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Teacher Tube
http://www.teachertube.com/
YouTube for Teachers.
Edutopia
http://www.edutopia.org/magazine
"Information and Inspiration for Innovative Teaching in K-12 Schools."
Sign up for free access to Edutopia digital magazine, from the George Lucas Educational Foundation.
Scholastic Teacher Book Wizard
http://bookwizard.scholastic.com
"Teacher Book Wizard is the ultimate book search engine for teachers. Built on a database of over 50,000 children's books from all publishers; Teacher Book Wizard combines the book wisdom of experienced teachers with the latest online super tools, opening up a world of teaching opportunities right on your desktop!"
Kansas Book Discussion Sets Available for Loan
http://skyways.lib.ks.us/KSL/libtech/bkdiscuss.html
Multiple copies of books available from various Kansas libraries. Let me know if you need help requesting any of these!
Class Zone
http://www.classzone.com
Online Content for Language Arts from our textbook publisher.
Kansas State Historical Society - Teacher Page
http://www.kshs.org/teachers/
Find materials and activities that meet the Kansas Social Studies Standards.
Educator's Reference Desk
http://www.eduref.org/
The Educator's Reference Desk provides a search interface to the ERIC Database, providing access to over one million bibliographic records on educational research, theory, and practice.
EdPubs
http://www.edpubs.ed.gov/
Order free U.S. Department of Education publications
- National Archives and Records Administration - Digital Classroom
http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/index.html
This page contains reproducible copies of primary documents from the holdings of the National Archives of the United States, teaching activities correlated to the National History Standards and National Standards for Civics and Government, and cross-curricular connections.
Smithsonian in Your Classroom
http://www.si.edu/
Use this page to access lesson plans, field trips, resource bank and media catalog from the Smithsonian.
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Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated daily to include the best sites for teaching and learning.
The WebQuest Page
http://webquest.sdsu.edu/webquest.html
A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web. WebQuests are designed to use learners' time well, to focus on using information rather than looking for it, and to support learners' thinking at the levels of analysis, synthesis and evaluation.
McREL ( Mid -Continent Regional Educational Laboratory)
http://www.mcrel.org/
McREL, located in Aurora, Colorado, is a private, nonprofit organization whose purpose is to improve education through applied research and development. McREL provides products and services, primarily for K-12 educators, to promote the best instructional practices in the classroom.
Power Point Templates
http://www.teachnet.com/lesson/misc/winnergame022500.html
Use Jeopardy, Who Wants to be a Millionare, Weakest Link, or Hollywood Squares games for content review in your classroom.
Rubistar
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/
Rubistar is a free tool that will help you create quality rubrics.
