The Episcopal Academy Lower School Teacher Links and Resources

TeachingBooks.net - the following link will get you started...
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http://teachingbooks.net/register.cgi?sponsor_code=a50eab788706ce70
This site is a portal to thousands of online resources you can use to explore children's and young adult books and their authors.
They provide access to short movies, audio book readings, book discussion guides, and more, that add a multimedia dimension
to reading in the classroom, library, and home.

Teaching Geography
PA Geography Standards
National Geographic - Geographic Perspective
National Geographic - Eighteen Standards
National Geographic - Guide to Mapmaking
National Geographic - Map Machine

Enchanted Learning
username: episcopalacademy45132
password: rather86

Children's Digital Library
Books online from all over the world.

International Reading Association
Related current events worldwide.

All About Adolescent Literacy
Resources for parents and educators for kids in grades 4-12.

ReadWriteThink.org
Detailed lesson plans with resource links

Teachers.net/ - for chat boards, curricula and great advice for teaching.

100 Picture Books Everyone Should Know -
http://kids.nypl.org/readiong/index.cfm
Click on "Reccomended Reading" on the right side of the page.

ABCteach -
http://www.abcteach.com/
This site has over 5,000 free reproducible pages and worksheets for use with elementary school children. Worksheets, flash cards, puzzles, and shape book patterns are a few examples.

Anagram Server
http://wordsmith.org/anagram/index.html

Castles on the Web -
http://www.castlesontheweb.com/
Learn an incredible amount about castles all over the world. Go on virtual castle tours, study medieval times, and learn about heraldry. There's an extensive glossary of castle terms and links to myths and legends, as well as connections to related organizations.

Discovery School's Puzlemaker-
http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/
Create word searches, crosswords, cryptograms, and other puzzles.

Encyclopedia Mythica -
http://www.pantheon.org/
Well worth a visit, this is one of the most popular story encyclopedias on the web. Includes mythology, folklore, and religion.The mythology section is divided into six geographical collections. Also has an amazing image gallery.

eSkeletons Project -
http://www.eskeletons.org
According to the website, "eSkeletons enables you to view the bones of both human and nonhuman primates ranging from the gorilla to the tiny mouse lemur."

Nancy Keane's Children's Literature Website
http://www.nancykeane.com/
Contains 5,000 booktalks for K-12 and links to hundreds of reading lists.

New York Times: Learning Network
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/index.html
Great lesson plan website.

Virtual Jamestown
http://www.vitrualjamestown.org/
2007 is the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Jamestown Colony.
Internet 4 Classrooms

Internet Public Library Youth Division
Thinkfinity A great source of lesson plans and other resources

Houghton-Mifflin Eduplace

S.C.O.R.E. (Schools of California Online Resources for Education)  The Cyberguides are really great! 

Mathematics

Virtual Library of Math Manipulatives
Math Sites From Dry Hollow Elementary School (Oregon) A very comprehensive list of pages containing math games, flashcards and other sites of interest to elementary school math teachers
SuperKids' Math Worksheet Generator
Math Practice Site
Flashcard Creator
Kids' Zone Create a Graph
Math Learning Activities
Math Homework Helper
The Graphic Organizer - Contains lots of graphic organizers.

Teacher Tools

Publish Students' Stories on KidsSpace - Focus on multicultural sharing. Students can upload their stories & artwork and view other students' work from around the world.

Discovery School's Teaching Tools You will need to register for these tools. Tools include Puzzlemaker, Worksheet Generator and Quiz Generators

Aim High! Bloom's Taxonomy Breakdown

Tutorials for Teachers

Internet4classrooms Online Software Practice Modules
Microsoft Word tutorial from Baycon Group ; Excel tutorial from Baycon ; Windows 98 tutorial from Baycon

Clip Art for Teachers
Awesome Clipart for Kids
Discovery School's Clip Art Gallery
Kids Domain Clip Art
Teacher Files Clip Art

 

Parents

Parents Place
Family Education
Tufts University Child and Family Webguide
National Parenting Center

Write Acrostic Poems on Read-Write-Think

Sprocket Works

Kidsites