Great environmental website for both teachers and students. It offers students games & activities, homework help,and videos. It offers teachers printables, lesson plans, and literacy resources.
This web site takes students through a scientific investigation about a large number of absences in a school district. Students work through the scientific method by looking at data, doing research, coming up with hypotheses, and drawing conclusions to determine what is making students in a school district absent. Very well explained for the teacher to implement.
When students need information about a topic or want to share a story, this website can help take 8 pages of text and reduce it down to only use 1 piece of paper. This is a great tool for teachers when presenting information and would be great for notes.
Very professional and organized website containing lesson plans and state standards information. Browse and search capabilities by keyword. A wealth of information.
Founded by the First Days of School Foundation, run by Rosemary and Harry Wong; this site contains a lot of reading material for teachers, specifically those just starting in the profession. Features articles, books, and links on topics ranging from classroom management to technology use to professional development.
"New teacher survival central" contains a section called Tech Tools for Teachers, new teacher blogs, classroom tools, curriculum resources, and tutorials, training and development. A new teacher could spend a lot of time here, looking for help with a specific area or just perusing everything that is available.
2. artsalive.ca/en/resources/students.asp from the National Arts Centre in Canada, copyrighted in 2010, Pinchas Zukerman might be the director. He is definitely involved. It is an extremely comprehensive site dealing with music, dance, English theater and French theater. Students can watch interviews, research composers, listen to music and lots more.
3. Classicsforkids.com is from the Cincinnati public radio. Students can listen to radio broadcasts, which they have activity sheets to coincide, for better listening focus. There is a drop down "For Grownups" which has lesson plans and tips and advice. Each month they have a featured composer. There are also games, such as composing. No advertements to speak of. Email address is mail@classicsforkids.com
4. The San Francisco Symphony has a website for kids. Sfskids.org/templates/musicLabF.asp?pageid=1. Categories to use are instruments of the orchestra, music lab and what's up at the symphony. It's a great way for them to get kids excited to listen to classical music and go to concerts. The email address is webmaster@sfskids.org
This has several resources for webquests for middle level students. Kids love webquests and they are a nice way to use the web for teaching in a more controlled environment.
This site offers tools to help students and teachers organize information. These can be used in any content area and they enable students to use their higher level thinking skills by solving problems during each "quest." This is a great way to infuse technology into the higher level thinking categories of Bloom's.
As a soccer coach it's good to have additional tools to help with different footwork and conditioning drills. This site has many videos that show moves, drills and technique.
Schoology is a free service that allows you to create a social network-type environment for online instruction. Think of it as a combination of Moodle and Facebook and you've got a pretty good idea of what it is like.
To get more into the service, you need to create an account. If you don't want to (or can't for some reason) create an account, but are interested in the service, let me know and I will get you access.
This site provides free podcasts or audio files you can stream that address most levels of learners, from beginning to advanced speakers. It would also be a great site for students to use over the summer so they don't get behind!