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ENGLISH TEACHERS LINKS

GENERAL SITES

www.homeworkspot.com/teacher

www.teacherhelp.org


www.home.earthlink.net/~jkash/ teachers .htm


www.khake.com/page15.html


www.lessonplancentral.com/lessons/Health/


www.web clipart .miningco.com/od/msub64aa/

PLANNING LESSONS

Education World : This is a great place to start looking for lesson plans on the web. Recent articles, web site reviews, and technology in the classroom are also highlighted.

First-Day-of-School Icebreakers - Help Students and Teachers Warm Up!

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites on the Internet found to be useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth. It is updated daily to keep up with the tremendous number of new World Wide Web sites.

Discovery School : Associated with TLC and Discovery, this site links to pages that also include lesson plans with their videos. I have used the TLC videos and they are quite effective.

Teachers Helping Teachers : This site is designed by Dr. Scott Mandel, who is a history teacher at Pacoima Middle School . His site is full of great lesson ideas.

Building Bridges Between Middle Schools and High Schools

Bloom's Taxonomy - This is a great way to get your students to ask higher-level thinking questions as well as learning how to ask them yourself.

Themes & Essential Questions - Framing Inquiry & Promoting Critical Thinking

Teaching @ Tolerance - Martin Luther King, Jr., dreamed of a world more tolerant than the one he lived in. This week's lessons are designed to teach kids about King's dream of tolerance. Included: Lessons on stereotyping, appreciating differences, recognizing how words can hurt (or heal), and more!

T he World Heritage - This amazing site has panoramic pictures and interactive virtual reality movies for all sites registered as World Heritage by the UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). It is a must see!

Links for K-12 Teachers - Helping Teachers use the Internet Effectively

RESOURCES

Templates for Teachers - printable welcome letters to parents, seating charts, award certificates, and much more.

Free Stuff for

Educators

Songs for Teaching - Using Music to Promote Learning

America Taking Action : A National Network of School Web Sites

Middle Web Curriculum and Resources : Web Sites for middle school teachers of all disciplines

FunBrain : On this site students can take quizzes on all kinds of subjects. You can also create your own quizzes. The world history quiz mirrors the 7th grade curriculum.

Quia.com is another site to make quizzes with. Games include hangman presidential quiz. /

The New York Times Learning Network

Busy Teachers WebSite K-12

Education IndexÆ , an annotated guide to the best education-related sites on the Web. They're sorted by subject and lifestage, so you can find what you're looking for quickly and easily.

Yahooligans! This is part of the Yahoo! page but designed just for kids. Lots of cool links.

Blue Web'n : Blue Ribbon learning sites from Pac Bell.

PBS.org - The PBS site has lots of great links including PBS programs and lesson plans.

BBC - Skillswise - Games - This is a great site that will have your English and math students playing educational games.

 

FREE CLIP ART

Classroom Clipart

Discovery Channel Schools' Clip Art Gallary


FreeFoto
- Free Pictures

Clip Art Universe


Patriotic Clip Art

 

FREE ANIMATE GIF'S

Free Animated Gif's

Animation Factory
- Free animations, Backgrounds, and PowerPoint Templates

Holiday Gif Animations

Animated State Flags

Animated World Flags

Animated State Flags

Animated World Flags

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Lesson Plans - These resources are intended to stimulate student interest and creativity, to develop higher order thinking skills and to promote interdisciplinary learning. Lessons include Keep on Pushing: Popular Music and the Civil Rights Movemenrt, Langston Hughes and the Blues, Life Under Apartheid , The Protestant Reformation

Learn Spanish with Pictures

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SOCIAL STUDIES SITES

SCORE History : This site has links related to the teaching of history in California . A must see.

Mr. Donn's history page : This site is so amazing. Don Donn does a wonderful service to all history teachers with this site. It could take you weeks just to go through the whole thing.

California History-Social Science Course Models : Includes model lessons and standards. Very helpful to teachers incorporating California standards into their curriculum.

Mr. Dowling's Electronic Passport - Browse the world in a Virtual Classroom

Click2History is a part of Awesomestories.com and presents history in the form of stories, with blue highlighted words linked to primary documents and original photographs. This is a unique method of learning history. The stories are written in a manner that is easy to read and students will identify with the events and people and therefore will be able to recall many details as well as attain a larger picture of world history. Themes include war, human rights, labor laws, civil leaders, and technological advances.

Using Primary Source Documents in the Classroom

NARA Digital Classroom: Teaching With Documents

Middle Web Social Studies Resources

Interactive Timeline Creator

Constitutional Rights Foundation on-line lessons

Popular Songs in American History

I Love That Teaching Idea - Social Studies

Establishing Borders : The Expansion of the United States, 1846-48

Love from the Japanese American Internment

Winning the Vote: How Americans elect their president

5 Themes of Geography


Ancient Egypt: Student Activity Sheets


LESSONS ABOUT THE MIDDLE AGES

The Middle Ages : Twelve Activities Take Students Back in Time!

Kids in the Castle: Lessons, Activities, and Virtual Tours
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Days and Days of Knights: A Unit on the Middle Ages

The Library of Congress has a great site with wonderful links to primary source documents.

Smthsonian: History and Culture - A must see site with thousands of photographs

 

OUTLINE MAPS

Free outline maps of the world

Free Blank Outline Maps of the Countries and Continents of the World


Mapmaking with Lewis and Clark

National Geographic Education Guide

The History Place - A magazine of the past that's filled with pictures, helpful historical timelines, and homework help. Don't forget to click the picture of the week.

George Washington Lives! -- On the Internet!

Explore the Civil War - Links to many Civil War web pages and activities

Holocaust Unit - Many links and activities relating the the Holocaust

Ask Asia Lesson Plans

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LANGUAGE AND ARTS SITES

SCORE Language Arts - Online resources for the language arts teacher with activities aligned with the California state standards.

Vocabulary, Free Word Puzzles and Activities

BBC - Skillswise - Games - Great word games to use with your students

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SCIENCE SITES

SCORE Science - Online resources for the science teacher with lesson plans and activities aligned with California state standards.

The Teaching Sourcebook for Teaching Science - Strategies, Activities, and Internet Resources

NASA's Kids Science News Network - NASA's KSNN™ is a standards-based program that uses the Web, animation, and video to introduce science, technology, engineering, math, and NASA concepts.

Hubble Telescope - A must see for some amazing pictures.

101 Amazing Earth Facts - Some of Earth's valleys dip below sea level. Mountains soar into thin air. Can you name the lowest spot? The tallest peak? Do you know how far it is to the center of the planet or what's there? Where are the planet's hottest, coldest, driest and windiest places? and many more...

Teen Health - This site answers questions about numerous teen issues.

Science & Nature: Human Body & Mind - Numerous topics for science and health teachers

Don't Buy It: Get Media Smart - Buying smart . See through the sales pitch. Take the junk food quiz as well.

 

COMPUTERS

Mouserobics!

What font!


Search engine lesson


Musical computers


Posters with Word


Computer Skills


Keyboarding Resources


Finish the sentence


A long list of computer lesson plans


More computer lesson plans

 

MATHS SITES

SCORE Math - Online resources for the mathematics teacher with activities and lesson plans aligned with California state standards.

Figure This! - Math Challenges for Families

ABIATOR'S Times Table Emporium - Have fun practising your multiplication tables. Simply look at the MENU bar to the left and click on a times table you wish to practice and try and keep up with the flashcards!

BBC - Skillswise - Games - Great math games to use with your students.

GAMES

ictgames.com - Página en la que encontrar gran cantidad de juegos sobre vocabulario en inglés. Muy apropiada para alumnos y alumnas de edades tempranas (Infantil, 1º y 2º Ciclo de Primaria). Plantea actividades sencillas que se pueden trabajar directamente on-line. Algunas de ellas sobre numbers son útiles no sólo para inglés. No hace falta descargar ni guardar archivos sino jugar directamente en la página.

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