Reference Section
Features a Daily Almanac, an Interactive Almanac, and Fifty States Resource. Also supplies contents of an encyclopedia, dictionary, and atlas as well as teacher tools and lesson plans. Great site to use when you would like to find out about something quickly!
Great resource to find research! Two of my favorite sections are Middle Level Search and Eric-Education. Librarians teach students to use this regularly!
This searchable database of outstanding Internet learning sites categorizes entries by content, audience, and type (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, & tools).
This site is a portal, which means that it gathers work that others has done to support the various topics it has on it site. It has virtual tours, tutorials, virtual textbooks, just to name a few. It would be a great support tool for students or teachers who would like to learn more about graphic communication.
Webcite Online citation generator for electronic resources
This is an experimental citation generator but would be great to use with students in a unit on citing electronic sources to their projects.
A fun site to learn about copyright issues. Take this interactive tutorial and visit Copyright Bay and cruise through Fair Use Harbor, but be careful of Murky Water and Infringement Reef. Great to use with staff for a light activity on a serious matter.
A great article on copyright and fair use by Hall Davidson. Taking the online quiz that follows and reading the explanation of the correct responses was very enlightening! I learned more from that than the basic article.
Cyberbee offers detailed checklists in pdf format to evaluate content and one for web design. Also includes an early elementary version.
Detailed web site on evaluating web sites. Good background material and lots of links to other sites for evaluation web sites.
For middle school and high school students, I would use Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Pages because it breaks it down into five key areas and provides a nice chart to follow. It’s great for a basic overview and is a great useable tool.
For teachers, good format. It not only gives questions to ask, but also provides lots of information and tips on how to learn more about the site.
Teacher Resource Section
Features a Daily Almanac, an Interactive Almanac, and Fifty States Resource. Also supplies contents of an encyclopedia, dictionary, and atlas as well as teacher tools and lesson plans. Great site to use when you would like to find out about something quickly!
Great site that offers teaching tools, lesson plans, and on TV sections. Great clip art section for teachers and students to use!
An online space for teachers integrating technology into the curriculum. Lots of great tools to use to plan instruction and assess the work that your students are doing!
RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch.
A project-based learning method is a comprehensive approach to instruction. Your students participate in projects and practice an interdisciplinary array of skills from math, language arts, fine arts, geography, science, and technology.
This site is designed to serve as a resource to those who are using the WebQuest model to teach with the web. By pointing to excellent examples and collecting materials developed to communicate the idea, all of us experimenting with WebQuests will be able to learn from each other.
Provides ways to integrate technology into the classroom in several subjects including math, science, social studies, and language arts. Includes curriculum ideas, Internet treasure hunts, research tools, and technology links.
A great resource to give to my German, French, and Spanish Teachers so that they can have students practice their new language skills. Special features: moderated discussion boards and password protected chatrooms, collaborative projects, instant translation, and monitored email accounts.
This site has so much to offer teachers! The site is organized into these sections: Features, Lesson Planning Center, Email Newsletters, Classroom Management, Books on the Run, Subject Areas, Professional Development, Teacher Tools, PearsonAtSchool, What’s New, Funbrain Offline, and Homework Relief Center.
Great links to use in Web Page Design--even handouts! I found lots of resources here for my webquest.
Great online survey tool! Makes survey taking easy and fun to do!
Sometimes a photograph of something is better than a graphical representation. This is a great site to use for presentations, posters, or reports. Students love the option of including a photo!
Good graphics to for educators to use on educational web sites. Includes a few animations, too.
Great free lesson plans and activities for teachers! You can personalize Teacher Source with your grade level, subject are, and zip code for special content and features.
The Knowledge Loom: What Works in Teaching and Learning. A growing, searchable database of best practice resources.
Great site for educators with lots of resources. Has lesson planning, professional development, and site review sections, to name a few.
Kathy Schrock has a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum. She updates it often to include the best sites for teaching and learning. Great resource!
Content Area Section
The Maine Memory Network is a statewide database of electronic versions of Maine's Historical Documents, contributed by cultural institutions from around the state, from their own locations.
This site is appropriate for use in libraries, museums, schools, homes, and the workplace. Students and teachers may find the site especially helpful in their studying (and teaching!) Earth and Space sciences. The site is written in three reading levels approximating elementary, middle school and high school reading levels. These levels may be chosen by using the upper button bar of each page of the main site.
NASA CORE - Central Operation of Resources for Educators
Links for students, teachers, and the community from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
A great resource to give to my German, French, and Spanish Teachers so that they can have students practice their new language skills. Special features: moderated discussion boards and password protected chatrooms, collaborative projects, instant translation, and monitored email accounts.
From the Maine Learns! MLTI website content specific site that contains various English resources. Has collaborative writing projects, on-line literature, authors & illustrators, vocabulary, and grammar resources.
From the Maine Learns! MLTI website content specific site that contains various math resources including iTeach Math and Middle School.net resources for math.
From the Maine Learns! MLTI website content specific site that contains various social studies resources on Maine Studies, History Connections, Economics, Current Events, American Studies, Civics and Government, Geography, and World Studies.
From the Maine Learns! MLTI website content specific site that contains various science resources on science webquests, Inventions, Interactive Games, Life Science, Earth Science, Physical Science, and Health and Physical Education.
From the Maine Learns! MLTI website content specific site that contains various Foreign Language resources on German, Spanish, Italian, French & Japanese Languages.
From the Maine Learns! MLTI website content specific site that contains various Health & PE resources on Nutrition, Food Safety, Substance Abuse, Physical Fitness and Disease.
From the Maine Learns! MLTI website content specific site that contains various VPA resources on Galleries & Museums, Visual Arts, Art Projects, Dance, Music, and Performance.
From the Maine Learns! MLTI website content specific site that contains various special needs resources.
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