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Science Lessons and Resources

A great resource for all topics of science

Grades K-12 Internet based science learning experiences, lesson plans and resources. This site can be used by teachers to help plan engaging and interactive science lessons and give students necessary resources to go along with lessons. Students will receive interacitve activities to help reinforce conepts.

Grades K-12 A resource with lesson plans and interactive websites for smartboards. Teachers can use this website to deliver lessons based on specific topics and subject areas using the Smartboard.

This is a free site for accessing and sharing lesson plans.

This site would be used for lesson preparation by teachers. They're not all that fantastic however and I would caution anyone using it to review their plans carefully. Check out "Seasonal Lesson Plans" for interesting, current activities for your students. Pre K-12

Education resources

Another great educational resource. As a science teacher I have found many illumination resource for my middle school classroom.

Grades K-12 Math lesson plans, interactive online activities and web resources. Teachers can use this site to prepare math lessons based on many different math skills and concepts.Students can utilize this site in the classroom or at home to pratice math skills.

Grades K-12 Collection of lesson plans, thematic units and activities for teachers to use in the classroom. This site offers many user friendly lesson plans and activities for all subjects and grade levels.

Grades K-12 A resource for lesson plans, interactive games and activiities, tools and professional development for all subjects. This site can be used to help deliver engaging and interacive lessons. teachers can find great professional development hours.

Grades K-8 A resource of lesson plans and interactive activities for all subjects using a Smartboard. Teachers can create lessons using this site that can be delivered using a Smartboard.

Grades K-8 A resource for lesson plans and activities for all subject areas. Teachers can find engaging lesson plans as well as great printable activities for students to practice skills and concepts. Con-have to be a member

K-12 Math resource for students and teachers. Site provides interactive math activities for students. Site also provides lesson plans for teachers to go along with activities. Classroom Connections * Use lesson plans in conjunction with math activites to reinforce concepts * Teachers- use student interactives to introduce math concepts and practice in whole group setting using SmartBoard * Students can independently practice concepts using interactives as a center choice.

K-12 Students, Professional, Parents Internet search guide- prompts user to choose who they are- then gives topics based on the users needs. Allows user to search alphabetically, by topic, or by typing in specific topic. Provides lesson plans for teachers. Classroom Connections: * Teachers: get lesson plans on different topics. Research educational/professional topics * Offer as a resource for parents * Students: can use for doing research projects

An interactive lesson that allows students to learn about fair use and copyrights

Grades K-12 A resource for lesson plans, activities, printables and graphic organizers. This site offes many resources based on specific grade level and subject areas. There are a variety of themed activities for teachers to utilize.

Educational site that enables videos and video segments for inhancing a lesson!

I use this site a lot because our school subsrcibes to it, but it has some great videos and a great abundance of videos separated by content, video segments etc... Some of the videos are a little outdated but the information is great.

Purpose of the Website: This website lists the ISTE standards for educators and students. Grade Level: K-12 Classroom Connection: Educators should refer to this site when planning technology related lessons, so they can familiarize themselves with the national ISTE standards.

Grades K-2 Offers strategies, lessons,activitiesand resources for struggling young readers. This site gives helpful information and resources to teachers and parents to enure their children become confident readers.

Grades K-3 An interactive site that teaches students the importance of maps, how to use maps and offers map games to reinforce map skills. Teachers can use this site when delivering lessons on maps and maps skills.

Purpose of the Website: The possibilities that Google provides for teachers is endless! There are so many applications that Google creates for classrooms to be used by students and teachers. Some of the programs include: - Google Earth - Doodle 4 Google - Gmail - Google Reader - Google Docs There are also classroom lesson ideas available for teachers on this website. Grade Level: K-12, Professionals Classroom Connection: One example of how Google can be used in the classroom is by using Google Earth. When teaching your students about communities, you can take your class on a virtual field trip of your town. You can pinpoint different community buildings that are important for your community to run and show students where these buildings are. Negatives of this Website: Some of the Google applications do not run correctly in my district. I have had trouble saving virtual field trips that I have made in Google Earth and there have been times when Google Docs have not opened correctly. So this may be a program that you will have to test ahead of time.

Grades K-5 A resource for lesson plans and guided reading books, worksheets and comprehension questions for students, Teachers can print reading books that have worksheets and comprehension questions to along with each book to use in guided reading activities. Students can also practice reading these books online in the classroom or at home with raz-kids. Con-have to pay to be a member

Purpose of the Website: This website is a tutorial that students can follow through to learn how to access and navigate the Internet. Each section, or lesson, has worksheets that help students navigate through the information and to assess students understanding of the tutorial. Some topics include The Beginning, Getting Started Online, Staying Safe, Using Your Browser, Searching Online, Trying Top Tricks, and The Welcome to the Web Challenge. Students learn things such as what the Internet is for, what links do, how to use the toolbar, etc. Grade Level: 4-8 Classroom Connection: This a wonderful resource to use with upper elementary and secondary students at the beginning of the year to help them review information they already know and introduce them to new information about the Internet. This can be completed independently in class or as a homework assignment. Negatives of this Website: Some parts of the website have a lot of information and is not extremely easy to navigate, therefore might not be used by younger students independently.

Purpose of the Website: Screencastle is an easy tool to create screencasts using the Internet. The user can record animation on their computer and view it back in a video format. All you have to do is select the area of your computer screen that you would like to record and decide if you would like to record from a microphone as well. Grade Level: 7-12 Classroom Connection: Some way that this tool can be used include: - Offering an orientation to a new class - Presenting lessons to the class - Provide feedback for student work - Allow students to share work Negatives of this Website: Java is not working properly on all classroom computers in the district so there is some difficulty with this website since it is Java based.