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This organization features lessons based on fold tales, poems and letters from the experiences of Peace Corps volunteers. Examine writing techniques: vivid images, powerful descriptions, balanced sentences, parallelism and more.
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On this website, Teacher2Teacher, teachers and parents will find resources for those who have questions about teaching mathematics. T2T grew out of the Ask Dr. Math® service at the Math Forum in March of 1998 and can be best described as a a peer-mentored question-and-answer service.
http://mathforum.org/t2t/faq/faq.multiplication.html
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This online curriculum from the Environmental Protection Agency provides hands-on lessons and activities, enrichment ideas, journal writing assignments, and other educational tools related to preventing and reducing trash. Each chapter includes one or more fact sheets providing background information on each topic. In addition, each chapter includes an index showing the grade ranges, subject areas and skills used for each activity to help teachers select the appropriate activities. Teachers can use this resource as one of many tools in the ...
http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/osw/kids/quest/intro.htm
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This Science site provides simple experiments and lesson plans for kids who homeschool or want to do their own experiments for fun. While this site is quite enjoyable it is most appropriate for the very young.
http://www.smm.org/sln/
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This website is home to the United Nations Cyberschoolbus -- an education site created as the online education component of the Global Teaching and Learning Project, whose mission is to promote education about international issues and the United Nations. The Global Teaching and Learning Project produces high quality teaching materials and activities designed for educational use (at primary, intermediate and secondary school levels) and for training teachers. The vision of this Project is to provide exceptional educational resources (both online...
http://cyberschoolbus.un.org/index.asp
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This website is divided up into four sections: Cadet Section for grades 2-8, Expert Section for grades 6-12, Teacher's Lounge and Parent's Center. Each section has various links of interest to its particular group. There are experiments and projects along with lessons in each of the student areas. Teachers will find complete lesson plans on a variety of subjects for a variety of grade levels in their section. Parents will find ideas and things to do with their children in their section.
http://weathereye.kgan.com/
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Choose from the Family Edition, Homeschool Edition or School Edition to enrich the educational programs in your school or family setting. 16 art lessons from the award-winning art education in geeART16 include a glossary of terms, gallery of art and a section to build a personal portfolio. Interactive quizzes measure students' knowledge and allow them to collect rewards.
http://www.geeguides.com/store/
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This page on the math.rice.edu website, offers a series of lessons as well as an “SAT-Type” quiz. The lessons cover a glossary of geometric terms, The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics' standards, the history of geometry and various puzzles and shape identifying excercises.
http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/Geom/index.html
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"Students embark on zany time travel missions to learn keyboarding skills in this animated update of Type to Learn™. Built on a proven curriculum of sequential, skills-building instruction, Type to Learn™ 3 helps students master keyboarding by engaging them in lesson/practice sequences."
http://www.smartkidssoftware.com/ndsun3.htm
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RenzulliLearning.com hosts this valuable tool. Teachers can login to gain access to a variety of virtual field trips with which to involve their students.
http://teachers.renzullilearning.com/default.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fLearningMaps.aspx%3ftype%3dVirtual&type=Virtual
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This book by Monita R. Leavitt, is great for anyone building a gifted program from scratch or evaluating or changing your program. A CD is included with exciting PowerPoint slides, alomg with a manual to give you everything you need for staff development, allowing you to customize sessions for parents or school boards. The manual contains background material with references as well as reproducible pages that can be used as handouts.
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Super Smart Math challenges students to think critcally while providing activities and problems that become increasingly difficult as the students progress through each section. Organized by mathematical topics for grades 5-8.
http://www.prufrock.com/productdetails.cfm?sku=2002
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