Resources for Teachers

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The WebQuest Page
Created by Bernie Dodge, the designer of WebQuests, at San Diego State University, this site presents an overview, training materials, examples and collections of WebQuests. Learn more about the developer of this hot new way of teaching with technology.

A WebQuest About WebQuests - Middle and High School Version
Find out more about WebQuests by participating in this one!! Designed by Bernie Dodge, this Quest will aid the middle/high school teacher in developing an understanding of the possibilities available when creating web-based lessons.

WebQuests in Our Future
Join Kathy Schrock as she presents a slide show that explains the teacher's role in cyberspace....you'll also find more from Bernie Dodge and Tom March and find some good examples!!

WebQuests for Learning
A gathering place for Tom March's work in creating and teaching WebQuests. Lots of great information for the newbie!! Also links to great WebQuests.

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Internet Communication Projects

Global School Network Project Page
Global Schoolhouse and Lightspan.com bring you a huge collection of online collaborative learning opportunities.

Intercultural e-mail classroom connections
IECC (Intercultural E-mail Classroom Connections) is a free service to help teachers link with partners in other countries and cultures for e-mail classroom pen-pal and project exchanges.

Kidlink

Kidlink offers opportunities for teaching and learning with the Internet. Find out how to participate in these communication opportunities for Kids.

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Internet Resources

Teachers Helping Teachers
This is a great site written by teachers for teachers. Basic teaching tips are provided for new teachers, teaching ideas, lesson plans and so much more. And it is updated weekly! You will want to bookmark this one for sure!

Teachnet.Com
Lots of lesson plans across the curriculum are a special feature of this site. There is additional information on may topics.

Kathy Schrock's Guide For Educators A technology coordinator in Massachusetts, Kathy has designed this fabulous site that has massive amounts of information for teachers. You will find links to lesson plans across the curriculum along with so much more. And it is updated daily!! Bookmark it!!

Global Schoohouse
Link to classrooms around the world. Find many Internet based learning activities for your students that use e-mail, the web, online multi-media and video-conferencing There are projects for beginner and advanced users too! This powerful site has activities for all grade levels.

Sites for Teachers
List website teachers can use.

TrackStar
Lesson ideas that can be sorted by grade levels and subject areas.

Creating your own Rubrics
Create your own assessment rubrics for each of the content areas. Each rubric generator personalizes a form for you which you can print out and save.

Teacher's Corner
This site has thematic units for each months, with all units archived. Each Unit has dozens of websites related to the theme, lesson plans to help with K-8 curriculum and books to use as a resource.

Academy Curricular Exchange: Language, High School (9-12)
This site presents an assortment of lesson plans appropriate for students in high school.

Academy Curricular Exchange: Language, Intermediate School (6-8)
This site presents an assortment of lesson plans appropriate for student in the middle grades.

Activity Search
Activity search, from Houghton Mifflin features a database for K-8 teachers with language arts lesson plans/activities and other subject areas. Activities can be browsed by theme and by grade level.

The Awesome Library: Language Arts Lesson Plans
This site contains a collection of language arts lesson plans for Grades K-12.

Baltimore Curriculum Project Lesson Plans
These lessons plans included in this site generally follow the grade-by-grade topics in the Core Knowledge Sequence. The lesson plans provided are for variety of curriculum areas. To find language arts plans, click Lit. (literature) in the table.

Blue Web'n Learning Applications
Blue Web'n is a searchable database of over 1000 outstanding Internet learning sites categorized by subject area, audience, and type (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, & tools). The site includes 18 lesson plan sites for English for Grades 3-12. Blue Web'n catalogs only the most useful sites -- especially online activities targeted at learners.

CEC Lesson Plans
This site, sponsored by the Columbia Education Center in Portland includes a variety of language arts lesson plans created by teachers in Elementary (K-5), Intermediate (6-8), and High School (9-12) levels.

The Library-in-the-Sky
Drama, Languages, Literature, Philosophy, Poetry, Reading and Writing, and Standards are the lesson plan areas that you will find at this site. In addition there is a search feature to assist you other topics.

SCORE Language Arts
The site provides information about various students projects, lesson plans, and teacher resources in language arts. Appropriate for Grades K-12.

The Academy Curriculum Exchange
More than 50 lesson plans for math are found here as well as other content areas.

The Awesome Library: Math Lesson Plans
An awesome collection of math lesson plans for K-12.

Blue Web'n Learning Applications
Pacific Bell sponsors this site that provides a huge collection of resources for math teachers. Browse the Content Table to find web based tutorials, activities and projects, unit and lesson plans and other resources.

CEC Lesson Plans
Columbia Education Center in Portland, Oregon presents a variety of lesson plans created and used by teachers in their own classrooms. Lesson plans are found in sections for Elementary (K-5), Intermediate (6-8), or High School (9-12).

Connections+
Mid-Continent Regional Educational Laboratory (McREL) provides this collection of internet resources. You will find lesson plans, activities, and curriculum resources for K-12 teachers.

Education World: Math Lesson Plans
This site, sponsored by American Fidelity Services, provides a large collection of math lesson plans for K-12. You will find lessons for Algebra, Applied Math, Arithmetic, Geometry, Measurement, and Probability.

Explorer
Hug collection of math lesson plans and activities for K-12. Many topics are included such as problem solving and reasoning, whole numbers and numeration, geometry, algebraic ideas, and measurement.

Florida Center for Instructional Technology
The University of South Florida's Florida Center for Instructional Technology (FCIT) provides lesson plans and instructional materials for grades K-12. You will find other helpful information at this site including a great guide to networks and general tips for web page creation.

Frank Potter's Science Gems - Mathematics
Twenty-three math categories are included at this massive site. Updated often, over 2000 internet resources are referenced for use in your classrooms.

Ocean Planet Homepage
This site gives you a chance to see all of the exhibitions taking place at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. It gives the students a chance to talk to the curator of the museum. It also includes educational materials, lessons, and activities involved in marine science.

The South Pole Web Page
This is a web page that deals entirely with the southpole. It is filled with do it yourself activities and experiments students can do in your classroom that relates to the southpole. This site lets you get feedback from other students from all around the world.

The Science Center
Good site for teachers. Contains lesson plans for K-12, classroom activities, provides educators with a teacher lounge where they can share information and discuss current issues. This site also provides links to other resources on the net.

TNRCC Home Page
Environmental information availability, teacher and student friendly. K-12 lesson plans available through direct links including air pollution, air testing, and waste management along with other scientific sources.

The Center for Science Education at UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory
Space science information K-12 teachers, complete with lesson plans, connections to NASA, interactive units, and build-your-own web lesson plans templates and tools.

The Albatross Project The Albatross Project site provides links to sites that show how scientists are generating data on Hawaiian albatrosses. One site introduces a lesson whereby students can make hypotheses and use the scientists' data to practice science.

Classrooms of the 21st Century
This site has links to modern lesson ideas about genetics, and science in general. The site purpose is to link with progressive education activities.

Illinois Institute of Technology
This is a homepage for a wide variety of lab experiments and lesson plans for K-12 science teachers. Each lesson plan is very descriptive and detailed for a variety of topics.

The University of Kentucky, Lexington
This is a homepage with a variety of lab experiments for chemistry teachers teaching junior high and high school. It contains the process on how to set them up, how to perform them, and what their students should learn from the experiment. Rice University
This is a homepage dealing with lesson plans and lab experiments for science and math teachers in middle and high schools. Some of the experiments combine two topics, while others focus on a specific concept.

ThinkQuest
This is a good homepage for chemistry teachers in junior high and senior high school. This page has lesson plans and lab experiments. Units are very descriptive in how to set up the lesson or lab and provides student learning outcomes. Discovery Channel School
This site has an extensive amount of information for the teacher and the students (K-12). It has graphics, lesson plans, activities, and links to E-Mail. Connection to research all over the world concerning current events to be used in the classroom.

The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools
An awesome site for astronomy for teachers and students K-12. Has Java and slides. Lesson plans and forums for teachers are provides as well as a "Build own web lesson". Links to NASA and CSE. Updates on current issues with telescope images.

Challenger Center for Space Science Education This is a good web site for teachers. Most of the activities are for elementary to middle school aged children. However, there are several places to find links to other web sites with valuable information such as space, weather, geology, earth, and volcanoes. There are also places to look at materials that can be ordered and used to supplement teaching topics.

Human Genome Education Program
A site by Stanford University for public outreach in biotechnology and genome science. An easy to use format allows teachers and students to link to resources and references. There is also a database on Alu genotypes that could be used in classroom activities.

DiscoverySchool.com
Ideas for learning for parents, teachers, and students. This site includes a listing of lesson plan resources for K-12 and includes a link to the popular Puzzle Maker

ADOBE ACROBAT The "Classroom in a Book" series to educators to download, print and use.

KIDSPIRATION HELPS DISTRICT MEET LITERACY CHALLENGE
K-3 teachers at the Canby School District, in Canby, Ore., are boosting their students' reading and writing skills this year with Kidspiration. The district integrated Kidspiration into the curriculum after receiving a Technology Literacy Challenge Grant. Teachers received Kidspiration training and a database of Kidspiration lesson plan templates, designed to help students meet reading and writing benchmarks. Jennifer Gingerich, district technology trainer, selected Kidspiration for inclusion in the program: "As I evaluated Kidspiration for the first time, I just kept saying 'wow!' as I discovered all the features geared specifically to help students learn to read and write."

KIDSPIRATION CREATES BUZZ WITH STUDENTS
First graders in Janet Frazier's class at Carus Elementary are getting math, science, reading, writing, and spelling lessons in Kidspiration. Frazier created Kidspiration activities that help her students show what they know in various subjects, while improving their reading and writing skills. Last October, Frazier and her students buzzed through a cross-curricular unit on insects. To test the students' knowledge at the end of the unit, she created a Kidspiration activity called "Is it an insect?" that put the students' spelling and math skills to the test as well.

INSPIRATION MOTIVATES STUDENTS
Students at East Buchanan Community School (EBCS) in Winthrop, Iowa, use Inspiration in nearly every part of their schoolwork, even when the teachers don't require it. On any given day, students can be found in the computer lab creating Inspiration diagrams and outlines for class projects, papers, study notes, and general organization. According to Mark McCright, EBCS technology coordinator, "Inspiration is the most widely used software program by our seventh through twelfth grade students outside of word processing."

INSPIRED WEB SITES
Looking for ideas on how to use visual learning in your classroom? Check out these great sites to see how schools across the country are using Inspiration and Kidspiration:


TIPS & TRICKS: THE KIDSPIRATION ACTIVITY WIZARD
The Kidspiration Activity Wizard makes it simple to save an assignment or project as an activity. Step-by-step instructions walk you through
creating and saving your activity to the Starter Screen where students can easily access it. Learn more about the Kidspiration Activity Wizard and discover tips for creating activities at

INSPIRED TEACHER SCHOLARSHIPS FOR VISUAL LEARNING
We're looking for a few inspired educators! Are you are an advocate of visual learning and technology in a K-12 classroom? Apply for our fourth annual Inspired Teacher Scholarships for Visual Learning. Inspiration Software is granting 20 scholarships in the amount of $500 each to be used for a conference, class, or workshop that supports visual learning and technology. Applications are due by March 1, 2002.

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