Teacher Tools: Fun gadgets for classroom use, lesson plans collections, and more
TOOLS AND GADGETS:
3-2-1: Do you ever do timed writes? This is a great widget timer for your Mac.
Center for History & New Media/Research and Tools: Includes a plethora of online tools: Web Scrapbook for media storage, survey builder, poll builder, and more.
Discovery Ed's Teaching Tools Includes Puzzle Maker and Worksheet Generator, among others.
4teachers.org: Fabulous collection of online tools--my favorite is the RubiStar rubric creator.
Internet4Classrooms: Teacher Tools
MarcoPolo/Thinkfinity
Scholastic Teacher Tools
123, Your Webquest for Free: Make your own webquest.
GETHUMAN Database: OK, so it's not school related. But if you've ever been on one of those autmated phones and asked "can't I just talk to a human??" this database is foryou. gives the "secret" access codes for more than 400 US corporations.
ONLINE ENVIRONMENTS:
Nicenet.org: Create a classroom discussion board, post/upload assignments, share links.
TappedIn: Collaborate with colleagues and students
NING: Online professional communities, ala Facebook.
MATH/SCIENCE
MathTools
Science Animations, movies and tutorials
WISE Web based inquiry science environment
Squeakland: online programming environment for grades 5-8. Students learn science and math concepts while creating virtual toys.
k12science.org
HISTORY:
Xpeditions National Geographic site includes lesson plans, blackline maps (blank or with countries written in) and more.
History/Social Studies for K-12 Teachers.
Hyperhistory online: Hard to believe one guy put this entire site together!
LANGUAGE ARTS
The Moonlit Road: Southern ghost stories and folk tales
Online Poetry Classroom Offers curriculum units, poems, articles and auido clips
Online Writing Lab at Purdue: A mega-resource!
Outta Ray's Head: Great lesson plans from an experience English teacher/Librarian
Teaching That Makes Sense: Megasite on the teaching of writing
Web English Teacher
The Write Site: Middle School journalism. For teachers, go to Extra, Extra!! for instructional guide, graphic organizers and more.
American Lit videos: From Annenberg/PBS/Norton
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