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Below are some links to web sites that have been developed for teachers and administrators

Suggestions From The Queens Computer Circle

  • KidPix Lesson Plans and lists of KidPix Sites
  • Internet's Best Directory of K-12 Websites http://www.eduhound.com
    This pre-screened directory to more than 30,000 K-12 sites will
    help you easily locate the very best educational web sites,
    resources, lesson plans, webquests, and much more.  Site creator,
    Judy Rajala has made the site a cinch to navigate.  Visit (and be
    sure to bookmark) Eduhound if you need a comprehensive resource
    for education sites
  • checked out its "Ed Tech Site of the Week".  Just going into one small area was a goldmine - lessons ready to use or to enhance.  In November I tried a similar hunt type project with grades 4 - 6 with great success.  I took the basic work from the Instructor magazine (it had reprint rights & I gave credit) but then added a few enhancements and a rubric.  Students enjoyed the process & parents were impressed with their child's work.  The current projects use The Infoplease Kids' Almanac Online.
  • Flying Rhinoceros and Copernicus Interactive - Lesson plans and cartoons to create interactive content.  Very cool.
  • http://www.explorasource.com  This free web service from MediaSeek Technologies promises to make the job of teachers, curriculum directors, and technology coordinators a whole lot easier. Use the Resource Browser to select learning needs by grade, subject, and topic, view a list of resources that address these learning needs, then find standards that match the selected resource. Use the Standards Viewer to select standards information that addresses learning needs and then find resources that map to those standards media type or publisher.
  • http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~burniske/cpl  Don't cruise the internet without "CyberPilot's License" Need a starting point to teach students or teachers about the internet? Check out the CyberPilot's License site. Like driver's education, this site addresses not only the skills necessary to operate internet machinery, but also the attitudes and behaviors that promote healthy internet surfing. CyberPilot's License is dedicated to boosting web ethics and developing healthy online environments. Participants learn to use search engines and discussion forums without harming themselves or others. This site explores the technology and terminology of cyberspace as well as the moral and ethical issues surrounding web surfing. Educators can adapt the program to suit their needs. The CyberPilot's License program is a proactive approach to reducing web-induced anxiety. It also serves as an interactive meeting place for students, educators, and parents to discuss web ethics.
  • http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/ a great site about dinosaurs.   The main site ( http://www.enchantedlearning.com ) leads to a variety of sites especially good for K – 4 students.  This link leads to a picture dictionary – click on a letter, then select a term: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Dictionary.html
  • April 3, 2000: EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY SITE OF THE WEEK
    It's a great read: American Library Association's 'Libraries and the Internet Tool Kit: http://www.ala.org/internettoolkit  No other technology in history has provided as much information as easily as the internet. Librarians have always guided students to good books, and now they must guide students to quality web sites. But how do librarians find and evaluate quality internet sites? How do they protect children from entering offensive sites? The American Library Association (ALA) provides a useful set of guidelines that ensure the best use of the internet in libraries as it becomes more widely accessible. The Libraries and the Internet Toolkit, available as a PDF download, provides essential information for integrating the internet as a library resource for children. It discusses the debate about filters and provides advice for creating an internet policy, characteristics of a good web site, and a list of helpful resources. The document serves as an excellent basis for building an internet strategy for your school libraries.

  • eSchool News Funding Section: http://www.eschoolnews.org/funding/  Lists current grant opportunities.

  • These  were suggested in an article in Family PC Oct 1999) A good middle school science site: http://kato.theramp.net/sciencespot/

Includes lessons and printouts for classroom use.

Take shots of class projects, activities, or field trips for weekly newsletters or board reports.

Share images with parents or grandparents by creating a “Caught Your Child Enjoying... “ page. Snap a shot of the latest math activity, PE lesson, or science investigation and add a message to create special reports for parents.

Spice up a class web page with pictures from your classroom. Save your photos to your hard drive so they will be available for your web building projects. Be sure to check out your district's restrictions on using photographs before uploading to your server.

Attach digital images to e-mail's to share class news with Internet pen pals or the newspaper. Check out the HELP area of your e-mail program to learn about attaching files to your e-mail messages.

Have your students create a “My Favorites” scrapbook with shots of various activities from the year. Save pictures of their favorite projects to create a “Welcome To My Class” newsletter for next year's class.

Personalize awards with images of students and their award-winning creations. Combine images with cool clip art to make an award certificate that is outstanding and memorable.

Allow your students to take a few shots to add pizzazz to reports, projects, class presentations, or their own Power Point projects.

Use pictures of your students to personalize classroom displays for helpers or leaders.

Create cool birthday, thank you, or congratulatory cards complete with a photo and message from the teacher. Challenge your students to use their writing skills to create the perfect message.

Save digital images of classroom activities and projects to demonstrate and evaluate standards-based learning.
(1) Collect images from various phases of a project to evaluate progress towards learning goals.
(2) Create an information page using an image of a final product and a summary of the goals/standards that were met.

Incorporate pictures of learning activities to generate interest and reinforce learning.
(1) Take a series of shots of the life cycle of a butterfly, insect, or frog. Create flash cards that challenge students to put the shots in order.
(2) Use photos of labs, lessons, or special projects to create questions for exams.
(3) Utilize images of local scenes, classroom activities, or field trips to add another dimension to journal writing activities.
(4) Images of a reading collage, math manipulatives, art samples, or musical instruments can be used to create interesting worksheets or exam questions.

Don’t have a digital camera available? Take regular pictures and utilize a scanner to create digital images.  T. Trimpe 2000

Start here and be guided through the process one step at a time!

  • Help Make Communities Work For Kids
    http://www.connectforkids.com

    Visit this award-winning site for a virtual encyclopedia of information that can help you make your community a better place for kids.  Browse through 101 tips you can do at home, school, or work to make the lives of children healthier and happier.  You can read insightful and entertaining articles on everything from the teen years to after school programs to voting and public opinion. Be sure to stop by the discussion forum where you can share ideas on topics like balancing work and family, improving schools and keeping kids healthy, just to name a few.  The Connect for Kids team is made up of children's experts, journalists, and communications specialists, and is headquartered at the non-profit Benton Foundation in Washington, DC.  Check out this site to get all the information you need to get involved on behalf of kids!

  • Exlpore The Changing History of Discovering Dinosaurs
    http://dinosaurs.eb.com/dinosaurs/index2.html

    Developed by Encyclopedia Britannica for grades 4-6, "Discovering Dinosaurs" is one of the most informative, interactive, and visually pleasing sites out there.  Through a self-guide grid, you can see how theories of dinosaur have evolved, from the first discovery of the unidentified bones to modern theories of distinction through a mass migration sparked by changing sea levels.  You can explore over 100 years of changing scientific theory on environmental issues which effect paleontology and examine changing views of dinosaur anatomy, from the days of dinosaurs to classic theory of dinosaurs as close kin to birds. Be sure to look at the "Activity Guide" where you can pick our your very own.

  • Zoom Dinosaurs is a comprehensive on-line hypertext book about dinosaurs. It is designed for students of all ages and levels of comprehension. It has an easy-to-use structure that allows readers to start at a basic level on each topic, and then to progress to much more advanced information as desired, simply by clicking on links.
  • This site gives the phone number to get the forms for a free kit of instructional materials available free to educators who teach science, math or computers in grades through 9. I mailed for mine and it sounds very useful. If they don't want to call I found the website that you can download the form from and then print it to mail it in. They won't take it via e-mail. The web site is http://secure.wesweb.com/intel/form.htm
  • INNOVATIVE TEACHING - A great list of teacher lesson plan, student to student connections, etc.

If folks have links they would like to contribute, just drop Brother Bill an e-mail.