SITES of THE SCHOOL Day

2004-06-26T19:11:00.001-07:00

URL: http://www.fastq.com/%7Ejbpratt/education/langarts/main.html
Language Arts Resources & Activities ~ includes Phonics, Reading, Spelling, Vocabulary and Grammer ~ quite a mega site of teaching and student centered resources! Find FREE resources which include: themes, crafts, activities, online activities, recipes, music, Spanish, links, etc.

2004-06-26T19:11:00.000-07:00

2004-06-22T19:28:00.000-07:00

URL:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3804773.stm
The seven-year-old bloggers
The seven-year-old bloggers: "Children as young as seven in one British school are using weblogs as part of their normal routine, and are doing better than non-webloggers as a result. Weblogs...get children more interested in school work they might otherwise have disliked," says junior school teacher John Mills.

What is a weblog?
It can be just a diary but can also be a journal.
URL: http://www.blogger.com/start
Start Your Blog in 3 Easy Steps

2003-12-30T08:31:00.001-08:00

Reading Worksheets Click on the titles to download or view the files, which are all in PDF file form.

2003-12-30T08:31:00.000-08:00

Absolutely Amazing! Puzzles, games and more on the net

2003-12-30T08:11:00.000-08:00

Classroom Management Ideas

2003-06-23T07:01:00.000-07:00

Word of the Day Subscribe and enjoy. This week is devoted to slang words.

2003-06-22T05:33:00.000-07:00

CyberBee: Let's Make a Deal Math: The Study of Probability A great topic for June! Many cool ideas here.

2003-06-22T05:31:00.000-07:00

LEARN NC Hot Topics

2003-06-21T20:00:00.000-07:00

Count On offers mathematical activities ranging from simple interactive counting games to explorations involving logic and problem solving. The site is a continuation of the Maths Year 2000, a government-funded mathematics enrichment project from the United Kingdom. Sample activities include an interactive applet for exploring fractals, directions and questions related to creating three Origami figures, and a clickable grid of 100 numbers that displays scientific, literary, and historical references and student art work related to each number.

2003-06-20T07:33:00.000-07:00

Groovy Lizard Ltd : Original Web Design : Graphics : Linkware

2003-06-20T05:35:00.000-07:00

Think.com Enables collaborative learning over the Internet.

2003-06-18T07:36:00.000-07:00

Teachers.Net Gazette June 2003 - TEACHERS.NET GAZETTE - JUNE COLUMNS - Applying for a Teaching Job in a Tight Market, Part 2 Effective Teaching by Harry & Rosemary Wong, Metacognition .... Other very readabl e articles include...
Thinking about Thinking Is Essential for Learning Promoting Learning by Marv Marshall, Publishing Pressures 4 Blocks by Cheryl Sigmon, Even Punctuation Gets a Vacation! - Enjoy Your Summer with Children's Books Postcard from Planet Esme - News from the world of children's books by Esmé Codell, It's Summer! -- Rest your body, restore your soul & have some fun! Instant Ideas for Busy Teachers by Barbara Gruber and Sue Gruber, Be Your Own Mentor: REFLECT Teachers As Learners by Hal Portner ........

2003-06-14T19:50:00.000-07:00

TEACHER RESOURCES: Websites compiled by Sue LeBeau from New Jersey Explore the possibilities at this vast resource for your classroom.

2003-06-11T09:32:00.000-07:00

Model Classroom Teacher Resources

2003-06-02T05:18:00.000-07:00

ECOO OUTPUT magazine

2003-06-01T06:10:00.000-07:00

Sample School Calendar ~ Kent School District Calendar

2003-06-01T05:56:00.000-07:00

Quick Plans for Language Arts

2003-05-31T21:35:00.000-07:00

Various Educational Topics: a free-wheeling exchange of ideas

2003-05-01T09:17:00.000-07:00

Card Games

2003-05-01T09:13:00.000-07:00

EDTEC 670 - Exploratory Learning Through Simulation and Games

2003-04-30T06:35:00.000-07:00

Project Interactivate consists of math and science java educational applets which can be used to teach a variety of concepts.

2003-04-15T18:42:00.000-07:00

Big6

2003-02-22T19:22:00.000-08:00

Eat Orange: "Great, Cheap Stock Photography"

2003-02-17T15:38:00.000-08:00

Caricature Zone: play funny free games and quizz with famous stars

2003-02-15T08:18:00.000-08:00

Animation Factory - Free Animated GIFs and 3D Clipart - Animals

2003-02-15T08:05:00.000-08:00

Science Museums Science Fair Project Ideas Science Education Explore, Discover and Try Science!

2003-02-15T07:51:00.000-08:00

Images of Canada
Tour Canada from Space

2003-01-01T15:41:00.000-08:00

It's All About Books!

2003-01-01T14:24:00.000-08:00

INFORMATION SHIFTING

2002-12-28T17:44:00.000-08:00

Fotolog Create your own free Fotolog

2002-12-24T18:45:00.000-08:00

Sky and Telescope - Observing - Sky Chart Simulate a naked-eye view of the sky from any location on Earth, at any time of day or night, on any date from 1600 to 2400. Or print an all-sky map. Our interactive sky chart works in most Java-enabled Web browsers.

2002-12-24T07:04:00.000-08:00

Downloadable Games - With an education Bent
http://www.riverdeep.net/products/downloads/free_downloads.jhtml
"Free Downloads from Riverdeep.net."

2002-11-24T10:09:00.000-08:00

2002-11-18T20:16:00.000-08:00

Outstanding NCTM e-Resources for K to 12 students, teachers and home home schoolers

2002-11-17T16:33:00.000-08:00

HowStuffWorks - Learn how Everything Works!

2002-11-17T14:12:00.000-08:00

Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers . Sounds & Symbols | PBS

2002-11-16T06:57:00.000-08:00

Houghton Mifflin's Education Place K-8 elementary educational activities, games, themes, graphic organizers, writing prompts, and benchmark......The site includes an activity search to look for appropriate activitites by age, subject or theme. There is also a guided tour to get users familiar with the site. To live up to a name like Education Place this website would have to be very useful to educators, parents and students.

2002-11-16T06:45:00.000-08:00

Create your own voice chat communities with the most versatile and user friendly voice chat server available on the Internet today

2002-11-16T06:09:00.000-08:00

Using Paintings as a Tool to Learn Foreign Languages Why Use Paintings in the ESL/FSL Classroom? Paintings give students a purpose to explain and describe what they see. Not only can they help broaden students' horizons but they can also open a window on culture through art, history, etc."

2002-11-05T16:12:00.000-08:00

Graphic Organizers are successfully used to organize thinking. Practical ways to implement them in the classroom with real classroom student examples.

2002-11-05T11:33:00.000-08:00

Kids' Page A wonderful reference page for students from North Carolina. There is something here for everyone.

2002-10-26T17:39:00.000-07:00

Exploratorium: Ten Cool Sites

2002-10-26T12:04:00.000-07:00

Beginners - Tutorials Choose from 393 Online Tutorials
Beginners.co.uk provides hundreds of free online IT tutorials. Tutorials range from entry level texts on using word processors through to advanced techniques in web development/database design and network routing.

2002-10-26T08:26:00.000-07:00

Network Nuggets: English/Language Arts

2002-10-25T18:07:00.000-07:00

Learning In Hand
...a teacher-produced Web page with activities, ideas, and
successful practices for Palm handhelds in the classroom

2002-10-25T12:31:00.000-07:00

KiddSmart.com offer uniques lesson plans and scientific information for teachers and parents.

2002-10-24T19:27:00.000-07:00

CyberPigs Teachers' Guide The First Adventure of the Three Little CyberPigs is designed to make children between seven and ten years old wary of advertising tactics used on corporate Internet sites, and to help them recognize invasive and deceptive advertising techniques.

2002-10-24T19:18:00.000-07:00

Printable PDF and Word Resources and Worksheets to Support Software for SCDSB (Simcoe County District School Board) ClassroomTeachers and Students

2002-10-19T06:08:00.000-07:00

Jeffco Schools: Keyboarding Resources Keyboarding ideas

2002-10-18T21:17:00.000-07:00

Can Do! An ability focused web site dedicated to helping all people
develop a "can-do" attitude and approach to life...
no matter what the obstacles.

2002-10-18T21:11:00.000-07:00

The Literacy Web at The University of Connecticut Homepage
The Literacy Web is designed to promote the use of the Internet as a tool to assist classroom teachers in their search for best practices in literacy instruction, including the new literacies of Internet technologies. It contains links to literacy resources and is organized by grade

2002-10-17T07:46:00.000-07:00

The North Star A Story from Fablevision! Can be a stimulus for your creative writing Classes

The North Star Fablevision Posters
Can be used as an inspiration for your Character Education classes.

The North Star Exhibit for Creative Expression Select the scene and it should stimulate creative writing or oral expression in the style of FABLE VISIONS

2002-10-17T07:21:00.000-07:00

Physical Layout of the Classroom The physical surroundings of a class can encourage or inhibit the kind of interaction, and hence learning, which you want. Making distinct efforts to arrange the furniture of a classroom to promote a particular kind of interaction also sends strong messages to participants who are used to conventional layouts that this class is something different.

2002-10-01T07:11:00.000-07:00

Jim Reed's Home Page

2002-09-29T08:06:00.000-07:00

Science of Cooking
http://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/
There's more to cooking than fresh ingredients and Williams-Sonoma, as you will discover at the Exploratorium's Science of Cooking site. Learn how to judge the degree to which meat has been cooked using only your thumb and index finger, or puzzle over the chemistry of egg whites, all while drooling over recipes to feed the hungry scientist in you.

21st century literacies
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/21stcent/
This site provides teachers and librarians with perspectives and resources to support them in providing students with the 21st century literacy skills needed to succeed in our multimedia world. The 21st Century Literacies web site focuses on four areas of literacy—information, media, multicultural, and visual.