section
reviews the scientific method, discusses how to conduct an experiment, record
and analyze data, as well as, ideas for displaying projects. There are also
tips for preparing for an oral presentation, if one is required. An
encyclopedia, dictionary, and links to other helpful resources are provided. |
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In addition to walking readers through the
steps needed to create a science fair project, this site discusses how the
strengths and limitations of science can affect a science fair project.
Another valuable resource on this site is a sample judging sheet. |
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Exploratorium
Learning Studio: Science Fairs |
This site is designed for teachers who are
planning science fairs and parents who may need help in finding specific
supplies and materials (beakers, motors, extra strong magnets, etc.) that students may need for specific projects. |
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Exercise Library (American Council on Exercise) |
This
site provides a
searchable
database of exercise videos. |
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An
Activity Calorie Calculator and Fitness Library with information about
nutrition and weight management are available at this site. |
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The
purpose of this site is to help optimize the nation's health by providing
reliable research-based information about food and nutrition. |
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This site invites you to participate in a
free program sponsored by the Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s Cardiovascular
Wellness Service. This online program is a comprehensive wellness website
developed to empower users to become heart-healthy. |
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This site includes physical
fitness activities, recipes, games, music, comics, and videos for kids.
Educators will find lesson plans, resources, and activities. |
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This
site, operational since 1996, provides users with recipes, meal plans,
nutritional information, newsletters, and shopping lists, using a proprietary
database of over 6,000 recipes and other content. |
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One of geography’s most unusual topics is
the SuperContinent of Gondwana. It is especially relevant if your students
are studying |
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For an
animation of Gondwana’s formation, you can access both a Windows and
Macintosh version. Shockwave plug-in is needed. There is also a “light”
version (in terms of memory) available. See how it all came together, then
was torn apart into the world we know today. |
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This website features photos, maps, photo
of the day, international sites, travels, history, culture, adventure, and
explorations. There is a link just for kids (elementary age), including a
parent link, cartoon factory, GeoBee Challenge, games, and more. |
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The National Council for the Social
Studies website is strictly for teachers. It provides email bulletin sign-up,
information on summer institutes, opportunities to publish your ideas,
legislative updates and information on current events, government, and history. |
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The directory is designed to help you
identify and contact organizations that provide information and assistance on
a wide range of education-related topics. |
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This
site connects educators with
partners willing to provide funds to purchase resources for the classroom. It
is easy to register so please take
advantage of this opportunity to create a network of supporters. |
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National Information Center of Children and
Youth with Disabilities |
This site provides
information in either English or Spanish. It includes research-based
information on effective educational practices. The website has an excellent |
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Children and Adults with
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder |
C.H.A.D.D. website provides information
regarding attention deficits and offers support for educators. |
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This is a web site filled with games, quizzes,
and activities for use by educators. Teachers can create accounts that give
paperless quizzes graded by the online with results that are emailed to the
teacher. Teachers may use prepared activities or create their own. This
website is designed for all grade levels (preschool- high school) and is
strong in helping students develop math and reading skills. |
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This is always my first stop when looking
for web sites to help my colleagues. The excellent organization of this site,
plus Ms Shrock’s brief description of each site she recommends makes the job
of finding what you need fast and easy. |
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Created by the |
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Celebrate
the 100th Day in 100 ways |
Education
World offers a straight forward list of 100 different celebration activities.
The list represents activities of varying degrees of difficulty and span
several subject areas. |
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32 Quick &
Fun Activities to Celebrate the 100th Day of School |
Scholastic
offers a shorter list of activities. Intermediate teachers could find ideas
at this site. |
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This
list of activities is unique because the teacher who submitted the idea is
listed beneath the description. Readers may also submit project ideas to the
site |
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Graphing:
Jelly Beans or M & Ms |
This
graphing activity is ready to print out and reproduce. |
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Reading
List for the 100th Day of School |
This
reading list provides ISBN numbers, reviews and related links for each book. |
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100th
Day of School Songs and Poems |
Here
you will find clever poems and songs that can be sung to simple, familiar
tunes. |
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Mary
O’Flynn gives readers permission to reprint her
poem for use in their classrooms. |
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This
site connects educators with
partners willing to provide funds to purchase resources for the classroom. It
is easy to register so please take
advantage of this opportunity to create a network of supporters. |
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Created by Joan Fleitas, Ed.D., R.N., the
purpose of this site is to give children a way to give voice to the wide
range of dilemmas that face children with chronic health issues. In doing so,
the site also sensitizes readers as to what it is like for children to grow
up with a medical problem. This is not a directory of diseases with a list of
ways to diagnose and treat them. This site features opportunities for
children to express themselves and for us to learn from them. |
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First School Preschool
Activities and Crafts: Health and Nutrition |
Designed with toddlers, preschoolers, and
kindergarteners in mind, this site has a wide variety of lessons and
activities to help young children learn about health and nutrition. |
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This site offers pre-school
and early-school content to encourage learning through play for both girls
and boys aged six years and under. |
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Dozens and dozens of alphabet related songs,
poems. Lessons, games, and other pre-school links are available here. Mrs.
Alphabet is Anne Lynch, an author of children’s books and other successful
phonics, reading and math programs. |
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Kathy Gursky’s
site is as attractive as it is helpful. Visitors will find preschool
curriculum ideas divided by monthly themes and topics. |
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Starfall
provides research-based reading materials and activities modeled on the focus
areas of phonemic awareness, systematic phonics, vocabulary, fluency,
comprehension, and motivation. Both teachers and students will find the site
easy to use. |
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Mighty Book is
designed to entertain while improving reading skills. It specializes in
illustrated, animated read-aloud eBooks for ages |
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The
Preschool Library contains activities that include on-line stories and
activities, take-home and parent activities, as well as suggested readings. |
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Hummingbird Educational Resources |
Constantly being updated, this site provides a
wide range of resources listed by theme alphabetically. |
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Created by a special education teacher
with 24 years experience, this beautifully crafted site has a long list of
themes and units, literacy and math resources, teacher inspirations and tips,
plus additional links to explore. Teachers looking for classroom organization
ideas will not want to miss the classroom tour. |
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Teaching Peace
through Literature and Song |
This site
provides lesson plans using the story, Thank You, Mr. Falker.
The lessons help students become more sensitive to the effects of teasing,
bullying, and discrimination. |
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Alex’s Scribbles-Koala
Trouble |
This site features stories about a Koala
named Max. The idea and pictures are by a 5 year old Australian named Alex.
His father, Scott, designed the pages. The stories contain hyperlinks within
the illustrations. The hyperlinks are a clever way to support
reading/listening comprehension. |
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Viewers
of all ages will love watching letters turn into the animals that they spell. |
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This site allows users to research such topics as: learning
disabilities, ADHD, functional behavioral assessment, autism, adolescence,
parenting, psychological assessment, special education, mental retardation, and
mental health. |
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Many of the sites listed here are among
the 350 sites reviewed in the book, THE SOCIAL WORKER’S INTERNET
HANDBOOK, co-authored by The New Social Worker editor Linda
Grobman and University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration
former Dean of External Affairs Gary Grant.
Sites are categorized and alphabetized for easy use. |
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Kids against Bullying
(elementary) |
These sites
were created to educate students about bullying prevention and provide
methods to respond to bullying situations. Both feature animated characters,
videos, games, and contests. Parents and educators will also find helpful
tips, intervention strategies, and other resources. |
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This site provides video clips with ideas
for teachers in bullying prevention, school violence prevention, character
education, citizenship, and tolerance. |
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This site explains clearly what cyberbullying is and how it works. More importantly, it also
shares ways to take action to prevent this prevalent problem. There is a law
enforcement component that is very helpful. |
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This site offers quizzes to help
educators, students, and parents measure their cyberbullying
knowledge. Prevention tips and resource strategies for educators and parents
are also included. |
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If students are apprehensive about
discussing the topic of bullying, the survey and quiz provided by Education
World will provide data that should help get the dialogue started. |
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No Name-Calling Week is an annual week of
educational activities aimed at ending name-calling and providing schools
with the tools to launch an on-going dialogue about ways to eliminate
bullying. There is a kit for sale on the site, but there are plenty of
activities available without making the purchase. |
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This site
provides lesson plans using the story, Thank You, Mr. Falker.
The lessons help students become more sensitive to the effects of teasing,
bullying, and discrimination. |
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This site was featured on the CBS news
last November. Its purpose is to strengthen our vocabulary while helping to
feed the world’s hungry. To play, Click on the
answer that best defines the word you see on the screen. If you get it right, you get a harder word.
If wrong, you get an easier word. For each word you get right, we donate 20
grains of rice to the United Nations
World Food Program. |
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Funbrain is a web site filled with games,
quizzes, and activities for use by educators. Teachers can create accounts
that give paperless quizzes graded by the online with results that are
emailed to the teacher. Teachers may use prepared activities or create their
own. This website is designed for all grade levels (preschool- high school)
is strong in helping students develop math and reading skills. |
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This site includes online activities and
quizzes in 150 categories and templates for creating 16 different types of
online activities such as quizzes. Hangman, scrambled words, Concentration,
challenge board games like Jeopardy, internet scavenger hunts, sequencing,
and more. There are activities in 30 languages. Subscription information is available. |
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Enjoy Sudoku, jigsaw puzzles, chess, checkers and even Chinese
checkers at this site. |
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If you particularly like Soduko puzzles, try this site. |
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If you particularly like jig saw puzzles,
try this site. |
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This site features an animated spelling
game for ages 5-8. Children have an opportunity to spell words related to
food, clothing, transportation, the animal kingdom, and items in or around
the house. It is highly recommended for use in classrooms equipped with
interactive whiteboards. |
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Miscellaneous |
Summer is a time for teachers to renew the
spirit, rest the body, and prepare for the fall opening-of-school. Consider
shared experiences to bring together your world with the diverse,
multicultural multi-social worlds of your students. In the end, we are all
more alike than different. We just need to explore ideas and to discover
universal themes. Check out these web sites! |
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Illinois State Parks
(alphabetical listing) |
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Cantigny Park (virtual garden tour) |
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If you are unable to visit the |
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Take
a short summer vacation without ever leaving home. At this site, you can tour
the U.S. National Arboretum’s |
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Many schools struggle with when and how to
teach keyboarding. JeffCo. Public Schools, the
largest school district in |
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The objective of this educational site is
to share different technology strategies and methods that will enhance your
curriculum, whether you are using computers in a lab situation or a
classroom. An index on the left side of the home page offers links to a dozen
different resources to help with everything from classroom management
strategies to learning station ideas. |
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Don’t let the “no frills” home page fool you.
Scroll down the blue menu on the right side of the page and you will find a
treasure trove of links to helpful tutorials. The number to the left of each
topic tells you how many tutorial links are available for that topic. Most
topics have enough links to address almost any learning style or level of
interest. This is a great site for teachers, but also retirees who want to
learn to do more with their home computer. |
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This is a second excellent site for linking
to online tutorials. Apple and Mac software links are provided here. Many
links to educational software like Kidspiration
and Inspiration can be found. |
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Tammy’s
Technology Tips for Teachers |
Tammy Worcester, this site’s web master, has over twenty years of
educational experience. Her entire web site is filled with useful
information, but if your time is limited, visit her tip of the week. The tip may be a software shortcut, a new
web resource, or a new web tool to try. To save even more time, sign up at
the site and Tammy will email you when she posts the Tip of the Week. |
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4Teachers (Teach with Technology) |
Here teachers
can locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and
classroom calendars. There are also student resources. Professional
development resources addressing issues such as ELL, technology planning, and
special-needs students are also available. |
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Kent National Grid for Learning (NGfL): Interactive Whiteboards |
Whether your school has invested in Smart
Board, Promethean, |
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Engaging Learners the Smartboard Way |
By neatly categorizing links by subject or
grade level, this site makes it easy for teachers with interactive white
boards at their disposal to find appropriate activities for their
students. Although the activities lend
themselves to the interactivity of a whiteboard, they are not exclusive to
that technology. |
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This comprehensive guide to American
Government and Politics makes a reliable reference because all documentation is so
thorough. Its resources include a large library plus “tools” for citizens,
students, and teachers. |
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Library of Congress Legislative Information:
Thomas |
Here you will find searchable full text of
the U.S. House and Senate Bills, the text of the Congressional Record, and
other Legislative Branch information. |
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This
web site is designed to provide Americans with one-stop access to all online
Federal Government resources. |
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The
Presidential Task Force on Employment of Adults with Disabilities created
this site to provide access to resources, services, and information available
through the Federal Government. Ten different categories covering such topics
as employment, health, transportation, or technology receive attention. |
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This site was
created to make it easier to stop telemarketing. If you are unable to register online you
may call 1-888-382-1222 toll-free. Registration is free. |
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Noodletools is a web-based set of tools that assists
in the research process and promotes ethical research strategies. Users are
guided through decisions about source materials and questions about citing
references. Even if you are not writing a research paper or
preparing for a debate, you will enjoy learning more about the wide range of
search engines available on the Internet. |
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Learn how to use search engines and
subject directories with easy-to-follow tutorials from Debbie Flannigan.
Flannigan teaches several Internet courses, including Introduction to the
Internet and Advanced Search Techniques. |
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KidsClick is owned and operated by
the |
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The major search engines are ranked in several
categories at this site. Users are assisted in determining the most effective
search engine for their specific needs. |
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This
site provides topics, summaries, pro and con arguments, plus a useful list of
books and links for debaters. However, you don’t have to be on a debate team
to take advantage of this well organized and content-rich site |
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