Tools for Educators

How do I sign out the COW and where is the calendar?

Tips for Using the Internet as you plan a research project for your CHS students / Overview of Plagiarism

Activities in the Classroom:  Teachable Moment Daily Activities - offers activities on current domestic and international events, conflict resolution and intercultural understanding. (K-12)

Daily Dose : Question of the Day  Also, check:  Brainteasers, Subject Area, Quotation Sources, Interesting Trivia  All of these sites located at Internet 4 the Classroom site.

Assessment - Authentic Assessment Toolbox - a how-to hypertext on creating authentic tasks, rubrics and standards for measuring and improving student learning.

Assessment Rubric for Collaboration Efforts

national assessment of educational progress (naep) reading framework development project - a draft for the 2009 assessment is available at this site

OELMA Student Learning - Most recent study, conducted in Ohio, of student learning through the library media center.

Assessment, Maine sites:  LAD, ELM, MAP, SEED

Bibliography:  NoodleTools - Research Tools for all - We have a subscription to this for students to create their works cited pages. 

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• A-Z Teacher Tips  
• Boards of a Feather - posts highly creative tips for bulletin boards.  
• bulletin board hang-ups - colorful quotation sheets 
• Classroom Decor Ideas
• Ideas for Bulletin Boards
• Teacher Helpers Bulletin Board Ideas - well maintained list of links from Kathy Schrock's site. 

mike moore's cartoon archives - Enjoy some funny educational cartoons!

Clip Art                                                 top

• awesome clip-art for teachers
• clip-art from the Teacher's Guide - lot of free stuff here!
• clip-art from Discovery School
• kid's domain clip-art
• celeste's holiday graphic collection
• language arts clip-art from discovery school
• pics for learning
• original k-12 clip-art royalty free
• teacher's net, teaching clip-art; holiday clip-art
• timelines; free timelines and more from OurTimeLines
• world clip art from Canon
• Images - Finding Pictures on the Net  (the link for Pics4learning has a lesson plan link which gives ideas for incorporating the images into lessons.)  Try ClipArt Connection | CNN for current events images  | Microsoft Clip Art  |  All Clip Art

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Copyright Bay - Learn what the rules and laws are.

Copyright Guidelines - from St. Andrew's School in Texas.

A Printable Chart of Copyright Guidelines for Teachers from MediaFestival.

Copyright Internet Guidelines - from the U.S. Copyright Office.  Copyright Term and Public Domain in the U.S.

Equipment - Headlight Audiovisuals

Evaluation Evalutech                       top

• More than 10,000 recommended reviews of software and print resources
• Web resources in language arts, mathematics, social studies and science
• Links to learning resources provided by SREB states' departments of education
• Information about some major elearning software companies
• Analysis of literacy skills and links to 21st century skills initiatives
• Accessible technology resources for students with disabilities
• Links to online learning and online professional development resources

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Electronic Field Trips - E3 (Explore, Experience, Expand) Electronic Field Trips streams electronic video broadcasts from the nation's top museums and historical landmarks to students in their classrooms.  See the calendar for times.  Each trip is accompanied by related online curricula.  Register on-line. Sponsored by Best Buy Children's Foundation and Baylor University. 

Virtual Field Trips - This Web page for K-12 educators contains a wide range of subjects: science, social studies, literature, and other educational areas.  The trips are arranged by grade levels.  This is a free resource for educators and is a great supplemental resource for all levels. 

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Custom awards and certificates - choose a theme and create your own!

Forms and Letters - Look at the Index on the left - Teacher Tools - There's lots to download and print at this site, with homework coupons, grade trackers, daily logs, behavior charts, assignment sheets, IEP reports, hall passes, parent contact logs, project planning guides, thank you notes, teacher memo pads, multiplication tables... This teacher knows the ropes and has it all organized for you.

Graphs - making them free online - from NCES.

Graphics - Many, many diagrams to choose from.  From atoms to molecules and cells to tissues, a study of structure and function

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Games for Science

Newsword & Holiday Crosswords - many worksheets provided for fun entertainment.

PuzzleMaker - Easy-to-use puzzle generator lets you create 11 different types of customized puzzles, including letter-tiles, cryptograms, and criss-cross.  Clip-art also available here.      Another Puzzle Site:    (Blocked)  Puzzle Choice - Amuse yourself with 20 different types of printable and interactive crosswords, along with word search, trivia tests, and number challenges.

Quia - You have to see this site! Welcome to Quia, the leader in online education. Quia helps teachers teach better by giving them the tools to create, customize, and share learning activities. Quia helps students learn more by bringing the resources of hundreds of thousands of educators together in one place.

Scavenger Hunts  hunting for treasures on the internet.  A listing of sites at Education World. 

Timelines - Make free timelines and more from Ourtimelines

WordSearch creator from Genuine Class

Graphic Organizers:                         top

Blooms Taxonomy Sites - Learning Skills Program-Blooms; Taxonomy of Educational Objectives; Teacher Education, Blooms; another chart of Blooms

Graphic Organizers Index - A good place to start - from webbing to flow charts.  Created by Greg Freeman.

Graphic Organizers - A large collection of printable organizers available in both Word and PDF.  Check out the 31 "expository writing" organizers and the 21"compare/contrast" organizers!  Created by Pomepraug Regional School District 15, Middlebury, CT.

Graphic Organizers - from Houghton Mifflin's Education Place.  38 writing-related tools.

Graphic Organizer Makers - If you want to create your own graphic organizers, this is the site!  It is a subscription site with a free trial available.  Created by Teach-nology, Inc.

S.C.O.R.E. - Teacher Activity Bank - Includes Graphic Organizers, Rubrics, Literature, Journaling.- For Math, Science, Language Arts, Social Studies.

Ven Diagrams - Draw your own.

Fundraiser Activities:  Simple and Successful Activities

HELP!  Live Chat - Ask a Librarian!  Reference Service options at the Maine State Library.

Help for New Teachers!  New Teachers Link is one of the sites to check at Sabine's Teacher's Lounge.   

Magazine - Teacher Magazine - Register for Free at EdWeek.org and access this teacher magazine. 

PowerPoint Tips -                             top

• Interactive PP  
• Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 - support page includes ideas, tips, tricks, tutoirals, lesson ideas, and much more.
• PowerPoint Ideas - Ideas for how PP can be used in school.
• PowerPoint in the Classroom - A wonderful online tutorial to review the basics.  Easy to follow directions.
• Using PowerPoint to Enhance Teaching and Learning - A professional development module dealing with PP by the MO Dept. of Ed.

Rubrics - Creating Rubrics - explanations and template. |   Rubistar - Create rubrics for your project-based learning activities.  It provides  generic rubrics in a format that can be customized. The teacher can change almost all suggested text in the rubric to make it fit their own project.

S.C.O.R.E. - Teacher Activity Bank - Includes Graphic Organizers, Rubrics, Literature, Journaling.- For Math, Science, Language Arts, Social Studies.

Search Engine Tools - NoodleTools  Search Tools for all - We have a subscription to this for students to create their works cited pages. 

Try ZapMeta Meta-Search -   Offers tremendous results for educators with Boolean searches.  Set up your preferences and note the search engine options you get.  Turn on the Show Webpage Image if you have a high-speed connection.  

Infomine Multiple Database Search - Has a multiple database search option that allows users to search for subject-specific databases and full-text journals in academic disciplines, k12, Internet, and other useful categories.  Do more "Deep Web" searches by going to the search engine page on our site and looking at "Searching for Search Engines."

Internet Archive - The Internet Archive is working to prevent the Internet — a new medium with major historical significance — and other "born-digital" materials from disappearing into the past. 

Internet Guides from UC Berkeley, Learn the Net for Beginners, KATE, Tutorial Resources for On-line Education

Internet Tutorial - How to find the things you are looking for!  From  U.C. Berkeley.

Search.edu - SearchEdu.com, a new Internet search engine devoted to university and education related web sites. SearchEdu.com applies powerful new search engine technology, including better results ranking and page caching, to an extensive index of over 20 million pages of academic materials from universities, schools, and libraries.  A Search Engine for education!

Technology                               top

• Building Integrated Technology Projects - Under "Background/Philosophy," there is a powerpoint which will give you some astounding facts about technology today.  Good rubrics at this site to follow.
• Community Learning Network  a site designed to help K-12 teachers integrate technology into the classroom. Here you’ll find over 5,800 annotated links to educational sites with free resources, all organized by theme pages and keyword search.
• Computer Lab 508 - An incredible site where students learn computer skills.  Worth looking through!
• Instructions - General directions for computer activities. Note - directions are generic to allow for use of a variety of software programs. For program-specific, step-by-step instructions, see http://www.essdack.org/ccc.  See how to use the computer as a tool for making classroom management tasks easier
• EdCompass - for educators using SmartBoard technology
• laptopical - an online blog to keep up with the newest innovations in using the laptop in the classroom.
• technology integration - The mission of the Instructional Technology Team is to prepare instructional staff to integrate technology into the curriculum and promote a student-learning environment that assists and encourages technological skills.
• Teaching through Technology - Easy graph to peruse for teaching ideas in the curriculum.  Click on a project description to learn from teachers who are integrating these technology tools into their teaching:
  

Tools                                        top

beginning teacher's toolbox - Inspiring Teacher's web site.

Global SchoolNet Conversion Tools

power tools from teachnet.com

 Teachers@Work - Mark Treadwell's site - tools for educators.

Teacher Tools - various examples of all of the important tools - use RUBRIC as an example and you will find excellent examples, rubric sites and explanations.

works 4 me - NEA's site for tips and tools in the classroom.

Translation:    Babelfish from Altavista. This is sometimes unblocked at school, but usually you will have to access this from home.          iTools - Excellent for translation. 

Videos - Maine State Library Learning and Technology Services - Video Services - Maine State Library has over 1,700 instructional programs on videotape that are available for duplication. Programs are duplicated on a first come - first served basis. It can take up to 2 weeks to complete orders but most requests are completed within a few days.   Programs can be duplicated in VHS format only (SP Mode Only).  Please be aware that this is not a searchable site. The page does include the entire catalog, a list of new programs, programs to be removed and order forms that can be viewed and/or printed.

Movies in the Classroom - suggestions in all curriculums.

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Web Site Creation - TrackStar - Collect websites, add annotations, create your page and have your students access your assignment.

HPR TEC - Education Page Builder - This web-based utility will allow you to create a lesson, worksheet or class page on the World Wide Web. All you need to use this utility is your browser and some time.

Web Site Evaluation - Superior resources offer objectivity, timeliness, accuracy, and authority. More importantly, readers can verify information provided by trustworthy sources.   Web Site Evaluation Handout for CHS Students

webquests - Celebrating the best in webquests.

Worksheets:  School Express - Free Worksheets - Over 5,000 free worksheets to copy and print or download. Make as many copies as you want! Seems to be geared to elementary, but there are quite a few for the high school also.

Worksheet Factory - Free "Lite" versions of worksheets. 

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