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| Reference Desk.com began in 1995. It provides free and family friendly sites and indexes and reviews quality, credible, and current information-based sites. |
| Essential Reference Tools includes almanacs, biographies, calculators, time/date, dictionary & thesaurus, encyclopedia, geography, health, people finder, quotations, style & writing guide. |
| Ask the Experts provides an alphabetical listing of such sites as Ask Jeeves, Experts Exchange, and Ask Dr. Science. |
| Internet Beginner's Guide provides valuable resources such as glossaries, guides and tutorials. |
| Facts Encyclopedia contains more than 70 subject categories that each lead to a multitude of links for each category. |
| Education and Teaching Fast Facts provides a list of more than 200 links about education specifically chosen for teachers. |
| Fast Facts includes almanacs, maps, calendars/time, dictionaries, electronic texts, encyclopedias, entertainment, internet, grammar, languages, magazines, news sources, politics, quotaions, sports, statistics, travel, weather, and more |
| Sticky Web Educational site has a variety of articles relating to various issues in education. |
| General References/Resources |
| Lesson Plans from the Discovery School provides lesson plans for all grade levels in all subject areas. |
| Teaching Tools on the discoveryschool.com page contains puzzlemaker, quiz center, clip art, worksheet generator, and lesson planner. |
| Curriculum Center provides classroom activities supporting science curriculum. |
| Brain Boosters are archived by categorization, lateral thinking, logic, math, reasoning, and word and letter play. |
| Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generator for teachers, students and parents. It creates word search, crossword and math puzzles using word lists. |
| Lesson Plans/Teaching Tools |
| Subject Access - Art and Architecture contains dozens of art related sites. |
| Back to School Resources includes: Back to School Checklists; First Day of School Sites; Icebreakers and Energizers; Tips for Getting Organized. |
| Strategies for Teaching Reading Comprehension includes ABC Brainstorm; Carousel Brainstorming; Clock Buddies; Column Notes; Charts; Graphic Organizers; Story Maps; Inquiry Charts and more. |
| A to Z Teacher Stuff is a list of educational resources which are handily organized. |
| Reading Comprehension links are provided on About.com. |
| Mulitiplication Worksheets of all kinds are available on About Elementary Educators site. |
| Geography articles and resources are available through about.com |
| Language Arts articles and resources are provided through the about.com site. |
| TeachersFirst.com includes classroom resources, professional resources, site resources, and information. |
| Classroom Management/Discipline provides articles and resources which includes simple rewards and classroom jobs. |
| How to Be a Substitute Teacher includes article and resources about tricks of the trade and survivial guide. |
| Substitute Teaching |
| Help for New Teachers provides informational links to writing lesson plans, finding free lesson plans and beginning teachers' tool box. |
| Beginning Teachers |
| Beginning Teachers' Tool Box is a comprehensive site with survival kit, free newsletters, and a new teachers' homepage. |
| Personal Educational Press allows the user to create free worksheets, flashcards, game boards and more. |
| Teach-Nology is a web portal for teachers that provides tools such as: Award Certificate Generator; Bingo Card Generator, Book Mark Maker, Lesson Plan Generator, Parent/Teacher Conference Generator, and much, much more. |
| Ed Helper is a site that includes teacher resources about themes, daily materials, new art projects, and a "What's New" section. |
| Easy Test Maker is a free online test generator that helps create tests that contain multiple choice, blank, matching, short answer and true/false. Free to register. |
| Ideas for Welcoming New Teachers includes topics such as Buddy Teachers, Survival Kit, New Teacher Inservice, and School Pride. |
| Discipline/Classroom Management |
| Displaying Rules provides ideas on unique ways of displaying classroom rules and expectations. |
| Advice about Bullies is a page for Parents and Teachers about bullying. It includes statistics and solutions. |
| Taking the Bully by the Horns is a site with links and references about bullying. |
| Outta Ray's Head Lesson Plans highlights plans in literature, poetry, library, and writing. |
| ABCTeach is a site that boasts of more than 5000 free printable pages and worksheets. Topics include: Basics; Research; Teaching Extras; Portfolios; Flashcards; Theme Units; Word Walls and Reading Comprehension. |
| Lesson Plans Page contains over 2,500 free lesson plans for PreK -12. Select choice of grade level and subject. |
| PowerPoint for Teachers is a site with sample presentations at many grade levels and subjects. |
| Busy Teacher's Cafe includes free worksheets, free graphics, and information on how to create a class website. |
| American Teachers site is free all-inclusive web site that provides the education community with interactive communication and research tools |
| Seven Practices of Great Teachers is a page from Early Childhood Educator. |
| Teacher Tip Ideas provides 3 pages of ideas that can be easily implemented. |
| Classroom Management Ideas from Team Banner to the "Clean Up Song." |
| First Day Ideas are listed and described on the I Love That Teaching Idea site. |
| What to Expect Your First Year of Teaching is a 48 page booklet from Ed.gov publications. |
| Miscellaneous Tips for Getting Organized provides ideas on lining up, classlists, student numbers, field trip permission slips and much more. |
| A List of Ways to Encourage Good Behavior is provided on the CanTeach site. |
| Classroom Management: discipline and & organization includes reward ideas, seating plan, theme ideas, class pledges and other organizational tips. |
| Nice Ways to Gain Compliance is an article with helpful hints on how to rephrase and communicate what you want in a positive way. |
| Welcome to the Profession is an animated article that reads easily and has a number of useful ideas. |
| Dealing with Bullying is an article by Tom McIntyre and Alexis Franks. |
| Behavior Management Advice Site is also know as Dr. Mac's site. It contains tips, strategies, and other reference sources. |
| The Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) is a consortium effort to provide educators with quick and easy access to thousands of education related site. |
| Educator's Reference Desk contains resource guides, lesson plans, question archives, and Search GEM/Eric. |
| Links for All Teachers contains and alphabetical list of education site links. |
| Busy Teachers' Website includes references to lessons, materials and activities. |
| Teachers.net provides favorite links, chat center, chatboards, other areas of interest. |
| Just for Teachers is a guide for teachers for links to the ED.gov, U.S. Department of Education website. |
| MapMachine from the National Geogrpahic site provides a source to view countries by population, climate and other categories. There are also antique mapsand trail maps to browse. |
| Ditto.com provides a vehicle to search the web for images in selected topics. |
| Education World is an online source for professional development, technology integration, lesson planning, school issues, and current news. |
| Federal Government Resources are listed as links on the Teachers Network page. All of the federal government departments are easily accessed from this site. |
| CyberGuides are standards-based units that are designed to accompany the core works of literature. |
| Internet Public Library is a complete source of references to subject collections, ready reference, reading room and special collections. |
| Computer-Using Educators (CUE) is an organization to promote using technology in the classroom The organization awards scholarships and sponsors the annual CUE conferneces in California. |
| Teachnet.org is a nationwide, non-profit education organization with the following features: daily classroom specials, lesson plans, online courses, for new teachers, grants for teachers, and talk with teachrs. |
| Teacher Vison is a subscription service which includes lesson planning, teacher tools, newsletter center, professional development. |
| School Psychology Resources Online includes links about key issues such as anxiety disorder, autism, ADHD, learning disabilities, medical conditions and many others. |
| Afterschool.gov is a website that included information about which federal resouces support children and youth after school hours. |
| Lesson Planet is a yearly subscription site with over 30,000 lesson plans, teacher tools, and links to other top sites. |
| A Packet for Substitute Teachers is a web site with several bags of tricks for substitutes grades K-12. |
| Tricks of the Trade website includes the following topics: a typical day, before class begins, during class, after class ends, power tricks, reasons to becomes a substitute, and useful books and articles. |
| Substitute Teacher Information page provides information on preparing to be a substitute and ideas for daily activities. |
| Substitute Teaching Institute is a national organization through Utah State University |