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Search for information on Pennsylvania academic standards, assessment anchors, and eligible content by subject area and grade level.

SAS Curriculum Pathways provides innovative, web-based resources in the core disciplines, for grades 8-14. Topics are mapped to state & national standards.

A collection of interactive Web tools that are standards related.

Designed to serve Pennsylvania teachers & students on the topic of watershed education. Addresses the proposed Environment & Ecology standards from the PA Dept of Education.

Richer Picture™ products and services help schools use technology to personalize teaching and learning. Our digital portfolios provide a new way for your students to show that they are meeting standards -- while celebrating who they are as individual learners.

A series of FREE, self-paced workshops covering a wide variety of hot topics in education. Includes constructivism, collaborative and cooperative learning, multiple intelligences, WebQuests, curriculum redesign, teaching to standards, inquiry-based learni

This Library of Congress site helps educators quickly find and use primary sources related to specific curriculum standards with Best Instructional Practices for all subjects.

In the spirit of Geocaching, Educaching is a curriculum that uses GPS technology to create an innovative learning atmosphere. Exciting lesson plans, unique ideas, and helpful strategies that incorporate the national teaching standards provide a road map to make education challenging, rewarding, and fun.

Using Accountability to "Reform" Public Schools to Death

This site was so cool. I created my own comic story. I was able to play brain buster games I read stories and had stories read to me, and watched videos about how to create a comic.. This site was created by Jim Davis, creator of the comic strip Garfield, in conjunction with Ball State University and PAWS, Inc. It give kids the opportunity to explore, create and connect safely with kids around the world. Jim Davis created this site because he felt there was a need to provide a high-quality, free, and engaging web site that could motivate children to achieve their full potential. The approach is kid-centric and tries to close the achievement gap between what kids seek to do on the Internet and standards-based educational activities. The mission of Professor Garfield.org is encourage children to explore academically sound literacy activities and provide them with tools to express themselves through creative writing prorams. It's an Internet destination that is safe, free and fun! The Professor Garfield and Sparktop sites (both found on this link) provide all kids of ways for kids to shine and showcase their talents and abilities! Students can record their own "talent" for Sparkstage (our American Idol-like competition), arrange music with the awesome music mixer tool, create their own comic strip in the Comis Lab, learn to sculpt, or be taught to draw by professional artists in the Art-Bot section. On Sparktop.org kids safely connect with other kids who knwow what they are going through. They find information about how their brain works and get tips on how to succeed in school and life. And they get to showcase their creativity and be recognized for their strengths. Millions of children from around the world visit the web site every month.

Use rubrics to communicate expectations with students and to standardize assessment. Our free rubrics building and assessment tool helps you build simple to complex rubrics effortlessly.

"create, organize, and share your curriculum With BetterLesson, you can: * Organize and share your complete, 180-day curriculum * Connect and collaborate with innovative educators in your field * Tag and search lessons using state standards * Access your files and instructional content from anywhere * Control who sees your curriculum * Receive real recognition for high-quality lessons"

"ECONnections contains standards-based lesson plans adapted from NCEE printed materials for the Internet with interactive activities for students. "

"Use the pull-down menus to search for online lessons from all of the Council for Economic Education's programs, including EconEdLink, ECONnections, Economics International®, and ItAllAddsUp." You can sort by: -Grade -Concept -National Standard

"SAS is NOT a portal. Although we will be using a new and powerful portal to access the six elements of SAS and all the resources that will be launched and will be added to the site, SAS is more about how we think and act differently. The six elements of SAS (clear standards, fair assessments, a curriculum framework, instructional strategies, materials & resources and interventions), when combined, provide educators with a common framework for the continuous improvement of each student by name. Research continues to support that integrating these six elements improves student achievement."

"Beyond simple math and grouping (like "(x+2)(x-4)"), there are some functions you can use as well. Look below to see them all. They are mostly standard functions written as you might expect. You can also use "pi" and "e" as their respective constants. Please note: You should not use fractional exponents. For example, don't type "x^(1/3)" to compute the cube root of x. Instead, use "root(x,3)". When you want a quick graph of a function, you can just go to http://graphsketch.com/[function], like http://graphsketch.com/sin(x). You can even separate multiple equations with commas, like http://graphsketch.com/sin(x),x^2."

Use animals as 'non-standard' units to weigh others.   'We're going to weigh the duck! What shall we use to weigh with?' 'How many hedgehogs do you think we will need to balance the scales? Count with me.' 'I've put on 2, how many more do you think are needed? Come and count on some more to see if we are right.' 'Whoops, I've put too many on. How many shall I take off?'

GroupTweet turns a standard Twitter account into a group communication hub where members can post updates to everyone in the group using direct messages. When the group account receives a direct message from a group member, GroupTweet converts it into a tweet that all followers can see.

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"iRubric is a comprehensive rubric development, assessment, and sharing tool. Designed from the ground up, iRubric supports a variety of applications in an easy-to-use package. Best of all, iRubric is free to individual faculty and students. iRubric School-Edition empowers schools with an easy-to-use system for monitoring student learning outcomes and aligning with standards. Click. Click. Done. Scoring rubrics cannot be made any easier. Just pull up a rubric from the gradebook, click, click, and you're done. Rubric scores are automatically adjusted to the coursework grading scale and posted on the gradebook. All you have to do next is to press [save]. Students get a copy of the scored rubric securely... no more paperwork, no more calculations and no more confusion. Finally, spend more time teaching and less time grading. Only with iRubric. "

"Aegom Interactive develops standards-aligned curriculum titles using the award-winning SMART Notebook software. Our exemplar Notebook lessons are visual and highly interactive and install directly into the SMART Notebook Gallery, which makes them tremendously useful and accessible for teachers."