Resources for Teachers

A to Z Teacher Stuff: This teacher-created site designed to help teachers find online resources more quickly and easily. Find lesson plans, thematic units, teacher tips, discussion forums for teachers, downloadable teaching materials & eBooks, printable worksheets and blacklines, emergent reader books, themes, and more.

ABCTeach Border Papers: Spice up your lessons with these templates for papers with fancy borders and themes.

ABCTeach Classroom Charts: Download and print several useful charts including assignment forms, award charts, calendars, reading logs, weekly planners, and more.

Adventures of CyberBee: Integrate the Internet into the classroom with excellent online resources found at this site.  Resources include: curriculum ideas, research tools, treasure hunts, webquests, web links, articles, and more.

AOL@School: Find resources by subjects for students in all grade levels.  There are also educational resources for teachers and administrators.

Authentic Assessment Toolbox: “a how-to hypertext on creating authentic tasks, rubrics and standards for measuring and improving student learning.”

Basic Steps in the Research Process: Part of the CRLS Research Guide this guide also gives students tip sheets.

Blue Web’n:  This site is “an online library of 1200+ outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, & tools).” You can search by grade level, broad subject area, or specific subcategories.

CEC Lesson Plans: Over 600 quality K-12 lesson plans can be found at this Columbia Education Center site.

Certificate Creator: Create an online certificate or search through their templates and print them out for your students.

Chico High School Library Helpful Bookmarks: A site of hundreds of links to topics of interest to high school students and educators.

Create a Welcome Brochure: At this simple to use site, create a brochure that will organize all your info for back to school, set student and parent expectations, and introduce yourself. Create a brochure that offers a readily available reference for parents to keep throughout the year.

Dr. LeBeau’s  HomePage: A resource for teachers, students and curious adults.

Easy Test Maker:  A free test making site for teachers (does require registration).  You can create multiple choice, fill in the blank, short answer, and true and false questions. You can also come back to edit your test at any time.

Education Index: This is an annotated guide to education-related sites on the Web.

Educational Hotlinks for Middle School People: Hosted by Kean University, "these websites have been chosen for their quality and special relevance for middle level educators.

Educational Portals and Starting Points: This site contains links to general education portals, thematic starting points, along with subject area and grade level portals.

Education World Lesson Plans: Find lesson plans submitted by other teachers at this site.

The Educator’s Reference Desk: This site has great links for educators in the areas of counseling, general education, librarianship, family life, teaching, technology, subject areas, and more.

EduHound: This site contains educational resources, lesson plans, clipart, worksheets, K-12, teacher websites including grants, webquests, classroom websites, school websites, homework, multimedia, technology tutorials, and an education newsletter.

Eleven Discipline Techniques for New Teachers: For a positive, well-managed classroom environment, try these tips for eleven techniques to focus on a discipline program right from the start of your teaching experience.

Enchanted Learning: This site “produces children’s educational web sites and games which are designed to capture the imagination while maximizing creativity, learning, and enjoyment.”

The First Days of Middle School: New middle school teachers will find a large resource at this site including tips for discipline, classroom management, suggestions for the first days of school, downloadable forms and letters links, and more.

FirstGov: Find links to sites related to our government on virtually any subject.

Five Common Mistakes in Writing Lesson Plans (and how to avoid them): Here are some suggestions on writing lesson plans and how to avoid making mistakes.

The Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM): “The key to one-stop, any-stop access to high quality lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources on the Internet!”

The Global Schoolhouse: Find online opportunities for teachers to collaborate including more than 750 online collaborative projects.

Goodcharacter.com: Find lessons and resources for teaching character education on all three levels.

Graphic Organizers: A great site that shows how to apply graphic organizers.

Graphic Organizers: More than 30 graphic organizers can be printed from this site.

Graphic Organizers: Find printable graphic organizers at this site.

Graphic Organizers Overview: This site explains common graphic organizers.

Graphic Organizers:  This site contains a whole selection of various graphic organizers including an Inter-action Outline, and Anticipation/Reaction Guide, Chain of Events, Compare and Contrast, and the usual Venn diagrams.

Index Graphic Organizers: Find a wide variety of graphic organizers here with descriptions of each and tips on how and when to use them.  You will also find samples along with strategies and links.

The Issues: What Student Teachers Want: What do student teachers want to know? Follow these insights for valuable tips from former student teachers on how to make the most out of the experience, for both the supervising and the student teachers.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: A categorized list of sites for educators with over 800 links including search engines, webquests and slide shows for computer training.

Landmarks for Schools: “One of the earliest educational websites on the Internet, Landmarks has served teachers since 1995 with links to teaching and learning resources on the Net and collaborative online projects.”

Learning Page: “Learning Page is a huge collection of professionally produced instructional material for you to download and print. Lesson plans, books, worksheets and much more can be found on the site.”

Lesson Planet: “Search from over 20,000 online lesson plans by keyword and grade!”  There are also links to clipart for teachers, online projects, webquests, and maps in the news.

LessonPlanz.com: This site is a searchable directory of free online lesson plans and lesson plan resources for all grades and subjects.

Library Spot: A free virtual library resource center for students and educators, librarians and parents.

McRel Lesson Plans: Contains hot links for educators organized by subject area.  Within each subject area are a lesson plan library and related resources.

Middle School Do's and Don'ts: Whether starting your year as a beginning teacher or returning as a veteran educator, try the tips here for excellent pointers on creating a valuable and successful middle school learning experience.

New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards for Career Education and Consumer, Family, and Life Skills

The New York Times Learning Network: A site for both students and teachers that feature articles for students, news summaries, news quizzes, puzzles, science Q & A, lesson plans, issues in depth, etc.

November Learning: The home page of Alan November, a promoter of the effective use of information and communication technologies that support and enhance learning for children and communities.

101(+) Teaching Tips: Find unique teaching tips written in my teachers to Dr. Kathie Nunley's web site for educators.

Onlinenewspapers.com: “Thousands of world newspapers at your fingertips.”

Personal Educational Press: “Create free educational worksheets such as flashcards, game boards, and quizzes to print directly from your browser.”

Project Based Learning: Create your own rubric using the templates by subject and grade level located on this site.

Puzzlemaker: Create your own puzzles and games for your class assignments.

Quia Web: Create activities, quizzes, games, surveys, and more!  Ideal for foreign language teachers and other classroom teachers.

Riverdeep:  Find educational links for educators, tech coordinators, and administrators.  Sign up for The Classroom Flyer, a daily email full of links and ideas for teachers.

Rubistar: Create your own rubric or view examples at this site.  There are also rubrics in Spanish.

Rubrics and Evaluation Resources: View general rubric templates as well as rubrics for multimedia projects.  Other links will give you bookmark management tips, critical thinking resources, etc.

Scholastic Network: This site has links appropriate for kids, teachers, and parents.

Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies: A site developed for educators which provides lesson plans, resources, media catalog, field trips and more.

Springfield Township High School Virtual Library (Joyce Valenza): Loads of links can be found at this site for both students and teachers.

Standards Locator: Find a handy reference here with national standards, or select your state for standards in each subject area.

Super Thinkers: “Our mission is to inspire creative problem solving, critical thinking, deductive reasoning, and logic.”  This fun and challenging site is targeted for students in grades 5 through 8.

TeacherTube: A site similar to YouTube but for teachers showcasing educational videos.

Teacher Xpress: “The education web all in one place for busy teachers.”

A Teacher’s Guide to Fair Use and Copyright: Find definitions, examples, charts, and further teaching tools to help you understand copyright rules for your classes.

Teachers Network: This portal contains links to a wealth of information for educators including lesson plans, videos, resources, professional development, and grant writing guidelines.

Teachers.net: Check out the lesson plans under resources but also find articles, free printables, educational website listed under library and more.

Teachnet.com: Provides lesson plans, how-to projects, and power tools for educators.  You can also sign up for a weekly e-mail newsletter.

Teach-nology: A web portal for educators that includes reviews of sites, teacher worksheets, downloads, rubrics and other teacher tools.  Request a teacher newsletter delivered by email.

Techniques that Backfire: New teachers often place their biggest fear in being able to successfully manage classroom discipline. Before you even enter the classroom, take note of these techniques that absolutely do not work.

TechTrekers: This great site for teachers includes sites from early elementary to high school, free stuff for teachers, history, math, and science sites, simulation sites, scavenger hunts, thematic units, virtual fieldtrips, webquests, PowerPoint ideas, rubrics, and web page tools.  Check it out!

ThinkQuest: Enroll in the Oracle ThinkQuest Education Foundation for competitions.  You can view their educational website links without enrolling.

ThinkQuest Library: This free educational resource features over 5,500 websites created by students around the world as part of a competition.

TQC Teacher Quality Collaborative: The home page for the University of South Carolina school collaborative programs.

Virtual Middle School Library: “Open 24 hours a day.”  Find web sites for students, resources for teachers and parents, a virtual wall calendar, daily newspapers and magazines, resources for school librarians and more.

Virtual Tours: Virtual Tours is a collection of tours for the world, museums, exhibits, points of special interest and the U.S. Government.

Warm-ups: Here is large list of improv games for your students to loosen up in any situation, work cooperatively, or use as icebreakers.

Web Worksheet Wizard: This site allows you to create your own worksheets or class exercises.  You can also download worksheets and forms created from other teachers.

Yellowbook: A phone directory available through the Internet.

You Quote It, You Note It!: You can play this online plagiarism tutorial with your classes as a whole group, or let them play in small groups.

Activities for ESL students: Find over 1,000 quizzes, exercises and puzzles for ESL students.

Alpha Dictionary Language Directory: This site provides links of lexicon lists and dictionaries for over 240 languages.  Many of these sources translate words to or from English.

American Association of Teachers of French: Find out about this association, special events, and resources.

Dolch Word Flashcards: Download and print out flashcards on levels from pre-primer through 2^nd grade

English as a Second Language: Find teaching tips for ESL students that include games, activities, and additional links for information.

English Exercises Online: Find several online English exercises for beginning students of English.

ESL Bears: This multimedia-learning site was created by an ESL teacher to meet the needs of her first-year immigrant students.  The links and activities are appropriate for students from an entry level to intermediate level.

ESL Games and Quiz Corner: Find free games for your ESL students as well as printable sheets, quizzes, vocabulary and more.

ESL Lesson Plans and Class Activities: Find sites for 13 teaching resources which include lesson plans, handouts, teaching ideas, guides, games, and more for the ESL teacher.

The ESL Wonderland: This site offers activities, lesson plans, online resource links, and discussion forums for ESL teachers.

The Internet Picture Dictionary: This multilingual picture dictionary is designed especially for ESL students and beginning English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian language learners of all ages.

K-12 World Languages: This site for the foreign language department of the Fairfax county, Virginia, has lots of great links for foreign language teachers.

Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary Online: "Explore the 15 major themes to access more than 6,000 images and see words like never before."

New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards for World Languages

Pizazz: This site offers many creative-writing activities. This is a resource for ESL teachers and all Language Arts teachers.

Quia Web: Create activities, quizzes, games, surveys, and more!  Ideal for foreign language teachers and other classroom teachers.

New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards for Comprehensive Health & Physical Education

PE Central: Find lesson ideas and other links at this site for physical education and health.

Sports Rules: This site is “intended to be a concise reference guide, containing easy to understand explanations of the rules and guidelines of many sports.”  Choose from more than 30 sports.

Book Report Ideas: Find dozens of ideas for exciting, hands-on literary projects.

Carol Hurst’s Children’s Literature Site: “This is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics.”

CyberGuides: Find teacher guides and student activities on core works of literature for all grade levels.

The Children’s Literature Web Guide: “Internet resources related to books for children and young adults.”

Database of Award-Winning Children’s Literature: Search for award-winning children’s books (K-12) by age of reader, genre, time period, and more.

International Children’s Digital Library: “Explore the fun – read 324 free children books online…”

Innovative Teaching Newsletter :English Resources: A newsletter linking a number of great English sites.

It’s Up To You, Gumshoe!: Find facts from the early years of mystery to the present, the history of mystery, and a mystery scavenger hunt.

Language Arts Curriculum Resource and Guide: Specifically written for middle school English teachers—a huge resource for implementing and maintaining an effective instruction strategy.

Learning with Mysteries: You will find lesson plans and resources for using mysteries to teach critical thinking, writing, and literature.  For grades 7-12.

More Ideas Than You’ll Ever Use For Book Reports: This site contains a large collection of book report ideas.

New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards for Language Arts Literacy

100 Things to do with Books: Find creative suggestions for responses to literature with suggestions listed at this site.

Pizazz: This site offers many creative-writing activities. This is a resource for ESL teachers and all Language Arts teachers.

Poetry Spotlight: Find ideas for poetry lessons at this site developed by a teacher.

Project Gutenberg: This site contains the Internet’s oldest producer of FREE electronic books.  Find the complete text of books published before 1923.

Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers: “Explore this web site to find out how you can launch a child into a bright future with reading strategies that work…”

ReadingLady.com: A great site for language arts teachers in the elementary level although some of the suggestions can be used in middle school.  Find author studies, math, poetry, Readers Theater scripts, comprehension, and much more.

30 Days of Poetry: Find thirty lesson plans for writing poetry, middle to high school level, following formats designed to allow fun, creativity, and enjoyment in student work.

Virtual Poetry Workshop: This site provides you with 18 exercises to practice poetry.  You can read poems others have submitted and comment on them in the Forum section.

Visuwords: An online graphical dictionary where you can look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts.

Wacky Web Tales: This creative and interactive site are for kids, in grades 3 and above, who love Mad Libs.  Students can pick from one of over 20 different tales and fill in the requested parts of speech.  They can then see how their answers were used to create a really wacky story!

Web English Teacher: “Web English Teacher presents the best of K-12 English/Language Arts teaching resources: lesson plans, WebQuests, videos, biography, e-texts, criticism, jokes, puzzles, and classroom activities.”

Writer's Resource Center: Poets and other writers will find many resources here including articles on advanced literary forms.

Advanced Book Exchange: Here you can request a book or out of print book, have them make a search, and receive a price quote.

ALA Great Web Sites for Kids: Excellent web sites that are recommended by the ALA including links to the Caldecott Medal, the Newbery Medal and other literature lists.

ALA Especially for Young People and Their Parents: This page includes links to online safety rules and suggestions, designed-for-children search engines, all ALA great sites, and other great sites for parents and young people.

BCCLS: This is the Bergen County Cooperative Library System site.  You can search for library materials in 73 public libraries in New Jersey’s Bergen, Essex, Hudson, and Passaic counties.

Book Reviews by Frederick Muller: Find Fred’s reviews of middle school book reviews for librarians.

BookFinder.com: A meta search engine for finding new, used, or out of print books.

BookHive: “Your guide to children’s literature and books.”

The Booklist Center: “The Web’s largest collection of book lists.”

Bookseller Directory (by Specialty): A wonderful collection of links for book collectors looking for out of print books. This site is worth browsing.

Booktalk Resources: Links to great sites dealing with book talks.  Check out the PowerPoint in the list.

BookVideoNing: Joyce Valenza's site on sharing media (in any digital format) to promote books, reading, and literacy K-12.

Bulletin Board Ideas: This site was created by a grant from the Georgia Library Media Association.

Curriculum Roles and Responsibilities of Library Media Specialists: by Robert E. Berkowitz and Michael B. Eisenberg.

CyberGuides: Find teacher guides and student activities centered on core works of literature for grades K-12.

Dewey Decimal Classification System: A listing of all the Dewey numbers and headings.

Doug Johnson: Smart Starts @ Your Library Media Center: Find articles on technology and the library profession from this writer, speaker and consultant.

The Educator’s Reference Desk: This site has great links for educators in the areas of counseling, general education, librarianship, family life, teaching, technology, subject areas, and more.

Flamingnet: Young adult book reviews by young adults.

Infolink: This is the site for the Eastern New Jersey Regional Library Cooperative.

International Children’s Digital Library: “Explore the fun – read 324 free children books online…”

It’s Up To You, Gumshoe!: Find facts from the early years of mystery to the present, the history of mystery, and a mystery scavenger hunt.

JerseyClicks: “New Jersey’s one stop library gateway to quality information.” This site will search all of the New Jersey statewide databases simultaneously.  These include databases from EBSCO, Gale, Facts on File, and Reference USA.

Librarians and Library Science: A portal for librarians with over 700 links on anything you need to know about books, electronic resources, etc., including all school levels.

Librarians@Random: Find booktalks, booklists, awards, information of authors and illustrators and more.

Librarians’ Index to the Internet (Education, Librarianship, & Libraries): Find sites related to these topics through this web directory.

The Library of Congress: “Get it Online…Words, Pictures & Sound”.  Look at US history & culture, world culture & resources, Thomas Legislative information, exhibitions, and more.

Library Research Service- School Library Impact Studies: Find school library impact studies done by Dr. Keith Curry Lance.

LibraryInstruction.Com: “The Librarian’s Weapon of Mass Instruction.” Find lesson plans, articles about library instruction, and links to library instruction resources.

Morris Automated Information Network M.A.I.N. Web Catalog: Search the online catalog of the Morris County Library network which is a consortium of 36 public libraries.

Muller In the Middle: A blog on middle school library book reviews by Fred Muller.

Multimedia and Internet @ Schools: “The Media and Technology Specialists’ Guide to Electronic Tools and Resources for k-12 Education.”

Nancy Keane's Booktalks Quick and Simple: Lists of book talks from preschool through young adult.

New Jersey Association of School Librarians: The official NJASL page.

New Jersey Statewide Reference Center: Connect to this site to use their virtual reference desk.

No Cookies in the Library: Much to the chagrin of a temperamental librarian, Sesame Street's Cookie Monster can't seem to comprehend that libraries don't have cookies or other edibles.

A Pathfinder for Constructing Pathfinders: “This page is designed to guide you to resources for constructing online pathfinders of your own.”

Pathfinders: Examples of pathfinders from Media Specialist Joyce Valenza at Springfield Township High School Virtual Library.

PBS TeacherSource: This site provides a number of resources for library media specialists including free MARC records for PBS programming that you tape off the air.

QandANJ.org: Got a question?  Get a live answer online with this FREE interactive search assistance on the web by a network of experienced New Jersey Librarians.  This network offers free live, interactive search assistance to New Jersey residents 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Quotable Quotes About Libraries: An ALA site listing library quotes.

Read Across America: This site contains activities for your library on all levels.

Resources for School Librarians: This site contains comprehensive resources for school librarians.

S.O.S. For Information Literacy: "A virtual idea factory dedicated to helping educators find motivating ways of teaching information literacy skills to children!"

School Librarian Wiki: LM_NET wiki for school librarians.

School Library Journal Online: A professional site with articles and many links for the school librarian.

School Library Learning 2.0: This online tutorial introduces you to the new tools of 2.0.

School Library Media Program: Catalyst for Efficient Implementation of Core Curriculum Content Standards K-12.

Springfield Township High School Virtual Library (Joyce Valenza): Loads of links can be found at this site for both students and teachers.

Student Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism: This is an easy to read document that you could have kids read.

Take a Tour of the DDC: “Dewey to the Rescue, our online tour of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system explains how you can use the DDC to organize information on any topic under the sun.”

Virtual Middle School Library: “Open 24 hours a day.”  Find web sites for students, resources for teachers and parents, a virtual wall calendar, daily newspapers and magazines, resources for school librarians and more.

Web English Teacher: “Web English Teacher presents the best of K-12 English/Language Arts teaching resources: lesson plans, WebQuests, videos, biography, e-texts, criticism, jokes, puzzles, and classroom activities.”

Why should principals support school libraries?: An article by Gary Hartzell.

World Book Online Training Center

You Quote It, You Note It!: You can play this online plagiarism tutorial with your classes as a whole group, or let them play in small groups.

AAA Math: "AAA Math features a comprehensive set of interactive arithmetic lessons. Unlimited practice is available on each topic which allows thorough mastery of the concepts."

A Maths Dictionary for Kids: “An animated, interactive dictionary for students which explains over 500 common mathematical terms in simple language.”

BJ’s science: Find science fair project ideas, science and math resources, study guides and strategies, webquests, and much more.

Education World: Find math lesson plans at this site.

The Educator’s Reference Desk: Find math lesson plans at this site.

ENC: Search for lesson plans through the Eisenhower National Clearninghouse for Math and Science Education.

Illuminations: Explore math and create interactive lessons at this site sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

Math Forum @ Drexel:  Sponsored by Drexel University, this site is one of the best, most complete sources for math materials and resources on the Internet.  Grades K-12 and beyond.

Multiplication Tables: Print out these multiplication charts for students in your class.

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives:  Utah State University has made dozens of free PreK-12 math manipulatives available online. These applications help students visualize complex relationships and increase their understanding of everything from addition to Venn diagrams and beyond.

New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards for Mathematics

Professor Freedman’s Math Help: This online math resource is for students who may experience problems with math.  There are note taking tips, study skill tips, ways to reduce anxiety, and tutorials for students.

Tools for Understanding Math: This is a resource guide for extending mathematical understanding in secondary schools and includes integrated lessons, math concepts, journaling, and supporting research.

www.multiplication.com: This site contains math activities and games for teachers to use in their classroom.  Design your own quizzes, worksheets, and flash cards.

Incompetech.com: Find royalty free music collections at this site.

Jazz in America: The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz has developed this site as an Internet-based jazz curriculum for social studies, American history, and music classes.  There are eight, 50-minue class lessons for 5th, 8th, and 11th grades.

Lincoln Center Institute: Our school district is a former member of the Lincoln Center Institute for the arts in education.  Find our more information about the institute here.

New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards for Visual and Performing Arts

Patriotic Melodies: From the Library of Congress comes this site which “tells the stories behind many of the songs that have now become part of the American national heritage.”

BJ’s science: Find science fair project ideas, science and math resources, study guides and strategies, webquests, and much more.

Bugscope: “The Bugscope project is an educational outreach program for K-12 classrooms.  The project provides a resource to classrooms so that they may remotely operate a scanning electron microscope to image “bugs” at high magnification.”

Education World: Find science lesson plans at this site.

The Educator’s Reference Desk: Find science lesson plans at this site.

Focus on Fusion: This site explains the nature of fusion and what it will take to produce a sufficient amount of fusion power to meet world needs.  Animation is included with the examples.

The Mystery Spot: Find a series of science mysteries here.  One such mystery is titled “Yellow Jackie”.  Aboard a sailboat, crew members are dropping from a mysterious ailment in the middle of a race. You must listen to all the symptoms and advise them on a diagnosis, and whether or not they should complete the prestigious race.

National Geographic: Education: Find lesson plans, educational materials and interactive features here.

National Science Digital Library: "NSDL is the Nation's online library for education and research in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics."

New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards for Science

Science NetLinks: Find an extensive collection of science websites and lessons categorized by subject and grade level.

USGS Lesson Plans:  Find lesson plans for students in grade K-12 from the United States Geologic Survey.  Lessons are organized into life sciences, geography, and earth sciences.  Other resources are linked.

WeatherEye: Find all kinds of weather information at this site including lesson plans, activities, and experiments.

The Age of Exploration Curriculum Guide: Find resources from ancient eras to the exploits of the Vikings, Columbus, Magellan, Drake, Cartier , etc.

American Family: Journey of Dreams: This site explains and demonstrates how students can create scrapbooks that can preserve their own ethnic and genealogical stories.

Black History Month: This New York Times learning site provides lesson plans, crossword puzzles, an online quiz, and copies of headline stories dealing with black history.

The Civil War: An extensive listing of Civil War topics, which include quizzes, reading lessons, and activities.

The Eighteen National Geography Standards

Electronic New Jersey:  Sponsored by Rutgers University, this site provides digital curriculum resources on New Jersey history and culture for classroom use to educators at the middle, high school and university levels.

Graphic Maps.com: Find outline maps of countries as well as images of flags, continents, globe, USA and the world.

Geography Hotlist: This is a treasure of geography links that include time zones, flags of the world, cultural US history maps, rare maps, geographic dictionary, maps from around the world, teacher resources, and much more.

GovSpot: This site explores the web for government information such as documents, facts and figures, news, political information and more.

History-It's Happening!: An EBSCO Publishing database that contains primary source documents, speeches, and selected articles on notable figures from Canada and the U.S., historic video footage, web sites related to history, and teacher guides.

History Matters: “Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History courses.  This site serves as a gateway to Web resources and offers useful materials for teaching U.S. history.”

How Well Do You Know Your World?: A great geography game that works well using a SMARTBoard.

Jazz in America: The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz has developed this site as an Internet-based jazz curriculum for social studies, American history, and music classes.  There are eight, 50-minue class lessons for 5th, 8th, and 11th grades.

Landmark Supreme Court Cases: "This site was developed to provide teachers with a full range of resources and activities to support the teaching of landmark Supreme Court cases, helping students explore the key issues of each case."

The Learning Page: “Here is a teacher’s eye view of over 7 million historical documents, photographs, maps, films, and audio recordings.  You will find lessons, features, activities, and tips and tricks for using these collections in your classroom.”  Resources are the from the Library of Congress American Memory collections.

The Library of Congress: “Get it Online…Words, Pictures & Sound”.  Look at US history & culture, world culture & resources, Thomas Legislative information, exhibitions, and more.

Lincoln Bicentennial 1809-2009: Live the Legacy: Find resources for grades K-12, such as lesson plans, reading lists, interactive games, timelines, and teacher workshop/professional development opportunities.

Montgomery County Public Schools Social Studies Bookmarks: Hundreds of links appropriate for K-12 social studies topics.

The National Archives: Valuable records from the Federal government that are preserved and available to you.

National Geographic: Education: Find lesson plans, educational materials and interactive features here.

National Geographic Xpeditions: Another great site for teachers that feature lesson plans, an atlas of printable outline maps, standards, and other activities.

New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards for Social Studies

Our Documents: This new site offers documents that were an important part of our past.  Have students read and discuss these milestone documents.  Classroom activities are also given.

Reproduction Envelopes from the Civil War: Print out these Civil War envelope reproductions for your students, and have them write a letter from the field.

Smithsonian Education: This education resource is directed at teachers, parents, and students.  Nearly 1,000 resources are offered including free lesson plans, field trips, and interactive learning labs, all searchable by grade level and subject.

About: Special Education: This website offers many links and articles regarding special education with new links and articles frequently being updated.

Adapting Instruction: You will find an easy to read chart with nine ways to adapt instruction for a student with special needs.  For each strategy a practical example is given.

CITEd (Center for Implementing Technology in Education): This site supports school districts in using technology to provide differentiating instruction through the Technology Implementation Partnership.

Education Resources: This page is the Education Resource page of the Special Needs Special Kids (Disability Awareness) website and includes information on adaptive programming and adaptive games.

Inclusive Schools: This site, sponsored by the National Institute for Urban School Improvement, contains information about inclusion in the classroom.

Inclusive Science and Special Education Needs: The pages on this site aim to facilitate the sharing of good practice and ideas relating science education for students with special educational needs.

The IRIS Center (Idea and Research for Inclusive Settings): This site, developed by Peabody University and Vanderbilt University with funding from the U.S. Office of Special Education Programs, provides modules with specific information in differentiated instruction, classroom and behavior management, accommodations, collaboration, disabilities, diversity, and transition.

Misunderstood Minds: This PBS site offers a variety of simulation activities that allow students to learn about disabilities in attention reading, math, and writing, and also has resources.  This is based on the work of Mel Levine.

Project INSPIRE: This site developed by Texas Woman’s University has a wealth of information regarding adapted physical education. It provides concise fact sheets regarding typical behaviors associated with a number of disabilities, program modification suggestions, and Internet links.

RISE: "The RISE website (Resources in Special Education) is a site created for teacher education interns and instructors at Michigan State University. It is designed to provide online resources, support, and answers to the questions, challenges, and issues teacher education students face when educating and working with students with special needs."

Suggested Classroom Interventions For Children With ADD & Learning Disabilities: This site includes some ideas for children with ADD and a list of strategies for cognitively impulsive children.  There is also a table listing 35 specific behaviors and the accommodations of 'what to do' when you observe a particular behavior.

A1 Free Sound Effects: Download free sounds for PowerPoint or other presentations.

Activities and Lessons: Find great technology activities, lessons and ideas using PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and Publisher.

Backflip: Build your world on the web and save all the web pages you want.  You can create public folders, which allow your students or others to see it on line.  You must register to use this free site.

Blue Web'n: This online library concise of 2020 outstanding Internet stie categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects).

BookVideoNing: Joyce Valenza's site on sharing media (in any digital format) to promote books, reading, and literacy K-12.

Building a School Web Site: This site gives you simple basic information on building a school web site.

Buzzillions.com: Find product reviews before buying that technology product.

Computer Lesson Plans: Integrate technology across all subjects by viewing more than 30 individual lesson plans on this site. Topics include music, parts of speech, weather, math, etc.

Cool Text: Choose your text, your fonts, textures, and images, and create your own personalized logo or button with this customized graphics generator.

Copyright 101 for Educators: Find information about copyright that all educators should be aware of.

Custom Guide: Download and print out free computer quick references for many computer software programs.

CWCBOE Teacher Technology Resource Page: This site provides tutorials and instructions for operating much of the hardware and software at your buildings in Caldwell-West Caldwell Public Schools.

CyberSmart! Curriculum: “A free K-8 curriculum empowering students to use the Internet safely, responsibly and effectively.”

The Daily.WAV: Download free sound clips from TV shows and movies for PowerPoint and other presentations.

EdTech: This technology magazine is available online for administrators, teachers, and technology instructors.

The Educator’s Reference Desk: This site has great links for educators in the areas of counseling, general education, librarianship, family life, teaching, technology, subject areas, and more.

EduScapes: This site was developed by Annette Lamb and Larry Johnson as a site for life-long learners with ideas on using technology in the classroom.

4teachers.org: This site "...works to help you integrate technology into your classroom by offering FREE online tools and resources.  This site helps teachers locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars.  There are also tools for student use."

8^th Grade Assignments: Computer lessons for the 8^th grade that design web pages, create documents with desktop publishing, understand word processing or computer components, learn how to create a PowerPoint project, write a letter, create a brochure, and more.

Embed YouTube Video into PowerPoint: A YouTube video explaining how to do this.  Also check out the following link on FAQs.

Embed YouTube Video into PowerPoint FAQs: Another YouTube explaining FAQs on problems embedding a YouTube Video into a PowerPoint.

Everyting WebQuest!: Find out everything you need to know about WebQuests at this site.”

Excel Viewlets and Guides: This site contains about 125 interactive Web “mini-movies” for teaching yourself and others how to create a spreadsheet.  Templates are also given.

Extreme Searching: How to Avoid Extreme Frustration (and Bird Walks): A Kathy Schrock site listing different types of search engines and sites for assignments.

A Fair(y) Use Tale: A YouTube video explaining copyright use.

Filamentality:  “How do you get started integrating the wealth of the Web into your learning environment? Filamentality is an Interactive Website that guides you through creating five different types of Web pages and then posts it right on the Internet! Try making a Hotlist, Multimedia Scrapbook, Subject Sampler, Treasure Hunt, or WebQuest. Create one or collect all five!”  

FindSounds: Search the web for sound clips that can be downloaded at home.

Freeplay Music: This site provides royalty-free downloads of background music for “educational, non-commercial use (limited to student use on school grounds for in classroom projects- non broadcast)”.  Check out the “Terms of Use” for other applications.

From Now On: This Educational Technology Journal site is the work of Jamie McKenzie.  You will find many articles about technology and education.

GoAnimate: Create your own animation at this free site.

Going Digital in the Classroom: Find some great ideas on how to use a digital camera in the classroom.  There are also links to other sites.

Google for Educators-Tools for your Classroom: Find all kinds of neat tools from Google including tips posters to help you in the classroom.

Google Newsmap: The news from around the world is displayed in blocks which reflects the constantly changing landscape of news.  The size of the box indicates the relevance of the story.  Click on the boxes to find out more about that news item.

Google Site Directions:  A PDF containing detailed information on creating a Google site.

Incompetech.com: Find royalty free music collections at this site.

Microsoft Excel Modules: A great site of modules and links for explaining Microsoft Excel.

More Google Products: Find a whole list of free Google tools.

New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards for Technological Literacy

November Learning: The home page of Alan November, a promoter of the effective use of information and communication technologies that support and enhance learning for children and communities.

Ozline.com: “Bright ideas for education by Tom March.” “Helping educators work the web.”

Pandora: This internet radio allows you to subscribe free and set up approx. 100 listening stations for artists or songs.

Partners in Rhyme – Weather Sound Effects: Find royalty free weather sound effects here.

Pathfinders Online: Sponsored by the Western Australia Department of Education and Training, this site explains what pathfinders are, how to create one, templates, and exemplary pathfinders.

Picnik: Edit photos online with this site.

Pixel Breaker: An interesting online clock.

Planting the Seeds of Change: Infusing Information Literacy Skills: A Kathy Schrock site listing links to sites on information literacy skills.

PowerPoint in the Classroom: Here are some tutorials to get you started in PowerPoint presentations in your classroom: creating slides, adding sound, adding images, and more. Teacher Guide included, for Powerpoint 98.

The Radio.com: This online internet radio site allows you to select artists, songs, or genres of music to play on your computer.

Scavenger Hunts: Searching for Treasure on the Internet!: “Internet scavenger hunts are a way for students to practice problem solving, improve their reading and comprehension skills, and learn how to search the Internet.”

School Spreadsheet Safari: “In this website you’ll learn about the history of spreadsheets, how to use them, and vocabulary. You will find out how spreadsheets can be used in a variety of school subjects and how they can help you organize information and practice skills.”

Seven Simple Starters by Annette Lamb: This short presentation focuses on seven simple "starters" for teachers interested in integrating Internet into their classroom.

7^th Grade Assignments: Computer lessons for the 7^th grade that design web pages, create documents with desktop publishing, understand word processing or computer components, learn how to create a PowerPoint project, write a letter, create a brochure, and more.

Site Snagger: This free downloadable software program will allow you to copy a website to your computer for later viewing.

6^th Grade Assignments: Computer lessons for the 6^th grade that design web pages, create documents with desktop publishing, understand word processing or computer components, learn how to create a PowerPoint project, write a letter, create a brochure, and more.

SMART Technologies: This site is the first searchable database of lesson activities for interactive whiteboards (SMART).

Sound America: Download free audio clips, sounds, etc. for PowerPoint and other presentations.

Spreadsheet – A Variety of Activities!: Find uses for spreadsheets including timelines, interviews, pie charts, graphing, probability, and more.

Surviving in the One Computer Classroom: Find tips for using one computer and 25 students.

TeacherTube: A site similar to YouTube but for teachers showcasing educational videos.

Teach-nology: A web portal for educators that includes reviews of sites, teacher worksheets, downloads, rubrics and other teacher tools.  Request a teacher newsletter delivered by email.

TechLEARNING: Find articles from the magazine Technology & Learning for teachers, technology coordinators and administrators.

TechLearning Tips: A great site to view tips on technology and view the archives of all the tips.  Included here are Site of the Day, How –To QuickFlicks, The IT Guy, Professional Development QuickTips, Leader’s Edge, and America’s Attic & Archives.

Techtorials Archive: From Education World comes this great site of links to tutorials for all kinds of technology including Excel, Word, blogs, computer maintenance, email, mail merge, PowerPoint, web design, professional curriculum and development, and much more.

TechTrekers: This great site for teachers includes sites from early elementary to high school, free stuff for teachers, history, math, and science sites, simulation sites, scavenger hunts, thematic units, virtual fieldtrips, webquests, PowerPoint ideas, rubrics, and web page tools.  Check it out!

To Excel in the Classroom is Elementary: Find a comprehensive list for classroom strategies and projects using Excel such as charts, Bingo, databases, spelling lists, vocabulary lists, math, etc.

Trackstar: “TrackStar helps instructors organize and annotate Web sites (URLs) for use in lessons.  The resource list remains visible allowing the user to easily stay on track.”

Wayback Machine: Find a history of what websites looked like from earlier days or use the links here to search for historical collections in digital format.

Web Quest Generator: Create an original WebQuest assignment by filling out this simple Web-based form.  Print out the finished assignment when you are finished.

WebQuest 101: Find a brief and nontechnical online tutorial written by a teacher on WebQuests.

The WebQuest Page: Bernie Dodge, the creator of webquests from San Diego State University, has assembled a wealth of training resources and creation tools to help you get started making webquests.

Web Quest Rubric Maker: Create and print out a customized rubric for your students.

WebQuest Use by Annette Lamb: Why reinvent the wheel? Start by exploring the WebQuests that others have created. 

Welcome to Copyright Kids!: Find basic information about copyright, links, information for teachers and parents, and more at this important site.

YouTomb:  This site tracks videos taken down from YouTube for alleged copyright violation.

Zoho: This site contains free online software programs that can be accessed.

Animoto: Create music videos for your images and pictures.  You can also add narration.

BookVideoNing: Joyce Valenza's site on sharing media (in any digital format) to promote books, reading, and literacy K-12.

GO2WEB2.0: This site lists free software for Web 2.0.

Google for Educators-Tools for Your Classroom: Find all kinds of neat tools from Google to help you in the classroom including tips posters.

Google Site Directions:  A PDF containing detailed information on creating a Google site.

Kerpoof: Create original artwork, animated movies, and stories.

More Google Products: Find a whole list of free Google tools.

Ning: Create your own social network.

100 Powerful Web Tools to Organize Your Thoughts and Ideas: A great listing of Web 2.0 tools for everyday use.

Pandora: This internet radio allows you to subscribe free and set up approx. 100 listening stations for artists or songs.

Postcard.fm: Compose and send an audio postcard to a friend.

Quizlet:  This site is a tool for learning vocabulary which gives you a specialized learning mode, flashcards, randomly generated tests, and collaboration tools to help study words.

The Radio.com: This online internet radio site allows you to select artists, songs, or genres of music to play on your computer.

School Library Learning 2.0: This online tutorial introduces you to the new tools of 2.0.

skrbl: An online whiteboard (like a SmartBoard).

Sumo Paint: A free online image editing software that gives you the opportunity to create, edit and comment images with powerful tools and layer support.

Wix: Create a free online website with Wix.

Zamzar: A free online file conversion site.