Teacher
Resources
If
you're looking for lesson plans sites, please go to QVSD's
Searchable Internet Database and use "lesson plans" as your
key word.
If you have a curriculum area in mind,
try the pull down menu. What follows are general tools to make your life a
little easier.
- Current Events
Channel One Teacher
Connection
GRIP globally
focused media platform offering a suite of
complimentary
student print publications and
free online services. These services include
numerous academic resources, communications tools (such as website
hosting
and free email for students across
the globe 8/1/00), lifestyle services,
original content, news and entertainment information.
High School Hub a non-commercial
gateway to excellent free online academic resources
for high school students. It features a
reference desk, college information, and
subject
guides for English, mathematics,
social studies, science, global languages, arts, and technology.
Moreover It gathers headlines from over
1500 sources, then groups them into nearly 300
newsfeeds.
It's one stop shopping for
virtually any area of interest. Use the drop down boxes on the left
side of the screen to select a newsfeed you
are interested in. Then, when the headlines
appear, enter your email address and
chose whether to receive those headlines each day or weekly.
Webmasters,
you can also create custom newsfeeds in a wide-variety of formats for your own
site. It's great content, free for
the taking.
- Internet Savvy
All-in-One Search Page
allows searchers to got o specialized search engines for specific
magazines, news sites like CNN, weather sites like NOAA, etc.
NOTE: some of these sources have fees for printing full-length
articles.
Annotated
List of Frequently Used Web Sites organized by
subject
Beginner's Guide to life on the 'Net
The Learning
Space - -an online learning
community
The Spider's Apprentice
a guide to web search engines with tips on how to
search, how engines select the sites they show you as
hits,etc.
Wilton LibraryAssociation -- This site takes on the
challenge of organizing the entire Web, and does a great job of covering all
the bases without resorting to exhaustive lists. There is a special
entry for teachers, too.
- On-line Education Centers
Ednow.com Sections for teachers,
administrators, librarians--access to education news, lesson plan and
curriculum tips, book reviews, search engines for learning tools like software
and videos, and a variety of education resources - such as magazines,
education associations, and listservs.
Education World Sections for
teachers and administrators-- access to education news, site reviews,
listservs specific to grade level or curriculum area, lesson plans, magazine
articles and a good site map and site search engine.
T.H.E.
Journal's Eduhound directoryprovides a
prescreened database directory of K-12 educational links categorized by
subject, alphabetically from a list of clickable keywords, and additionally
providing
numerous link pages to selected pertinent resource areas.
Good resource for students and parents as well.
- On-line Reference
Desk
ASL Dictionary Online - graphic dictionary of ASL
American Sign Language
Dictionary - alphabetical search of
signs
Barttlet's Familiar
Quotations - search by author, word or
phrase
B.J. Pinchbeck's Homework
Helper - if you need a reference it's
here
Errors in English
--"deviations from the standard use of English as judged by sophisticated
users such as professional writers, editors, teachers, and literate executives
and personnel officers. The aim of this site is to help you avoid low grades,
lost employment opportunities, lost business, and titters of amusement at the
way you write or speak." Paul Brians -- author of the site.
Expert Central --Directory for more than
45,000 experts on everything from automobiles to travel. Many answers
are free as is membership
National Geographic
Index
The State
Depts. of Education Addresses for all
states. Check standards, certification, programs , etc.
WWW
Virtual Reference
The Library of
Congress -- Our National
Library
Forks High School Library
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