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Web Resources
Core Content
QUICK - the quality Information
Checklist to help you judge the information you find on a web page.
Kathy Schrock Guide
includes an excellent collection of K-12 sites organized by subject
areas.
Dewy
Browse - K-12
Websites organized by the Dewey Decimal System of Subjects - Chesterfield, New
Hampshire school system.
Exploratorium - a variety of content that highlights what the
museum has to offer. Resources here my be ones that are not in
print and found on library shelves.
Annotated
Web Resources - from the Kentucky LMS Reference
Desk.
The
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for Teachers Find educators'
guides, lesson plans, workshops, in-services and other
resources.
AskERIC
Educator's Reference Desk - New
in 2004 this educator's on-line allows you access the 2000+ lesson
plans, 3000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question
archive responses.
ASSESSMENT
TOOLS
Rubric
Generator - Make grading rubrics by filling out a simple form.
Customizable Rubrics -
Choose a subject, a category under the subject, use the drop down menu
to select a rating scale and then each category in the rubric, make a
printable rubric and print.
Checklists
- Click on "PBL Project Checklists", then select the level and
subject area. Use the drop down menus to create your checklist.
Kathy
Schrock's Guide for Educators provides links to rubric information.
From Innovation Designs for Education find a downloadable
PDF file which serves as a ready-made rubric providing
assessment criteria to measure levels of performance for a project-based
task. The curriculum area is up to you, but evaluation criteria
include task authenticity, content and presentation, creativity, and
level of student interest.
Creating
rubrics
Rubrics
and Evaluation Sources
MATH
Hotmath
provides step-by-step homework help in algebra, geometry, pre-calculus,
and calculus.
FunBrain
King's
List of Math Activities - This
hot list organizes most of students'
basic math needs into categories, then links the user to directly to WebPages
that have a tool or game to meet that need.
Mrs. Glosser's Math Goodies -
included interactive math lessons
SuperKids Educational
Tools - These resources are hyperlinked by math worksheets,
vocabulary builders, hangman, logic games, and brain food.
WebMath
READING
American
Folklore - Features folktales from different U.S. states.
American
Verse Project - a collaborative project between the
University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative (HTI) and the
University of Michigan Press to assemble an electronic archive of
volumes of American poetry prior to 1920.
Bartleby.com
- Organized by Reference,
Verse, Fiction and Non-fiction, this site is billed as one with
"Great Books Online"
Classic Works - a hit list of sites to download full text
classics.
Hiyah.com - This site features classic children's stories.
Students may listen and read along on the screen. Find games and
puzzles at this site also.
International Children's Digital
Library - Read over 400 books children's books from throughout the
world online for free.
Predictable
Pattern Books - a listing from the Ohio Literacy Resource Center
Poetry Archives
The archive, sponsored by the University of North Carolina Press and the
North Carolina Arts Council, will be making available selected
poems from a number of contemporary poets.
Rebus Rhymes
- Find a large collection of Nursery Rhymes.
Teen Titles
- From the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) find links
to titles for teen readers.
The World of Newspapers on the Web
SCIENCE
American Museum of Natural History - See this museum and some
of exhibits virtually.
BrainPOP - a multimedia site with animated and narrated educational
animations in science, heath, and technology.
How Stuff Works
Insectclopedia - Find
information categorized by species.
National Air and Space Museum at the
Smithsonian
The Space Place - a NASA
program where kids learn about space science and technology.
Teacher materials available
The Science Spot - To locate
good science websites for students, click on "the Reference
Desk". Then scroll down to the Kidzone and click on it.
You can then choose a science subject (biology, chemistry, etc.) and
a list of web sites will appear.
eXZOOberance - included at
this site Virtual Zoo, Animal Photo Gallery, Animal News, Animal
Games, Animal Posters and Prints, Animal Web Cams, Articles and
Research, Animal Quotes, as well as, a Zoo and Aquarium Directory.
The
Virtual Cave - Learn about Solution Caves, Lava Tube Caves, Sea
Caves, and Erosional Caves. Students can also investigate caves near
their homes with links in the U.S. Show Cave Directory.
SOCIAL STUDIES
American
Memory - historical collections for the National Digital
Library. This primary source for documents in American history
contains information documents for all content areas.
America's
Story from America's Library - To
mark its 200th anniversary, the Library of Congress is launching
this user-friendly Web site for kids and families.
The
CIA World Fact Book - profiles countries of the world.
Current version is 1999.
Civil War @ the Smithsonian
- Digitized images cover slavery and abolition, the weapons and leaders
of the war, and the life and culture of the times.
The
Congress Link - resources include historical documents and photographs, narrative descriptions, historical
notes, and a glossary.
Flag
Detective - use this site to scan flags of the world by color and
design.
Geography
Label Me Printouts - print blank maps
History Central - a
variety of topics both World and United States
The David
Rumsey Historical Map Collection contains to date over 6,400 maps
online and focuses on rare 18th and 19th century
Portals of
the World - Web resources selected by Library of Congress subject
experts
Presidents of the
United States - a comprehensive information source about all the
presidents as well as election information U.S.
Congress ( Thomas legislative information on the internet) includes
full text of all House and Senate Bills, searchable by keyword and bill
number; how laws are made, House and Senate gophers, and more.
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Women
in Kentucky - Search
by achievements/contributions, or by historical time, or by
regions of Kentucky.
WRITING
The
5 Paragraph Essay - a useful resource as well as tutorial for
students and teachers.
MidLink Magazine - Find online publishing opportunities for
students from ages 8-18 in this digital magazine by students
Writing with
Writers -From Scholastics find links to different types of writing:
Biography, Journal, Mystery and many more. Each type of writing is
activity based through the incite of a well known author.
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