Fantastic Resources for Teachers!
Lesson Plan Links (new links added frequently) xxx
Pacific Bell's Blue Web"N This huge data bank contains hundreds of fantastic sources of lesson plans, tutorials, activities, resources, reference tools, and hot lists for all subjects and grade levels. The following links are courtesy of Pacific Bell's Blue Web'n site:
Quia
Check out Quia, a site that helps you create learning activities
easily; quizzes, games, crossword puzzles, flash cards. Also
contains a directory with thousands of activities, games and
quizzes from 40 different subject areas.
http://www.quia.com
Puzzlemaker
http://www.puzzlemaker.com/
Need a sponge activity or extra credit handout for your lesson
tomorrow? Want to spice up a newsletter or flyer? This site lets
you create your own mazes, word searches, crosswords, number
blocks, math squares, and more. All you do is enter information
and click the "Create" button, wait a few seconds, then
print your customized puzzle
AskERIC
http://www.askeric.org/
Ask ERIC Homepage for educators includes a searchable ERIC
database, a question and answer service, and a virtual library of
ERIC InfoGuides, lesson plans, conference information,
educational listservs, and more
Amazing Picture
Machine
http://www.ncrtec.org/picture.htm
This searchable index of Internet graphics will help you find
images for your lessons. Supporting a wide variety of topics from
historical photos to science diagrams, the site also includes
lesson ideas and search tips. From the North Central Regional
Technology in Education Consortium.
SchoolNotes.com
http://schoolnotes.com/
This online tool allows educators to share information with
students and parents via the Internet. Teachers can post homework
assignments, announcements, and favorite links just by entering
information into a box on their Web browser. Parents can sign up
to be notified by e-mail when the site is updated.
Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank interactive Web site that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet sites, and turning Web resources into online lessons.
Other useful sites:
SANTA CRUZ HIGH'S VIRTUAL LIBRARY This site has it all! From Virtual Tours - An internet
index of 2500 virtual tours, to
Homework Central - 400,000 handpicked,
school-related research links, Santa Cruz High has created an
entire library online, arranged by the Dewey decimal system.
http://www.santacruzhs.santacruz.k12.ca.us/library/dewey.html
Library of Congress, This tremendous resource for history and government classes also contains many useful lesson plans that utilize documents and photos online at the Library of Congress. http://lcweb.loc.gov/
Trackstar TrackStar is an on-line interface that helps instructors organize and annotate on-line resources (URLs) and file them in the TrackStar database..
FINDING AND ORGANIZING RESOURCES: USING THE INTERNET IN THE CURRICULUM by Barbara Treacy. Great source of basic links to online lesson plans and activities.
The 10 Stages to Web-use Nirvana After years of experimentation, trial and error, and some success, Tom March has identified 10 key stages that can help educators work the Web for Education. The stages begin with an emphasis on teachers finding their own personal value, then move into early classroom applications of the Web before suggesting how to facilitate critical thinking through Web Quests and coaching. This Web page can be used by in-service providers to help mesh with learner readiness or by individuals as a tool for self evaluation.
Module Maker This site guides teachers through the process of creating online research modules for their students. The research model presented here is intended to "challenge your students to make up their own minds while supplying them with rich information to support such thinking," and the guidance includes advice on asking good questions, scaffolding the assignment to direct student efforts, and setting up the online module in stages. Authored by Jamie McKenzie, publisher of the From Now On Educational Technology Journal, Module Maker includes examples and templates to help teachers get started with their own online research modules. Grade Level: Adult/Professional
Webmonkey for Kids If you want to teach kids HTML, here's a good starting point. Webmonkey for Kids includes HTML and Web design lessons, project ideas and templates, and even a guide for parents and teachers.
Document Analysis Worksheets From the National Archives and Records Administration. The following document analysis worksheets were designed and developed by the Education Staff of the National Archives and Records Administration. Print and use these worksheets for the classroom! Worksheets for analyzing movies, maps, photos, cartoons, sound recordings, posters, artifacts, and written documents. http://www.nara.gov/education/teaching/analysis/analysis.html
World Lecture Hall The World Lecture Hall (WLH) contains links to pages created by faculty worldwide who are using the Web to deliver university-level academic courses in any language. There are many excellent sites here that provide detailed lecture note and course outlines useful for both teachers and students. http://www.utexas.edu/world/lecture/
Andrea's Tips on Integrating Technology in the Classroom Simple tips on using computers and the Internet within the classroom curriculum by yours truly!.
Hope you found this useful! Happy Planning!