Links for Educational Professionals

ESF FORUMS: Forums for discussion among professionals. Participate in an on-going discussion, or start your own.	Links to parent and teacher resouces on Ed Synth Useful in classrooms, family room, and homeschool.	ESF EDUCATION DIVISION: Link to Education Information and resources for parents and teachers in regular and special education	CROSS CULTURE: Links to people, websites, resouces and other information on this project to identify needs and resouces for disabled students and adults in many countries and cultures.	SPECIAL EDUCATION: Resources of interest to teachers and parents of special needs students.
' ASSESSMENT: Resources for assessing students that include understanding the WISC test, informal assessments for learning styles, practice tests for standards, and more.	ELECTRONIC PORTFOLIOS AND WEB TOOLS: is a collection of 21st century approachs to assessment that combines projects with assessment to compare the student's progress to previous performance and peer performance.	CURRICULUM: Links to the Virginia Standards of Learning.	Interactive Lessons: Multi-media sample lessons	DIRECT ACCESS READING TECHNIQUE: Links to descriptions, papers, and materials to use the Direct Access Reading Technique.
LEARNING STYLES: Links to descriptions, papers and resources to determine and accommodate various student learning styles.	KINDER-WRITE: Link to study by Bob Rose on the effect that writing the alphabet in Kindergarten has on developing reading skills	Lessons: Plans for lessons and units	PRINT: Link to printable learning resources for parents and teachers.
Differentiating Instruction how-tos for inclusion and mainstreaming.	Bad Wolf Press Musical Skits with curricular objectives.	GHANA: Link to two projects in northern region village in Ghana to help the students with education for the 21st Century.	INDIA: Link to Curriculum/Lessons Plans under development for a school for the blind in India.	SOL-STANDARDS OF LEARNING: Link to Virginia Standards of Learning objectives for K-12 in the major subjects areas.
SKY-HI: Link to our own developing curriculum objectives for K-12.	RESEARCH: Links to resources for student and professional research.	Periodic Table of Vizualization Strategies Detailed presentation of the many ways that visualization strategies can be used in the classroom and beyond.	Don Potter Website Educational website in many subjects including beginning reading and the learning of ancient languages	Bloom's Digital Taxonomy Recently updated, this is an excellent reference for developing student skills in technology.
The Power of One: Video Presentation (Education in Pakistan)	Differentiated Instruction- Meeting student needs child by child

Web Sites Worth Checking Out

• K-12 EdWeb ...
• K-12 Hotlist of Internet Sites
• Survey of K-12 Connectivity Internationally
• Biology Research project for HS students
• SciTech Inc Resources for Science Teachers
• Plugged In Weekly Updates
• A HREF = "http://www.clark.net/pub/lschank/home.html"> good stuff sorted by categories
• US Department of Education for Goals 2000 and other information
• Ohio Literacy Resource Center - Adult Literacy Project
• Hippocrates Project - Virtual Reality project for surgeon training
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory ORNL Center for Environmental Studies (at port 70)
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• Santa Connection

  Links to educational sites

  • Accessible sites for inclusive classrooms

  • Index of sites by subject and grade/age

     

    Abraham Lincoln –Designed by a first grade class -  http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/lincoln/index.html

    500 Day Event - http://www.worldwildlife.org/500day/   Presented by World Wildlife Fun

    A stockmarket project: http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/edu/RSE/RSEyellow/gnb.html

    Contemporary Art in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Odessa and Kieve - Internyet - http://www.moma.org/onlineprojects/internyet/index.html

    North American Scavenger Hunt – http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~phale/northam.htm

    Project Whistlestop - http://www.whistlestop.org/

    Remote Access Online Real-time Science Experiment – http://www.cbt.virginia.edu/Olh/

    Search the Rainforest - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Ithaca/6471/

    Seeing, Hearing and Smelling the World - http://www.hhmi.org/senses/

    The Soundry - http://library.advanced.org/19537/

    Stirfry - http://www.adaweb.com/context/stir-fry/

    Surfing for ABCs - http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/abc/index.html

    Aaron Shepard, Children’s Author Online: http://www.aaronshep.com/

    Historical United States Census Data - includes state- and county-level census data for  every state from 1790 to 1970. http://icg.fas.harvard.edu/~census/

    NC Civics Education Consotrium: http://members.xoom.com/Civics_2/

    Teacher and parent resource

  JNIE – http://k12science.stevens-tech.edu/curriculum/currichome

                            Collaborative Project Section found at: http://www.wvu.edu/~ruralnet/current/index.htm

                              WVK-12 RuralNet Project, West Virginia University URL: http://www.wvu.edu/~ruralnet/

                              The Innovative Teaching Website: http://www.interserf.net/mcken/teacher.htm

                              Come join AT&T Virtual Classroom at http://www.ap.att.com/vc/

  Library of Virginia at http://www.vsla.edu 

  "Outside the Box...the place for teachers and parents of misunderstood kids!" http://home.att.net/~shagberg/ 

  INNOVATIVE TEACHING presented by Walter McKenzie - Creative Classroom Consulting http://www.interserf.net/mcken/consult.htm Innovative staff development: Technology Applications, Multiple Intelligences, Curriculum Integration and Creative Education.
  

  YOUTH GARDEN GRANTS grant to fund seeds and gardening equipment. The National Garden Association fund 300 projects up to $750. http://www2.garden.org/nga/EDU/NGA-EDU6.HTM

  NASA s Observatorium at http://observe.ivv.nasa.gov

  http://solar.physics.montana.edu/YPOP/Classroom/index.html Solar Learning Activities. Goddard Space Center Education Dept.

  A Sunny Day.. Studying the Sun. http://solar.physics.montana.edu/YPOP/

  EASI WEB http://www.rit.edu/~easi" The ADDvocate [TM] -- Helping Highly-Motivated Professionals with ADD Achieve their Highest Goals [TM] Subscribe at http://www.theaddvocate.com/

  Virtual High School Web site  http://vhs.concord.org

  Hi! I'm Jim Hasse. I have cerebral palsy and facilitate a discussion forum which helps people with disabilities share stories about their personal experiences You can subscribe to this free weekly digest at http://www.tell-us-your-story.com. See the link in the upper right-hand corner.
  

  John Kinny-Lewis, The Web Classroom http://www.webclass.asn.au

  The measurement-conversion web site  http://pos.net/guest/ref/conversion.htm   This site will not only convert cubits into meters, or gills into gallons, it will convert feet into chains and back again.

  http://www.wfsd.k12.ny.us/WFSD/htm.Internet.html

  http://www.fallriver.mec.edu/teachres.html

  http://mcweb.martin.k12.ky.us/schs/links.htm

  http://www.beacom.com/skewl/teacher.html

  http://orca.esd114.wednet.edu/gedtech/resource.html
  

  Ask ERIC - http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/   the AskERIC Lesson Plan Collection contains more than 1,000 unique lesson plans which have been written and submitted to AskERIC by teachers from all over the United States. Search by subject or keyword.
  
  A to Z Teacher Stuff - http://www.geocities.com/~atozteachstuff/ This site is organized for finding quick lesson ideas: Lesson Plans, Thematic Units, and Activities for Children's Literature. Links are
  compiled by theme for thematic unit resources, and by title/author for book activities. Additional links to other educational resources.
  
  Cable in the Classroom Curriculum Connections - http://www.ciconline.com/cconnect1.htm
  Monthly extensions of quality educational cable programming, typically suitable for high school, but occasionally appropriate all the way down to upper elementary.

  Connections+ - http://www.mcrel.org/connect/plus/ Internet resources--lesson plans, activities, curriculum resources--linked with corresponding subject-area content standards; common sense organization of small but growing group of lessons and support materials built around subject areas and topics.
  
  Cyberguides - http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html Put out by the Schools of California Online Resources for Education (S.C.O.R.E.) group, this site has top-notch integrated units for everyone K-12. With a real emphasis on using quality literature as the cohesive foundation for integration, these units and lessons are awesome.
  
  Deaner's Education Pages - http://www.vaxxine.com/tdeane/ed.html While the page begins with an apology for 'the mess', this site is actually nice and tidy, although it hasn't been updated since the end of the last school year. Lots of great links to subject area specific lesson sources: Math, Language, Social Studies, Science, Government Resources and Cross-Curricular studies. Check it out!
  
  Discovery Channel School - http://discoveryschool.com/lessonplans/themes/ Coordinate your lessons with top quality educational programming from the Discovery Channel.

  Early Elementary Lessons  http://www.eecs.umich.edu/mathscience/funexperiments/agesubject/earlyelementary.html
  
  
  Educast - http://www.educast.com/arc/lp/lessonPlanSrch.html A searchable database of lesson plans which are sorted by grade level, subject and keywords. Over 500 lesson plans ready to go with no bells or whistles getting in the way.
  
  Eisenhower National Clearinghouse - http://www.enc.org/classroom/index.htm
  
  Gander Academy - http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/themes.html Teacher resources grouped by themes.Themes include Archaeology, Countries, Earth Science, Flight, Animals, Forests, History, Ocean, Health, Sports, the Environment, Space, Music, Mythology and Weather.
  
  Instructional TV Lesson Plans - http://www.wnet.org/nttidb/srchface/lpgetype.html Over 200 lessons coordinated with the programming ITV has been offering classrooms for years.

  Instructor Magazine Theme Units - http://scholastic.com/Instructor/theme/index.htm
  
  Integrating the Internet - http://seamonkey.ed.asu.edu/~hixson/index/index5.html
  
  Language Arts Lesson Plans - http://www.col-ed.org/cur/lang.html

  Learn2 - http://learn2.com/ Online tutorials on a multitude of topics

  
  Learner Online - http://www.learner.org/exhibits/ Presented by Annenberg/CPB Multimedia, these exceptional "exhibits" are actually online lessons which go into greater depth than your usual faire.

  
  Lesson Plan Exchange - http://www.wizard.net/~kc/lsc/exchange/home.htm

  Lesson Plan Place - http://www.inet-edu.com/lessons/index.html
  
  Lesson Plans Page - http://www.lessonplanspage.com/javaframe.htm

  
  Louisiana Challenge Activities - http://etrc33.usl.edu/k12act/lp/index.html
  
  Marcia's Lesson Links - http://members.aol.com/mgoudie/index.html

  Outta Ray's Head - http://www3.sympatico.ca/ray.saitz/lessons3.htm
  Language Arts lessons by Ray and other veterans - classroom tested

  
  Smithsonian A-Z - http://educate.si.edu/lessons/art-to-zoo/azindex.html
  
  Teachers Helping Teachers - http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/index.html
  
  Teaching Current Events - http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/cevents.html
  Technology Enhanced Lesson Plans - http://www.ed.sc.edu/caw/lessons/lessons.html
  

  Thematic Units for Primary Grades - http://www.libsci.sc.edu/miller/Unitlink.htm
  
  Web Sites and Resources - http://www.csun.edu/~vceed009/index.html

  American Revolutionary War http://www.clarityconnect.com/webpages4/kcarsons/oconunit/index.htm

  Celebrations -
  http://www.teacherlink.usu.edu/resources/ed_lesson_plans/Byrnes/intro.html
  
  Computer Teacher - http://www.thecomputerteacher.com/flesson1A.html

  Constitution Day - http://www.nara.gov/education/teaching/constitution/home.html

  Dear Mrs. Roosevelt - http://newdeal.feri.org/eleanor/index.htm Moving site that presents letters Depression-era children sent to the First Lady with requests and observations to share.

  Earthquakes - http://150.216.56.173/lessons/EarthScience/earthquakes/
  
  Ecosystems - http://www.ash.udel.edu/ash/teacher/collab/eco/index.html
  
  ESL Games - http://eslgames.com/ A welcoming site with lots of ideas and activities

  The Internet Pizza Server - http://www.crpc.rice.edu/CRPC/GT/sboone/Lessons/Titles/pizza.html
  Innovative lesson plan making use of the Internet pizza Server to have students creates cyber pizzas as they like them; brings in measuring, economics and nutrition. This lesson has been on the Web since 1995
  
  Look Who's Footing the Bill! - http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/democracy/debtquest.html
  

  Money Equivalents - http://www.plan.ml.com/family/teachers/money.html Prepared by The Bank Street College of Education in New York City, this site offers activities and printable worksheets to help teach students in the primary grades the value of money.

  Reality Check - http://www.mainfunction.com/realitycheck/index.html
  
  The Sign of the Beaver - http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/ckwillia/beaver.htm
  
  Titanic Mock Trial - http://www.andersonkill.com/titanic/facts.htm

  Who's the Bigger Captain? - http://www.scie.ecu.edu/personal/Lenoir/quirk.html
  Teach your upper Elementary or Middle School students the concept of proportions using the NIH Image program (downloadable) and this lesson. Using the NIH program, students compare images of a 'Ken doll' version of Captain Kirk and an actual photograph from the Star Trek TV series. Ratio, proportion and scaling are all explored in this neat lesson.
  
  Witchcraft Hysteria - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/salem/   Interactive experience of the infamous 1692 tragedy, Students take part in the hysteria, the trials and the verdicts. A great cyber-experience for High School students

  Teaching and Learning Resources and Strategies  http://www.newhorizons.org/too
  

  "NASA On the Cutting Edge Educational Live Shows" http://spacelink.nasa.gov/Educational.Services/NASA.Education.Programs/Educational.Technology/NASA.On.the.Cutting.Edge/
  
  The Educator's Video Resource Guide for "Small Bodies, Big Impact" can be found on NASA Spacelink at the following Internet location: http://spacelink.nasa.gov/products/Small.Bodies.Big.Impact
  
  Spacelink Staff   http://spacelink.nasa.gov
  
  Those interested in the history of the City of Richmond,especially in the Segregation and post-Segregation periods, might enjoy the fruits of my students' research from the past few years. The new site can be found at the following URL: http://saturn.vcu.edu/~mebell/richmond/index.html

  The Colonial Williamsburg foundation is found at http://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org

  
  

Holidays

Holidays Links to pages calendar pages listing holidays and pages for some holidays.

Halloween Classroom Activities in all subjects

Make a Shape Witch

Music Links to midi, wav, and mp3 music for children.

Social Studies Lesson Plans

Electronic Portfolios and Web Tools Online resources to create projects, reports, stories, timelines, comics, and more using multimedia like music, pictures and videos.

Mrs. P's Lesson Plans

 

Letters, Words, Reading, Writing

K...Alphabet...() ... Alphabet Lessons This series of activities are to be used over the first year a student is in school as a precurser to learning to read.	K...Alphabet....() ... The Letter B This lesson is a sample of lessons t be used with the individual lessons in the Alphabet Lessons above	K-2 ...Writing... () ... Type My Name This lesson introduces the student to writing his/her name on a keyboard.	2-6,,,Writing...()... First Email This lesson introduces the student to online correspondence.
K-6 ... Writing, Holidays...()... Make A Halloween Newsletter Put together some news, photos, recipes, and share it with classmates and friends.	MS/HS ...Poetry...().... Santana's Smooth Introduces poety based on the music of Santana.	MS/HS ...Poetry...().... What Rhymes with Squirrel? Poetry Unit with online activities in various genres.	K-12 ... English ... ()... Lessons in a Can Lessons for learning English as a first or second language

 

Numbers, Operations, Algebra, Measurement, Geometry

K-3...Chart ...<>.... Zman Class Chart This activity allows the students to vote on their favorite version of a picture and tally the vote using a spreadsheet. At the end, they can print out a classroom chart of their choices.

K-5 ...Math... (),,, Zman Class Spreadsheet This lesson allows students to solve a story problem by voting on four options, tallying the vote on a spreadsheet, and discussing the results.

K-8 ... Math... () ... Math Mojo Lessons on learning math using an abacus for hands-on experiences

Make a Shape Witch

 

Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Life Sciences, Physical Science, etc.

K-1 ...Science Our Science Table Science Table learning station in a Kindergarten or First Grade classroom

K-6 ... Science Colors of Humans This lesson introduces students to spreadsheets and graphs by collecting and analyzing data on hair and eye colors among their classmates.

K-6...Biology Life Process This three week unit will introduce students to Life Processes of plants, animals, and humans. Some of the projects in this unit will continue in the classroom long after the unit is completed.

K-6...Biology Predator and Prey This week-long unit will introduce students to the concept of predator and prey. Unit includes links to printable pictures, worksheets and games.

K-6...Biology Life Cycle Lessons 1-5 with Webquest This structured unit introduces student to life cycles.

K-6...Biology Crayola: Tadpole to Frog Lesson Plan Lesson on the life cycle of a frog

3-8....Biology What's on the Menu? Lesson activity on Carnivores, Herbivores, Omnivores, and Parasites

K-12...Earth Science Think Green Earth Day Tips and activites for the classroom

 

Social Skills, Holidays, Geography, History, Government, Civics, etc.

Pamukkale Landscape phenomena in Turkey.	2-4 ---History... Ancient Egypt, Ancient China and the Present Lessons about the architecture, inventions, calendar and written language of two ancient civilizations and how they have impacted the present.	E-Missions Virtual Field Trips in Science.	The Power of One Greg Mortenson
4-12 --- Current Events Track the President This project can be done across a year, a semester, or a shorter unit time. In this project, students either create a webpage of a scrapbook in which they record speeches with promises made by the president (or governor) and then track news articles to see the outcome of the promises.	K-2 ... Math, Science, Holiday Make a Shape Witch Using triangles, circles, squares and rectangles make a Witch for Halloween	12 ...Government Government Course Lesson plans for the full semester of a 2 hr per day block class that covers the whole course for credit. Can be used "as is" for a high school or home school course	5-10...History Introduction to Civilizations 17 mini-lessons that introduce the concepts of a civilization	1-2+ ... History The President's Scrapbook Webquests for grade 1 and 2 to learn about famous Americans and develop a Powerpoint presentation on what is learned.
5-8 ... Geography, Earth Science Earthquakes Complete lesson plan from National Geographics on Earthquakes	K-12 ... All Halloween Classroom Activities in all subjects Lessons and Activities for Halloween	K-6 ....Holidays, Language Halloween Newsletter Make and publish a Halloween Newsletter	Virginia Newspaper Project Sponsored by Library of Virginia
Comparing Ancient Egypt, Ancient China to the Present: This plan meets the Virginia SOL objective in social studies 2.1. In this unit, the students learn some of the basics of ancient Egypt and ancient China such as architecture, inventions, and written language and how these ancient societies contributed to our modern culture.	Introduction to Civilization with 17 video mini-lessons discuss the important concepts of a civilization.	Civilization Report: Instructions and form for elementary level report on a civilization.

Social Skills

Daily Activities Directions to teach students a daily greeting to teacher and each other, a daily calendar activity, Daily Good-Bye activity and more. Ideal for first year of school (Pre-School), Kindergarten, and Special Education classes.

Mobility Lessons Plans to teach students how to find their way around the school and its environs. These plans were created to use with blind students, but will be equally useful for Kindergarten or first year classes as well as classes for students with special needs.

 

More Lessons

Level	Subject	SOLs	Title	Description
K-12 ...MATH, SCI, LANG, SocStud ... Khan Academy Free youtube lessons in math, science, humanities, and more! Includes games, activities, etc.	K-2 ... ENG, SCI ... ENG K.2, K.3, K.10, K.12; SCI K.8 Daily Activities Daily Activites especially for first year and special needs student. Include: Calendar, Greeting, Mobility, Good-Bye, Who Are You? and Sign-In Spreadsheet.	K ...Eng, Math, Sci, Soc Blind Students in India Sample two week lessons for blind students in a small city in India.	K-12....Eng, Math, Sci, Soc Interactive Lessons Exceptional lessons on specifics within a subject.	K-12 ... Enhance Memory Suggestions on how to improve memory	K-12...	All	Various	Discovery Education	Lessons plans on lots of subjects
K-12	All	Various	Electronic Portolios and Web Tools	Tools to create digitized projects for learning

Courses

Online Courses, Classes, Lessons

Moodle Online Classroom	Shree Samarth Academy Partner site in India	Khan Academy Free youtube lessons. All subjects	Interactives Various Subjects	VHSA Courses Home schoolers.	Academic Earth University Lectures	Mythology and Civilization History and literature
Governmat Lesson Plans and actities	Bad Wolf Press Musical skits	Virtual Field Trips Field Trips without buses!	Science Lessons and Activities Classroom and Homeschooler.	Exploring Leonardo DaVinci arts and sciences	Preditor and Prey Science Unit
CivilizationIntroductory Unit

 

Mrs. P's Toy Chest

Print! Cut! Fold! Paste!

 

Toys

Make A Clock

Make A Piggy Bank

Online Kaleidoscope

Sim Park

Free Puzzles

 

Mix'd

Lessons, Projects & Activities

The President's Scrapbook	This class project was designed for 2nd graders, but by giving the students more control of the project and having each student create his/her own scrapbook, it can be useful with students through high school. The project includes writing, technology, and history.
Colors of Humans	This class project has the students collect data on the colors of humans, enter it in a spreadsheet, and analyze the data. It includes statistics, biology, and technology.
	This set of class projects incorporates reading, making choices, and voting on those choices. Class and student chart and spreadsheets are completed and students can join an email project as well.
Interactive Lessons	Interactive Lessons Multi-media presentations in many subjects
World-O-Meter	World-O-Meter current display of world facts
	Bingo Card Maker Number Bingo, Alpha Bingo, Word Bingo and more.
	Make a Shape Witch

Curriculum

Investigating Systems Course of Study	A Curriculum by Marion Brady and Howard Brady that integrates the typical subjects into a cohesive course of study for high school students.
Khan Academy	Free youtube lessons in math, science, humanities, and more! Includes games, activities, etc.

Philosophy

What is Missing? by Marion Bardy

A powerful presentation about the need to integrate the parts of education into a meaningful whole.

 

Links to Projects

	The Ghana Project: This project involves support of two villages in the northern region of this country
	The Zman Project: This project pairs a story of aliens visiting the planet with student activities in making judgements, tallying votes, creating charts and spreadsheets and sending email.
	The Kinder-Write Project: This project suggests and researches the theory that fluency in writing letters achieved during Kindergarten enhances literacy.
	Blind Students in India Project: This project provides a few weekly lesson plans for a school for the Blind in India. Lack of response from the school has put this project on hold.
	The Far Star Project: This project was active in the 1990's to connect special education students around the world with aliens from outer space. The Far Star Project was the parent project for Zman.

 

Tools

Web Tools and Electronic Portfolios

Electronic Portfolios and Online Tools	Bingo Card Maker Numbers, Letters, Word s, Elements and more.	Make a Kaleidoscope
ToonDoo	Brushter	Magic Studio	Pixton
Memoov	Scratch

 

Time

Time Tools

Make A Clock

World Clock - Live Statistics

Time Lessons

TIME-LESSON-DateTime

TIME-LESSON-ClockRead

Mrs P's Math Resources

For Teachera and Parents