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Teacher Resources

Teacher Cyber Guide: Two Bad Ants

Lesson plans for Chris Van Allsburg, author of the month. Lesson plans are listed for grades k-3, and are alined with the California Standards:

Reading for information and author's

purpose

Brief Narrative Standard

Reading comprehension standard 2.7

Writing Strategies Standard 1.3

http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us./score/badant/badanttg.html

For lesson plans across the curriculum for all grades and matched with California Standards:

http://www.score.k12.ca.us/

Math Forum

Online help for teachers & students

http://www.forum.swarthmore.edu/students/

Grolier Research Online

http://www.grolier.com

Stephen Krashen Article

Who will tend the reading

gardens?

http://www.krashen@usc.edu

Poetry web site

http://www.poets.org

Literacy Resources

http://pbskids.org/lions/links/links_litorgs.html

http://pbskids.org/lions/kguide/index.html

Don't miss this! Between the Lions: Get Wild About Reading. 54 e-books for kids with teacher's guide.

Includes a feature book each week, vocabulary, letter sound ID, comprehension, games and much more. Resources are available also. Students will have this available in the library as well.

http://pbskids.org/lions/

ALSC Association for Library Service to Children

http://www.ala.org/alsc/

Kindergarten Teacher's Guide for

Get Wild About Reading

SCORE Cyberguide

http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html

SCORE:

Schools of

California Online

Resources for

Educators

Native Americans

Selective Bibliography and Guide for "I" IS NOT FOR INDIAN: THE PORTRAYAL OF NATIVE AMERICANS IN BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

Program of the ALA/OLOS Subcommitte for Library Services to American Indian People, American Indian Library Association . A must read!

http://www.nativeculture.com/lisamitten/ailabib.htm

Native American Web Page :

http://www.nativeculture.com

Fourth Grade Teachers:

Donner Party Web Quest

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/donner

6 TRAITS

http://www.geocities.com/ginnyks/sixtraitupdate.html

Inter Active Six-Trait Writing Process: http://216.166.134.3/6traits/

Four Blocks : Literacy Program

Check the web sites below!

Pat Cunningham & Dottie Hall

http://www.wfu.edu/~cunningh/fourblocks/blockl.html

Cheryl Sigmon : Sift and Sort through 4 Blocks

http://www.teachers.net/4blocks/column.html

To learn mor about four blocks from Cheryl Sigmon:

http://www.cherylsigmano.com

Big 6 - Information Literacy Model

http://www.big6.com/

The Nuts & Bolts of Big 6

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/big6

District's

Big 6

Information Literacy Model

BLUE WEB'N

Another resource like SCORE

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/

K-3rd Grade -The Big Wide World WebQuest

The Big Wide World WebQuest

4th Grade - California Native Americans

California Native Americans WebQuest

4th Grade - The Donner Online WebQuest

Donner Online WebQuest

Other Interesting Web Sites:

Blue Web'n Database: over 1200 great educational resources.

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn

PBS Kids Cyberchase: a fun math related game is available every day. Pump up the math skills and have a little fun at the same time. Take the poll ( and have students apply their knowledge of graphs).

http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/

Song for teaching: find research about music in the classroom, as well as grerat ideas for songs by discipline.

http://songsforteachin.homestead.com/index.html

Holiday stories and lessons:

Halloween story for overhead: Witch's Brew

http://www.indyschools.com/PITCrew/LessonPlans/k-5lp/science/witchbrew.htm

http://scout.cswisc.edu/addserv/NH/99-10/99-10-14/0002.html

FREE

"Federal Resources for Educational Excellence.

FREE makes it easy to find learning resources form more than 35 federal organizations. Resources include teaching ideas, learning activities, photos, maps, primary documents, data, paintings, sound recordings, and more-"

http://www.ed.gov/free

California Learning Resource Network

This is a must see for all teachers. Registration is FREE

http://www.clrn.org

Dottie's Weight Loss Zone

Weight Watcher's Program

http://www.dottisweightlosszone.com

CTAP2 SURVEY

Online Visual Thesaurus

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/online/index.html

http://techlearning.com/db_area/archives/WCE/archives/copywes.html

Plagiarism: An article and supporting websites to check students work.

http://www.yorku.ca/ycom/profiles/past/mar00/current/cover/cover2.htm

Librarian Reference Pages

http://www.lii.org

Also found on bookmarks

Make your own puzzles to support your curriculum. http://www.puzzlemaker.com

http://www2.edtechprofile.org/index.php

LEARNING PAGE

Take full advantage of the Library's unparalleled online resources. The Learning Page offers lesson plans and activities based on the American Memory Historical Collections and shows you effective ways to use them with your students.

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