- delicious.com Delicious is a social bookmarking service, which means you can save all your bookmarks online, share them with other people, and see what other people are bookmarking. It also means that we can show you the most popular bookmarks being saved right now across many areas of interest. In addition, our search and tagging tools help you keep track of your entire bookmark collection and find tasty new bookmarks from people like you.
- teachertube.com TeacherTube is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development with teachers teaching teachers. As well, it is a site where teachers can post videos designed for students to view in order to learn a concept or skill.
- communitywalk.com CommunityWalk is a website that is dedicated to providing a powerful yet simple and easy to use interface for creating informational, interactive, and engaging maps.
- writeboard.com Writeboard makes it easy to write without fear of losing or overwriting a good idea, compare different versions of a document, collaborate with colleagues on copy, proposals, memos, etc.
- Class Blogmeister Web journals in the classroom via a classroom blog.
- Catechetical Certification Program
- Washington State Library System
- Internet Safety
- Rethinking School-Online
- Washington Science Teachers Association
- Summer Institute in Life Science - UW
- Biology Programs for Teachers – UW
- Woodland Park Zoo
Art Museums in Western Washington with educational resource programs for Teachers
- Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue
- Burke Museum, Seattle (University of Washington campus)
- Children’s Museum, Seattle (Seattle Center)
- EMP (Experience Music Project), Seattle
- Frye Art Museum, Seattle
- Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (University of Washington campus)
- Museum of Glass, Tacoma
- Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner
- Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
- Suquamish Museum, Suquamish
- Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma
- Western Bridge/ Contemporary Art, Seattle
- Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham
- Wing Luke Asian Museum, Seattle (International District)
- Arts in Education Program
- Arts Resource, Mayor’s Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs
- Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI)
- Washington State Arts Commission
- The 5th Avenue Adventure Musical Theatre
- The 5th Avenue Theater- Education
- Art Corps
- Central District Forum for Arts and Ideas
- The American Folk Life Center: Washington State
- NOISE (Northwest Opera in the Schools)
- Seattle Children’s Theatre
- Seattle Children’s Theater Resources for Teachers
- Seattle Opera
- Seattle Symphony
- Tacoma Opera
- Tacoma Symphony
- Washington Art Education Association
- Washington State Arts Commission
- Sax Arts and Crafts
- OPSI Arts
- OPSI Professional Development Opportunities
- The Art Gallery
- Scribbles Kids Art
- Dick Blick Art Materials
- Arts Attack
- Children’s’ Music Foundation: First Note
- Music Theory
- PBS Teachers – The Arts
- Dallas Symphony Orchestra
- Washington Music Educators Association
- National Association of Pastoral Musicians
- Hickey’s Music Online
- JW Pepper
- John’s Music Center
- Capitol Music Center
- Cascio Music Incorporated
- Musician’s Friend
- Fantastic Plays for Kids
- Play Scripts
- Theater Fact Index
- Musicals
- Education Index
- We English Teacher
- BrainPOP
- Discovery Education Streaming
- Scholastic Book Club
- Teacher tools available at Scholastic
- The Virtual School House
- PBS Resources for Teachers
- Education World – Technology integration section
- NASA SPACE SCIENCE Education
- Random Acts of Kindness Foundation
- Literature fun
- Harry Potter example
- Tools for Calculating – Spreadsheets
- Global School Net- Global School Net’s mission is to identify, support, and encourage effective practices and programs that engage students in meaningful content and personal exchanges with people around the world to develop basic and advanced literacy and communication skills, create multi-cultural understanding, and prepare them for full participation as productive and effective citizens in an increasing global economy.
- Project Based Curriculum Inquiry-Based Learning: An instructional method that uses complex, real-life projects to motivate learning and provide learning experiences;the projects are authentic, yet adhere to a curricular framework.
- iEARN
- Microsoft lesson plans for students and educators-all subject areas4Teachers Family of ToolsExpand your curriculum with our timesaving educational resources that use technology to improve instruction across all content areas and grade levels. Find current resources that align with standards, promote higher-order thinking, and support the development of writing skills. Monitor student research and writing, evaluate student performance, and create bilingual online lessons, classroom calendars, and quizzes in less time than traditional methods.
- RUBISTAR- Create rubrics for anything! Categories include: History, Geography, Science and Tech, Math and more. If you use a PC then the lesson plans integrate the Microsoft products and the assessment strand promotes the rubrics website.
- Assign-A-Dayis a free tool designed to enhance teacher and student communication through an online teacher-managed calendar. Teachers create a calendar for each of their classes and add assignments for the students to view. Students view their teachers’ calendars in order to see assignments for classes they might have missed, or to get an overview of the class.
- NoteStaris an Internet utility to assist in the preparation of research papers. Teachers and students can set up research projects with topics and sub-topics. Students may then take advantage of NoteStar’s many features to collect and organize their notes and prepare their bibliography page.
- ThinkTankis designed to help students develop a Research Organizer (a list of topics and subtopics) for reports and projects. Based on the subject assigned, the students can refine it by choosing from a variety of suggestions and by using a random subtopic generator. This helps students learn how to refine a subject so that it is more manageable for Internet research.
- TrackStaris your starting point for online lessons and activities. Simply collect Web sites, enter them into TrackStar, add annotations for your students, and you have an interactive, online lesson called a Track. Create your own Track or use one of the hundreds of thousands already made by other educators. Search the database by subject, grade, or theme and standard for a quick and easy activity.
- QuizStar- You can manage classes and quizzes, attach multimedia files to questions, make quizzes in multiple languages, access from any Internet-connected computer, and allow students to complete and review.
- Funbrain.comhas lessons for grades K-8 where students can practice skill building. This site is more for independent student work, extra practice, or enrichment activities.
- Education Place from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt- This is an awesome site that has more than enough links to graphic organizers.
- SCORE Language Arts Teacher Resources- This is another great site with printable graphic organizers ready to be used.
- EDHELPER- Graphic organizers galore!
- The Graphic Organizer
- Teacher Tap- technology tutorials for teachers
- ThinkQuest Library- provides innovative learning resources for students of all ages on a wide range of educational topics. Featuring over 7,000 websites created by students for students, the ThinkQuest Library is visited by over 30 million web learners each year.
- How to Mind Map
- Starfall- Primary Reading and Writing Readiness- The Polis-Schutz family is dedicated to education. Stephen’s wife, the renowned poet Susan Polis Schutz was a teacher in New Jersey and New York City in the 1960s. Their son Jared Schutz Polis currently serves on the Colorado State Board of Education. The Polis-Schutz family is pursuing their educational goals by proudly presenting www.starfall.com as a free on-line service to help children learn to read.
- Arcademic Skill Builders- These online educational games offer a powerful way to learn basic math, language arts, vocabulary and thinking skills. The games are an innovative, total approach to teaching basic academic skills by incorporating features of video games and educational practices that will motivate, intrigue, and teach your students.
- Just for Fun
- Clipart Today
- Original Free Clip-art
- Free clipart
- Barry’s Clipart
- The Teachers’ Guide: from Teacher Created Materials
- Microsoft Clipart-online
- Brainy Betty Clipart
- Brainy Betty-PPT Background Templates
- Teacher Files
- Discovery School
- Classroom Clipart
- Disney Clipart
- Google- go to images and type what you are looking for….
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