CVSD Secondary Group

Sophia is a first of its kind online social teaching and learnign platform that provides free academic content to educators. in beta testing since March, 2011, the site lets educators supplement their teaching methods with Web 2.0 tools to craete public or private learning environments

Free resource

PBS Teachers is a wonderful site with lots of resources and supplemental material for teachers to use with students. This particular link will take you directly to the STEM education resource center: Professional Development and the focus on this page is Global Climate Change Modules from PBS and NASA. However, if you look at the top of the page you can choose a specific grade band and then within that there are various content areas that can be chosen. Looks like a very interesting site with lots of resources to select from.

Looks like a good site full of supplemental resources. Worth the search and a look.

Interactive Graphic Organizers

Infographic that explains the concept of the Flipped Classroom.

Article in TechLearning by Lisa Nielsen that briefly lists some Math websites.

Lisa Nielsen's blog post 9_1_11 about updating your AUP.

A collection of resources and stories leveled for language arts. A great host of documents and skillbuilders to add to teacher banks of materials. Requires an annual subscription, but you can set your own fee.

Shmoop, a publisher of digital educational resources, has added pre-algebra to its list of free learning guides. The online Pre-Algebra Learning guides contain hundreds of topics with succinct explanations, diagrams, interactive examples, practice problems, and real-world applications. Pre algebra is Shmoop's first foray beyond its core humanities offerings. At the home page click on the pre algebra tab

Free is always good to check out.

Collection of resources for teachers and especially students. Great number of study tools and skill builders. Especially great because it has resources on "The Outsiders" and "The Pigman" for 7th Grade Resources.

Lots of web tools for K-12 classrooms. Like the fact that all the information is in this one resource.

Thanks Joy Weikert for sharing.

Compilation of Web 2.0 tools broken down into grade-level categories. Each tool is briefly described and links are provided.

This site provides a variety of ready to use lesson plans on a variety of topics. The lessons have an essential question as well as an outline of strategies and activities that can be used to teach them. In addition, if appropriate, graphic organizers will be provided for use with the lessons. When you get to the site use the Find a Lesson Plan search feature to easily see if there is a lesson that aligns to your curriculum.

Ready to use lesson plans from the Smithsonian. Nice Site. Great resource for students and kids.

Article on 10 steps to a better web research.

Search Engine for students. Brings up hits from 35,000 web sites that have been approved by a staff of teachers, librarians, and research experts.

Site for students with sites approved by educators.

Lots of great web links as you go deeper into specific areas.

Biography walks the user through the steps of creating a good biography. There are 4 steps. In addition the site provides a summary of the six traits of effective writing.

This is a livebinder all about wordle. Very helpful for anyone who wants to know more about wordle and see an cool example of how a livebinder can be used to provide professional information for educators.

Great example of a livebinder organized to teach about wordle. The tutorial tab is a great place to start to see how useful Wordle can be in the classroom.

This free site provides the user with the tool needed to create a live online binder around a specific topic. What a cool way to organize content, information, articles, recipes, professional development training materials, etc. Lots of home and school uses for this tool.

This is a very cool tool.

Flubaroo is a site created by a teacher for teachers. It works with google docs (forms) to grade student assignments.

This is a very cool tool.

Free automatic bibliography and citation maker.

This works great.

"turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters -- into a visually stunning word cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text."

Joy Weikdert shared this site. Very cool!

Ronnie Burt's post 07/14/11 about privacy issues related to web and other popular social media tools.