Graphic Organizers

Evaluating Web Sites

Teaching Tools

Clip Art 

Curriculum 

Teaching in the Information Age

Lesson Plans

WebQuests

Internet Plagiarism

Rubrics/Assessments

• Assessment & Rubric Information
  ...Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators. Look for the tab marked Report Card comments
• Creating Rubrics: Tools You Can Use
  ...the hows and whys of creating and using rubrics
• Holistic Critical Thinking Scoring Rubric
  ... although this is a commercial site, it will provide teacher with a framework
  and vocabulary for creating ruberics
• Rubric Generators
  ... make a variety of rubrics by filling out a simple form
• Rubrics
  ...created for Ontario's teachers, but useful for us as well.
• Score Rubrics
  ...teacher activity bank from San Diego County
• Rubrics for the WebQuest
• Scientific Report Rubric
• Six Trait Rubrics

Graphic Organizers

• Score Graphic Organizers
  ...teacher activity bank from San Diego County
• Index Graphic Organizers
• Graphic Organizers
  ...includes several organizers as well as KWHL Techniques
• Graphic Organizer
  ...several types to be used as pre-writing tools
• Student Graphic Organizers
  ... many to chose from, each is printable in PDF format
• VennDiagram
  ...how to use them, top 10 ways to use them, and create your own.

Evaluating Web Sites

• Critical Evaluation Information
  ... help your students critically evaluate a Web page for authenticity, applicability, authorship, bias, and usabilty. At the bottom of the page are fake sites for comparisons.
• Evaluation Rubrics for Websites
• A WebQuest About Evaluating Web Sites

On-Line Teaching Tools

• Award Maker
• Certificate Creator
  ... 38 prebuilt certificates to choose from and customize in 5 different categories
• Filamentality and Beyond the Son of Filamentality
  ...site will aid you in creating your own web based activities and host them. Registration required. From Pacific Bell's Wired Learning.
• Internet Scavenger Hunts
• KeeBoo
  ... innovative way to organize, package and distribute Web content: text, images, multimedia clips, sound, etc.
• Module Maker
  ... build your own Online Research Modules that will challenge your students to make up their own minds while supplying them with rich information to support such thinking
• Puzzlemaker
• Quiz Center
• Quia
• TrackStar
  ...an online interface to help you easily organize URLs into your lessons
• Reading Level Calculator
  ... estimate the reading level of a book, article, or Web page, based on the SMOG readability formula
• The WebQuest Page and see below for specific activities

Clip Art and Images

• Clip Art for teachers
• Classroom Clipart
• Pics4Learning
  ... copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students
• Public Domain Images
  

Curriculum Data Bases

• Blue Web'n
• California Learning Resource Network
  ...identifies and reviews supplemental electronic learning resources
• Classroom Connect
• Discovery Channel School
• Ed's Oasis
  ...with links to teacher-recommended, student-centered web sites and examples of effective classroom Internet use, this site is a pleasant place to get ideas. The Spotlight profiles of innovative teachers is inspiring, as is the Master Search Lesson Plan Contest.
• Education World
• Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Math and Science
• ERIC - Educational Resource Information Center
• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
• Score CyberGuides
  ... teacher guides and student activities on works of literature
• Virtual School House
  ...alphabetical index of the subjects found in school!

Teaching in the Information Age

• Catalyst
  ...This "integrated collection of resources, training, tools, templates, and support" was created by the University of Washington to help faculty use educational technology.
• The Challenge 2000 Multimedia Project: Project-Based Learning with Multimedia
  ...excellent source for information about project-based learning with multimedia, "a method of teaching and learning in which students acquire new knowledge and skills in the course of designing, planning, and producing a multimedia product."
• Developing WWW Research Lessons
  ...site that will help teachers to develoop and post an Internet integrated lesson that will challenge students' higher order thinking skills, and give teachers ways to use the Internet as a tool in their classrooms.
• edHelper.com
  ... education news, lesson plans, worksheets, websites, downloads, etc.
• Education with New Technologies: Networked Learning Community
  ...developed by teachers and researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, this site explores issues of improving teaching with technology integration, integrating new tools with classroom practice and curriculum,and collaboration with colleagues locally and around the world. Become part of this innovative community of educators.
• From Now On
  ...The Educational Technology Journal
• The Internet in the one-computer classroom
• Practical Strategies for Using the Net to Enhance Your Classroom Instruction
• Secondary School Educators
• Study Guides and Strategies
  ...Study Guides includes over 50 pages of summary guides to assists students in succeeding in their studies. Topics include time and stress management,test preparation, organizational strategies, reading and writing, and more
• Survival Guide for New Teachers
  ... How New Teachers Can Work Effectively with Veteran Teachers, Parents, Principals, and Teacher Educators
• Teach-nology.com
  ... web portal for educators
• Technology & Learning
  ...newsletter with articles, lessons and projects, and webquests
• Urban Education Web
  ...site offers manuals, brief articles, annotated bibliographies, reviews and summaries of outstanding publications, and conference announcements in urban education
• webTeacher
  ...webTeacher is a comprehensive, interactive, 80-hour, self-guided and self-paced tutorial, available to teachers free over the Internet.
• www4Teachers
  ... collection of online resources made by teachers for teachers!

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Classroom Management

• You Can Handle Them All
  ...This site shares a step-by-step approach to handling misbehavior at home and in school. An overview examines the causes of misbehavior, the core needs that motivate humans, and a four-step discipline model. A behavior index applies the model to over 100 specific misbehaviors.

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Lesson Plan Sites

• A Packet for Substitue Teachers
• American Memory Lesson Plans
• AskERIC Lesson Plans
• Blue Web'N is a library of blue ribbon lesson sites on the web. It includes lesson plans and internet activities.
• Chicago Systemic Initiative Math
• Classroom Connect is a gold mine of teacher resources and internet lesson ideas.
• The Collaborative Lesson Archive includes cross-curricular plans arranged according to grade level.
• CyberBee features plans for the internet in the classroom as well as other very useful resources for teachers.
• CyberSchoolBus units, interactive projects and short term social studies projects and activities. From the United Nations.
• Core Knowledge Lesson Plans & Units
• Gateway to Educational Materials
• Knowledge Integration Environment Curriculum (KIE) - lesson plans for middle and high school science. Supports theory comparison, critique, and design projects.
• Laura Candler's File Cabinet
• The Lesson Plan Page - Math, Science, Social Studies, Music, Art,
• Lesson Plans and Resources for Social Studies Teachers
• LessonPlanZ.com
  ...search by subject, grade, activity, etc.
• Link2Learn, Integrating the Internet into the Curriculum, includes many lesson plans with integrated web work.
• Marc's Lesson Plans Page - includes a theme unit, 4 plans, and links to lesson plan sites
• The Math Forum includes lesson plans and resource materials.
• Nye Labs Online (Bill Nye, the Science Guy). Includes Demo of the Day with complete instructions for activities such as building an earthworm farm.
• Outta Ray's Head a collection of lesson plans with hands outs by Ray Saitz.
• PBS TeacherSource
• Science Learning Network has links to many ideas for science.
• Science Spreadsheets (Mac & Windows format)
• Sites for Teachers - links to activities, resources, and lesson plans
• Smithsonian Education from the Smithsonian Institute provides online lesson plans for various subjects that can be downloaded and printed with Adobe Acrobat. Very nice.
• Spreadsheets in the Math Classroom 
• Teachers.Net
• Teachervision.com
  ...lesson plans, links, classroom management, school to home communication, and more.
• Yahoo Lesson Plans Links

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WebQuests

• The American Dream
  ...site challenges you to investigate the American Dream...look through the eyes of those who lived before us...use the American Memory collection, Library of Congress, to visit America's past...learn research skills and experience the richness of the library collections...defend your ideas, create projects that show your understanding of others' dreams...then share your Dream for your Future.
• ArtQuest
  ...ArtQuest is where students explore multicultural perspectives on contemporary American art.
• Banned Books Quest
  ...the school board is proposing to ban several books. Your task is to learn various points of view, and take a position on the proposal.
• Blue Web'n
  ...a library of Blue Ribbon learning sites on the Web.
• DNA for Dinner
  ... Are engineered foods safe for us to eat, for farm animals to eat, and safe for the environment?
• Global Warming WebQuest
  ...become a delegate to a UN climate control conference
• Hello Dolly.
  ... inquiry-oriented activity where learners interact with the internet, evaluate information, and formulate a solution to a complex problem
• Literary Fan Club
  ... attract members to your favorite author's fan club by writing advertisements, weekly newsletters, FAQ, etc.
• Little Rock 9, Integration 0?
  ... prompts students to think about the nine African-American students who,  in 1957, chose to attend an all-white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas.
• Mexico City Earthquake
  ...the students will be engaged in gathering information related to the subject of earthquakes in general (how they work, safety issues/emergency preparedness, history, etc...) and the Mexico City Earthquake in specific
• Module One - A Health WebQuest
  ...the legislature has earmarked $5,000,000 for research on 3 deadly diseases. You must prioritize the funding
• MusicLand Theme Park
  ... You are a team of theme park designers assigned to build a new music theme park in your city. The Park will have different "Lands" devoted to various musical genres.
• Prisoners or Protected?
  ...a WebQuest on the Humanity of Zoos.  This WebQuest helps upper elementary students explore and discuss issues surrounding zoos and the treatment of captive animals.
• The Quest Channel
  ...subscription based, from Classroom Connect
• Tuskegee Tragedy.
  ...imagine that you're a poor person living during hard economic times. Your government offers you free medical care. Sounds good. But what if the real reason you're approached is because you have a disease. But instead of giving you medical care, the doctors are really just watching what happens when this disease goes untreated. Suppose a miracle then happens and a treatment is found for your disease. Instead of giving you the new medicine, the doctors continue the experiment of watching the disease go untreated. Years pass, some of your friends who were also in the study die, some pass the disease to their wives and children.
• You be the Judge on Hammurabi's Code
  ...what should be done about a wife who ignores her duties and belittles her husband? What happens if a man is unable to pay his debts? Middle school art teacher Phillip Martin created this site - complete with engaging cartoons - to help 4th-8th grade students explore ancient history through the Hammurabi Code of Law.

Detect and Prevent Internet Plagiarism

• Eve
  ...track down Internet sources of plagiarism. Award winning commercial site. Free trial copy.
• FindSame
  ... searchs content, not key words. My colleagues have mixed reactions to the reliability of this site.
• On-Line Plagiarism
  ...essay on cut-and-paste plagiarism: how to prevent, detect and track it.
• Plagiarism Stoppers: A Teacher's Guide