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A website where you can use the current WebQuests or change it to fit your class. Good examples for grades K-3

A website with a list of different activities involving webquests. I find it helpful because as a teacher, I will not necessarily have the time or resources to create a unique webquest lesson plan. I may have to adapt what is already in place for my class but use the main ideas as a foundation.

This site provides information on courses, conferences, and other professional development opportunities in Indiana. Many count towards PGPs or semester hours towards state license renewals.

Classes in professional development for Indiana educators

Dunes Educator Institutes This institute provides professional trainings for teachers all year and can provide college credits for those seeking to continue their education. Activities take place within the lakeshore environment. Both Indiana and Illinois teachers can receive college credits through these classes.

Dunes Educator Institutes This institute provides professional trainings for teachers all year and can provide college credits for those seeking to continue their education. Activities take place within the lakeshore environment. Both Indiana and Illinois teachers can receive college credits through these classes.

This is a free web portal designed to assist anyone who wants to find high-quality, free Internet resources to use in classroom instruction, developing project ideas, reinforcing specific subject matter areas both in the class and at home and even for online technology tutorials. This is a great site for everyone to utilize. I have used this website with all four of my boys, and they love it.

This site gives a variety of online games and activities, printables, and a long list of premade WebQuest. These links are all about health and Nutrition for children. These links could be used during health class.

This webquest will have students create a mini lesson on the human body. They will also create some questions and answers concerning the body for a Jepordy game. Finally they will present their mini lesson to the class.

This site has many resources for enhancing the learning experience in all subject areas. Professional Development includes planning, class culture, behavior, assessment, new teachers and more. Opportunities to collaborate also provided.

"TheHomeworkZone provides teachers with a FREE, simple-to-use and easily editable classroom web site . Quickly post assignments, test dates, study guides, printable worksheets, events, announcements, and custom web pages to the internet. Now students and parents can keep up-to-date with what's going on in class just by visiting your personalized HomeworkZone!"

This website offers information for new teachers, downloadable tools and templates that can be used in class, and has lots of information posted on education.

This site has professional development newsletters, web site reviews, problem solving articles, and professional development features.

Read about current technologies available for your classroom. Get ideas for classroom projects and grants. Additional tabs on this site provide tools and templates, a subject data base of class projects and activities, free worksheets on a variety of topics, holiday ideas, standards and a section called School Notes that provides a free webpage tool for teachers.

Coloring pages and activities for a fourth grade social studies class. Very useful website and you can change the grade and subject.

Art activities, worksheets for the Head Start Program In one lesson students complete a variety of activities related to the Maurice Sendak book "Chicken Soup With Rice." They identify the months of the year, identify words starting with the letter J, explore online illustrations created by Maurice Sendak, and create a rhyme using a class list of rhyming words.

This website offeres a expansive list of Cooperative Learning activities for the students to do. These can intergrated into lesson plans or used as a introduction activity.

Cooperative Learning Structures Explanation Jigsaw Groups with five students are set up. Each group member is assigned some unique material to learn and then to teach to his group members. To help in the learning students across the class working on the same sub-section get together to decide what is important and how to teach it.

Cooperative Learning strategies, games, and software

View Study Skills View Organizers Cooperative Learning Instruction Strategies For a teacher who is trying to teach through cooperative learning from the teacher's resources or lesson plans, he or she might face problems of discipline or noisy lessons as after all it's just a class full of students.

This site provieds a WebQuest that can be completed by your class. It includes videos and printouts for students. Instructions are included on each page.

Learn at your own pace online with these 1-2 or 6-10 hour interactive activities. Learn online from certified instructors with your colleagues. 1-2 hour seminars, week and month long courses are available. Earn state and university credit. Attend an NSTA workshop in person to learn hands-on techniques with other teachers. This site also offers free lesson plans and resources for the classroom in the Science curriculum. You can search by grade level. There are also books, e-books, and journals. They also have podcast, and online seminars and classes.

Educators are introduced to PowerPoint, as they create a presentation that contains text, pictures, tables, and a graphic organizer. This Web-Site can help you put a presentation together to inform your parents about curriculam, classes, and events using a range of slide layouts and formatting skilles.

This webpage guides to different context area for professional development. It also gives information about lessons plans, themes, technology, and class management.

Educator's Professional Development Online database of conferences and workshops around the world. Professional Development for Educators Library of Congress The Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program provides primary source-based staff development to teachers across the country. LeaningForward.org Networking and Professional Development Resource for educators.

This site has different professional development links including professional development courses, networking sites, and workshops for professional development.

Make a crossword or word search to help students learn vocabulary. Puzzles are printable, and many can also be played on line and linked to your class webpage. Draw from the puzzles already included. You don't have to recreate the wheel.