October 2000
General | Grades K-2 | Grades 6-8
General
Democracy Project: PBS
Become president for a day. Learn about elections and how government affects your lives. Classroom activities include online activities for grades 3-6 that are supported by lesson plans which integrate language arts,, mathematics and social studies.
http://www.pbs.org/democracy/kids/
Elections...the American Way
American Memory 's Learning Page provides important election information on the requirements for becoming a candidate, who can vote, political parties, the election process, the electoral college and campaign issues.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/election/home.html
Election 2000: Classroom Activities
Education World provides election related lessons that include a scavenger hunt,making a graph of president ages, creating a dictionary of election terms, information about the Electoral College, Getting Out the Vote, media literacy and more
http://www.education-world.com/a_sites/sites035.shtml
Election Connection: Time for Kids.com
Learn about the election process and decide who you think would make the best candidate. Campaign state to state to become president., write your government representative in Washington D.C.
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/electconnect/
Visual Thesaurus
This easy to use reference site uses advance graphics technology to create word webs of synonyms and word phrases
http://thesaurus.plumbdesign.com/index.jsp
Research Skills 2000
Instructor magazine provides guidelines for research for grades K-3, 4-6, and 7-9.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/professional/research2000.htm
More Ideas Than You'll Ever Use for Book Reports
Over 240 ideas for book report
http://www.teachnet.com/lesson/langarts/bookrepts101498.html
National Council for the Social Studies: Internet Resources and Links
The NCSS makes available resource links categorized by the ten themes of the Curriculum Standards for Social Studies.
http://www.socialstudies.org/links/
Children's Books That Illustrate the Six Pillars of Character
Are you looking for stories that teach about respect, trustworthiness, responsibility, caring, citizenship and self respect? Kate Harrington of the Albuquerque Public Library shares a collection of book titles that can be used a powerful teaching tools for illustrating examples of character.
http://www.charactercounts.org/booklist1.htm
Exploring the Environment
For the Math/Science teachers for grades 5-12 ....ETE is dedicated to educating students to become knowledgeable stewards of the earth. The site is designed to provide students with opportunities to investigate the many aspects of authentic environmental problems. The Teacher's guide includes
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/aboutus/AUintro.html
27 Tips for Parent Conferences
Suggestions from TSTA/NEA to help teachers have successful Parent/Teacher Conferences.
http://www.inspiringteachers.com/tips/packet/parent.html
Water Cycle
A grade 4-5 web based lesson that focuses on labeling and describing the Water Cycle. Also included is a powerpoint presentation, Inspiration map, assignment organizer, and web links.
http://www.esc20.net/cut/projects/summer2k/pearsall/watercycle/default.html
Grades K-2
Mrs. Henriksen's Poetry pages
This is a goldmine of thematic poetry for K-2 teachers. There 54 different themes,they include: All About Me, Alphabet/Reading, Spiders, Apples, Space, Weather, Animals, Colors, Math and much, much more. Poetry activities for your classroom are also available.
http://members.home.net/henriksent/
Two Case Studies for Second Grade
This unit is linked to Virginia's second grade standards and includes lessons plans for patterns that are also integrated into the areas of social studies, art and science. Other resources include a list of books and web links to other sites.
http://curry.edschool.Virginia.EDU/curry/class/edis/590s4/Huff/judy's_case.html#Introduction
Children's Books That Illustrate the Six Pillars of Character
Are you looking for stories that teach about respect, trustworthiness, responsibility, caring, citizenship and self respect? Kate Harrington of the Albuquerque Public Library shares a collection of books titles that can be used a powerful teaching tools for illustrating examples of character.
http://www.charactercounts.org/booklist1.htm
Finding Sites for K-2 Students
Here is a step by step guideline for searching for K-2 sites, including child friendly search engines or directory.
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/littlekids/training_surfingk2sites.html
Lesson Plans from Early Childhood Technology Literacy Project
Good enough to share again! Visit this great site for literacy lessons and activities for K-2. The side bar links to excellent support for training resources, suggested software, early literacy resources, computer family night and more. Scroll down to the bottom of the page for links to K-2 science.
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/littlekids/lesson_plans.htm
27 Tips for Parent Conferences
Suggestions from TSTA/NEA to help teachers have successful Parent/Teacher Conferences.
http://www.inspiringteachers.com/tips/packet/parent.html
Grades 6-8
Additional Math Webquests
Leah P. McCoy offers 20 Webquest with a focus on mathematics and includes the use of process standards from NCTM. Grades 6+
http://www.wfu.edu/~mccoy/NCTM00/amy.html
Connections for the Future: Using the Word Wide Web in Mathematics
A presentation at the NCTM Conference by Leah P. McCoy on analyzing data from the World Wide Web and using various mathematical exercises within the framework of a webquest. Webquests include all five process standards from NCTM. Seven Math Webquests are presented as models. Grades 6+
http://www.wfu.edu/~mccoy/NCTM00/
Exploring the Environment
For the Math/Science teachers for grades 5-12 ....ETE is dedicated to educating students to become knowledgeable stewards of the earth. The site is designed to provide students with opportunities to investigate the many aspects of authentic environmental problems.
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/aboutus/AUintro.html
Franklin Institute Online
Open-ended math problems for middle school students organized into 5 strands: number theory, measurement, geometry, data, statistics and probability and patterns, algebra and functions.
http://sln.fi.edu/school/math2/index.html
A Guide to Winning Grants for Mathematics & Science Education: Where to Look and How to Win
The Triangle Coalition shares grantseeking tips for: special corporate funding, foundation grants, selected and non-federal education grant opportunities. Also available are links to other sites that provide advice on grant writing
http://www.triangle-coalition.org/grantguide.htm
Mathematics, Science, and Technology Modules
The Office for Mathematics, Science and Technology Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign provides a collection of web based learning modules in the content areas of Advance Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, Algebra, Physics, and Logic
http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/tcd/curriculum/matrix.html
MSTE Java
A collection of interactive manipulatives for mathematics topics taught in grades 7 - 12 from Mathematics, Science and Technology Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/java/
Vectors
This site explores topics in a question format. What is a vector? What are its parts? When are two vectors equal? What are the sum and difference of two vectors?The static sketches with mathematical explanations do not need additional software. Interactive models for exploration require the use of Geometer's Sketchpad. Grades 8 - 12.
http://mathforum.org/~klotz/Vectors/index.html
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