Center Signs
Are you ready to set up your science and social studies centers? These signs will help.
Larry Ferlazzo's Best...
The best way to teach people to read is to provide them with accessible and high-interest text. Check out the interesting and accessible stories at these top 14 sites for teaching beginning readers!
Foliage Tracker
Students track leaf changes, input data found at one Web site into another, and then graph foliage changes with a free online tool.
A Techtorial
Learn how to create macros -- shortcuts to commonly used computer tasks -- in Microsoft Word.
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Last week, I posted a question to the Education World Facebook page asking whether Ed World fans think U.S. kids need more time in school. Most of those who responded said "no." Apparently, very few teachers believe that lack of instructional time is the reason today's students aren't making the grade. Read more.
One-to-One Computing: Is Your School Ready?
Elizabeth Sky-McIlvain offers a simple rubric for administrators, teachers, and parents to use when evaluating their school's readiness for one-to-one computing.
Mr. Marsala's Home Page
Vince Marsala's high school Web site becomes an essential classroom tool.
Encouraging Teacher Technology Use
In some schools, staff technology use nears 100 percent; in others, it is virtually non-existent. Discover how schools can encourage -- or discourage -- staff technology use.
Doug Johnson: Tech Proof The 4th "R"
As painful as it sounds to add to an over-burdened curriculum, the case easily can be made that information literacy is as necessary in the information age as the basic Rs have been in the past.
Brenda Dyck: Brenda's Blog Is Their Work Really Their Work?
Its [the teachers] job to make sure that the student work theyre assessing is indeed the students work. Anything less turns education into a charade.
Bernie Poole: Reflecting Poole Gradebook Programs: Why Use Them?
The goal of good gradebook programs is simple: Data transformed into information enables students, teachers, administrators, and parents to better assess a students progress in school.
From the Science Machine
Use Science of Music to explore the topics of sound and music. (Grades 3-8)
From the Reading Machine Chicken Stacker reinforces short vowel sounds. (Grades K-2)
From the Math Machine Tickets Please! is a fun Web site for teaching addition. (Grades 1-2)
Check out this week's site reviews: UN Multimedia
The news and media service site of the United Nations.
Unraveling the Mysteries of King Tutankhamen
A National Geographic site on "the boy king."
Art Explorer
A wealth of great art from the Art Institute of Chicago.
Explore our Site Review Archives for more great sites. You also can keep up with our latest reviews by signing up for our Site Review Newsletter.
Top 10 Reason's to Use a Blog in the Classroom
The top 10 reason's to use a blog in the classroom as produced, written and directed by a high school communications technology class.
Neatness Counts
Make classroom chaos a thing of the past.
What can you do with SchoolNotes? Check out Mrs. Brown's Brainy Bunch.
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