Islamic School of Irving Library Media Center

For 3-12 Teachers

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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