Teacher Resources

Lesson Plans and Teacher Tools:
     Google Earth Lessons
     Best of History
     Blue Web'N
     
DiscoverySchool.com
     Education World
     Educators' National Science Standards Lesson Bank -- More than 200 science lesson plans for preK - 12
     that focus on space, science, engineering, math, and technology.
     Educators' Reference Desk Includes AskEric and GEM
     FactCheckEd.org Lesson plans and materials aimed at helping students analyze information and avoid deception.
     Gliffy Free web-based diagram editor -- make flowcharts, floor plans, and more!
     The Kennedy Center ArtsEdge / marcopolo
     Library of Congress  Includes American Memory and other great sources!
     NY Times Learning - Lesson Plan Archive
     PBS Teacher Source
     Professional Development for Busy Educators (pdtogo)
     Proquest Curriculum Support
     Rubistar (free rubric creation tool)
     Scholastic
     Teach-nology.com  Lesson plans, rubrics, free printable worksheets, webquests, and more!
     Teachers Choices from the International Reading Assoc.
    
TeachersFirst.com
      The WebQuest Page
     WWW4Teachers

New York State:
     NYS Education Dept. Office of Teaching Initiatives
          (includes info on certification, jobs, fingerprinting,
          and more)
    
New York State Standards
     NYS Regents Exams

Professional Journals:
     Google Scholar  Journal articles, abstracts and other scholarly literature
     ProQuest Educational Periodicals  Subscription database of educational journal articles
          (see librarian for password)

Video:
     GV BOCES Media Library
     EdVideo Online streaming video from WXXI
     Vital 13 New York
     The Futures Channel  Great short educational videos "Connecting Learning to the Real World"
     SchoolTube YouTube for students.  Note: Not Bess-impaired!

    
TeacherTube YouTube for educators  Note: Not Bess-impaired!

Web 2.0 Tools:
     Animoto Combines your images and music to produce video
     Class BlogMeister (from LandMarks) Start a class blog
     Creative Commons  Share, remix, reuse -- legally
     Del.icio.us  Social bookmarking: store your favorites online, share with others
     Glogster  Make posters, embed video, add text, share       
     Google Co-op  Create a specialized search engine!  The power of Google, local control!
     RollyO Another customized search engine maker
     LibraryThing  Keep track of your reading, share with other readers! (or not)
     Mind42.com  Free online visual organizer, allows collaboration
     MindMeister  Collaborative online mind mapping (visual organizer)
      PB Wiki  Free educational wiki tool
      VoiceThread Create a multimedia slide show, share and collaborate
      ZOHO Wiki  Free wiki with WYSIWYG editor (What You See is What You Get)


     
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