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These links are meant to provide access to just a few of the amazing resources available to teachers on the web. Many of the sites listed on the Web Links by Subject page may be useful for teachers, too. This list is by no means exhaustive and suggestions for additions (or deletions) are welcome, as are any feedback and ideas for the site itself.
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- Ludlow Public Schools
Technology Wiki
Maintained by our Instructional Technology Specialist, Anne Marie Corrieri,
the Ludlow Technology wiki is a growing resource for teachers looking
to incorporate technology in their classrooms. Anne Marie has provided
ideas for using a SMARTBoard, as well as customizable templates and other
useful tools. New information is added almost every week, so check back
regularly!
- Annenberg Media Learner.org
Teacher resources for the classroom and professional development from
the Annenberg Foundation.
- Curriki
- WebHome
Curriki is an online environment created to support the development and
free distribution of world-class educational materials to anyone who needs
them. The name is a play on the combination of ‘curriculum’
and ‘wiki’ which is the technology we're using to make education
universally accessible. --from "About Curriki"
- Intervention
Central
From the site: Free tools and resources to help school staff and parents
to promote positive classroom behaviors and foster effective learning
for all children and youth.
- Kathy
Schrock's Guide for Educators
Hosted by Discovery.com, this is an extensive, indexed directory of K-12
education resources.
- MassMatch
| Home
Information on assistive technology for educators, families and community
organizations in Massachusetts.
- Merrimack
Searchable Frameworks Database
A searchable database of the Massachusetts DOE Curriculum Frameworks
- New
York Times Lesson Plan Archive
Contains hundreds of lesson plans from the New York Times Learning Network.
- PBS Teachers
— Resources For The Classroom
Professional development and classroom resources for all subject areas
from PBS.
- RubiStar
Home
RubiStar is a free tool to help teachers create quality rubrics.
- The Educator's
Reference Desk: Resource Guides
From the Information Institute of Syracuse, includes lesson plans, web
links and many other education resources.
- Thinkfinity
Formerly known as Marco Polo, this site offeres thousands of free educational
resources including: lesson plans, student activities, online reference
sources and other tools. Free registration required to access the full
range of content.
- edutopia.org
Teaching resources for k-12 educators from the George Lucas Educational
Foundation. Focus is on integrating technology.
- Free
Online MIT Course Materials for High School | MIT OpenCourseWare
OpenCourseWare materials appropriate for high school
- Massachusetts Online
Network for Education (MassONE) - News
Web-based tools for communication, collaboration, and curriculum planning,
which are designed to support K-12 standards-based teaching and learning.
- movingforward
Wiki with best practices for integrating technology into the classroom
- Online
Ed Resources from Mashable
Lists links to web-based education resources of all kinds
- PDF online
Free tool that allows users to upload a document, create a pdf and have
it delivered via email
- PrintWhatYouLike.com
Enter the URL of a page that you want to print, then remove advertising,
images, navigation menus or other page elements that you don't need/want
on your hard copy. Change font size or style or combine multiple pages
in to one print out.
- Quizlet
Free online study tools. Create flashcards, study and review materials
and share them with your students.
- socialnetworking4teachers
» Bloggers to Learn From
List of blogs published by tech savvy educators
- TED: Ideas worth
spreading
Technology, Entertainment, Design: This site makes the best talks and
performances from the TED conference available to the public, for free.
More than 200 talks from our archive are now available, with more added
each week. These videos are released under a Creative Commons license,
so they can be freely shared and reposted.
- Webspiration
Create, share and collaborate using this web-based graphic organizer tool.
Currently free in beta.
- Art
History Resources on the Web
Maintained by Sweet Briar College's Professor Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe,
this is an extensive and well-indexed collection of links.
- ArtLex
Definitions for more than 3,600 terms used in discussing art/visual culture,
along with thousands of supporting images, pronunciation notes, great
quotations and cross-references.
- Museums: Virtual
Library museums pages
This site contains links to museums organized by country and continent,
as well as selected virtual museums.
- International Reading
Association
Provides leadership in promoting literacy, improving the quality of reading
instruction and teaching techniques, serving as a clearinghouse for the
dissemination of reading research, and encouraging the lifetime reading
habit. The site includes hundreds of links to education and literacy resources.
- Jim Burke:
English Companion
Jim Burke, a California high school English teacher and author, has created
a comprehensive and practical Web site featuring NCTE news, censorship
alerts, English newsletters, news on TV shows connected to language arts,
recommended readings, a collection of Burke's articles, and tips for taking
tests and writing college essays.
- Masterpiece
| The Complete Jane Austen | PBS
Companion site to Masterpice's Jane Austen series. Includes detailed info
about each book and educational resources about Jane Austen's life and
times.
- Purdue University
Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Features more than 150 handouts that students can use to improve their
writing skills. Topics include punctuation, parts of speech, correct sentence
structure, spelling, and research papers.
- Web
English Teacher
This site, created by Carla Beard, provides a wide variety of English
language arts teaching resources for Grades K-12.
- A Calorie
Counter
Lists nutritional information on many fast food items and rates the best
and worst entries in several categories.
- Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC)
Health and safety information from the federal government's Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention.
- DoItYourself.com
Searchable database of articles on all aspects of home improvement and
repair.
- Facts
for Families
From the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychology, these
fact sheets offer information on a range of mental and physical health
issues for children and teens.
- Family
Works - Strategies for Building Stronger Families
The University of Illinois Extension Division offers information on ways
to improve family life.
- Nutrition.gov
Information on food, nutrition and health from the federal government's
Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC) and the National Agricultural
Library (NAL) in cooperation with a panel of food and nutrition expert
advisors from agencies within United States Department of Agriculture
(USDA) and Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
- NutritionData
From the site: "Nutrition Data's continuing goal is to provide the
most accurate and comprehensive nutrition analysis available, and to make
it accessible and understandable to all. The information in Nutrition
Data's database comes from the USDA's National Nutrient Database for Standard
Reference and is supplemented by listings provided by restaurants and
food manufacturers. The source for each individual food item is listed
in the footnotes of that food's Nutrition Facts page. In addition to food
composition data, Nutrition Data also provides a variety of proprietary
tools to analyze and interpret that data. These interpretations represent
Nutrition Data's opinion and are based on calculations derived from Daily
Reference Values (DRVs), Reference Daily Intakes (RDIs), published research,
and recommendations of the FDA."
- Math
Archives
Hosted by the University of Tennessee - Knoxville. This site is an extensive
directory of math resources for the K-12 classroom.
- Math.com
Teachers
The teachers' section of Math.com is a meta-site for lesson plans and
classroom resources.
- Internet Public
Library: Music History 102
A survey of western classical music from the Middle Ages to the twentieth
century for high school students. The guide includes information on more
than 30 composers, music clips, and images of each historical period.
- Music
Notes: An Interactive Online Musical Experience
Explore various styles of music from Bach to rock. The site provides information
on note reading, intervals, scales, chords, snd other useful music education
topics.
- OperaGlass
Provides a variety of opera resources for Grades 9-12. The site includes
1,800 well-known and lesser-known opera composers, with complete opera
lists and links to pages containing information on about 250 operas with
synopses, libretti, performance histories, discographies, and essays.
- DNA Interactive
Online community and resources for teachers of genetics.
- Environmental
Inquiry - For Teachers
Information about Cornell University's research-based environmental science
curriculum for high school students. Includes classroom materials and
a directory of links to other environmental science sites.
- Molecular
Workbench - Database
From the site: "Molecular Workbench offers interactive, visual simulations
and activities that have been widely used in science teaching for students
of all ages. Our database is designed to provide teachers and students
with easy access to our model-based activities. The activities are derived
largely, but not entirely, from projects of the Concord Consortium sponsored
by the National Science Foundation (NSF)." Browsable by theme/topic
and searchable by keyword.
- The Why Files | The Science
Behind the News
This site examines the science and technology behind issues in the news.
Sponsored by the University of Wisconsin.
- Anthropology
on the Internet For K-12
A product of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, this site is an annotated
listing of links to selected sites with information about the field of
anthropology for teachers and young people. The sites are grouped under
11 different sections (including careers).
- CongressLink
Provides information about the U.S. Congress-how it works, its members
and leaders, and the public policies it produces.
- National Council
for the Social Studies | Creating Effective Citizens
The site for NCSS, representing social studies teachers in the United
States. It is a showcase of teaching resources, professional development
activities, publications, news, and Internet resources. Includes information
on subscribing to a listserv for sharing ideas with other social studies
teachers by e-mail.
- National
Geographic: Afghanistan - maps, news, photos, more
Presented by National Geographic, features news, background, online activities,
teachers' guides, lesson plans, a regularly updated interactive map, photos,
and a message board.
- SCORE History/Social
Science
This site is part of the Network of Online Resource Centers in California
linking quality resources from the World Wide Web to the California curriculum.
Included are resources that involve children in online activities, suggestions
for effective use of the resources with students, and ability to search
by grade level, theme, or topic.
- Teaching
About Terrorism
This site is presented by Schools of California Online Resources for Education.
It offers curriculum resources and materials to help students comprehend
and respond to the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and the
Pentagon on September 11, 2001.
- Women
in World History Curriculum
An interactive site full of information and resources about women's experiences
in world history. It includes female heroes, lesson plans, reviews of
classroom materials, and links to other resources.
- Civilisation
française
Civilization française: Developed by Marie Ponterio, consists of online
teaching modules, which include original images, audiocues, and digital
videos. The modules are based on a wide range of topics such as cuisine,
culture, social change, school, economy, Europe, holidays, family life,
housing, history, religion, social security, symbols, transportation,
and vacation.
- Home
- American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
The professional association that represents teachers of all languages
at al educational levels. The ACTFL site contains information on a variety
of topics, including professional development programs, proficiency testing
publications, and job opportunities.
- Indo-European
Languages Tutorials
Includes free materials to assist those who are learning a language or
refreshing their skills in over a dozen languages, including French, German,
Italian, and Spanish.
- Internet Activities
for Foreign Language Classes
Contains online lesson plans and student worksheets for using foreign
language Web sites in high school German, French, Japanese, Spanish, Italian,
Philipino, Latin, and ESL/EFL classes. Each worksheet presents students
with questions, activities, and corresponding web sites students must
access to complete the assignment. Worksheets can be printed out and used
by the whole class or individuals for homework.
- Resources
and Lesson Plans for World Languages
This site contains resources for teaching and learning about American
Sign Language, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Greek, Hmong. Italian,
Japanese, Korean, Latin, Native Languages, Norwegian, Polish, Russian,
Spanish, Swahili, and Swedish as well as providing numerous links to cultural
and historical resources.
- Resources
for French as a Second Language
This site is provided by the University of Ottawa, Canada. It features
exercises and resources for teachers; French in Canada, outside Quebec,
in Quebec, and in France; Francophonie in the world; news and discussion
groups; and miscellaneous links.
- Teachspanish.com
- Community and Resources for Spanish Teachers
Includes lesson ideas (K-12), Spanish-speaking country information, a
Teacher Job Search, hundreds of links to teacher resources, teacher Web
sites, student hot spots, Latin/Spanish music sites, school and study
abroad, and a teacher and student discussion board.
- Tecla:
Texts for Learners and Teachers of Spanish
An electronic magazine for learners and teachers of Spanish, edited by
the Consejeria de Educación en Reino Unido e Irlanda. It appears weekly
on the web during the school year and consists of short readings followed
by comprehension exercises. Archives and a search function are also provided.
