Helpful+Teacher+Resources

//Helpful Teacher Resources //

Here are a few helpful websites to make life a little easier. 


 * ~ Busy Teacher's Cafe ||~  ||~ FREE ||~   ||~ iLearners ||~   ||~ Kathy Schrock's Guide ||~   ||~   ||~ Learning Page ||~   ||~   ||~ Tammy Worcester ||~   ||~   ||~ Teaching History ||~   ||~   ||~ The Big 6 ||~   ||~   ||~ Sites for Teachers ||~   ||~   ||~ Stephanie Milligan's Wiki ||~   ||~   ||~ Thinkfinity ||~   ||~   ||


 * **HCPSS School Library Media Curriculum Links** ||



Busy Teacher's Cafe  is a K-6 resource site for busy teachers! Here you will find resources, ideas, lessons, free printables, and more!

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FREE the Federal Resources for Educational Excellence makes it easier to find teaching and learning resources from the federal government. More than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources are included from dozens of federal agencies. New sites are added regularly.

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iLearners is a wikispace that offers cool ideas and sites to use your iPod, iPod touch, iPad, and iPhone.

Another great resource is PalmBeachSchooltalk.com iPad Pilot program. This site offers links to good iPad applications.

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 Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.

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Learning Page offers //Resources for This Month and Next Month// - Looking for timely resources that you can use in your classroom this month and next month? LearningPage now offers even more resources that you can incorporate into your lesson plans. Through our [|monthly resource calendar], you can download free materials from the family of Learning A-Z sites, all tied to important and interesting dates on the calendar.

Only a certain amount of sample materials are free. To use the entire site there is a cost.

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  Tammy Worcester Technology Tips for Teachers offers educators a tip of the week, Ideas and activities, Internet resources, training handouts (These are worth looking at), and a lists of Tammy's products.

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TeachingHistory.org National History Education Clearinghouse website is a single destination for K-12 American history content, teaching methods, and current research.

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 You can do BIG things with Big6 Skills! The Big6 is a six-stage model to help anyone solve problems or make decisions by using information. Some call it information literacy, information communication, or ICT skills, or a process, but we call it the Big6. Using the Big6 information literacy process, you will identify information research goals, seek, use, and assemble relevant, credible information, then to reflect— is the final product effective and was my process efficient. The Big6 information literacy process is completely transferable to any grade level, subject area, or workplace. Big6, state and national instructional standards, and your curriculum all work together hand-in-hand.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Other useful sites: Big 6 Guide, Big 6 Resources, Introducing the Big 6

The Big 6 is a model that HCPSS supports and uses with students.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> **Sitesforteachers.com** is a list of the best teacher's resource and educational sites on the net. Sitesforteachers.com contains only links to sites that contain teacher's resource and educational material and the sites are ranked by popularity. No more surfing countless pages to find the occasional "good" site. Also, sitesforteachers.com doesn't just allow any site on the list. Sitesforteachers.com has strict rules for the listed webmasters.This is a free resource for the visitor and it's free for the webmaster to get listed.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Stephanie Milligan's wiki offers great language arts resources including HCPSS and MSDE links, student websites, teacher resources, book sites, research, //Words Their Way// information, writing resources, and technology websites. Back to the top



<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Thinkfinity.org is a quick, relevant, engaging, and free resource that offers thousands of standards-based lesson plans from leading educational organizations.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Resources from HCPSS School Library Media Curriculum Links 


 * ~ General Reference/Research ||~  ||~ Authors, Illustrators, & Characters ||~   ||~ Biography ||~   ||~ Countries, Maps, & Flags ||~   ||~ Magazines ||~   ||~ Maryland & Local Information ||~   ||~ US Facts, History, & Government ||



<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">General Reference/Research

 * Bartlett's Quotations - Search for famous quotes and phrases.
 * [|Can You Do the Dewey?] - Test your knowledge of the Dewey Decimal System and find out about Melvin Dewey.
 * "Do We" Really Know Dewey?- A detailed, yet child friendly, investigation of the Dewey Decimal System of classification
 * InfoPlease - Allows students to search the encyclopedia, dictionary, and several almanacs
 * [|Library Spot] - A huge hotlink page to ready reference sources, online libraries and other online media (journals, newspapers, speeches, etc.) - a must see!
 * Little Explorers Picture Dictionary - Primary dictionary provides illustrations and example sentences
 * Merriam-Webster Online - Online dictionary and thesaurus
 * OneLook Dictionaries - Type a word, choose a dictionary.
 * Puzzlemaker- Create a variety of types of puzzles, including crosswords, word searches, and mazes.
 * The Quotations Page - A large-scale quotation site with many original resources
 * The Weather Channel - This site has weather forecasts for U.S. and International cities.
 * WordCentral - Merriam-Webster student site with definitions, parts of speech, and pronunciations, as well as a rhyming dictionary
 * Zip Codes - United States Postal Service Zip Code directory

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Authors, Illustrators, and Characters

 * Avi - Biography and news
 * [|Bailey School Kids] (Debbie Dadey) - Information on the series, including activities
 * Official Berenstain Bears Website - (Jan and Stan Berenstain) Activities and stories with the Berenstain Bears
 * Judy Blume's Official Web Site - Biography, writing tips, and interesting facts about her books
 * Jan Brett - Wonderful activities, bookmarks, projects, and author information
 * Arthur (Marc Brown) - Activities and information about Arthur the aardvark
 * BetsyByars.com - Writing tips, autobiography, and photos
 * Official Eric Carle Site - Good ideas on how to use Carle's books
 * Nancy Carlson's Neighborhood - Newsletter, biography, drawing instructions, and recipes from the author of the Louanne Pig books
 * [|Alice in Wonderland Interactive Adventure] (Lewis Carroll) - Many games and activities based on Alice's adventures
 * [|Mem Fox] - Information about Mem Fox and her books.
 * Jean Craighead George - Q & A, writing tips, photos, audio, and Quicktime movies from the author of Julie of the Wolves
 * Grimm Brothers @ nationalgeographic.com - 12 full-text folktales from the Brothers Grimm
 * [|Dinotopia] (James Gurney) - Many details about the books, including maps, author information, and teacher activities
 * [|Kevin Henkes] - Learn all about his characters, special recipes, and games
 * [|Junie B. Jones] (Barbara Park) - Provides information about Junie B., her books, various activities and a biography of author Barbara Park
 * Loreen Leedy - Includes project ideas and activities to download
 * [|Narnia] (C. S. Lewis) - Detailed information about the stories, characters, and settings from C. S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia
 * [|Christopher Robin's Winnie-the-Pooh Character Guide] (A. A. Milne) - A biographical introduction to all the characters in the 100 Aker Woods
 * Rebus Rhymes: Mother Goose and Others - Favorite nursery rhymes presented as rebuses and a Mother Goose scavenger hunt
 * [|Margie Palatini] - Information about this award winning author and her books. Activities, recipes, crafts, and book guide are included.
 * Katherine Paterson - Official site of the author of Bridge to Terabithia
 * Dav Pilkey's Web Site O' Fun! - Biography, games, news, and puzzles from the author of Captain Underpants
 * Patricia Polacco - Biography, newsletter, contests, as well as bookmarks and posters to download
 * Peter Rabbit Home Page (Beatrix Potter) - Information about Beatrix Potter and her books
 * The World of Curious George (H. A. Rey) - Biography of Margret and H. A. Rey, matching game, and e-cards
 * Harry Potter (J. K. Rowling) - Scholastic site about the boy wizard, with series information, author biography, pronunciation guides, trivia game, and more
 * Dr. Seuss's Seussville (Dr. Seuss) **-** Lots of child friendly activities: email a question to the Cat in the Hat, print puzzles and coloring sheets, and enter the monthly contests
 * [|Lemony Snicket] - For fans of A Series of Unfortunate Events
 * [|William Steig] - Author information and reading guides
 * Janet Stevens - General author information, with detailed descriptions of her illustration methods
 * - Author information, games, and pages to print
 * Charlotte's Web (E. B. White) - Chapter summaries, an alphabet book, games, and puzzles, all created by a second grade class

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Biography

 * Biographical Dictionary - Facts and figures on 18,000 people
 * National Inventors Hall of Fame - Biographies of inventors, indexed by inventor, invention, or by date
 * National Women's Hall of Fame - Search for biographical information about famous American women.
 * Presidents of the U.S. - In this resource you will find background information, election results, cabinet members, notable events, and some points of interest on each of the presidents.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Countries, Maps, and Flags

 * Flags of all Countries - Flags of the nations of the world
 * [| Google Earth] - Google Earth combines the power of Google Search with satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.
 * [|Google Maps] - This searchable site uses Google Earth satellite technology to assist with finding locations.
 * Historical Map Web Sites - This site has historical maps from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection at the University of Texas at Austin.
 * [|InfoPlease - Countries of the World] - This site includes maps, flags, facts, quizzes and crossword puzzles, to name only a few features.
 * Kids@nationalgeographic.com - Information, games, and activities about the world
 * Map Machine - National Geographic provides electronic maps and links to a wide variety of map resources.
 * National Geographic Country Profiles - Check this site out for a wealth of country information.
 * Outline Maps - Use this site to print or download a variety of outline maps for homework or classroom use.
 * USA City Link - Look at this comprehensive source for information on cities and states.
 * U.S. Gazetteer - This site allows users to search for United States maps by zip code or city and state. It is published by the U.S. Census Bureau.
 * World Flag Database - Use this site to find flags of all nations.

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 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Magazines
 * Dragonfly - Online version of the science magazine
 * National Geographic World - Online version of the magazine
 * Ranger Rick - Articles, games, and activities from the nature magazine
 * Sports Illustrated for Kids Online - Online version of the popular kids' magazine
 * Stone Soup - Online magazine for ages 8 - 13 features stories and artwork by children.
 * Time for Kids - Online version of the magazine features current events and a news ticker.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">Maryland and Local Information

 * [|Howard County Public Library] - link to the homepage of HCPSS' A+ Partner. With a library card number, access to the library's online databases is provided.
 * Maryland.gov - Easy-to-use information on Maryland from the Maryland Archives.
 * [|Maryland Kids' Page] - Maryland geography, history, symbols, and pictures
 * [|Maryland Manual Online] - The online version of the print manual - contains Maryland information from the Maryland Archives.

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">United States - Facts, History, Government

 * [|American Memory (Library of Congress)] - U.S. History primary sources, lesson plans, photographs and more.
 * EPA Student Center - This site contains information about conservation, water, ecosystems, human health, waste and recycling, air, "in your neighborhood".
 * From Revolution to Reconstruction - The history of the United States from the landing of the Mayflower to current times
 * Kids' Pages - FedStats - FedStats is a listing of kids' pages from many governmet departments and agencies, including NASA.
 * Library of Congress - This site has links to legislative information and research tools including full text access to current bills in congress.
 * National Archives and Records Administration - This site provides access to primary sources related to U.S. government and history.
 * [|Stately Knowledge - Facts About the Fifty States] - Basic state facts, including state symbols and links to other sites
 * U.S. Census Bureau - The Census Bureau has information from the U.S. Census of 1990.
 * The White House - Presents information about the federal government, presidential information, access to White House documents, and commonly requested federal services.

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