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Boost Student's Money Smarts
The Federal Reserve has unveiled an online economic education site for high school and college students, as well as for teachers and consumers, to promote economic education and financial literacy. Among the activities available at the Web site, users will be able to be a bank examiner for a day or assume the role of Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan when he and his colleagues set interest rates.

MATH

  • PurpleMath - Your Algebra Resource

  • 10 Best Practices in Mathematics Instruction - Jefferson County Public Schools in Colorado provides this short list of attributes adapted from Improving Student Achievement in Mathematics.

  • Best Practice in Mathematics: Using Test Results to Inform Instruction and Improve Student Achievement - "An assessment consultant advises teachers on how they can ensure that data from standardized tests will inform their instruction and classroom assessments."

  • Curious and Useful Math - This site is loaded with tricks and rules for quickly calculating certain types of math problems. There are also some entertaining trivia and math facts. Ask a question or participate in the online forum.

  • PBS Mathline - To view lesson plans and activities, select a grade range and topic. Teachers can get quick access to their most relevant content for subject, grade level, and location by personalizing this site.

  • Connected Math - Help students develop an "understanding of important concepts, skills, procedures, and ways of thinking and reasoning in number, geometry, measurement, algebra, probability, and statistics."

  • NCTM Illuminations - The Illuminations Web site was developed by NCTM to help educators implement the NCTM Standards. Browse the site for lesson plans, classroom videos, and a wide range of tools and resources.

  • Math Explorations - This site is for serious math hobbyists only! If you or your star pupil hungers for some really challenging math problems, this extensive collection is a valuable resource.

  • Math.com - This site has organized online math resources for students, teachers, and parents. Find links to homework help, free math lessons, family math projects, and solutions for everyday math problems. Review Basic Math, Geometry, Algebra, Calculus, Trigonometry, and Statistics.

  • Math Problems & Puzzles - The Math Forum scouts sites to make it easy for teachers to find the resources available for their own purposes. This site contains a large collection of links to puzzles and problems.

  • Real-World Math & Science - This site from the Eisenhower National Clearinghouse is a good starting point for exploring Internet projects and other resources that bring the real-world into the classroom.

  • Other Math Resources - Math Web Resources1,  Math Web Resources 2 (Elementary and Middle School),  Math Web Resources 3 (advanced Math), 

 

Student and Teacher Portfolios
Examples of student and teacher electronic portfolios that integrate text, photos, diagrams, audio, video, and other multimedia elements.

  • Getting Started with Digital Portfolios - Visit this site for information on using digital portfolios in your classroom.
  • Online Portfolios - Cathleen Chamberlain takes the idea of electronic portfolios a step further by posting them online where families can easily access student work from anywhere on the Internet.
  • Electronic Portfolios At-a-Glance Guides - These guides explain how to use common software tools to create electronic portfolios.
  • Portfolio Assessment - Find out how portfolios allow you to document the "thinking" behind program objectives.
  • Electronic Portfolios - Find out what you should include in an electronic portfolio and how to create and assess one. You can also view examples and resources.
  • Digital Portfolios - Learn the purpose of student portfolios. Follow a template to select work samples to appear in the portfolios.

Setting Student Learning Goals and Assessment Standards

  • NCREL's Indicators of Engaged Learning - What kinds of activities do you use to help students learn? The North Central Regional Educational Laboratory offers a profile tool to measure your visions of learning. Click the "Graph My Responses" button to create a graph representing your answers.
  • Indicators of Engaged Learning - What are the optimal criteria for student and teacher roles in the learning process?
  • Engaged Learning Home Page - The Leadership Institute Integrating Internet, Instruction, and Curriculum presents a learning sequence that first asks you to examine and identify effective aspects of a project. Next, you'll review examples of past projects that use engaged learning standards. Then you'll create a project proposal as well as develop a student task and assessment.
  • Critical Issue: Using Technology to Enhance Engaged Learning for At-Risk Students - "Schools that capitalize on the relationship between technology and education reform will help students to develop higher order skills and to function effectively in the world beyond the classroom."
  • Engaging the Learner - Complete a module on engaged learning strategies that use interactive whiteboards.

WebQuest

"A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web. WebQuests are designed to use learners' time well, to focus on using information rather than looking for it, and to support learners' thinking at the levels of analysis, synthesis, and evaluation." --Bernie Dodge

  • Best WebQuests.com - Use Tom March's content matrix to select WebQuests for early to adult learners.
  • A Rubric for Evaluating WebQuests - This page will help you to evaluate the effectiveness of your own WebQuest.
  • The WebQuest Page - Explore the details of successful WebQuests. Bernie Dodge has compiled articles, templates, and training materials. Be sure to link to WebQuestNews for current views of this learning model from around the world.
  • WebQuests for Kids - Kathi Mitchell has compiled a useful selection of links to Social Studies and Science WebQuests.
  • SESCD WebQuests: Math - A school division from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, had organized a list of math WebQuests for elementary through high school students.

Online Museums

 

VOCABULARY

  • Vocabulary University - Vocabulary University provides interactive vocabulary exercises including graphic word puzzles and games. Use these puzzles to enrich your language arts curriculum.
  • Learning Vocabulary Can Be Fun - Play hangman, the match game, or take a quiz.
  • Vocabulary Web Games - Students can increase their SAT/GRE vocabulary skills. Each quiz is a random selection of 20 words from the 720 most commonly tested words. Play an unlimited number of times. In addition, study computer or medical terminology.
  • Fake Out! - Choose a word from one of three grade levels and guess its definition. Or create and send a fake definition and see if someone chooses it.
  • Building a Better Vocabulary - Webster's Dictionary provides tips and quizzes to help students learn and use new vocabulary.

 

Educational Games on the Web

  • Lawrence Hall of Science - Play online games such as Alien Juice Bar, Build a Fish, Balloon Ride, and Car Comparison.
  • Math Advantage - This site includes online games designed for each grade level.
  • Logic Games - Try a variety of logic games.
  • Seussville Games - Here you will find games and activities that can be used to accompany books by Dr. Seuss.
  • Jumbalaya - Play this online version of the word game, Boggle. Click on Play Game and the computer generates the word game.

 

Sabine Teacher and School Webs

Biology - Mrs. Carolyn Martin - Many High
Mrs. Erica Rogers - Many Junior
Math Riddles - Mrs. Laffitte's Fifth Grade - Converse School
Ed Excursions - Mrs. Lee's Eighth Grade - Florien High
Zwolle Elementary School

The Great Plan Escape

 The Influence of Art on Yellowstone National Park - Electronic Field Trip (grades 6-8)
Zoom View - Images from Space Satellites Television News Archive - collection at Vanderbilt University is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989.

STATE KID  (Online book)

He was a foster child.

 WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS LESSON PLAN  - While originally designed for the third and fourth grade, this lesson should interest all educators who teach about discrimination in any form. The Teacher's Guide suggests that it's more suitable in Grades 9 through adult.  From a recent PBS press release: "Jane Elliott divided her [third-grade] class by eye color -- those with blue eyes and those with brown.  On the first day, the brown-eyed children were told they were smarter, nicer, neater and better than those with blue eyes and were praised and given special privileges. In contrast, the blue-eyed children had to wear collars around their necks, and their behavior and performance were criticized and ridiculed. On the second day, the roles were reversed..." 

Classroom Energy
Exploring Earth From Space - This NASA educational lithograph set includes an educator guide and pictures of Earth taken from space as part of the NASA EarthKAM program. This incredible resource will enhance studies of science, mathematics, technology, and geography.
 ARTSTOR
American Routes - Carnival on the Gulf Coast
Inventions
Intel Innovation in Education - The Intel Innovation in Education initiative is focused on strengthening mathematics, science, and engineering education in more than twenty nations on five continents.
 Adventure Learning Foundation  - This site takes students and teachers on real and virtual expeditions around the world. Through a collection of original pictures and journal excerpts, visitors can accompany travelers exploring the natural environment, culture, and peoples of different continents.
 The Internet Picture Dictionary
Math Internet Projects and Activities
Math and Science Mentoring Archives - SEDL The Math and Science Online Mentoring Archives contain questions posed by mathematics and science teachers about instructional resources, teaching strategies, content, and assessment issues. You may submit your own question, read the responses of mentors who answered previous teacher questions, and sign up to receive email.
 InterMath is a professional development effort designed to support teachers in becoming better mathematics educators. It focuses on mathematical investigations that are supported by technology. InterMath includes a workshop component as well as an ongoing support community that includes a lesson plan database and a discussion board.
 Science, Math and Technology Resources - Description: Another good free set of resources that includes math, science and technology web sites, lesson plans and a chat room. Of particular help is a compilation of freeware and shareware for Windows and Macs; a set of free online tutorials; a very good section on what to look for in terms of buying and using scanners and digital cameras; and lots of good, general technology information (email hoaxes, troubleshooting, and more).
20 Sites to Help You Jump-Start Web Projects
Find Royalty-free Works - Site to assist educators, students, artists, and researchers find creative works they can use without fear of being sued for copyright infringement.
LANGUAGE ARTS WebQuest - Elementary Reading and Writing
 Web Quest model for teachers searching for ways to incorporate the Internet into the classroom

FAST Free Assessment Survey Tool
 Seven Do's for Kids on the Web
Inspiration - resources, guides, and tutorials
 Web Primer
Chinook's Edge School
Teacher Tap
Teaching with the Web
Gateway to Education Materials
 

 

Lesson Plan Sequences - Georgia Learning Connections
 Productivity in the Classroom
 Reading Quest
Contour Comet Nucleus Tour
My Community, Our Earth Program
Pieces of Science
Louisiana Nature Conservancy
Atlas: The Louisiana Statewide GIS
The Futures Channel
 


 

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Blooms Taxonomy

  • Learning Domains or Bloom's Taxonomy - Here's an outline of Bloom's Taxonomy that provides a useful structure in which to categorize test questions: Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation.
  • Learning Skills Program: Bloom's Taxonomy - This chart will help you understand the ins and outs of Bloom's Taxonomy.
  • The Taxonomy of Educational Objectives - This is a revised version of Benjamin Bloom's work with the addition of the Psychomotor Domain as developed by Anita Harrow (1972). Questions and examples are also included to make the Taxonomy more useful for beginning teachers as a tool to facilitate appropriate questioning.
  • Teacher Education: Bloom's Taxonomy - Study an example of how Bloom's Taxonomy may be used in developing a science unit on ecosystems.
  • Bloom's Taxonomy - Learn the history of Bloom, and the process behind his Taxonomy that highlights the kinds of behavior that lead to learning.