This page provides links to both state and national resources concerning education, technology in the classroom, and other general teaching resource web pages.
General Education Highlight:
ONLINE JOURNALS
Universe in the Classroom
Science in the Schools
Science Mates
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enchancement
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Education and Teacher Organizations |
| American Federation of Teachers (AFT) |
| National Council of Teachers and Mathematics (NCTM) |
| National Education Association (NEA) |
| National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) |
| National Parent Teacher Association (PTA) |
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General Resources |
The Educator's Reference Desk: A site sponsored by the Educational Resource Information Center. A great resource and answer site for educational questions. (all) |
Awesome Library: A great site that has information on a multitude of different subjects |
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Educational Testing Service: Contains information on major testing programs, financial aid, careers, and more. (All) |
familyeducation.com: Great website that provides information and activities on a wide range of subjects for familys and kids. |
| Federal Resources for Educational Excellence: math, science, art, music, history and language arts resources free from the government. |
MarcoPolo: high quality standards-based Internet content with a variety of training features for students and teachers. |
Mountain Gorillas and People: The Search for Balance - Secondary level lesson plans in science, math, geography, reading and Writing. Funded by University of Denver Center for Teaching International Relations
Author: Laura M. Sanders Arndt, Colorado Educator |
National Partnership for Excellence and Accountability in Teaching: Includes Teacher Induction: A Report on Beginning Teacher Effectiveness and Retention and Contemporary Professional Development |
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Information Please: This search engine is unique in that the results obtained tend to be from dictionaries and encyclopedias. (All) |
Library of Congress: This site provides information about the Library of Congress, current news, and copyright information. (All) |
Universe in the classroom has a quarterly electronic newsletter for teachers focusing on a current topic of astronomy with activities to bring the topic alive and understandable for students fall 2006 deals with Mercury and on Nov. 8 th it will be visible against the Sun. site provides hands on activities, references and other links. |
Research - it!: This site offers customized links to sites on the Internet concerning nearly any type or form of reference material. (All) |
The Revealers: A Safe Schools Website resource with information about a book discussing bullying. Be sure to look at the section for using the book where there are brief articles about the various ways the book has so far been used to address bullying. |
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement
The SMILE program is designed to enhance the elementary and high school learning of Science and Mathematics through the use of the phenomenological approach. . They have collections of teacher tested single concept lessons- at different levels in the areas of Biology, Chemistry, Math and Physics. Great if you plan to teach subject area is divided into categories. Example t he Mathematics lessons are divided into the following categories: Geometry and Measurement , Patterns and Logic, Probability and Statistics, Recreational and Creative Math, Practical and Applied Math, Arithmetic, Graphs and Visuals, Algebra and Trigonometry, and Miscellaneous. |
Science in the schools a European science teacher journal with new teaching ideas, just the thing to find out how other science oriented countries go about teaching science to their children |
Science Mates out of California Is supported by the Math/Science Nucleus is a non-profit (501(3)c), educational and research organization composed of scientists, educators and community members. |
Shooting for the Sun: The Message of Middle School Reform. Hayes Mizell's new collection of speeches and essays for free. (FREE RESOURCE) |
"Teacher Toolkits" for reading, writing, math, and science on our website. The key component in these toolkits is the pacing guide, similar to the curriculum map. Feel free to view on our website - select the Curriculum link on the left side of the page, and then choose Teacher Toolkits. |
| Teaching Resources: Hosted by Geocities, a very complete list of science online resources for educators. |
U.S. Department of Education: Ahuge site featuring many educational links, current educational headlines, financial aid information, and other educational related topics. (All) |
Writing Multiple Choice Tests:
Writing good multiple choice items or any other type of test item is difficult. Visit the website for help.
It contains all of the best item writing principles. Using these principles allows you to write questions that do not favor the good reader over the good science student or the good test taker over the student who understands the science but does not know little test taking strategies that help to eliminate certain answers. |
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Technology in the Classroom |
KidsConnect: This site is question-answering, help and referral service to K-12 students on the Internet. The goal of the service is to help students access and use the information available on the Internet effectively and efficiently. (All) |
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Teacher Information and Resources |
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FairTest: The National Center for Fair and Open Testing. A discussion involving the goal to end the misuses and flaws of standardized testing and to ensure that evaluation of students, teachers and schools is fair, open, valid and educationally beneficial. |
Free Educational Resources: Teachers, parents, students, & others are invited to use FREE to find teaching & learning resources from more than 40 federal organizations. (All) |
Funschool.com: This site offers a huge variety of educational games for students in preschool up to grade 6. (em, ms) |
The Gateway: This site offers a search engine that will allow one to gather educational resources according to subject, topic, and grade level. (All) |
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NOVA Online. Features: This Week on NOVA, Classroom resources, Mailing list sign-up. |
Question Archive: An online service that has questions archived by category, chronologically, top 20, etc. |
RMPBS Teacherline: This website offers comprehensive professional development for PreK-12 teachers in Colorado. |
Seminars on Science - American Museum of Natural History presents online seminars for science teachers. Authored and taught by meuseum scientists, the seminars cover everything from outer space to inner earth. Register online or by fax. |
Teachers' Domain: Multimedia Resources for the Classroom and Professional Development |
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Teacher Talk: An online newsletter for the classroom teacher. Content includes educational issues as well as lesson plans and ideas. (All) |
The Textbook League: The site presents independent, expert reviews of textbooks that publishers are selling to schools right now. (All) |
Tutors For Kids: A website dedicated to allowing low-income childream in public schools 'in need of improvement' receive free tutoring, called supplemental educational services (SES). |
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