GREAT WEBSITES FOR TEACHERS & PARENTS
RESOURCES
PRIMARY GRADE SPECIFIC:
This site is full of lesson plans and activities for just about anything that you could teach at the K-1 level.
http://www.abcteach.com/
This is an excellent site for building phonemic awareness and the setup is really simply so simple so little ones can navigate easily. Additionally, it has wonderful phonics activities and interactive stories for the students to read as well as offering free decodable books for teachers.
http://www.starfall.com/
A typing tutor game in which letters fall from the sky and they need to hit the key on the keyboard before it touches the ground. There are other activities that are level appropriate as well.
http://funschool.kaboose.com/
A helpful website for MLA and APA questions which even has a site for grades 1-5.
http://www.noodletools.com/
Here’s a site for 3rd grade, specifically telling time and money. Although it’s simple, it’s so user friendly and allows the students to increase or decrease the difficulty as they see fit.
http://www.playtolearn.com/
Lots of coloring pages and crafts; a section where you or the kids can make lined writing paper with a selection of characters like Thomas Tank engine, or Yu-Gi-Oh.
http://www.dltk-kids.com/
Excellent site with a variety of activities for primary grades.
http://www.mediapolis.k12.ia.us/library/primary.htm
This is a great website for kids and is fun and educational.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/websites/4_11/index.shtml
This is a great website for elementary students. The topics are mostly social studies related, but there is a math and money link. It keep up with all sorts of current events.
http://www.factmonster.com/
K-12 GRADES:
This is a fun, easy site for creating vocabulary word searches and crossword puzzles. It is especially effective if you have your students create the puzzles, thus reinforcing learning as they design the review sheet or quiz.
http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/
Lucas Learning was founded by George Lucas to provide K-12 classrooms technology-based instructional materials that make learning challenging, engaging and fun!
http://www.lucaslearning.com/
This website is an extremely useful site for looking up just about anything.
http://www.encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/
A website for homework help. While this website looks elementary, there is middle and high school support!
http://kids.lausd.net/
This site has some intriguing puzzles for upper elementary through high school
http://www.puzzle.dse.nl/basic/index_us.html
This is the American Library Association site. It includes numerous lists of recommended books, by age, subject matter, etc.; and also has teen pages which can be a great resource for those working with adolescents. It also lists tons of great websites on topics such as animals, dinosaurs, zoos and aquariums, weather and environment, etc. You name it, they probably have it.
http://www.ala.org/
This is a great resource website for curriculum information, online tutoring, etc.
http://www.proquestk12.com/
Excellent resource for students that are researching information about any of the United States and its territories.
http://www.50states.com/
This includes support for all ages, and ESL as well. For instant, it provides answers to questions about word definition / usage in class.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/
This is a fun and educational website for middle and high school students.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/websites/11_16/index.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/websites/16/
K-12 GRADES:
Dale Hubert's international literacy and community building activity for students of all ages, teachers and families. Send Flat Stanley through the mail to visit people you know.
http://www.flatstanley.com/
Connecting millions for students, teachers and classrooms globally!
http://www.epals.com/
Classroom magazines; read, learn, inspire and motivate.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/classmags/lfo.htm
MIDDLE SCHOOL SPECIFIC:
Fun family math problems for middle school students.
http://www.figurethis.org/
HIGH SCHOOL SPECIFIC:
This website offers free online support and resources. There are sections for students to receive homework help in all core subjects. The site also offers games and puzzles to help reinforce some of the materials they may learn in class. One of the sections I was impressed with is the area dedicated to SAT and various High School Exit Exam tutorials. They provide sample questions and quality explanations.
http://highschoolace.com/ace/ace.cfm
FOR THE TEACHER / PARENT EDUCATOR:
This site is an annotated guide to the other education-related sites, and is sorted by subject area or lifestyle.
http://www.educationindex.com/
ASCD provides a rich source of valuable information for both new and experienced teachers. If you have a question it will be answered not only in a timely manner, but by one of its expert staff members. In addition, if you so decide, you can place your question/s in its open forum and you can literally get a large number of responses from educators around the globe who are working in the field with their ideas, suggestions, and teaching strategies. This website is extremely useful in creating new and exciting lesson plans, supplements to your regular curriculum, and relevant new research findings regarding general as well as in special education.
http://www.ascd.org/
The New York Times offers free lesson plans that use current news stories as the topics of discussion. This is mainly for middle and high school teachers.
http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/
This website has a board where you can post questions and people will respond to them.
http://teachers.net/
FOR THE TEACHER / PARENT EDUCATOR:
Excellent website that covers anything and everything about the Internet. It is great for the beginner as well as the expert.
http://internet101.com/
This website has a list of teacher sites, and it will go out and search the top sites for the topics of your choice. It is fabulous!
http://www.forteachers.net/
Teachers can preview great titles for students and teacher productivity (crossword, word search, math puzzle), software for free from the web.
http://www.tomsnyder.com/
This website is a kind of how-to guide for Layered Curriculum. It offers some great ideas and sample lessons/units.
http://www.help4teachers.com/how.htm
A good general resource for teachers, parents and students with lots of good links and “stuff”!
http://www.educationplanet.com/
This website has all kinds of lesson ideas for all ages in all subjects.
http://www.forteachers.com/
This is the state’s website for education. Here you can view API’s, blueprints, and even get the standards. You can cut and paste the standard onto the top of assignments you make so that the students know what they are working on and that you’re not just making it up.
http://www.cde.ca.gov/index.asp
Lots of worksheets by grade and by category.
http://www.learningpage.com/
This site is a free online test generator. One can create multiple choice, true and false, fill-in, and a combination of all or some. The site even lets you save and change your assessments as well as printing out a master answer sheet.
http://www.easytestmaker.com/
This site has some very helpful projects, lesson plans and resources.
http://www.junebox.com/
Surprisingly, this website has some really neat lesson plans.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/default.aspx
FOR THE TEACHER / PARENT EDUCATOR:
No matter what you teach or your grade level, you will find a internet lesson you can do with your kids. Also, once you learn how to make your own tracks, the teaching options are endless.
http://trackstar.hprtec.org/
An excellent website with a variety of information for every teacher.
http://www.pitt.edu/~poole/
This site provides awesome lessons for all age groups in a variety of subjects.
http://www.teacherfirst.com/
Teachers-Helping-Teachers is set up to provide basic teaching tips to inexperienced teachers. There are ideas that can be immediately implemented into the classroom, ones that provide new ideas in teaching methodologies for all teachers, and it provides a forum for experienced teachers to share their expertise and tips with colleagues around the world. There are also further educational links to provide more support to teachers.
http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/
Very helpful in combating plagiarism. By submitting an excerpt from a student’s work, you can see if it was pulled off the Internet.
http://www.turnitin.com/static/index.html
This site has an entire study skills curriculum.
http://www.pinkmonkey.com/
This website is very wonderful. It has resources for K-12 and contains resources such as worksheets for different topics. It contains language arts materials such as poems and songs. It also contains thematic units of various topics. Articles are also offered for teachers to referred to
http://www.lessonplanz.com/
If you have the opportunity to use computers in your classroom, this site is wonderful to take your students to different places. They could interact and find out information about an extensive amount of topics.
http://www.hawley.k12.mn.us/html/
One of the best utility sites used for secondary students. You can create and post quizzes for students to take, and it does all the work of grading, etc.
http://quizstar.4teachers.org/
FOR THE TEACHER / PARENT EDUCATOR:
Teach-nology is a great tool for teaching. It produces personalized rubrics for tons of stuff. It also helps to make puzzles, crossword, worksheets, bingo cards, etc. At first it looks as if you have to buy something….DON’T be fooled. If you scroll down, there are plenty of free tools that they offer without a subscription. It’s worth checking out..especially for those last minute lesson changes.
http://teachers.teach-nology.com/web_tools/
This site is great for teachers for all grade levels. The levels begin at the preschool level all the way up to twelfth grade. This site also contains educational articles that teachers could refer to. It has a store where teachers could buy books or materials. It also has extensive links to click on.
http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/
This site will let you set up a free web page where you can post homework and lessons on it every day and then students (and their parents) always know what their homework is. It can also be configured to send library alerts, tie your curriculum to web pages and lots of other things, and post homework assignments that students and parents can access from any computer hooked to the Internet. http://www.yourhomework.com/