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Inspiration and free templates for teacher presentations and classroom activities. |
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The internet offers a vast array of useful sites for teachers and schools.
Following are our personal favorites offering unique and
generally free or discounted resources for educational use.
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 FREE ALTERNATIVE SOFTWARE
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OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite.
An open-source project, it is compatible with all other major office suites. The product is free to download, use, and distribute!
Get OpenOffice as a download or on CD.
A collection of five tools, OpenOffice includes Writer, Impress, Math, Draw, Calc and Base components. The interface will look familiar to MS Office users. This suite was designed as one
complete office package. Opens and saves in Office compatible formats. This free software could really help with your classroom budget.
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SPECIFICALLY SCIENCE
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The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education is a K-12 math and science teacher center funded by the U.S. Department of Education.
Nova Science in the News. From the Australian Academy of Science, this site covers areas from the environment to technology to physical sciences.
Some interesting topics and perspectives.
Fun Science Gallery
. Instructions showing you how to build scientific equipments from relatively cheap materials. Projects include
instructions for making telescopes, microscopes, batteries, sidereal indicators, and several other instruments. This site is designed to motivate children to engage in science.
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TECHNICALLY SPEAKING
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From Education World, a “techtorial” on Creating a Class PowerPoint presentation.
Just in Time Technology. Free tips and resources for
using technology in the K-12 classroom
Need a technical term defined? Check out TechWeb’s searchable encyclopedia of the latest in tech.
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VISUALS AND ART |
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Art project ideas and techniques for students up to grade 12.
Crayola provides great school resources, and not just for art teachers. An amazing array of lesson plans and other useful content. Some does require (free) registration.
Free art project ideas for your classroom from Art Teacher on the Net
. Photos and step by step for projects.
Using digital cameras in the classroom. Lesson plans from Kodak
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HOW THINGS WORK |
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How Everyday Things are Made An introductory website for kids and adults showing how various items are made. It covers over 40 different products and manufacturing processes, from airplanes and candy to clothing and plastic. The site is a little slow, but it has almost 4 hours of manufacturing video. Developed by Stanford University.
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The Tech Museum of Innovation Their mission is “... to inspire the innovator in all learners”. Find a network of teachers engaged in using design and problem-solving as a method of teaching science and integrating other disciplines. The lesson plans and activities offer a design-based problem solving approach to learning science that supports the development of technology literacy.
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GOVERNMENT |
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C-SPAN in the classroom
. Excellent resources, especially good coverage of government, elections, civics, history. Worksheets, video, audio
and activities.
The Smithsonian
education section includes lesson plans, professional development information and links to all of the Smithsonian museum websites.
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club, class? Give us a call 941-312-9609. We have a unique and profitable way for schools to raise funds!
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INTERACTIVE TOOLS |
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The History Channel has interactive resources, history activities, a speech archive and programming information.
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A&E Channel
. Search 25,000 biographies online. Articles, links to related sites and people.
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The Map Machine from National Geographic. Although it does have an annoying popup ad, this resource is a must-see. Also, see the amazing range of lesson plans and other teacher resources provided on this site.
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Discovery Channel School
sells products for teachers, but they also have a number of really useful free resources including:
Curriculum Center, activities supporting core curriculum topics for the most popular science topics taught in upper elementary and middle school (includes: Bacteria,
Oceans, Chemistry, Solar System, Electricity, The Universe, Genetics, Weather & Climate, Magnetism, Viruses).
For each topic, you’ll find Quick Facts, Hands on Experiments, Project Ideas,
Puzzles, Vocabulary Words, Review Quiz
Teaching Tools including a Puzzlemaker, Quiz Center, Lesson Planner and Worksheet, Generator.
You’ll also find Lesson Plans and - one of our favorites - Brain Boosters.
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CLASSROOM TOOLS |
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Blue Web'n is a searchable library of about 1200 outstanding Internet learning sites categorized by subject area, audience, and type (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, & tools).
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The Online Books Page Listing and links to over 20,000 free books on the Web.
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Your Dictionary
. Every specialty dictionary, glossary, and word list you could want. Topic and industry specific terms, rhyming,
word games. An inspiration for those who love words.
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EdHelper.com
offers teacher resources for K-7. Although some of the site requires a subscription, many resources are free. Lots of lessons, worksheets and theme ideas.
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More than 4500 free lesson plans and activities from the PBS TeachersSource.
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POWERFUL POWERPOINT
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Free 8 unit tutorial for K-12 teachers using PowerPoint. Links to other free software tutorials.
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Microsoft offers specific resources for educators. Find a range of free
educational resources, grant and scholarship information, lesson plans and more.
Keep your students interested in your PowerPoint presentations. Add visual sizzle with the templates and
backgrounds at powerfinish.com. Discounted educational site licenses available. Plus, you’ll find
thousands of templates and backgrounds to download right now
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GROUPS OF INTEREST
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Kidlink
is a global, non-commercial organization whose main focus is to “...empower kids and youth with free educational programs to help them mature, get better control over their lives, encourage creativity, create social networks, and collaborate with peers around the world, individually or through their classrooms”.
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your favorite teacher resource site.
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Download free PowerPoint templates for use in your classroom.
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