TEACHER TOOLBOX
There are several duplicate sites, but they are linked to different pages.
WEB SITE: Teacher oriented web site by Houghton Mifflin URL:http://www.eduplace.com/ss DESCRIPTION: Gives you outlines, information on Houghton Mifflin Books IMPLEMENTATION: Great resource for teachers WEB SITE: The Education Place URL: http://eduplace.com/ DESCRIPTION: Links and activities in four subject areas for grades K-8. Many choices. IMPLEMENTATION: Content correlates to the Houghton Mifflin reading program. All appropriate for elementary grades. WEB SITE: Education World URL:http://www.education-world.com/ DESCRIPTION: All subject areas. Many options and links. Grades K-8 IMPLEMENTATION: Worksheets available for copying. Brain teasers and games are especially good for math. Hints and solutions provided. WEB SITE: DearKidInfo/Dear Teacher Tidbytes URL:http://teachertidbytes.com/ DESCRIPTION: Easy to use. Explore many subjects from grammar to current events. Bits of information in science, history, art, music, etc. IMPLEMENTATION: Appropriate for elementary grades. Reference and resource for teachers as well. WEB SITE: Enchanted Learning URL:http://www.enchantedlearning.com/ DESCRIPTION: Designed for children. Includes a pictionary, foreign language dictionaries, puzzles, games, activities, crafts, as well as information. Designed to develop creativity in children. IMPLEMENTATION: Especially for children ages 5 to 10. Many puzzles and coloring sheets that can be copied. WEB SITE: Parents Page URL:http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/50.html DESCRIPTION: Many sites recommended by librarians. Activities and lesson plans for art, music, creative writing, math, science, health, etc. IMPLEMENTATION: Most activities and lessons seemed to be designed primarily for K-2. WEB SITE: Teacher URL:http://www.teachers.net/ DESCRIPTION: Links and activities for all subject areas for all grade levels IMPLEMENTATION: Elementary ideas that can be time consuming but is worth the time. Cute poems and songs WEB SITE: Games URL:http://www.enchantedlearning.com/ DESCRIPTION: Games designed to capture imagination with ease of use for creative learning and enjoyment. Many Science, Math and Language Arts activities. IMPLEMENTATION: Excellent for all grade levels WEB SITE: Lesson Plans URL:http://www.kids-learn.org/pumpkins/welcome.html DESCRIPTION: Many subject area lesson plans from experienced teachers. Poems, creative writing and art ideas are presented and can be easily printed out for classroom use IMPLEMENTATION: All grade levels WEB SITE: Education World URL:http://www.education-world.com/index.shtml DESCRIPTION: This is a very good site for finding information about a variety of events and subjects in class. This is good for K –6 teachers. IMPLEMENTATION: Elementary - all areas of the curriculum – for all the months. The site changes to coincide with the months. This site had a good link to the Museum with a worksheet that goes along with it. WEB SITE: Teacher Tidbytes URL:http://www.teachertidbytes.com/ DESCRIPTION: This is a very good site for finding a variety of information about different subjects. There are teacher sites and parent/student sites. You can be connected to different museums, encyclopedias, etc. There are many links to holidays, and special events, science, math, etc. There is a connection to clip art sites. IMPLEMENTATION: An excellent site for a variety of information year round. Good for teachers, parents and students. WEB SITE: Kid’s Search Engine URL:http://www.yahooligans.com/ DESCRIPTION: This is an excellent site for kids AND teachers. The school bell section has many suggestions for teaching ideas and learning. There is a section to look up info on authors and books. There is a list of all holidays found on the calendar and sites to go to. There is a kid’s almanac. IMPLEMENTATION: This site can be used for research for both teachers and students. Good for all ages levels. WEB SITE: Teacher Pathfinder URL:http://www.teacherpathfinder.org/ Description: This is an excellent site for a variety of subject matter. There is a list of the typical subjects and links to different sites on the subjects. IMPLEMENTATION: This site is a good reference site for teachers to find information on subjects. WEB SITE: Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators URL:http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide DESCRIPTION: This site covers just about every subject that would be covered in school. IMPLEMENTATION: This site could be used to clarify terms and concepts that would be taught in any curriculum. Since this site contains a wealth of information, it would be advised to choose a few sites from this major web site to coordinate with your lesson. WEB SITE: Teacher Tidbytes URL: http://teachertidbytes.com/ DESCRIPTION: This site contains different sites that teachers could use for their professional purposes. A variety of topics are covered. IMPLEMENTATION: All areas of research on practical topics are viewed. The extent of research is questionable; however, the variety of information could be useful. WEB SITE: Ask Jeeves for Kids URL: http://www.ajkids.com/ DESCRIPTION: Ask any question, and this site will provide you with an answer from science to social studies to any academic area. IMPLEMENTATION: You can use this site if you are on any unit in the elementary classroom. Since the questions may elicit a complex response, the teacher may have to either clarify some points or advise the students to ignore the part of the explanation that is not understandable. For example, if you ask the program, " Why is the sky blue?" you may get more explanation than you would require. Pictures also accompany the explanations. WEB SITE: Houghton-Mifflin Social Studies Center URL: http://www.eduplace.com/ss DESCRIPTION: This web site compliments the social studies program in the Houghton Mifflin series. IMPLEMENTATION: This is a good site for the social studies curriculum. It even includes current events that are updated monthly. This is a good cross-reference site. WEB SITE: Yahoo Lesson Plans URL: http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/K_12/Teaching/Lesson_Plans/ DESCRIPTION: This program is a part of Yahoo that addresses educational topics in all areas of the curriculum, including science, social studies, literature and many more topics. IMPLEMENTATION: This could be coordinated with any subject area and could provide updated material. This site could add to any topic or subject. WEB SITE: Fun Brain URL:http://www.funbrain.com/ DESCRIPTION: Interactive educational games categorized by age (6 and under, 7-10, 11-15, 15 and up). Each game has a brief description and level of difficulty. IMPLEMENTATION: Elementary – all areas of curriculum WEB SITE: Reach Every Child URL:http://www.reacheverychild.com/index.html DESCRIPTION: The Horace Mann Companies has teamed up with National Teacher's Hall of Fame inductee, Alan Haskvitz, to produce a web site full of resources for teachers and students. Alan has collected these resources over the years and used them in his classroom. Included in this site are over 5,000 resources. IMPLEMENTATION: Web-site with resources for teachers and students. Updates often. WEB SITE: Teachers Net URL:http://www.teachers.net/ DESCRIPTION: A teachers’ resource, including living chats, and grade/subject specific mail-rings. IMPLEMENTATION: A good resource for finding out what teachers across the nation and abroad are teaching. WEB SITE: Ask Jeeves URL:http://www.ajkids.com/ DESCRIPTION: This web site will provide an answer to any questions a student may have. For example, why is the sky blue? It provides interesting text, information and great pictures. It also provided several alternate questions and provided information rather quickly. IMPLEMENTATION: Elementary – all areas of the curriculum, strong with science questions. A great tool for answering big questions quickly. WEB SITE: Enchanted Learning URL:http://www.enchantedlearning.com/ Description: A web site that provides many different topics for children to explore. It even includes Spanish. If you are researching butterflies, it provides excellent illustrations, information – even an illustrated dictionary. It also provides information about products that you can purchase to complete a lesson. Classroom activities are suggested as well. Ease of use is one of the greatest strengths. IMPLEMENTATION: Elementary level. Mainly science areas. WEB SITE: The Idea Box URL:http://www.theideabox.com/ DESCRIPTION: This site is great for finding quick ideas and projects for the classroom. It mainly focuses on crafts, recipes, songs and seasonal projects. It does list an idea of the day or for the week. One other benefit is that it links to great sites like The Busy Teacher. IMPLEMENTATION: Early elementary. WEB SITE: Teacher Tidbytes URL:http://www.teachertidbytes.com/ DESCRIPTION: This web site is packed with information on all topics. There are many links to other sites. It can be somewhat time consuming to navigate. There are so many topics that it should be fairly easy to locate information.
Implementation: All levels WEB SITE: Education Index URL:http://www.educationindex.com/ DESCRIPTION: This site helps you locate the best education sites for all subject areas and ages. An interesting aspect to this site is that it includes a "Virtual Refrigerator Door" for parents to scan their child’s artwork onto the Internet. Their name and the picture they’ve drawn appear on the site. IMPLEMENTATION: All levels, depending upon the search you are conducting. WEB SITE: The Puzzle Maker URL:http://www.puzzlemaker.com/ DESCRIPTION: This site allows you to create customized puzzles to use in the classroom. Although some of the puzzles worked fine and were great, a few did not work properly. This was a bit disappointing! There were some great puzzles and it’s wonderful to be able to just print out the work, rather than creating the puzzle by hand. All you do is plug in the information. IMPLEMENTATION: All levels WEB SITE: TeAchnology URL:http://www.teach-nology.com/ DESCRIPTION: A free and easy to use resource dedicated to improving the education of today's student. Several types of paid
memberships allow access to even more. IMPLEMENTATION: All grade levels WEB SITE: Enchanted Learning URL:http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html DESCRIPTION: Links to different activities for primary grades IMPLEMENTATION: K-3 great for studying animals WEB SITE: Teacher Resources URL:http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide DESCRIPTION: Information and resources in school areas from a-z IMPLEMENTATION: All grades WEB SITE: Enchanted Learning URL: http://www.EnchantedLearning.com DESCRIPTION: Lesson ideas for Spanish-English IMPLEMENTATION: Information for the new Spanish elementary program teachers and middle school WEB SITE: Teachers URL:http://www.teachers.net/ DESCRIPTION: Teacher chat rooms, resources, lessons, etc. IMPLEMENTATION: An opportunity for teachers to see ideas from other teachers; section for substitute teachers WEB SITE: For teachers: lessons URL:http://www.teachers.net/lessons/ DESCRIPTION: Lesson plans IMPLEMENTATION: Added ideas for lesson plans WEB SITE: Ask Jeeves for Kids URL: http://www.ajkids.com/ DESCRIPTION: Search engine for children to use (The adult version is http://AskJeeves.com). Children type in their question, and Jeeves directs them to the answer. IMPLEMENTATION: Search engine for kids WEB SITE: Ask Jeeves for Teachers URL: http://www.ajkids.com/teachers/TeachersMR.asp DESCRIPTION: Listing of links for teachers addressing a variety of topics. A question can be typed in directly and "Jeeves" will answer it. IMPLEMENTATION: Good search for Links. WEB SITE: Online Lessons and Webquests URL:http://westlakees.wcpss.net/kindergartensitesplans.htm#allinone DESCRIPTION: A wealth of lesson plan information and links to more. IMPLEMENTATION: Primary-Intermediate-different types of lessons
There are several duplicate sites, but they are linked to different pages.
WEB SITE: Teacher oriented web site by Houghton Mifflin
URL: http://www.eduplace.com/ss
DESCRIPTION: Gives you outlines, information on Houghton Mifflin Books
IMPLEMENTATION: Great resource for teachers
WEB SITE: The Education Place
URL: http://eduplace.com/
DESCRIPTION: Links and activities in four subject areas for grades K-8. Many choices.
IMPLEMENTATION: Content correlates to the Houghton Mifflin reading program. All appropriate for elementary grades.
WEB SITE: Education World
URL: http://www.education-world.com/
DESCRIPTION: All subject areas. Many options and links. Grades K-8
IMPLEMENTATION: Worksheets available for copying. Brain teasers and games are especially good for math. Hints and solutions provided.
WEB SITE: DearKidInfo/Dear Teacher Tidbytes
URL: http://teachertidbytes.com/
DESCRIPTION: Easy to use. Explore many subjects from grammar to current events. Bits of information in science, history, art, music, etc.
IMPLEMENTATION: Appropriate for elementary grades. Reference and resource for teachers as well.
WEB SITE: Enchanted Learning
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/
DESCRIPTION: Designed for children. Includes a pictionary, foreign language dictionaries, puzzles, games, activities, crafts, as well as information. Designed to develop creativity in children.
IMPLEMENTATION: Especially for children ages 5 to 10. Many puzzles and coloring sheets that can be copied.
WEB SITE: Parents Page
URL: http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/50.html
DESCRIPTION: Many sites recommended by librarians. Activities and lesson plans for art, music, creative writing, math, science, health, etc.
IMPLEMENTATION: Most activities and lessons seemed to be designed primarily for K-2.
WEB SITE: Teacher
URL: http://www.teachers.net/
DESCRIPTION: Links and activities for all subject areas for all grade levels
IMPLEMENTATION: Elementary ideas that can be time consuming but is worth the time. Cute poems and songs
WEB SITE: Games
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/
DESCRIPTION: Games designed to capture imagination with ease of use for creative learning and enjoyment. Many Science, Math and Language Arts activities.
IMPLEMENTATION: Excellent for all grade levels
WEB SITE: Lesson Plans
URL: http://www.kids-learn.org/pumpkins/welcome.html
DESCRIPTION: Many subject area lesson plans from experienced teachers. Poems, creative writing and art ideas are presented and can be easily printed out for classroom use
IMPLEMENTATION: All grade levels
WEB SITE: Education World
URL: http://www.education-world.com/index.shtml
DESCRIPTION: This is a very good site for finding information about a variety of events and subjects in class. This is good for K –6 teachers.
IMPLEMENTATION: Elementary - all areas of the curriculum – for all the months. The site changes to coincide with the months. This site had a good link to the Museum with a worksheet that goes along with it.
WEB SITE: Teacher Tidbytes
URL: http://www.teachertidbytes.com/
DESCRIPTION: This is a very good site for finding a variety of information about different subjects. There are teacher sites and parent/student sites. You can be connected to different museums, encyclopedias, etc. There are many links to holidays, and special events, science, math, etc. There is a connection to clip art sites.
IMPLEMENTATION: An excellent site for a variety of information year round. Good for teachers, parents and students.
WEB SITE: Kid’s Search Engine
URL: http://www.yahooligans.com/
DESCRIPTION: This is an excellent site for kids AND teachers. The school bell section has many suggestions for teaching ideas and learning. There is a section to look up info on authors and books. There is a list of all holidays found on the calendar and sites to go to. There is a kid’s almanac.
IMPLEMENTATION: This site can be used for research for both teachers and students. Good for all ages levels.
WEB SITE: Teacher Pathfinder
URL: http://www.teacherpathfinder.org/
Description: This is an excellent site for a variety of subject matter. There is a list of the typical subjects and links to different sites on the subjects.
IMPLEMENTATION: This site is a good reference site for teachers to find information on subjects.
WEB SITE: Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators
URL: http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide
DESCRIPTION: This site covers just about every subject that would be covered in school.
IMPLEMENTATION: This site could be used to clarify terms and concepts that would be taught in any curriculum. Since this site contains a wealth of information, it would be advised to choose a few sites from this major web site to coordinate with your lesson.
WEB SITE: Teacher Tidbytes
URL: http://teachertidbytes.com/
DESCRIPTION: This site contains different sites that teachers could use for their professional purposes. A variety of topics are covered.
IMPLEMENTATION: All areas of research on practical topics are viewed. The extent of research is questionable; however, the variety of information could be useful.
WEB SITE: Ask Jeeves for Kids
URL: http://www.ajkids.com/
DESCRIPTION: Ask any question, and this site will provide you with an answer from science to social studies to any academic area.
IMPLEMENTATION: You can use this site if you are on any unit in the elementary classroom. Since the questions may elicit a complex response, the teacher may have to either clarify some points or advise the students to ignore the part of the explanation that is not understandable. For example, if you ask the program, " Why is the sky blue?" you may get more explanation than you would require. Pictures also accompany the explanations.
WEB SITE: Houghton-Mifflin Social Studies Center
URL: http://www.eduplace.com/ss
DESCRIPTION: This web site compliments the social studies program in the Houghton Mifflin series.
IMPLEMENTATION: This is a good site for the social studies curriculum. It even includes current events that are updated monthly. This is a good cross-reference site.
WEB SITE: Yahoo Lesson Plans
URL: http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/K_12/Teaching/Lesson_Plans/
DESCRIPTION: This program is a part of Yahoo that addresses educational topics in all areas of the curriculum, including science, social studies, literature and many more topics.
IMPLEMENTATION: This could be coordinated with any subject area and could provide updated material. This site could add to any topic or subject.
WEB SITE: Fun Brain
URL: http://www.funbrain.com/
DESCRIPTION: Interactive educational games categorized by age (6 and under, 7-10, 11-15, 15 and up). Each game has a brief description and level of difficulty.
IMPLEMENTATION: Elementary – all areas of curriculum
WEB SITE: Reach Every Child
URL: http://www.reacheverychild.com/index.html
DESCRIPTION: The Horace Mann Companies has teamed up with National Teacher's Hall of Fame inductee, Alan Haskvitz, to produce a web site full of resources for teachers and students. Alan has collected these resources over the years and used them in his classroom. Included in this site are over 5,000 resources.
IMPLEMENTATION: Web-site with resources for teachers and students. Updates often.
WEB SITE: Teachers Net
URL: http://www.teachers.net/
DESCRIPTION: A teachers’ resource, including living chats, and grade/subject specific mail-rings.
IMPLEMENTATION: A good resource for finding out what teachers across the nation and abroad are teaching.
WEB SITE: Ask Jeeves
URL: http://www.ajkids.com/
DESCRIPTION: This web site will provide an answer to any questions a student may have. For example, why is the sky blue? It provides interesting text, information and great pictures. It also provided several alternate questions and provided information rather quickly.
IMPLEMENTATION: Elementary – all areas of the curriculum, strong with science questions. A great tool for answering big questions quickly.
WEB SITE: Enchanted Learning
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/
Description: A web site that provides many different topics for children to explore. It even includes Spanish. If you are researching butterflies, it provides excellent illustrations, information – even an illustrated dictionary. It also provides information about products that you can purchase to complete a lesson. Classroom activities are suggested as well. Ease of use is one of the greatest strengths.
IMPLEMENTATION: Elementary level. Mainly science areas.
WEB SITE: The Idea Box
URL: http://www.theideabox.com/
DESCRIPTION: This site is great for finding quick ideas and projects for the classroom. It mainly focuses on crafts, recipes, songs and seasonal projects. It does list an idea of the day or for the week. One other benefit is that it links to great sites like The Busy Teacher.
IMPLEMENTATION: Early elementary.
WEB SITE: Teacher Tidbytes
URL: http://www.teachertidbytes.com/
DESCRIPTION: This web site is packed with information on all topics. There are many links to other sites. It can be somewhat time consuming to navigate. There are so many topics that it should be fairly easy to locate information.
Implementation: All levels
WEB SITE: Education Index
URL: http://www.educationindex.com/
DESCRIPTION: This site helps you locate the best education sites for all subject areas and ages. An interesting aspect to this site is that it includes a "Virtual Refrigerator Door" for parents to scan their child’s artwork onto the Internet. Their name and the picture they’ve drawn appear on the site.
IMPLEMENTATION: All levels, depending upon the search you are conducting.
WEB SITE: The Puzzle Maker
URL: http://www.puzzlemaker.com/
DESCRIPTION: This site allows you to create customized puzzles to use in the classroom. Although some of the puzzles worked fine and were great, a few did not work properly. This was a bit disappointing! There were some great puzzles and it’s wonderful to be able to just print out the work, rather than creating the puzzle by hand. All you do is plug in the information.
IMPLEMENTATION: All levels
WEB SITE: TeAchnology
URL: http://www.teach-nology.com/
DESCRIPTION: A free and easy to use resource dedicated to improving the education of today's student. Several types of paid
memberships allow access to even more.
IMPLEMENTATION: All grade levels
WEB SITE: Enchanted Learning
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html
DESCRIPTION: Links to different activities for primary grades
IMPLEMENTATION: K-3 great for studying animals
WEB SITE: Teacher Resources
URL: http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide
DESCRIPTION: Information and resources in school areas from a-z
IMPLEMENTATION: All grades
WEB SITE: Enchanted Learning
URL: http://www.EnchantedLearning.com
DESCRIPTION: Lesson ideas for Spanish-English
IMPLEMENTATION: Information for the new Spanish elementary program teachers and middle school
WEB SITE: Teachers
URL: http://www.teachers.net/
DESCRIPTION: Teacher chat rooms, resources, lessons, etc.
IMPLEMENTATION: An opportunity for teachers to see ideas from other teachers; section for substitute teachers
WEB SITE: For teachers: lessons
URL: http://www.teachers.net/lessons/
DESCRIPTION: Lesson plans
IMPLEMENTATION: Added ideas for lesson plans
WEB SITE: Ask Jeeves for Kids
URL: http://www.ajkids.com/
DESCRIPTION: Search engine for children to use (The adult version is http://AskJeeves.com). Children type in their question, and Jeeves directs them to the answer.
IMPLEMENTATION: Search engine for kids
WEB SITE: Ask Jeeves for Teachers
URL: http://www.ajkids.com/teachers/TeachersMR.asp
DESCRIPTION: Listing of links for teachers addressing a variety of topics. A question can be typed in directly and "Jeeves" will answer it.
IMPLEMENTATION: Good search for Links.
WEB SITE: Online Lessons and Webquests
URL: http://westlakees.wcpss.net/kindergartensitesplans.htm#allinone
DESCRIPTION: A wealth of lesson plan information and links to more.
IMPLEMENTATION: Primary-Intermediate-different types of lessons