pedagogy

RESOURCES

Students

KidsKnowIt
Kids Know It Totally Free Network
http://www.kidsknowit.com/
This is an easy to use website for children. They can choose from 7 main categories or type their own in. They can choose from a list of things to do with the topic they choose, including many educational games.

AskKids
Ask Kids
http://www.askkids.com/
This website provides various subjects kids can choose from. There are images, games, activities, movie clips, and lessons on these subjects.

Quick Math
Automatic Math Solutions
http://www.quickmath.com/
This is a great site is used correctly. You can type in any kind of problem and it will be solved for you. There are helpful hints on how to go about solving math problems. This site would be useful to students to cheek their answers on their homework.

Teachers.

Kid Zone
Animal Life Cycles
http://www.kidzone.ws/animals/lifecycle.htm
This website is about animal life cycles and includes key bullet points on the simple life cycle, amphibians, and animals that undergo a complete metamorphosis as well as an incomplete metamorphosis. There is also a list of worksheets on different types of animals that allows students to fill in the stages or color the animal in that stage.

Lesson Planning, Activities, & Worksheets
Hot Chalk
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/about.html
This website provided science projects organized in various science topics. It also has math worksheets, lesson plan guides, as well as suggestions from teacher discussions on topics to teach.

K-12 Instructional Media Center
Teaching Resources
http://www.k12imc.org/
This site has curriculum ideas for teachers such as visual field trips, experiment ideas, history topic ideas with related activities all to help teachers get ideas. There is multimedia, helpful web tools, and special student programs. Although there is a lot of information on the site it is organized and laid out in an easy to access way helping find what you need.

Science Resources
Discovery School
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/foodscience/science_resources.html
This website offers resources for science experiments with teacher and student guides for various science topics. There are online lessons, interactive ideas, and even clever ways to incorporate music to learning science.

Cast
Transforming Education through Universal Design for Learning
http://www.cast.org/
Way to help design curriculums in a way to enable all students to gain knowledge, skills and enthusiasm in school. There are projects you can learn about, ways to teach every student to their needs, and great ways to build on your lessons and books

Adprima
Educational Information for New and Future teachers
http://www.adprima.com/lesson.htm
This site gives helpful hints and strategies for planning good lessons. There are skills that need to be developed in order to be able to master this skill. It says there is no one “best way” to plan lessons and it should be up to you, while giving you help on making them. There are learning to write lesson plans, helpful stuff on teaching them, and links ot lesson plans on the internet to go off of.

Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators
Discovery Education
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/

This websiteprovides twenty three various subjects to choose from, and choosing one of them there are multiple sub categories that can be looked at. There is also a long list of things that can help teachers; books, presentations, slide shows, articles, bulletin board ideas, etc.

PBS Teacher Source
PBS Teachers
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/
This website has standards based resources including; the arts, health and fitness, math, reading and language arts, science and technology, social studies, early childhood educators, and library methods and technology coordinators. You can choose one of these, select a grade, and s sub-topic in that area and it will give you lesson plan ideas, activities/projects, videos, and interactive/online activities.

THE Journal’s Educators Roadmap to the Web
The Journal
http://www.thejournal.com/highlights/roadmap.aspx
This site is a helpful tool that allows you choose a topic and it will lead you to websites that relate to this educational subject. The subjects are arts and humanities, guidance and psychology, history and social sciences, disabilities/special education, language arts, health and safety, history and social studies, math, math and science, miscellaneous, professional resources, technology, and teacher resources. All of these topics have anywhere from one to twenty sub topics to choose from.

High Plains Regional Technology in Education Consortium
Teachers Teach with Technology
http://www.4teachers.org/
This site helps teachers learn creative ways to integrate technology into their classroom. It offers online tooks and recourses to locate ready to use lessons, quizzes, rubrics, and classroom calenders. Is also contains tools that students can use.

Parents

Early Childhood Activity Calendar
Americas Read Challenge
http://www.ed.gov/Family/Calendar/index.html
This site is a calendar for a year filled with helpful tips and special activities that promote reading and language skills for young children. Calendar sheets for June 1998 to May 1999. Calendar may be old but activities are still fresh and fun for children at home.

Assistive Media
Reading Online
http://www.assistivemedia.org
This site has recorded articles from over 50 different magazines and newspapers. Including The New York Times, Discover, Mad, etc. MP3 files can be played or downloaded to your computer on which ever you select.

AudioBooksForFree
Online books to download
http://www.audiobooksforfree.com
This site contains 83 classic books for children. They can be downloaded for free or ordered onto a CD.

Simply Audiobooks
You Choose what to Read
http://www.simplyaudiobooks.com
This site offers fee-based audio books that can be downloaded and read. There is a large selection with a free book each month.

Free Books
Online Books
http://www.free-books.org
There are over 130 works of classic children’s fiction available on this site. They have been converted to computerized voice MP3 files and available for anyone to download for free.

Learn NC
K-12 Teaching and Learning
http://www.learnnc.org
This site is all about North Carolina classrooms, standards, online courses, and news and information about North Carolina. There are hot topics that are current things going on in North Carolina today to choose from and browse.

LD Online
The World’s leading website on learning disabilities and ADHD
http://www.ldonline.org
This site provides interactive resources for parents, teachers, and students. It offers how to help struggling students of all different kinds, and gives you detailed information of various cases.

Standards

Gateway to 21st Century Skills
Learning & Teaching
http://www.thegateway.org/
This site provides learning and teaching resources such as home schooling, various studies shown on different cases. There is a category on leading and managing to help embrace public education for the skills needed in the 21st century; literacy, improving assessment, increasing your own literacy and knowledge, and ways to seek funding to support 21st century skills.

NC Curriculum
North Carolina Standard Course of Study
http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/curriculum/
This website provided the standards for the state of North Carolina. It has all of the subject areas taught, goals, and objectives for each for each grade level.

Iste
National Educational Technology Standards
http://www.iste.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=NETS
This offers the standards for students as well as teachers in PDF format.

NBPTS
Professional Teaching Standards
http://www.nbpts.org/
This site provides information on that national teaching standards including; how ot get involved, how to get certified, and other numbers of various achievements throughout the nation. It also allows you to pick any state and look at their information.