Bell-Graham Elementary School
Technology Staff
Development
Feb. 6, 2003
Internet Sites for Teachers and Students
Technology Standards
Illinois
State Board of Education
Technology standards for Illinois students, teachers and administrators. The
standards start on page 22 of the State of Illinois five year technology plan.
ISTE--International
Society for Technology in Education
Includes
lesson plans for teachers based on national educational technology standards.
General Lesson Plan Links
MarcoPolo
MarcoPolo: Internet Content for the Classroom is a consortium of premier national
education organizations, state education agencies and the MarcoPolo Education
Foundation dedicated to providing the highest quality Internet content and
professional development to teachers and students throughout the United States.
Read•Write•Think
ReadWriteThink, established in April of 2002, is a partnership between the
International Reading Association (IRA), the National Council of Teachers
of English (NCTE), and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation.NCTE and IRA are
working together to provide educators and students with access to the highest
quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction through
free, Internet-based content.
Blue
Web'N
Blue Web'n is an online library of 1700+ outstanding Internet sites categorized
by subject, grade level, and format (lessons, activities, projects, resources,
references, & tools). You can search by grade level (Refined Search),
broad subject area (Content Areas), or specific sub-categories (Subject Area).
Enc--Eisenhower
National Clearinghouse
ENC's mission is to identify effective curriculum resources, create high-quality
professional development materials, and disseminate useful information and
products to improve K-12 mathematics and science teaching and learning.
Educational
Web Resources for Students and Teachers
Web Resources courtesy of Eugene Tester, Instructor, Aurora University
Taken from the "Technology in the School of the Future" course,
EDU 605
Virtual
Library Museum Pages
A distributed directory of on-line museums
42eXplore
From
eduscapes.com
Clip Art Links
Great
Graphics Vault Index
The WWW Largest Guide to Thousands of Free Graphic Sites - Indexed by
Category so you can find the right gif, clip art or font FAST. More
Graphic Sites than you ever thought possible!
School Links
Kehrs
Mill Elementary, Chesterfield, Missouri
Click on the grade level "stars" to find links to child friendly
sites.
Interactive Online Resources
FunBrain.com Math and Literacy
Brainteasers Math
National Geograhic.com/Kids Social Studies/Science 3-5
Literacy
CyberGuides CyberGuides are supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature
Internet
School Library Media Center
Index to children and young adult authors and illustrators online.
Grimm
Fairy Tales
Has some stories that are read
aloud online.
Storyline
Includes
some stories that are read aloud online.
Jan
Brett's HomePage
Go to Videos to watch Jan Brett read The Hat
Science
Penguins
This unit is designed for grade 1-3 and contains activities that focus
on Penguins Habitats and Adaptations. One of the goals of the unit is to provide
students a fun opportunity to improve their writing skills
The
ABCs of Energy Education
Welcome to Tampa Electric's Energy Education Web site. It's the place for
kids, teachers, parents and anyone who wants to learn more about how electricity
is made, and most importantly, how to be safe!
Rockhounds
Find out what you need to use to gather great rock specimens! Your geology
expert, Vic, will show you what equipment you should use, how to use it safely,
and how to carefully bring back the rocks that you find!
Exploratorium
Online since 1993, the Exploratorium was one of the first science museums
to build a site on the World Wide Web. Our site now contains over 12,000 Web
pages exploring hundreds of different topics.
BrainPop.com
Grades 3-5 BrainPOP is the leading producer of educational animated
movies for K-12. The company creates original animated movies to explain concepts
in a voice and visual style that is accessible, educational and entertaining
for both children and adults. In the K-12 arena, BrainPOP movies demystify
math, science, health, technology and english topics. Through BrainPOP’s
online subscription, teachers use movies to enhance traditional classroom
learning and parents are given a safe and informative resource for their children.
Social Studies
World
Almanac for Kids
Info on nations, states, population
etc.
Liberty:
The Road to Revolution
Online quiz on the American Revolution
Ellis
Island
Link found on the HistoryChannel.com website
European
Immigrant Journey
A Virtual Museum
Long
Way to a New Land
Read
A Long Way to a New Land by Joan Sandin and expand your learning
through these interesting SCORE Language Arts CyberGuide Activities.