Survival Guide for New Teachers - How new teachers can work effectively with
veteran teachers, parents, principals, and teacher educators.
http://www.ed.gov/teachers/become/about/survivalguide/index.html
Good Character - web resources for teachers
http://www.goodcharacter.com/TeacherResources.html
Character Education - Free resources, materials and lesson plans
http://www.goodcharacter.com/
Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) - 'The Gateway to Educational
MaterialsSM is a Consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy
access to thousands of educational resources found on various federal,
state, university, non-profit, and commercial Internet sites.'
http://thegateway.org/
McREL (Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning) Lesson Plans
http://www.mcrel.org/topics/productDetail.asp?productID=80
PBS TeacherSource - Find 3,000+ free lesson plans and activities here.
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/
Fresno Unified School District - Teacher Resources
http://baird.fresno.k12.ca.us/library/research/teacher.htm
Teacher Resources - provides links to web sites related to subject areas.
http://www.deweybrowse.org/Teacher_Resources.html#curr
Chemistry Teaching Resources - Umea University, Sweden
http://www.anachem.umu.se/eks/pointers.htm
Apple Learning Interchange Teaching and Learning - Contains lesson plans
written by teachers for teachers.
http://ali.apple.com/edres/
Texas Education Agency - Teacher Toolbag
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/tchrtoolbag/
Full-text Journals for Teachers
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Ebscohost Online Database - accessible via Irving Public Library; requires
login with 14-digits of your Library Card Number.
School Library Journal
--Bibliographic Records: 09/01/1974 to present
--Full Text: 09/01/1974 to present
Science Activities
--Bibliographic Records: 03/01/1990 to present
--Full Text: 03/01/1990 to present
Teaching Elementary Physical Education
--Bibliographic Records: 01/01/1998 to present
--Full Text: 01/01/1998 to present
Teaching PreK-8
--Bibliographic Records: 08/01/1989 to present
--Full Text: 02/01/1991 to present
Technology & Children
--Bibliographic Records: 09/01/2001 to present
--Full Text: 09/01/2001 to present
Technology Connection
--Bibliographic Records: 09/01/1989 to present
--Full Text: 05/01/1990 to present
Technology & Learning
--Bibliographic Records: 09/01/1993 to present
--Full Text: 04/01/2001 to present
http://www.irving.lib.tx.us/databases1.html
Enchanted Learning - lots of printable lesson plans (Subscription
information is available from the School Administration)
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html
Web Places' Clip Art Searcher - this web site offers great free clip art for
your projects
http://www.webplaces.com/search/
Education World - offers teacher tested lesson plans and articles of timely
interest.
http://www.education-world.com
C-SPAN Classroom - free resources for teaching civics and U.S. government
http://www.c-spanclassroom.org/
Reading a-z.com - The online reading program (Subscription information is
available from the School Administration)
http://www.readinga-z.com
The Best Kids Book Site - provides ideas for books, crafts, web resources
and more.
http://www.thebestkidsbooksite.com/
Free Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
http://free.ed.gov/
Pics4Learning - Copyright-friendly images for education. Provides images and
lesson plans.
http://pics.tech4learning.com/
Links for Teachers - Created by the Selah School District in the State of
Washington
http://www.selah.k12.wa.us/Links/TchrLinks.html
The Wayback Machine provides links to older versions of a webpage.
http://www.archive.org/index.php
WebQuests - Standards-based curriculum developed by K-12 teachers from the
San Diego City Schools Triton Project.
http://projects.edtech.sandi.net/projects/featured/featured.html
EDSITEment - Online humanities resources from the National Endowment for the
Humanities in partnership with the National Trust for the Humanities, and
the Verizon Foundation.
http://edsitement.neh.gov/
American Memory Inservice - A workshop to introduce unique resources of the
American Memory historical collections and to assist teachers in
incorporating primary source material into meaningful instructional units.
http://academic.kellogg.cc.mi.us/k12lincolnm/agenda1.htm
The Gateway to 21st Century Skills - Teachers can found materials and tools
from federal, state, university, non-profit and commercial internet sites
here.
http://64.119.44.148/
New York Times Learning Network - Provides resources for teaching grades 3-
12.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/index.html
Bloom's Revised Taxonomy - Provides a framework for planning units that
incorporate low to high-level thinking activities
http://www.kurwongbss.eq.edu.au/thinking/Bloom/blooms.htm
Learning Domains or Bloom's Taxonomy
http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/bloom.html
Major Categories in the Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/guides/bloom1.html
Math Can Take You Places - Useful math resources for teachers and parents.
http://www.mathcantakeyouplaces.org/
MATHCOUNTS - A national math enrichment, coaching & competition program that
promotes middle school mathematics achievement in every U.S. state &
territory.
http://www.mathcounts.org/
The Math Forum - An online resource for improving math learning, teaching,
and communication since 1992.
http://www.mathforum.org/
Free Stuff for Educators
http://www.kalama.com/~zimba/freeforteachers.htm
Teaching Resource Center for Poetry - From the Academy of American Poets
http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/83
PowerPoint Jeopardy - Resources for teachers who are interested to create
the famous game show for their class
http://www.jmu.edu/madison/teacher/jeopardy/jeopardy.htm
Gifted and Talent Assessment Instruments List
http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/tests.htm
The National Archives - Teachers can find resources about primary sources,
activities and training here.
http://www.archives.gov/education/
Speculative Fiction Contests (science fiction, fantasy, horror) - Resources
for Teen Writers Interested in Science Fiction & Fantasy Writing
http://www.davidbarrkirtley.com/teenwriter/Contests.html
Writing Contests (essay, poetry, short story, novel) - Resources for Teen
Writers Interested in Writing
http://www.davidbarrkirtley.com/teenwriter/ContestsOther.html
Create a Graph - from the National Center for Education Statistics
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/
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