Resources for Teachers

General Resources

  1. ACES I (July 1998) - Cultivating Learners, integrating the Internet into the curriculum
  2. Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - A complete online resource for teachers. Excellent.
  3. Global Classroom Teacher Resources - a wide range of resources including places to find online projects
  4. Guide to Basic Web Design - from the Global Classroom
  5. WebQuests - inquiry oriented activity using resources on the WWW
  6. Ask an Expert - links to several "Ask an Expert" pages from UtahLINK
  7. Handbook of Engaged Learning Projects - from the Fermilab Education Office
  8. Designs for Telecollaboration and Telepresence - Judi Harris, from her book Virtual Architecture
  9. From Now On - Jamie McKenzie
  10. Search Tools For Kids [from the MindSPACE III resource page]
  11. Kids' Tools For Searching the Internet [Thank you, MindSPACE III!]

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Standards and Assessment

  1. National Curriculum Standards - worldwide, from the CyberJourneys web site
  2. Essential Content - Hawaii
  3. Forms of Alternative Assessment - Miami Museum of Science

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The CyberJourneys Series

  1. Kids@work Resources - Includes resources for weather, time zones, latitude/longitude, mathematicians, search engines, keypal sites, conversions and more
  2. CyberDesign- Architects of the Future - Where students become "information competent and digitally literate"
  3. English@work Resource page - The English Teachers Guide to the Internet
  4. Scribes Online Teacher's Library

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KIDLINK

  1. KIDLEADER archives - Where the adult leaders hold discussions
  2. KIDLINK - projects and global dialogue for kids up to 15 years of age.
  3. KIDPROJ - long and short term projects, message archives
  4. KIDFORUM - 6 week topics, message archives
  5. KIDCAFE - free form discussions
  6. KIDLINK IRC - registration required
  7. KIDLINK C2D - multimedia
  8. Search the KIDLINK archives
  9. How to subscribe to KIDLINK lists

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ThinkQuest

  1. ThinkQuest - An International Contest for Students 12 - 19 years old.
  2. ThinkQuest Junior - A contest for girls and boys in U.S. schools, grades 4 - 6.
  3. ThinkQuest for Tomorrow's Teachers - A new contest for U.S. teachers

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Math Resources

  1. Kids@work Math Resources - Contains a list of many online Math resources
  2. Curriculum and Evaluation Standards For School Mathematics (NCTM) National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

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Projects About Water and Oceanography

  1. Student's Sea of Knowledge - Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command
  2. Kids in Boats - Australia New Zealand Safe Boating Education Group (ANZSBEG)
  3. Ocean Planet - Interdisciplinary Marine Science Activities from the Smithsonian Institute

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Patti Weeg
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The Global Classroom
July 1999