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Especially for Teachers: Inspiration, resources, ideas and free templates for teacher presentations and classroom activities.
With shrinking budgets, the teachers I know are increasingly challenged to find low cost, high quality content and resources for their classroom presentations. The internet offers a vast array of useful sites for teachers and schools, but locating them can be time consuming. You'll find links to my personal favorites - offering unique and generally free or discounted resources for educational use. (links open in a new widow)
Art project ideas and techniques for students up to grade 12. Crayola provides great school resources, and not just for art teachers. An amazing array of lesson plans and other useful content. Some of the content does require (free) registration.
Free art project ideas for your classroom abound at Art Teacher on the Net. Photos and step by step instructions for projects.
Great ideas for using digital cameras in the classroom. Check out the resources and inspiration as well as lesson plans from Kodak.
The Map Machine from National Geographic. Although it does have an annoying popup ad, this resource is a must-see. An amazing range teacher resources are available on this site.
The History Channel has interactive resources, history activities, a speech archive and programming information.
A&E Channel. Search 25,000 biographies online. Articles, links to related sites and people.
Discovery Channel School offers hundreds of lesson plans written by teachers for teachers.
Free resources including:
Curriculum Center, activities supporting core curriculum topics for the most popular science topics taught in upper elementary and middle school (includes: Bacteria, Oceans, Chemistry, Solar System, Electricity, The Universe, Genetics, Weather & Climate, Magnetism, Viruses).
For each topic, you’ll find Quick Facts, Hands on Experiments, Project Ideas, Puzzles, Vocabulary Words, and a Review Quiz. Teaching Tools include a Puzzle maker, Quiz Center, Lesson Planner and Worksheet Generator.
You’ll also find one of my favorites – Brain Boosters.
ENC The Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education is a K-12 math and science teacher center funded by the U.S. Department of Education.
Science Friday is a great resource for science teachers. This site covers all the latest topics and news in science from the NPR radio show.
Nova Science in the News From the Australian Academy of Science, this site covers areas from the environment to technology to physical sciences. Some interesting topics and perspectives.
Fun Science Gallery Instructions showing you how to build scientific equipments from relatively cheap materials. Projects include instructions for making telescopes, microscopes, batteries, sidereal indicators, and several other instruments. This site is designed to motivate children to engage in science.
A great presentation needs professional and correct writing style, grammar, word usage and spelling. Need some help? Check out these sites.
An easy to use and comprehensive site when you need help with grammar, punctuation, sentence mechanics, and writing. The Guide to Grammar and Writing.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Thesaurus Online for word help.
Add some famous or not so famous quotes to your presentation. Check out The Quotations Home Page or try the Quote Garden.
The Online Books Page Listing and links to over 20,000 free books on the Web.
PBS. More than 4500 free lesson plans and activities from the PBS Teachers Resource.
Your Dictionary. Every specialty dictionary, glossary, and word list you could want. Topic and industry specific terms, rhyming, word games. An inspiration for those who love words. One of my personal favorites is the dictionary of the 100 Most Often Misspelled Words along with hints to remember the correct spelling of each.
EdHelper offers teacher resources for K-7. Although some of the site requires a subscription, many resources are free. Lots of lessons, worksheets and theme ideas.
Blue Web’n is a searchable library of about 1200 outstanding Internet learning sites. Find lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, and classroom tools.
From Education World, a “techtorial” on Creating a Class PowerPoint presentation.
Need a technical term defined? Check out TechWeb’s searchable encyclopedia of the latest in tech.
Kidlink is a global, non-commercial organization whose main focus is to “…empower kids and youth with free educational programs to help them mature, get better control over their lives, encourage creativity, create social networks, and collaborate with peers around the world, individually or through their classrooms”.
C-SPAN in the classroom. Excellent resources, especially good coverage of government, elections, civics, history. Worksheets, video, audio and activities.
The Smithsonian education section includes lesson plans, professional development information, and links to all of the Smithsonian museum websites.
Muddy River Media is a non-profit mission society which provides free media resources for churches. They offer media such as:
Illustrative Videos, Small Group Videos and talk sheets, Motion Backgrounds, Life Story Videos, Countdown Timers, Stock Photographs and Illustrations
They request donations, but the media is free.
Free 8 unit tutorial for K-12 teachers using PowerPoint.
Links to other free presentation software and tutorials.
Microsoft offers specific resources for educators. Find a range of free educational resources, grant and scholarship information, lesson plans and more.
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