The Curriculum and Instruction Department serves the Hickory Public Schools by
coordinating district-wide initiatives, curricular efforts, textbook adoptions
and other curricular resources, and professional development (which
includes the SEA System).
We act as a clearing house and point of contact for instructional resources. In
addition, the C and I department also facilitates instructional planning and
improvement efforts.
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  Grade Level : 3-5 (18) | | Subject : Language Arts (7) |
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Florida Center for Reading Research
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This site is filled with student learning activities using the five strands of literacy.
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Reading Rockets
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Reading Rockets includes articles good for personal professional development, strategies for struggling readers, and family resources.
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Working with Words
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This website contains lots of resources for working with words.
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The Reading Lady
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This website has 95 different Reader's Theater plays to focus on reading fluency. Many are adapted from popular children's books. This site is great for younger children and for ELL's.
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Open Court Resources
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There are many, many resources to compliment the Open Court reading program. You can find vocabulary ideas, workshop/center activities, worksheets, and other ideas to use directly with each unit.
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The School Bell
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Great site with Dolch, word cards, folder games and so much more for literacy. Great for K-2 and remediation for 3-5.
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Reading A-Z
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This site provides access to thousands of leveled books and other reading materials.
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| Subject : Math (3) |
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The Math Worksheet Site
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This website is great for creating hundreds boards or quick drills for addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division facts. Other topics such as measurement are also posted. Another convenient aspect of this site is the multiple ways to have problems presented as well as the numerous combinations of the facts on a page. Each student could have a different order of problems on his or her worksheet (like for drill) so copying would be much harder.
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Fractals
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Kids Memory
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Fun games that help students learn how to memorize, and prioritize information.
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| Subject : Multiple (7) |
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I Know That!
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This website includes interactive stories in all subjects. There are several illustrated math word problems and language games.
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Computer Lab Kids
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K-5 material is presented as computer games. It is divided into each nine week period for each grade level. Implementing this site would work well as a classroom presentation on a TV monitor as well.
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Family Fun Magazine
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Activities, crafts, theme ideas, party ideas, printables, games, travel stuff and more.
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Printable Worksheets
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This site offers a variety of free printable worksheets for k-5 grade in every subject -- great for homework!
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School Express
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This site contains free lesson plans, worksheets, online games and math practice, as well as educational resources. There is also an online store but plenty of free resources.
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Busy Teacher's Cafe
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This K-6 site offers ideas for theme units, literacy centers, classroom management and much more
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Crayola
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"Explore this site for hands-on learning experiences that can be searched by subject, theme, grade, media, and completion time. There are many ideas for crafts corresponding to lesson plans."
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| Subject : Science (1) |
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Water Resources
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This website provides excellent information, activity ideas, and games for students. The content includes information on watersheds, wetlands, streams, water quality, and environmental protection.
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| Grade Level : 6-8 (17) | | Subject : Language Arts (1) |
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Literary Elements Game
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This game is a great way for students to review literary elements!
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| Subject : Math (7) |
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Shodor
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Has interactive math and science activities that allow students to manipulate certain variables in different experiments and view the results.
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Math Counts
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This site offers problems of the week (with solutions), a "Go Figure" challenge, and other resources. These problems are aligned with the NCTM standards for grades 6-8.
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The Math Worksheet Site
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This website is great for creating hundreds boards or quick drills for addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division facts. Other topics such as measurement are also posted. Another convenient aspect of this site is the multiple ways to have problems presented as well as the numerous combinations of the facts on a page. Each student could have a different order of problems on his or her worksheet (like for drill) so copying would be much harder.
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Math in Daily Life
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This site helps students apply math to daily life, from population growth and science to finances and cooking.
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Fractals
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Ti Middle Grades
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This website has math and science activities you can use on the TI graphing calculator TI-73.
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Kids Memory
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Fun games that help students learn how to memorize, and prioritize information.
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| Subject : Multiple (2) |
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Seventh Grade Skills Review
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This middle school resource tests students' understanding of seventh grade skills.
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Kids Online Tech Training
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Short video clips on technology topics such as security, copyright, web design, etc. Information is presented in format and language that students can understand.
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| Subject : Science (6) |
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Shodor
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Has interactive math and science activities that allow students to manipulate certain variables in different experiments and view the results.
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Brainiac Video
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Excellent video on the reactivites of the alkali metals.
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E-Mentoring
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The link is to the NSTA website for e-mentoring for teachers with 1-3 years experience in the science classroom.
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comPADRE
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The comPADRE Pathway, a part of the National Science Digital Library, is a growing network of educational resource collections supporting teachers and students in Physics and Astronomy.
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Water Resources
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This website provides excellent information, activity ideas, and games for students. The content includes information on watersheds, wetlands, streams, water quality, and environmental protection.
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TI Middle Grades
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This website has math and science activities you can use on the TI graphing calculator TI-73.
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| Subject : Social Studies (1) |
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Primary Resources for Social Studies Teachers
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Teachers of social studies courses can find a variety or materials and resources for the classroom.
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| Grade Level : 9-12 (35) | | Subject : Language Arts (3) |
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The Writing Center -- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Teachers will find fantastic student and faculty resources to improve their students' writing. There are outstanding handouts that deal with everything from plaigarism,to paragraph-level instruction. For teachers, there are tips for good writing instruction and handouts to help students analyze research sources and structure solid research writing.
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Outta Ray's Head
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This site offers English teachers a variety of lesson plans, instructional strategies, and ideas by genre, grade level, etc. The plans and handouts are submitted by teachers from all over the US. This is a great site for getting new ideas for teaching literature and grammar.
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Web English Teacher
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This site offers GREAT lesson plan ideas for high school English teachers.
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| Subject : Math (5) |
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Shodor
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Has interactive math and science activities that allow students to manipulate certain variables in different experiments and view the results.
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S.O.S. Mathematics
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S.O.S. MATHematics includes useful tutorials in algebra, trigonometry, calculus and other advanced topics.
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The University of Cambridge
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The University of Cambridge runs a fabulous site with new enrichment activities for elementary, junior high, high school and college-level students, every month.
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Purple Math
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Free Online Tutoring, Lessons, Quizzes, and Worksheets.
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Seeing Math
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Free online math tools
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| Subject : Multiple (8) |
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New York Regents Exam
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This site contains released versions of the New York Regents Exam in several subject areas.
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The Girls, Math & Science Partnership
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The Girls Math & Science Partnership encourages and inspires teen girls interested in math and science.
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AP Central
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The link will take a teacher to AP Central where many resources exist for the AP teacher.
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Quia
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Teachers will find more than 100 categories/subject areas with activities, games, quizzes, and more . . .
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Don Quijote
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You must sign up for an account, but it offers "words of the day," games, ideas for games, teaching strategies, etc. It's great!
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TeacherLine
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Online professional development for renewal credits. Variety of resources for free.
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Kids Online Tech Training
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Short video clips on technology topics such as security, copyright, web design, etc. Information is presented in format and language that students can understand.
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Hippo Campus
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This site offers students an opportunity to have "virtual" class as they can look up information relevant to their assignments or readings. Teachers can use this site as an instructional strategy to meet the needs of visual learners.
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| Subject : Science (18) |
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Shodor
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Has interactive math and science activities that allow students to manipulate certain variables in different experiments and view the results.
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Chemthink
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This is a self paced tutorial on basic concepts in chemistry.
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Chem Team
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This site offers a great tutorial on virtually every area of chemistry covered in the NCSCoS.
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E-mentoring
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The link is to the NSTA website for e-mentoring for teachers with 1-3 years experience in the science classroom.
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comPADRE
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The comPADRE Pathway, a part of the National Science Digital Library, is a growing network of educational resource collections supporting teachers and students in Physics and Astronomy
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Chemistry Demonstrations
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This site provides ideas for lots of interesting chemistry demonstrations.
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Steve's Place
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Teachers can find lots of great information about all kinds of science.
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Terrific Science
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There are suggested science activities that could be performed in the classroom. One feature is an area that develops Parent Night science activities.
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Ohm's Law Activities
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This site provides interactive activities allowing students to create electrical circuitry investigating Ohm's Law. These activities provide a method to help make this concept more relevant to their lives.
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Diamagnetic Levitation
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This site helps teachers to explain and demonstrate the concept of electromagnetic phenomena.
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Ohm's Law
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This site further explores Ohm's Law using interactive and user friendly computer technology.
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SciLinks
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This resource is tied to various science books and was set up by the publishers. It offers demos and other science activities on various levels of instruction.
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Atomic Spectra Information
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This site offers a visual demonstration of aspects surrounding the phenomena of various interactions of atoms. This site aids students in visualizing these particles that cannot be seen even with a microscope.
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Entomology
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This site offers various lesson plans for teachers as well as interactive information for kids of all ages pertaining to insects. It also offers explorations of the interactions of these animals with their environment.
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The Periodic Table
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This site offers the history of the organization of the Periodic Table as well as an interactive way that students may explore in depth the various elements represented on the table.
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Biology Corner
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This site offers interactive lesson plans in the field of Biology.
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Agricultural Science
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This site is good to demonstrate the relevance of various science topics taught in Environmental Science and Biology. It is also very user-friendly!
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Agricultural Science
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This site is good to demonstrate the relevance of various science topics taught in Environmental Science and Biology. It is also very user-friendly!
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| Subject : Social Studies (1) |
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Primary Resources for Social Studies Teachers
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Teachers of social studies courses can find a variety or materials and resources for the classroom.
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| Grade Level : K-12 (94) | | Subject : Arts (2) |
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Music Theory
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Quick, easy interactive drills for a number of musical concepts from note reading to chord construction. I use it with advanced students in IB Music for drill, to help my beginning players learn to read and to increase reading speed and accuracy with intermediate players
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Crayola
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"Explore this site for hands-on learning experiences that can be searched by subject, theme, grade, media, and completion time. There are many ideas for crafts corresponding to lesson plans."
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| Subject : ESL (4) |
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Babel Fish Alta Vista
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This site can help teachers communicate on the phone and in the office when conversing with a spanish-speaking person.
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Dave's ESL Cafe
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This website is great for ESL teachers, but not only for us. It has great games and teacher-submitted ideas for all language arts teachers to jazz up our lessons.
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Rubistar en Espanol
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This site is great! It would be wonderful for all Spanish teachers. When you go into Rubistar you have the option at the bottom righthand side of the page to choose Rubistar en español. All of your choices for input are in Spanish and you can add your own categories.
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In the Classroom • a Toolkit for Effective Instruction of English Learners
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This is a fantastic site that offers instructional strategies and examples for reaching English Language Learners.
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| Subject : Language Arts (7) |
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What's Next Database
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A database for readers who like series books (adult or youth). Look up the latest title from your favorite authors!
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Writing Fix
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Use picture books to introduce 6 trait writing. This site provides free lessons and links for interactive student activities.
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Book Advantage
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Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 7,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes.
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My Skills Tutor
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Teachers can find all kinds of lessons that the student can complete on the computer. The lessons mostly deal with math and reading remediation.
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Read, Write, Think
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This site has resources, lesson plans and materials for Language Arts Instruction in grades K-12.
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Woodlands Junior School
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There are several good online interactive activities to help students with literacy skills on this site as well as links to other sites.
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Free Reading
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This website for teachers focuses on teaching early reading. Here, you will find lessons, activities, etc. that can be altered to meet needs of students.
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| Subject : Math (9) |
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Explore Learning: Math and Science Simulations
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This site provides interactive activities that students can observe. (You can register for a 30 day free trial or register/pay to be a member.) The activities are aligned with the NCSCoS.
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The Math Forum at Drexel University
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This site offers kindergarten to graduate-level lesson plans, software, student project ideas and homework help.
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The Math Forum's Problems of the Week
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The Math Forum's directory of weekly competitions will challenge students at any level.
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The Math Forum Library
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The Math Forum Internet Mathematics Library is a treasure trove of links categorized by topic or educational level.
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Math.com
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Math.com offers students practice problems, games, tools and tutoring.
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AAA Math
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Here teachers can find independent practice for a large number of math concepts with each step being broken down to tiny, building block steps. Also, it provides pecentages of questions answered correctly so you can see if any growth is being acheived.
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My Skills Tutor
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Teachers can find all kinds of lessons that the student can complete on the computer. The lessons mostly deal with math and reading remediation.
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Kids Numbers
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This web sites offer basic, sequential math instruction and games.
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Kids Numbers
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Essential Math skills in the form of games that will engage and stimulate students to learn.
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| Subject : Multiple (58) |
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TEA Released State Tests
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Texas has made the state's released EOC's and EOG's and interactive. Students can take the assessments online and get immediate feedback.
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NC Wise Owl
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Teachers and students alike can find a wealth of information, lesson plans, articles, and support resources here.
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Education World Templates
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Teachers will find lots of templates for various things.
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Learn NC
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Learn NC is a great resource for teachers to find articles, websites, lesson plans, and online professional development. Featured lessons are changed weekly, and all resources are aligned to NCSCoS.
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SAS in Schools
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Excellent resource for all teachers. This site has interactive simulations as well as web based activities.
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Donors Choose
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Donors Choose allows teachers to submit resource requests online. Potential donors scan the site looking for projects to support. Funding will be secured and the items requested shipped to you.
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Power Point Templates
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This website provides power point templates for interactive games for your classroom.
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Pre-made PowerPoints for all Subjects
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This website provides interactive power points in all subjects.
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Picture Dictionary
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This site is great for helping ELL's with vocabulary.
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Links by Grade Level
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This is a neverending supply of links for classroom teachers organized by grade level.
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Larry Ferlazzo's Home Page
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This website has over 6,000 activities appropriate for ELL's. They are divided by subject.
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Girl Start -- Smart from the Start!
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GirlStart is aimed at drawing middle-school girls into math and science with games and fascinating child-friendly articles.
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United Streaming
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Educators can find current online streaming videos correlated to the NCSCOS that allow students to utilize technology in their learning environment.
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RubiStar
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RubiStar is known mainly for aiding in the creation of scoring guides, but there are other features available for many kinds of projects and products.
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Advanced Placement (AP) Courses from the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education
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Open source courses in AP are available at this web site. They have many visual representations of concepts covered in AP courses.
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Random Acts of Kindness
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There are literally hundreds of ideas for promoting kindness in your classroom and community. There are lesson plans, teacher's guides, and many more resources to help promote kindness in school.
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Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
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This is a great resource to find picture books and novels for curriculum integration. Recommendations are provided for all grade levels and subject areas.
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TeAchnology
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This site has lesson plans for every subject and every grade. There are also worksheets, games, teaching tips, and many webqusets.
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LessonPlanz.com
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LessonPlanz.com is a searchable directory of free online lesson plans and lesson plan resources for all grades and subjects.
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ADPRIMA
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This site contains information on lesson planning and writing behavioral objectives, ideas about classroom management, and descriptions of the advantages and disadvantages of different instructional methods.
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Reader's Theater Scripts
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This site contains many resources for reader's theater scripts and accompanying lesson plans. There are also links to other sites with reader's theater scripts.
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Can Teach
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There are hundreds of lesson plans, thousands of links, and tons of other resources on this site. It's espcecially useful for songs and poems or lesson ideas.
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The Futures Channel
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This site provides opportunities to link academics with the real world. especially science and technology. E-mails provide classroom activites, a video clip or information that shows how math, science and technology are used in real life.
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Reach Every Child
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This site has many educational resources for teachers and students. It includes lesson plans to make reaching students and using technology easier.
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RubiStar en Espanol
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This site is great! It would be wonderful for all Spanish teachers. When you go into Rubistar you have the option at the bottom righthand side of the page to choose Rubistar en español. All of your choices for input are in Spanish and you can add your own categories.
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Pro Teacher Community
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This site contains lesson plans for virtually every subject and grade through middle school. You can also find resources and ideas for your classroom for everything from bulletin board ideas to behavior management strategies.
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Smart Brief
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This site highlights educational news making headlines throughout the nation.
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My Gradebook
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For a small fee, teachers can easily keep both parents and students abreast of daily changes in grades and attendance. A great motivator!
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PBS Kids: Don't Buy It!
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"Teachers have the ability to engage students in media literacy — the ability to access, evaluate, analyze and produce both electronic and print media — by dissecting pop culture and advertisements. Media literacy education can help students build critical thinking and analytic skills, become more discriminating in the use of mass media, distinguish between reality and fantasy, and consider whether media values are their values. "
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Kids Spell
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This web site offers spelling instruction and games.
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Gifted Hoagies
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This is an excellent website for teachers to provide differentiation for their high-ability learners. There is a wealth of ideas and information.
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Prentice Hall
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This site has teacher and student resources that enhance teaching and learning in the classroom and at home.
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The Big 6
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This is a link to the research model for grades 3-12.
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Teaching Tolerance
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This organization supplies teachers with lesson plans, activities, ideas, and concepts to create an inclusive and culturally aware classroom.
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The Lesson Plans Page
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Teachers can find great lesson plans from pre-k to twelfth grade.
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Education World
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This site offers information on lesson plans, technology, professional development opportunities, and pretty much anything related to education.
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Instructify
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Resources for teachers including hot topics and current events can be found here.
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SmartBoard in the Classroom
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This site has MANY ideas for using smartboards in the classroom. There are resources available for all grades and subjects.
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Thinkfinity (aka Marco Polo)
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This website has awesome resources, lesson plans, and more for all grade levels and content areas.
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National Geographic World Music
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World music site with links to folk, traditional and popular music organized by region with information about the culture, artists, instruments and maps.
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Gunny's Study Links
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Lots of sites, both informational and interactive in many subjects compiled by a teacher in Newton-Conover schools.
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Welcome to Lesson Plans
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There is a huge collection of lesson plans on this site. The plans are submitted by teachers for teachers.
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Learn the Net
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Great for students, parents, grandparents, and teachers to learn specific internet-based topics . Good graphics and tutorials. Great for developing a "computer" vocabulary.
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Smithsonian Education
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On this site you can use the search fields to access Smithsonian educational resources or find resources aligned to the state standards. There are videos, and audio and power point presentations also available.
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Schools Attuned
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The Schools Attuned website is for teachers who have registered in previous courses. Documents and resources are available for download.
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All Kinds of Minds
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AKOM is a resource for teachers, parents, and community members who teach children with all kinds of minds (all of us!). Lesson plans, articles, and professional support are provided online.
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Word Press
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A website with free blog space. Registration is free, and it's easy to use.
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Wiki Spaces
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Wiki Spaces has free space for your classroom wiki. K-12 educators get upgraded space, which is still free, with no advertisements.
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National Geographic
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Great video vingettes for student engagement.
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Learning Seed
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Learning Seed is a well known provider of instructional videos.
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Library Video Company
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This site and company offer many instructional items. They offer many things for all grades and most content areas.
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Great Ideas for Teaching Marketing
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This website is subject specific and provides an entourage of many creative ideas for lesson implementation.
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The Official Kids' Portal for the U.S. Government
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Kids.gov contains more that 1,200 webpages from the U.S government, agencies and schools, divided into age-appropriate groupings, and covering everything from health, to the arts, to social studies and language. Some featured sites include Smithsonian slideshows on mummy-making and Library of Congress resources for history and literature.
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National Association for Sports and Physical Education
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Good resourse for standard guidelines, grant opportunities, and lesson activities.
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Calendars that Work
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This website is wonderful for creating calendars for classroom use. Create your own snack calendar each month or assignment calendar. Download the calendar and then type children's names in. You can also add pictures of your class to your calendars.
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African Zoo
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Excellent resource for information about African animals.
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Catpin Productions, Bubble Test Form Generator
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This site allows you to create bubble sheets to match any test that you give. It is great for studentsto practice using a bubble sheet.
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Free Resources for Educational Excellence
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Choose from a variety of subjects and topics and search the database for materials to fit your classroom needs.
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| Subject : Science (12) |
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Explore Learning: Math and Science Simulations
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This site provides interactive activities that students can observe. (You can register for a 30 day free trial or register/pay to be a member.) The activities are aligned with the NCSCoS.
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National Science Teacher's Association
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The web site for the National organization for science teachers K-12 which establishes standards for science teachers throughout the nation.
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The Physical Sciences Resource Center
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A collection of information and resources for physical sciences education is just a mouse-click away! You may search the collection by keyword or name, or browse the collection by topic, object type, or grade level.
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Science Net Links
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This site provides internet-based learning activities for science lessons. There are interactive activities and slideshows to share with students.
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Yucky Human Body Stuff!
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If you teach anything that connects to the human body, this website provides answers to some of those gross questions that your students (and YOU) may have always wondered about.
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Steve Spangler Science
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This site has many ideas for science experiments. There are videos to correspond with many of the lessons
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Space Exploration
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This site offers wonderful Hubble telescope pictures of stars and space events.
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Nature's Journal
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This site explores various natural diseases and their occurrences. It also offers various other interactive links to science topics.
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Electron Micoscopy Images
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This site offers daily electron microscopy images. They are great for having the students guess what the images are during classroom "warm up" activities.
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Live Science
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This site offers blogs, interactive activities, and live animal watching feeds. These topics are wonderful for daily warm-ups at the start of class.
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NASA
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This site offers times and locations of where one might view the International Space Station flying over. Students of all ages are especially excited when they wtness this event.
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Weather Watching
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This site is very useful for Earth and Environmental Science, not to mention our everyday lives. Links to Hurricane maps and tracking are easy to find. History of other weather events may also be explored.
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Social Studies in Action: A Teaching Practices Library
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Social Studies teachers from grades K-12 can find a variety of tools and ideas including a video library.
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Today in History
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Each day of the year, you'll find a fresh article (or two)
that springs from an historical event associated with that date.
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| Grade Level : K-2 (36) | | Subject : Language Arts (9) |
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Florida Center for Reading Research
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This site is filled with student learning activities using the five strands of literacy.
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Reading Rockets
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Reading Rockets includes articles good for personal professional development, strategies for struggling readers, and family resources.
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Working with Words
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This website contains lots of resources for working with words.
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The Reading Lady
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This website has 95 different Reader's Theater plays to focus on reading fluency. Many are adapted from popular children's books. This site is great for younger children and for ELL's.
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Open Court Resources
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There are many, many resources to compliment the Open Court reading program. You can find vocabulary ideas, workshop/center activities, worksheets, and other ideas to use directly with each unit.
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Handwriting for Kids
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"This site has great printables for practicing handwriting. Best of all, you can create your own handwriting practice page in cursive or manuscript."
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Dolch Sight Words
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These Dolch word cards are easily printed and laminated for individuals and pairs to practice. I mounted them in different colors for each level, and store them in ziploc bags. There are also check lists for keeping individual records.
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The School Bell
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Great site with Dolch, word cards, folder games and so much more for literacy. Great for K-2 and remediation for 3-5.
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Reading A-Z
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This site provides access to thousands of leveled books and other reading materials.
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| Subject : Math (1) |
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Kids Memory
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Fun games that help students learn how to memorize, and prioritize information.
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| Subject : Multiple (26) |
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Starfall
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Starfall is an interactive website for younger students to enjoy a variety of activities relating to all subjects in the curriculum.
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Reading Rainbow
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This site gives great lesson plans and resources for preschool teachers on a variety of themes.
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Everything Preschool
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Great ideas for teaching early childhood themes.
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NCAEYC
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This is the website for NC-aeyc. It keeps teachers informed in the early childhood field.
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A to Z Teacher Stuff
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This is a good website for early childhood teaching ideas.
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Fun Lesson Plans
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This site contains more early childhood lesson plan ideas.
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I Know That!
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This website includes interactive stories in all subjects. There are several illustrated math word problems and language games.
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Word Way
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This website has lots of wonderful word family reproducibles with pictures. These are great for ELL's.
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Actvity Idea Place
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There are over 3400 activity ideas for Early Childhood Education professionals. There is also a forum for posting ideas and questions.
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Grade 1 Central
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You can find lesson plans, teaching ideas, and resources for the Grade One curriculum (also adaptable to K-2) on this site. There is tons of information here!!
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Barr Bunch
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This site has resources for preschool, kindergarten and primary teachers. There are many games, lesson plans, worksheets, etc from which to choose.
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Kiz Club
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This site has many printables for phonics, crafts, flashcards, and other teacher resources.
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Kaboose
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This site has some great crafts, recipes, and games for classrooms. There are many other resources available here.
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Literacy Center
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This site offers ideas and information about literacy ideas for early childhood
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Kinder Plans
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This site provides ideas for lesson plans for early childhood.
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Kindergarten Themes
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This website contains thematic units on all different topics and in all different areas. It can be adapted for K-2 classrooms.
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Computer Lab Skills
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K-5 material is presented as computer games. It is divided into each nine week period for each grade level. Implementing this site would work well as a classroom presentation on a TV monitor as well.
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The Smartie Zone
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This instructional website provides valuable resources for reading, math, and writing for K-2. There are several documents ready to print.
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The Reading Lady
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This website has 95 different Reader's Theater plays to focus on reading fluency. Many are adapted from popular children's books. This site is great for younger children and for ELL's.
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Family Fun Magazine
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Activities, crafts, theme ideas, party ideas, printables, games, travel stuff and more.
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Mrs. McDowell's Classroom
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This site has many ideas for centers, crafts, workshops, Open Court resources and literacy centers. It can be used for Kindergarten through second grade.
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Seussville
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This site is just plain fun for all things Seuss! There are printables, ideas for the classroom and online games for students.
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Printable Worksheets
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This site offers a variety of free printable worksheets for k-5 grade in every subject -- great for homework!
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School Express
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This site contains free lesson plans, worksheets, online games and math practice, as well as educational resources. There is also an online store but plenty of free resources.
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Busy Teacher's Cafe
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This K-6 site offers ideas for theme units, literacy centers, classroom management and much more
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Crayola
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"Explore this site for hands-on learning experiences that can be searched by subject, theme, grade, media, and completion time. There are many ideas for crafts corresponding to lesson plans."
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