Teaching Basic Division
Teaching long division is not difficult if your students already know their multiplication tables. Explain to your students that they are going to be practicing their multiplication facts backwards and write some examples on the board:
2 times what equals 8? 2 x ? = 8
2 x 4 = 8
Once you have answered several questions like this, tell the students that they have actually been solving division problems. 8 divided by 2= 4
and 8 divided by 4 = 2
Once students realize that division is simply backwards multiplication, it should not seem so scary to them.
When you get to bigger numbers, and for students who struggle with multiplication, get out some simple math manipulatives to teach the concept of division.
For example,if you have 8 pieces on your desk, how many equal groups of 2 can you make?
Divide the pieces into groups to find out, stressing that the groups must be equal and any that are left over are the remainder.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
4 Ways to Teach a Child to Read. . .
4 Ways to Teach a Child to Read
1. Teach the Alphabet
Learning the alphabet is the first step in learning to read. Children can start to recognize letters around the age of 2. Identifying the letters in child's name is a good start, as they probably have seen their names written repeatedly by that age. Learning the alphabet song is also age appropriate,but kids won't know what they are singing about unless you link each letter to a visual representation. Alphabet toys, including bath sponges, refrigerator magnets and blocks, can introduce different letters and let your child start to spell out simple words like "cat" and "dog." This teaches children that letters make up words, even if they cannot read the words yet.
2. Read Aloud Together
A daily reading routine with your child can teach the skills needed to learn to read. At the ages of 2-3 years old, your child will begin to associate words on the page with spoken words, even if they are more interested in the pictures. They will begin to understand the concept of reading through your modeling the behavior.
At ages 3-4 years old, children can start to comprehend the different elements of vocabulary: sentence structure and story elements. At this point, you should discuss the books you read together. Ask questions like, "This says that the girl was joyful?" What does joyful mean?
Choose books that relate to things your child is familiar with, such as having brothers & sisters,or visiting with the grandparents. Your child will understand more of a story to that they can personally connect. Character books are good because the child becomes attached to the character and more interested in the story.
3. Make the Reading and Writing Connection
Part of learning to read is learning to write. Children do not typically have the motor skills or intellect to write until around the age of 4. At that point, you can start teaching how to write the letters of the alphabet, beginning with the letters in your child's name. You can help the child write a letter to grandmaa. Write out the words as your child dictates. Afterwards, read back what was written to show the connection. You can even point to each word as you read to strengthen the relationship between written words and spoken words.
4.Identify Words With Objects
Labeling different objects with their words can teach the concept of reading to children. Around your house, you can label the television, the refrigerator, doors, stairs, bookshelves and walls. When children associate written words with objects,then they are almost reading.
A way to reinforce this is to lift the labels, then have your child replace them where they go. For older children, flashcards with pictures take this concept even further.
1. Teach the Alphabet
Learning the alphabet is the first step in learning to read. Children can start to recognize letters around the age of 2. Identifying the letters in child's name is a good start, as they probably have seen their names written repeatedly by that age. Learning the alphabet song is also age appropriate,but kids won't know what they are singing about unless you link each letter to a visual representation. Alphabet toys, including bath sponges, refrigerator magnets and blocks, can introduce different letters and let your child start to spell out simple words like "cat" and "dog." This teaches children that letters make up words, even if they cannot read the words yet.
2. Read Aloud Together
A daily reading routine with your child can teach the skills needed to learn to read. At the ages of 2-3 years old, your child will begin to associate words on the page with spoken words, even if they are more interested in the pictures. They will begin to understand the concept of reading through your modeling the behavior.
At ages 3-4 years old, children can start to comprehend the different elements of vocabulary: sentence structure and story elements. At this point, you should discuss the books you read together. Ask questions like, "This says that the girl was joyful?" What does joyful mean?
Choose books that relate to things your child is familiar with, such as having brothers & sisters,or visiting with the grandparents. Your child will understand more of a story to that they can personally connect. Character books are good because the child becomes attached to the character and more interested in the story.
3. Make the Reading and Writing Connection
Part of learning to read is learning to write. Children do not typically have the motor skills or intellect to write until around the age of 4. At that point, you can start teaching how to write the letters of the alphabet, beginning with the letters in your child's name. You can help the child write a letter to grandmaa. Write out the words as your child dictates. Afterwards, read back what was written to show the connection. You can even point to each word as you read to strengthen the relationship between written words and spoken words.
4.Identify Words With Objects
Labeling different objects with their words can teach the concept of reading to children. Around your house, you can label the television, the refrigerator, doors, stairs, bookshelves and walls. When children associate written words with objects,then they are almost reading.
A way to reinforce this is to lift the labels, then have your child replace them where they go. For older children, flashcards with pictures take this concept even further.
Friday, March 18, 2011
How to Create a Podcast in 3 Simple Steps . . .
go to http://www.podbean.com
a. Once on their site,join (the 'basic' is free!)
b. After you've joined,the link will take you to where
you can begin the 'set-up' to podcast.
c. It is very simple, but be sure to follow the directions,step-by-step
a. Once on their site,join (the 'basic' is free!)
b. After you've joined,the link will take you to where
you can begin the 'set-up' to podcast.
c. It is very simple, but be sure to follow the directions,step-by-step
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Resources for Educators
Resources for Educators:
http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Oregontrail.html
http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html
http://www.flags.net/
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html
http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/
http://www.jps.net/hatzi/awesomeauthors.htm#D
http://www.eric-carle.com/
http://www.janbrett.com/
http://lincoln.midcoast.com/~wps/jackson/alphabet.htm
http://daniel.calpoly.edu/~dfrc/Robin (math lesson plans)
http://www.kids-learn.org/pumpkins/welcome.html (a 2nd grade teacher’s project)
http://www.sikids.com/halloween/index.html (Sports Illustrated)
http://www.magic-rainbow.com/pof/holidays/halloween/index.html (virtual Trick or Treating)
http://users.erols.com/ouremail/Halloween%20site/Halloween_Fun_Page.htm
http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/K_12/Teaching/Lesson_Plans/
http://www.yahooligans.com (kids search engine)
http://www.bconnex.net/~mbuchana/realms/page7/index.html#thanks (electronic coloring book)
http://www.kate.net/holidays
http://www.benjerry.com
http://www.kidsdomain.com
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/
http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/50.html
http://teachertidbytes.com/
http://www.teachers.net/
http://www.EnchantedLearning.com
http://eduplace.com/ (Houghton-Mifflin)
http://teacherpathfinder.org/
http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/resources/staffpages/shirk/k12.music.html
http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/Oregontrail.html
http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html
http://www.flags.net/
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html
http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/
http://www.jps.net/hatzi/awesomeauthors.htm#D
http://www.eric-carle.com/
http://www.janbrett.com/
http://lincoln.midcoast.com/~wps/jackson/alphabet.htm
http://daniel.calpoly.edu/~dfrc/Robin (math lesson plans)
http://www.kids-learn.org/pumpkins/welcome.html (a 2nd grade teacher’s project)
http://www.sikids.com/halloween/index.html (Sports Illustrated)
http://www.magic-rainbow.com/pof/holidays/halloween/index.html (virtual Trick or Treating)
http://users.erols.com/ouremail/Halloween%20site/Halloween_Fun_Page.htm
http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/K_12/Teaching/Lesson_Plans/
http://www.yahooligans.com (kids search engine)
http://www.bconnex.net/~mbuchana/realms/page7/index.html#thanks (electronic coloring book)
http://www.kate.net/holidays
http://www.benjerry.com
http://www.kidsdomain.com
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/
http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/50.html
http://teachertidbytes.com/
http://www.teachers.net/
http://www.EnchantedLearning.com
http://eduplace.com/ (Houghton-Mifflin)
http://teacherpathfinder.org/
http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/resources/staffpages/shirk/k12.music.html
Internet Sites for Teachers
WEB SITE: The Education Place
URL: http://eduplace.com/
DESCRIPTION: Links and activities in four subject areas for grades K-8. Many choices.
WEB SITE: Education World
URL: http://www.education-world.com/
DESCRIPTION: All subject areas. Many options and links. Grades K-8.
WEB SITE: DearKidInfo/Dear Teacher Tidbytes
URL: http://teachertidbytes.com/
DESCRIPTION: Easy to use. Explore many subjects from grammar to current events. Bits of information in science, history, art, music, etc. K-5
WEB SITE: Enchanted Learning
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/
DESCRIPTION: Designed for children. Includes a pictionary, foreign language dictionaries, puzzles, games, activities, crafts, as well as information. Designed to develop creativity in children, ages 5-10, puzzles & coloring sheets can be copied.
WEB SITE: Parents Page
URL: http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/50.html
DESCRIPTION: Many sites recommended by librarians. Activities and lesson plans for art, music, creative writing, math, science, health, etc., K-2
WEB SITE: Teacher
URL: http://www.teachers.net/
DESCRIPTION: Links and activities for all subject areas for all grade levels on cute poems/songs
WEB SITE: Lesson Plans
URL: http://www.kids-learn.org/pumpkins/welcome.html
DESCRIPTION: Many subject area lesson plans from experienced teachers. Poems, creative writing and art ideas are presented and can be easily printed out for classroom use in all grades
WEB SITE: Education World
URL: http://www.education-world.com/index.shtml
DESCRIPTION: This is a very good site for finding information about a variety of events and subjects in class. This is good for K –6 teachers, all areas of curriculum & all months. The site changes to coincide with the months. Has link to Museum with skill sheet
to go with it.
WEB SITE: Teacher Tidbytes
URL: http://www.teachertidbytes.com/
DESCRIPTION: This is a very good site for finding a variety of information about different subjects. There are teacher sites and parent/student sites. You can be connected to different museums, encyclopedias, etc. There are many links to holidays, and special events, science, math, etc. There is a connection to clip art sites.
WEBSITE: Kid’s Search Engine
URL: http://www.yahooligans.com/
DESCRIPTION: This is an excellent site for kids AND teachers. The school bell section has many suggestions for teaching ideas and learning. There is a section to look up info on authors and books. There is a list of all holidays found on the calendar and sites to go to. There is a kid’s almanac. Site is used for research for both teachers & students. Good for all age
WEB SITE: Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators
URL: http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide
DESCRIPTION: This site covers just about every subject that would be covered in school.
WEB SITE: Teacher Tidbytes
URL: http://teachertidbytes.com/
DESCRIPTION: This site contains different sites that teachers could use for their professional purposes.
WEB SITE: Ask Jeeves for Kids
URL: http://www.ajkids.com/
DESCRIPTION: Ask any question, and this site will provide you with an answer from science to social studies to any academic area.
WEB SITE: Houghton-Mifflin Social Studies Center
URL: http://www.eduplace.com/ss
DESCRIPTION: This web site compliments the social studies program in the Houghton Mifflin series; a good cross-reference site.This is a good site for the social studies curriculum. It includes current events that are updated monthly.
WEB: SITE: Yahoo Lesson Plans
URL: http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/K_12/Teaching/Lesson_Plans/
DESCRIPTION: This program is a part of Yahoo that addresses educational topics in all areas of the curriculum, including science, social studies, literature and many more topics.
WEB SITE: Fun Brain
URL: http://www.funbrain.com/
DESCRIPTION: Interactive educational games categorized by age (6 and under, 7-10, 11-15, 15 and up). Each game has a brief description and level of difficulty.
WEB SITE: Reach Every Child
URL: http://www.reacheverychild.com/index.html
DESCRIPTION: The Horace Mann Companies has teamed up with National Teacher's Hall of Fame inductee, Alan Haskvitz, to produce a web site full of resources for teachers and students. Alan has collected these resources over the years and used them in his classroom. Included in this site are over 5,000 resources. It is updated often
WEB SITE: Teachers Net
URL: http://www.teachers.net/
DESCRIPTION: A teachers’ resource, including living chats, and grade/subject specific mail-rings. A good resource to find out what other teachers are teaching.
WEB SITE: Ask Jeeves
URL: http://www.ajkids.com/
DESCRIPTION: This web site will provide an answer to any questions a student may have, a great tool for answering any question very quickly!
WEB SITE: Enchanted Learning
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/
Description: A web site that provides many different topics for children to explore. It even includes Spanish, it provides excellent illustrations, information – an illustrated dictionary, and Classroom activities are suggested as well, K-5.
WEB SITE: Teacher Tidbytes
URL: http://www.teachertidbytes.com/
DESCRIPTION: This web site is packed with information on all topics. There are many links to other sites.
WEB SITE: Education Index
URL: http://www.educationindex.com/
DESCRIPTION: This site helps you locate the best education sites for all subject areas and ages. An interesting aspect to this site is that it includes a "Virtual Refrigerator Door" for parents to scan their child’s artwork onto the Internet. Their name and the picture they’ve drawn appear on the site.
WEB SITE: Enchanted Learning
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html
DESCRIPTION: Links to different activities for primary grades, K-3 for studying animals
WEB SITE: Teacher Resources
URL: http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide
DESCRIPTION: Information and resources in school areas from a-z
WEB SITE: Enchanted Learning
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/
DESCRIPTION: lesson ideas for Spanish-English
WEB SITE: Teachers
URL: http://www.teachers.net/
DESCRIPTION: teachers chat rooms, resources, lessons, etc. section for substitute teachers.
WEB SITE: For teachers: lessons
URL: http://www.teachers.net/lessons/
DESCRIPTION: lesson plans, and added ideas for lesson plans
WEB SITE: Ask Jeeves for Kids
URL: http://www.ajkids.com/
DESCRIPTION: Search engine for children to use (The adult version is http://askjeeves.com/). Children type in their question, and Jeeves directs them to the answer.
WEB SITE: Ask Jeeves for Teachers
URL: http://www.ajkids.com/teachers/TeachersMR.asp
DESCRIPTION: Listing of links for teachers addressing a variety of topics. A question can be typed in directly and "Jeeves" will answer it.
WEB SITE: Ask Eric Lesson Plans
URL: http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/Science/Physical/index.html
DESCRIPTION: This web site has great science lesson plans for grades K-12. The experiments are arranged alphabetically, primary-intermediate- differenty types of science
WEB SITE: Halloween
URL: http://kate.net/holiday/halloween
DESCRIPTION: Various activities, crafts, ghoulish sounds, games, recipes and information with regards to Halloween.
WEB SITE: Thanksgiving
URL: http://kidsdomain.com/holiday/thanks/
DESCRIPTION: Thanksgiving resource- mazes, word searches, books to read
WEB SITE: An American Thanksgiving
URL: http://www.night.net/thanksgiving/
DESCRIPTION: Great activities for Thanksgiving, grades 3-6; correlates with Social Studies
WEB SITE: Ben and Jerry’s
URL: http://www.benjerry.com/
DESCRIPTION: Fun Stuff. Games, riddles, mazes, and puzzles for holidays.Easy, medium and hard levels for games and puzzles.
WEB SITE: Sports Illustrated Kids
URL: http://www.sikids.com/halloween/index.html
DESCRIPTION: All sports related activities for fun such as a haunted house, horrors, and trick -or-treating and sports trivia
URL: http://www.kate.net/holidays/halloween
DESCRIPTION: Excellent site for holiday ideas with a wide variety of activities for all holidays. Site includes sound with songs to correlate with holidays. It also has clip art
WEB SITE: Holidays
URL: http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/thanks/word
DESCRIPTION: Four crossword puzzles and word finds for Thanksgiving. Answer sheets provided, K-3 activities.
WEB SITE: Holidays
URL: http://www.magic-rainbow.com/pof/holidays/halloween/index.html
DESCRIPTION: This is an excellent site for educators. It has many colorful graphics and stories that can be printed for classroom use. Many other links for other teaching activities are available.
WEB SITE: Ben & Jerry’s Thanksgiving
URL: http://www.benjerry.com/thanksgiving/
DESCRIPTION: This site has a list of different ideas for Thanksgiving. There are recipes, info on Indians, coloring pages
WEB SITE: Magic Rainbow
URL: http://www.magic-rainbow.com/pof/holidays/halloween/index.html
DESCRIPTION: This was an excellent web site with lots of fun activities and graphics. There was even virtual trick-or-treating for kids! You can also find general information if you’re not looking for holiday information.
WEB SITE: Kids Domain
URL: http://www.kidsdomain.com/
DESCRIPTION: This was another excellent site. There was plenty of information for children, parents and educators. There are primary crafts, recipes and activities.
WEB SITE: Halloween/Holidays Site
URL: http://www.kate.net/holidays/halloween
DESCRIPTION: Large number of Halloween activities at various levels. Books, history of, recipes, puzzle and lot more!
WEB SITE: An American Thanksgiving
URL: http://www.night.net/thanksgiving/
DESCRIPTION: Terrific varied activities
Web Site: Pumpkin Patch
URL: http://www.kids-learn.org/pumpkins/welcome.html
DESCRIPTION: A collection of pumpkin poetry in varied styles; useful in teaching poetry
WEB SITE: Holidays
URL: http://www.kate.net/holidays/halloween
DESCRIPTION: nice Halloween activities, fun to do, ages 7-12
WEB SITE: Halloween (Sports Illustrated)
URL: http://www.sikids.com/halloween/index.html
DESCRIPTION: fun writing & reading activities correlating sports and Halloween
WEB SITE: Ben & Jerry’s Thanksgiving
URL: http://www2.benjerry.com/thanksgiving/index.html
DESCRIPTION: Thanksgiving poems, songs, ideas and word finds- Nov. activities
WEB SITE: Chantessy’s Place of Frightful Fun
URL: http://www.magic-rainbow.com/pof/holidays/halloween/index.html
DESCRIPTION: Interactive Halloween activities for children
WEB SITE: Eric Carle
URL: http://www.eric-carle.com/
DESCRIPTION: Links and activities for kdg-2nd grade. Lesson plans included. E-mail to author available; K-2, reading, math & science
WEB SITE: Awesome Authors
URL: http://www.jps.net/hatzi/awesomeauthors.htm
DESCRIPTION: Excellent description of books by famous authors. Biography, pictures of authors are also given. Many selected activities using the books-puzzles, games, word finds can be printed for classroom use; K-12
WEBSITE: Jan Brett
URL: http://www.janbrett.com/
DESCRIPTION: This is a site that lets you learn everything you wanted to know about Jan Brett and were afraid to ask. Well, ask no more! There are activities that refer to each of the Jan Brett books. Excellent site, K-3
WEB SITE: Mrs. Jackson’s Morris Farm Alphabet Book Site
URL: http://lincoln.midcoast.com/~wps/jackson/alphabet.htm
DESCRIPTION: This site teaches the alphabet by using the Morris Farm.
WEB SITE: Eric Carle
URL: http://www.eric-carle.com/
DESCRIPTION: This site refers to the author, Eric Carle, who writes children literature on the primary level. His site covers his books
WEB SITE: Exploring Native Americans Across the Curriculum
URL: http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson038.shtml#sites
DESCRIPTION: Information on the different native American Nations
WEB SITE: Flags
URL: http://www.flags.net/
DESCRIPTION: This site provides statistics for each country, its location, and all of the flags of that country.
WEB SITE: Flags
URL: http://www.flags.net/
DESCRIPTION: This site is about flags of countries. This site is an excellent site for finding the origins of flags and what the different flags of the countries look like.
WEB SITE: Color Landform Atlas of the United States
URL: http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html
DESCRITION: This site covers the fifty states of the nation.
WEB SITE: Endangered Species
URS: http://www.teachertidbytes.com/Web_Lesson_Plans/A_Hotlist_on_Endangered_An.html
DESCRIPTION: Links to projects and Internet Resources, facts about endangered species, includes an online coloring book.
WEB SITE: On Line coloring book for endangered species
URL: http://biology.usgs.gov/features/kidscorner/index.html
DESCRIPTION: Coloring pages for individual endangered animals. It gives a picture and short description of many endangered animals. Ideal for a research project, K-5
WEB SITE: Chemistry for Kids
URL: http://www.chem4kids.com/
DESCRIPTION: This science web site focuses on chemistry for grades 5 and up. It deals with matter, atoms, molecules, and chemical reactions; Intermediate Science
WEB SITE: The Nine Planets: A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System
URL: http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html
DESCRIPTION: This site lists books on the subject of the planets. An annotated bibliography is provided with the price of each book.
URL: http://www.magic-rainbow.com/pof/holidays/halloween/index.html
DESCRIPTION: Various Halloween activities including Trick or Treating for PreK- K
URL: http://www.school.discovery.com/schrockguide
DESCRIPTION: This is a great web site for educators. It links to many different subject areas across all grade levels. If you are looking for a lesson, you will probably be able to find it here.
URL: http://www.puzzlemaker.com/
DESCRIPTION: This site allows you to create customized puzzles to use in the classroom. Although some of the puzzles worked fine and were great, a few did not work properly. This was a bit disappointing! There were some great puzzles and it’s wonderful to be able to just print out the work, rather than creating the puzzle by hand. All you do is plug in the information. For all grade levels.
URL: http://www.theideabox.com/
DESCRIPTION: This site is great for finding early elementary & quick ideas and projects for the classroom. It mainly focuses on crafts, recipes, songs and seasonal projects. It does list an idea of the day or for the week & it links to great sites like The Busy Teacher.
URL: http://www.google.com/
DESCRIPTION: a no-frills search engine, Google uses sophisticated next-generation technology to produce the right results fast with every query.
URL: http://www.teacherpathfinder.org/
Description: This is an excellent site for a variety of subject matter. There is a list of the typical subjects and links to different sites on the subjects. This site is a good reference site for teachers to find information on subjects.
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/WEB SITE: Holiday ActivitiesWEB SITE: HolidaysWEB SITE: School DiscoveryWEB SITE: The Puzzle MakerWEB SITE: The Idea BoxWEB SITE: Google (Search Engine)WEBSITE: Teacher PathfinderWEB SITE: Games
URL: http://eduplace.com/
DESCRIPTION: Links and activities in four subject areas for grades K-8. Many choices.
WEB SITE: Education World
URL: http://www.education-world.com/
DESCRIPTION: All subject areas. Many options and links. Grades K-8.
WEB SITE: DearKidInfo/Dear Teacher Tidbytes
URL: http://teachertidbytes.com/
DESCRIPTION: Easy to use. Explore many subjects from grammar to current events. Bits of information in science, history, art, music, etc. K-5
WEB SITE: Enchanted Learning
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/
DESCRIPTION: Designed for children. Includes a pictionary, foreign language dictionaries, puzzles, games, activities, crafts, as well as information. Designed to develop creativity in children, ages 5-10, puzzles & coloring sheets can be copied.
WEB SITE: Parents Page
URL: http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/50.html
DESCRIPTION: Many sites recommended by librarians. Activities and lesson plans for art, music, creative writing, math, science, health, etc., K-2
WEB SITE: Teacher
URL: http://www.teachers.net/
DESCRIPTION: Links and activities for all subject areas for all grade levels on cute poems/songs
WEB SITE: Lesson Plans
URL: http://www.kids-learn.org/pumpkins/welcome.html
DESCRIPTION: Many subject area lesson plans from experienced teachers. Poems, creative writing and art ideas are presented and can be easily printed out for classroom use in all grades
WEB SITE: Education World
URL: http://www.education-world.com/index.shtml
DESCRIPTION: This is a very good site for finding information about a variety of events and subjects in class. This is good for K –6 teachers, all areas of curriculum & all months. The site changes to coincide with the months. Has link to Museum with skill sheet
to go with it.
WEB SITE: Teacher Tidbytes
URL: http://www.teachertidbytes.com/
DESCRIPTION: This is a very good site for finding a variety of information about different subjects. There are teacher sites and parent/student sites. You can be connected to different museums, encyclopedias, etc. There are many links to holidays, and special events, science, math, etc. There is a connection to clip art sites.
WEBSITE: Kid’s Search Engine
URL: http://www.yahooligans.com/
DESCRIPTION: This is an excellent site for kids AND teachers. The school bell section has many suggestions for teaching ideas and learning. There is a section to look up info on authors and books. There is a list of all holidays found on the calendar and sites to go to. There is a kid’s almanac. Site is used for research for both teachers & students. Good for all age
WEB SITE: Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators
URL: http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide
DESCRIPTION: This site covers just about every subject that would be covered in school.
WEB SITE: Teacher Tidbytes
URL: http://teachertidbytes.com/
DESCRIPTION: This site contains different sites that teachers could use for their professional purposes.
WEB SITE: Ask Jeeves for Kids
URL: http://www.ajkids.com/
DESCRIPTION: Ask any question, and this site will provide you with an answer from science to social studies to any academic area.
WEB SITE: Houghton-Mifflin Social Studies Center
URL: http://www.eduplace.com/ss
DESCRIPTION: This web site compliments the social studies program in the Houghton Mifflin series; a good cross-reference site.This is a good site for the social studies curriculum. It includes current events that are updated monthly.
WEB: SITE: Yahoo Lesson Plans
URL: http://dir.yahoo.com/Education/K_12/Teaching/Lesson_Plans/
DESCRIPTION: This program is a part of Yahoo that addresses educational topics in all areas of the curriculum, including science, social studies, literature and many more topics.
WEB SITE: Fun Brain
URL: http://www.funbrain.com/
DESCRIPTION: Interactive educational games categorized by age (6 and under, 7-10, 11-15, 15 and up). Each game has a brief description and level of difficulty.
WEB SITE: Reach Every Child
URL: http://www.reacheverychild.com/index.html
DESCRIPTION: The Horace Mann Companies has teamed up with National Teacher's Hall of Fame inductee, Alan Haskvitz, to produce a web site full of resources for teachers and students. Alan has collected these resources over the years and used them in his classroom. Included in this site are over 5,000 resources. It is updated often
WEB SITE: Teachers Net
URL: http://www.teachers.net/
DESCRIPTION: A teachers’ resource, including living chats, and grade/subject specific mail-rings. A good resource to find out what other teachers are teaching.
WEB SITE: Ask Jeeves
URL: http://www.ajkids.com/
DESCRIPTION: This web site will provide an answer to any questions a student may have, a great tool for answering any question very quickly!
WEB SITE: Enchanted Learning
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/
Description: A web site that provides many different topics for children to explore. It even includes Spanish, it provides excellent illustrations, information – an illustrated dictionary, and Classroom activities are suggested as well, K-5.
WEB SITE: Teacher Tidbytes
URL: http://www.teachertidbytes.com/
DESCRIPTION: This web site is packed with information on all topics. There are many links to other sites.
WEB SITE: Education Index
URL: http://www.educationindex.com/
DESCRIPTION: This site helps you locate the best education sites for all subject areas and ages. An interesting aspect to this site is that it includes a "Virtual Refrigerator Door" for parents to scan their child’s artwork onto the Internet. Their name and the picture they’ve drawn appear on the site.
WEB SITE: Enchanted Learning
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html
DESCRIPTION: Links to different activities for primary grades, K-3 for studying animals
WEB SITE: Teacher Resources
URL: http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide
DESCRIPTION: Information and resources in school areas from a-z
WEB SITE: Enchanted Learning
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/
DESCRIPTION: lesson ideas for Spanish-English
WEB SITE: Teachers
URL: http://www.teachers.net/
DESCRIPTION: teachers chat rooms, resources, lessons, etc. section for substitute teachers.
WEB SITE: For teachers: lessons
URL: http://www.teachers.net/lessons/
DESCRIPTION: lesson plans, and added ideas for lesson plans
WEB SITE: Ask Jeeves for Kids
URL: http://www.ajkids.com/
DESCRIPTION: Search engine for children to use (The adult version is http://askjeeves.com/). Children type in their question, and Jeeves directs them to the answer.
WEB SITE: Ask Jeeves for Teachers
URL: http://www.ajkids.com/teachers/TeachersMR.asp
DESCRIPTION: Listing of links for teachers addressing a variety of topics. A question can be typed in directly and "Jeeves" will answer it.
WEB SITE: Ask Eric Lesson Plans
URL: http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/Science/Physical/index.html
DESCRIPTION: This web site has great science lesson plans for grades K-12. The experiments are arranged alphabetically, primary-intermediate- differenty types of science
WEB SITE: Halloween
URL: http://kate.net/holiday/halloween
DESCRIPTION: Various activities, crafts, ghoulish sounds, games, recipes and information with regards to Halloween.
WEB SITE: Thanksgiving
URL: http://kidsdomain.com/holiday/thanks/
DESCRIPTION: Thanksgiving resource- mazes, word searches, books to read
WEB SITE: An American Thanksgiving
URL: http://www.night.net/thanksgiving/
DESCRIPTION: Great activities for Thanksgiving, grades 3-6; correlates with Social Studies
WEB SITE: Ben and Jerry’s
URL: http://www.benjerry.com/
DESCRIPTION: Fun Stuff. Games, riddles, mazes, and puzzles for holidays.Easy, medium and hard levels for games and puzzles.
WEB SITE: Sports Illustrated Kids
URL: http://www.sikids.com/halloween/index.html
DESCRIPTION: All sports related activities for fun such as a haunted house, horrors, and trick -or-treating and sports trivia
URL: http://www.kate.net/holidays/halloween
DESCRIPTION: Excellent site for holiday ideas with a wide variety of activities for all holidays. Site includes sound with songs to correlate with holidays. It also has clip art
WEB SITE: Holidays
URL: http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/thanks/word
DESCRIPTION: Four crossword puzzles and word finds for Thanksgiving. Answer sheets provided, K-3 activities.
WEB SITE: Holidays
URL: http://www.magic-rainbow.com/pof/holidays/halloween/index.html
DESCRIPTION: This is an excellent site for educators. It has many colorful graphics and stories that can be printed for classroom use. Many other links for other teaching activities are available.
WEB SITE: Ben & Jerry’s Thanksgiving
URL: http://www.benjerry.com/thanksgiving/
DESCRIPTION: This site has a list of different ideas for Thanksgiving. There are recipes, info on Indians, coloring pages
WEB SITE: Magic Rainbow
URL: http://www.magic-rainbow.com/pof/holidays/halloween/index.html
DESCRIPTION: This was an excellent web site with lots of fun activities and graphics. There was even virtual trick-or-treating for kids! You can also find general information if you’re not looking for holiday information.
WEB SITE: Kids Domain
URL: http://www.kidsdomain.com/
DESCRIPTION: This was another excellent site. There was plenty of information for children, parents and educators. There are primary crafts, recipes and activities.
WEB SITE: Halloween/Holidays Site
URL: http://www.kate.net/holidays/halloween
DESCRIPTION: Large number of Halloween activities at various levels. Books, history of, recipes, puzzle and lot more!
WEB SITE: An American Thanksgiving
URL: http://www.night.net/thanksgiving/
DESCRIPTION: Terrific varied activities
Web Site: Pumpkin Patch
URL: http://www.kids-learn.org/pumpkins/welcome.html
DESCRIPTION: A collection of pumpkin poetry in varied styles; useful in teaching poetry
WEB SITE: Holidays
URL: http://www.kate.net/holidays/halloween
DESCRIPTION: nice Halloween activities, fun to do, ages 7-12
WEB SITE: Halloween (Sports Illustrated)
URL: http://www.sikids.com/halloween/index.html
DESCRIPTION: fun writing & reading activities correlating sports and Halloween
WEB SITE: Ben & Jerry’s Thanksgiving
URL: http://www2.benjerry.com/thanksgiving/index.html
DESCRIPTION: Thanksgiving poems, songs, ideas and word finds- Nov. activities
WEB SITE: Chantessy’s Place of Frightful Fun
URL: http://www.magic-rainbow.com/pof/holidays/halloween/index.html
DESCRIPTION: Interactive Halloween activities for children
WEB SITE: Eric Carle
URL: http://www.eric-carle.com/
DESCRIPTION: Links and activities for kdg-2nd grade. Lesson plans included. E-mail to author available; K-2, reading, math & science
WEB SITE: Awesome Authors
URL: http://www.jps.net/hatzi/awesomeauthors.htm
DESCRIPTION: Excellent description of books by famous authors. Biography, pictures of authors are also given. Many selected activities using the books-puzzles, games, word finds can be printed for classroom use; K-12
WEBSITE: Jan Brett
URL: http://www.janbrett.com/
DESCRIPTION: This is a site that lets you learn everything you wanted to know about Jan Brett and were afraid to ask. Well, ask no more! There are activities that refer to each of the Jan Brett books. Excellent site, K-3
WEB SITE: Mrs. Jackson’s Morris Farm Alphabet Book Site
URL: http://lincoln.midcoast.com/~wps/jackson/alphabet.htm
DESCRIPTION: This site teaches the alphabet by using the Morris Farm.
WEB SITE: Eric Carle
URL: http://www.eric-carle.com/
DESCRIPTION: This site refers to the author, Eric Carle, who writes children literature on the primary level. His site covers his books
WEB SITE: Exploring Native Americans Across the Curriculum
URL: http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson038.shtml#sites
DESCRIPTION: Information on the different native American Nations
WEB SITE: Flags
URL: http://www.flags.net/
DESCRIPTION: This site provides statistics for each country, its location, and all of the flags of that country.
WEB SITE: Flags
URL: http://www.flags.net/
DESCRIPTION: This site is about flags of countries. This site is an excellent site for finding the origins of flags and what the different flags of the countries look like.
WEB SITE: Color Landform Atlas of the United States
URL: http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/states.html
DESCRITION: This site covers the fifty states of the nation.
WEB SITE: Endangered Species
URS: http://www.teachertidbytes.com/Web_Lesson_Plans/A_Hotlist_on_Endangered_An.html
DESCRIPTION: Links to projects and Internet Resources, facts about endangered species, includes an online coloring book.
WEB SITE: On Line coloring book for endangered species
URL: http://biology.usgs.gov/features/kidscorner/index.html
DESCRIPTION: Coloring pages for individual endangered animals. It gives a picture and short description of many endangered animals. Ideal for a research project, K-5
WEB SITE: Chemistry for Kids
URL: http://www.chem4kids.com/
DESCRIPTION: This science web site focuses on chemistry for grades 5 and up. It deals with matter, atoms, molecules, and chemical reactions; Intermediate Science
WEB SITE: The Nine Planets: A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System
URL: http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html
DESCRIPTION: This site lists books on the subject of the planets. An annotated bibliography is provided with the price of each book.
URL: http://www.magic-rainbow.com/pof/holidays/halloween/index.html
DESCRIPTION: Various Halloween activities including Trick or Treating for PreK- K
URL: http://www.school.discovery.com/schrockguide
DESCRIPTION: This is a great web site for educators. It links to many different subject areas across all grade levels. If you are looking for a lesson, you will probably be able to find it here.
URL: http://www.puzzlemaker.com/
DESCRIPTION: This site allows you to create customized puzzles to use in the classroom. Although some of the puzzles worked fine and were great, a few did not work properly. This was a bit disappointing! There were some great puzzles and it’s wonderful to be able to just print out the work, rather than creating the puzzle by hand. All you do is plug in the information. For all grade levels.
URL: http://www.theideabox.com/
DESCRIPTION: This site is great for finding early elementary & quick ideas and projects for the classroom. It mainly focuses on crafts, recipes, songs and seasonal projects. It does list an idea of the day or for the week & it links to great sites like The Busy Teacher.
URL: http://www.google.com/
DESCRIPTION: a no-frills search engine, Google uses sophisticated next-generation technology to produce the right results fast with every query.
URL: http://www.teacherpathfinder.org/
Description: This is an excellent site for a variety of subject matter. There is a list of the typical subjects and links to different sites on the subjects. This site is a good reference site for teachers to find information on subjects.
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/WEB SITE: Holiday ActivitiesWEB SITE: HolidaysWEB SITE: School DiscoveryWEB SITE: The Puzzle MakerWEB SITE: The Idea BoxWEB SITE: Google (Search Engine)WEBSITE: Teacher PathfinderWEB SITE: Games
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