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Assessment: Checklists English/Literature Science & Technology
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Educational Resources Learning Styles/Inquiry Standards
Lesson Planning Tools


Assessment
1 (view) SRI
SRI is an on-line, standards-based, continually updated resource bank of science performance assessment tasks indexed via the National Science Education Standards (NSES) and various other standards frameworks.


Assessment: Checklists
1 (view) Project Based Learning Checklists
Customize your own checklists for writing, science, oral presentations & multimedia


Assessment: Rubrics
1 (view) Rubistar
RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch.
2 (view) Rubric Generators
An easy to use tool to generate a great variety of rubrics


Educational Resources
1 (view) 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.
2 (view) 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.
3 (view) PUZZLEMAKER
allows you to create puzzles and games for your newsletters, flyers, handouts, or classroom assignments, and it's free!
4 (view) The Global Schoolhouse
This site facilitates collaborative projects among other things.
5 (view) U.S. Department of Education
You can find grant opportunities and descriptions of successful programs. Links to great resources and research findings.


English/Language Arts
1 (view) 4teachers.com
Teaching creative writing across the Net: three teachers started a Young Authors Forum with the help of a grant.
2 (view) EDinformatics-Education for the Information Age
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.
3 (view) Education week on the Net
This magazine (print & electronic) features current educational news plus information about teachers and technology.
4 (view) Education World "Where Educators go to Learn"
This site contains a storehouse of information, from "Subject Centers" to "Feature Areas." A must visit.
5 (view) PBS Teacher Resources
Links to the "latest and greatest" in educational technology research studies available online.
6 (view) TEACH THE TEACHERS COLLABORATIVE
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.


General Resources
1 (view) Cooperative Learning (New Horizons Resource Links)
2 (view) MarketingTeacher.com
Marketing links and free mini-lessons are available at this site. Students can read a short lesson on pricing, for example, then take part in an activity designed to illustrate how the concept works in the real world. These lessons are a great starting point for class discussions. Grade Level: High School, College Content Area: Business (Marketing) Dewey #658


Learning Styles/Inquiry
1 (view) Center for Inquiry Based Learning


Lesson Planning/Resources/Lesson Links
1 (view) New York Times Lesson Plan Archive


Mathematics
1 (view) The Classroom Compass (SEDL)


Science and Technology
1 (view) Encyclopedia Smithsonian
2 (view) The Classroom Compass (SEDL)


Social Studies
1 (view) CNN Interactive
2 (view) Cyberlearning World
A wealth of Internet resources
3 (view) Digital Classroom
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.
4 (view) Discovery Online
5 (view) Ecotourism
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.
6 (view) Geography Quizzes at Quia.com
7 (view) Glossary of Medieval Art and Architecture
8 (view) 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.
9 (view) National Geographic
10 (view) Online quiz development
11 (view) Political Cartoons
12 (view) Scout Report for Social Studies and the Humanities
13 (view) Social Studies School Service
14 (view) 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.
15 (view) Theodora.com-Thousands of Free maps
16 (view) United Nations Scholar’s Workstation
17 (view) Welcome To MapQuest!


Standards
1 (view) LAUSD Standards
This site lists k-12 standards in all subjects for the Los Angeles Unified School District


Tools
1 (view) 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.
2 (view) Cyberbee
This is a great site for teachers looking for more ways to integrate technology into their classroom. Look into the Curriculum Ideas, How Tos, Treasure Hunts, and the fine articles to give you fresh ideas.
3 (view) Graphic Organizers Generator
A variety of graphic organizers can be produced.
4 (view) Terrafly
Have students view their environment in a different way. Simply type in the address you wish to see, and TerraFly delivers an aerial view of the site.