Teacher Resources
Integrating Technology in the Classroom

NCTM Resources: http://standards.nctm.org and http://illuminations.nctm.org

Internet4Classrooms http://www.internet4classrooms.com/
Grade level specific grade level TCAP lesson and activities

Teachnology http://teach-nology.com/
TeAchnology.com offers teachers FREE access to 27,000+ lesson plans, 6,350+ printable worksheets, rubrics, educational games, teaching tips, advice from expert teachers, current education news, teacher downloads, web quests, 256,000+ reviewed web sites and teacher tools for creating exciting classroom instruction.

Web Tools http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/materials/

ABC Teach http://abcteach.com/
6000+FREE printables, Holidays, Classroom Signs, Word Walls, Portfolios, Theme units, Seasonal Units, Basics, Shapebooks, and Teaching Extras!

A to Z Teacher Stuff http://atozteacherstuff.com/
A to Z Teacher Stuff is teacher-created, and designed to help teachers find online resources more quickly and easily. We offer lesson plans, thematic units, teacher tips, teacher discussion forums, downloadable teaching materials & eBooks, printable worksheets and blacklines, emergent reader books, themes, and more.

Syvum http://www.syvum.com/
Thousands of activities and quizzes in math, English, science, social studies and other subjects. You can also create your own interactive quizzes.

DLTK's Crafts for Kids  http://www.dltk-teach.com/

The Lesson Plans Page http://www.lessonplanspage.com/
Over 2,500 free lessons

School Express http://www.schoolexpress.com/
6000+ worksheets, seasonal activity pages, software, online math, thematic units, states and capital game, jigsaw puzzles.

edHelper http://www.edhelper.com/
5,000 Free Math Worksheets, plus Spelling, Puzzles, and Vocabulary Worksheets!

Primary Games http://www.primarygames.com/
Site for teachers, parents, and kids featuring educational games, coloring pages, interactive e-books, holiday activities, musical postcards, crafts, stationery, puzzles, certificates and more!

Teachers.Net http://www.teachers.net/

Classroom Connect http://corporate.classroom.com/

Busy Teachers Website http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/

McREL http://www.mcrel.org/lesson-plans/index.asp

Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/

Marc Sheean's Lesson Plans Page http://www.halcyon.com/marcs/lessons.html

Education World http://www.education-world.com/

4Teacher http://www.4teachers.org/home/

Education Place http://www.eduplace.com/activity/

Thirteen Ed Online http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/

BBC Schools
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/
The British Broadcasting Corporation brings teachers an array of interactive, multimedia activities, stories, puzzles, and games.

Sites for Teachers http://www.sitesforteachers.com/
"The Net's Best Resoruce for Teachers."

Schoolmarm's Little Red School House http://www.schoolmarm.org/

The Homeschool Zone http://www.homeschoolzone.com/

PowerPoint Projects
http://www.monroe.k12.la.us/~mhen/PowerPointProjects.html

Jeopardy PowerPoint
http://www.elainefitzgerald.com/jeopardy.htm

*Jeopardy Games
http://www.hardin.k12.ky.us/res_techn/countyjeopardygames.htm

PowerPoint Games
http://soe.cahs.colostate.edu/faculty/johnson/games/

Math Jeopardy Games
http://www.hardin.k12.ky.us/res_techn/sbjarea/math/
MathJeopardy.htm

Download Templates for Classroom Use
http://www.netxv.net/esc/technology/InstructionalTechnology/
templates/powerpoint.htm

PowerPoint Resources http://208.183.128.8/la/activities/pptresources.html

Instructional PowerPoints http://www.lexington1.net/technology/
techresource/tis/integration/powerpoint.htm

Internet Sites for the Smartboard http://www.mce.k12tn.net/links/internet_sites_for_the_smartboar.htm

http://www.wacona.com/smartboard/smartboard.html

http://home.att.net/~tisnancy/

http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-US/Ed+Resource/Lesson+Activities/default.htm

http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-US/Ed+Resource/Classroom+Resources/Elementary/

http://guest.portaportal.com/abingdonelem

K - 3 Sites for the Smarthboard: http://www.juliethompson.com/SMART.html

The Learning Web http://www.usgs.gov/education/

Canada's School Net - Science Resources

http://sciencepage.org/general.htm

The Why Files http://whyfiles.org/index.php

U Seek U Find - Learning – Projects
http://www.useekufind.com/tproject.htm

Global School Net Online Shared Learning Award
http://www.gsnaward.org/GSH/index.html

Blue Web'N
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
contentarea.cfm?cid=9
Blue Web'N is a collection of websites and lesson plans available on the Internet for teachers.  Users can search for subject area or content area as well as grade level.

Count On
http://www.counton.org/
Count On is full of fun, animated math activities for elementary grades. Students can solve number problems and puzzles in the context of stories, mysteries, and a virtual MathFest.

Fun and Sun: Rent a Car
http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/Algebra/rentacarja.html
In this exercise kids must solve problems and create a table and a graph to calculate the best value of four rental options. The site also offers discussion questions, activities, and extensions related to the project.

Houghton Miffflin's EduPlace 
http://www.eduplace.com/math/mw/index.html
Resources for elementary school educators.

Interactive Mathematics
http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/vlibrary.html

KidZone Math
http://www.kidzone.ws/math/index.htm
Free Printable Math Worksheets

Learning Planet Math Activities
http://members.learningplanet.com/directory/
index.asp?sub=ma

Math Mayhem
http://www.learningplanet.com/act/mayhem/
index.asp?contentid=19
See if you can answer multiplication facts faster than anyone on the planet!

Math Advantage from Harcourt 
http://www.harcourtschool.com/menus/
math_advantage.html
Resources and activities to accompany Math Advantage Math Series

Math Cats http://www.mathcats.com/

Mathletics 
http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/as/
education/projects/webunits/math/sport.html
Mathematics + Athletics = Mathletics...a natural combination. One math application is given for baseball, basketball, bowling and football.

Quia
http://www.quia.com/dir/math/
Teacher made activities.

Math Magic http://mathforum.org/mathmagic/

Aims Puzzle Corner 
http://www.aimsedu.org/puzzle/index.html

Interactive Puzzle Corner http://www.aimsedu.org/aimskids/
ipuzzles/ipuzzles.html

Cut the Knot 
http://www.figurethis.org/ 
http://www.cut-the-knot.org/content.shtml
Cut the Knot offers interactive logic games and puzzles.

Cool Math 4 Kids
http://www.coolmath4kids.com/
Described as an "amusement park of math and more."  Very colorful and attractive for students.  Correlations with many math topics for teachers.

Discovery Channel Brain Boosters
http://school.discovery.com/brainboosters/
Click on "Number and Math Play" for challenging activities for students
in math.

Education Place Brain Teasers 
http://www.eduplace.com/math/brain/.

Math Stories
http://www.mathstories.com/
"House of math word problems for children." Requires membership dues. Check out the free samples.

Soda Constructor
http://sodaplay.com/constructor/index.htm
Students create walking geometric creatures and then see how gravity and friction affect them.

SoftSchools.com
http://www.softschools.com/
SoftSchools.com provides free printable math worksheets and free math online activities. Worksheets and games are organized by grades or topics.

Mathematical Fiction

http://math.cofc.edu/faculty/kasman/MATHFICT/

Web Pages with Additional Math Links

Interactive Resources
http://www.globalclassroom.org/ecell00/javamath.html

King's List of Online Math Activities http://www.k111.k12.il.us/king/math.htm

Learning Wave.com Math Links
http://www.learningwave.com/linkspage/math.html
This page gives you many, many links to outstanding math sites.  Long
annotations help teachers to choose just the right site for their
lessons.

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Measurement Unit
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/measurement/
measurement_unit.htm

The Vacation Sampler
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/samplers/
vacation_sampler.htm

Reading Units
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/units/units_with_books.htm

Lesson Plans for Children's Books
http://members.aol.com/DonnAnCiv/Literature.html

S.C.O.R.E. CyberGuides
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html

Glencoe Literature: Literature Library
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/literature/litlibrary/index.html

SparkNotes Study Guides
http://www.sparknotes.com/home/english/

Novel Studies in the Classroom
http://www.nt.net/~torino/novels3.html

Children’s Authors & Illustrators on the Web
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/authors.html

Literacy Lessons by Laura Chandler
http://home.att.net/~teaching/litlessons.htm

Reading Online Activities

Book Pop - Online books and stories
http://www.bookpop.com/

Clifford Interactive Storybooks
http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/

Literacy Lane from Jefferson County Schools, TN
http://classroom.jc-schools.net/read/

30 Printable Books - Some with Worksheets from Reading A-Z
http://www.readinga-z.com/newfiles/preview.html

Here's a few sites that have resources for determining
the reading level of text:

OKAPI Readability Statistics Tools
http://www.interventioncentral.org/htmdocs/tools/
okapi/okapi.shtml


Reading Level Calculator 
http://linda-andrews.com/readability_tool.htm


Readability Issues to Consider: An article at
http://www.timetabler.com/reading.html 

Fry Readability http://www.educational-psychologist.co.uk/fry_readability_program.htm

Teaching Ideas

Laura Candler’s File Cabinet – Language Arts
http://home.att.net/~teaching/langarts.htm

Writing Online Activities

Creature Crazy - Based on Kratt's Creatures - Create a story
starring you and your friends.
http://www.pbs.org/kratts/crazy/index.html

English Grammar Connection - These interactive online
lessons help improve students' English grammar skills.
Students receive constructive feedback throughout the
exercises. Great for TCAP practice.
http://www.englishgrammarconnection.com/
lessonstart.html

Fun Brain Game Finder - Choose Language Arts
http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/getskill.cgi?A1=choices&

Grammar Blast - Mechanics and parts of speech are
reviewed with this online activity. The site is based on
Houghton Mifflin series, but can be useful to all.
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/6_8/quizzes/
index.html

Learning Activities for Preschool and Primary Grades -
Includes a Reading and Writing Section with many story starters.
http://www.meddybemps.com/7.33.html

Online Activities/Games - Writing
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/revisewise/teachers/
writing_onlineactivity.shtml

Scholastic Writing Workshop
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/writing/
index.asp?topic

Splashes from the River http://www.splashesfromtheriver.com/

Structure of a Paragraph Unit Based on the book
How to Eat Fried Worms
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/reading/paragraph_unit/
paragraph_unit.htm

Quia - English - top 20 activities
http://www.quia.com/dir/eng/

Wacky Web Tales - This is an interactive game is
great for reviewing parts of speech.
http://www.eduplace.com/tales/

Writing Activities for Early Learners
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/essay/
writing.shtml

Word Games

Vocabulary.com
http://www.vocabulary.com/

Cupcake
http://www.duckberry.com/web/cupcakes.htm

Isketch
http://www.isketch.net/

BBC - Schools - Words and Pictures
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/

WordCentral.Com - Dictionary - Daily Buzzword -
Word Games - Merriam-Webster
http://www.wordcentral.com/