EMPLOYEES
TEACHER RESOURCES
21ST CENTURY LEARNING
The 21st Century Learning initiative: Promoting a Vision, Knowledtge, Experience, and a Network
http://www.21stcenturyskills.org
Young eople Urgently Need New Skills to succeed int he Global Economy
http://www.ncrel.org/engauge/skills/skills.htm
21st Century Skills - Technological Literacy
Thousands of lesson plans and other teaching and learning resources at your fingertips!
THE TEACHER-TO-TEACHER INITIATIVE
The U.S. Department of Education's Teacher-to-Teacher Initiative conducted 14 successful workshops in cities across the country this past summer. The Initiative has now made materials from each of the workshop sessions available online.
PowerPoints and handouts from 107 workshop sessions are posted at: http://www.t2tweb.us/Workshops/Sessions.asp. Materials cover subjects such as reading, math, history, art and foreign language as well as topics like differentiating instruction and teaching students with limited English proficiency. These free materials are within the public domain and may be used widely, and we encourage teachers to share them with their colleagues.
MISCELLANEOUS TEACHER RESOURCES
TeAch-nology - Best on the web for Teachers
SEARCH ENGINES
Search for lesson plans on a variety of topics.
Includes math games, handouts, and puzzles.
Use the search function to find handouts on a variety of topics.
American Memory: Library of Congress
Find primary source material. Site has more than 7 million digital items from historical collections.
This Library of Congress site lacks a search engine but has some valuable links.
This federally funded site includes 2,000 lesson plans.
Ask a question and get links to child-safe Web pages selected by the Ask Jeeves staff.
All sites included are reviewed and organized by topic.
The official site for a TV station in England. Contains many topics related to education.
Berit's Best Sites for Children
Use the search tool or click on the themes links for child-safe sites.
Search by subject, content area, or grade level.
Search for child-friendly sites, lesson plans, or clip art.
Discovery Channel's site contains educational information for kids.
Houghlin Mifflin's site doesn't have a search function but offers resources for educators, including a database of book activities.
All sites are reviewed by educators. Has a keyword search and subject listings.
Scroll to the bottom to use the search function.
This site has links to fun activities.
Find encyclopedia articles on your topic.
Search for online educational games.
Sites provides clear, concise descriptions on how stuff works.
A search engine created with input from librarians. Click on links at the top of the page to search for sound or image files.
Stories and other works created by children.
Librarians' Index to the Internet
These resources have been reviewed and recommended by librarians.
Search the site for educational resources provided by the company's partner institutions.
Explore NASA's site for video and images relating to space.
Kids and Teens section of Open Directory Project's site. These sites are compiled by people concerned with child-safe resources.
PBS's site with sections for teachers and children.
Has copyright-free images on various topics.
Sites organized by a subject directory.
Search for educational games, activities and interactive quizzes.
Search by grade level or keyword. Includes information on books and authors.
Search for lesson plans aligned to the Show-Me Standards.
This site has safe links for students.
The Gateway to Education Materials
Search for curriculum units and lesson plans on this government-sponsored site.
Lessons submitted by students on a variety of topics. All submissions are reviewed.
Search site by age group and/or category
Child-safe search engine covering a variety of topics.
STUDENT MOTIVATION
Student Motivation To Learn
http://learn2study.org/teachers/motivation.htm
Review how the motivation to learn can be fostered in school. Find out how to help unmotivated students with attribution retraining.
Tools for Teaching: Motivating Students
http://teaching.berkeley.edu/bgd/motivate.html
This article lists key features that enhance student motivation. They include making students active participants in learning as they set achievable goals for themselves, giving students feedback as quickly as possible, and emphasizing mastery and learning rather than grades.
Seizing the Days: Engaging All Learners
http://edservices.aea7.k12.ia.us/motivation/index.html
K-12 teachers can learn new instructional skills as they study the science of learning and how the brain works. Create the conditions for your learners to find motivation within themselves.
Dimensions of Learning: Teacher's Manual
http://www.ascd.org/cms/index.cfm?TheViewID=983&topnav=1
This overview challenges readers to rethink conventional views on such matters as student motivation and reward systems, and the relationship between thinking skills and content knowledge.
The Jigsaw Classroom
Visit the Jigsaw Classroom, a cooperative learning technique that claims to reduce racial conflict among school children, promote better learning, improve student motivation, and increase enjoyment of the learning experience.
TOOLS FOR TEACHERS
RubiStar - a free tool to help teachers make quality rubrics.
Free Resources for Teachers from About.com
Discovery School's Puzzlemaker
Learning PageFree Worksheets
VIRTUAL FIELDTRIPS
Smithsonian National Zoological Park
Inside the Blue Room-History & Tours
Historical Tour of the White House-
The Underground Railroad @ nationalgeographic.com
Take a Tour of the Zoo-Chicago
Scholastic Internet Field Trips
Digital and Virtual Field Trips
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education (ENC)