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Great Teacher Tools

Great Teacher Resources on the Web

Ask ERIC

http://www.eduref.org/

Lesson Plans: http://www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/index.shtml

More than 2000 unique lesson plans which have been submitted by teachers across the country.

Back to School

http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonrepro/
k_2theme/bktoschool.htm

Information on getting your students back into the swing of things.

Blue WEB'N (SBC Knowledge Network by pacbell)

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/

Thousands of resources by subject area, and type of resource (references, tools, unit lesson plans, web based tutorials, activities online, projects).

Discoveryschool.com Lesson Plans library

http://school.discovery.com/lessonplans/

Find hundreds of lesson plans by subject, grade, or both.

Education World

http://www.education-world.com/

Lesson Plans (with national standards linked to them), PD, Technology Integration

Gateway (GEM)

http://askeric.org/Virtual/Lessons/

Collections of materials from a consortium of educators funded by the USDOE. Search for lesson plans, curriculum units, or other resources on the Internet. Search by grade level, subject, keywords, or title

Interactive Educational Web sites

http://www.iKeepBookmarks.com/Interactive_Sites

Some neat interactive sites for classroom curricular areas Sue Wright and Carolyn have been collecting.

Lesson Plan Search

http://www.lessonplansearch.com/

Search for lesson plans by category, grade or subject.

MASER

http://www.svsu.edu/mathsci-center/maser.htm

Math-Science-Multimedia Resources from

SVSU Regional Math and Science Center Resources - Has

MCREL (Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning)

http://www.mcrel.org/lesson-plans/

Link to lesson plans by content area.

Michigan Teacher Network

http://mtn.merit.edu

Easy access to K-12 related web resources which have been evaluated for quality, relevance, and effectiveness. Thousands of resources that can be used with students, for PD, or planning

MI CLiMB Online

http://www.miclimb.net/content/

Search for Michigan Curriculum Frameworks and Benchmarks, including web resources in some cases.

Scholastic web site

http://teacher.scholastic.com/lessonplans/

There are a lot of resources located on the Scholastic site. They have tons of great activities listed by curricular, grade, or learning activity. You can also build a class homepage on their site.

Teacher2Teacher

http://www.paec.org/teacher2teacher

Free online workshops for Math/Science and ELA. These are NCLB courses offered free to educators.

TeachNet

http://www.teachnet.com/

Loads of teacher resources

Teach-nology

http://www.teach-nology.com/

Over 19,000 lesson plans, 5,600 worksheets, 200,000 web sites, rubrics, games, downloads and tools. Exambuddy,

Teachers.net

http://teachers.net/lessons/

Many more resources for teachers. Lessons, curricula, etc.

Animation Factory http://www.animfactory.com/	Free Animated GIFS and 3D clipart. Has subscription levels too.
Awesome Clip Art for kids http://www.awesomeclipartforkids.com/	Teacher, student and family friendly FREE clipart, coloring pages, banners, fonts, icons, worksheets, wallpaper, etc.
BrainPop http://brainpop.com	Great site for short videos for students on most all academic areas. Watch 2 free a day, get a free 30 day unlimited trial.
Discovery Channel http://dsc.discovery.com/ Free CLIP Art from Discovery School http://school.discovery.com/clipart/	Lesson plans, TV schedules, live web cams
Hot Potatoes http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/halfbaked/	Includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for non-profit educational users who make their pages available on the web.
iKeepBookmarks http://www.ikeepbookmarks.com/	Great site to create your own personal favorite web sites you can share with others or access from any computer on the Internet.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/	Great resource to sites listed by category and subject access.
Kids Domain http://www.kidsdomain.com/clip/	Clipart, icons, by themes and seasons
Kids Search Tools http://www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm	Compilation of search engines for kids. Includes Yahooligans, Encarta, ThinkQuest, KidsClick! and more!
Language Teaching Clipart Library http://web.uvic.ca/hcmc/clipart/	About 3000 images to help with basic vocabulary. 1500 pairs of clipart - some with a transparent background and others with a white matted one.
Math Worksheets from SuperKids http://superkids.com/aweb/tools/math/multiply	Need to generate some math worksheets for elementary and middle school students? This site will do it for you. Just enter the function, amount of numbers to be used in the problem, and how many problems you would like and it will create a worksheet for you.
Microsoft Clip Art http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/default.aspx	Great clip art from Microsoft. Searchable
NOVA for Teachers. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/	A database of more than 170 Nova programs and lesson plans online for them.
Pics4Learning - Free clipart http://pics4learning.com/	Copyright-friendly images for education collection
Quizzes - Quia http://www.quia.com/	Create activities, quizzes, games, web pages, surveys, and more
Rubrics - RubiStar http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.shtml	RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch.
WebQuests, The Best http://www.bestwebquests.com/	From Tom March, a new portal from the WebQuest Home Page.
WebQuest Home Page http://webquest.sdsu.edu/	Wonderful online learning activities for your classroom.
WiseGorilla Free Educational Clip Art http://www.wisegorilla.com/	Science, Geography, Social Science and more clipart.
Teachers Guide - Free Clip Art http://www.theteachersguide.com/Freebies.html	Primary Themes, Educational graphics
Worksheets http://worksheets.teach-nology.com	This site offers a wide range of free teacher worksheets that can be used for reinforcement and review. Teachers should feel free to use and distribute these worksheets for educational purposes, so long as the copyright and footer information are left intact.
Worksheets - create your own http://superkids.com/aweb/tools/math/multiply/	Generate math worksheets for elementary and middle school students.

Thanks to Melissa White (InghamISD for adding to these sites)