Internet+Resources+for+Teachers

Internet Resources for Teachers This database is just a beginning of what is available. Please feel free to add your favorite sites as well as sites you think teachers at the other schools will find useful and helpful. This can be a place that grows and changes with the district and the new tests that the state will be asking students to take. It only takes a moment to copy and paste a link into the database along with a brief description. You can add to the General area or to a specific subject area. Many of the sites can be adaptable for lower to higher grades. Sometimes we do not have the chance or time to share our resources; hopefully this database will be a good starting point.

On the right hand side is the wiki menu. Under All Pages you will find the titles to more specific resource pages that break down to grade level, specialty, or content area. Just click on the page title and you will be taken to that page. To return to this page, just click Internet Resources for Teachers.

General Technology & Education Sites/Technology Tutorials for Educators SAS Curriculum Pathways @http://www.sas.com/govedu/edu/curriculum/index.html This site is through the government and offers ready-made lessons. There are inquiry-based, interactive, as well as drill and practice lessons. It is geared for grades 5-12. There are also great professional development topics available. This site is free. I will need to create a tutorial to guide teachers through the log in process. I am meeting with the secondary librarian who has used this program in the past to get her perspective on having this available for the district.

@http://www.khanacademy.org/ This free site offers over 32,000 videos for all subject matters across the curriculum. You can find videos for any subject. One application of these videos would be to review or introduce concepts used in class that students could access from home.
 * Khan Academy**

@http://www.free.ed.gov/ This site offers great resources including primary source documents for every subject matter including economics, art, music, math, and history.
 * Federal Resources for Educational Excellence**

@http://www.loc.gov/teachers/ If you need primary sources, this is one of the best sites to obtain them for student use! There are also lessons and professional development about how to incorporate primary source documents into your existing lessons. They also have an interesting blog that you can follow.
 * The Library of Congress**

@http://www.edutopia.org/ This site, created by the George Lucas Educational Foundation, has articles, classroom guides, and resources for the CORE strategies. There are areas for elementary, secondary, and special ed. under the Community tab.
 * Edutopia**

@http://www.internet4classrooms.com/on-line2.htm Great tutorials for teachers! There are tutorials for all Microsoft Office programs as well as multimedia, flash, other software and even operating systems. They have tutorials for both Macs and Windows.
 * Internet 4 Classrooms**

@http://h30411.www3.hp.com/ This site offers a range of lesson plans based on the CORE Concepts. It is free to join up and sponsored by hp. You can also upload and share your own lessons. There are also tutorials and online professional development available as well as webinars on various topics.
 * HP Teacher Experience Exchange**

@http://www.teach-nology.com/ This is another great resource for lesson plans, rubrics, printables and other teacher resources.
 * Teachnology**

@http://www.educationworld.com/ This site has everything you could ever need. It is a great resource for lesson plans, professional development and is great for grades pre-k through high school.
 * Education World**

@http://teachers.net/grades/ This site has resources and lesson plans for all grade levels offering lessons in the CORE subjects, Language Arts, and Foreign Languages. You can search according to subject area or grade level. There are over 4,000 lesson plans available and you can even share yours.
 * Teachers.net**

@http://www.lessonplanet.com/lesson-plans A searchable web site of lesson plans that range all grade levels and subjects including special ed., PE, health, career readiness and much more.
 * Lesson Planet**

[] MERLOT has great articles and resources for all disciplines. Don't let the online teaching part of the name scare you away from great resources that are free to use in your classroom!
 * MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching**

[] This newsfeed offers the latest information for technology in education. Offers lesson plans, websites, and ideas on how to incorporate certain websites into your curriculum. A new article looks at a cool site that offers videos of what it looks like to bicycle through the Alps and then offers on how to incorporate it into geography lessons. There is a great article that tells a teacher how to search Google lesson plans that are great to use. The contributors offer tips and other timely information. This site is updated regularly. It is free to subscribe to its RSS Feed and there are other options to receive the information.
 * Free Technology for Teachers**

[] Kathy Schrock’s guide has been around since the 1990’s and it is still useful as she continues to add to it and does her best to keep it as current with today’s teaching practices as well as the newer tech tools. You can find information for any subject area, assessment, and how to guides at this great database.
 * Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators**

Another great resource for Technology and Education: [|THE Journal] An online journal, that offers webinars, news and articles about everything related to education and technology. They include articles about ways to help ADD, vision-impaired, and other special needs students as well.

[] This site is a great general resource for all things that are educational and technology related. They offer great how to articles, have best practices, professional development, teacher blogs, and have a weekly free newsletter as well as a monthly magazine. They are a great source for education grants and related contests.
 * Tech & Learning**

@http://connectededucators.org/ This site has interesting articles and other research about online learning.
 * Connected Educatior**

@http://educationtechnews.com/ This site has article, webinars, white papers and other resources for teachers who want to integrate technology into their teaching.
 * Education Tech News**