This site gives you great ideas of way to use technology in the classroom and to get the kids involved to make learning more fun for them. Not only does this site tell about how to use technology, but there are also lesson plans and other tools to help you teach.
This site gives the teacher tips on using technology, not just ideas on what to do with it. This list may help to ease the mind of teachers that are just starting out using technology. This site also has other recommended sites about technology and other tools for teaching.
I found this site to be particularly helpful because I plan to teach middle grades social studies, and I believe 8th grade is NC history. This is an entire textbook on the subject
This site is an innovative way to teach in the classroom, offering a new way to present information/presentations, idea, etc. for many different grade levels.
On this website, students can learn about environmental issues like air quality, climate change, pesticides, chemicals, toxins, waste, etc. The EPA Teaching Center has games and quizzes that are labeled by grade level, lesson plans, teacher guides and other useful resources.
Reading Eggs is an online reading program that makes learning reading skills fun and motivating for students and children from pre-k to second grade. It has features that support your core literacy teaching and get your students successfully started on becoming proficient readers. They have a diagnostic test and student management tools that enable teachers to place students at different reading levels.
Very interesting site about ocean life and ecosystems. Includes videos, articles, fantastic pictures, and lesson plans/activities for teachers to use when teaching about this topic. Geared toward middle and high school students.
A University based system of centers that offers services and programs with the clinical, training and research needs of children with ASD, their families and professionals in NC
This article talks about ways to have successful math centers in the classroom. It gives ideas of different centers depending on what you are wanting to teach. On this site you can also find games and other articles.
Reflection is a large part of what you will do as a teacher. Not only will we teach the kids but we will need to reflect on what we did and how the kids did. These are 20 questions to get your end of the year reflection started.
This website has a VARIETY of different catagories of math that will help teachers plan out a lesson plan. This website has games, a worksheet generator, and allows you to layout what to teach first.
This website would be very useful for third grade teachers. Third grade teachers have to teach cursive, and this website has alot of pre-written worksheets that can be used as a basis for teaching cursive. Also, it shows catagories of letters that would be best taught together. This comes in handy when a teacher wants to make a weeks lesson plan in advance, and can relate all the lessons to one another. Also, it can be viewed by the students at home if necessary, for help outside of the classroom.
This site provides activities for children, generally in elementary school, in a variety of subjects. There are games, pages to print, activities, and many more ways for students to enjoy learning new information.
Enchanted Learning teaches kids about all sorts of things. It uses pictures and simple diagrams to explain information kids want to learn about. Worksheets and activities for teachers to use are also available.