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Math Matters
Resources for youth, parents, and teachers
Early Literacy Web
Getting ready to read,
ready for school
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Career clusters, activities, online
resources, entrepreneurship, and MORE!
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Help a child succeed in school, resources
for kids, families, and teachers
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Teacher Links
At this point of time, many of the links posted here are
targeted for primary teachers, though some of these sites contain
comprehensive sets of resources for middle school and high school teachers
too. In the future, we plan on breaking this section into 2
sections: Primary Educators and Secondary Educators. Until
then, please scroll down and take a look at what we have found because
these links will often serve multiple grade levels.
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100 Picture Books Everyone Should Know. From the New York Public Library - great list of
great books!
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1,000+ Reading Strategies Lesson Plans Reviewed by Teachers
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4 Blocks Literacy Framework. Using the "4Blocks"
framework, this site provides templates, lesson ideas and
plans which would assist in the implementation of 4 Blocks
-includes a great set of
Word Wall Grade Level Lists.
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4Teachers. This
site helps integrate technology into your classroom by
offering 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.
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A to Z Teacher Stuff. This is a great site for Teachers and Librarians
- FREE online lesson plans, lesson plan ideas and activities,
thematic units, printables, themes, teaching tips, articles,
and educational resources
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Alphabet Games for Kids in Kindergarten,
1st Grade, 2nd Grade.
Here's some interactive sites to teach alphabet skills.
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Amazing Travel Bureau: National
Geographic. Travel
the world, courtesy of National Geographic. It's a real
adventure for kids.
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Animal Coloring Page: Columbus Zoo. Color pictures on the computer!
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Apples4theTeacher.com. This site, for primary
teachers, includes interactive learning games, quizzes, and
worksheet generator tools by subject
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Ask for Kids.
Formerly known as Ask Jeeves for Kids, this is a fast, easy
and kid-friendly way for kids to search online. Ask for
Kids uses natural-language technology that allows kids to
ask questions and perform web searches, such as "When did
Hawaii become a state?" or even "Convert 122 inches into feet"
in the same way they would ask a parent, friend or teacher.
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Authors and Children's Literature.
Large collection of links to great online resources - part of
Tammy's Tidbits.
- Award Books and Nominees:
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Back in Print. The
online bookstore that is making thousands of out-of-print
titles available again.
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Best Books for Children. Here's a collection of reading suggestions from the New
York Public Library.
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Best on the Web for Teachers.
A Web portal for teachers with a huge collection of resources
that are continually updated and ranked based on usage.
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BiblioCat's Website.
Resources for Librarians, School librarians, Library/Media
Specialists, Teachers, Parents, and Homeschoolers.
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Big6 Information Problem Solving Skills.
Developed by educators Mike Eisenberg and Bob Berkowitz, the
Big6 is the most widely-known and widely-used approach to
teaching information and technology skills in the world. Here
are some lesson ideas to use this model.
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Blue Web 'N. Blue
Web'n is an online library of 2094 outstanding Internet sites
categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools,
references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials,
activities, projects).
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Book Hive. A a web site designed for children ages birth
through twelve, their parents, teachers or anyone interested
in reading about children's books - search for books by
author, title, reading level, interest area, number of pages,
and even favorite illustrator.
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Book Repair Basics. Here's what you need to know to start repairing
books.
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Book Repair Manuel. General Collections conservation is a necessary
and key activity of an effective preservation program. This
manual has been written to provide background on standard
commercial book production, give guidelines for selecting
appropriate candidates for in-house book repair, and introduce
staff to the elements of book repair.
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Book Repair Manuel: Step-by-Step
(.pdf file, 32 pages). This downloadable, printable document outlines
book repair.
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Book Reviews for Kindergarten.
This site presents some good picture books and links for
discussion topics, activities, related books and links to
other subjects and resources.
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Booklists. Try the following lists for book ideas on a certain
subject - great set of links from the Morton Grove Public
Library.
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Books in a Series.
This list is intended to reflect the hardcover fiction
collection in the Monroe County Public Library Children's
Department, but it is an extensive listing organized
alphabetically.
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Books in Print.
Whether you're looking for information on books, audio books,
or videos, you've come to the right place. With millions of
titles, this is an essential bibliographic tool for libraries,
booksellers, and publishers.
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BrainPOP Jr. This site features teacher
resources, educational movies, lessons, homework help, and
games for kids.
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Brementown Musicians: Read the
Brementown Musicians Online Story. This site provides stories in both text and flash
animations along with interactive activities and games.
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Carol Hurst's Children's Literature
Site: Reviews and teaching ideas for kids' books.
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.
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Celebrate Dr. Seuss's Birthday. Large number of
links for lesson plan links and book activities to celebrate
this most notable children's author's birthday.
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Children's Authors and Illustrators.
Great set of links for popular children's authors and
illustrators from A-Z. Scroll down each page to locate
the link to click on the next group of authors.
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Children's Book Council.
The Children's Book Council, Inc. is the nonprofit trade
association of publishers and packagers of trade books and
related materials for children and young adults.
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Children's Books Online the Rosetta
Project, Inc. This online library of
illustrated books is a volunteer-driven project. It has grown
slowly since 1996 from the work of a single man and a handful
of books, to a vibrant volunteer-driven organization
publishing new books and translations every week.
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Children's eBooks Online.
Set of links that includes animated texts and online
storytelling videos.
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Children's Literature Navigator.
This site is a compilation of Internet resources for
librarians, parents, teachers, caregivers, and children.
Links are organized alphabetically within categories common in
the field.
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Children's Literature Guide: Nancy
Polette. Each month Nancy will feature a sample
literature guide for you to use in your classroom. You will
need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view a guide in pdf format. Otherwise, to view in the
browser, click "text file".
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Children's Literature Web Guide. The place to start for locating information about
children’s book authors, books for children or young adults,
book awards, and many related resources in the Internet.
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Children's Nonfiction Writers:
Wikipedia.
Large listing of authors, usually with link to author's Web,
organized alphabetically.
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Children's Picture Books That Encourage
Friendship. Books
that talk about friendships and the struggles sometimes
experienced between friends offer tangible situations and
recognizable feelings for children. Here are some
suggestions.
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Children's Storybooks Online. Free online illustrated children's stories for
kids of all ages.
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Clifford the Big Red Dog. This is the official Website for the TV series
about this popular series of picture books.
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Coloring.com. Here
are some free online interactive coloring pages and coloring
books
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Compare/Contrast a Traditional Tale to a
Retelling. In this lesson, we choose a
well known story, such as Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Paul
Galdone) and a retelling such as Dusty Locks and the Three
Bears (Susan Lowell). Then, read or review the traditional
tale and follow by reading the retelling.
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Computer Training.
Links to resources to help teachers use Frontpage, Graphics
and Backgrounds, Pinnacle Movie Editing, Powerpoint, Excel,
Inspiration and Kidspiration, and Hyperstudio.
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Create a Graph. Courtesy of the National Center for Education
Statistics, this site allows you and your students to
instantly create an area, bar, line or pie graph based upon
values that you enter. You can then export the graph into an
other application.
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Database of Award-Winning Children's
Literature. The purpose of this database
is to create a tailored reading list of quality children's
literature or to find out if a book has won one of the indexed
awards.
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Dewey Decimal Classification Resources:
OCLC. If you
work in a public or K–12 library—or use one—you may need
information about the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC)
system rather than from it. These resources can help.
Check out the PowerPoint presentations for kids.
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Dewey Decimal Hotlist for Librarians.
This librarian's list of links was created to classify Dewey
Decimal information found on the Internet that could be used
in teaching the Dewey Decimal System to students.
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Dewey Decimal Links.
Here are some more great sites to help teach Dewey
classification.
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Dewey Decimal Made Fun.
Collection of links to resources to learn and review the Dewey
Decimal System.
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Dewey Decimal System Animated Tour.
This 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. To take the
tour, you will need the Macromedia Flash plug-in for the
Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer web browser.
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Dewey Decimal System by Tens. Here is a quick summary of Dewey numbers in increments
of 10.
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Dewey Decimal System Game (Bardonia
Elementary School Library). This interactive site reviews the Dewey Decimal
system in a fun format that kids will enjoy.
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Dewey Decimal System Game (Quia).
Have fun matching Dewey Decimal System numbers with their
classification. Includes matching, flash cards, and
concentration.
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Dewey Lesson Ideas.
Great site with short "thumbnail" descriptions of activities
and lessons and how different librarians introduce children to
the Dewey Decimal System.
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Dewey Resource Page. Here are some links to help kids learn Dewey
numbers.
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Dolch Word Site. Dolch word lists and activities
pre-K through 3rd grade. Great site for teachers and
students, includes some book activities and PowerPoint "flash
cards."
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Education World.
Huge site with curriculum, sites, lesson plans in all
subjects, technology in the classroom, message boards, and
grants more.
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EduHound. This site
provides everything for education K12. They have
"tracked it down" so you don't have to.
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EduPuppy. Great
source for everything for education Preschool-Grade 3.
This large database provides a comprehensive cornerstone for
Early Childhood Educators and families using the Internet.
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Elementary Games by Subject.
A HUGE collection of links to a variety of online games and
activities across the curriculum.
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ePals: Where Learners Connect.
ePALS connects learners around the world for sharing and
exchanges that foster literacy, language and critical thinking
skills in a fun and safe environment.
- Everyday Math Resources: K-5. These Web
pages help teachers with resources relating to the
Everyday Math Series.
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Kindergarten
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First Grade
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Second Grade
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Third Grade
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Fourth Grade
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Fifth Grade
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Everyday Math Resource. Great books, by grade
level and unit, that fit the objectives.
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EZ Library Programs for ALL Ages. This is a searchable database of ideas and
activities to share books with children of all ages.
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Fact Monster. A
free reference site just for kids! Get homework help and more!
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Fake Out! From
Houghton Mifflin’s Education Place, this site presents
definitions for vocabulary words and asks students try to
avoid being “faked out” by choosing the correct definitions.
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Fiction Vs. Nonfiction Practice.
Great interactive site with embedded audio - students can
listen to the directions and examples of stories and then
classify each as fiction or nonfiction.
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Fiction or Nonfiction: Quia. Choose whether books would be classified as
fiction book or a nonfiction.
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First Grade Lesson Plans.
From Core Knowledge, here's a variety of lesson plan links
across the curriculum.
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First Grade Library Lesson Plans. Great site, 35
weeks of activities and links to short lesson plans that
include objectives and vocabulary terms (dellutri.com).
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First Grade Library Lesson Plans.
Here's a 2-semester outline that uses the first semester to
teach students how to use the library, the difference between
fiction and nonfiction and they learn what authors and
illustrators do. In the second semester students learn about
specific authors and illustrators such as Marc Brown, Lois
Ehlert, and Arnold Lobel (Roan Creek Elementary School).
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First Grade Library Lessons:
Month by Month. Great site, monthly
themes for activities and lessons with links to some
additional resources for some of the topics.
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First Grade Program
Oak Hall School uses The Horizons
program, a phonics-based, accelerated reading program, that
includes a spelling component in each lesson. This Web
outlines how it works and the role of the Library Media
Center.
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First Grade Lessons.
Great site - short "thumbnail" lesson plans on a variety of
important library media skills that are used in first grade.
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First Grade Lessons.
Wonderful site with a variety of links to lessons and
activities about a variety of topics and subjects taught to
first graders (M. Kunimitsu).
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Folktales of Cooperation For Your K-3
Class. Are you looking for a fun
and effective way of promoting the spirit of cooperation in
your K through 3 classrooms? This week, Elaine Lindy, creator
of the Absolutely Whootie Web site, shares three favorite
folktales that will get kids thinking and talking about the
importance of cooperation!
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Free Worksheets. A site that supports various
topics, such as themes, units, lessons, graphics, plus over
2000 free worksheets.
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Freeware Home. An
indexed collection of FREE programs commonly found on the
Internet.
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FunBrain.com.
Claims to be the Internet's #1 Education Site for K-8 Kids and
Teachers
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Funschool.
Fun and Educational Games and Activities for Kids.
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Genres Lesson Plans, Activities, and
Free PowerPoint Presentations.
Interesting set of links to teach children about different
genres.
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Grade 1 Central. Wonderful site that is
full of resources. Its the place to find lesson plans,
teaching ideas and resources for the Grade One curriculum.
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Grammar Gorillas.
Our friends, the Grammar Gorillas, need help identifying parts
of speech. If you click on the right word in the sentence, our
friends get a banana. And you know, a gorilla with a banana is
a gorilla with appeal.
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Great K-3 SMARTboard Sites. Wonderful set of
resources with activities to use SMARTboards in the classroom.
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Great Websites for Kids.
Huge collection of links selected by the American Library
Association.
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Harold and the Purple Crayon. This all-time popular picture books has been
enjoyed by generations of children, now you can draw just like
Harold did! Requires Shockwave.
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Holiday Zone. Here's a site that offers seasonal and holiday
educational resources for teachers and parents of young
learners
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How Did Johnny Appleseed Help the
Pioneers Move West? Lesson. This
is a formally written lesson with 2 objectives: 1.
recognize the pioneer John Chapman, known as Johnny Appleseed.
2. understand how Johnny Appleseed helped the early pioneers
who were moving westward to start new homes and farms.
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How Strawberries Came into the World
Lesson. A complete lesson with 3
objectives: 1. listen to a Cherokee tale and discuss the
lesson of respect of people and nature in this legend.
2. learn about the Indian's appreciation of natural resources.
3. learn about the life of the Cherokee Indian people
including clothing, housing, and natural environment.
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Human Body, Human Body Information, Facts, News, Photos
(National Geographic). Great resources for health and
biology lessons.
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Hummingbird Educational Resources. Lesson Plans for Preschool-Kindergarten Educators -
includes free printables and interactive books.
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Information & Technology Literacy:
Kindergarten (CESA 12). This page
contains information to help teachers incorporate information
and technology literacy skills in their daily curriculum. Here
you will find sample curriculum resources specific to
Kindergarten student. We hope to have many teachers
contributing work to this site.
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Internet Library For Librarians.
This is a portal designed for Librarians to locate internet
resources related to their profession.
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Information Challenge.
This is a "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" style game about
information and technology literacy skills.
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Information Power.
From the American Library Association, this Website looks at
the many ways Library Media Centers provide important support
to increase student achievement.
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Information Skills Instruction.
Great site, includes links for Learning and Teaching,
Information Access, Program Administration, Technology, and
MORE!
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Internet Library For Librarians.
A Portal Designed for Librarians to Locate Internet Resources
Related to Their Profession. A Popular Information Resource
Site for Librarians Since 1994.
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Internet Public Library.
A public service organization and a learning/teaching
environment founded at the University of Michigan School of
Information and hosted by Drexel University's College of
Information Science & Technology.
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Johnny Appleseed Lesson Plan.
Here's a complete, formal lesson plan about the legend of
Johnny Appleseed and the history behind it. There are 2
instructional objectives: 1. Without prompts, the
students will be able to piece together a Johnny Appleseed
Time Line with one hundred percent accuracy. 2. Using
the story of Johnny Appleseed, the students will fill in the
blanks of at least eight of ten facts about Johnny Appleseed
and apples.
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Journey North. This collaborative site engages
students in a global study of wildlife migration and seasonal
change. K-12 students share their own field observations with
classmates across North America.
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Learn to Draw With Billy Bear.
Learn How to Draw with Billy Bear - A Project 4 Kids and their
Family.
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K-12 Themes for Classrooms. From EdTech - here are resources to support
common education themes used in classrooms. For each
theme, resources are provided for:
Research/Informational Sites, Online Activities, and Offline
Activities.
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K-12 Lesson Ideas for Literature. You’ve found a book you like but you’d like more
ideas about how to use it with your students. Locate ideas for
teaching with picture books by simply searching this index.
Teachers will learn about books and websites that contain
useful teaching suggestions related to books for children and
young adults, and the creators of those books.
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Kids Links. From the Morton Grove Library - great set of
online resources that have been carefully selected for
children.
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KidsClick! Here's a Web
search created and organized by librarians. Topics are
listed alphabetically or by the
Dewey Decimal System.
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Kindergarten Curricular Links. Excellent set of resources created and maintained by
Sun Prairie Area School District.
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Kindergarten Internet, Lesson Plans and
Webquest Sites. A great set of resources
to Web sites that support most any topic you can imagine.
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KinderKorner. Useful site, features a "box of
the week" with activities, units and many ideas to use in your
classroom.
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Kidspiration: Kindergarten.
Kidspiration, a children's version of the popular Inspiration
Graphical Organizer software, can be a powerful tool.
Here are some activities to help Kindergarteners get the most
of it.
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Kindergarten Language Arts Links.
A great set of links for creative ideas and lessons to teach
language arts. It includes activities and lessons for
Kindergarteners, First Graders, and Second Graders (Utah
Education Network).
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Kindergarten Lessons.
Another fun set of lessons, covering most any topic that
you can think of sharing with Kindergarteners.
This is a well-organized site with lots of ideas.
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Kindergarten Lesson Plans. From Core Knowledge, here's a variety of lesson
plan links across the curriculum.
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Kindergarten Library Information Skills.
This is a list of Library Information Skills which are taught
at Dixie Elementary Magnet School. If the skills are
underlined like hypertext, there is a corresponding lesson
plan you can link to. Click on the grade level to go to the
skills for that level. Its a wonderful set of resources.
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Kindergarten Library Lesson Plans.
Here is a set of activities for an entire school year - not
complete lessons, but ideas for lessons along with a
corresponding story to share.
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Kindergarten Library Lessons.
Good site that describes itself as: "Good Books, Great
Authors and Weblinks for Library Skills."
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Kindergarten Library Lessons:
Weekly. Great site, 35 weeks of
activities and links to short lesson plans that include
objectives and vocabulary terms.
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Kindergarten Links for Teachers. Good set of links to
support classroom learning.
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Kindergarten Literacy and Math.
Here are some good online resources to help teachers use the
Internet effectively in the class. This site organizes
links by different common topics (Internet4Classrooms).
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Kindergarten Procedures and Care of
Materials. This is a short listing
of how they work with Kindergarten students in Eau Claire's
schools. Some good ideas here.
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Kindergarten Math Lessons - lessons, activities,
worksheets and more
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Kindergarten Resources for Parents,
Teachers, and Kids. Here is a great
collection of resources that get everybody involved in the
education of children.
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Kindergarten Teacher.
Here's a comprehensive and organized collection of Websites
that will be useful to those who teach or intend to teach
kindergarten.
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Kindergarten Web Site...ings of the Day.
Explore these sites for resources and lesson plans for the
junior and senior Kindergarten classroom.
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KinderNature: A Resource For
Childhood Educators brought to you by Story County
Conservation.
This we was created to help early childcare educators, care
givers, and parents to incorporate nature in their curriculums
and lives. All the activities were reviewed for age
appropriateness and the multiple intelligences.
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Kindergarten - Second Grade Favorite
Authors and Illustrators. To find out
more about these popular authors and illustrators and for lots
of fun activities about some of your favorite characters,
visit this web sites.
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Kindergarten - Second Grade Handbook of
Assessment Tools. This is a set of
downloadable, printable .pdf files that identifies key issues
in assessing learning in early primary students.
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Lesson Plan Library: K-5.
Organized by different topics, these lessons can be modified
to suit different age groups (discoveryschool.com).
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Lesson Plan Links.
From Educational Technology Training Institute - nice
collection of resources.
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Lesson Plan Resources.
This is a list of suggested educational databases to use that
can enrich your classroom curriculum.
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Leveled Books Database.
This interactive database allows you to search for books that
have been leveled using either the Reading Recovery or Guided
Reading methodologies.
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Leveled Books Database:
Accelerated Reader. Here's a searchable database for guided reading.
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Leveled Books Database: Reading
Recovery.
Now you can search thousands of books leveled for guided
reading,
Reading Recovery, and Accelerated Reader.
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Leveled Books Lists.
Teachers, with the help of Karon Reese (TOSA support), have
compiled a list of books leveled by grade and Reading Recovery
level. These are books that can be found in most school and
public libraries.
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Library Cataloging and Classification
Resources. This page includes information
on cataloging, classification and library automation, as well
as links to related periodicals. This page is part of the
School Libraries page. The ISLMC is a meta-site for
librarians, teachers, parents and students.
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Library Instruction.Com: Resources
for Library Instruction. This site
contains library instruction lesson plans, articles about
library instruction, a large library instruction bibliography,
and links to library instruction resources. This site also
includes material relating to information literacy.
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Librarians' Internet Index.
A publicly-funded website and weekly newsletter serving
California, Washington state, the nation, and the world. Every
Thursday morning they send out a free newsletter, New This
Week, which features dozens of high-quality websites carefully
selected, described, and organized by our team of librarians.
Topics include current events and issues, holidays and
seasons, helpful tools for information users, human interest,
and more.
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Literacy Activities. From the Center for Learning and Literacy, presents
ideas on how to help kids develop Language Arts skills.
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Literacy Games.
Great set of links for interactive sites that are designed to
teach literacy skills to pre-Kindergarteners to 6-graders.
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Literacy Websites, 4-11 Year Olds. From the BBC, these animated games build reading
skills.
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KidSites.com: The Best Kid Sites
on the Web. KidSites is the leading guide
to the best in kids' web sites.
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Library Skills Games and Review. From St. Joseph
School Library, a large collection of library related
activities.
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Making Multicultural Connections Through
Trade Books. This site focuses on
multicultural tradebooks for elementary aged children. These
books were selected because they represent a specific culture
and its traditions, history, folktales, or current peoples.
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Math Teacher's Toolkit. Here are some great
resources to teach and demonstrate math concepts.
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Mid-continent for Education and Learning
(McREL), Content Knowledge Standards and Benchmark Database.
McREL offers practical, research-based solutions for teachers,
principals, superintendents and trainers.
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Multicultural Picture Books for Today's
Children. This
listing reflects the great diversity of children and their
families in the United States and around the world.
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Name The Genre.
Here's a fun, interactive site that challenges children to
read books and classify them by genre.
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National Library of Virtual
Manipulatives. Organized by general grade level, here are some
interactive sites that use game-style presentations to teach
and review basic math concepts.
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Online Books Page. This site listing over 25,000 free books on the
Web.
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Online Resources for School Librarians.
This collection of online resources has been selected and made
available as a way of assisting school librarians to make
effective use of the vast resources of the Internet and World
Wide Web.
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Online Stories.
From Alta Murrieta Elementary School in California, this is
set of links to stories for kids, all organized
alphabetically.
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Paint.net. This is
a free image and photo editing application that can replace MS
Paint that comes with the Windows operating system. To run it,
you must have Windows XP, Windows 2000, or Server 2003. It has
a great advantage over the original Paint because it gives the
user the ability to use layers.
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Paper Toys: Paper Cut-Outs &
Models. Here's
a site full of paper toys, cut-outs and models for kids and
grownups to print out and build.
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Parts of a Book.
This fun interactive page helps kids review the parts of a
book. Just type the answer to the question in the white
box. Click on "Check My Answer" to see if you are right.
If you get the wrong answer click on "Try Again" to start
over.
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Parts of a Book: Quia. This site reviews the parts of a book with a
Matching game,
Flashcards (Java / non-Java),
Concentration game, and
Word Search.
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PBS Teachers. Looking for ways to use public
television's education-themed programing to support your
classroom? This site is a great place to start.
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Picturing Books.
This Website is all about picture books.
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Picture Books: Multicultural
Lesson Plans. Using multicultural picture
books, students will work with transferring themes from the
books to current life and learn about other cultures.
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Picture Dictionary With Links. From Little Explorers, this site presents
teaching resources and lesson ideas for over 2,000 illustrated
dictionary entries (scroll down). There are also links
for other online resources for different age groups.
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PowerPoint Games.
Here are some downloadable templates to create games like
Jeopardy, Who Wants to be a Million, 20 Questions, and more.
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Pre-Kindergarten to 3rd-Grade Language
Arts. Links to ideas, activities, and
lessons.
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Pre-Kindergarten to 3rd-Grade Math.
Links to ideas, activities, and lessons.
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Pre-Kindergarten to 3rd-Grade Social
Studies. Links to ideas, activities, and
lessons.
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Pre-Kindergarten to 3rd-Grade Science.
Links to ideas, activities, and lessons.
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PrimaryGames.com: The Fun Place to
Learn! Fun site for elementary kids that
features educational games, printable coloring pages, holiday
activities, free musical postcards, crafts, puzzles, and more!
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Printable Crafts for Kids.
This site features a variety of fun, printable children's
crafts, coloring pages and more including projects for
holidays, educational themes and some of our children's
favorite cartoon characters.
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Pronouncing Dictionary of Author's Names.
This dictionary is the collaborative work of the members of
the LM_NET library listserv. Authors are presented in
alphabetical order, with an example of their work for extra
identification.
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Public Domain Music. Music and lyrics published in 1922 or earlier are
in the Public Domain in the United States. No one can claim
ownership of a song in the public domain, therefore public
domain songs may be used by anyone. Sound recordings, however,
are protected separately from musical compositions.
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Puzzlemaker. This is a great puzzle generation tool
for teachers, students and parents. Create and print
customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your
word lists.
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RAMP to Reading Resources.
Richmond Public Schools invites you to take our RAMP to
reading resources on the Internet! There are many links to
reading and literacy resources for teachers as well as for
students and parents.
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Read, Write, Think. Great site - K-12 lessons by
Title, Grade, or Date by clicking on the appropriate header.
Inlcudes standards, Web resources, and student materials.
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Read Along Stories & Songs. Enjoy reading and
singing along to these fun, animated stories!
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Reading Skills Development:
Teachers Guide. Language,
Listening and Writing Skills contribute to the development of
reading readiness. There are also other skills and abilities
which must be developed along the way.
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Ready to Read. The King County Library maintains an excellent
set of resources to help parents and teachers get children
ready to read.
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Ricochet's Listing of Books, Authors,
Illustrators and Film Adaptations of Children's Literature.
This library offers the reader a series of identification
sheets about books, authors, illustrators and film adaptations
of children's and young people's literature.
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Recommended Readings for Kindergarten.
Great suggestions, links are provided to authors' home pages
or to character pages where available.
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Resources, Lesson Plans and Activities:
An Internet Hotlist on Kindergarten.
Hop on board for an hour of exploration and sharing of
exemplary web sites, thematic units and classroom organization
ideas to kick-start your school year.
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Rhyme Time -- Rhyming Lesson Plan,
Words, Writing, Phonics, Teaching Worksheet.
After doing a read aloud of a rhyming picture book, students
will learn how to identify, say and write rhyming words by
engaging in rhyming exercises and matching rhyming cards
during independent work.
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Scholastic Kids.
Resources about characters, great books, lots of games, and
links to other good Websites.
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School-Libraries.org. This collection of online resources has been
selected and made available as a way of assisting school
librarians to make effective use of the vast resources of the
Internet and World Wide Web. Includes links for:
General Librarian Resources,
Curriculum and Technology Planning Links,
Books, Book Reviews and Reading Resources,
Learning and Teaching With the Web,
Web Gateways to Information,
Information Literacy and Library Skills and
Professional Educational Associations and Organizations.
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School Library Media Day.
School library media specialists need to promote public
awareness of the central role which library media programs
play in the education of children and young adults. Plan to
celebrate School Library Media Day (SLMD) on the Wednesday of
National Library Week or some other day during the week.
National Library Week theme is Log On@the Library.
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Second Grade Internet, Lesson Plans and Webquest Sites.
A great set of resources to Web sites that support most any
topic you can imagine.
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Second Grade Lesson Plans. From Core Knowledge, here's
a variety of lesson plan links across the curriculum.
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Second Grade Lessons. Great site - short
"thumbnail" lesson plans on a variety of important library
media skills that are used in first grade.
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Second Grade Lessons. Wonderful site with a
variety of links to lessons and activities about a variety of
topics and subjects taught to first graders (M. Kunimitsu).
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Second Grade Library Information Skills. Some
great ideas, activities, and links to help teach library
skills.
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Second Grade Library Lesson Plans. Great site,
monthly themes for activities and lessons with links to some
additional resources for some of the topics.
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Second Grade Library Lesson Plans. Wonderful
site, 35 weeks of activities and links to short lesson plans
that include objectives and vocabulary terms (dellutri.com).
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Seussville.
Great interactive site - anything Dr. Suess! At the
entry page, there are links for high-bandwidth (broadband) and
low-bandwidth (dial-up) versions.
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Sing-Along Songs: Midis and Lyrics.
Everything in your environment may have some impact on your
health. Yes, that even includes music -- music is an important
part of our "environment".
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S.O.S. for Information Literacy.
A virtual idea factory for teaching information and technology
literacy skills.
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Starfall: Where Children Have Fun
Learning to Read.
Teachers around the country are using Starfall materials as an
inexpensive way to make the classroom more fun and to inspire
a love of reading and writing. Primarily designed for first
grade, this site is also useful for pre-kindergarten,
kindergarten and second grade.
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Storybook Shelf of Animated Stories. From Panda Bear's Playhouse, here is a collection
to share with children.
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Storybook Web. This
website contains a captivating collection of activities for
children aged 5-8 years. The site is based on popular
children's stories by authors Scoular Anderson, Debi Gliori,
Mairi Hedderwick and Frank Rodgers.
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StoryPlace: The Children's Digital
Library. Great
collection of stories and activities for children.
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Storytime Online. A streaming video website that
features celebrity actors reading children's books aloud. A
program of the Screen Actors Guild Foundation.
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Stump the Bookseller.
Have you forgotten the title of your favorite children's book?
This is a service to help solve your book mysteries. Submit
your memory here, and see if anyone else remembers your book
memory, or better yet, knows the title and author!
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Super 3: #1-Plan, #2-Do, #3-Review.
Here is a simplified version of the
Big6 Information Problem Solving Skills
designed for young children (K-2).
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Teaching Heart.
Scroll down for some great downloadable, printable resources
to use with some great picture books.
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Helpers - Themes and Unit activities, resources, 4
Blocks Framework links, teacher web pages and more.
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Teaching Ideas for Primary
Teachers. Good site with lessons in each subject area . Easy lesson
format containing descriptions with age range.
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Teaching Resources, Ideas, Lesson Plans,
and Tools for Teachers Grades PreK-12.
From Scholastic.com - scroll down for the section Teaching
Ideas by Grade and click on appropriate age group (PreK-K,
1-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12.
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Teaching With The Web:
Kindergarten - Second Grade. A set of
links with ideas, activities, and lessons to incorporate the
Internet into lessons.
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ThinkFinity: Verizon Foundation. An vast
collection of free resources for teachers, famillies, home-schoolers,
and even students.
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We Learn Our ABC's Lesson.
This is a Media Center lesson. The children attend Library
class for 30 min. each week. They learn the letters of the
alphabet as well as learn to recognize words and objects that
begin with those letters. They also learn how the library is
organized.
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Weaving The Internet Through Your Elementary Literacy
Curriculum. Enhancing and extending literature
Lessons with technology, this site includes great ideas and a
large number of links to help.
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Web Scavenger Hunts for Elementary
Education. A large collection of links to
online scavenger hunts integrating different subject areas.
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Webquests. A
WebQuest are an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all
of the information that learners interact with comes from the
Internet. They engage students in authentic learning by
requiring them to solve a real-life problem. Here are some
Webquests for Kindergarten through middle school students.
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Weed of the Month Archive: Sunlink.
Introducing a new weeding subject area each month from
September 1997 to December 2005, a table shows the different
topics covered by Weed of the Month by the primary Dewey
classification.
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Word Central. Check out all the great stuff here. There's
a
Student Dictionary, a
Build Your Own Dictionary,
Daily Buzzwords, and MORE.
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Word Dice. Write your own words on these online
virtual dice.
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