Resources

Video Resources

1. School Tube - Excellent safe place for students and teachers to share and view video.
2. WatchKnow - Wonderful site with 1000's of videos for students in multiple subjects, organized in a clear, precise way.
3. Neo K-12 - All videos on this amazing site are a 100% safe. Also, there is a complete suite of educational tools for educators to choose from, such as quizzes, presentations, and more.
4. Snag Learning - An interesting site that brings documentary-style films to engage students in discussion and classroom participation.
5. Qwiki - A very new (alpha) site that brings an innovative twist on video experience. While the content is still growing, one can't help but notice that amount of promise that is shown here.
6. Explore - Great site, similar to Discovery Streaming for educational video. Users can either view on the web or download for their own convenience.
7. Kids Tube - Excellent filtered site for kids' videos.
8. Teacher Tube - Excellent site for educators to find videos for students and share in the wonderful educational online community.
9. Vimeo - A nice very popular alternative to YouTube. I recommend using with a filter of some sort, or view all content before introducing to students.
10. Clip Blast - A huge collection of videos can be found on this nice site; must be used in a filtered environment for safety reasons.
11. You Tube
12. IMBD: Best alternative to YouTube
13. Best Google Sites on the Web
14. Analytics

Checklists

• Website Evaluations
• Internet Rules of Conduct
• Keyboard Shortcut Keys for Internet
• Iowa End of Course Exam

Cindy's Sources

• Thinkport
• Rosetta Stone
• Oodles of Literacy Sites
• Science Articles by Grade Level
• Spanish Terms (1)
• quitnow (CAPOW practice #2)
• Big Question Vocabulary
• Appositive Practice
• Greek and Latin Roots - List One
• Commas Exercise 1
• CAPOW
• FROGS - Clay County Fair Link
• Greek and Latin Roots - List Two
• February Scavenger Hunts
• On-line Reading Games
• Figurative Language Review
• Greek and Latin Roots - List Three
• Greek and Latin Roots - List Four
• Greek and Latin Prefixes
• Greek and Latin Suffixes
• Fun Brain
• hodu (CAPOW practice #1 )
• Teen News
• News for Kids
• Poe's Life/Edgar Allan Poe Museum
• Plot Hill
• Greek Mythology
• Rags to Riches
  • Show what you know about punctuating dialogue.
• The Story of Lascaux Cave
• What Should I Read Next
• Quizlet - Compound subjects, verbs, sentences
• Spanish Set
• Elements of Literature (Part 1)
• Elements of Literature (Part 2)
• Time for Kids
• Elements of Literary Nonfiction
• Elements of Literary Nonfiction
• Don't Text and Drive
• Elements of a Short Story
• Fiction vs Nonfiction
• Quizlet - A Christmas Carol Staves I and II
  • Practice the vocabulary from Staves I and II
• A Christmas Carol Stave III Vocabulary
• A Christmas Carol Staves IV and V
• Charles Dickens
  • Scavenger hunter
• ACROSTIC POEM MAKER
• 9/11 FAQ
• Lascaux Cave Drawings
• Seven Wonders of the World
• Funny News for Kids
• Identifying Independent Clauses
  • Remember, an independent must be able to stand alone as a sentence. If it couldn't it isn't an independent clause!
• Literary Terms LIST 1
• Reading Comprehension Map Games
• Subject Verb Agreement Helpful Hints
• Unit 1 Is the Truth the Same for Everyone
• National Geographic
• SPAWN
• Singular and Plural Game
• Limericks
  • Limericks
• Petra, Jordan
• Poets
• Dunking Common and Proper Nouns
• HOT TOPICS
  • HOT TOPICS
• Hangman
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Ellis Island
• Christmas Games
• Kid's Current News
• Children of the Holocaust
• Analogies Quiz
• Read Aloud Books
• 7 Wonders of the World
• News For Kids
• Christ Statue of Brazil
• Christ Statue of Brazil (Day 2)
• Easter Island
• Fight or Flight
• Mount Rushmore
• Coordinate and Cumulative Adjectives
• Coordinate vs. Cumulative Adjectives Practice
• Evolution of the Football Helmet
• Organize Your Essay
• USE THIS PUZZLE MAKER
• Halloween Webquest
• Demonstration Speech Ideas