Teacher Resources - Miscellaneous Sites
21st Century Information Fluency Project
http://21cif.imsa.edu/
The 21st Century Information Fluency (21CIF) Portal was developed by the Illinois
Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) to improve Internet search skills for the
advancement of information literacy. The goal of this project is to help librarians,
teachers and students find, evaluate and ethically use digital information. The 21CIF Team
developed teaching/learning materials and tools, useful resources and online learning
opportunities. These wonderful resources and tools are available for general use with the
exception of the online workshops accessible only by Illinois teachers. Some of the more
widely used tools include the IMSA Search Wizard, Citation Tool, Spelling Tool and
Thesaurus Tool.
21st Century Literacies Site
http://www.kn.sbc.com/wired/21stcent/index.html
This site provides teachers and librarians with perspectives and resources to support them
in providing students with the 21st century literacy skills needed to succeed in our
multimedia world. The 21st Century Literacies web site focuses on four areas of
literacy—information, media, multicultural, and visual.
21st-Century Skills
http://www.ncrel.org/engauge/skills/skills.htm
This site identifies and describes the skills students will need to possess to be
"literate and educated" in the 21st Century. NCREL, the North Central Regional
Lab and creator of this site, describes in detail the characteristics of 21st Century
skills in four areas: Digital Age Literacy, Inventive Thinking, Effective Communication,
and High Productivity.
21st Century Skills
http://www.metiri.com/21/intro.html
This site, from the Metiri Group and NCREL, provides both a look at and activities for
these four major categories of 21st Century Skills: Digital Age Literacies, Inventive
Thinking, Effective Communication, and High Productivity. Each skill is further
sub-divided and many subdivisions offer activities (such as researching a topic via two or
more databases to ascertain the validity of information) which will help students master
these essential skills necessary for their future as lifelong learners.
ALPS: Active Learning Practices for Schools
http://learnweb.harvard.edu/alps/
ALPS, or Active Learning Practices for Schools, is a site dedicated to the improvement of
education. The site is organized into seven distinct sections: backpack, look, reflect,
explore, build, connect, and learn. ALPS is produced the Harvard Graduate School of
Education. Some areas of the site require registration.
A Questioning Toolkit
http://www.fno.org/nov97/toolkit.html
This enlightening website provides an actual Toolkit for teachers to use when developing
the vital skill of questioning in their students. It examines 17 different types of
questions and gives examples. Here is one sample: "Essential Questions. These are
questions which touch our hearts and souls. They are central to our lives. They help to
define what it means to be human...What kind of friend shall I be?" There are
color-coded cluster diagrams to help teachers with the entire process of developing
strategies. This is an excellent resource to encourage higher order thinking and critical
evaluation of information.
Character Education at the Center for the
Advancement of Ethics and Character
http://www.bu.edu/education/caec/
The Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character CAEC at the Boston University site
offers character education resources for teachers, administrators, students, and parents.
Articles about character education, lesson plans, and reading lists can be easily
downloaded from the website.
Classroom Connect
http://corporate.classroom.com/
Concept to Classroom
http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/concept2class/index.html
Explore an award-winning Website that provides a series of workshops covering a variety of
topics. The Workshop Menu includes such courses as After-School Programs - From Vision to
Reality, Teaching to Academic Standards, and WebQuests.
Crayola.com
http://www.crayola.com/
This site takes awhile to load, but has many good activites with links to Crafts, a Card
Creator and Coloring Pages among others. There are separate sections for Educators and
Parents.
Different Place
http://adifferentplace.org/index.html
This site will help teachers facilitate learning opportunities for gifted students in the
general education classroom. It will provide self-directed, independent and high level
activities with integrated technology for high ability students.
Enabling Student Collaboration for Learning
http://www2.gsu.edu/~wwwltc/howto/enablestudentcollab.htm
Georgia State University's "Teaching and Learning with Technology Center - TLTC"
presents a question and answer format offering useful information about student
collaboration. It discusses 12 areras of collaboration, including: "why should
students collaborate" and "how do I get students to collaborate."
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
http://www.ed.gov/free/index.html
FREE is an acronym for the U.S. Department of Education's Federal Resources for
Educational Excellence. The site is comprised of 50 federal agencies that supply free
materials for educators. Resources at the site include lesson plans, activities, data,
primary sources information, photos, and maps on a variety of subject areas.
FedWorld
http://www.fedworld.gov/
FedWorld offers a comprehensive central access point for searching, locating, ordering and
acquiring government and business information. It has search features for Government
Databases, FedWorld information Web Pages, Government Reports, and a link to Government
Web Sites. FedWorld makes information accessible through an electronic gateway of more
than 100 Government bulletin boards.
I Love That Teaching Idea!
http://www.ilovethatteachingidea.com/
I Love That Teaching Idea! inspires teachers with practical, teacher-created ideas and
resources that you can use in your classroom immediately. Submit your own ideas, or check
out the categorized list of submitted ideas on the left.
Insite Electronic Field Trip Series
http://www.bsu.edu/eft
Insite Electronic Field Trips are a dynamic combination of live, interactive broadcasts
and online curriculum meeting national teaching standards developed by teachers and
content experts. Electronic Field Trips feature partnerships with many national
institutions that provide students in K-12 classrooms extraordinary learning opportunities
they would not otherwise be able to experience. The learning experiences span the
disciplines: science, mathematics, history, government and literature.
Internet TESL Journal
http://iteslj.org/
This site has articles, research papers, lessons plans, classroom handouts, teaching
ideas, etc., all related to ESL.
Introduction to Inquiry-based Learning
http://www.youthlearn.org/learning/approach/inquiry.asp
Examine the principles and advantages of inquiry-based learning. In addition, the site
provides practical suggestions for implementing inquiry-based projects in the classroom,
including teaching students to ask good questions as a basis for their inquiry. Links on
the page direct you to other relevant articles to help you implement inquiry-based
learning.
Kelly's Kindergarten
http://www.kellyskindergarten.com/
This site has a great selection of resources for kindergarten all grouped in one place.
The resouce categories are too numerous to list. Well worth a visit!
Knowledge Loom
http://knowledgeloom.org/index.jsp
Knowledge Loom is a collaborative effort among educators from around the US to discover
what works in teaching and learning. Content allows you to review research based on
various themes (Adolescent Literacy in the Content Areas, Professional Development, etc.),
find other successes, and follow practical guides that help you replicate that success.
Literacy Matters
http://www.literacymatters.org/
Literacy Matters is designed primarily to assist middle and high school teachers address
literacy needs of their students, not only in the language arts class but also in other
content areas. Sections include Adolescent Literacy, Content Literacy, Technology (which
focuses on ways to integrate technology into lessons), Student Activities, and Lesson
Plans. The student activities are online activities which are accessible from any of the
three major tabs - "Teachers," "Parents," and "18 &
Under." The site allows users to register for e-mail updates.
Macmillan/McGraw-Hill World
http://www.mhschool.com/
Lots of resources for Math, Science, Social Studies, and Music. Sections for Teachers,
Students and Parents. You can also view the site in Spanish.
Microsoft Office Template Gallery
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/default.aspx
Sometimes it's nice to start a project with a template instead of creating it from
scratch. This is a great site for templates. You will find templates for a multitude of
topics, including stationary, cards, resumés, presentations, invoices, budgets, flyers
and forms, just to name a few.
MIT's OpenCourseWare
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm
A free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the
world. OCW supports MIT's mission to advance knowledge and education, and serve the world
in the 21st century. It is true to MIT's values of excellence, innovation, and leadership.
MIT OCW: is a publication of MIT course materials, does not require any registration, is
not a degree-granting or certificate-granting activity, and does not provide access to MIT
faculty.
NewspaperLinks.com
http://www.newspaperlinks.com/voyager.cfm
No Child Left Behind
http://www.ed.gov/nclb/landing.jhtml
The No Child Left Behind site is a comprehensive site that provides background and
resources for this important piece of legislation that dramatically impacts education. The
site has valuable information for both educators and parents. For parents, the
"Helping Your Child" series could be extremely helpful, especially with
understanding how to help their children with reading and homework. Educators should
access the "What to Know" section and examine the "Fact Sheets" for
useful information about education topics and how they are influenced by NCLB. This site
could also be extremely useful for any educators in the process formulating support for a
winning grant proposal.
Online Directory of ESL Resources
http://www.cal.org/ericcll/ncbe/esldirectory/
ERIC and the National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education have put together this
resource listing websites for bilingual education. Easy to navigate, resources can be
searched by topic, or browsed by category: Most Popular, Curriculum and Instruction, and
Resource Type.
Partnership for 21st Century Skills
http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/
The Partnership website is an excellent place to learn what 21st century skills are, why
they are important and who is supporting their development. Perhaps the most valuable
section for teachers and administrators is the section on Framework Resources. Here you'll
find material on all the areas of 21st century skills.
Power to Learn
http://www.powertolearn.com/spotlights/discovery/index.shtml
Power to Learn is brought to us online by cablevision. The highlighted topics for study
are always changing. Local interest focuses on New York and New Jersey, but site features
such as "Ask the Expert" (such as the curator of the Cradle of Aviation Museum
in Garden City, New York), Games, For Teachers, For Students, and For Parents, offer a
variety of interesting activities and facts.
Project Approach: In Early Childhood &
Elementary Education
http://www.project-approach.com/
"The purpose of this web site is to provide readers with resources to enable them to
carry out projects wherever they may work with children. The site is intended to make
available some accounts of successful projects undertaken by teachers working with
children of different ages and cultures in different parts of the world. The site also
offers more formal means of study of the Project Approach through accompanying online
courses for teachers."
Region 15 Graphic Organizers
http://www.region15.org/curriculum/graphicorg.html
From analogies to story maps to writing portfolios, Pomperaug Regional School District 15
offers this extensive collection of graphic organizers. All the different formats are free
for download by teachers.
Role Models on the Web
http://www.rolemodel.net
Role models are important for people at any stage in life, but particularly for children
and young adults. This site presents individual profiles of an increasing number of role
models from a wide range of fields and occupations. A study guide provides questions
teachers can use in a class discussion about carreers.
Route 21
http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/route21
Numerous polls suggest that stakeholders increasingly believe U.S. schools should do more
to prepare students to succeed in today’s rapidly evolving world by teaching
so-called “21st-century skills,” such as globall iteracy, problem solving,
critical thinking, innovation, and creativity. To help schools implement such 21st-century
teaching and learning practices, the Partnership for 21st Century Skills has launched a
new online resource called Route 21, a one-stop shop for related tools and information.
Snipshot
http://snipshot.com/
If you need a quick way to resize or crop an image check out Snipshot.com. It is an online
service that you can use anywhere you can get on the Internet. You don’t need to
install any software or any plug-ins. You just just visit the Web site and start editing
your photos. Open an image from your computer, use the basic functions listed at the top
of the page, and then save your newly edited picture.
Stain Guide
http://www.chemistry.co.nz/stain_frame.htm
Teacher to Teacher Workshops
http://www.paec.org/teacher2teacher/index.asp
The U.S. Department of Education now offers free workshops for professional development.
These workshops focus on "research-based practices and proven methods of using data
to inform instruction." View the videos online or on television. The site includes
video note-taking guides, course assessment and principal's implementation checklists for
all courses.
Testing Our Schools
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/schools/
Testing Our Schools is a timely Web site dedicated to the examination of high stakes
testing in American schools. The site contains numerous interviews with educational
testing experts, as well as others, such as teachers and administrators who deal with
assessment on a real and practical daily basis. The site also contains information about
No Child Left Behind, the challenge of standards, and a truly interesting section on
testing, teaching and learning.
Times 100 (Business Case Studies)
http://www.thetimes100.co.uk/index.php
The Times 100 is a free educational resource for students, teachers and lecturers of
business studies. The Times 100 brings business studies theory to life with case studies
on real companies, written by leading business studies textbook authors and linked to all
exam specifications. Each business case study expands on basic business studies topics
using real world examples to help your understanding. Select any of the logos to the right
to view a summary of that case study. Developed in the UK but applicable to U.S. issues
and even covers some U.S. businesses. Resources include downloadable study guides, a
glossary, and a quiz.
Web Resources for 6th-8th Grades
http://www.my-ecoach.com/resources/webresources6-8.html
This is a page of links created for 6th-8th grades. It has Curriculum Content including
Interactive Sites for Student Projects.
Works4Me Tips Library
http://www.nea.org/tips/library.html
This site is an archive of The National Education Association's weekly classroom tips
e-mail. The Library contains more than 400 tips with current classroom ideas, updated
frequently.
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