The website for my middle school's media center has a few excellent links. We have links to eLibrary access, World Book Online, The Library of Congress, Teaching Books for Students, EBSCOhost, ThomsonGale database, Tumblebooks, the Lexile Framework for Reading, the ERIC online library, and the Florida Information Resource Network.
Cool math.com @ http://www.coolmath.com/ is a wonderful website for finding lesson plans for any age student. This website is designed for students, parents, and teachers. It has games, lesson plans, teaching strategies, teaching segments, and different types of calculators. This website also provides a large variety of math problems in areas such as: adding, subtracting, dividing, decimals, algebra and geometry.
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Online resources for college students have made an entire revolution in education, not only because they are convenient and accessible, but because they make the entire process of teaching and learning more interesting and memorable.
Intel® Teachhelps K-12 teachers of all subjects engage students with digital learning, including digital content, Web 2.0, social networking, and online tools and resources. Intel Teach professional development empowers teachers to integrate technology effectively into their existing curriculum, focusing on their students' problem solving, critical thinking, and collaboration, which are precisely the skills required in the high tech, networked society in which we live.
WOW! I just discovered this site via the search tools from our text book's website. Everything from themed lesson plans to printables to science experiments.
The A to Z Teacher Stuff website is designed to help teachers find online resources more quickly and easily. It comprises lesson plans, thematic units, downloadable teaching materials, and eBooks to name a few.
A to Z Teacher Stuff is a teacher-created site designed to help teachers find online resources more quickly and easily.The website offers thematic worksheets, units, downloadable materials and more!
CPALMS is an online toolbox of information, vetted resources, and interactive tools that helps educators effectively implement teaching standards. It is the State of Florida’s official source for standards information and course descriptions.
From FLDOE site - but also a site that we live by in 5th grade at my school. Gives access to sample FCAT questions based on standards, as well as videos and other resources online that can be used.
Great teacher resources for all grade levels. Includes lesson plans for each subject area based on standards, free printables, virtual manipulatives, and a scheduling component.
This is by far the best site the DOE has to offer. The curriculum maps are easy to design and there is a plethora of lesson plans for each standard for every grade level to work with. This is especially nice when you have little resources from your district!
This seems to be the go to site for teachers right now. I use this a lot to help me with my lesson plans and to find out what technology resources are available.
CPALMS is the official site of the FDOE standards and course description. The site includes educator toolkits, lesson plan development tools and interactive tools for lesson planning and creation
The Seminole County School District offers a link to this website. It provides information about the standards and curriculum benchmarks for each grade and each subject area.
Math Machine Archive: Math Games
The Math Machine brings you a great collection of math games that you can share with your students. Here in The Math Machine you will find links to more than 50 online games that will help you teach and reinforce important math skills. Search the list below for games you might use with your whole class in your schools computer lab, or you might schedule students to use these games on computers in your classroom computer center. These games make great reward time activities too.
The point here was that when technology use is not just "hit-and-miss," it has a greater affect on student progress. It must be fully integrated into the curriculum in the classroom.
This is a shift from whole-class instruction to individual instruction, where each child's learning needs are met by teaching them with concepts as to where they are academically. I believe this provides an opportunity for success in every child.
This is a brief, interesting article that highlights some of the components we have been learning in EME5050. The author discusses and evaluates the increasing openness of education, particularly through online environments.
The Khan Academy website offers a free online collection of more than 3,600 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube teaching mathematics, history, healthcare, medicine, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, economics, cosmology, and organic chemistry, American civics, art history, macroeconomics, microeconomics, and computer science.