December 2000
General | Grades K-2 | Grades 6-8
General
Cultural & Historical Resources for Christmas
Teachers First provides links to Christmas Customs, Colonial Christmas Customs, Nineteenth Century Christmas and suggestions from the Children's Literature Web Guide for Stories for Sharing.
http://www.teachersfirst.com/lessons/christmas.htm
December Holidays
Teachervision shares resources that explore the diverse cultural and seasonal themes of December. The context includes craft ideas, holiday poems, games, and web resources for Christmas, Hanukkah, Winter Fun, Kwanzaa, Winter holidays and Events.
http://teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-3770.html
Explore Christmas
Designed to help integrate technology at home and school, challenge students to use this site to "explore Christmas" activities at home and share their information at school. Also available are links to Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and December Computer capers.
http://www.buddyproject.org/teach/explore/xmas/
Children's Literature in Mathematics
Book titles are organized by math strands such as add & subtract, counting, fractions, geometry, number sense, measurement, money, multiply & divide, probability & statistics, problem solving, time, middle school literature.
http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/Y/Elaine.Young-1/literature_frames.html
Developing Science Skills
Catherine Valentino, a science textbook author, provides information on "discovery based learning," the development of process skills, reasoning skills and critical thinking skills.
http://www.eduplace.com/science/profdev/articles/valentino2.html
Gloria's Web Site: The Writing Process
Gloria Antifaiff, a 1999 Canadian Regional Presidential Award Winner from the International Reading Association, shares an online workshop to support classroom teachers in implementing the writing process in their classroom. Included in this site are guidelines for the writing process, a self-evaluation rubric for teachers, 100 possible mini-lessons, editing checklists, writing conferencing tips, and a list of professional resources for implementing the writing process.
http://www3.sk.sympatico.ca/fiss/default.htm
Internet Learning Network
Take the challenge on this interactive testing and learning site for elementary, middle school and high school in the areas of math and science.
http://www.getsmarter.org/index.cfm
Math Software for Elementary Classrooms
Jackie Cooke, A Presidential Award for Excellence Winner, provides an annotated list of math software that is organized by math topics: estimation, classifying, fractions/decimals, geometry, logical thinking and problem solving, measurement, number theory, patterning and algebraic relationships, place value and number concepts, probability and statistics, time and money.
http://westgresham.gresham.k12.or.us/jcooke/CmptrSft.html
Opening Doors to Social Studies with Children's Literature
Education students enrolled in Utah State University's "Teaching Social Studies" share mini-units introduced by a book to teach a social studies theme. Each unit provides a summary of the book, activities and examples of lessons.
http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/TLresources/longterm/LessonPlans/socs/lit.html
Room 108 Math
Students will enjoy these activities that reinforce basic math skills such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, carrying, counting money, using the calculator, skip counting, spelling number words, and telling time.
http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/Math/math.htm
Explorations in Learning & Instruction: The Theory Into Practice Database
Theory Into Practice (TIP) database was developed to make summaries of 50 major theories of learning and instruction more accessible to educators.
http://www.gwu.edu/~tip/index.html
How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School
This online book by The Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences, Education of the national research Council and the Committee on Learning Research and Educational Practice link the research on the science of learning to teaching practices in the classroom.
http://books.nap.edu/books/0309070368/html/R1.html#pagetop
Grades K-2
December Holidays
Teachervision shares resources that explore the diverse cultural and seasonal themes of December. The context includes craft ideas, holiday poems, games, and web resources for Christmas, Hanukkah, Winter Fun, Kwanzaa, Winter holidays and Events.
http://teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-3770.html
Explore Christmas
Designed to help integrate technology at home and school, challenge students to use this site to "explore Christmas" activities at home and share their information at school. Also available are links to Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and December Computer capers.
http://www.buddyproject.org/teach/explore/Xmas/
100 Problems for Primary People
This site offers collection of over 30 problems for algebra, estimation, geometry, measurement and probability.
http://westgresham.gresham.k12.or.us/jcooke/psindex.htm
Children's Literature in Mathematics
Book titles are organized by math strands such as add & subtract, counting, fractions, geometry, number sense, measurement, money, multiply & divide, probability & statistics, problem solving, time, middle school literature.
http://students.ou.edu/Y/Elaine.Young-1/literature.html
Math cats: 4 Older Cats
Math cats provides an Idea bank of math activities and resources suggested by teachers. The topics include: approaches to math instruction, math activities for families, math carnivals, and classroom math centers, math and literature, addition and subtraction, place value, odd and even, rounding, multiplication, order of operations, fractions and geometry.
http://www.mathcats.com/grownupcats.html
The Primary Classroom
Victoria Fu shares her concept of a primary classroom and vision of a community of learners in a developmentally appropriate primary classroom.
http://www.eduplace.com/science/profdev/articles/fu.html
Explorations in Learning & Instruction: The Theory Into Practice Database
Theory Into Practice (TIP) database was developed to make summaries of 50 major theories of learning and instruction more accessible to educators.
http://www.gwu.edu/~tip/index.html
How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School
This online book by The Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences, Education of the national research Council and the Committee on Learning Research and Educational Practice link the research on the science of learning to teaching practices in the classroom.
http://books.nap.edu/books/0309070368/html/R1.html#pagetop
Grades 6-8
Algebra/Pre-Algebra Lessons
Math for Kids provides links to Algebra/Pre-Algebra sites.
http://kidsmath.about.com/kids/kidsmath/cs/algebralessons/index.htm
All About Ratios
Cynthia Lanius provides strategies and assessment for activities on the Internet. Also included are links to additional web resources for ratio and proportions.
http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/proportions/
Battery Science
Do you know what is under the copper top of a Duracell battery? This site will provide interesting information about electrochemical cells. Also provided is a list of science links from A-Z.
http://www.duracell.com/Fun_Learning/Science/index.html
Children's Literature in Mathematics
Book titles are organized by math strands such as add & subtract, counting, fractions, geometry, number sense, measurement, money, multiply & divide, probability & statistics, problem solving, time, middle school literature.
http://students.ou.edu/Y/Elaine.Young-1/literature.html
Explorations in Learning & Instruction: The Theory Into Practice Database
Theory Into Practice (TIP) database was developed to make summaries of 50 major theories of learning and instruction more accessible to educators.
http://www.gwu.edu/~tip/index.html
How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience and School
This online book by The Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences, Education of the national research Council and the Committee on Learning Research and Educational Practice link the research on the science of learning to teaching practices in the classroom.
http://books.nap.edu/books/0309070368/html/R1.html#pagetop
Math Goodies: Statistics
Find 6 new interactive lessons for the Introduction to Statistics. The content includes Range, mean, advance mean, median, mode, challenge exercises and the solutions.
http://www.mathgoodies.com/lessons/toc_vol8.shtm
Mathematics Journal: Implementing a Journal Writing Program in Mathematics Class
This site provides practical guidelines for starting and maintaining a journal writing program.
http://www.ucs.mun.ca/%7Emathed/t/rc/jour/JOURNAL.HTM
Mathletics
Use math to keep score, determine averages and calculating percentages for baseball, basketball, bowling and football. The site also links to how math is used in everyday life and other math site resources.
http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/as/education/projects/webunits/math/sport.html
Resources for Algebra
The North Carolina Department of Public instruction provides resources that are correlated with their Algebra Course of Study. Available resources include: Week by Week Essentials, Writing Ideas, Connections to the Words are... Teacher to Teacher, Calculator Tips, Challenges and Warm Ups. Other large files available for downloading are Extra Essentials, Activities, Blackline masters and Updates.
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