Rev. 8/05/2009
Professional Online Resources for Teachers
Prepared by Janice M. Askew, MLS
T. S. Cooper Elementary School
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North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
North Carolina Standard Course of Study
LearnNC
This website offers a wide array of quality resources for K–12 classroom instruction and teacher professional development, all tied to the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.” Includes lesson plans, articles, online courses, new teacher support, NC Standard Course of Study, virtual field trips, and other educational resources.
NC Wise Owl
Password: wiseowl
Provides a wealth of free online searchable database resources to public schools in NC including
- EBSCO Full text databases and popular databases from leading information providers.
- Gale Magazine Database
Full text articles from over 1900 magazines - Grolier Online
Includes seven encyclopedia databases: Encyclopedia America, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre, America the Beautiful, Lands and Peoples, and The New Book of Popular Science. - Junior Reference Collection
Resources focused on the needs of middle school and upper elementary students - Kids Infobits
A database designed for easy browsing and searching at the elementary school level. - Scribner Writers Series
Over 1,600 high school-level articles on authors and literary genres - Gale eBook Collection
An invaluable collection of online reference materials, including primary documents
Additional Resources:
- SAS inSchool
Lesson plans, student activities and more for high school English, social studies, math, science, and Spanish - Kaleidoscope
An essential resource for integrating computer skills and information technology skills into the curriculum (grades 5-8). Also has links to other valuable resources for ALL teachers. - Web site Database
Reviews of the top Web resources for North Carolina schools. - Featured Web Sites
Web sites recommended for use with special events and curriculum hot topics - Evalutech
Evaluations of books, AV materials, computer software and Web sites - eBistro
An online professsional development resource designed to help NC teachers feel more comfortable integrating technology into the curriculum. Participants are able to create a login, complete individual learning modules, and save their work in their own digital portfolio. Other areas of eBistro provide resources for grant writing and other items deemed important for teachers. - Media/Technology
Impact Guidelines for Media/Technology programs, E-Reviews etc.
North Carolina Public Schools District Learning
Some of the resources require a log in. If so, use the following:
User Name: nc
Password: classroom
Instructional Technology Section Online Resources
Instructional TV
Instructional Video
Distance Learning Videoconferences/Webcasts
Class Timer
Slideshare
Avoiding Plagiarism / Copyright Infringement
Explains how to avoid plagiarism and states consequences/penalties of copyright infringement in plain English
"The First Year"
Kristi Johnson Smith's weblog is now a published collection of timely articles for beginning teachers, with advice on classroom management, organization, and much more.
Ed.Gov Just for Teachers
Toolkit for teachers offering resources to improve student performance, student assessment, address student needs, and professional development
EdGov’s Survival Guide for New Teachers
Online publication by the United States Department of Education.
Downloadable pdf with 32 pages. Practical advice for working with new veteran teachers, principals, university professors, and parents. Includes “Help Desk” with helpful resources.
New Teacher Training: Resources and Advice
New Teacher Survival kit that covers Day 1 through the last day of school in every grade level. Major topics include NCLB, assessment, student retention, legal issues (copyright, fair use, and intellectual property, acceptable use policies, students’ right to privacy online, teachers’ tax deduction, and peer grading), classroom management and discipline tips, buzzwords, and teacher burnout.
New Teacher at Scholastic.com
Instant solutions to help the new teacher get organized, plan lessons, build a classroom library, build a class webpage, and make home-school connections. Has solutions for Pre-K-12.
The First Days of Middle School
Support for new middle school teachers
Middleweb
From Middleweb-a wealth of resources for schools, districts, teachers, administrators, parents, and middle school advocates working to raise achievement of middle school students
Discovery School.com
Lesson plans, lesson planner, puzzle makers, quiz center, worksheet generator, curriculum center (classroom activities supporting core curriculum topics.) , clipart gallery, and more…
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
“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.”
Teach-nology
- A free web portal to a multitude of resources designed specifically for educators
- products that are designed to provide teachers with the tools for creating instruction that meets the needs of today's learners;
- original publications created by experienced educators for other educators; and
- a series of reasonably priced memberships that are designed to assist teachers.
edHelper.com
edHelper is dedicated to providing teachers a single shop for educational resources.
Members only Subscription service.
Education World
Includes a search engine for educational web sites only, lesson plans, practical information for educators, information on how to integrate technology in the classroom, professional articles, site reviews, and daily features and columns
Excellent Educational Resource Sites for Teachers
Good starting place for educators to explore educational resources on the web.
Teaching Today: Glencoe Online (McGraw Hill)
Online warehouse of free tips, tools, and resources that are easy-to-use and pedagogically sound. Time-saving tips served daily! Includes teaching tips, subject-specific resources, free downloadables, middle school resources, NCLB articles, web-based resources, articles, and using Glencoe (McGraw Hill) technology.
Many Things: Interesting Things for ESL Students
Tips, useful techniques, and creative tools for teaching ESL students. Includes quizzes, word games, word puzzles, proverbs, slang expressions, anagrams, a random-sentence generator and other computer assisted language learning activities. Native English speakers may also find some interesting things on this site.
Iknowthat.com (pre-K-6)
Online interactive activities for a variety of topics: arts, language arts, math, science, social studies, and thinking games. Includes Teacher Guide. Can purchase subscription without ads.
Starfall (K-1)
The website is simple to navigate, engages the student's attention, and engenders a love of reading and learning. Starfall's online reading program together with Starfall's printed materials are available free as a public service. To help reduce the cost of photo-copying, printed journals and books may be ordered in bulk quantities at a fraction of the cost of photocopying.
Fun with Science Links (K-6)
Designed for home schools. Downloadable units can be purchased for as low as $9.99
Enchanted Learning
Produces over 19,000 children's educational web sites and games which are designed to capture the imagination while maximizing creativity, learning, and enjoyment. Member subscription options available.
Abcteach
User-friendly educational site that provides quality printable materials for immediate use by teachers, education majors, and parents.
Free Printables: 5000+ free printable pages and worksheets.
Membership Printables: Over 15,000 worksheets.
National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
NCES Kids' Zone
The NCES Kids' Zone provides information to help you learn about schools; decide on a college; find a public library; engage in several games, quizzes and skill building about math, probability, graphing, and mathematicians; and to learn many interesting facts about education.
AAA Math (K-8)
Interactive arithmetic exercises and problems. Arranged by topic and grade. Topics include addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, algebra, comparing quantities, counting, decimals, equations, estimation, exponents, fractions, geometry, graphs, measurement, mental math, money, naming numbers, patterns, percent, place value, practical math, properties, ratio, and statistics.
Cool Math For Kids
Interactive math activities for students of all ages (Pre-k-100 years old)
Math Fact Café
Free printable math worksheets for elementary school and home use. This includes generators for math drills, flashcards, time, and money!
Mrs. Jones’ Room
Actual webpage for a kindergarten teacher. Contains a wealth of resources for K-1 teachers to use in their classrooms 1.e. themes, songs, activities, online stories, etc.
Preschool Printables and Activities
Kindersite Projoect Newsletter
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