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| These links take you to internet sites with lesson plans, teacher descriptions of projects, interactive learning pages, literature, poetry, writing exercises, curricula, reference works, and a host of other tools for all levels. Some are practical, some are inspirational, and some are both. If you have sites that you use and would like to share them with the teachers and learners who visit here, then click on e-mail below and send me the URL (website address). I'll certainly consider adding it. Explore and enjoy.... |
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| At TeachersFirst a matrix is available that covers all levels & all content areas. |
| Some sites, like FunBrain specialize in the basics subjects of math and grammar. |
| Teachers (7th -12th) can reach over 700 links with rubrics, grant writing, lesson plans, mainstreaming, and warmups for ALL content areas at The Human Internet. |
| Experienced classroom teachers have built a bank of lessons plans in all the content areas at Columbia Education Center |
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| Would you like a published author to visit your class and work with students? Then, Visiting Authors is the place to go to make such arrangements. |
| Need to brush up on a novel or other piece of literature that you haven' read for a while,, or maybe you'd like to find out just where that C- student really got that smooth report? Try SparkNotes, the Cliff Notes of the internet. |
| Don't forget the classic sources of good material, such as the Public Broadcasting System. They have a really nice site called PBS TeacherSource. |
| Looking specifically for African-American resources? I recommend these. The speeches, sermons, biographies, et. al. of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., are collected at the MLK Papers Project at Stanford University. African-Americans in the Sciences lists all the significant African-American contributors to science and technology in U.S. history. A great PBS site called African-American World can be helpful in curricular development, and teaching the historic significance of African-Americans to society. See also DiversityWeb for similar help. |
| Interested in seeing the website I created to assist my students in developing their term papers? It took the pressure off of me to keep re-supplying lost instructional packets. It also gave them assistance whenever they were ready to use it. The process is free, takes a couple of hours to design and implement, and holds the student's interest like nothing else can. I can e-mail instructions to you and mentor you in the process, if you wish. You already have the skills needed to create a web page for a class project! Click here and visit the website for my class's term paper. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| Need vocabulary words? Wordsmyth has several levels of words along with pronunciation and etymology, and they e-mail it to you free each week. |
| Doing research? Try the National Academy Press website. It also has over 2000 books you can read online for free, as well as many teaching aids. |
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| Below are some icons lilnking us to some helpful sites for those interested in using the internet further: Here's the explanation of the choices you have below: Click on NWP (the National Writing Project), and look under "Resources", or Click on Yahoo! which has all the tools you need to make your own web site, plus a tutorial, all free. This website is on Yahoo! . |
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| The local affiliate of the National Writing Project is the Greater Kansas City Writing Project (GKCWP). You may visit them by clicking on the icon to the right-----> The Writers Place is a local group supporting writers and writing in the community. Click their name above to go to their site. |
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| Click here if you have an interest in The Writing Process and would like some assistance in thinking or re-thinking it. Here is a well designed site that can assist you. |