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Website Resources

Government and Teacher Testing Resources

www.btsa.ca.gov/

                 Beginning Teachers Support and Assessment home page

www.cbest.nesinc.com/

                  California Basic Educational Skills Test (CBEST) site.

www.ccte.org/

                  California Council on Teacher Education.

www.cde.ca.gov/

                  California Department of Education

www.cset.nesinc.com/

                  California Subject Examinations for Teachers

www.ctc.ca.gov/

                  California Teacher Credentialing website

www.ed.gov/nclb/landing.jhtml?src=pb

                  No Child Left Behind site.

www.ets.org/praxis/

                  The Praxis Series: Professional Assessments for Beginning Teachers

www.lacoe.edu/

                  Los Angeles County Office of Education

www.rica.nesinc.com/

                  Reading Instruction Competence Assessment

 

Plans, Strategies, Tips, Organizational Ideas, and Content Resources

www.atozteacherstuff.com

                  Lesson plans, thematic units, themes, classroom activities, teacher tips, and web projects. 

1,000 pages of resources for teachers and links to thousands of related websites K-12.

www.bbc.co.uk/schools/numbertime/index.shtml

                  5-7 year olds  number games & interactive  songs

www.cagle.com/teacher

                  Teachers’ Guide to the Professional Cartoonists Index.  Lesson plans for K-12 teachers in

Social Studies English and Art based around a collection of newspaper editorial cartoons.

www.col-ed.org/cur/math.html#math2

                  Math lesson plans for K-12.

www.ctaponline.org/

                  Support for Educators…sign on for lessons, message boards, etc.

www.education-world.com/a_lesson/archives/

                  Over 100 ORIGINAL Lesson Planning Articles written by the staff at Education World.

www.eduplace.com

                  Houghton Mifflin School Division: Education Place: Resources for K-8 teachers and students,

including a searchable database of lesson plans, interactive games, weekly brainteasers, and online

projects for teachers.

www.engagingscience.org

Physical science lesson plans, experiments and activities.  K-7

www.epals.com

This is where to go if you are looking for e-pals (pen pals) for your students.  The site is filtered for

appropriate content.  K-12.

www.factmonster.com

                  Huge reference site for students.  Has an on-line dictionary, atlas, almanac,  encyclopedia,

and a homework center.

www.funbrain.com

                  Math and Language Arts games for kids.  Blogs, too.

www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/9893

                  This site is done by a Special Education teacher and has topics galore:  themes, substitute’s

bag of goodies, learning centers, ways to motivate, teacher graphics, songs and special education

resources.  K-3

www.gradelevelgold.com/

                  Not to be missed—a site for all grade levels and subjects, updated weekly.

www.inspiringteachers.com/classroom/index.html

                  Classroom resources and links to other sites.

www.joanholub.com/

                  Activities to go with the children’s books she has written.  Printable worksheets.  K-4

www.kn.pacbell.com/

                  A website with hundreds of links and activities.  You will find things for all grade levels and

subjects. K-12

www.learningpage.com

                  This site has lesson plans, worksheets, clipart, songs, downloadable e-books, and thematic

units.  Free membership gets you a monthly newsletter with loads of topics and information.  K-3

www.lessonplansearch.com/

                  Lesson Plan Search Engine.  Lesson plan database and search engine organized by subject

and grade level.

www.lessonplanz.com

                  Search engine for subjects including thematic units, fine arts, language, science, social

studies, and more.

www.marcopolo-education.org/

                  All the teacher resources you could ask for!

www.microsoft.com/education/lessonplans.mspx

                  Encarta Schoolhouse Topics.  Each topic contains articles and media, relevant links, related

learning activities, and answers from an expert.

www.middleschool.net/

                  Middle School Plans.  Find hundreds of resources for all curriculum subject areas,

technology resources, professional development, lesson plans and tutorials.

www.nationalgeographic.com/ngm

                  Video and audio interviews from the magazine and geography lesson plans.  Stunning site.

Printable lessons.  K-12

www.nea.org

                  Sign up for free weekly tips automatically sent to your e-mail address.  Then click on

Works4Me Tips Library to access thousands of classroom tips across all grade levels and content areas.

www.nytimes.com/learning/

                  New York Times Learning Network.  Free News and education resource for teachers, their

students and parents.  Includes lesson plans, vocabulary and geography builders, News Quiz, On This

Day in History, and forums.

www.pantheon.org

                  This is the site for the Encyclopedia Mythica--an encyclopedia of mythology, folklore,

legends, gods and goddesses.  Grades 6-12

www.scholastic.com

                  Lesson plans with reproducible masters, professional resources and research tools.  Has

sections for teachers, parents and students.

school.discovery.com/lessonplans/index.html

                  Discovery School gives access to 400+ free classroom-ready lesson plans and activities for

K-12 education, organized by grade level and subject.

www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/actbank/sorganiz.htm

                  A site for graphic organizers of all kinds.

sitesforteachers.com/index.html

                  A comprehensive list of sites for educators.

www.smbsd.org/

                  Santa Maria-Bonita School District.  Reading First materials for all themes;  Reading, writing,

math, technology ideas for all grade levels, teacher sharing ideas and great clipart.

www.songsforteaching.com/chantsraps.htm

                  Cheers, chants, raps and poetry for the classroom.

www.stfx.ca/special/mathproblems/welcome.html

                  Canadian website for math word problems with a flair.  Site has solutions and hint buttons for

extra help in problem solving.  Grades 5-12

www.superkids.com

                  Teachers can make their own worksheets.  Students can play Hangman and other word

games from a topic chosen by the teacher.  K-12

www.teacherfiles.com/

                  Full of resources, ideas, activities, lesson plans and educational clip art for teachers.

www.teachers.net

                  Lesson plans for Pre-K-12.

www.teachingonline.org

                  Lesson plans across the curriculum, weekly featured plans, teachers’ bulletin board for

sharing ideas, and links to other educational sites.  K-12

www.theteacherguide.com/

                  Teachers can find lesson plans, thematic units, teacher resources, book and much more.

www.track0.com/canteach

                  Canadian website with hundreds of lesson plans and thousands of teacher friendly links.

www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/

                  United Nations Cyber School Bus.  Plans, activities, quizzes and contests, interactive

resources include photos by UN photographers and database of UN members.

www.wordsearchfun.com/

                  Word Searches – All Your Own.   Make your own word searches…K-12.  Long time loading.

www.yahooligans.com/docs/tdih

                  Site from the History Channel gives “What happened on this date in history.”  New event daily

and a button to click on to look at other dates.  K-12.

www.k12connection.org

                  K-12 Connection.  Designed to help teachers develop Internet content for their classrooms.

www.7-12educators.about.com

                  Lesson plans, clip art, and resource articles.  Red “access denied” on the site is an

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Website Resources

Updated 2-20-08

 

 


El Rancho Unified School District
Human Resources Teacher Support Programs
9333 Loch Lomond Drive
Pico Rivera, CA  90660
United States
Phone: 562 801-5231
Fax: 562 949-6873

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