TeachersFirst is a rich collection of lessons, units, and web resources designed to save teachers time by delivering just what they need in a practical, user-friendly, and ad-free format.
TeachersFirst is a rich collection of lessons, units, and web resources designed to save teachers time by delivering just what they need in a practical, user-friendly, and ad-free format. We offer our own professional and classroom-ready content along with thousands of reviewed web resources, including practical ideas for classroom use and safe classroom use of Web 2.0. Busy teachers, parents, and students can find resources using our subject/grade level search, keyword search, or extensive menus.
You can create floorplans or room plans with furniture. Teachers could use this website for an activity applying scale or surface area. It even give you the measurements of the furniture with imperial or metric measurements. Who knows, it may save a spouse from moving around furniture until it looks "right"!
This online room planner helps you arrange any space by visually planning out the specifics. You input the exact dimensions of your room, and furniture and other objects are available to scale to better help see the possible arrangements of the classroom. This is extremely helpful for a teacher because it will save time by not having to rearrange the classroom a number of times.
LEARN NC, a program of the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill provides K-12 multi-subject lesson plans and teaching strategies, classroom text & multimedia, and online courses for teachers and students.
LEARN NC gives you what you need for K-12 teaching and learning, when and where you need it - lesson plans and teaching strategies, classroom text & multimedia, and online courses for teachers and students.
LEARN NC gives you what you need for K-12 teaching and learning, when and where you need it - lesson plans and teaching strategies, classroom text & multimedia, and online courses for teachers and students.
This website is a wonderful resource for North Carolina teachers. I found lesson plans based on grade level and specific standard course of study topics.
Learn NC (North Carolina) gives you K-12 lesson plans and teaching strategies, classroom text text and multimedia, and online courses for teachers and students.
Powered by the number 1 non-fiction media brand in the world, Discovery Education transforms classrooms and inspires teachers with engaging content and services that measure and improve student achievement.
Great practice for teachers in classroom management. Probably best for a second year teacher because some of the ideas might be too much for the first year of survival teaching
Thinkwave in trying to advance the way teachers manage classroom information, and to engage parents and students in the education process, by making it easy to share classroom information online, such as grades.
Wordle is a toy for generating 'word clouds' from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. Math teachers can use words that appear repeatedly in their text book for whatever lesson they're doing. They can also use it for decoration in the classroom.
Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. This would be a good way of working with vocabulary words, word walls, or having students recognize prominent words in a text.
This site has a huge compilation of resources. Be prepared to spend some time in discovery. Sites range from lesson plans to blogs to educational issues. Site "includes hundreds of articles and links about curriculum, teaching strategies, teacher professional development, parent involvement, classroom assessment, and much more."
MiddleWeb provides a wealth of resources for schools, districts, educators, parents, and public school advocates working to raise achievement for all students in the middle grades. This site includes hundreds of articles and links about curriculum, teaching strategies, teacher professional development, parent involvement, classroom assessment, and much more.
Watch educational videos in your classroom with this site. This is useful in your classroom and can supplement sites like discovery education, brainpop, etc..
The NCSCOS will provide you with the curriculum for your specific grade level and content area. Your classroom instruction should coincide with the NCSCOS.
Edmodo - Microsharing in the Classroom
Edmodo provides a way for teachers and students to share notes, links, and files. Teachers can send alerts, events and assignments to students.
If you are a math teacher and you have not heard of Marcy Cook then something is wrong. She is a very famous person who has developed a lot of creative ways to use mathematical concepts in the classroom.
Free stock market game to learn how the stock market works using real time stock data from Wall street beginners to real pro and educators to bring Wall street to classrooms.
99Polls offers a simple approach to making Web Polls, which you can post nearly anywhere on the Web. 99Polls.com poll-creation tool requires no knowledge of HTML or coding, and once made, the poll can be posted on blogs, Web sites, and social-networking profiles such as: MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Xanga and more...
Online free web polls generator, let your visitors vote. Easy to setup, customize and use. Great to use for students outside of the classroom since its accessible to anyone on the web.