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Resources for Teachers
| FIELD TRIP FORM |
ENGLISH / LANGUAGE ARTS
http://www.teachervision.com
This site offers many links to lesson plans, curriculum materials, assessments, etc. for teachers.
http://corporate.classroom.com/
Enter the Teachers’ Guild Library for language arts lesson plans and more!
http://www.theteacherscorner.net/reading/activities/index.htm
This site offers many successful teacher-created activities and lessons such as teaching point of view.
http://www.ncte.org/
The National Council of Teachers of English is dedicated to improving the teaching and learning of English and the language arts at all levels of education.
http://kidswriting.about.com/teens/kidswriting/
This site is loaded with resources, including lesson plans, to facilitate the teaching of creative writing for teens.
http://www.unmuseum.org/crr/index.htm
Welcome to the Children’s Reading Room at the "
http://www.scholastic.com
Click on "Teachers" for thousands of lesson plans, classroom activities, and other award-winning resources.
http://www.m-w.com/
For simple access to a dictionary and thesaurus, try this site.
http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/Lesson_Plans/Literature_Activities/l
More than 500 lesson plans and activities are housed here. All are arranged alphabetically by book title for teaching literature at the elementary level. There are many activities in the Thematic Units Index.
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/
This page is the home of hundreds of K-12 language arts lesson plans.
http://www.eduref.org/
This website contains more that 1,100 unique lesson plans written by teachers from all over the
MATHEMATICS
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/math/studytools/index.html
This Glencoe web site has a study tools section that can be used with the high school math texts.
http://www.cut-the-knot.com/Curriculum/index.shtml
There are a multitude of resources on this website. The sheer number of interactive activities is amazing. If you are looking for something different, this is the place.
http://www.seced.state.va.us
Visit the Virginia Secretary of Education's website. Secretary Wheelen provides a perspective on education in our state.
http://www.galaxy.gmu.edu/~drsuper
Take a visit to the world of virtual manipulatives. Dr. Super's website shows various models to learn Geometry and Number Sense.
http://www.pen.k12.va.us
http://www.hbschool.com/glossary/math2/index_temp.html
Grades 1-8 math glossary. Easy to use.
http://www.nap.edu/books/0309067979/html
Mathematics Education in the Middle Grades: Teaching to Meet the Needs of Middle Grades Learners and to Maintain High Expectations: Proceedings of a National Convocation and Action Conferences (2000)
http://mathforum.org/
Comprehensive site includes Ask Dr. Math, Problems of the week, lesson plans, and more!
http://www.plus.maths.org.uk/issue11/features/physics_world/index.html
Information on fractals and chaos.....lots of higher level math...appropriate for high school math and physics.
http://www.figurethis.org
Challenging puzzles
http://www.discoveryschool.com
Materials to support TV programs. A categorized list of sites for enhancing curriculum and professional growth
http://www.shodor.org/interactivate
The Shodor Education Foundation, Inc. All levels of activities, grades k-12. Interactive middle-school lessons designed to extend hands-on activities and to teach new content areas, incorporating technology in appropriate ways.
http://www.aimsedu.org
Activities Integrating Math and Science, grades K-8
http://math.rice.edu/~lanius
Numerous lessons with ideas on implementation.
http://www.ed.gov
Education headlines
http://www.mathsurf.com
Scott Foresman Publishers (math textbook K-8)
http://www.nctm.org
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
http://www.purplemath.com/internet.htm
Contains many good links to algebra sites. Suitable for Parents, Teachers and Students.
SCIENCE
www.learner.org
Annenburg/
www.enc.org
The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse presents programs that work, grant information, lesson plans and more for math/science teachers.
www.seaworld.org
The Sea World site has lots of information about sea life and lesson plans.
www.howstuffworks.com
Find out how things work from telephones to jet engines on the "Welcome to How Stuff Works" website.
www.sciencenetlinks.com/index.html
Find lots of resources and lesson plans here. Lesson plans rigorously follow the Project 2061 theories from its hosting agency, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as to what really constitutes valid science teaching these days.
www.accessexcellence.org
Biology teachers and students should not miss this wonderfully rich site (Access Excellence) on health and biosciences)
www.ncsu.edu/sciencejunction
www.nasa.gov
The NASA Homepage has a wealth of information on earth and space sciences.
http://www.explorelearning.com/
Shockwave™ Activities create real-time correlations between scientific theories and applications that help students visualize, experiment, and interact with many of the major concepts in science.
www.pen.k12.va.us
The Virginia Department of Education website is a great source for information on
http://education.ti.com/educationportal/
Find calculator and
www.nsta.org
The website of the National Science Teacher's Association. This is a great professional site for all teachers of science.
SOCIAL STUDIES
http://www.regentsprep.org
This is a direct link to practice material for the New York Regents exam. Teachers can select from this material to build teacher-made tests that correlate to the
http://www.pen.k12.va.us/VDOE/Instruction/sol.html
History and Social Studies Standards of Learning Teacher Resource Guide for grades K-12.
http://www.virginia.org/site/content.asp?MGrp=1&MCat=3&Rgn=10000
Museum Links provides links to museums in
http://worldnetva.pwnet.org/main.htm
WorldNet
http://www.vastudies.org
Virginia Pathways provides a script to the six episodes of Virginia Pathways. Virginia Pathways is an educational video series with print and web matter produced in association with the Virginia History Production Consortium. The series is dictated by the fourth grade Virginia History Standards of Learning. Episode 3 is entitled "Virginia Government" and is appropriate for grade 7 civics.
http://www.pen.k12.va.us/VDOE/Instruction
Primary Knowledge of Economics Concepts and Principles for the Economics Strand of the K-3 History and Social Science Standards of Learning: link "Standards of Learning." This resource provides a discussion of the economics concepts and principles that are included in the economics strand of the
www.ncss.org
National Council for the Social Studies website contains lesson plans, awards, grants, resources and information about the Virginia Council for the Social Studies.
http://www.runet.edu/~geog-web/alliance/mbrship.html
The Virginia Geographic Alliance provides lesson plans, projects, and curricula that incorporate geography according to
www.thehistorynet.com/NationalHistoryDay
The program’s goal is to promote the study of history by engaging students and teachers in the excitement of historical inquiry and creative presentation. This site contains a student contest guide and information on teacher fellowships.
http://www.socialstudies.com
This is a commercial site for Social Studies School Service, which sells supplementary learning materials. The site features free classroom projects, instructional activities, professional development workshops, and primary documents.
http://www.education-world.com/
Education World offers a database of resources for teachers, including lesson planning, curriculum, teacher lessons, and links to additional sites.
www.awesomelibrary.org/history.html
This site contains history and social science lesson plans linked by subject.
www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/index.html
This homepage is by teachers, for teachers. It is updated weekly.
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/
Schools of California Online Resources for Education contains resources and lessons by grade level and keyword.
http://education.indiana.edu/~socialst/socialst.1.html
Social Studies Sources designed for K-12 social studies teachers and students.
www.discoveryschool.com/schrockguide
Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated daily to include the best sites for teaching and learning.
www.ed.gov/free
Hundreds of education resources, supported by agencies across the U.S. Federal government, are linked by subject area.
http://history.acusd.edu/gen/20th/coldwar0.html
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/coldwar.htm
Links to cold war policies 1945 – 1991 present primary sources and online notes.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/
The New York Times presents archived lesson plans for U. S. History, geography, government, and economics.
http://www.teachtci.com/Default.htm
Homepage for History Alive!, published by Teacher’s Curriculum Institute.
www.world-arts-resources.com
The Metropolitan Museum of Art World Wide Arts Resources provides art resources.
www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources
Worldwide Internet Music Resources for the classroom.
http://psych.hanover.edu/Research/exponnet.html
The American Psychological Society for psychological research.
http://www.tjhsst.edu/Psych/
Mrs. Hannah’s Online Psychology Tutor provides resources for students and teachers.
http://academics.tjhsst.edu/psych/links.php
This home page for
www.powellendowment.org
Econ-Exchange offers practical classroom economic activities for K-12 teachers.
http://coe.ilstu.edu/jabraun/socialstudies/assess/socsci
Illinois State Board of Education Alternative Assessment in the Social Sciences presents assessment activities, scoring rubrics, and sample student responses. An additional site contains geography assessment: http://coe.ilstu.edu/jabraun/socialstudies/assess/geo.
http://www.ushmm.org
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum provides resources and lesson plans. Additional site for the holocaust: www.remember.org
www.metmuseum.org
Presents a virtual tour of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
www.louvre.fr
Presents a virtual tour of the world famous museum, the Louvre, in
http://www.usmint.gov/index.cfm?flash=yes
The United States Mint provides their "50 States Quarters Program" and the "H.I.P. - History in Your Pocket" webpages. Both contain plans for classroom activities.
General
Online ACT/
Drug and Youth Violence Prevention
www.theantidrug.com Parental resource, The Anti Drug.
www.drugfreeamerica.org Partnership for a drug free
www.health.org US Department of Health and Human Services, Alcohol and Drug info.
www.acde.org American Council for Drug Education.
www.inhalants.org National Inhalant Prevention Coalition.
www.notmykid.org Drug prevention info.
www.dying2drive.org A media campaign for the Teen Smart Driver Initiative.
www.usdoj.gov/youthviolence.htm United States Department of Justice - Youth Violence
www.talkingwithkids.org/violence.html Talking with your kids about youth violence
http://youthviolence.edschool.virginia.edu Virginia Youth Violence Project
www.safeyouth,org/script/index.asp