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General Internet Resources for Teachers SPS does not endorse and is not responsible for content on external websites linked to from this page. Please report any broken links or website comments to the Educational Technology webmaster |
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| Using the Internet with Elementary Students | Instructional Uses of the Internet for Elementary Age Students |
| BrainConnection.com -Brain Teasers |
Includes games that train the brain in short-term memory focus and sound discrimination |
| Brain Teasers for Your Classroom | A collection of links that offer a wide variety of brain teasers |
| Bulletin Boards | Resources for creating bulletin board displays from Discovery.com |
| Calendars | A guide to locating events for each day of the year. Historical Birthdays, this day in history, create a calendar are jus a few of the items on this calendar site. |
| Character Education | Free character education resources organized by topic and grade level; includes curriculum materials, discussion questions, writing assignments, group learning activities, opportunities for student action and lots of teacher support material |
| Clip Art for Teachers | Clipart-Awesome Clip art for Teachers |
| Do We Really Know Dewey? | Created to teach kids about the Dewey Decimal System. See why Melvil came up with his system. |
| Edutopia | George Lucas Foundation website dedicated to documenting, disseminating, and advocating for exemplary programs in K-12 public schools to help these practices spread nationwide. |
| FREE Federal Resources for Educational Excellence | Ed.gov federal resource for free educational materials |
| Free for Teachers | Links to a wide variety of free materials and resources |
| Internet for Classrooms | Links for K-12 teachers. Subjects, resources, assessments |
| Inquiry Based Lessons | e-MINTS; Teaching tips and a listing of online inquiry based lessons |
| New Teacher Resources | Many resources for new teachers. This site is part of a course designed for new teachers at the Oswego City School District. It can help you by providing you with a one stop shopping for many of the resources that you will find beneficial. |
| Primary Resources |
Lesson plans, printables, interactive flash activities, Smart Notebook activities and PowerPoints
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| Project Based Learning | Learn about PBL and checklists |
| Puzzles4U™ | A collection of brain teasers, puzzles, riddles, games and optical illusions. With thousands of brain teasers and puzzles. |
| RubiStar-Rubric Templates | RubiStar is a free tool to help teachers create quality rubrics |
| Study Stacks | Create a variety of online, interactive activities or use those that have already been created; flashcards; study sheets and more |
| Technology Research | Technology Research and Student Achievement in Middle Schools |
| SRI Practice | Examples of practice SRI tests; designed to help students get comfortable with the layout of the test screen. This site includes PowerPoints that let teachers model how the test will look. |
| Teachers Hub | The Online K-12 Teaching Resources Center. Subjects, lesson plans and teacher resources. |
| Technology and Teaching | PBS TeacherSource |
| Bookmarking | |
| Protaportal | Portaportal is a web based bookmarking utility that lets you store links to your favorite websites online. Now your bookmarks are no longer limited to any one machine. |
| IKeepBookMarks | iKeepBookmarks.com allows you to upload, and keep, your bookmarks on the web for free |
Differentiated Instruction 
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| Differentiated Instruction |
Differentiated Instruction: A Hotlist of Web Sites. What are the specific characteristics and behaviors of a particular group of students? |
| Differentiating Instruction |
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD--
Differentiated instruction is an approach to teaching essential content in ways that address the varied learning needs of students with the goal of maximizing the possibilities of each learner.
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| Enhancing Instruction with Technology |
Methods of using technology to differentiate instruction
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| How to Plan for Differentiated Instruction |
Guide and resources for planning differentiated instruction
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| Internet Resources and Links
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| Blue Web'n | Blue Web'n is an online library of 1952 outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hot lists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects). You can search by grade level ( Refined Search ), broad subject area ( Content Areas ), or specific sub-categories ( Subject Area ). |
| Dewey Decimal Classified Sites | Internet sites classified by the Dewey Decimal system |
| Education Oasis | Curriculum links, PDF versions of graphic organizers and certificates, links to relevant articles and more |
| Field Trips | Explore a new world on your computer. Interactives provide rich multimedia content including interactive stories, maps, games, timelines, audio, and much more. |
| Flashcard Listings | A large listing of flashcards available online |
| ikeepbookmarks | Upload and keep bookmarks on the web; access them at any time from any computer, anywhere |
| Internet Public Library | A public service organization and learning/teaching environment at the University of Michigan School of Information; many links by subject |
| Lesson Plans Page | Lesson plans categorized by subject and grade level |
| Online Educational Games and Activities | Annotated list of links to online, interactive, educational games and activities |
| Kathy Schrock | Comprehensive educational resources |
| Sites for Teachers | Annotated list of curriculum sites for teachers |
| Teachers First | Annotated listing of sites; categorized by subject |
| Educator's Reference Desk | 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses; from AskERIC |
| Lesson Plan Template | Write focused lesson plans using this online form |
| Marco Polo | Excellent source of lesson plans and resources; ArtsEdge, EconEdlink, EdSITEment, Illuminations, Science Links |
| PBS TeacherSource | 2,500+ lesson plans and activities categorized by content field |
| Pics4Learning | Lesson plans written in conjunction with thematic digital images |
| Multiple Intelligences and Learning Styles
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| Abiator's Online Learning Styles Inventory | Two learning-style and one thinking-style inventories |
| ASCD Multiple Intelligences | Explore MI theory; build your own profile |
| Building Tool Room | Resources about teaching and learning strategies as they relate to multiple intelligences theory. |
| Career Areas for Multiple Intelligences | Find out what career choices best suit each of the intelligences |
| Eight Ways of Being Smart | Provides insights into the strengths, preferences and styles of the various intelligences; lesson assessment, Bloom's Taxonomy. |
| Eight Ways of Knowing |
Descriptions and explanations of the multiple intelligences; strategies for teaching
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| I Think, Therefore M I |
Multiple Intelligences resources; inventory; strategies
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| Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences | An explanation of learning styles and multiple intelligences to help those with learning disabilities develop strategies to capitalize on their strengths; includes a teaching style inventory |
| Multiple Intelligences | Multiple Intelligences wheel; print questionnaire; resources |
| Do's and Don'ts | Conference suggestions |
| Parent-Teacher Conferences | Multiple resources for conferencing |
| Student Activities
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| Enchanted Learning | A wide range of subjects; interactive activities; labeled as elementary but can be easily adapted for secondary |
| HighSchoolHub | Free online academic resources for high school students which features learning activities, an ongoing teen poetry contest, a reference collection, college information, and subject guides for English, mathematics, science, social studies, world languages, arts, health, music, and technology |
| Primary Games | Elementary games and puzzles; Social Studies, Science, Math, and Language Arts pages |
| ThinkQuest Library | Index to over 5,000 sites; built by kids for kids |
| Think Tank | Designed to help students develop a Research Organizer (a list of topics and subtopics) for reports and projects |
| What Can I Do In The Computer Lab? | Many student activities to do while in the computer lab |
| Blackwell's Best | Many resource links to a variety of topics including Thanksgiving and Christmas |
| Calendar Teacher's Guide | Topical monthly activities |
| Curriculum Hotlist | Links and resources for primary topics; includes 100th Day of School and Johnny Appleseed |
| eduscapes | Many excellent resources on a variety of content topics and teaching strategies by Annette Lamb |
| Elementary Theme Units and Online Activities | Links to thematic units and Internet activities |
| e-Mints Calendar | Daily activities |
| eThemes | An extensive database of content-rich, age-appropriate resources organized around specific themes correlated to Missouri Standards |
| Themes Grades 3-5 | Links categorized by theme |
| Theme Pages | For elementary students and Teachers; monthly and topic |
| Anagram Server | Find or create anagrams |
| Assign A Day | An easy to use online calendar in which teachers can post assignments and announcements |
| Calculators | Includes date and time, finance, geography (driving, flight), math, science |
| CardMaker | Free, easy to use tool for creating cards |
| Citation Machine | Fill in the blank format for creating a bibliography; the site then assembles the bibliography |
| Create a Graph | Easily create many types of graphs without special software |
| Discovery School | Lesson Planner, Quiz Center, Worksheet Generator, Vocabulary Quiz Whiz, Glossary Builder, and more |
| Easy Test Maker | FREE online test generator; create multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, matching, short answer and true/false questions all on the same test |
| Filamentality | A fill-in-the-blank tool that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet links, and turning them into learning activities |
| Flashcard Exchange | Create and exchange flashcards
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| Jan Brett |
Free activities, calendars, coloring pages and more
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| Online Class Timer |
Timer that counts up or down with sound on or off
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| Personal Educational Press |
Create flashcards, game boards, quizzes, and more
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| Random Student Generator |
Use this random name generator to randomly call on students to provide responses
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| SchoolExpress |
Worksheets, award marker, fun activities, and more; subjects include: Math, Phonics, Science, Social Studies, Handwriting, History, Language Arts
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| Quia |
Use ready-made activities
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| Template Gallery for Teachers |
From Microsoft; a wide variety of templates for teachers including grade books, calendars, attendance sheets, newsletters, field trip permission forms, seating charts and more
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| Virtual Spinner |
Use this spinner to teach probability
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| Worksheets |
Worksheets on a wide range of subjects from math to spelling to the solar system
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| Worksheet Generator |
Create customized worksheets using templates or select a ready-made
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| www4teachers |
Great site for teacher tools including NoteStar, RubiStar, QuizStar, TrackStar
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| Certificates
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| Certificate Creator |
Create personalized certificates
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| Certificates for Teachers |
Printable certificates for kids
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| Kid Certificates |
Printable certificates for kids
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| Teach Net |
Printable certificates
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| Casa Notes | A variety of teacher notes including field trip permission forms, self-medication, home work pass and more |
| File Cabinet | Many useful teacher forms |
| Teacher Forms and Letters | Forms for discipline, academic, communication, and more |
| Graphic Organizers | Many ready-made, downloadable graphic organizers |
| Graphic Organizers Generators | Generates a large variety of graphic organizers: Concept Webs, Time Lines, Venn Diagrams, KWL, SQ3R |
| Houghton Mifflin |
Social Studies graphic organizers
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| Region 15 Graphic Organizers |
Downloadable organizers in PDF or DOC
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| Tools for Reading Writing and Thinking |
Graphic organizers for reading and writing
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| Puzzles
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| Puzzle Center | Internet Coach site; make or use many types of puzzles; ready made puzzles categorized by theme/content; create greeting card puzzles |
| PuzzleMaker | Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your word lists |
| Special Thanks to Lee's Summit Ed Tech Department for many of the above links.--This site will continue to be updated and customized for SPS teachers. | |
