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Explore important topics and resources in Education.
Locate useful web sites for K-12 math, science, language arts etc. Preparation for Student Assessment and Testing CanTeach Marilee's Word Puzzles Sue's Internet Collection of ED Resources
Wednesday, October 30, 2002
Free Spelling Course Index
Integrating Spreadsheets Across the CurriculumYou have reached an old version of my spreadsheet site. Please update your bookmarks to http://lttechno.com/links/spreadsheets.html This is the site I keep updated.
The WEBQUEST: A Model for Linking WEB-BASED RESEARCH and Learning Outcomes
Sunday, October 27, 2002
Canada Use the clickable map to gather information, flags, flowers, birds and emblems on each of the Canadian Provinces.
As a mega resource for both teachers and students I like Proud Canadian Kids!©
Saturday, October 26, 2002
Switch Zoo Switch the animals' heads, legs and tails to make new creatures at this surrealistic virtual zoo. Over 6500 possible combinations! "A fantastically addictive kids site with a huge visual “wow factor”. Start with an elephant, choose a bear’s head and bison’s tail and watch it morph in front of your eyes to create your own bearsonphant. Try it… Words don’t do it justice!" Use it for creative writing...includes a section for teachers with lesson plans
The Top 101 Web Sites for Teachers
The Teacher's Desk is a resource designed for teachers of grades five and six. Most are original ideas, while others have been shared with The Desk via e-mail.
Friday, October 25, 2002
Scholastic Events CalendarWeek by Week: Check out upcoming online events on their monthly calendar.
Saturday, October 19, 2002
ReadWriteThink NCTE's newest resource for K-8 teachers, ReadWriteThink, a Web collection of lesson plans, Web resources, and classroom materials is now live! ReadWriteThink.org, a partnership of NCTE, the International Reading Association, and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation, launched with over thirty lesson plans ranging from such topics as "The Fairy Tale Autobiography" to "Name-Talk: Exploring Letter-Sound Knowledge."
Paper Airplanes by Jim Cornish Step by step instructions (with visuals) for creating simple, high performance paper airplanes.
Friday, October 18, 2002
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.
Thursday, October 17, 2002
Novel Study Guides for the Classroom Teacher
Recipient Of Last Year's ETFO 2001 Writer's Award. Novel Study Links
ECOO OUTPUT magazine WAY COOL FALL WEBSITES! These web links were submitted by students completing part one of Computers in the Classroom through Nipissing University’s online Additional Qualifications courses.
Monday, October 14, 2002
Page by Page - Lesson Plans and accompanying Worksheets Sponsored by the National Library in Ottawa, Ontario
Page by Page - Introduction Have you ever read a great book and wondered how it was made? This site takes an inside look at how books for children are made. Using real-life examples, you will explore the story behind the story. You'll discover inside information: starting with where the idea came from, all the way to what happens after the book is printed.
Canadian Children's Illustrated Books in English > Resources > Internet
Learning Disabilities OnLine: LD In-Depth: How Now Brown Cow: Phoneme Awareness Activities for Collaborative Classrooms
Sunday, October 13, 2002
Education World® : Holidays Center: Awesome Autumn
FREE Worksheets
Saturday, October 12, 2002
Brainpop Lesson Plans
KidWings Main Page The goal of the site is to get student involved in the study of birds and this is done admirably. From Bird Topology, to studies or eggs, to studies of birds, to experiments in flight, this site has it all.
Even colouring sheets for the youngest bird enthusiasts are easily found and printed from here. The copyright use is explicitly stated (please respect it) and the site is very teacher friendly. If you're a teacher of science, you've got to check it out!
Guinness World Records
Primary Resources: Maths: Money & Real Life Problems
A Hotlist on One-Computer Class
Fall Fantasies
Friday, October 11, 2002
Autumn Coloring and Activity Pages
Worksheets
Coloring Pages
Wednesday, October 09, 2002
ABC's of the Writing Process - Contents Page
Rocks Grade 4
Flights of Inspiration Flights of Inspiration is a study in the history and evolution of flight ? it will be a valuable resource for teachers who are putting together a unit in this popular science topic. In particular, this website looks at the challenge of flight, from the Wright brothers' first flight to the transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown.
Monday, October 07, 2002
ITN Archive
Math problems Math Problems is used to construct a set of simple arithmetic problems. You can choose the number of problems presented, as well as the types of questions asked. Fill in all of the boxes and then hit the Submit button to generate the problems. Once generated you can print the sheet out for work offline, or you can answer the problems on the computer and have the results graded.
Saturday, October 05, 2002
Do The Math
SciZone at the Ontario Science Centre
The Ontario Science Centre web site gives you a virtual tour of their exhibits, online science experiments at the Interactive Zone, a list of Web Connections, and several educational programs that have been tested by educators.
Friday, October 04, 2002
KidWings Main Page Jody Hildreth created this site with the hope that children will better understand and appreciate the birds around us. The most exciting part of this web site is the Virtual Owl Pellet dissections. In the future, she hopes to add more pellets from different species of owls and other birds.
Also at this site you will be able to look and study different parts of a bird. There are pictures of bird skulls and eggs.
The URL: http://www.kidwings.com/
"Word Safari: Megalist of Word Links"
It's a vocabulary guessing game. Follow the Fresh Tracks link to a list of words that serious readers often think they know. Do you? If you guess a word's meaning correctly, you'll have a chance to track it to other places in the World Wide Wilderness where it's been spotted, and learn how other writers have used it. Some trails lead to popular locales, others to less-traveled regions of the Web -- you might find some new favorites while you're at it.
CyberSmart! : Curriculum Overview
Tuesday, October 01, 2002
October Internet Scavenger hunt
Word Processing and Text Editors
Word Processing Internet Hunt
