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Miscellaneous Teacher Tools:

Forms    

Active Engagement Strategies for the Classroom               

Awards & Certificates for the Classroom and End-of-Year

Avid Online

Blackboard Instructor Info and Manuals

Computer Skills Test - A collection of web sites with tools to help you prepare your students for the 8th grade computer skills test.

Copyright Made Easy - Rules have changed A LOT since most teachers were in school. This article is an easy read and covers everything from the 1989 Copyright Law changes, to "Fair Use," to helping your students understand the "whys" of copyright.

Current Events - Free Online Newspapers, Magazines, and Books (English Reading Room)

Curriculum Corkboard/ Curriculum Mapping Information - This site is connected with NC Wiseowl's Middle School Kaleidoscope project.  It offers an overview of data gathering and curriculum planning with direct connections to the various curricular areas within the North Carolina Middle School Program.

Clip Art and Animation Fun Links

Discussion Forum - Quick Topic - For any quick group discussion, use QuickTopic free message boards instead of just email.
Your messages will be in a private central place. Your friends can participate by email or use the web forum, because QuickTopic's super-easy web message boards let you get and post messages by email. Use it on your web site too.

EOG Preparations

e-Marc aka. Goals/Objective Template (GOT) - The GOT is comprised of the goals and objectives in the Standard Course of Study. It includes essential knowledge, vocabulary and an assessment item for each objective. The GOT also includes additional resources to support the individual goals and objectives.

eSchools - How to Register or Drop a Course (pdf file)

Graphic Organizers
http://www.volusia.k12.fl.us/curriculum/SocialStdy/Graphic%20Organizers.htm
http://gotoscience.com/Graphic_Organizers.html
http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/index.html
http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/pdf/persuasion.pdf persuasion
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/persuasion_map/

ILT Information (WMMS) - Molly Moore's Resources for New Teachers

Internet Safety Resources

Learning Styles - The Index of Learning Styles is an on-line instrument used to assess preferences on four dimensions (active/reflective, sensing/intuitive, visual/verbal, and sequential/global) of a learning style model formulated by Richard M. Felder and Linda K. Silverman. Learning Styles Questionnaire

Lesson Planning - This is a great site to review when you need a little boost of creativity in your lesson planning. The feedback from WMMS teachers regarding this site has been quite positive!

LotusNotes - Forwarding message from your Lotus Notes account to a personal account. (pdf file - need free Adobe Reader)

Mailman System (Parent E-mail Lists)

Mentor Teacher Resources - Walters Mentor Class info

NC Standard Course of Study

PowerPoint Instruction - Review this article by Jamie McKenzie before you integrate PowerPoint projects into your curriculum. Mr. McKenzie offers great insight into developing meaty lessons that incorporate PowerPoint as a powerful presentation tool, without the fluff or distracting materials that so many PowerPoint presentations have.

Search Engines - A variety of search engines to help you locate project information.

Sharon Irby's Collection:
.....Teacher Links
     Maps
     STTI 2005 Workshop
     (Please let Diane Walters know if other Irby pages should be
      added to this site. See Curriculum Specific Tools for others.)

Staff Directory

Study Skills & Memory Tools
Memory Principles - Use these tools with your students to help them refine their study skills.
Slide Show - These 9 slides provide an outline of the memory process.
Slide Show - These 11 slides connect the memory principles to real life student scenarios.

Teaching and Learning Center - The K-12 Teaching & Learning Center is a subscription service offered by WCPSS through the 2006-07 school year. Usage data is being collected and the subscription will be renewed if its usage is high enough to warrant the cost. You may access it directly from school computers, but will need a password if you wish to use it from home. See Diane for the password. This site has been created for TEACHERS FIRST, and the best way to make it work for you is to customize the TLC to your specific needs and interests.

One of the neatest offerings of the site is that the Teaching and Learning Center staff will customize a research page specifically for your project. Go to: http://k12tlc.net/content/rrgr.htm to see what is available and to complete a resource guide request. Their research request page says, "Tell us about your student research project (please submit a different request for each project), and we will gather together the best resources available on the Internet, create a guide customized to your needs, and put it online for you and your students to use. Give it a try. A customized TLC research resource guide can elevate your students' research to new heights! You have absolutely nothing to lose. If you don't like it - don't use it, but we think you're gonna like it." E-mail your request to: ResearchRequest@k12tlc.net.

Technology Workshops - The Wade Edwards Learning Lab offers technology workshops to members of the WCPSS Community and Wake County non-profit organizations. Spaces are limited; enrollment is on a first-come, first-served basis. The workshops are FREE to WCPSS faculty, staff and students; parents and other community members are asked to volunteer 1 hour at the WELL for every 2 hours of technology training. All workshops will take place an Thursdays 7:00-9:00 PM. Course scheduling is subject to change according to registration and demand. Participants are encouraged to come with a project in mind to develop during each workshop.

TechCollaborations - A collection of web links to enhance your use of the Internet within your classroom. It offers LOTS of suggestions for project based learning.

Testing Forms & Information

Text Reader
Note: Before working with any of these webpages, be sure to turn your speakers on/volume up
Edict.com  -  http://www.edict.com.hk/TextTospeech/TTStest.htm

WebQuests - A growing collection of webquests that integrate the curricula of one or two middle school courses, plus objectives from the NC Computer Skills curriculum.

Web Workshop

Writing Assessment - NC Interactive Training Site, Grade 7
.........Content Rubric for Writing Assessment

             

                      Curriculum Specific Tools

Career and Technical Education

 

 

Business Education Resources
Classroom Homepage Example (Links to a large classroom website)
Business Computer Technology and Keyboarding learning/fun links for students
Glencoe E-zine ( Teacher tips, practical classroom advice, cutting edge news for business, marketing, and careers education.)
Glencoe Tech-zine ( Edu-tech oriented news articles, teacher-created lesson plans and web sites, gadget and game of the month, tips and tricks for classroom management )
Hardware Accessories: Madison Computer Corporation, New York City - Optical mice are very reasonably priced and reliable.
Keying Special Characters with Alt key combinations
Keyboarding Games
Vocational Information Center (Deep website with much more than career information)

ESL
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/esl.html
ESL Gold! Free English Teaching and Learning Materials
Online Directory of ESL Resources
Internet Picture Dictionary
Center for the Study of Books in Spanish for Children
ESLhome.org: Online Reading Passages and Exercises
National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education
Other WMMS favorites

Fine Arts
NC Kaleidoscope Links
Music Theory, Lessons & More by Ricci Adams

Foreign Languages
ALT keycodes for creating accent and special characters
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
National K-12 Foreign Language Resource Center

Healthful Living
NC Kaleidoscope Links
Online Health Book
Other WMMS Favorites
Healthful Living Rotation Schedule

Language Arts
Accelerated Reader Info
Authors and Their Works
.....http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/chauthors.htm
.....http://www.ipl.org/youth/AskAuthor/
Bartleby's famous quotations, phrases, & proverbs with sources
Graphic Organizers
Writing Resources:
Descriptive Writing Prompts by NWREL: Many prompts: Some of these would be great for full papers, others for a paragraph, others for a graphic organizer
Prentice Hall Essay Scorer- Become a better writer. Use the Prentice Hall essay scorer which will allow you to submit an essay, based on a writing prompt that is found on the website. You will receive instant scoring and feedback with tips for revision.
NC Wise Owl Reading and Writing Resources
Teaching and learning about writing with a variety of sentence types
Grammar Gorillas Parts of Speech Game (Beginner and Advanced)
Grammar Lessons - Parts of speech, parts of a sentence, and mechanics.
Grammar Bytes - Terms, Interactive Exercises, Tips and Rules, Handouts - an excellent site.
Paragraph Development - Online Writing Assistant
Writing Fix - Excellent resource for teaching the components of writing from the Northern Nevada Writing Project. Links from this page include interactive writing prompts, etc. This site offers a WEALTH of tools and strategies to help you teach writing across the curriculum.

Mathematics
Graph Paper - Print your own: This includes a large selection of Cartesian, engineering, polar, isometric, probability and logarithmic graph paper in imperial and metric scales - all free!
Graph Paper (pdf file)      (Download Adobe PDF Reader)
Interactive Math Lessons and Practice - AAA Math
NC Kaleidoscope Links
National Library for Virtual Manipulatives - Grade 6-8
Online Math Book
Other WMMS Favorites

Science
NC Kaleidoscope Links
Science News for Kids
Science "Today's News and Current Events":
.....nnews compiled by brightsurf | news compiled by CNN.com
Chemical Elements.com - An Interactive Periodic Table of the Elements
Inventions - A list of well-known inventions, the inventors, and the year invented or patented
Other WMMS Favorites

Social Studies
Barbara Clark's 6th Grade SS Links
Ms. Moses' Spring Project
NC Kaleidoscope Links
Fantasy Congress - Learn about our government by becoming involved in a "fantasy" congress game!
US History.com
Other WMMS Favorites
WMMS Maps Links
Mary Beth Dierickx's Web Assignment
Carol Cergol's Web Assignment

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Last updated: September 4, 2008