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 301 W. Brazoswood Dr.
Clute, TX 77531

Mailing Address
P.O. Drawer Z
Freeport, TX
77542-1926

Phone
979-730-7000
Fax

979-266-2486

Web Resources for the Content Areas

This list of websites has been created for use in one of our local BISD technology workshops. The two hour course called “Web Resources for the Content Areas” will explore these sites so teachers can identify web resources to use with students in their classrooms. This is a short list and only a starting point for many wonderful teacher-friendly websites. This list may be updated as we continue to improve this particular workshop.

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Kathy Schrock has a web page that features tools for teachers:
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/

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Sail-On: A collaborative effort of 7 school districts (including BISD) to identify interactive websites aligned to TEKS by grade level & subject: http://www.pasadenaisd.org/sailon

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http://www.marcopolo-education.org/home.aspx
MarcoPolo offers a wealth of websites for teachers. It has recently been acquired by Verizon Networks and will be called “Thinkfinity” instead of MarcoPolo. Thinkfinity content covers arts integration, economics, geography, the humanities, mathematics, reading, language arts and science. The high-quality, standards-based K-12 content includes lesson plans, reviewed Web sites, student materials, interactive activities, assessments and more.
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Thinkfinity Calendar: Find date-specific events and related Partner lessons and resources in the Thinkfinity Calendar.

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Featured Resources: Access featured resources developed for you by Thinkfinity and our Content Partners.

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Standards Alignment: Learn about Thinkfinity and alignment of our content to national and state education standards.

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Lesson Plan Index: Browseable lesson plans

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Student Materials Index: Browseable student materials

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Scholastic’s website for teachers—lots of great resources for all grades.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/

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Answers.com teacher’s toolkit: http://www.teachers.answers.com/

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Starfall: www.starfall.com  “the children absolutely love it.” Great for PK-K. This site contains many phonics books online and in an interactive format.

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Educational Hotlinks for Middle School People: http://tinyurl.com/15xst
This is an excellent list maintained by Jim Lerman of Kean University.
Here is another from him as well: Educational Hotlinks for New Teachers:
http://tinyurl.com/zp4ee

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Holton Middle School Teacher Resources: http://www.holton.k12.ks.us/hms/library/midlib/teacher.html  “Great list!”

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Try http://www.pics4learning.com/index.php  for copyright friendly website with educationally appropriate pictures.

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An online whiteboard: General Electric’s Imagination at Work: http://www.imaginationcubed.com/Imagine?aoverride=y&aIsOldDrawing=Y

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The Best Kids Book Site: http://www.thebestkidsbooksite.com/
This is an awesome website for elementary librarians planning for storytime. It sounds like it is a book site only, but really is much more.

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Assist students in properly citing their work (both print and non-print materials). Citation Machine: http://citationmachine.net/

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Cool Text: http://cooltext.com/  free online graphics generator—can be used in multimedia projects.

 

 

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