RESOURCES FOR TEACHERS

SPECIAL DISTRICT FOCUSES

Constitution Day
Constitution Day Resources for the Classroom and Courtroom
Celebrate Constitution Day, a high school lesson plan by The Bill of Rights Institute
Teaching With Documents: Observing Constitution Day

Tap into the SCHOOLS OF CALIFORNIA ONLINE RESOURCES FOR EDUCATION (SCORE) pages and find lessons, activities and web sites connected to your curriculum!
SCORE History-Social Science Resources
SCORE Language Arts Resources
SCORE Mathematics Resources
SCORE Science Resources

Access standards-aligned information resources and the best and latest Web information resources at
CLRN--the California Learning Resource Network!  CLRN offers more than 2100 free, prescreened, high-quality primary, secondary, and reference sources--easily accessed by a standards-based browse feature or keyword search.

INQUIRY-BASED INSTRUCTION    

Create meaning in your lessons so they are based on questioning.  Why?  To eliminate exercises in cut and paste and paraphrase.  Explore "For the best answers, ask tough questions" by Joyce Valenza and access a wealth of links on questioning and helping students in organizing research.

Insist that students ask questions!  Access Promoting Historical Inquiry: GATHER Model and find a great way to structure your research projects.

Combat plagiarism by learning about it and restructuring your projects.  Learn more at the South California Department of Education's slideshow entitled "Plagiarism and How to Immunize Against It!"

How honest are your students?  Print out this "Cheating and Plagiarism Survey" and find out.

CHALLENGE YOURSELF AND YOUR STUDENTS BY DESIGNING A WEBQUEST!

RUBRICS

Rubric Bank
The Rubric Builder enables teachers to build effective assessment rubrics and to make them available over the World Wide Web.
Create your own rubric at Rubric Generator (demonstrated at Staff Development, 12/21/01)
Need assessment rubrics?  Try Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
The Staff Room for Ontario's Teachers -- Rubrics
Prentice Hall School -- Alternative Assessment -- Oral Presentation Rubric
Guidelines for Portfolio Assessment
Portfolio Rubric
Practical Ideas on Alternative Assessment for ESL students
CLASS -- The Center on Learning Assessment and School Structure
Prentice Hall -- Professional Library -- Alternative Assessment Rubrics
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education -- Digital Dozen

STAFF LINKS

Activities for ESL Students is a project of The Internet TESL Journal; this site contains over 1000 quizzes, exercises and puzzles to help students learn English as a second language.

Access the American Library Association, ALA, and their activities and links.

Empower your students by using The Big 6: Teaching Technology Information Skills and view Mike Eisenberg's newsletter on vision, strategies, and tools for teaching the essential skills for the information age.

Interested in tutorials, activities, projects, lessons, web hotlists, and resources? Access Pacific Bell's BLUE WEB'N, a library of Blue Ribbon learning sites on the web!

Get connected! Visit Classroom Connect's Resource Station!

Explore the Classroom of the Future where research on technology-based learning materials that challenge students to solve problems is available.

Gain a clear understanding of the Copyright issues from general rules for recording broadcast programming, educational photocopying, the Internet and copyright, fair use guidelines for multimedia, guidelines for music, and the fair use test.

Create-a-Graph provides students with the background necessary to understand types of graphing as well as input data and create a graph online.

Access the Daily Grammar Lesson Archives.

Discovery School's Puzzlemaker is an easy-to-use program that lets you create and print customized word searches, and crossword and math puzzles that incorporate your own word lists.  Generate worksheets and answer sheets.

Explore EDSITEment, which brings together the best of the humanities on the web. It is a collection of the most valuable online resources for teaching English, history, art history, and foreign languages.

Access a site with K-12 school issues and policies, Ed Source.

Ed Web Project, a collection of the best on-line educational resources available, including teacher discussion groups and administrative services.

The Educational Resources Information Center, ERIC, provides access to lesson plans, journal articles, question-and-answer services for educators and parents, listserve archives, ERIC documents and search engines, and links to other Internet educational sites.

Tap into the Educational Technology Journal a site which supports active learning and using educational technology to enable students to make up their own minds. Topics range from assessment and curriculum to virtual museums and web sites.

English Companion is an invaluable site developed to support teachers and students in the English Language Arts.

Filamentality is a "fill-in-the-blank interactive web site that guides you through picking a topic, searching the web, gathering good Internet sites, and turning web resources into learning activities."

Investigate the Global Schoolhouse's Well Connected Educator site an on-line publishing center and forum for the K-12 community.

Help your students plan and organize ideas with Graphic Organizers at Education Place.

Here is a site dedicated to connecting learners to information. Visit ICONnect a site developed for school librarians, teachers and students. It offers anyone the opportunity to learn the skills necessary to navigate the Information Superhighway.

Landmarks for Schools is a robust website collection with links to teaching and learning resources on the Net and valuable Web tools for teachers.

Search the Library of Congress which contains five major sections: (1) American Memory; (2) Thomas: Legislative Information; (3) Exhibitions, (4) Library Services; and (5) Reference Tools.

Multimedia Schools, a Practical Journal of Multimedia, CD-ROM, Online and Internet in K12. This how-to magazine features articles, columns, news, and product reviews contributed by practicing educators and has the seal of approval of the Argus Clearinghouse.

Access the National Educational Standards for Technology for Teachers Project to access technology standards for teachers as well as lessons.

Check out the NCTE, National Council of Teachers of English.

Check out PBS Teacher Source, a teacher focused section of PBS Online which is a gold mine of ideas.  Lessons are organized by topic, discipline, grade level, and state/national content standards.

Here is a top-notch Reference Shelf organized by the University of California in San Diego. It provides links to a number of reference sources as well as valuable curriculum materials.

Use Research -It a ready reference source with language, library, geographical, financial, shipping and internet tools.

Explore the University of Houston's Scholarly Journals distributed via the world wide web.

Search the Scholastic Website.

Tap into as astounding technology site, Kathy Schrock, Tech Coordinator, in Massachusetts includes three major divisions in this collection of valuable links: search tools, subject access, and additional information.

Tap into lesson plans and resources on novels at the Secondary School Educators - Net Links.

Shakespeare in Education contains both links to sites designed to teach Shakespeare over the Internet and in the classroom, and sites, which contain non-print educational materials (CD, software, posters, etc.) related to the teaching of Shakespeare.

Teaching Shakespeare has teacher-created lesson plans and primary sources developed through the Folger Library.

Check out the Technology Education Lab's K12 Educational Resources and find interactive learning sources, how to integrate web pages with curriculum, lesson plans, virtual world tours, and other educational links.

Explore Web Teacher, a comprehensive guide to learning about the Internet and electronic communication.

Explore a wealth of ideas at Web English Teacher.

Use Widener University's Evaluating Web Resources which presents strategies for teaching critical evaluation skills for World Wide Web Resources. Teach students to use critical thinking to evaluate the informational content of web resources.

TESTING SITES  

Access California Department of Education for information on the High School Exit Exam.

Explore Shasta County of Education's High School Exit Exam website for teachers.

Explore "Promising Practices" at the Dana STAR Center (UTexas).

Access the Doug Reeves Center for Performance Assessment.

E-PLAGIARISM    School Library Journal, September 2000

Students plagiarize materials by copying or paraphrasing information from a source and not including a citation.  What can you do?  Visit web sites where papers are available and learn to recognize plagiarism.  Teachers, parents and students must work together!

Web Plagiarism Issues--Google Index contains many links to information about detecting and preventing plagiarism.

Plagiarism Q & A provides the answers to common student and teacher questions about plagiarism.  Don't miss the "Links for Teachers" which has articles and advice.

Seven Antidotes to Prevent Highway Robbery in an Electronic Age provides teachers with methods to discourage plagiarism.

TEXTBOOK SITES

If you are interested in how and why students learn, you may be interested in visiting the Allyn and Bacon Education Site which provides many links to information, illustrations, teaching techniques, and instructional models.

Discovering Computers 98 is a high level of Web-enhanced textbook, including audio, interactive chapter reviews, and lab exercises.

Houghton-Mifflin School Division's Education Place K-8 Resources is a colorful site with many resources and links for teachers, students, and parents in math, social studies, and especially reading and language arts.

Created by a university professor to supplement a university text, Interactive Physics (Web-Enhanced Undergraduate Course for Computational Physics) shows how even complex physics concepts can be taught using the Web.

Key Curriculum Press: Innovators in Math Education is a great site for math educators who work with math software such as Geometer's Sketchpad which provides information, resources, support, and many Web links for teaching mathematical concepts.

McGraw-Hill School Division's Resource Village provides Web-linked activity suggestions and Web-linked lesson plans to support selected concepts from McGraw-Hill's textbooks.

Prentice-Hall School offers curriculum resources such as Internet activities and curriculum support in foreign languages, math, science, health, social studies, and language arts.

At South-Western Educational Publishing, teachers can access a password-protected area to get extra resources from this supplier of K-12 instructional materials.

Steck-Vaughn provides many curriculum supplements, such as scavenger hunts, and interesting links for teachers, librarians, parents, and kids.