Acceptable Use Policies
Handbook by the Virginia DOE
This on-line handbook includes suggestions for designing Acceptable Use Policies. Includes components, samples, and templates.
Armadillo Resources
From the Houston Independent School District, this page offers lots of links to great resources for creating Acceptable Use Policies. Includes samples, news articles, organizations, and more.
Corporate AUPs
While this site is designed for corporate use rather than school use, it offers a good explanation of the need for AUPs, models, policies, and the 10 Commandments for Computer Ethics.
Alternative Assessment
Links
Lots of links on the topic of using technology to support alternative assessments.
Transforming Ideas for Teaching and Learning
Block Scheduling
Swarthmore
This is a site that gets you to other great sites about block scheduling -- definitions of; schools that use block scheduling; research completed for and against block scheduling.
Prisoners of Time
The National Education Commission's report on time and learning. Released in April 1994, entitled, "Prisoners of Time."
The Problem with Block Scheduling
Character Education
Active Citizenship
This site has information on civic values, a presentation on service learning activities for middle and high school students, a free service learning guide and many links to other sites related to service learning.
Strategies for Empowering Students
Character based activities that are divided into primary, intermediate, and upper-grade levels, each with appropriate developmental strategies that help students recognize the skills to become a good citizen, and build self-esteem.
Hero Quest
A short on-line activity that guides students through thinking about the 6 values of character education.
My Hero
Read about artists, explorers, scientists, teachers, and other inspirational people who exemplify good character. You can create a Web page of someone you feel shows good character and submit it for inclusion. Or you can browse the pages that other kids have made.
Collaboration Online
ePals
Monitored discussion boards, email, and live chats allow students around the world to speak directly. There are also many online collaborative projects as well.
iEARN-USA
Serving over 100 countries, iEARN contains a collection of online projects where students can team with students from other countries. All of the iEARN projects have an emphasis placed on making communities, and the world, a better place.
Collaborative Project Ideas and Web Sites
Collaborative Internet Projects
Journey North 1995 - 2001
Differentiating Instruction
Digital Portfolios
Student Portfolio Information
This Web site presents an introduction to the concept of student portfolios as an assessment tool.
The Kalamazoo College Portfolio
This Web site presents a college-level resource on student multimedia portfolios.
Digital Portfolios Reference Links
A compilation of links categorized according to subject and/or grade level. The links will provide insight into creating and using student portfolios.
Educational Resources
Apple in Education
Education World
Yahoo - Education
Esprit De Corps
On2: Fighting School Violence
Visit this site to see how different communities are fighting violence and keeping kids safe in their schools and neighborhoods.
Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence
Comprehensive information located at this site including "blueprints" for violence prevention (model programs, training and technical assistance, can much more).
Fire Safety
Kid's Safety-Fire
This Web Site has a slide show that answers the question: Do you know what to do in case of fire?
Home Fire Escape Plan
This site may be a great place to start to have students begin to create and plan a fire escape plan. Links include establishing a safe meeting place outside the house, practicing the escape plan, and preparing for those who may need extra assistance in this type of an emergency.
Safety Bear's Coloring Page
This page has a whole host of safety type coloring pages for younger students to color.
Flashcards Online
It's Elemental
Students should have a blast learning about the elements of the periodic table using this site that provides online interactive element flashcards.
A+ Math
This site offers students the opportunity to practice math skills in the following areas: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, square root, and rounding. In addition, the site allows the teacher to create sets of printable flashcards.
Interactive Alphabet Flashcards
Let your students learn the alphabet and practice site word recognition with these alphabet flashcards.
English-ASL Flashcards
This would be a great site to use for both the advance student learning American Sign Language and the student who may need to build fine motor skill development.
Learn to Read
Let this site help improve your students' phonics skill. Flashcards are interactive and have audio embedded within so students can practice speaking the sounds that letters make.
Game Goo
This is a super site for the primary students. Students use interactive flashcards and games to learn about concepts such as opposites, directionality and much more.
Gradebook Programs for Teachers
Gradebook, Plotting, and Testing Software for Teachers
The program supports many user defined task categories, including optional student ID numbers, total points or weighted scores, and discarding the worst scores by category. There are a lot of options with this program.
GradeBusters Electronic Gradebook System
The site offers a free, demo version which can be registered with a simple phone call.
Easy Grade Pro
Easy Grade Pro is a simple, quick program that offers weighted grading, numeric, percentile, or alphabetical grades, seating charts, and many more features. Teachers can use a combination feature to weight semester grades from 2 quarters and a final exam grade (handy for secondary teachers).
Graphic Organizers
Education Place
Education Place provides an extensive choice of graphic organizers for grades K-5. The files are in PDF format so they can not be changed, but the basics are great and easy to print off. Adobe Acrobat Reader is necessary to read and print the files.
Laura's Candler
North Carolina educator Laura Candler created this extensive selection of printable teacher resources, catalogued under easily accessed headings. Graphic Organizers includes such commonly used organizers as a sequencing map, a KWL chart, and a Venn diagram.
Education World
Education World offers a small list of graphic organizers. There are Venn Diagrams, KWHL Charts and even Spider Maps. The greatest feature of these templates is they can be downloaded and the user is able to edit the document.
TeachNology Venn Diagrams
This site allows the teacher to create and then print a Venn Diagram online. The information is typed into the fields provided and then the user has the option to view and then print their creation.
Teacher Vision
Large number of printable language arts graphic organizers, including story maps, Venn diagrams, problem and solution worksheets, concept maps, and more.
History of Education
The History of Education
Have you ever wondered how the current education system was formed? This site provides an in-depth and fascinating collection of articles, books, and resource materials about the history of education & the history of childhood.
History of Education
This site provides the thoughts, opinions and issues that impacted education through 10 decades of education. Most of the links on this website were written by education students. This is the place to check out if you too, wish to voice your opinion about education as they provide a form for submitting papers.
Blackwell History of Education Museum
This site is worth a visit! A museum dedicated to preserving knowledge about the history of education. A unique collection of facts and artifacts used in the early 1900's.
Elementary School Through the Ages
Read about the history of elementary education from the perspective of an school student. This is a ThinkQuest that provides a timeline of education, interviews, and interesting information related to discipline, recess, and becoming a teacher.
Implementing IEPs in the Classroom
Information! Information!
Libraries Online
The Library Spot is an extensive Web site providing every type of resource you can think of. Included on this Web site are different types of libraries (ex. medical, image, etc.), various lists (ex. newspapers, best books of '99), searchable quotes from visionaries, a Feature spot and its archive, Q & A's, a Librarian's Shelf, top recommended sites to visit, and more.
Answers to Your Questions
If you are looking for specific information on any of a variety of topics, XpertSite.com provides the answers. The Web site allows the user to first enter a section focusing on a specific topic, then decide to either read questions and answers from previous visitors, or post their own question to a specific Xpert. Visitors may also rate any of the Xperts on the quality of their advice, using a star rating system.
Opinions Wanted
Want to read a book about a particular topic? Epinion.com posts book reviews of their top picks on just about any subject. If you're not sure about which book might be the one you're looking for, check here.
Internet-Based Projects
Global School Network Internet Project Registry
This is a powerhouse of internet project resources. Complete, searchable database of Internet Projects. Post your own project too!
Globe Program
GLOBE students make environmental observations at or near their schools and report their data through the Internet. Scientists use GLOBE data in their research and provide feedback to the students to enrich their science education. Global images based on GLOBE student data are displayed on the World Wide Web, enabling students and other visitors to visualize the student environmental observations.
Journals and Resources OnLine
Journal of Technology Educational
Journal of Interactive Media in Education
ISTE: International Society of Technology Education
Journal of Interactive Learning Research
American Journal of Education
Comparative Education Review
Effective Teaching: On Line Journal
Harvard Educational Review
Lesson Plans
Newspapers in Education/Lesson Plans
Educator's Reference Desk
Links for Teachers
Colonel Craig's Teaching Hints and Kinks
This professor has put together a page with links and information for teachers of languages. The page offers tips, hints, and plenty of links for resources.
DisciplineHelp
This page includes information and suggestions for dealing with 117 different types of behavior problems, as well as information for parents
A New Teachers Survival Guide
This page includes resources for everything from plan books to grading, and lots in between.
Teachers Helping Teachers
This site is a clearinghouse of teachers' experiences, knowledge, and suggestions. Teachers are invited to participate and many areas of the classroom are available, including stress busters!
Magazines
US News Online
PEOPLE Online
Explore Art, Science & History with Smithsonian Magazine
New Jersey
State of New Jersey
This site highlights the many different attractions and travel destinations New Jersey has to offer.
State of New Jersey
This site includes a wealth of information on anything that you need to research on NJ. Included is information on counties, towns, education, businesses, government agencies and so much more.
Regions and Counties of New Jersey
A complete directory of all the regions of New Jersey, this site includes information about the state's communities, business and shopping, real estate, employment, recreation and sports, etc.
Cities of New Jersey
Here you'll find information about each town, including entertainment options. The Chamber of Commerce can be located for some towns.
Comer School Development Program
Modern Red Schoolhouse Homepage
Online Quiz Sites for Teachers
QuizCenter
Sponsored by Discovery.com, QuizCenter allows teachers to create online quizzes that include short answer, essay, multiple choice, true or false, or matching questions. Teachers have the option of having the results graded, graded and sent to them, or sent to them without grading. Teachers can also set up classes to restrict access to quizzes. The great news - this service is totally free!
Syvum. com
This site contains a host of online quizzes on a huge variety of topics. Teachers who register with the site can also create gradebooks and create new quizzes. The only drawback - in an effort to keep costs down, this site is replete with annoying pop-up advertisements. For a small fee the advertisements can be removed.
QuizStar
A free Web site that allows the teacher to create online quizzes, create groups of students, and limit access to quizzes. What is especially nifty with this site is that you can put a limit on the amount of time a student can work on a quiz in one sitting.
Quia
Quia is one of the most popular online quiz sites, with 14 different possible quiz templates - ranging from matching games to hangman. Quizzes are organized by subject, but the most popular quizzes are also listed. Many of the quizzes are available for free. Subscription entitles a teacher to create his/her own quizzes and keep track of students' scores.
QuizLab
Quizlab allows the teacher to create his/her own tests or use already made ones. Teachers set up classes of students, and when the students take the online tests, their results are emailed to the teacher directly. The site also has grade book and emailing capability. Though the Web site is totally subscription-based, there is a free trial available.
Plagiarism
Understanding Plagiarism
This site, part of Indiana University's school of education, offers examples, cases, and resources to both help students understand plagiarism, and help educators identify it.
Adventures of CyberBee
This Web site is great for teachers who are looking for ideas on how to incorporate technology and Internet use into their current curriculum. The site offers curriculum ideas, research tools, on-line activities for students, and links to many useful sites. The copyright section is particularly useful to teachers introducing the concept of copyright law and plagiarism.
Student Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism
This page offers a basic explanation of plagiarism, as well as useful rules for students on note-taking, writing papers, and citing sources. This page would make an excellent handout or reference for students struggling with the concept.
Plagiarism
This site linked to Turnitin.com offers statistics and information on plagiarism issues in education, as well as in emerging technology. There are valuable links for teachers and students offering resources to aid in understanding key issues.
United States Copyright Office: Library of Congress
This official U.S. government site provides definitions, basics, and links to actual law. It also describes fair use and current issues relating to the Internet and copyright.
Preschool
The Perpetual Preschool
This site is the compilation of ideas from preschool teachers around the world! Easy to navigate, just click on a topic of your choice and view the many submitted ideas, which include the names and email addresses of persons posting the ideas.
Preschool Education
This site contains tons of ideas for early childhood education. The site is a little difficult to figure out at first. Click on "frames" version, if your computer supports frames, and use the frame to navigate the site. Includes many activities, printable Sesame Street letter pages for students to color, theme topics, useful tips from teachers, stories, songs, fingerplays, developmental checklist, message board, stores, and more!
Stormie's Preschool site
This site is maintained by a preschool teacher and includes a year's worth of curriculum themes and instructional activities, resources for classroom management, a lounge for teachers to post questions and ideas, and much more!
The Idea Box
Check out the idea of the day, and the archives, seasonal ideas, music and songs, recipes, and crafts. Includes a message board, printable pages, and links to other relevant sites.
Primary Sources on the Web
EyeWitness: History through the Eyes of Those Who Lived It
This Web site indexes eyewitness accounts of major events in history from Ancient Times to the Present. The Web site is easy to use, and includes a section called "snap shots" with pictures from different time periods.
Repositories of Primary Sources
This contains a list of over 4800 online collections of primary sources. The collections are organized by region of the world. For instance, the United States sections lists the collections found in each individual state. Incredibly thorough, but probably best used if you know what you are looking for.
American Memory
This Web site, created by the Library of Congress, allows you to search millions of digital primary sources in hundreds of collections. You can search by subject, time period, collection or type of source. It centers on American history. It is very thorough!
NARA: Primary Sources and Activities
The National Archives and Records administration caters specifically to educators with this collection of primary sources and activities centered on American history.
The Medieval History Sourcebook
This site is one that also has many different resources on the topic and this includes professionals that will come to your school to teach you more about the environment. It also has information on how to setup a curriculum on the topic.
Problem-Based Learning
PBL Articles and Case Studies at the University of Delaware
Center for PBL
Great intro and answers to many questions for the beginner from Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy.
Problem-Based Learning Resource Site
Materials for PBL, a project of the Maricopa Center for Learning & Instruction, Maricopa Community Colleges. Get lesson and ideas from this Problem Based Learning resource site for teachers.
Reference Tools
The Online Books Page
Find the text of thousands of books.
Roget's Thesaurus
The great thesaurus on-line with every word hyperlinked. Fun and easy to use!
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Passages, Phrases and Proverbs traced to their sources. Simple, easy to use!
The Elements of Style
For anyone trying to hone their grammatical skills. All you could ever want!
Research on Educational Issues
The Computer Delusion by Todd Oppenheimer
Learning in the Real World
Rubrics
"Kid Language" Writing Rubric
Looking for easy to use rubrics on-writing to inform, writing to persuade, or writing for personal expression? Check out these rubrics and modify them for your own needs.
Performance Assessment for Language Students
At this site you will discover a sample speaking and writing rubrics. In addition, the site explains the difference between holistic and analytic rubrics.
Specific and General Rubrics
This site has an incredible selection of rubrics that can easily be integrated into any subject area.
RubiStar
If you want to create your own rubric, then you may find this site very useful.
Developmental Writing Scale for Young Students
This site is sure to help educator's assess the developmental writing of students in K-1.
SAT (The New SAT tests)
Would Shakespeare get into Swathmore?
This is an article written for Atlantic.com about the new SAT Test and the change of the standard scores. Most of the article addresses the new Writing section and the change of the base score for this section of the SAT Test. The new test is to begin in 2005.
The College Board
This site gives excellent information about the new test and what to expect in each area. Find free brochures, example testing questions and information about registration. There is also a Q&A area for teachers, parents, administrators and students.
New York Times Question of the Day
The NY Times gives a SAT Prep Question of the Day. Each day a new question appears for the students to answer. Once the question is answered and submitted, the correct answer is displayed. At that time, there is a link for further explanation as to WHY answer was correct or incorrect. This question changes daily and there is a link for strategies to answer the specific question of the day.
College Power Prep
This site is NOT a free site but does contain some free software downloads and tips for taking the new SAT Test. On this site there are free software downloads for Test taking tips, vocabulary terms and math questions. At anytime if it is not a free area, a warning does appear and you are asked for a registration number.
Quiz Hub
Learn new vocabulary words with this fun online interactive game. Lay a matching game to reinforce SAT vocabulary words. Simply click on a word an find the match by clicking on the definition.
Scholarships
Scholarships.com
Students can enter their information and get results that best suit their qualifications. There are over 600,000 scholarships and over one billion dollars worth of money available through their database. They also have a database of educational loans as well.
FastWeb
This site matches the student up with scholarships, grants, and fellowships. It also provides college applications and help on selecting a "perfect" school.
Absolutely Scholarships
This site has a partnership with eStudentLoans.com. Therefore, a student can look on either database. The site is free and gives you access to about 200,000 scholarships.
Collegeboard.com
The College Board compiles the scholarships found on this site. There are over one million awards. This is actually part of a larger site that could really help a student preparing for college.
Scholarship Experts
The main difference with this site is that it is a pay site. It costs $29.95 to join but you get a larger database in a variety of categories and subdivisions. You can also preview the site before paying for the subscription. The site does provide some personal help if it is needed.
Sites for Primary Grades
Your Gross and Cool Body
You will learn everything you wanted to know about the human body and MORE on this very graphic site for kids.
Star Child
This is another great site from NASA. This site provides students wonderful information about the solar system. It is developmentally appropriate for lower and upper elementary school students.
Weather & More
This site is a real winner. NASA provides kids with unbiased, readable, reliable information about the earth and its different cycles.
Giggle Poetry
Your students will love to explore this site dedicated to making poetry fun for all. They may even decide to submit their own poetry to this site.
Special Needs
LD OnLine: learning Disabilities Resources
National Attention Deficit Disorder Association
LD Resources
Standards for Life
ACT WorkKeys
WorkKeys is an assessment instrument designed to identify proficiency levels in eight foundational workplace skill: applied mathematics, applied technology, listening, locating information, observation, reading for information, teamwork, and writing.
CASAS
Quality Assessment and Accountability Systems (CASAS) is a national field-based consortium that identifies priority workplace needs from extensive input provided by adult education program providers, employment and training professionals, and business and industry representatives. The assessment, training, and evaluation services offered through CASAS are based on the critical competencies and skill areas required for success not only in the workplace, but also in the community and family. CASAS workplace skills are based in part on the SCANS skills.
The National Skill Standards Board
The National Skill Standards Board (NSSB) represents an unprecedented coalition of leaders from business, labor, employee, education, and community and civil rights organizations created in 1994 to build a voluntary national system of skill standards, assessment and certification systems to enhance the ability of the United States workforce to compete effectively in a global economy.
Teacher Tools
Easy Test Maker
FREE online test generator to help you create tests. Create multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, matching, short answer and true and false questions all on the same test. You can also insert instructions, subdivide the test into sections, and print a master answer sheet.
Castle Tool Kit
An on-line authoring tool that allows quick creation of interactive web quizzes. Includes: 'type-in' style questions, rubric inclusion, test layout and modification functions.
Education World Tools and Templates
Educators are always in need of quick and easy templates for tools and other classroom ideas. This site gives educators templates for everything from certificates to "form letters" for parents. Some files may take a moment to download but it is worth the wait!
Teacher Tools
This site is loaded with downloadable templates for teachers. Everything from behavior charts to student birthday cards can be found, downloaded, and edited. A fabulous find no matter how many years you have been teaching.
Personalized Certificates
It is as easy as typing in a name! This gives you options for specific or generic awards. There are prompts asking the creator to insert required information. The creator may also preview the certificate or award online before printing it off. Quick and easy!
Telling Time for Younger Students
Telling Time
Use this interactive quiz to teach students how to tell time.
Snapdragon Time
Your students will love to play the telling time game on this site. Not only does it help students learn how to tell time it also give them ample opportunity to use small motor skills by using the mouse to move the hands on the clock.
Teacher View
Students can practice telling time by analog type clocks or digital clocks on this site.
Harcourt School
This site provides a fun telling time game with the accompaniment of a Willy the Watchdog. Your students will love it.
TV Series Companion Guides OnLine
A & E Classroom™
Discovery Channel School
History Channel Classroom
Urban Education
ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education
A site "dedicated to urban students, their families, and the educators who serve them."
Teach for America
Visit the home page of the organization that sponsors corps of recent college graduates to teach in under-resourced rural and urban public schools.
Web Quests
The WebQuest Page
This site is designed to serve as a resource to those who are using the WebQuest model to teach with the web. Provides examples and materials as well as links to other related sites.
WebQuests in Our Future
This site, part of Kathy Schrock's site for educators, provides information, links, and a PowerPoint presentation on Web quests and their role in teaching and learning.
Show Me the Money
A WebQuest for investing money that includes a variety of associated rubrics.
More WebQuests
A collection of WebQuests compiled by Paul Hewitt at Davison High School.
Whole School Reform Models
The Comer School Development Program (SDP)
Modern Red School House (MRSH)
Paideia
Success for All
