8.+THREE+Helpful+Websites

Submit your THREE examples of helpful websites here. Please concentrate on websites that would be helpful to teachers and educators. So, each of you should have THREE total postings on this page. Please be sure that your submission contains your name, website title and address (hyperlinked), and at least a 100 word review of each website (see **submission example** **with questions). Your websites MAY contain (but are not limited to) the following: ** · **drill and practice software (see page 208) ** · **mindmaps / webmaps (see page 209) ** · **types of assistive technologies (see pages 218-219) ** · **types of gradebooks, lesson plans, seating charts, etc. (see pages 223-224) ** · **educational software (that you might want to use, or would like to buy, for your own classroom - you don't have to download it) ** · **websites that you can see using as a resource for your students in your own classroom (think of the subject / content you would like to teach). **

Crystal Hurtado- Math worksheet Center [] Math worksheet center is the perfect website for math teachers. It provides great math activities for all grade levels. It has fun and easy to understand worksheets. These activities use a lot of pictorial examples which it will make it easier to understand. It has all math topics such as addition, polynomials, probability etc. It has easy and more complex topics. Children will love this website because they will learn and have fun at the same time. This website will send free worksheets by email. As a future bilingual teacher I bet I will be using this website because it will be helpful and easy for my bilingual students to understand the concepts. Math worksheet Center is going to make students love math.

Crystal Hurtado [] this website is a wonderful tool to help not only English speakers how to read, but English language learners too. The stories are simple and easy to understand. It will help language learners how to pronounce words. The stories are very entertaining, colorful and short. It also has fun games; these games will help kids learn colors, shapes and vocabulary. This site is mostly for young ones. Teachers, parents can use this website at home and help their kids practice and learn in a fun way. These stories and games are very short, which are good for young ones since their attention expand it too short. · Chris Mahar- Wondrous Worksheets · [] · This is a very helpful website I found for teachers. Although there is a twelve dollar subscription fee. I feel that it is well worth it. There is a whole plethora of pre-made worksheets already made for handwriting, spelling grammar, math, and many more. You’re also able to create some of your own worksheets if you so choose to. I feel like this is a website that will greatly free up time for teacher’s to focus their attention elsewhere. It’s a very convenient thing to have and is a huge timesaver. If I were a new teacher I would definitely look into using some of these worksheets if they corresponded with what was being taught at the time. · Chris Mahar- Gamequarium · [] · I found this website to be very intriguing. This website is for levels K-6. Not only does it offer games, it also offers video tutorials. I feel like the video tutorials are very helpful and very easy to follow. They go at an even slower rate than a teacher would typically in the classroom and offer more in depth analysis of each problem. The site offers so many different options to choose from which is a big problem with some of the other free gaming sites. I think it would be a good site for a kid to go to if they had some free time on their hands also. It could also be used as a good bonding tool between parent and their child. It would help the parent see what their child is learning in school and get them more involved in their life if needed too. · Chris Mahar- Lesson Plans · [] · Doing this project I have found that a lot of these websites to be useful, but I feel this could be one of the greatest websites useful for teachers and educators. There are lesson plans for kids in kindergarten, all the way up to seniors in High School. It provides the whole variety of subjects. It is also possible to easily make changes to any of these lesson plans. There is also a section for Home schooling. Some of the estimated times for the lesson plans seems a little absurd, so I think you would easily be able to modify it to cut it shorter. I think that this is a great website to find alternative lesson plans because it takes a lot to get creative with learning. Most teachers are not very creative with teaching the subject matter so I think it would be a great way to inspire creativity with any teacher.

Eric Greiner – Teaching Tolerance [] This website was one of the more useful tools I have found during this whole project. It has many different ideas and activities that help students in any school. It has a tab full of activities designed for different situations in classrooms so the perfect activity can be planned for any class. It also has a spot for teaching kits where you can find books and other teaching items to help out in the classroom. There is also a spot for personal development, and this spot can help teachers refine their skills so they can improve in classrooms and become more effective teachers. This site also promotes a school lunch activity that promotes mixing up cliques and groups so students can learn more about each other and make new friends.

Eric Greiner - Making Meaning in Literature [] This website was very different than the ones I have been previously looking at. This is a video workshop site that has videos of eight different teachers talking about their different and unique ways of teaching literature. The teachers talk about how they encourage students to become more active and improving reading skills. They are push students to further their goals on being able to read and write more effectively and perform better in the classroom. These videos are to help teachers who may be struggling with certain aspects of teaching literature and they can be a good resource to those who use them.

Eric Greiner – PBS Teachers [] This website has some really cool resources for teachers that cover every grade from primary school to high school. This site has many of the activities we have shared with our other wiki posts. It has discussion blogs, games, and lesson plans for many subjects including math, art, and science along with other subjects. It also has resources for teachers who want advice on teaching certain topics or topics they have not discussed thoroughly. On the home display it shows a few hot topics for a few of the main focus areas of the website. This is a useful site that could help teachers teach more effectively in class and maybe give them new ideas and topics.

Alex Roberts Teacher Planet [] This website provides a lot of useful things for teaching a lesson; it provides lesson plans, rubrics, and worksheets. This is good because if you were short on time or just needed and idea of a lesson you could go to this website and get great ideas from other teachers. This is great because you may be running out of ideas on how to make a harder subject interesting, which is a problem, but if you went to this website you could just look through worksheets and lesson plans and get an idea of how to make learning the tough subject better!

Alex Roberts Teacher Lesson Plan Guides [] This website not only helps with lesson plans, but also helps with teaching an online class. This website would be a great help for a teacher teaching an online class for the first time. It gives you advice and instructions on how to create an online classroom. This is great because like I said before technology is becoming more and more common for teaching, and online classes are becoming more and more common as well, so to have a website which helps create an online class is great. I think it is a great website and provides a lot of great information for a new teacher.

Alex Roberts Teacher Survival central [] This website was designed to help new teachers get a feel for the classroom, and gives you what to do and what not do tips. This website would help any teacher who is struggling to get comfortable in their first year of teaching, and it could also help teachers who are having troubles in the classroom. If you had questions about how to talk to a parent or had troubles with your teaching technique you could go to this website and get pointers, which is a big help. It also gives you blogs which you could read from other new teachers, and maybe get other advice from them about what is working and not working in the classroom.

Daniel Schwartz- Conflict Resolution Simulation
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 * This website focuses on dialogues and simulations that can be used to highlight the importance of conflict resolution in many different subjects. Regardless of curriculum, school, city, or planet you are on; at some point you will have to resolve some sort of conflict. These Practices: simulations to be specific seem to highlight the concept of ultimate consequences for the knee jerk responses we as human beings are prone to. The importance of critical thinking before potentially significant action is in my opinion often overlooked. These tools can help bridge the gap between curriculum and communication that I often perceive.

Daniel Schwartz-Education week
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 * This is a website that covers the arising or current events happening in the education world. Which is useful for any teacher, parent or student who you know? Cares about the fact that education is a thing we do as a rational species. More practically though, it is useful for potential teachers considering moving to another area to teach. It is also useful in keeping up to date with what possible legislation or spending cuts might be effecting schools. The point of education is “Knowledge is power”. So it might be useful to be knowledgeable about education issues these days.

Jeffrey Bennett- New Teacher Survival Central [] this site is for new teachers who may need some advice on how to start their teaching experience. It provides many useful tools that is pretty easy to follow. It explains what you need to do from the decorations in your class, supplies you may need to start out, and the type of technology that you should know about. One thing I also saw that was useful is they had new teacher blogs and basics that you can go on and share questions or experiences with other new teachers around the globe. This site all round has many useful tools that can be used to improve yourself. Jeffrey Bennett- Class BlogMeister [] This is a helpful blogging site aim directly towards educators. It displays the most recent blogs that have been posted on the left when you enter the site. It has a good search engine because narrow it down by searching different bloggers based on state or even country. You can view the more featured articles or even just e-mail other teachers. Its different from other sites because you can make it more exclusive by filtering your security settings and allowing outsiders to comment to you or not based on teacher approval, must be a ClassBlogmeister member and member of the class. Jeffrey Bennett- TeacherTube [] This is a site made for teachers that provides more of a visual help than anything else but it has everything. It’s basically like youtube except all the videos are for educational purposes. You can view photos of any kind, documents that may need sent or even audio files are available for use. Other than all these goodies it has a blog area for teachers to visit as well as different channels and lots of teaching resources. You may sign in under a name you create and even add friends too your page kind of like facebook or myspace all for free as well.

Jordan Shifflett - Wise Search
 * @http://wisemantech.com/webref.html
 * This website is an educational search engine. It allows students to search for information on a variety of educational topics for research papers, projects, and much more. It gives students more options to search for information outside of Google and other well-known search engines. Wisemantech.com includes all search engines such and Google, Wikipedia, Answers.com, Clusty.com, and many more. This will make it very easy for students to widen the variety of information they can receive off the World Wide Web and give them the most reliable sources. I think by having teachers give students better available search engines; teachers will receive better and more reliable information in return.

Jordan Shifflett - NoodleTOOLS
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 * Noodletools.com is a great educational website where students in all grade levels can save projects and create works cited pages electronically. This website makes it very simple for students, to create works cited pages in all formats. (MLA, ect.) This site makes making a bibliography as simple as it could be. It uses a step by step process where all you have to do is type in the type of source a student used such as, periodicals (Newspapers, Articles, Journals), non-periodicals (books, government publications, religious works), and electronic or online (websites, software, digital-files), and write the author/authors, publication dates and so-forth and noodletools.com will generate a works cited for students. It is an easy and effective way to correctly put together a bibliography.

Jordan Shifflett - WikiSpaces
 * @http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers
 * Wikispaces is an awesome website for teachers to use. It is free for educators who teach in kindergarden through twelfth grade and also for public and protected wiki's. The private wikispaces account is five dollars a month but is well worth it. The possibilities are endless with wikispaces. Educators can create class accounts where all students can access the page in and out of school as long as they have set up an account and have been invited to join the private wikispaces server. Teachers can add multiple sub-pages inside of the main page and can put almost anything into it. Wikispaces is very easy to use and get the hang of, and are not just for the technologically advanced. Teachers can add virtually anything to their pages such as, News Groups, Educational Blogs, Tutorials, and more. This is a readily available resource for teachers at only five dollars a month and free for kindergarden through 12th grade teachers. Teachers should take advantage of this website and start educating more students. :)

Kellie Yanek Thinkfinity [] This website is helpful for teachers because it gives lesson plans and gives actives for each subject. The site even gives actives for teachers to get their students to work with at home individually and with parents such as games. The site is also beneficial for teachers because it provides videos in all different subjects. The site also includes worksheets for teachers to hand to students on all different subjects. The site gives teachers interactives of all different grade levels to get more involved with students and to keep students attention. The site also gives facts about what happened today in history, which could help teachers start the day off with interesting information.

Kellie Yanek - HippoCampus [] This website is very helpful for teachers in 12different subjects; Algebra, Algebra is Spanish, American Government, Biology, Calculus, Calculus in Spanish, Environmental Science, Physics, Psychology, Religion, Statistics, and U.S. History. It gives teachers presentations to help give him or her better ways to explain it to their students. Also it gives different text books that a teacher can go through to and not just get one authors view on a subject, which is very helpful for history teachers. Also by have Algebra and Calculus in Spanish versions can help a teacher with an ELL student. Teachers can even make their own page on HippoCampus for their students to use or other teachers.

Kellie Yanek- History Teachers [] This helpful website is aimed at history teachers that helps teachers give students a better look at History. For example, teachers can look up historical events such as the Civil War, timelines of a war, or current events, such as War on Terrorism. Teachers can also get ideas from other teachers about an activity or simply look at another teacher’s lesson plans. The site is beneficial for teachers because it gives examples of study guides on all different events in history. The history web site also provides teachers with new technology how to present history to his or her students.

Shannon Grover-ABCya! [] ABCya! Is a site that gives children educational activities to do either at home or in the classroom. There are activities related to math, grammar, spelling, reading, and others. The website is organized into grade levels as well so teachers could easily gear their lesson on the website to the age group they teach. The site also offers printouts of scores for the teacher’s resources or for the child to see his/her progress. Some of the activities are also arranged by themes such as holidays to make for easier lesson planning. I also find it helpful that the kindergarten activities are enhanced with sound so that children who are not yet reading will be able to listen to instructions and know what they are expected to do.

Shannon Grover- Apples for the Teacher [] Apples for the Teacher is a website created to help teachers in the classroom. There are many creative ideas for lessons on the site that cover a wide variety of subject matter. There are also fun games and activities for the children including printables and arts and craft ideas. This website also has resources for those who are teaching a foreign language or sign language and those who are teaching English as a second language. I feel like this website is a very helpful tool for teachers to have and it brings a lot of great ideas into the classroom.

Shannon Grover- FunBrain []

Fun Brain is a website for children that encourages learning as well as makes it fun. There are many different educational games that cover many subjects of learning. The games advance in levels as the child plays and the child can personalize their grade level to make the game suit the material they should be learning. I feel like this would be a good classroom tool to brush up on some of the children’s skills or even to suggest to parents as a kid-friendly and fun way for their child to use the computer at home. Teachers can also use this for students struggling with paying attention in class or finding interest in classroom subjects.

Kristyn McCarty-Primary Games [] This website came from a bigger website that had many different drill and practice programs that I could have picked from. I decided to choose the drill and practice called add ‘em up. For this activity it gives you a math problem and what you have to do is pick the correct answer. It gives you up to four tries to figure out the answer. Even after you choose the correct one it gives you pictures to look at such as flowers for example. It shows the number of flowers that represent that answer that you picked. For example, I had the problem eight plus two and I had four answers to choose from. So I chose the number ten because eight plus two is ten. After I choose the answer it told me if I got it right or wrong. Since I ended up getting the answer right it showed me a picture of ten flowers. So that I could see that the numbers eight plus two give me the sum of ten.

Kristyn McCarty-Mind Meister [] Not only is it free and educational you can create your own mind map! This is used by many different individuals for various purposes. It is a popular technique that all kinds of businesses, industries, corporate teams, students, and teachers use. The main usage of this mind mapping is for brainstorming. It is perfect for any kid who is in an English class. Not only is it school appropriate it can help you gather your thoughts for a paper or speech that you are working on. For example, whenever I have to do a speech I love to brainstorm. So by using this map mind I can gather my thoughts together and figure out the main points for my paper. From there I can come up with the thesis all just by brainstorming. It is important for teachers and students to be able to access this because it’s extremely helpful and can help you keep your thoughts organized.

Kristyn McCarty-All Educational Software.com [] You may think this is just an ordinary game for kids, but it’s not! During each of the activities on this game children will be learning. Not only is it fun and entertaining the kids will be building a solid reading foundation with 7 skill-building activities, 6 phonic practice activities, and over 1500 vocabulary words, but that’s not all. You may think that this is just all fun and games, but you’re wrong. There are many different skills that each child will be developing while playing this game. They will learn vowel sounds, how to combine letter groups and words, spell words, increase their vocabulary, and many other things that are actually mentioned on the website. This game would be perfect in a teachers classroom because it will make learning fun for the students and it can also break down the material so that is it easier for the kids to learn.

Sarah Fairburn-Scolastic [] This site would be very helpful for teachers because it provides various different links for the whole classroom to participate in interacting with. There are many links to cheap books that could be purchased for the classroom, there are videos that aim to help encourage students to do well on their school work, and there are also many different links to online or computer projects and activities for the whole class. Most of the activities and projects that are provided are taking real life objects or situations and helping children learn how to apply it to the lesson they are learning.

Sarah Fairburn-Web English Teacher [|http://www.webenglishteacher.com] This site would be very helpful for specifically English teachers. This site provides many helpful strategies and hints to help teachers make sure that their students are participating in the lesson that was set out and make sure it is “Google-proof”. This site gives suggestions about how teachers may want to revise their lesson plans to make it more effective to their students. The site gives out many different links to branched off sites that help a teacher along with the revision of their lesson plan. Also, this site provides different activities and projects for students in their English class.

Sarah Fairburn-Science-teachers.com [] This site would be very helpful for educators specifically in the science field of teaching. There are a lot different activities and projects listed on the site to give the science teacher ideas about what they could do with their students to help them learn. Also, this site provides a few worksheets that a teacher would be able to print out for the entire class. There are many resources listed on the site as well that will take the science teacher to different sites to help out with different possible lessons in science. Many of the resources are different worksheets for the students.

Carlyn Seeman- The Best in Children’s Music @http://www.kididdles.com/

This website is mainly for elementary or early childhood education teachers. This site provides lyrics to 2,000 of the most popular children songs. As well as the lyrics the site also provides the actual song that can be played through your computer. Free printable versions of the lyrics are available to print and copy for the students. Having these songs incorporated in lesson plans in elementary school gives the kids a fun way to learn new things. By using this website teachers have access to these songs for free so they do not have to purchase children CD’s or worry about finding certain songs to teach their students.

Carlyn Seeman – School Express @http://www.schoolexpress.com/ This website is for teachers Kindergarten to eighth grade and it provides over 16,000 different worksheets that teachers can use in their classrooms. These worksheets range by age and grade level and different subjects. There are also free printable games such as Sudoku that can be used. Another great thing about this website is that it gives teachers the option to make their own worksheets and tests/quizzes with help from the website. It has formats for multiple choice, flash cards, word unscramble, and much more. This is a helpful tool that provides a fast and easy way for teachers to give their students the appropriate practice they need to succeed.

Carlyn Seeman – Math is Fun @http://www.mathsisfun.com/

This website is for both students and teachers. Students can go to this site to get extra help in different areas of math. At the home page there are different links to click on such as Algebra, Geometry, Measurement, and more to get extra practice in these certain areas. There is also a link labeled worksheets that teachers can print off and give to their students to work on. Another great link is the games option. This gives kids the opportunity to play math games online that does not feel like they are being forced to do math problems. It gives them educational practice as well as making math fun! This particular website is mainly for elementary education students.

Molly O’Shea – Teachers First Three helpful websites [] This webpage was really interesting to me. It was a webpage designed for first time teachers so that they would have a place to get new ideas and have a resource for when they were teaching. While this websites is for first time teachers I don’t see why teachers that have been teaching for 20 years couldn’t use it too. This web page is a place where teachers can post ideas related to teaching. To me this webpage is similar to a blog but different in the sense that what is being posted is more in article form and looks more professional.

Molly O’Shea – Teacher Planet Three helpful websites [] This webpage is a great resource for teachers. This resource give teacher to access of thousands of resources like examples of lesson plans, worksheets, flashcards, and rubrics. This is a good place where teachers can go to find things for their classroom. This can also be beneficial to teachers because they can use these resources as examples and modify them to fit their students and their style of teaching. The resources are also organized by “theme” so if you were doing a unit on something specific you would be able to find things like lesson plans and worksheets to go with that unit.

Molly O’Shea – The Homework Zone Three helpful websites [] This is a webpage that is similar to Blackboard. It’s a place where teachers can have their students post homework, make announcements, major dates, test reviews, and more. It can be personalized to the teacher and what their studying and there is no limit on the amount of information that you can post. This would be beneficial to teachers because it gives them an easier way for students to turn in their homework. The students can have online discussions so you can get a voice from every student and students that normally wouldn’t talk in class. It also cuts down on wasted materials because they can access the materials online (like test reviews) and if they don’t want to look at them they don’t have to.

Emily Davis-Discovery Education >
 * @http://www.discoveryeducation.com/survival/index.cfm
 * This is a website that would be very helpful for teachers. This website has everything a teacher needs. It has lesson plans for all ages and all subjects that teachers can use. It has a puzzle maker application where a teacher can choose any kind of puzzle out of the puzzles it provides and create the puzzle to fit with the lesson plan. It provides homework help for all ages and all subjects, so teachers can suggest this website if a student needs help with homework. It also has blogs and different articles that teachers and students can look at. Most of the information that is on the website does not require a log in to the website. Teachers can become members of the website, but can still access lesson plans and puzzles without a membership.

Emily Davis-100 Helpful Websites for New Teachers| Teaching Degree.org >
 * @http://www.teachingdegree.org/2009/06/21/100-helpful-websites-for-new-teachers/
 * This is a website that can help new teachers and veteran teachers. The website has a 100 helpful websites for teachers to use. The websites are broken down into sections for new teachers, all teachers, inspirational sites, sites about technology in the classroom, sites with blogging in the classroom, using twitter in the classroom, it leads to sites with other educators who blog, websites about social networking, video sites and then extra freebies . The links on the website can be beneficial to any teachers teaching any age or subject. The links on the website are all education focused and made to help teachers.

Emily Davis- Busy Teacher’s Café- A K-6 site for busy teachers like you!


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 * This website is a great website for teachers to use. The website is geared towards K-6 grade teachers; the website is to make the elementary teachers life easier. The website has theme ideas for every elementary subject including holidays and many others; the themes also include free lesson plans. The website also has advice or strategies for teachers to try. There is downloadable free printable that teachers can use and interpret into their lesson plan. The website also provides more websites and resources for information they do not have on their website. They provide an email where teachers can email the website owners with questions or suggestion. The website also provides updates to new technology and downloads for lesson plans. Most everything on the website is free and does not involve a membership.

Chance Fink – Math Playground @http://www.mathplayground.com/ Math playground is intended for students in elementary and middle school. This educational website has a variety of different things on it, such as: flash cards, thinking blocks, multiplayer thinking games, and a few others that you can choose from. This would be a good site for elementary and middle school teachers to use. It has a lot of fun different activities for the students to use and have fun with. I would definitely use this in my classroom for middle school students because there is a link on this site that allows me to set up my own worksheets, so this would be very helpful to math teachers.

Chance Fink – Poptropica Fun Brain @http://www.funbrain.com/ This website is both useful to teachers and to students. For the students, there is several different links on this site that students’ can choose from. They have flash cards for reading, math, and a few others. Also for students they have educational games on this website such as: math baseball, grammar gorilla, and math race car. On the other hand, teachers can benefit from this website because there are links for curriculum guide line, quiz lab, grade book, and an interesting site called teacher vision. This site also ranges from kindergarten to eighth grade. This would be a beneficial site to use in the classroom. It has a variety of different games for each grade level and would definitely make learning math for younger students more fun playing the learning games.

Chance Fink – Education Place @http://www.eduplace.com/ss/index.jsp?state=il&submit.x=36&submit.y=12 The Education Place website is great for teachers. It has a variety of things the teach may use, which are monthly themes a teacher may provide for the classroom, current event issues, also a lesson planner, and several other links the teacher can click on a browse through. This site also provides a few things for the students, some of these are brain teasers, games, current events, and also some books they can click on. An important thing this website does is that it also has a tab for parents, so if they are interested in seeing what the student is learning they can go to this website and browse through it. This is important because involving parents helps the educational process a great deal.

Tori Fraher- Teacher resources: Website for teachers [] At teachers corner it includes a lot of different sites that one can click on to visit ranging from tips for parent-teacher conferences to ones like clipart a teacher can add to a news letter. It even gives teachers some holiday ideas, but not all may feel comfortable decorating. This is just a fun easy way to spruce up a teachers classroom or their lesson for the day. It is very helpful but some may see it as a downfall because it takes them to another website and they might not like taking that time up to wait for another page to load.

Tori Fraher- Teacher Tidbytes [] Like this cite says it is “bytes of information that save you time,” this is what teachers would like to hear since they have some much to do each day to prepare to the school day and they need to find something else to add to their lesson here is the place to find it. They have things like Educational powerpoints, Educational videos, kid info, teacher web resources, and also lesson plans that integrate the web. This will give teachers from any classroom information they have anything from culinary stuff to language arts. For the students they can even visit the site about homework help.

Tori Fraher- Dr. Seuss Activities [] This is would be a website for an elementary school teacher or even pre-school level just because these activities all have to do with Dr. Seuss and getting the students to interact. This in my opinion is an awesome lesson plan idea because it incorporates children’s’ favorite books with school which would get me interested in the activity. For example the book “Dr. Seuss’s ABC” it gives ideas like make dot-to-dot alphabet worksheets for the kids or play ABC Bingo. Then it has fourteen other Dr. Seuss book ideas, but the teacher could take this further and make different ideas with books that are not his.

Brad Mandarino – Teachers Social Network

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This site is basically like facebook except it’s for teachers. With this website teachers are able to exchange teaching experiences and materials with other teachers and students. Staying connected with other teachers and learning about new and different teaching styles is very important. It can help a teacher learn something they might not have known and keep students interested in learning. Teachers can download lesson plans and worksheets from this site and also create their own and share them with other teachers. It’s easy to use and keeps teachers up to date on what else is going on with other teachers.

Brad Mandarino – Survival Guide for New Teachers

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This website gives the teachers all the information they need when it comes to being a teacher. All teachers are new at some point and with this website, they can find helpful on hints on what to do and how to interact in certain situations. It provides an in-depth look into what it means to be a teacher and could help reduce the stress of being a new teacher. This can act like the owner’s manual of teaching. Teaching isn’t always easy but this website gives teachers the ability to have confidence when first starting their career. It is important for teachers to have advice, like what is given on this site, when they first start teaching.

Brad Mandarino – Education World: Lesson Plan of the Day

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Lesson plans aren’t always easy to come up with, but this site provides many lesson plans that teachers can use in their own classroom. The importance of lesson plans are self-explanatory and every teacher needs one every day. It’s not always easy coming up and with new and exciting things to do in the classroom. With the help from this websites teachers are able to explore new ideas of what and how to teach their students. Lesson plans are often the most important aspect of what a teacher does in the classroom and this site gives numerous examples of lesson plans.

CJ Stewart

LibriVox [] I commute to work and find I spend a lot of time driving I wish I could spend doing something constructive. One outlet I have found is to listen to audio books while I drive. It provides an opportunity to do something constructive without endangering my driving. Finding audio books can be difficult and in some cases expensive LibriVox provides free audiobooks of public domain literature (books without copy writes most of which are published before 1923). Their archive includes a lot of classic literature like __Tale of Two Cities__, by Charles Dickens. The bulk of these audio books are in English however some have been recorded in other languages including Spanish, German, and Chinese.

Dictionary.com [] Every teacher and student knows the importance of choosing and spelling the right word. I use dictionary.com as a dictionary and thesaurus nearly every day to look for words or to make sure I am using the right word to say what I mean to say. Mythography [] I have found this site invaluable for my myth class. It is an easy way to get an over view of any Greek or Roman myth or mythological character.


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 * This website is perfect for new teachers! It lays out a lot of things that new teachers should know, but maybe forgot or never learned. It gives you the option to navigate through tutorials, blogs, and other sites that give many helpful tips. A lot of teachers don’t really know how to find the answers at first, so this site can help a ton! One thing that really helped was the technology tips. It tells first year teachers how to use smart boards! It is also cool because it gives tips on how to motivate parents to get involved, and also gives tips on how parents can educate their children over the summer.


 * Camille Dobbins
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 * This is a really good website for teachers to give to their students. Students will never be able to give the excuse that they couldn’t find it in their text book! It provides a fun way for students to ask questions and it can improve their research skills. Any question about any subject matter can be asked on this website and it will navigate the students to other sites where they will find answers. It is just like ask.com but easier for children to use. It is easier to follow and has cute graphics that get children engaged. Parents can also help their children navigate the website. Children can also watch videos and play games on this website!


 * Camille Dobbins
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">This is a really cool website because it teachers children an appropriate way to manage children who are having behavioral problems either in the classroom or at home. Not only does it tell you how to help these kids, it also gives warning signs and steps to take to decide what is really going on with the child. It also goes another step further. It teaches teachers how to solve the problems without being a distraction to other students. If a teacher is ever in a hard place and doesn’t know what to do with a student, this site has a lot of behaviors to recover and explains them as habits!