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Resources for Students - educators
will find activities and resources for students to explore.
The Associated Press (M/HS) - the world's largest and oldest continually
operating news service has put The
Twentieth Century online, see it through stories, video and
timeline.
Celebrate
150 years of AP history
A selection of original stories and pictures.
The
Shape of Life (E,M.H) - is a compelling eight-hour series from
PBS with accompanying educational materials that tell the story
of the great diversity of animal life on Earth. See incredible se
life video clips throughout the website.
My History is America's Story
is a place where Americans can be historians. By sharing family
and community stories your students develop the oral history tradition.
An initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH),
the site is designed to help explore family history and its place
American history.
Related
Resources on Edsitement
Fonetiks.org - This website
provides a guide to the major pronunciations from each language.
More Language Resources page and language
dictionaries can be accessed by clicking on the Country Flags on
the main page.
American Writers This
site provides discussion questions to support online video clips
of an ambitious programming effort by U.S. cable channel C-SPAN.
Students can watch and listen to online video clips and use them
as the basis for discussion.
June 9, 14- Jack
Keraouc
June 16 - James
Baldwin
ESL Cyber Listening Lab Students
can click on a link and listen to spoken (American) English. A quiz
helps them focus on what they hear, and written transcripts are
available. Each lesson contains pre-listening and post-listening
activities.
Animal Search (E/MS) A search
engine which will find anything relating to animals.
History Globe (E) -
Students can experience 3 simple online, interactive history adventures
- Jamestown Colony, Oregon Trail and Anglo-Apache Conflicts.
EduWeb (K-12) - Educational
Web Adventures, creates immersive, interactive, and in-depth adventures
in art, science and history, specializing in educational games,
simulations and learning modules.
A Brush
with Wildlife: Create a Composition with Carl Rungius at the
National Museum of Wildlife Art
America's
Story (E/M) - Puts the story back in history showing new things
readers might never have heard or seen before. Most of the materials
are primary sources - letters, diaries, records and tapes, films,
sheet music, maps, prints, photographs and digital materials found
only in the collections of the Library of Congress.
See
Hear and Sing - Watch a movie, hear a song, play a tune from
America's past.
What
is a Tesselation, from Math Forum Tutorials and links make this
a good site to begin Tesselation exploration.
Tools for creating Tesselations and manipulating shapes (all)
Tesselation
Tool from Boxer Math
Patterns
from Archytech a tool to practice fractions, shapes, proportions
and their relationship
Virtual
Manipulatives
National Library
of Virtual Manipulatives (ES/MS/HS) - This site can be used
as a supplement to help students visualize mathematical relationships
and applications. The virtual manipulatives correlate with the NCTM
standards. Use as a whole-group demonstration with younger and as
independent work for older students. Each grade-level group of manipulatives
is divided into five topics: Number & Operations, Algebra, Geometry,
Measurement, and Data Analysis & Probability
ExploreMath (M/H) - created
by educators this site has highly interactive, multimedia activities
covering the major topics in Elementary Algebra through Pre-Calculus.
Become a member (free) and Create Course Homepages post syllabi,
assignments, announcements and links.
Read the newsletter.
Explore Science (M/H)
- provides open-ended, interactive science activities and an engaging
experience of sights, sounds, and interaction with scientific theory.
The power of ExploreScience is in the quality of its activities
which enable students to control variables in online experiments
- true discovery learning and works for both individual exploration
and for teacher-led activities.
Read the newsletter.
eChem
(HS)- a visualizing Chemistry modeling and analysis tool. Students
build and manipulate three-dimensional models of molecules with
a visualizer module. It allows students to compare computationally
predicted properties of the molecule with properties they observe
in the laboratory. All views and modules are linked together, allowing
the student to easily switch between various representations of
the molecule.
Kapili.com - (MS/HS)
The imaginary Kapili Islands are home to a variety of research labs
which produce the wonderfully educational Kapili.com. Visit the
Garden Island for topic lists of aquatics, botanical, geography
and zoology topic lists. Visit the Research labs for Biology, chemistry,
zoology, physics, astronomy. You will also find the Chem4Kids,
Biology4Kids and Geography4Kids
websites here.
Parallel
Tasks and Resources for the NYS ELA Regents (MS/HS) - Find parallel
tasks and activities created by area teachers to assist your students
in exam preparation.
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Resources for Educators - the best
of the web's learning activities, lesson plans, and curriculum resources
Bill of Rights Institute
(M,H) - bring the Bill of Rights and the Constitution to life and
find new ideas for the study of the amendments to the U.S. Constitution,
using this site's resources which include a large selection of lesson
plans, Primary Source Activities, Citizenship and Character Lessons,
and Historical Narratives.
Boggles World (E, MS) a
resource site for teachers who teach English, ESL and EFL.
Claymation
Pirate Cards are great for teaching about colors, numbers,
and other adjectives. These cards can be used in K-7 ESL or regular
classrooms.
Art
on the Net a portal to art movements, artists, museums, art
history, art journals, etc.
Medieval Art on the web
CongressLink
(HS) - provides information about the U.S. Congress -- how it works,
its members and leaders, and the public policies it produces. Classroom
resources features lesson plans, online historical materials,
and information to assist teachers in using CongressLink in their
classrooms.
Center
for Resources (CERES) Project (all) - Montana State University,
NASA and classroom teachers have developed an extensive library
of on-line interactive K-12 science education materials for teaching
astronomy. These classroom-ready activities represent a combination
of contemporary teaching/learning strategies from the National Science
Education Standards, exciting and current NASA science data, and
Internet pointers to an endless supply of accurate and timely resources.
Library
of Congress - resource of our nation's history.
American Memory Collection
- Today
in History - updated daily
Internet Resources
for the Social Studies Curriculum (E/MS/HS) - A LHRIC portal
to Social Studies resources on the web.
Teacher Vision (all)
- features lesson plans, activities, worksheets, printables and
teacher tools in all subject areas and grade levels. Investigate
the many activities for this month:
Flag
Day
Summer
activities
Education
World - Portal to articles, links, lesson plans.
Father's
Day
Deaf
Blindness Awareness Week
It's
a Zoo Out There
Library Spot
(E/M/H), from the StartSpot Network, is a virtual library resource
center for educators and students, with links to libraries and reference
sites.
2002
Pulitzer Prizes
Scholastic
- Resources for the K-8 curriculum featuring special projects, learning
games, and chats with online guests.
The National Clearinghouse
for Bilingual Education (NCBE) (all) - Find information relating
to the effective education of linguistically and culturally diverse
learners in the U.S.
Understanding
Afghanistan, Land in Crisis
Find maps, news, webcasts, education resources and lesson plans
for K-12. Teacher's
Guide to Afghanistan
The Foreign
Language Classroom Online (MS/HS) - A portal to foreign language
resources on the web.
American
Authors (MS/HS) - Features on this thorough web site include
a timeline of American writers and literature from 1620 to 1920,
included in the timeline is a synchronous chronology of historical
events, which provides context for the literature listings. In addition,
the author has created biographies and references for many of the
authors listed, as well as links to other sites which cover related
issues and events. You will find a lot of resources here.
NASAexplores (ES/MS/HS) is
an education initiative using current NASA Aerospace Technology,
adapted by NASAexplores educators into lesson plans and activities
for three grade levels: K-4, 5-8, and 9-12. Topics align with standard
subject areas, such as chemistry, biology, and algebra.
Marco
Polo (ES/MS/HS) - Internet Content for the Classroom from Edsitement,
ArtsEdge, Xpeditions,
Science NetLinks,
EconEdLink
, Illuminations
. Looking for a specific lesson, use the Search
page.
Science
NetLinks - Click on your grade level to see a list of reviewed
web resources
Internet Resources
for Special Children (IRSC) - information relating to the needs
of children with disabilities for professionals and parents.
Web
Portals and Tools - a list of sites to make the online life
of teachers more efficient.
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