EDUCATIONAL Resources
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parents and students.
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Finding
Missouri Video series
Each of the 18 videos focuses on a single topic
and lasts approximately 10 minutes. The videos feature documentary film
footage, images of and spoken words from primary sources, reenactments
of historical events and people, footage of historical sites and interviews
with experts.
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia - based on the text of the "Academic American Encyclopedia" created for students in upper elementary, high school or college level. It offers 35,000 entries that reflect a myriad of topics of contemporary interest.
EBSCOhostEBSCOhost is an online search and retrieval system for periodicals. It brings the resources and materials you need directly to your workstation.
NewsBank
NewsBank provides the full text of news features, special interest
stories, editorials, daily columns, letters to the editor, sports reports,
death notices, obituaries and more from Missouri publications Kansas City
Star, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Springfield News-Leader. A broad spectrum
of nationwide newspapers are also available: Chicago Tribune, Wichita
Eagle, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Des Moines Register, Louisville
Courier Journal, Tulsa World and Christian Science Monitor.
DESE Home Page
Missouri Department of Elementary
and Secondary Education--a great resource for all teachers.
It also has information on teacher certification.
Southeast Missourian
Daily Newspaper
Catch the latest news and sports of the Southeast
Missouri regional area.
KFVS Channel 12
TV station
Online source of news, weather, sports, health,
program listings, advertising, events, finances, and school closings--live,
local, and late breaking.
School Express
Great online resource for teachers containing free
worksheets, activities, software, and more.
Homework Helper
For middle school and high school--math, English,
biology, chemistry, science, and social studies.
Success Link
This is a new centralized source
of teaching aids.
School Net
A web site full of educational information,
links to schools, Internet help, and more--perfect for teachers, students,
and parents.
Americas Library
This site is brought to you
by the Library of Congress, the largest library in the world. While
the site was designed for young people, the goal is for children and families
to explore these historical tales together.
Kids Castle
The Smithsoniam Institute brings
you this site geared for kids ages 8-16. It features articles written
about the things that interest kids today; sports, history, the arts, travel,
science, and air and space.
Teacher.scholastic.com/activities/index.htm
This site encourages you to become a great investigator--of
history with its online activities.
Jegsworks.com/lessons/lessonintro.htm
Computer literacy pretest and review.
Ask Jeeves Type in a question and receive your answer.
Ask Eric ERIC stands for Educational Resources Information Center. This is a federally-funded national information system that provides a variety of services and products on a broad range of education-related issues.
MarcoPolo: Internet
Content for Your Classroom
MarcoPolo is a partnership between the MCI WorldCom
Foundation and seven renowned education organizations. It contains
a wealth of educational resources.
The Educator's
Toolkit
This site has an enormous collection of links to
good resources and has arranged them in useful categories that make it
easy to find what you want.
Family Education
Network
This is a timely k-12 Internet community offering
an amazing assortment of education resources, and activities all dedicated
to children's learning.
LightSpan
Features a search engine that draws from a database
of over 115,000 grade-appropriate, expert-selected lesson plans, encyclopedia
articles, and projects.
The PBS-hosted
TeacherSource
Featurs more than 1400 lessons and activites, recommended
books, plus links to other fabulous sites. Worth a look for some
creative ideas.
PBS for Kids
Great site for fun and education
things for students.
Washington University Library in St. Louis
Fun School
Has learning games for children from preschool age
to sixth grade. Designed to help chidlren learn, not to just occupy
their time.
Let's Find Out
Knowledge Adventure's on-line encyclopedia is an
excellent tool for introducing children in upper elementary school to Web-based
research.
For Teachers
Site is a web-based publication with new features,
interviews, Web lessons, and surveys added each moth. Click
here for rubrics for project-based learning with learning criteria,
sorted by grade level and subject matter.
Missouri Resource
Center
The MRCCTE library contains over 5,000 print and
audiovisual resources for educators in Missouri. Materials include curriculum
guides, textbooks, manuals, teacher and student guides and activities.
Out of state may not request library resources.
Columbia Education
Center
These lesson plans were created by teachers for
use in their own classrooms. Subject areas:
Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, Math, and Miscellaneous.
Detroit Daily News
Use the newspaper as a teaching
tool. Weekly current events pop quizes.
The School
Page
Teacher resources from Art to Zoology, including
an "Ask the Expert" section.
Brain
Teasers and More
Weekly updates to brain teasers, grades 3-8.
Enchanted Learning
Great site for elementary.
Teacher vision
Lesson planning center, free software, and other
resources.
RHL School
Your place to get an enormous supply of free quality
worksheets for teching, reinforcement, and review.
Lesson Plans
One of the best PreK-12 teacher resources on the
Internet, and it is free.
Education Universe
Collection of 2000 + lesson plans as a result of
the 1998-99 Intel Applying Computers in Education Project. Project
trains teachers to integrate the use of computers into their own curriculum.
Teachers First
A rich collection of lessons and web resources for
K-12 classroom teachers, their students, and even students' families. Materials
are arranged by subject area and grade level, making it easy to locate
lesson plans and associated web resources quickly.
Math Standards
The Truth About Math Standards and Information Age
Math Reform
Math Forum
Math resoucres by grade levels
and subject areas; web units and lessons.
The Geometry Center
Resources for geometry.
Figure This
Math challenged for families,
funded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Dept. of Education.
http://www.naturalmath.com/mult/mult2.html
Learn a lot of useful tricks and patterns
that will help in fast mental arithmetic and will develop your numer sense
using interactive technology.
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/k12/mathtips/beatcalc.html
This site is specifically designed for jr. high
students, but anyone can have fun and learn soemthing here. The challenge
is for students to learn how to do mental math quickly. This is a
great site that promotes deductive thinking.
Mrs. Glosser's Math Goodies
Self-described "Interactive Math Lessons with a
Problem-Solving Approach--lesson plans, activities, bulletin boards, and
other resources to help teachers meet national standards for math instruction.
Enchanted Mind:
Tangram Puzzle
Look on this site for a series of cool hands-on
geometry puzzles sure to engage and fascinate middle-school students.
The Math
Forum: Teachers' Place
This is a Swarthmore College-based site where K-12
math teachers can easily locate lesson plans (grouped by grade level) and
activites.
Money
Math
Practical lessons in math from grades 7 and up.
The printed version of Money Math is available through an email request
to: moneymath@bpd.treas.gov or download the lessons from ww.savingsbonds.gov/sav/savlearn.htm.
Write to Money Math: Lessons for Life, 200 Chestnut Street, Suite
231,Philadelphia, PA 19106, Tel: 215/597-2423. Or send us a fax @
215/597-2444.
Math Stories
Your students can learn about math and reading on
this site--features more than 4,000 word problems conventiently categorized
by topic and difficulty level. Entire sections are devoted to math
problems based on fairy tales and the Harry Potter book series. Subscription
fee required.
Cool Math for Kids
At this "amusement park for math", students can
play dozens of games relating to various math skills.
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/frog/menu.html
Science teachers that cannot do actual dissections
in their classroom can use this site to guide students through a frog dissection.
Actual photographs of a dissection are used and explanations given for
each photo.
http://george.lbl.gov/ITG.hm.pg.docs/dissect/info.html
Another frog dissection site.
Nine Planets
Tour
Site features an essay about our solar system with
text, pictures, sounds, and an occasional movie.
NASA's Planetary
Photojournal
This is the place to go for those stunning photos
you want toillustrate projects about solar system--more than 2000 published
images.
Johnson
Space Center
Offers numerous space and science related experiences
for both teachers and students. Offers 30 plus Education Shortcuts
to various sites that can be utilized with students and assist in lesson
planning.
Bill Nye the Science
Guy's Nye Labs Online
"Science rules" with Bill Nye, king of the goofy
bow-ties and video hsot to TV's most popular science program.
Rainforest
Action Network
A site celbrating the beauty and eoclogical diversity
of rain forest habitat.
Zoom
Dinosaurs
This is an unbeatable resource for kids who can't
get enough of the giant prehistoric reptiles.
Monarch Watch
Invites you and your students to follow the fascinating
annual journey of the familiar orange and black butterly as it migrates
thousands of miles South for the winter.
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/departments/isa/ninvest/index.htm
This offers a variety of different inquiry activities
for the high school government/social studies classroom.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html
A valuable site for all students studying America's
Civil War; contains more than 1000 images.
National Geographic
Delivers just what you'd expect from this venerable
organization: colorful maps, fabulous photographs, special exhibitions,
and information on a variety of global culture topics.
Ask Asia
Award-winning source for Asian and Asian-American
studies for all grade levels.
The Martin Luther
King, Jr. Papers Project
An accessible, well-organized source for the speeches,
sermons, letters, and papers of the great civil rights leader.
Castles on the Web
This is a fascinating medieval studies site, exploring
the important social and political role of castles in the Middle Ages.
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/departments/isa/ninvest/indexenglish.htm
Secondary English page.
Merriam-Webster Online: the Language
Center
You can access the full text of Merriam-Webster's
Collegiate Dictionary and Collegiate Thesaurus. Includes "Word of
the Day" and "Word for the Wise"
Word Central
Merriam-Webster's site just for kids; clever, colorful,
and thoroughly kid-friendly.
Book Adventure
A web-based reading program for children ages 5-14;
entertaining activities and printable "cool stuff" like certificates and
bookmarks.
Carol Hurst's Children's
Literature Web Site
You can enjoy a wealth of information about great
books for kis, complete with reviews, excerpts, teaching ideas, and suggestions
for in-class activites.
Inkspot: Resources for Writers
Articles about young authors, ideas for teaching
writing, and activiites to help students connect with professional writers.
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