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Montecito Community School

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Montecito Community School

  • Teacher's Network for information on how to use the Internet. Quick lesson plan ideas.
  • Already tried lesson plans using the Internet on the Lesson Plan Library.
  • PBS matches standards for Math, Science, and Health with lesson plans and teachers' ideas.
  • Internet for the Classroom gives ideas for daily work on the Internet as well as numerous lessons that computer work can enhance.
  • Discovery School has resources for teachers; lesson plans, brain teasers, clip art, etc. Yes, they will ask you to subscribe, but for now, it's free!
  • Develop your own Success Certificates. Almost $25 for a subscription, check out the examples though! There are some for free, check the top box.
  • Does your class need electronic pen pals? Check out epals for information on how to have pen pals around the world.
  • Houghton Mifflin Education Place that provides lots of lesson plans and ideas for teachers. Areas include Reading, Science, SST, and Math.
  • A busy teacher's website. Click on any variety of themes and this site provides links to every topic under the sun! Developed for K-12 teachers.
  • A sample 5th grade webpage (and it has cougars!).
  • ProTeacher has teachers' ideas on writing, behavior, and everything in between.
  • Teaching tools, tips, and updates on educational issues on education.com
  • The math forum has teacher-prepared lesson plans and virtual field trips for kids.
  • Hundreds of links to sites for teachers to provide lesson plans, activities, worksheets, puzzles, etc.
  • ESL practice, top 1000 words and quizzes (but they will charge you $10 after 30 days) at English as a 2nd Language.
  • Connect to links of phonics and ESL activities on the google directory.
  • Games, puzzles, and picture dictionaries for ELL students.
  • Free samples of ESL resource books.
  • Stanford 9 test page. There's a place to see computer resources, test guidelines, and samples.
  • Arizona Department of Education site. You can find links to learn more about AIMS and sample questions.
  • 6 Traits Writing ideas and activities.
  • Education Week gives teachers rich articles about new education news.
  • U.S. Dept. of Education gives teachers resources and ideas on grants.
  • Terri's home page gives tons of professional suggestions on how to teach Math well.
  • Ideas for developing virtual field trips for your students to take online.
  • Historical collections of the Library of Congress! Use this resource for anything in Social Studies and encourage students to use it for their research papers too.
  • Fun site for Music for students, teachers, and musicians. Look at this page first and learn where you want the students to go before sending them here.
  • Select from numerous Art lessons to incorporate into your classroom.
  • Lots of Art History to connect to Social Studies and math!
  • Association for Curriculum Development (ASCD) has even more great articles on education and educational leadership.
  • Free Math lessons for teachers from the Univ. of Kansas
  • Make quick math worksheets and answer sheets for students.
  • Songs and Fingerplays about Thanksgiving.
  • Quiz on the Constitution for kids.
  • Houghton-Mifflin SST sites and links
  • PBS Kids gives us a film-canister rocket lesson for our Variables unit in Science.
  • Space.com gives us an up-side-down pen experiment for 5th grade Variables unit.
  • A complete list of science lessons.
  • Later Elementary science activities (most are quickies).
  • Lesson Plans listed by Science topic and grade level.