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Education Portfolio
Teacher Links
Resources & Tools
| Search Engines/Reference |
- Google- simply the best and largest search engine today
- Yahooligans- Yahoo's search engine for kids
- Queryster- new metasearch engine with promising results
- Google Image Seach - Google's search engine for images
- Find Sounds- does exactly as the title indicates
- Bright Planet- a potential solution for the "deep web" problem
- Search Engines for Young Students was written by Julie Coiro to help guide learners and their teachers through the maze of child-friendly search engines
- Information Please Kids Almanac- an almanac, atlas, dictionary and encylopedia
- US Presidents Biographies - click on the president's name to go to that page
- Encarta Encyclopedia - links for the encyclopedia, a dictionary, and an atlas
- Information Please - an online dictionary, encyclopedia, atlas and almanac
- World Almanac for Kids - Cool stuff about animals, the environment, inventions, nations, populations, space, sports, etc.
Tools
- Discovery Clipart
- Classroom Clipart
- Certificate Maker
- Awards & Certificates
- Discovery School Puzzle Maker - Make puzzles online and print them
- Teach-nology - Make online puzzles, word searches, and webquests
- Microsoft Clipart
- Microsoft Office Templates
- Free Toolbox for Teachers
News
- Crayon- customized web newpaper created just for you everyday
- CNN NewsStories are current news stories accompanied by a range of multimedia interactive activities (video clip, sound clips, read text online) to build reading comprehension skills for older students
- KidNews is a free news and writing service for students and teachers around the world. Anyone may submit a review, journalism piece, short story, poem, sports critique, real life accounts, opinions, or advice to fellow kids.
- New York Times Learning Network- designed for Grades 3 and up, it includes news summaries, a daily quiz, science questions, student letters to the editor, a crossword puzzle, ask a reporter and lesson plan archive. Articles contain links to vocabulary and geography "knowledge tools" to build background while reading.
- Scholastic NewsZone, Weekly Reader & Time for Kids are wonderful reading materials for students reading in the content areas
- Rubistar- very nice rubric maker!
- Britannica- the entire encyclopedia on the web with additional links to relevant sites
- All the Tests- all types of tests available free on the web
- Biography.com enables students to learn about over 25,000 of the greatest lives, past and present, play Who Am I? Teachers can access classroom study guides
- Country Reports is an excellent and comprehensive online reference website that provides lots of content area text organized within a database
- Homework Helper by 14 year-old B.J. Pinchbeck helps students access resources to help enrich their own learning
- Tech Lesson Planning- resource for technology lesson planning
- Dictionary.com - Translates short paragraphs to or from English to Spanish, French, German, Italian or Portugese
- Free Dictionary - Translates from English to multiple languages. Click on the links; many also translate from other languages to English.
- Newbury House On-Line Dictionary - Provides definitions, sample sentences, idioms, and cultural facts and figures
- Photo Dictionary
- Webster Online Dictionary
- WordReference
Technology Specialist Tools
- Filamentality- fill-in-the-blank interactive website that guides you through picking a topic, searching the web, gathering good internet sites, and turning web resources into learning activities
- Classweb- site that is devoted to providing educators with the tools to interact with their students and others
- Technology Integration
- The Spots- 15 Starting points for specific content areas on the web
- Eduweb: Adventures- This site is the main gateway to all kinds of great adventures on the web
- Dreamweaver Templates from Smartwebby
- Netmechanic- a fantastic tool for checking and repairing web pages with HTML errors
- HTML Tidy- useful for formatting HTML code in order to make it easier to read
- W3 Schools- online tools for schools