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Make sure you checkout our homework help section for students..... you may find this useful for classroom use as well!  We also maintain a list of links relating just to Elementary education. Check out Noel's teacher tools for a variety of online teacher resources. If you are looking for help with web pages...visit Noel's Web Resources.

MISCELLANEOUS LINKS

 

Teacher tutorials on PowerPoint, Internet Explorer, FrontPage, Microsoft's Office 2000 and Outlook Express are good places to start for the beginning users. (Note At our school we use Outlook and not Outlook Express. The Outlook Express program is similar to Outlook program but a "light" version.) (These are a little dated, but still good resources.)

A few Misc educational topics and links:

Using Eboard

Online Quizzing  (Doane Quia Page) (At Funbrain take a quiz-- secret word is inservice.)

Recording PowerPoint Narration

Web publish with PowerPoint

Use on-line documents instead of Microsoft Word??? and it's free! (No software--just runs right from your web browser!)

Google Documents
Thinkfree
Zoho Office Suite

 

Lightspan Partnership Inc. for Lightspan.com www.lightspan.com
Lightspan offers outstanding resources for students, teachers and parents, and has made strong partnerships to strengthen and expand its offerings. It now includes the superior project-centered multimedia education resources of the Global Schoolhouse—one of last year’s Platinum Award winners—that has probably done more to “link kids, teachers and parents around the world” through the Internet, than has any other organization. Lightspan also provides links to curriculum materials in every K-12 content area that can be searched by keywords and grade level. “Lightspan PageOne” allows teachers to create their own free Web resource pages and the comprehensive StudyWeb is a learning portal for students.

National Geographic Society for National Geographic.com www.nationalgeographic.com
This site is packed with quality content, and is an education supersite with printable maps, searchable lesson plans, online adventures, a teachers’ forum for exchanging ideas, and outstanding resources to support its television programs and magazines. Similarly, its special section for students offers geography challenges, learning activities, online family expeditions and a pen-pal network. The entire site is educationally valuable and it offers some of the best interactive multimedia experiences, live events and exhibits on the Web. One example is the amazing Virtual Solar System, where visitors can take a spectacular 3D fly-by close-up tour of the sun and planets in their orbits, and observe extraterrestrial weather patterns.

ThinkQuest Inc. for ThinkQuest Internet Challenge and “ThinkQuest Junior” www.thinkquest.org
The annual ThinkQuest awards programs—for students aged 12-19 and students in Grades 4 to 6 respectively—has made unparalleled contributions to advancing the quality of online education by providing opportunities for teams of students and coaches to compete in developing Web-based educational projects. Curriculum areas include arts & literature, science & mathematics, social sciences and sports & health. The teams pay no entry fee, but winners receive generous cash awards and the programs have challenged students throughout the world. The site also offers project-development materials including tutorials on technical and design issues, a library of projects from previous years, and teacher resources. Examples of entries include: Electricity Online; War & Conflict: Past, Present, Future; and Learning About Leonardo.

Binney & Smith for Crayola Art Education education.crayola.com
Crayola offers a searchable directory of lesson plans to give students experience with the role of art in every content area, at levels from pre-K through high school, and using whatever types of art materials that are specified. The site also offers instruction on art techniques using a variety of media, examples of completed projects at various grade levels, classroom teaching tips, links to related art sites, and forums for exchanging ideas on topics including class activities, technology and art education, and art advocacy. Crayola showcases selected student art portfolios and offers a free art education e-mail list.

The Bonus Network Corporation for Bonus.com bonus.com
Bonus.com, known as the SuperSite for Kids, is one of the most extensive and exciting collections of multimedia student activities and learning experiences on the Web. The site offers more than 120,000 pages of creative interactive content in every subject area, organized into categories including play, imagine, and explore. Activities are also rated by level of difficulty: easy (ages 3-6), intermediate (ages 7-11), or advanced (ages 12-15). Bonus.com is a model for the effective online educational use of color graphics, animation and audio.

Classroom Connect for Classroom Connect www.classroom.com
Classroom Connect, a company focused exclusively on products and services for using the Internet and the Web in K-12 education, has made continuing contributions to advancing the quality of online education. Its Web site offers valuable teaching and learning resources in every curriculum area, including links to selected sites, lesson plans that can be printed out, a “Connected Calendar” with activities related to each day of the month, and a message board for exchanging ideas. The site also offers password-controlled curriculum resources to support Classroom Connect products.

Harcourt School Publishers for The Learning Site www.harcourtschool.com
This is an outstanding example of a company site that offers online materials and activities to support its curriculum products in every content area. Most are appropriate for any elementary school. The resources are organized by grade level and can be searched by keywords and content areas. Many of the activities make excellent use of interactive online multimedia technologies and the site also offers links to the Smithsonian Institution for content in science and social studies.

Houghton Mifflin for Education Place www.eduplace.com
Education Place is a well-designed K-8 curriculum site with extensive collections of valuable resources for students, teachers and parents. These include separate reading, math, science and social studies centers, an activity database that can be searched by content area and grade level, a directory of collaborative projects, recommended Web “field trips,” educational games and challenges and online discussion groups for teachers and students. A strong focus of Education Place is providing activities to support and extend company products, but all site materials are usable by any elementary school students and teachers.

PBS for PBS TeacherSource www.pbs.org/teachersource
TeacherSource offers daily updates to educational programming features on PBS, television listings grouped by subject, and links to local station Web sites that are accessed by entering zip codes. The site also offers tips on teaching with technology and television, a teacher programming preview newsletter and links to related PBS sites for adults and children. The site offers more than 1,300 standards-matched lesson plans and activities in every content area that can be searched by age levels ranging from preschool through high school. The PBS video database is also a nice resource.

Scholastic Inc. for Scholastic.com www.scholastic.com
This comprehensive and well-organized site offers an outstanding selection of content targeted for students, teachers and parents. For example, the children’s section offers interactive activities, reading circles, discussion guides and author profiles for Scholastic books. Similarly, the teacher section includes lesson plans, research tools, online activities by grade level and professional resources, while the parent section includes tips and advice on raising children and selecting appropriate books and other products. The Web pages are packed with information, and a site map makes it easy to find specific resources.
The site also includes information about home-to-school connections.

Copernicus Interactive Inc. for The Copernicus Education Gateway www.gocopernicus.com
This site, which links directly to all of the news sections of USA Today, offers a wide array of online resources for students, teachers and parents, set up as separate channels. These include Quick Facts, which offers online encyclopedias, thesauri, dictionaries and homework helpers; multimedia Discovery Adventures from a variety of sources; Creative Zone for interactive activities in the arts; and Collaboration Station links to recommended teaching tools on the Internet. The site also includes Curriculum Matrix, a comprehensive teacher-developed guide to learning resources, lesson plans and activities mapped to essential academic standards. The site has a project gateway, with links to items such as an adventure team and a solar system eclipse.

Disney Educational Productions for Edu-Station Disney.go.com/educational
Edu-Station offers a variety of multimedia education features, including CyberLesson Plans on themes such as Native American story telling, stargazing, and food traditions; teacher-tested sites and ideas in various content areas; a book nook; and an educator events calendar. The site also links to a great number of related activity sites such as games, fun for families and stories, as well as education resources including Homework Helper and Computer Corner.

Education World for Education World www.education-world.com
Education World is an excellent guide to educational resources on the Web, and offers search word access to a database of more than 120,000 sites that can also be browsed by content area. In addition, the site delivers weekly feature articles with related links in various sections that highlight lesson planning, curriculum, site reviews, school news, professional books and a section for school administrators.

Knowledge Adventure, Inc. for Educast www.educast.com
Educast is a free education-oriented screen-saver that displays curriculum and professional information that can be updated daily. The new Educast 3.0 can also be operated as a standalone product, and it offers separate content channels including news, lesson plans, current events, interest groups, science and mathematics galleries, and access to USA Today. It is easy to move within any given channel to read specific reports and articles in depth—either online or offline—and also link to related Web sites for additional information.

MaMaMedia Inc. for mamamedia.com www.mamamedia.com
MaMaMedia, “The place for kids on the Web,” is a creative site devoted to interactive online multimedia activities for children. These include games, puzzles, problems and projects; opportunities to send in information to share with others such as jokes and riddles; and links to the best kid-centered sites on the Web. Everything about the site is designed to appeal to children, from the effective use of color graphics, sound, animations and humor to its wide selection of content on great variety of topics in every area.

Pitsco, Inc. for Ask an Expert and Resources for Educators www.pitsco.com
Pitsco offers a comprehensive guide to online education resources—particularly in the science and math curriculum—in areas including gifted and talented, keypals, lesson plans, online projects and special needs. Each of these links to countless numbers of additional sites in every content area. Its “Ask an Expert” site, which can be accessed directly, offers guidance on getting questions answered, and provides free links to hundreds of experts in fields ranging from astronauts to zookeepers.

GET OFFICE TIPS CREATED FOR TEACHERS
Through step-by-step instructions, create a photo album to display photos in Microsoft PowerPoint 2002, or organize favorite Web sites by using the Favorites menu in Microsoft Internet Explorer. Find many more Office Tips for Teachers. http://www.microsoft.com/education/?ID=ClassTipsArchive

Site from Char Brotherson: This website www.enchantedlearning.com has some wonderful activities and explanations.  Some are for younger students, but there are good pictures of the movement of plate tectonics.

If your students ask you about how certain devices work, the following sites will probably help you. It's also just fun to read through them.

How stuff works - This site has answers to the more general questions like "How does a CD-Player work?" It also has quite a few pictures.

How things work - This site, Hosted by the University of Virginia, this page answers lots of specific questions about all kinds of devices in an easy understandable way. 

BrainPop-- Has small flash-like movies explaining many topics. (Great for Younger kids.) (Small fee to see all movies....but some free ones are still available.)

Sprocketworks has a variety of nice visual movies pictures and information in a flash-like movie environment.

Tech Topics....  What causes Earthquakes? Why does my heart beat? What is an electron? Ever wonder about this stuff? Well, TechTopics is here is bring it all together for you. We started with a bunch of cool exhibits from TheTech, found links to other places, and created activities and projects to help explain things. Now you can explore science right at your desk!

Some Sample School Web sites: (Links taken out of trade journals.)

Health, Nutrition and Physical Education:
Birch Grove Primary School, Tolland, Connecticut, for Way Cool Running www.tolland.k12.ct.us/bge/bgepage1.htm
The Way Cool Running link at this primary school home page is an excellent example of a Web site developed by a teacher to share a personal interest for the educational benefit of students. Subtitled “for kids who love to run” the colorful illustrated student-oriented content centers on the topics related to competing in races and marathons, and includes announcements and reports about regional running events. The site encourages students to participate in competitions—as is true for the teacher—and offers regular columns, student profiles, tips on training and nutrition, a creative writing section, and recommended resources to promote running for sport or to stay in good health.

Pennridge School District, Perkasie, Pennsylvania for Grass Roots Projects www.pennridge.org/grassroots/projects.html
The Grass Roots project is an example of Web units developed by students to learn about their local communities, and it consists of multimedia history tours of two townships and a nearby quarry. The three online units were prepared by middle school students working with students in three elementary schools, and offer a menu of choices on topics such as local government, one room schoolhouses, and lessons from the graveyard. Each presentation is illustrated with a selection of color photographs and provides local history resources including lesson plans, interview guidelines, question sheets, self-assessments, recommended sources of information and more. It is an impressive combination of local history projects.

The Arts:
Mt. Carmel High School, San Diego, California for MCHSBand.com www.mchsband.com
The instrumental music program at Mt. Carmel High School consistently wins high honors for the quality of its bands, wind ensembles and orchestra. School music groups have performed at festivals and tournaments throughout the United States and countries including France, Germany, Great Britain, and Japan. The Instrumental Music department hosts this multimedia site to provide information about its many programs, and to show and hear students in action at field shows, parades and concerts by including sound and video files from each season (the marching band appeared in this year’s Rose Parade). The site also offers links to related online music resources, the Web pages of individual students and those of band sections such as clarinets, trumpets and tubas.

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Glenbrook South High School, Glenview, Illinois for Science Home Page www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/scidft.html
The Glenbrook South Science Page serves as an online front door to the science department, and provides extensive information and resources for the school biology, chemistry, physics, horticulture, medical technology and integrated science programs. These include lecture notes, research links, problem sets, extra-credit challenges, unit reviews and sample quizzes, as well as interactive online multimedia activities, animations, demonstrations and tutorials. In physics, for example, students can review units in an introductory online course, refer to a solutions manual, get information on make-up labs and exchange e-mail with their teachers.

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