Teacher Resources
 

GENERAL RESOURCES
Eduscape:  WOW!! Be prepared to spend some time digesting this website which contains a wealth of information, ideas, and resources.
Escrapbooking: (on Eduscape) pieces of information, insights, emotions, thoughts, memories, and understandings that can be combined into a visual, digital story. 
Open Doors to Learning:  Reading, Writing, and Technology-Rich Learning Across the K12 Curriculum
I-Totems: (on Eduscape) I met the creator of this site at NCCE.  I-Totems are the information processes, resources and tools students need to identify essential questions, evaluate multiple perspectives, and make informed decisions.
4-8 Connection - Virtual Teacher Lounge
WEBPAGE BUILDERS - Free/Inexpensive
Education World - Technology Article
Scholastic Home Page Builder - Free! From the makers of Arrow, Trumpet, Click, Tab catalog.
TeacherWeb - free; works like a classroom bulletin board
Filamentality -  A fill-in-the-blank page that guides you through creating 5 different types of web pages and then posts it right on the Internet: hotlist, scrapbook, subject sampler, treasure hunt, webquest.
Web Page Design - From Planning to Posting - Very helpful site, one of many pieces to a site by a teacher to share information about curriculum & tech integration
SWIFT: Swift Creations provides quick loading web pages without sacrificing quality or artistic integrity.
WEBQUESTS
Webquest for Learning - Kent

Web-Bases Projects - Webquests cover all subject areas and grade levels.  They are well written and easy to use. 

Building Webquests
TeacherWeb Webquests

Other Websites
TEACHNOLOGY

 

Free/Cheap Programs
Photostory
WriteSite
Audacity
Moodle
Picasa - www.picasa.com
Digital Photography

www.lindentechintegration.org/digitalcamera.htm
www.netc.org/focus/examples/imagin/php
www.pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~ucfcasio/qvuses.htm
www.pics4learning.com
 

LITERACY

LITERACY UNITS
Phantom Tollbooth
Finding Figurative Language
Phantom Tollbooth Teaching Unit - lesson ideas
Sparknotes - chapter summaries and more
Juster at Powells - interview w/ the author
Norton Juster - Wikipedia - Wikipedia
Interview with the author

PT - Novel Study from Canada

WRITING
National Writing Project

 

Non-Fiction
Great Idea for Lit Circles including Nonfiction
Identifying and writing about pictures and captions
Non-Fiction Text Features and Purposes

 

Number the Stars
Jim Cornish Literature Unit
Literature Unit
Lesson Ideas
Bud Not Buddy

Our Only May Amelia

SOCIAL STUDIES

WA State History
WA State Webquest - Geography 
Compare WA maps
Themes of Geography
WA - Geography Curriculum
Puget Sound Webquest          
WA State History Museum WA State - Facts      
WA State History
*Gold rush lesson Plan
*WA - Thematic Unit 
*Seattle History -  Times

*History Link-Seattle
*Pacific NW History   
*Asian Americans in WA
WA State Economics WA State Government
*Facing WA - Governor
*WA Government
WA - Overall
*Experience WA
*WA State Resources
*WA State - Lesson Ideas
*WA State - UW Library

*Kent SD's Lesson Ideas**
Native Americans
     Art - Coastal Arts Gallery; Coghlan Art Gallery;
     Webquest - Exploring Native Americans; Native American Webquest - Dell; Native American History & Culture; Native American Webquest - Coastal & Plains
Tribe Websites - Native American Sites; American Indian Facts for Kids;
Other - Evaluating Native American Sites
Pioneers
Wagon Trains                                 Oregon Trail - Pictures
Famous Pioneers & Frontiermen        Home on the Prairie
Homestead Act                               John Charles Fremont
Oregon Territory & Its Pioneers       Pioneers - Kid Info
Webquest - Pioneers; Wagons West; Who Wants to be a Pioneer

MATH

Roman Numerals Webquest

 

Math Web Sites - all topics
Math Sites - by strand
Math PowerPoints - by topic
Math Lesson Plans - divided by the year
Math Goodies - lessons by topic
Probability
 
Measurement
Measurement Webquest
Online Teacher Resource **
 

Science

Electricity
IEEE Virtual Museum             Triboelectricity
Tech Topics
Electric Facts
Electricity Games
Turning on the Juice
Hydropower

 
Sound

Neuroscience for kids - Sound experiments
 

   
ART
http://webpages.marshall.edu/~smith82/okeef.html
http://www.soho-art.com/Geogia-OKeeffe.shtml
http://www.thefineartcompany.co.uk/floral/floral-8.htm