Teacher Resources

Rubric Bank

RubiStar

PBL Rubric

Search from a variety of templates such as awards certificates, calendars, classroom orgainzers, back to school, election information, posters, fliers, language arts, and graphic organizers. All templates are Word documents and can be downloaded from the site, saved onto your hard drive, and can be edited as necessary.

free online tool that lets K-12 teachers establish classroom portals for parents and students with features such as discussion boards, online assignment collection and internal messaging

guide for students for research projects, estimates the dates by which each step of the process should be completed and provides a script for the information seeking process

resources to help you differentiate instruction using technology

"Interactives" provides educators and students with strategies, content, and activities that can enhance and improve students' skills in a variety of curricular areas (grades 6-12)

a new web site launched by Boston-based public television station WGBH. The site features video clips and interviews from WGBH programming created between 1968 and 1993, including clips of Muhammad Ali discussing his refusal to fight in Vietnam, African American students arriving at school during Boston's court-ordered desegregation, and Robert McNamara reading from a letter sent by Nikita Khrushchev to President Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Open Vault includes more than 500 streaming video clips and more than 1,000 interview transcripts in all. Users can search by keyword or browse by topic (arts, business, education, humanities, Massachusetts, science and technology, and social science) and can view data alphabetically by person and by series. In addition, resource management tools allow educators to annotate and tag records, create topical lists, and send information to students for further study or classroom discussion.

over 1200 PowerPoint presentations on a variety of topics for classroom use. Get some great ideas for ways to incorporate them into SMART Notebook or Mimio Notebook.

PowerPoint templates for games to use in your classroom such as Jeopardy, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Weakest Link

A new site for making and sharing presentations on the web (made in your web browser and shared with anyone by sending them a link)

Geared for middle school students, this career exploration game helps students learn about themselves, higher education and careers. The support materials for educators are contained at https://www.driveofyourlife.org/educator/

The official site of the Groundhog Club in Punxsutawney, PA.

Source for grants, web resources, and free materials

Preview educational software before purchasing

WEB 2.0

Enter text in English, Spanish or Italian and it will be converted into a MP3

a quick way to create a poll that you can embed into a wiki or website; no registration is required; answers can be sent to you email

Create your own educational social network

You can make books, pictures or stories on this free site. Choose a background and add clip art to it or create a custom design of your own.

Educator social networking site

free web- based diagram editors; create and share flowcharts and diagrams

free file hosting, unlimited disc space; share files and images with others; up to 100MB per file

free online file conversion; convert files to many different formats;

Box.net is an online file storage and file sharing site that allows users to upload and share documents

upload text to be read or type it in, choose one of fifteen readers, and listen to the reading online, download to your ipod or save to your computer, or turn your reading into a podcast

This site contains free teacher controlled email accounts for students.

Google Docs

Zoho Writer

Writeboard

ThinkFree Online

From Techlearning

a tool to create illustrated books from Flickr photos; slides can be published and sent to an email which contains a link to the slideshow to then be posted to a blog or wiki