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Miscellaneous Teacher Tools:

Forms             

Awards & Certificates for the Classroom and End-of-Year

Blackboard Instructor Info and Manuals

Bully Prevention Program Information

Computer Skills Curriculum by Strand

Copyright - What About Copyright? (Blackboard) - Log-into Blackboard and search for "What about Copyright." This site was developed by one of Wake County's leading copyright authorities.

Copyright - Fair Use Evaluator - Great tool for teachers produced by the American Library Association

Current Events - Free Online Newspapers, Magazines, and Books (English Reading Room)

Curriculum Corkboard/ Curriculum Mapping Information - This site is connected with NC Wiseowl's Middle School Kaleidoscope project.  It offers an overview of data gathering and curriculum planning with direct connections to the various curricular areas within the North Carolina Middle School Program.

Clip Art and Animation Fun Links

Discussion Forum - Quick Topic - For any quick group discussion, use QuickTopic free message boards instead of just email.
Your messages will be in a private central place. Your friends can participate by email or use the web forum, because QuickTopic's super-easy web message boards let you get and post messages by email. Use it on your web site too.

EOG Preparations

Graphic Organizers
http://www.volusia.k12.fl.us/curriculum/SocialStdy/Graphic%20Organizers.htm
http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/index.html
http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/pdf/persuasion.pdf persuasion
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/persuasion_map/

Internet Safety Resources

Learning Styles - The Index of Learning Styles is an on-line instrument used to assess preferences on four dimensions (active/reflective, sensing/intuitive, visual/verbal, and sequential/global) of a learning style model formulated by Richard M. Felder and Linda K. Silverman. Learning Styles Questionnaire

Lesson Planning - This is a great site to review when you need a little boost of creativity in your lesson planning. The feedback from WMMS teachers regarding this site has been quite positive!

Map

Mentor Teacher Resources - Walters Mentor Class info

NC Standard Course of Study

Online Media Center - Resources that the Media Center highly recommends for student research.

PowerPoint Instruction - Review this article by Jamie McKenzie before you integrate PowerPoint projects into your curriculum. Mr. McKenzie offers great insight into developing meaty lessons that incorporate PowerPoint as a powerful presentation tool, without the fluff or distracting materials that so many PowerPoint presentations have.

Search Engines - A variety of search engines to help you locate project information.

Single Source Curriculum Site - This inTRAnet site is an excellent resource for WCPSS teachers who are looking for fresh instructional ideas for their SCOS.

Staff Development Notes

• Blogs, Wikis, SMARTSlates, and classroom web publishing safety and legal tips

Staff Directory

Study Skills & Memory Tools
Memory Principles - Use these tools with your students to help them refine their study skills.
Slide Show - These 9 slides provide an outline of the memory process.
Slide Show - These 11 slides connect the memory principles to real life student scenarios.

Teacher Recess - Social Network with a "filing cabinet" for shared lesson plans.

Teaching and Learning Center - The K-12 Teaching & Learning Center is a subscription service offered by WCPSS through the 2006-07 school year. Usage data is being collected and the subscription will be renewed if its usage is high enough to warrant the cost. You may access it directly from school computers, but will need a password if you wish to use it from home. See Diane for the password. This site has been created for TEACHERS FIRST, and the best way to make it work for you is to customize the TLC to your specific needs and interests.

One of the neatest offerings of the site is that the Teaching and Learning Center staff will customize a research page specifically for your project. Go to: http://k12tlc.net/content/rrgr.htm to see what is available and to complete a resource guide request. Their research request page says, "Tell us about your student research project (please submit a different request for each project), and we will gather together the best resources available on the Internet, create a guide customized to your needs, and put it online for you and your students to use. Give it a try. A customized TLC research resource guide can elevate your students' research to new heights! You have absolutely nothing to lose. If you don't like it - don't use it, but we think you're gonna like it." E-mail your request to: ResearchRequest@k12tlc.net.

TechCollaborations - A collection of web links to enhance your use of the Internet within your classroom. It offers LOTS of suggestions for project based learning.

Technology Resources 4-Teachers - 4Teachers.org works to help you 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.

Testing Forms & Information

Text Reader
Note: Before working with any of these webpages, be sure to turn your speakers on/volume up
Edict.com  -  http://www.edict.com.hk/TextTospeech/TTStest.htm

WebQuests - A growing collection of webquests that integrate the curricula of one or two middle school courses, plus objectives from the NC Computer Skills curriculum.

Writing Assessment - NC Interactive Training Site, Grade 7
.........Content Rubric for Writing Assessment

             

                      Curriculum Specific Tools

Career and Technical Education

Business Education Resources
CareerShip: An Online Career Exploration Adventure. This site includes an interactive career interest inventory, career summaries based on career clusters, as well as a career search engine. GREAT site!
Classroom Homepage Example (Links to a large classroom website)
Business Computer Technology and Keyboarding learning/fun links for students
Glencoe E-zine ( Teacher tips, practical classroom advice, cutting edge news for business, marketing, and careers education.)
Glencoe Tech-zine ( Edu-tech oriented news articles, teacher-created lesson plans and web sites, gadget and game of the month, tips and tricks for classroom management )
Hardware Accessories: Madison Computer Corporation, New York City - Optical mice are very reasonably priced and reliable.
Keying Special Characters with Alt key combinations
Keyboarding Games
Vocational Information Center (Deep website with much more than career information)

ESL
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/esl.html
ESL Gold! Free English Teaching and Learning Materials
Online Directory of ESL Resources
Internet Picture Dictionary
Center for the Study of Books in Spanish for Children
ESLhome.org: Online Reading Passages and Exercises
National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education
Other WMMS favorites

Fine Arts
NC Kaleidoscope Links
Music Theory, Lessons & More by Ricci Adams

Foreign Languages
ALT keycodes for creating accent and special characters
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center

Healthful Living
NC Kaleidoscope Links
Online Health Book
Other WMMS Favorites
Healthful Living Rotation Schedule

Language Arts
Bartleby's famous quotations, phrases, & proverbs with sources
Graphic Organizers
Writing Resources:
Descriptive Writing Prompts by NWREL: Many prompts: Some of these would be great for full papers, others for a paragraph, others for a graphic organizer
DPI Resources for Middle Grades Language Arts
Internet Public Library
Prentice Hall Essay Scorer- Become a better writer. Use the Prentice Hall essay scorer which will allow you to submit an essay, based on a writing prompt that is found on the website. You will receive instant scoring and feedback with tips for revision.
NC Wise Owl Reading and Writing Resources
Teaching and learning about writing with a variety of sentence types
Grammar Gorillas Parts of Speech Game (Beginner and Advanced)
Grammar Lessons - Parts of speech, parts of a sentence, and mechanics.
Grammar Bytes - Terms, Interactive Exercises, Tips and Rules, Handouts - an excellent site.
Paragraph Development - Online Writing Assistant
Writing Fix - Excellent resource for teaching the components of writing from the Northern Nevada Writing Project. Links from this page include interactive writing prompts, etc. This site offers a WEALTH of tools and strategies to help you teach writing across the curriculum.

Mathematics
Graph Paper - Print your own: This includes a large selection of Cartesian, engineering, polar, isometric, probability and logarithmic graph paper in imperial and metric scales - all free!
Graph Paper (pdf file)      (Download Adobe PDF Reader)
Interactive Math Lessons and Practice - AAA Math
NC Kaleidoscope Links
National Library for Virtual Manipulatives - Grade 6-8
Online Math Book
Other WMMS Favorites

Science
NC Kaleidoscope Links
Science News for Kids
Science "Today's News and Current Events":
.....nnews compiled by brightsurf | news compiled by CNN.com
Chemical Elements.com - An Interactive Periodic Table of the Elements
Inventions - A list of well-known inventions, the inventors, and the year invented or patented
River Project - a web assignment and interdisciplinary unit with SS/Geography
Other WMMS Favorites

Social Studies
Ancient Egypt & Kush Research Pathfinder
Barbara Clark's 6th Grade SS Links
Ms. Moses' Spring Project
8th Grade Social Studies Inventors Project
NC Kaleidoscope Links
Fantasy Congress - Learn about our government by becoming involved in a "fantasy" congress game!
River Project - a web assignment and interdisciplinary unit with Science
US History.com
Other WMMS Favorites
WMMS Maps Links
Mary Beth Dierickx's Web Assignment
Carol Cergol's Web Assignment

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Last updated: April 12, 2011