June 2000
General | Grades K-2 | Grades 6-8
General
National Gallery of Art Teaching Resources: Loan Programs
Did you know that the National Gallery of Art loans free or charge, over 150 teaching resources? The programs meet national standards in the visual arts and are indexed by subject or program formats such as slides, films, videodiscs etc. An online order form is available on the website.
http://www.nga.gov/education/ep-main.htm
Boundaries of the United States and the Several States
As time passes, watch the U.S. grow and boundaries change with the addition of the new territories and states.
http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/48states.html
ABC of the Writing Process
A resource for students and teachers in support of the writing process of prewriting, writing, revising, editing and publishing.
http://www.angelfire.com/wi/writingprocess/
PBS TeacherSource: Middle School Math
A variety of problems involving real world math
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/math/middle_analysis.shtm
Exploratoriums's Science of Baseball
An excellent site that features: How Far Can You Hit One?, The Girls of Summer, Putting Something on the Ball, the Time Machine, Tools, or the Trade and includes exhibits, articles and activities about baseball.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/baseball/
edUniverse Lesson Plans
A collection of 2000+ lesson plans that includes award-winning lessons and a searchable database by subject area, grade level, keyword or lesson title.
http://www.eduniverse.com/lessonp.asp
Information About Strategic Teaching, Strategic Learning and Thinking Skills
Dr. Robert Kizlik offers an effective teaching strategy. Strategic Learning is learning in which students construct their own meaning and in the process, their own thinking.
http://www.adprima.com/strategi.htm
Dealing with End of the Year Stress
How stressed are you? About.com provides a stress test to discover your stress index, deals with causes of stress, provides suggestions on how to deal with stress.
http://7-12educators.about.com/library/weekly/aa052500a.htm?once=true& aa052500a.htm
Coping With Stress
How high is your Stress Index? Take the test and find out how stressed you are.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/cmha.toronto/stressindex.html
Grades K-2
Coping with Stress
How high is your Stress Index? Take the test and find out how stressed you are.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/cmha.toronto/stressindex.html
Dealing with End of the Year Stress
How stressed are you? About.com provides a stress test to discover your stress index,deals with causes of stress and provides suggestions on how to deal with stress.
http://7-12educators.about.com/education/7-12educators/library/weekly/aa 052500a.htm
Math Surfs Teacher Site
Fifteen Word Problems for grades 1-2 that encourage the development of problem solving skills.
http://www.mathsurf.com/teacher/index.html
Thinking Fountain Thinking Clusters
The Science Museum of Minnesota makes available activities and experiments about shapes integrated with science, math and language art. Other clusters are Tropical Rainforest,Loose Parts, Tools for Investigation, Science Props, Student's as Designers, Journey North and Air. Linked to the site is the Index of Ideas which offers science ideas, activities, interesting books, and galleries of students' work.
http://www.sci.mus.mn.us/sln/tf/nav/tfclusters.html
Minot Public Schools Teacher Favorites
Teachers
share their favorite resource links
Kindergarten: http://www.minot.k12.nd.us/kindergarten/
First Grade: http://www.minot.k12.nd.us/first_grade/
Second Grade: http://www.minot.k12.nd.us/second_grade/
A to Z Teacher Teacher Stuff
Find over 500 pages of teacher resources and links which include thematic units, theme resources, children's literature activities, teacher tips, ideas, activities and lessons.
http://www.atozteacherstuff.com
Technology & Young Children
A project of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)Technology Caucus makes available articles on technology use in early education, examples of best practices, research , funding sources and internet tips.
http://www.techandyoungchildren.org/index.shtml
Web-Linked Activities: Grades 1 and 2
McGraw-Hill School Division provides websites to support their social studies curriculum which have commons themes found in classroom across the country.
http://www.mmhschool.com/teach/ss/adventuresintimeandplace/teachres/webactivity.html
Your Favorite Crafts
The Kinder-L Archives makes available a compiled list of favorite craft ideas for primary teachers.
http://kinder.cmsd.bc.ca/pipermail/kinder-l/2000-March/001602.html
Grades 6-8
Dealing with End of the Year Stress
How stressed are you? About.com provides a stress test to discover your stress index, deals with causes of stress, provides suggestions on how to deal with stress.
http://7-12educators.about.com/library/weekly/aa052500a.htm?once=true&
Coping With Stress
How high is your Stress Index? Take the test and find out how stressed you are.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/cmha.toronto/stressindex.html
42 Way to Start a Math Journal Entry
The Minnetonka Elementary Science Center makes available a list of 42 ways to begin a math journal entry.
http://www.minnetonka.k12.mn.us/science/lessons23/mathjrnl.html
Exploratoriums's Science of Baseball
An excellent site that features: How Far Can You Hit One?, The Girls of Summer, Putting Something on the Ball, the Time Machine, Tools, or the Trade and includes exhibits, articles and activities about baseball.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/baseball/
Tangrams and Fractions (Grades 6-8)
Covers Math Standards in number and operations and geometry and spatial sense using tangrams to determine the fractional parts of a tangram.
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/mathline/concepts/asia/activity2.shtm
Mathline: More Teaching Tips
An archive of teaching tips from PBS Mathline that helps explore techniques for teaching mathematics.
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/mathline/tips/moretips.shtm
Information About Strategic Teaching, Strategic Learning and Thinking Skills
Dr. Robert Kizlik offers an effective teaching strategy. Strategic Learning is learning in which students construct their own meaning and in the process, their own thinking.
http://www.adprima.com/strategi.htm
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