IMC Catalog. Search KEYWORD only!!!!! Other functions aren't enabled yet.
http://165.24.13.49/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=461&menu=alpha#focus
Lewis Library Catalog. We are in the process of updating our records. We
have not finished inventory so some books that say they are "in" are not.
Sorry.
http://165.24.13.49/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=311#focus
HOMEWORK -- "When Homework Works" from ASCD September 2003. (was on
MiddleWeb)
http://www.ascd.org/affiliates/articles/cl200309_checkley.html
ENGLISH-- BEGIN THE YEAR OUTTA RAY'S HEAD--MiddleWeb suggested resource--
Biography Assignment is a simple but effective assignment during the first
or second week with a new class. LOTS of lesson plans in literature,
writing, poetry and
even a few for library!
http://www.rayser.ca/
JEN'S LIST: A FEW OF MY FAVORITE RESOURCES FROM THE LAST FEW YEARS--
-Book Lists
-Research Models & Info Lit Articles
-Tech Tools --gotta try Backflip
-Online Lesson Resources
-English & Reading Teacher Resources
And a few more Top 10...
These are getting dated so please drop me a line if you find a dead-link.
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listteacherj1.html
GATE links for Middle-School educators.
http://www.kn.sbc.com/wired/fil/pages/listgiftedamo.html
6TH GRADE ENGLISH: Lewis novel Sets for guided reading and literature circles
http://www.lewis.edu/library/6thnovels.html
7TH/8TH ENGLISH/HISTORY: Lewis novel Sets for guided reading and literature
circles
http://www.lewis.edu/library/7-8novels.html
ENGLISH ADAPTED READERS: Lewis novel Sets for guided reading and literature
circles
http://www.lewis.edu/library/stepups.html
ALL DEPARTMENTS: Great webquests by current and former Lewis teachers
including Annie Lee, Muriel Haine, Bob Swigart, Steve Christensen, Sandee
Torres, Linda Fleckner, Carlos Royal, and more. You've got to see these!
Created by teachers who participated in the Patterns project. Last updated
2002 but many ideas can be used as a valuable resource.
http://www.lewis.edu/patterns.html
7TH GRADE TEACHERS: A blog just for you...Leah, a regular poster in
MiddleWeb's daily discussion group, teaches
seventh graders "in a small, progressive school in an urban
community" somewhere in the northeastern U.S. Leah's new classroom
blog, appropriately titled "My Life as a 7th Grader," is a delight to
read -- intimate, sensitive, and full of teacher insights and dry
wit.
*Top Book Lists
*Research Models & Info Lit Articles
*Top Teacher Technology Tools
*Online Lesson Resources
*English & Reading Teacher Resources
and more at Jen's Top 10+ Teacher Tools & Resources...
http://www.livejournal.com/users/7thgraders/
TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION: SDCounty Office of Education: EdTech calendar. Check
out the great workshops on integrating video into the curriculum. Go for the
IVIE awards with your students. All types of great resources for us teacher-
folk.
http://www.sdcoe.net/jrrtc/04-05events.html
SCHOOL SITE COUNCIL/LEADERSHIP: From Middleweb --The
Alliance's succinct summary of "The Fifteen Key Elements of Effective
Adolescent Literacy Programs" presents a list of critical components
developed by a panel of experts, with a brief but helpful explanation
of each. Based on the report "Reading Next: A Vision for Action and
Research in Middle and High School Literacy."
http://www.all4ed.org/publications/ReadingNext/Fifteen.html
GENERAL RESOURCES from MiddleWeb: resources for Middle-School teachers.
Links to articles, resources, newsletter on topics ranging from school lunch
to scheduling, to the hottest History or Science resource on the web.
Archived and searchable.
Sign yourself up for their monthly newsletter, it's awesome and is totally
applicable to our lives as educators of tweens and teens.
http://www.middleweb.com/mw/aaOfPartInt.html
ENGLISH: archived resources to learn more about
teaching literacy. Search by pull down menu: struggling readers, connecting
readers with text, comprehension strategies, etc. Florida's got it going on.
check it out. (Suggested by MiddleWeb newsletter)
http://www.middleweb.com/mw/workshop/jkjournal/jk19.html
HISTORY: Maps 6-8. Historic maps with lessons. Highly recommended on
Middleweb.
http://www3.newberry.org/k12maps/
AVID and MATH: Check out these awesome hands-on activities for using
computations in real-life careers: find the velocity of a swinging golf
club; rational and irrational numbers and what they have to do with harmony
and pitch. Written for higher levels but can be modified for lower or used
as extension activities.
http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/careers/aa/lessons/math.htm#roll
ED THEORY RESOURCES: Hotlist of Internet links
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listteacherj1.html
CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT: Creating a Home Away from Home. Great article, easy
to implement examples.
http://www.ascd.org/portal/site/ascd/template.MAXIMIZE/menuitem.29d4046bbea38f2eb85516f762108a0c/?javax.portlet.tpst=d5b9c0fa1a493266805516f762108a0c_ws_MX&javax.portlet.prp_d5b9c0fa1a493266805516f762108a0c_journaltypeheaderimage=%2FASCD%2Fimages%2Fmultif
CREATE YOUR OWN WEB PAGES: Click on this link and scroll down on the
Filamentality page. Build a class web page with these Librarian
reviewed web resources.
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listteacherj1.html
ENGLISH: English Teacher resource links
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listteacherj1.html
TECHNOLOGY TUTORIALS: from Steve Christiansen. Illustrated step-by-step how-
to guides for learning and teaching Lewis applications.
http://www.lewis.edu/techhelp/stu_techhelp.html
ENGLISH:
Working to improve the teaching of writing in your school? This
resource-packed website comes with the endorsement of several members
of our MiddleWeb middle school literacy discussion group. As Caroline
wrote: "It's a gold-mine. I explored it last night, and found myself
saving about 10 PDF files for future reference." And there's no need
to poke around the site trying to find the good stuff. The free
downloads are listed, with links, right on the homepage. Try "The
Writing Teacher's Strategy Guide" for starters. It's a 124-page book
for which most of us would be willing to pay $15-20. It's free, as
are many other resources at "Teaching That Makes Sense," created by
the professional development consulting group of the same name. --posted on
MiddleWeb.
http://www.ttms.org/
NOTE-TAKING: Band-wagon warning!...How to teach note-taking links for
teachers. In the library I have noticed that almost all Lewis students need
to be taught how to take notes across the curriculum. I would say that it's
the biggest problem area across grade-levels when students come in to do
their research projects. They hilight everything or miss the most important
ideas. They all need help to determine importance and find the main idea.
Please incorporate explicit note-taking skills into your curriculum. It will
help students save time and organize their thoughts. Do not assume
they "should know how" or even assume that if they know how to do one style
of note-taking that it will transfer to your new assignment. To avoid
plagiarism, don't threaten students and use the "it's illegal line" when
they copy someone elses text. Better yet, design units that make students
solve a real problem that doesn't yet have an answer or have them research
an essential question and make a stand. Why would you design a assignment
where a student can copy and paste and answer or ask them to rewrite
something in their own words that's already been written by a professional
writer? It's been done and there's really no point. They should, instead be
using all of the knowledge and information that they've gathered to
synthesize it into something new. Ban the Bird Units! See me early in the
process. I'm here to help you design your research unit.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson322.shtml
SCIENCE: Collaborative Science Projects from the The Center for Innovation
in Engineering and Science Education. MiddleWeb suggests "Human Genetics:
The Worldwide Search for the Dominant Trait," (Gr. 6-12) scheduled for Sept.
26 - Nov. 18, 2005. Or the anytime "Down the Drain" project (Gr. 4-8) in
which students compare the water use in their community to other parts of
the world.
http://www.k12science.org/collabprojs.html
MATH from MiddleWeb...
We took a vote among members of our middle grades discussion group
and this website was the hands-down favorite of our math
teachers--and we have some super math teachers! NCTM's Illuminations
probably won't be news to cutting-edge math folks, but if you (or
they) haven't visited the site lately, there's plenty to get excited
about. You'll find lesson plans, interactive math tools, math
investigations and inquiry on practice, and you can view all the
resources by grade bands."
http://illuminations.nctm.org/index.html
MATH "MY LIFE IN MATH CLASS"
This first-of-the-year assignment asks students to write a
"Mathematician's Biography," describing the positive and the
challenging experiences they've had over the years. Math teacher
Brenda Dyck has used this activity with her sixth graders to get a
feel for "their mathematical past and their perception of math." At
this webpage, Brenda has posted the assignment sheet, a working paper
that walks hesitant report writers through the steps of writing a
short report, and an assessment sheet.
http://www.masters.ab.ca/bdyck/math/biography/
ENGLISH --STRATEGIES--blurb from MiddleWeb
WEB RESOURCES -- STRATEGIES THAT WORK
Here's a "labor of love" page created to provide resources and
technology integration strategies that support the teaching ideas of
Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis, popularized in the book
"Strategies That Work." You can quickly download templates, charts
and posters and visit webpages -- all related to Harvey's six
strands: Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring,
Determining Importance and Synthesizing. Truly a gold mine!
http://snipurl.com/STWresources
"TURN-AROUND SCHOOLS" WILL DISAPPEAR MONDAY! from MiddleWeb
Educational Leadership published a special online issue this summer,
featuring a collection of articles about Turn-Around Schools. In an
unusual step, the ASCD publication made all of the articles available
to the public during June and July. If you want to browse and perhaps
print some of them, do it quick! Among the stories with a middle
school focus: "School Improvement--Aligned!", and "Schools Moving Up."
http://snipurl.com/TurnAroundSchools
HISTORY Pathfinder to great resources on World and U.S. Hand-picked
by Mrs. Sims and the Lewis History Department.
http://www.teacherweb.com/ca/sandiego/hardisonsims/HTMLPage12.stm
U.S. HISTORY: Lewis and Clark Links
http://www.kn.sbc.com/wired/fil/pages/listlewisanj.html
ENGLISH TEACHER INSIGHT: MiddleWeb suggested...
We got a note the other day from a new middle grades literacy coach
who was delighted to have discovered the Reading/Writing Workshop
journals of Juli Kendall. Juli posted her very practice-oriented
entries at the MiddleWeb website for four years. As our correspondent
notes, they're full of insights and ideas and include downloads of
rubrics and other tools Juli used in her own classroom. If you browse
the journals in more or less chronological order, you'll be a witness
to Juli's own professional growth as a teacher and literacy coach.
Follow this link to the index page for Juli's final year (2004-05).
In the left column, click on "Juli's 2001-02 journal index" to start
at the very beginning.
http://snipurl.com/JuliJournals
ENGLISH/HISTORY: Written for High School these links are NOT appropriate for
Middle Schoolers to access on their own but you can farm these resources to
create an appropriate hotlist for your assignments along with age-
appropriate articles from the Opposing Viewpoints Database. See me for help
creating a web-based Hotlist or creating a bookcart for your students to
access your hand-picked resources. Better resources = more reading = deeper
understanding = better finished product!
http://www.multcolib.org/homework/sochc.html
Six Traits: Use picture books to teacher Six Traits of Writing. Contains
book list that's younger but would be easy to demonstrate to middle students
using familiar texts.
http://www.geocities.com/oberry1790/index.html
Six Traits: General information from NCREL
http://www.nwrel.org/assessment/about.php?odelay=1&d=1
Six Traits scoring Guide for NWREL
http://www.nwrel.org/assessment/toolkit98/traits/index.html
Six Traits: VOICE. Practical Hands-on activities for teaching VOICE.
http://www.aps.edu/aps/Cochiti/6traits/voice/writings.html
Six Traits: VOICE. List of picture books to help teach voice. Lower-level
but use familiar text to teach voice and students will understand it better.
http://www.aps.edu/aps/Cochiti/6traits/voice/lit.html
Six Traits: VOICE...teach voice through music. Here are some ideas.
http://www.aps.edu/aps/Cochiti/6traits/voice/music.html
Six Traits: VOICE...teach voice through art. Art prints are available at the
IMC. Here are some ideas.
http://www.aps.edu/aps/Cochiti/6traits/voice/art.html
Six Traits: ORGANIZATION: Use younger-level picture books to teach
organization. Here are some ideas.
http://www.aps.edu/aps/Cochiti/6traits/org/lit.html
Persuasive Writing Handout. The nitty gritty on teaching persuasion from
Utah Valley State Writing Center. Use pieces to teach our Middle Schoolers.
http://www.uvsc.edu/owl/handouts/revised%20handouts/types%20of%20writing/persuasive.pdf
Asking Essential Questions: A how-to guide for students. Also on the student
writing page.
http://www.biopoint.com/ibr/askquestion.html
ART: San Diego Arts Network. Curriculum connections, community networks,
grants, more.
http://www.sdartsnetwork.com/
AWESOME debate on Racial Profiling. This is a great video resource that we
can use as staff development and get credit too. Free to sign-up and watch
videos.
http://www.learner.org/resources/series177.html#program_descriptions
U.S. History--Youth Leadership Initiative: Resources for Constitution Day
and lesson plan database including lessons on supreme court nominations.
http://www.youthleadership.net
GENERAL FIRST DAY: New Teachers at Middle School: first day and discipline
links from MiddleWeb.
http://www.middleweb.com/1stDResources.html
BEGIN THE YEAR--RESOURCES FOR NEW MIDDLE GRADES TEACHERS & US VETERANS TOO
suggested and organized by MiddleWeb..."We've updated our special
list of resources for new teachers for the 2005-06 school year. Newbies,
we're throwing you a lifeline!(useful for veteran teachers, too!) --
Middleweb Monthly Newsletter
http://www.middleweb.com/mw/PartInt/PartIntNewTchr.html
WRITING: Teaching students to find and add their voice to their writing from
Teaching That Makes Sense.
http://www.ttms.org/writing_quality/voice.htm
LESSON PLANS: Rigor, relationship, and relevance are required for student
success. I'm very impressed with these awesome lesson plans from Maine's
master teachers. Great career lesson for AVID, StockMarket lesson for
History, Math and English, and so much more.
http://www.mpbn.net/educators/lessonplans.html#grades68
ARCHAEOLOGY MAGAZINE ONLINE
http://www.he.net/~archaeol/
COPYRIGHT/FAIR USE: ARE YOU TEACHING STUDENTS TO BE ETHICAL USERS OF
INFORMATION? GOOD LINKS TO INFORMATION & A QUIZ TO TEST YOUR UNDERSTANDING
http://www.palisadessd.org/highschool/lib/highschool/library/copyright_web_lesson.pdf
MEDIA LITERACY AND AD SAVVY SALLY
http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/DE/webquests/mediaprop/index.html
U.S. HISTORY: Awesome lessons on "What is democracy" in the media, how to
analyze candidate debates and more. Need to log-in.
http://www.youthleadership.net
Tacoma Narrows
http://galenet.galegroup.com/images/src/mov/00000067.mov
BTSA page for Teachers
http://btsasd.net/
Math Forum
http://mathforum.org/
IMAGES: copyright law for images and links to images in the public domain
http://www.sosspotlight.org/?t=16
Student Talk: Academic articles
http://web1.infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/972/874/70032866w1/purl=rc7_GRGM_0_A54176326_0_A13976988&dyn=20!mrk_list?sw_aep=sandms_lewis
Science: Evaluating Web Content with Sims and Hunter Drake
http://www.kn.sbc.com/wired/fil/pages/listbestorj.html
Museum of hoaxes
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/
CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT: Five steps from Fred Jones' Tools for Teaching.
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/columnists/jones/jones013.shtml
ART LESSONS FOR MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/middlelessons.html
TRANSITION INTO MIDDLE SCHOOL: great article
http://www.naesp.org/ContentLoad.do?contentId=522
HOMEWORK -- How-to set up homework systems that works for your students and
parents. Great resource.
http://www.netc.org/focus/examples/homewo.php
MEDIA: FREE clipart, sounds, etc. Great resource from EdTech
http://edtech.sandi.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=151&Itemid=408