Pre-Institute Resources

National Science Education Standards - full text
https://west.lausd.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=4407099&type=d&pREC_ID=2635448

Science for All Americans
http://www.project2061.org/tools/sfaa/default.htm

Benchmarks for Science Literacy
http://www.project2061.org/tools/benchol/bolframe.htm

McREL's K-12 Standards Content Knowledge
http://www.mcrel.org/standards-benchmarks/

K-12 Academic Content Standards for California Public Schools
http://www.cde.ca.gov/board/
On this site you will find the adopted California standards for English-Language Arts, Mathematics, History-Social Science, and Science

California Challenge Standards
http://www.cde.ca.gov/challenge/Contents.html
This site will lead you to challenge standards for the following: Foreign Language, Health Education, Physical Education, Visual and Performing Arts, Career Preparation, Service Learning, and Applied Learning.

LAUSD Standards
http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/lausd/offices/instruct/standards.html
This site lists k-12 standards in all subjects for the Los Angeles Unified School District
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Science & Technology

Explore Smithsonian
https://www.si.edu/explore

Science Education: Professional and Software Developer Internet Sites
http://www.ecs.fullerton.edu/~jperryl/ScienceSites.html#anchor15560279

The Classroom Compass (ENC)
http://www.sedl.org/scimath/compass/

ENC
http://www.enc.org/
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Mathematics

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Mathematics
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/math.html

Math Education: Professional and Software Developer Internet Sites
http://www.ecs.fullerton.edu/~jperryl/MathSites.html#anchor19755810

Mathematics Lesson Plans (links)
http://smard.cqu.edu.au/Links/Websites/Mathmatics_Lesson_Plans/index.html

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Elementary
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/kidstuff.html

The Math Forum
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/mathed/tech.mathed.html

ENC
http://www.enc.org/

The Classroom Compass (ENC)
http://www.sedl.org/scimath/compass/
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Literature/Language Arts

The Official Roald Dahl Website ****
http://www.roalddahl.com
This creative site (Flash required), created by the Roald Dahl
Foundation) is not for the feint of bandwidth (use this only on a
network connection, otherwise you might be waiting a long time for the
site to load). Roald Dahl was a very creative children's author and this
site brings to life classics such as Willie Wonka and the Chocolate
Factory, Mathilda, and James and the Giant Peach. Teachers will enjoy
the lessons and classroom activities available for download. The
activity on Collecting Words lists as examples the words Dahl collected
for beautiful and angry or rude or nasty, and asks students to collect
words for big, rich and funny.

Grade Level: Elementary, Middle School
Content Area: English (Literature) Dewey #800
Application Type: Resource, Activity

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Literature and Language Arts
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/arts/artlit.html
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General Resources

Center for Inquiry Based Learning
http://www.zoology.duke.edu/cibl/

The Constructivist Learning Model
http://www.nsta.org/pubs/tst/reprints/199109yager.htm
Good examples for building a lesson/unit using the learning cycle

Cooperative Learning
https://open.ocolearnok.org/teachingmethods/chapter/cooperative-learning/

Blue Web'N
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/index.html
A library of Blue Web'N Learning Sites

Best Web Sites
http://www.cctt.org/BestWebs.htm

Content Specific Learning Strategies
http://muskingum.edu/~cal/database/conspecific.html
Includes learning strategies for a variety of disciplines that include:
math, biology, chemistry, physics, and English.

General Purpose Learning Strategies
http://muskingum.edu/~cal/database/genpurpose.html
Includes references to a variety of strategies that include: attention &
listening, questioning, group and cooperative learning, etc.
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Tools

Graphic Organizers Generator
http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/graphic_org/
A variety of graphic organizers can be produced

ClassroomClipart.Com ****
http://classroomclipart.com/

A former classroom teacher put together this site that is easy to use
and has great images. Be sure students read the terms of use and
understand that these are to be used for educational uses only. A nifty
feature, if you want to just browse the site, is the RAND button in the
box with the category links. This brings up a page of random images, so
you can get an idea of the scope of the collection.

Grade Level: Early Childhood, Elementary, Middle School, High School, College
Content Area: Education (General) Dewey #370, Arts (Visual) Dewey #750
Application Type: Resource

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
http://www.ed.gov/free/
Linked by subject areas to already developed lesson resources
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Assessment

Elementary Assessment Tools (a wonderful collection of elementary rubrics…ready to use)
http://www.bcpl.net/~sullivan/modules/tips/assess-elem.html

Assessing Students Online
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/department/so/assess.htm

Authentic Assessment (online resource links)
http://www.bgsu.edu/organizations/ctl/aa.html
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Assessment: Rubrics

Rubrics for Web Lessons
http://edweb.sdsu.edu/triton/july/rubrics/Rubrics_for_Web_Lessons.html

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Assessment Rubrics
http://intranet.cps.k12.il.us/Assessments/Ideas_and_Rubrics/ideas_and_rubrics.html

Rubrics - The kidsAIDS site
http://www.odyssey.on.ca/~elaine.coxon/rubrics.htm
A very lengthy list of sample rubrics

Rubric Generators
http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics
An easy to use tool to generate a great variety of rubrics

Rubric Construction Set
http://landmark-project.com/classweb/rubrics/index.html
Another rubric construction tool
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Assessment: Checklists

Problem Based Learning Checklists
http://www.4teachers.org/projectbased/checklist.shtml
Customize your own checklists for writing, science, oral presentations &
multimedia

A Collection of Assessment Strategies
http://www.eed.state.ak.us/tls/frameworks/mathsci/ms5_2as1.htm
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Learning Styles/Inquiry

http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/instruct/4mat.html

http://www.aboutlearning.com/4mat/body_applications_of_4mat.html

http://members.tripod.com/jenlwilson/4mat.htm

Disney Learning Partnership
http://www.wnet.org/wnetschool/concept2class/index.html
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Theory to Practice

It's All in the Design (Inquiry, Curriculum Design Schemata and more)
http://learning.loc.gov/learn/educators/workshop/lcdesign/index.html

Center for Inquiry Based Learning
http://www.zoology.duke.edu/cibl/

4MAT (good for various learning styles and inquiry)
http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/instruct/4mat.html
http://www.aboutlearning.com/4mat/body_applications_of_4mat.html
http://members.tripod.com/jenlwilson/4mat.htm

The Constructivist Learning Model
http://www.nsta.org/pubs/tst/reprints/199109yager.htm
Good examples for building a lesson/unit using the learning cycle

Cooperative Learning (New Horizons Resource Links)
http://www.newhorizons.org/trm_cooplrn.html

Learning Cycle
http://cdp.mde.state.mi.us/Science/Learningcycle.html (Learning Cycle Checklist - nice quick check to see if your lesson/unit design aligns with the learning cycle…if that's your goal)
http://www.cte.jhu.edu/techacademy/fellows/Ullrich/webquest/mkuindex.html (Constructivism and 5E Model Science Lesson)
Disney Learning Partnership: Concepts to Classrooms (a general resource on theories and strategies in the classroom & an interactive forum for learning these theories and practices. Includes multiple intelligences, constructivism, inquiry, assessment, and much more)
http://www.wnet.org/wnetschool/concept2class/index.html

Content Specific Learning Strategies
http://muskingum.edu/~cal/database/conspecific.html
Includes learning strategies for a variety of disciplines that include:
math, biology, chemistry, physics, and English.

General Purpose Learning Strategies
http://muskingum.edu/~cal/database/genpurpose.html
Includes references to a variety of strategies that include: attention &
listening, questioning, group and cooperative learning, etc.
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Lesson Planning/Resources/Lesson Links

Net Day Compass: Guide to the World of Ed Tech Resources (excellent resource for lesson-planning resources, online tutorials and much more…why create what already exists?)
http://www.netdaycompass.org/categories.cfm?category_id=4

New York Times Lesson Plan Archive
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/archive.htm l

Blue Web'N
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/index.html
A library of Blue Web'N Learning Sites
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Elementary

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Educational Resources:

Blue Web'n A library of Blue Ribbon learning sites on the Web.

Classroom Connect You'll find K-12 lesson plans, grants, and resources here.

ERIC (Educational Products Information Exchange Institute) This is a K-College resource site from 16 Clearinghouses.

Encyclopedia.com from Electric Library A great resource for both teachers and students. Over 17,000 articles from The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, and it's absolutely free. The entries are short so you can check facts quickly. There are also links to related web sites and books.

From Now On: the Educational Technology Journal A top site for everything education and technology. Besides being able to subscribe to free monthly journal, the site offers articles on assessment, parenting, staff development, web site design, and the "Ten Best Web Sites for Educational Technology." A must visit.

The Global Schoolhouse This site facilitates collaborative projects among other things.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators This site contains a list of sites on the Internet which are useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth. It is updated daily to keep up with new WWW sites.

Pacific Bell Education First If you want to know more about the Education First initiative, this is the place to visit.

YEAR OF THE OCEAN This site has a multitude of information on oceans. A great learning site for students of environmental science and biology.

PUZZLEMAKER allows you to create puzzles and games for your newsletters, flyers, handouts, or classroom assignments, and it's free!

McCann's PooR Farm This site lists links to over 12,000 school in the US, homework, student guides and other places of interest for students and educators.

Los Angeles Unified School Distict HomePage

Award-winning site with interesting and valuable links. Keeps district employeers up to date on new information that affects the District and its schools. Lots of information, including how-to documents and help links for Mac and PC users. You can visit all LAUSD schools who have pages posted.

Los Angeles Learning Community Home Page

Another great site that will lead you to educational resources and educators.

Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE)

You can visit many places within this site, including TEAMS Distant Learning and the Teacher Technology Center (TTC)

California Department of Education

This site offers a wealth of resources from educational grants to parent programs around the state. Pointers to other educational resources are plentiful.Visit California High School Networks Project, Specialized Secondary Schools, and California Partnerships Academy.

U.S. Department of Education

You can find grant opportunities and descriptions of successful programs. Links to great resources and research findings.
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Useful Web Sites for English Language Arts Teachers Compiled by J. Zarro

PBS Teacher Resources:

http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/thornburg/index.shtm

http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/thornburg/thornburgarchive.shtm

These sites contain a myriad of information and archives of articles that teachers may find valuable. The Thornburg archive alone makes good reading. "Teaching with Technology: From Teaching to Learning -- A Canadian Perspective" by David Thornburg discusses making a shift from traditional teaching to project-based learning.

http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/whats_new/techknow/archives.shtm

More archives of articles related to teaching with technology

http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/teachtech/research.shtm

Links to the "latest and greatest" in educational technology research studies available online.

4teachers.com:

http://www.4teachers.org/feature/nebraska-yaf/index.shtml

Teaching creative writing across the Net: three teachers started a Young Authors Forum with the help of a grant. "connections are born out of honest communication. Both Hoatson and English believe the geographic distance between authors and reviewers provides anonymity for both parties. The forum encourages students to produce more text and their reviewers to comment more honestly. Each piece of writing is considered for its own merit with no regard to author status: economic, social, or academic."

NEA (National Education Association) - Teaching

http://www.nea.org/teaching/

This site offers links to selected articles about teaching in general.

Englishcompanion.com

http://www.englishcompanion.com/

A must on your list of important sites, this site is a wonderland of great stuff for the English teacher. Jim Burke, who wrote English Teacher's Companion and other great books for English teachers, hosts the site, which in spite of the ".com" moniker, is a non-profit site. It will take repeated visits to take advantage of all its resources for teachers of English language arts.

Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning - (McREL) K-12 Services & Products

http://www.mcrel.org/products/tech/technology/prodev.asp

This site contains links to other educational resources and services

ArtsEdNet

http://www.artsednet.getty.edu/ArtsEdNet/

Sponsored by the Getty Museum, this site has a multitude of great resources for teachers of all grade levels.

Educator's Toolkit

http://www.Eagle.ca/~matink/

This is a newsletter that contains links to teacher resources, libraries, technology, parents, kids, themes, mini-themes, holidays, projects and lessons.

PuzzleMaker

http://www.puzzlemaker/school.discovery.com

This site is a game generator for teachers. Games included are word search, crossword puzzles, math puzzles, and hand drawn mazes. Teachers can create print-ready puzzles for their students using their own word or number lists.

EDinformatics-Education for the Information Age

http://www.edinformatics.com/index.htm

This is a database of information leading to over 1,000,000 reviewed sites. Go to Literature, and you'll find a link to Chats and Forums.

TEACH THE TEACHERS COLLABORATIVE

http://www.teachtheteachers.org/

This site is a fairly new effort by private industry (Vons) and LACOE to provide a one-week workshop for teachers in Ojai, California at the Thatcher School. The site offers lessons that participants have created during their sessions. Although there are few English language arts- only lessons, you will find that it runs as a strand in many subject areas. Their lesson plan archives provides a model lesson which is used as a template for web-based lessons.

Education week on the Net

http://www.edweek.org/

This magazine (print & electronic) features current educational news plus information about teachers and technology.

CUE (Computer Using Educators)

http://www.cue.org/

Every teacher needs to attend at least one CUE conference in his or her professional lifetime. This site has something for everyone.

AskEric

http://www.accesseric.org/

This is a must on every educator's list of resources. This page is ACCESS ERIC which leads to other storehouses of information.

SCORE Activity Bank

http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/sindex.htm

This section of the SCORE website contains a sections on graphic organizers, journaling, literature, rubrics, and writing. The rubrics section alone is an invaluable resource for both students and teachers of English language arts.

Education World "Where Educators go to Learn"

http://www.educationworld.com/

This site contains a storehouse of information, from "Subject Centers" to "Feature Areas." A must visit.

SCORE: CyberGuides: Teacher Guides & Student Activities

http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html

This site contains guides for the teaching of literature, grades K-12. It offers a template for a "new, standards-based, web-delivered concept at SCORE language arts" that would be worth looking as a basis for a lesson.

Pac Bell's Knowledge Network Explorer

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/index.shtml

This site is home base for Blue Web'n, WebQuests, Filamentality, Lessons & More.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educator

http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/

This site is "a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated daily to include the best sites for teaching and learning."

Exworthy Educational Links

http://www.exworthy.com

This site has a multitude of resources for educators in every subject area. For the English language arts teacher there are links to research, resources, lessons, and other educational categories. For example, the Inspiration trial download is linked along with other "goodies."

NEA Works4Me Tips Library

http://www.nea.org/helpfrom/growing/works4me/library.html

This site is an archive for NEA's Weekly Classroom Tips E-mail. Become a subscriber here to receive an E-mail message with practical classroom tips submitted by teachers. You can also join the Works4Me Threaded Discussion and meet other subscribers online.

Armadillo's K-12 WWW Resources

http://chico.rice.edu/armadillo/Rice/Resources/reshome.html

This is a directory of resources for K-12 teachers and students. Besides CORE subject area, the site includes Gifted and Talented Education, Special Education, Libraries, & FieldTrips/Museums. There are also links to Educational Resources

Classroom Connect

http://www.classroom.com/home.asp

Offers lots of goodies for teachers, including a newsletter, and teacher tips for the classroom.

Comparing and Evaluating Web Information Resources

http://emifyes.iserver.net/fromnow/jun97/eval.html

This article from FNO Educational Technology Journal (Vol 6|No 9|June|1997) offers a list of useful terms w/glossary to evaluate information obtained from the Internet. There is a rubric to follow and a list of links to other sites on this subject.

Learn the Net

Online Writing Center Consortium Home Page (OWL)

http://owcc.colostate.edu/

This site offers good resources for getting started in teaching writing.

Teacher Helpers: Assessment & Rubric Information

http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/assess.html

This is a section of Kathy Schrock's Guide dedicated to writing rubrics of all kinds.

http://www.learnthenet.com/

This is a website "dedicated to helping you save time and money when roaming through cyberspace." This site is useful for English teachers just getting started with the World Wide Web.

Filamentality

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/

This site helps you create web-based activities for your students. You can begin with a Hot List, or choose a Sampler, Scrapbook , Hunt, or even a WebQuest. You can leave your activity on their server, edit it anytime, make as many as you need, and even delete it when you want.

Culture of India Sampler

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/samsearchinjo.html

This is a web activity I created for students called a "Sampler." Use it as a model to create your own Filamentality pages.

SEETC (Southeast Educational Technology Consortium

http://www.seetc.org/

This site, made possible by a Technology Literacy Challenge Grant, was developed to "provide teachers the opportunity to share 'best practices' in the area of Reading/Language Arts." There are 16 schools in the consortium, and there are many resources for teachers of English language arts, including a template to help teachers get started.
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Social Studies Resource Sites

National Geographic
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

Terraserver-Free satellite photos
http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/default.asp

Geography World
http://www.datehookup.com/content-a-comprehensive-list-of-international-cultural-profiles.htm

Geography Quizzes at Quia.com
http://www.quia.com/dir/geo/

Theodora.com-Thousands of Free maps
http://www.theodora.com/maps/abc_world_maps.html

Excite Travel: Destinations: Countries; Territories
http://travel.excite.com/

Geography Games, Quizzes and Trivia
http://faculty.acu.edu/~armstrongl/geography/games.html

Discovery Online
http://www.discovery.com/

Welcome To MapQuest!
http://www.mapquest.com

Online quiz development
http://www.quia.com

CNN Interactive
http://www.cnn.com/

National Center for History in Schools
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/nchs/

National Archive- Welcome to the Digital Classroom! To encourage teachers of
students at all levels to use archival documents in the classroom, the
Digital Classroom provides materials from the National Archives and
methods for teaching with primary sources. Visit our page regularly
as we expand our offerings.
http://www.nara.gov/education/

Civics and Government Standards
https://www.fldoe.org/academics/standards/subject-areas/social-studies/civics-gov-res.stml

National Social Studies Standards
http://www.ncss.org/standards/toc.html

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
http://www.ed.gov/free/

Ecotourism http://www.ecotourism.org/ Follow our virtual "Ecotourism Explorer Path." It will not only lead you to a provocative collection of vital facts, but also to some nuggets of personal wisdom that real-time explorers in this field have acquired.

American Memory Program www.loc.gov As we near the dawn of a new Millennium, America Dreams creates a timely forum for citizens to consider the dreams of our past, the realities of the present and our hopes for the future. This project, a collaborative effort by Leni Donlan and Kathleen Ferenz, 1997 Fellows, American Memory Program, Library of Congress, challenges students to explore the American Dream from three perspectives http://www.internet-catalyst.org/projects/amproject/splash.html

Anatomy of a Murder- WELCOME to the web site that puts you right in the middle of the action in a criminal murder trial.
http://tqd.advanced.org/2760/

The Annenberg Project- The Annenberg/CPB Math and Science Project was created to improve K-12 math and science education. In the mid '90s, with the advent of the Web and digital satellite technology, this new project began to provide workshops and other educational programming to schools via satellite on the free Annenberg/CPB Channel. The Channel allowed teachers from around the nation to see into each other's classrooms and learn from each other. http://www.learner.org/

North Hagarstown High School- A gateway to outstanding Social Studies links http://www.wcboe.k12.md.us/mainfold/schoopag/high/nhhpage/

Cyberlearning World - A wealth of Internet resources
http://www.cyberlearning-world.com/

Political Cartoons
http://www.cagle.com/

Truman Digital Archives
http://www.whistlestop.org/

Social Studies School Service
http://www.socialstudies.com/

Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/

Anglo Saxon Living History
http://www.angelcynn.org.uk/

United Nations Scholar's Workstation
http://www.library.yale.edu/un/index.html

Making of America
http://www.umdl.umich.edu/moa/

The Roman Forum
http://library.thinkquest.org/11402/

The Scout Report
https://scout.wisc.edu/

Glossary of Medieval Art and Architecture- http://www1.pitt.edu/~medart/menuglossary/INDEX.HTM

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