Teacher Resource Page

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New Additions
March is Women's History Month
http://www.sportsline.com/u/kids/women/ - Links to short biographies of Billie Jean King, the Williams sisters, Florence Griffith Joyner, and more.
http://www.history.com/minisites/womenhist/ - From the History Channel, this site has comprehensive timelines of "Firsts", information on the Women's Suffrage Movement, and a list of fascinating facts. Did you know that there are approximately 82.5 million mothers in the US? That's a lot of Mother's Day cards!

http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/index.html - This is the official site of Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators. Kathy is the Administrator for Technology in Cape Cod, MA, and  has written hundreds of articles dealing with technology and education. She's a former Librarian, and it's worth a trip (or ten) to her site, if for nothing else than to check out a picture of her house - she lives in a geodesic dome!
Bill Nye the Science Guy - The official site of the popular PBS show. Plus, you can learn more than you ever wanted to know about how basketballs are made.
EduPlace's Brain Teasers - These brain teasers are a fun class activity, but be warned: some of them are a little tough, but that makes them perfect for a Fun Friday class project.
Fact Monster - This site is awesome. Check out the games section for everything from online hangman (with states, countries, and literary characters) to math flashcards, and about a zillion more things. You could spend all day here!
Mad Libs - Funny online Mad Libs to help you practice your parts of speech. (You can even print it out if you need to!)
Booklady Mel - This is a list of games that are just perfect for younger students, including preschool (with maybe a touch of help from Mom and Dad).
National Geographics World - Did you know that a person blinks 20,000 times each day? This is just one of the thousands of amazing facts found on National Geographic's World magazine website. There are games, links, stories, facts, and all kinds of other stuff.

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Teacher Tools
http://abcteach.com - This site has over 5,000 printable pages and activities.
http://enchantedlearning.com - Full of printable activities for preschool through elementary. Plan on spending a lot of time here.
http://jc-schools.net/ppt.html - From Jefferson County, TN, comes an interesting site full of teacher-designed PowerPoint presentations, with permission to download and show in the classroom.
http://kids.nypl.org and http://nypl.org – This is the New York Public Library’s website, with links to favorite books and series, book reviews, bunches of science and math links, and much more.
http://pascolibraries.org/ - Pasco County, FL, has over 75 databases like Tumbleweeds (interactive talking books) and America the Beautiful, which is perfect for American history.
http://scholastic.com/ - Get lesson plans, games, and much more from everyone's favorite publisher.
http://school.discovery.com/ - Discovery Channel has a terrific educational site, and you can find things for everyone from preschool through high school.
http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/hme/k_5/shapebook/toc.html - Houghton Mifflin's shapebook patterns - from apple to umbrella.
http://www.ilovethatteachingidea.com/ - This site has a form where you can submit your teaching idea, and a directory of ideas that other teachers have submitted.
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/teachertools.htm - This site is full of teacher tools - everything from a form where you can plug in the information and it creates a certificate to a link where you can make your own crossword puzzles.
http://www.k-state.edu/smartbooks/ - From Kansas State University comes a site designed to help teachers incorporate math lessons in students' everyday reading. You'll never read The Foot Book the same way again.
http://www.lessonplanz.com/ - Tons of teacher designed lesson plans.
http://www.monroe.k12.la.us/~mhen/PowerPointProjects.html - This site is from the Monroe City, LA, school district, and has several PowerPoint ideas and downloadable templates.
http://www.oswego.org/staff/cchamber/linkscf/index.cfm (grades K - 6) and http://www.oswego.org/Staff/TCASWELL/secondaryresources/index.asp (grades 7 - 12) – These two sites are from the Oswego City School District in New York and are absolutely phenomenal. Thousands of links take you to printable pages, lessons, interactive games, and more. Don’t limit yourself to these two pages, though. Go to http://www.oswego.org and check out the whole site, particularly the Staff Development area. There are even more links on there. Plan on spending, oh, about a year poking around on this incredible site.
http://www.perpetualpreschool.com/ - This is like a clearing house of teacher-submitted preK ideas. Unfortunately, there are no patterns or printables, but there are some new and neat ideas. Because it's an anyone-can-submit-ideas kind of site, there are some strange things on there, but there's some different stuff.
http://puzzlemaker.com/chooseapuzzle.html - This is so easy! Type in your words, follow the prompts, and bam! You get a custom-designed word search, crossword, math puzzle, or any other kind of puzzle you can think of. There are even mazes!
http://www.schoolexpress.com/ - This is a pay-for-use site, except that you can download one free activity set a week, and one free theme unit a week. There's lots of online stuff that you can bookmark for the kids to do on their own - kids who either need a little reinforcement or kids who are always done with their work early.
http://www.teacherfiles.com/ - These pages are full of ideas, lesson plans, links, clip art, and all kind of other good stuff.
http://www.teachersfirst.com/ - Searchable database of lesson plans and web resources.
http://www.teachersmousepad.com/- This site is a clearing house of educational websites. Plan on spending some time here.
http://www.technospudprojects.com/index.htm - This site allows you to join on-line projects like the Lewis & Clark Beanie Baby project, where Beanie Babies "Shoeless" and "Bark" travel the country visiting classrooms.
http://tlsbooks.com/kidspagearchive.htm - This newly found site has lots of free, printable worksheets for students in preschool through fifth grade. The worksheets are copyrighted, but permission is granted for one-time home or school use as long as you keep the publishing information on the worksheet.
http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/tourFames.cgi?tour_id=13326 - - From the Utah Education Network, this site has 25 unique ways of integrating technology into the classroom. (There are a lot of links upon links upon links on this site, but it’s fairly easy to navigate.)
http://www.wilmette39.org/resources/teachers/default.html - This site is from Wilmette Public Schools in Illinois, and has curriculum idea for Kindergarten through Eighth Grade, and covers every subject area.