Teacher Resource Links

Teacher Resource Links
This site was developed and is maintained by Gay Walker at Hammon Public School. For any questions please click here to e-mail me.

Classroom Resources & Lesson Planners

www.sde.state.ok.us
State Department's Web Address

http://title3.sde.state.ok.us/pass/home.asp
Over 1,300 lesson plans aligned to PASS

http://title3.sde.state.ok.us/pp2/login/Instructions2.pdf
If you need help using the lesson planner print this pdf file

http://www.sde.state.ok.us/link/oklaeduc.html
Lists all schools that have a web page. (several bad links)

Teachnology
Offers teachers FREE access to 19,000 lesson plans, 5,600 printable worksheets, over 200,000 reviewed web sites, 50+ teaching articles, 60 teaching themes, rubrics, educational games, teaching tips, advice from expert teachers, current education news, teacher downloads, web quests

http://www.gaillovely.com/

Access lesson plans, student activities, reviewed Web sites and other MarcoPolo resources from the Seven different Partners.

http://www.marcopolosearch.org/mpsearch/basic_search.asp
This link skips their home page and goes to the search page that searches all their partners

http://www.classroom.net/login/home.jhtml
This is a pay site but has great free stuff too.

http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/
Kathy Shrock's categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth

http://studyplans.com/timely.htm
ideas to use in the classroom for each month

http://www.teachervision.com/
More stuff than you'll ever

http://www.teachnet.com/
Another great resource just for us!

www.oops.bizland.com
Just-In-Time" strategies for the unpredictable challenges or "OOPS" moments of classroom teaching

http://www.teachers.net
Articles, lesson plans, chats

http://www.askanexpert.com
For those times you don't know the answer

ONLINE PROJECTS!

http://learner.org/jnorth
Tracks the movement of Spring and migration of 10 species through North America

http://www.computerlab.kids.new.net/
Now this is what a teacher web page should be!!!

Handheld Computers in the Classroom

http://kathyschrock.net/power/
Links from the Master!

http://www.davis.k12.ut.us/etc/cathy/palm.htm
Lots of good links for Palms

WEBQUESTS

http://webquest.org
News and views about the WebQuest model

http://www.spa3.k12.sc.us/WebQuests.html
More online webquests

http://www.ed.gov/free/
More than 30 Federal agencies formed a working group in 1997 to make hundreds of Federally supported teaching and learning resources easier to find.

http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/
Just in case you don't know about online puzzles

Teacher's Hub

LINKS FOR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
http://caret.iste.org/index.cfm
CARET bridges education technology research to practice by offering research-based answers to critical questions

http://webquest.sdsu.edu/
Training materials for webquests

http://teachers.teach-nology.com/web_tools/web_quest/
Make a webquest in under 2 minutes

http://www.anovember.com/
Alan November's Web (too much on this site to summarize)

http://www.anovember.com/articles/zack.html
Article dealing with validity of Internet resources

Teaching Kids to Evaluate Web Site Validity
This is a site for my class with teacher links at the bottom.

Those Dark Hiding Places: The Invisible Web Revealed
Tips on searching the web effectively

INSPIRATION AND KIDSPIRATION

Converting Kidspiration to Web Page

Kidspiration Templates
(Scroll Down)

K-4 Kidspiration Templates

Teacher made Inspiration Lessons

Elementary Word Processing Curriculum
Practice Word documents for grades 1-5

VIRTUAL FIELD TRIPS

Baseball Hall of Fame
Museum of Television and Radio
Mote Marine Laboratory
Library of Congress
Museum of Tolerance

The place for Primary & Intermediate Teacher Resources

WEB CAMS!

www.awi.de/NM_WebCam
Antarctic Cam

www.earthcam.com

http://www.mbayaq.org/
5 Live Webcams from Monterrey Bay Aquarium

Cam from USS Intrepid Museum

Sea Life Cams from Mote

PowerPoint, Excel, & Word Templates
Question and Answer Review Game (Similar to Jeopardy) Download a Blank Game template (Power Point 2000 File)	Step by Step Instructions Download these instructions in a PDF file to help you set up your own game. Click here if you still need help e.g. your links don't work The above activity was copied from this website	The following website has downloads for these four games: Jeopardy (new version) Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Hollywood Squares The Weakest Link Who Wants to be a Winner!
PowerPoint Booklet This template shows how to make a 12 page book using PowerPoint. The difficulty level in this is low IF you can keep track of 2 different slide shows. The first slide show will print on the front of a sheet and the second will HAVE to be printed upside down and on the back of the same sheet. The story is on 11 pages because page one is the title page. We use clipart online to illustrate or the students bring pics from home to scan and insert.	Directions: Right click on the link and save target to a floppy diskette or your hard drive or just open the file and save it to your hard drive. After you have the template on your computer make your changes and print changing the options in the print setting to handouts with 6 slides per page. Print the back template on the back of the first sheet with top slides matching on both sides. Then tri-fold the paper, trim, and staple in the middle.	Book Template Front Book Template Back
You can also do an online no staple book by going to this link: http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/stapleless/index.html We illustrated this project by drawing a picture in Paint with it zoomed (click view, zoom, large size). Then glued it to the book after the book was printed.
Printing on Post It Notes In Word This template can be used again and again. Just type print a blank table then type your note in the cells of the Word document. The area is fixed so it stays the same dimensions as the note. Next place Post its on each square. The most important thing to remember is to feed the printer so the sticky side or the Post it note goes into the printer first.	3x3 Post It Note Template 3x5 Post It Note Template These are Word 2000 Documents	If you just want to do it yourself, here are the instructions for setting up the template. Just adjust the measurements for a different size of Post It note.
DESIGN TEMPLATES Templates: Tired of the same old PowerPoint templates? Try these site for free template downloads Four Download Sites Brainy Betty Design Studio by Sonia Coleman Presenters Website Estates	Excel Interactive Quiz EXCEL Interactive Quiz Template Excel in the Classroom Lots of innovative teaching ideas using Excel	Microsoft's Template Gallery contains some cool PowerPoint, Word, and Excel stuff just for teachers!

Pictures and Clip Art
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/ImageFinder/ Try this searchable catalog of images, including some from NASA, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Library of Congress.	http://www.teachnet.com/how-to/clipart/ Free educational clipart just acknowledge their site	http://school.discovery.com/clipart/ Discovery School now makes it easy to add graphics to your next project, whether it's for home or school.
http://www.pics4learning.com/ This site houses a collection of copyright images for educational use.	http://www.ncrtec.org/picture.htm This is a terrific resource that enables you to find pictures on a variety of subjects. Young children often need that extra visual image to make abstract ideas concrete.	http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q= The most comprehensive image search on the web.
RedStudio Check out the collage tool		http://www.whymilk.com See all the "Got Milk" celebrity pics (Good site for to find a body to add your head to, with Adobe Photoshop)
Backgrounds and Wallpapers
The largest collection of free background textures, web graphics, fonts & sound effects on the internet (their words not mine)		www.freebackgrounds.com Just what the web address says

Fonts and Sounds
IconBAZAAR - Alphabets - Animated You can't download these to your font folder but have to save each letter and insert as a pic.	http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/ Hear the words that changed the world drawn from the most famous broadcasts and recordings of the twentieth century.	www.findsounds.com a free site where you can search the Web for sound effects and musical instrument samples

www.hplearningcenter.com Sponsored by Hewlett-Packard, these online courses are free, taught by experts, and offered at a variety of levels. Courses on Word, Excel, PageMaker, desktop publishing, HTML programming, WEb site construction, and business etiquette.	Learning Electric QuickTime video tutorials are temporarily stored on your computer and play in your web browser covering Office2003, Inspiration, Kidpix		www.electricteacher.com/tutorial2.htm Aimed at classroom teachers, provides step-by-step instructions for several common FrontPage tasks. Topics include importing an existing Web site, working with graphics, hyperlinking, and site navigation. Also tutorials for PowerPoint, PhotoDraw, and Word.
www.shortcourses.com Learn everything from the basics of using a digital camera to tech-heavy topics such as how to capture digital video, calculate image size and more.	http://adobe.elementk.com Learn your way around Adobe Photoshop type layers and layer effects and Adobe InDesign document setup with Adobe's free sample online tutorials.		http://www2.cs.purdue.edu/outreach/lessonplans.htm Interested in Web Design? Check out these links ! Sites where you can find lesson plans on any topic!
http://www.mvps.org/word/ Help to figure out why word does what it does.	http://www.itworld.com/nl/html_tutor/09182001/ Explains how to add sound to your web page		www.microsoft.com/education/?ID+IOCTutorials The educator's section of Microsoft's site features, among other tings, a collection of tutorials on Office XP, Office 2000, Windows NT, FrontPage 2000, publisher 2000, and even Windows 98 or Word 97
	http://www.internet4classrooms.com/on-line2.htm
http://www.microsoft.com/education/default.asp?ID=HowTo Not exactly a tutorial but help to use Microsoft software in the classroom with tips and tricks to get you started quickly	http://aitt.acadiau.ca/tutorials/Inspiration/inspiration.ppt Power point tutorial for using Inspiration

Flash Tutorials	http://www.trainingcafe.com/	http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/	http://www.trainingtools.com/online/flash5/ch01/index.htm