Bell-Graham Elementary School

Technology Staff Development
Feb. 6, 2003

Internet Sites for Teachers and Students

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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

Awesome Clip Art for Kids

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!

TeachNet. com

TeacherFiles.com

School Links

Ferson Creek Curriculum 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

A+ Math

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.