English
Parts of speech - explains not what the word is, but how the word is used.
Parts of speech - describes the parts of speech that define the English language.
Using Paint Tools in Pre-K-1 Classrooms - learn how to use Paint tools to enhance the development of literacy skills in young children.
Word Processing Projects
Create a School Newsletter with Word - learn how to create a class newsletter using Microsoft Word.
How to Make Trading Cards with Word - learn how to teach students to use Microsoft Word to create educational trading cards.
Fun Stuff - Word Processing, Graphics and other Software
Flip Books - a series of drawings when flipped through smoothly shows animation.
Writing Storybooks With PowerPoint - learn how to teach your students to use Microsoft's PowerPoint as they create simple prompted stories.
Connect the dots - fill in the blanks for each letter of the alphabet and more.
Find the Word - Word Search Puzzles
Ad-Libs - Fill in the blanks
Create an Adlib Story with Excel - learn how to create -- or teach students to create -- Adlib stories using Excel.
Once Upon a Time - Story Chains
A Square Deal - How many squares can you find ?
Switch Zoo - here kids select a head, legs, or tail from nine different animals-from bear and bison to zebra and rhino-to build their own hybrid animal life form.
Alligators and Others All Year Long - A Book of Months
Instant Poetry - Just point, click, add words, and print out your creation!
Making a Timeline with Excel - learn how to use Microsoft Excel to create a simple timeline.
Puppets - example: scan book characters and cut them out and turn them into puppets for a play.
Bubbles - online resource, example, create your own wish bubbles.
Creating Word-by-Word Audio Books in PowerPoint - learn how to use Microsoft PowerPoint to make a word-by-word audio book.
Picture Book Learning - enhances children's education by inviting them to use popular children's picture books to master early elementary concepts such as comprehension, sentence writing, nouns, verbs, synonyms, antonyms, and contractions.
Student Literature Response Journal - this lesson provides a model of reflection for students as they listen to stories, begin to read stories, and develop their own written stories.
Fun Stuff - Internet
Blogging Basics:Creating Student Journels on the Web - learn what blogging is and how to create classroom blogs for you and your students.
Flat Stanley Project - The Flat Stanley Project is a group of teachers who want to provide students with another reason to write.
Stories of the Dreaming - Dreaming Online began as a project for schools led by Aboriginal story tellers. It is part of the Commonwealth Institute's Australia Dreaming program, a season of cultural, commercial and educational events to celebrate Australia.
Book Adventure - Book Adventure is a free, non-profit, kid-oriented, on-line reading program designed to encourage students in grades K-8 to read more often, for longer periods of time, with greater understanding.
Book Crossing - Encourage students to share the books they love -- and what they love about those books -- by participating in the BookCrossing project.
A
Journey to a New Land - This interactive exhibit from the
Virtual Museum of Canada explores the Ice Age and the arrival
of the first people in North America.
Goodnight Stories - is an interactive Web site where students can write endings to stories, choose different directions within a story, and fill in a "mad lib" structure to make a silly story.
Playwriting in the Round - In this round robin playwriting activity, classes work in groups of three to produce three one-act plays.
JigZone - online jigsaw puzzles where you choose the level of difficulty from a simple 6 piece cut to a challenging 247 piece cut.
BC
K-12 Curriculum and Resource Packages - Integrated Resource
Packages
BC
English Language Arts - Integrated Resource Packages
Prarie
Spirit School District No. 206 - teacher resources
Canada's
School Net : Learning Resources - links to more than 7,000
education-related resources, evaluated and approved by professional
educators.
Educational
Resources - most Canada Digital Collections Web sites are
educational in nature. Search the CDC Educational Resources database
to find specific educational activities: lesson plans, games
and fun activities, questionnaires, ideas for poems and essays.
Educational
Resources in English/Language Arts - created by the Community
Learning Network, here you will find Curricular Resources, Information/explanations
for students and teachers wishing to learn more about English/Language
Arts; Instructional Materials, Lesson plans and teaching tips/ideas
for English/Language Arts teachers; and Theme Pages, Curricular
resources as well as Instructional Materials on specific English/Language
Arts topics.
Instructional
Materials in English/Language Arts - here find the Community
Learning Network "Theme Pages" which focus on specific
topics within English/Lanaguage Arts.
KATE Links - Subject Specific Resources. The mission of the Kentucky Academy of Technology Education (KATE) is to impact student learning by improving the use of technology as an effective instructional tool. KATE is committed to providing visionary leadership and high-level technological resources to ensure that exemplary services are readily available to educators in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Digital Story Telling - resources include Web sites for the creation and understanding of Digital Story Telling, samples of students work, and Dave's Digital Story Webcast.
Developing Student Electronic Portfolios - resources include Web sites for the creation and understanding of student electronic portfolios as well as samples of students work.
Literacy - resources include Activities, Book Reviews, Dictionaries, Digital, English Usage, Fairy Tales, Harry Potter, Lesson Ideas, Poetry, Publishing, Reading Aloud, Reading Approaches, Reading Level, Resources, Shakespeare, Stories and Vocabulary.
Visual Literacy - here find resources relating to visual literacy. It is defined by the International Visual Literacy Association as the ability to discriminate and interpret visual actions, objects, and other images, while gaining meaning from them.
Vital
Knowledge Software - is an education-based software development
company that is dedicated to helping educators obtain essential
skills to meet the challenges of today's dynamic learning environments.
The
Project Approach - refers to a set of teaching strategies
which enable teachers to guide children through in-depth studies
of real world topics.
WebQuests - link to Dave Brear's extensive resources on WebQuests
Milken Family Foundation Education Education - the Foundation is committed to stimulating creativity and productivity among educators and students of all ages-especially by using technology to improve learning and teaching.
classrooms@work - Unfold the walls - presents real classrooms and their technology-rich learning projects. It offers classroom models of technology integration for teacher professional development.
Web Project - The WEB Project is one of 19 original Technology Innovation Challenge Grants awarded by the U.S. Department of Education to improve student learning through multimedia and telecommunications.
ThinkFinity - ( Internet Content for the Classroom ) - is a nonprofit consortium of premier national and international education organizations and the verizon Foundation dedicated to providing the highest quality Internet content and professional development to teachers and students throughout the United States.
Apple Learning Interchange - from Apple, a dynamic online community where educators share, learn and communicate.
Education World - its goal is to make it easy for educators to integrate the Internet into the classroom. Educators can search Education World each day to find useful lesson plans and online resources they can use.
Global SchoolNet Foundation - combines smart teaching ideas with web publishing, video conferencing and other online tools that bridge geographic gaps, allowing young people around the world to learn together.
Discover - this is the home page for the Tasmania, Department of Education, included on this page are an amazing amount of online resources organized by grade groups. !!
Utah Education Network - is a publicly-funded consortium providing Internet access and supporting educational technology needs for Utah's public and higher education institutions, public libraries, and state agencies.
Internet Sites that Work for Students and Teachers - an introduction for teachers to some of the most effective and award winning educational sites on the Web.
CanTeach
- CanTeach has hundreds of lesson plans, thousands of links,
and tons of other resources for educators.
ABRACADABRA
- A Balanced Reading Approach for
CAnadians Designed to Achieve Best
Results for All, developed by the Centre for the
Study of Learning and Performance at Concordia University, Montreal,
is a highly interactive, flexible, and powerful computer tool
designed for use in early elementary classrooms across Canada.
The English Maze - is a British-Australian web-based learning system for ESL students, teachers and schools worldwide. It combines leading language learning theories with cutting edge technology to bring users a unique approach to learning English. With the English Maze, students can improve their pronunciation, speaking, reading, listening and writing skills. The site contains hundreds of hours of material, much of which is free. Comprehensive free lesson plans are also provided for ESL teachers.
The George Lucas Educational Foundation - The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF) is a nonprofit operating foundation that documents and disseminates models of the most innovative practices in K-12 schools in the US.
The NETS Project - The primary goal of the ISTE NETS Project is to enable stakeholders in PreK-12 education to develop national standards for educational uses of technology that facilitate school improvement in the United States.
Search Engines and Directories - helpful information to do with search engines, directories and meta search tools.
Partnership
for 21st. Century Skills - The
Partnership for 21st Century Skills is a unique alliance of education,
business and government leaders working to fully address the
education needs and challenges of work and life in the 21st century.
Kid Pix ABC - Art, Books, and Computers by Judy K. Ballweg, 2000, ISBN 1-56484-155-3
Kid Pix Digital Gallery - Cameras, Scanners, and Computers by Judy K. Ballweg, 2000, ISBN 1-56384-156-1
Computer & Internet Dictionary - by Charles W. Berry and William H. Hawn, Jr., 2001, ISBN 0-7641-1520-0
Concept Mapping Companion - 2nd. Edition, created by the Center for Electronic Studying (Leslie A. Ditson, Rohn Kessler, Lynne Anderson-Inman & Dana Mafit), 2001, ISBN 1-56484-167-7
The Tech-Savvy English Classroom - by Sara B. Kajder, Stenhouse Publishers, ISBN: 1-57110-369-9, 2003
Web Searching Strategies - by Sam Miller, ISTE Publications, ISBN: 1-56484-207-X, 2003
The Computer Lab Teacher's Survival Guide-K-6 Units for the Whole Year - by Holly Poteete, ISTE Publications, ISBN: 1-56484-178-2, 2003
NETS·S Curriculum Series-Multidisciplinary Units for Grades 6 8 - by Susan O'Hara & Maureen McMahon, ISTE Publications, ISBN: 1-56484-206-1, 2003
Integrating Instructional Technology into Education (Canadian Edition) - by M.D. Roblyer and R.A. Schwier, Pearson Education Canada, ISBN: 0-13-033495-2, 2003
How to Do Everything with Google - by Fritz Schneider, Nancy Blackman & Eric Frederickson, McGraw-Hill/Osborne, ISBN: 0-07-223174-3, 2004
Visual Design for Instructional Multimedia - an online book co-written by Richard A. Schwier, Earl Misanchuk and Elizabeth Boling. It is the authors hope and belief that the information contained at this site will help teachers to decide which multimedia products are more effective for instruction. Teachers will be able to make better choices in developing their curriculum materials. ( July 2004 )
The
Teacher's INTERNET COMPANION - 3rd Edition, by Ann Heide
& Linda Stilborne, ISBN: 155-244-0451, 2004.
Inspiration and Concept
Mapping - resources include a definition, Articles, Books,
Resources, Software and Tips.
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Multimedia Software and Tutorials
