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300 Spartan Warriors - 300spartanwarriors.com
Grades
7 to 12In the Classroom
Include this site as one of the resources you offer from your teacher website for students doing individual or group projects on Sparta, the Greeks, or mythology. The site offers some useful research information and some good visuals.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Write Out Loud - Susan Dugdale
Grades
8 to 12In the Classroom
The left-hand column allows you to click to exactly what you want, and there are links throughout the information that take you to what you need. A site map is also available. As your students prepare speeches, assign portions of the site, and include it as a resource on your teacher web page for reference. Parents may even find the information helpful in their daily lives!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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L. (Lucy) M. (Maud) Montgomery - Petri Liukkonen
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4 to 10tag(s): authors (113)
In the Classroom
A good teacher resource to add information about the author to your repertoire. Include it on your eacher web page as a resource for students doing author study.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Lucy Maud Montgomery - Uxbridge Online Inc.
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4 to 10tag(s): authors (113)
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This site is better for teachers than students to use as a resource. There is a link to Sullivan Movies, the creators of the famous Canadian "Anne of Green Gables" series, at which you can buy resources from DVD's to books, posters, etc. if you can't resist shopping. Find links to four online texts of the Anne books as part of the Gutenburg collection.Use passages from these online texts for interactive whiteboard activities from parts of speech to analyzing writing style, then introduce the author once the students are "hooked" by the passages!
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Monster Mash - Cara Bafile
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3 to 12tag(s): halloween (46)
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Literary Bash - Cara Bafile
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3 to 12tag(s): halloween (46)
In the Classroom
Use this lesson plan, and tailor it to fit your unit in almost any content area - math, english, history, science, etc. Though this lesson was intended just for Language Arts classes, most content areas also have books or common themes that this could apply to. Use this lesson plan after a test or towards the end of the year when students might need a break from the traditional classroom routines. This is a great way to make sure students get some substance of a "break" while keeping it academic! Be sure to save this as a favorite on your classroom computer to allow for easy reference later on.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Vincent Voice Library - Michigan State University
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3 to 12Requires Quick time. Videos require RealPlayer. Get these plug-ins from the TeachersFirst Toolbox page..
tag(s): authors (113), news (223), poetry (196), speech (66), speeches (22)
In the Classroom
Play a recording of a famous speech or video relevant to today's lesson as students enter the room (turn up your speakers!). Or have your students create multimedia presentations using these sounds in the background, such as portraits orf a decade, an author study, or a moment in history.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Celebrate Mother's Day in a New Way - Education World
Grades
K to 12tag(s): mothers day (29), sociology (24), statistics (129)
In the Classroom
If you are looking for some new ideas to use in your classroom, check out these lessons. They are ready to go, highly creative topics, and most importantly - FREE.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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literature.org - knowledge matters limited
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): literature (215)
In the Classroom
Use the texts from these sites as samples for grammar study, literature, and more. Since the works are in the public domain, you may copy/paste the text into files to print, for use on an interactive whiteboard, or as the text portion of multimedia projects.Some ideas: Students can use these digital texts and add digital photographs, for example, for creative projects using poetry and images on a specific theme. Students could also collect examples of different literary devices and put them into a PowerPoint show with images or explanations.
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The Official Kwanzaa Website - Official Kwanza Website
Grades
K to 12tag(s): cross cultural understanding (178), holidays (283), kwanzaa (23)
In the Classroom
Enhance student learning by having students create blogs sharing their learning and understanding using Telegra.ph, reviewed here. With Telegra.ph you just click on an icon to upload images from your computer, add a YouTube or Vimeo, or X (formerly Twitter) links. This blog creator requires no registration.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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St. Patrick's Day - kate.net
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K to 12tag(s): holidays (283), ireland (13), st patricks day (10)
In the Classroom
Search this site to find activities relevant to your class. Enhance learning by having students research St. Patrick's Day facts - information about Ireland, St.Patricks Day, dancing, language and more; then, give students a choice of tools for a multimedia projects to finalize their learning using: PowerPoint Online, reviewed here, a slide show, Site123, reviewed here, a blog or webpage, PBWorks, reviewed here, a wiki, Adobe Express Video Maker, reviewed here a video creation tool. Share the videos on a tool such as SchoolTube, reviewed here, or all presentations on your class webpage or wiki.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Librivox
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K to 12tag(s): audbk (25), audio books (43), listening (117), literature (215), poetry (196)
In the Classroom
Use these for read-along listening, to help weaker readers or ENL/ELL students, or to practice listening and pronunciation. World language and literature teachers can play poetry or passages from literary texts in class or assign them as homework. Make sure you have headphones or speakers for your computer, if needed. High school club advisers might like to offer this as a service opportunity for students to become readers.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Public Domain Books On-Line - Jeff Kelley
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3 to 12tag(s): digital reading (18), ebooks (49)
In the Classroom
Because these books are in the public domain (i.e., older), their language is not "contemporary." The texts would make excellent reading comprehension passages or cultural studies of past times, and you need not worry about copying/pasting text from these into other software or making copies. You could even use them as passages on an interactive whiteboard to practice "main idea" or parts of speech.The illustrations are beautiful and straightforward. Print out some great artwork for your classroom bulletin boards, copyright-free!
The myths/legends collection would be great for upper elementary or later mythology units. Students can also use the passages and illustrations to create multimedia "tales" of their own. Give them the opening passage and let them write the rest.
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The myths/legends collection would be great for upper elementary or later mythology unitsDavid, VA, Grades: 4 - 8
The illustrations are simple and beautiful.David, VA, Grades: 4 - 8
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Story Corps - NPR
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3 to 12tag(s): digital storytelling (166), podcasts (163)
In the Classroom
Use this site to reconnect your students with those of other generations and geographic locations. Turn up your speakers and listen to some examples in your classroom. You can even use the story collection site as a model to start your own oral history project for your class or the entire school. You may not want to actually place your recording on the NPR site but instead house them locally in your school or community web site. As major events occur in your community, such as an anniversary or the opening of a new school, engage your students in documenting the event. The general interview guides offer useful interview techniques for school newspapers or news broadcasts, as well.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Headliners - Headliners/formerly Children's Express
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3 to 12tag(s): journalism (74), reading comprehension (146)
In the Classroom
Use the stories to teach reading comprehension skills, especially inferencing, since American students will need to use context to figure out some of the terminology and background written by British students. Try projecting a story and asking student how to find context clues to explain what the story is about. If you have an interactive whiteboard or projector use the tools to mark clues. Then use these stories as models for writing activities on topics that matter to your students. You may want to create a guided reading activity using Read Ahead, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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S. E. Hinton - S. E. Hinton & Limemachine Design
Grades
7 to 10In the Classroom
A good source of material about the author. This site will also steer kids to her other works. The BIO will probably answer questions many of your students have about her stories and where she gets her ideas, etc.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Hatrack River- The Official Website of Orson Scott Card - Hatrack Enterprises
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8 to 12tag(s): authors (113)
In the Classroom
There is plenty here to like. Card has made this site as user-friendly as possible and still include a wide variety of things. Clicking on the research area will give you the teacher links. Caution: there are ads on the left column and a store; however, you must register to purchase anything, so it's fairly safe at school. The site is too good to pass up because of ads, but you might want to just pull some of this yourself for your class. If you want to watch his version of "Romeo and Juliet," you must have Quicktime.You will definitely want to include this among your authors links if you have students doing research and reports.
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Basketball - Myvocabulary.com
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6 to 12tag(s): vocabulary (251)
In the Classroom
Share the puzzles on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Have students work with a partner to try out the puzzles on their own. Have students (or groups) create their own word puzzles to share as a class challenge as a student-run interactive whiteboard activity or share them on a class wiki.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Paradigm Online Writing Assistant - Chuck Guilford
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6 to 12tag(s): writing (309)
In the Classroom
This site gives activities and suggestions about how to involve kids in what they write. The wide range of grade levels addressed is also attractive, although it is geared more for high school students. Have student use the Explore tab to find links for coming up with new ideas to write about. Don't forget to look at "The Journalists' Questions" in the middle of the page.There is a memberhsip option. If you allow students to join, you should first get parent permission. Members are able to create journals and participate in collaboration, but you should have firm Internet Safety policies in place, if you decide to use these in class.
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Writing Guides - Colorado State University
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8 to 12tag(s): writing (309)
In the Classroom
This is a terrific site that allows as much use or as little as you want: instructions for students, addenda instructions for the teacher, wide-ranging topics, or single skills. It also offers some good refreshers for teachers who have not taught writing in awhile or are looking for new ways to approach it, particularly using technology. The portions on "designing writing" cross over into the technology aspects of publishing written words, a fitting discussion as part of the writing process.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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