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Student Links
Math
Math help links
Measurements: accurate measurement both in standard and metric units.
Lesson to determine surface area and volume of three-dimensional shapes.
Putting music to multiplication by Hap Palmer called Multiplication Mountain. A small sample of this CD is found on Palmer's myspace in audio format. The sample (2:51 minutes) is Number Nine Rolling Down the Line which has a catchy tune. http://www.myspace.com/happalmer
Science
Water cycle Unit
Intro - water cycle boogie song by the Banana Slug String. This is a fun and wonderful way to introduction the water cycle to K-6 students with song and movement. (3:35 minutes)
Online animated quiz on the water cycle.
(Science)
Water cycle
Intro - cool water cycle song and video including the name of cloud shapes.
Water Cycle Chart unlabled test your knowledge
Water Cycle Chart Labled with answers
Condensation Movie (23 sec)Video
Definition of Condensation in Voice (.wav file)
Water cycle (math)
This is an animation showing that the amount of water on the earth stays the same. Another great source can be found at Rhythm Rhyme Results including a rap song on the water cycle.
A simple animation video shows the water cycle from NASA.
Planets
A fun update planet song by Bemular. (YouTube 2.18 Mins)
Catchy song and video of planet that will help with memorization of planets and order from the sun. (This video still has Pluto as a planet. (YouTube1:44 Min.)
Body
School House Rock archives with typed words of each song and a link to the video on YouTube.
How does the body work video. Review before showing students, small segments of video would be a good introduction to body parts. (YouTube 42:33)
Food Groups
Short video about the different types of food group. For younger students. (YouTube 7:12 Min)
History
Famous people in history 3-5 grade level.
Our founding fathers biographical information and additional materials on the Declaration of Independence.
Free history resources for teachers.
Assignment: Visit Ben's Guide to US Government for Kids to find out more about our branches of government. Write a report about them using this template.
At election time there are new words that will support student learning.
Colonies trades slide show. Other interesting videos are located here. Additional lesson on colonies.
Interactive colony activities lessons. Additional lesson with colony and web searching.
English
Verbs and preposition combinations online quiz for practice.
Houghton Mifflin English grammar blast online quiz for 2-5 grades. Different theme activities and links.
Houghton Miffin graphic organizers for teachers.
2nd grade Houghton Miffin English themes.
Houghton Mifflin English themes 2005 online resources.
Tips to improve your writing
A site that has larger words with images that will help pronouce the words and use them in sentences. List at this time is limited.
Writing
From Scholastic News: a lesson on descriptive writing with Virginia Hamliton. More lessons and articles on writing skills.
Great website helping kids listen and write. They would need to know how to type to make this website an effective tool. Listen and write allows you to make your own recording for your students to work with. To learn to use this site go to this video.
Students could use NoodleTools.com to check their bibliographic entries for accuracy.
Students can create articles and flyers using this website and print them. To help students recall a book or other great ideas here's a comic creater students can use online and print our their work.
A number of good lesson plans and ideas for writing can be located at readwritethink.org
Lesson for a pre-writing exercise to interview a person. Another lesson in narrative writing. Setting of the story is very important. Here is a lesson on teaching setting. For additional ideas and lesson plans look here. Adjust them for your state standards.
Character writing lesson from read think write.
Younger Student ideas
Here a website you can use to create vocabulary with the dotted lines in the middle for the new writer.
Reading
Some free audio books online or online free search for books. Another site that has several free books links online with and without audio recordings.
A great web site for younger children's books. This site will read the book to the student, you can personalize it and it's free with images. A must see if you have young readers or preschoolers. It's called MeeGenius.com
Speach
12 Tips for giving a speach mainly for adults although students could find it helpful.
Grammar and helpful sites for ESL/ELD students.
School House Rock archives with typed words of each song and a link to the video on YouTube.
Guide to grammar and writing quick reference.
Having fun while learning English for intermediate ESL/ ELD check out the game on Teacherweb.com
UsingEnglish.com has resources for ESL/ELD
Breaking News English has great activities you can print. If you do this online with your students make sure you check the add on the site. Great resource for teachers. Click for video about this site.
Voice Thread is helpful and can be used in differnt ways. Here is a video about Voice Thread.
Lesson on prefix and suffix
Computers
Schoolhouse Rock Video on how computers talk in bits and bytes. (3:21 minutes long) You will find the words for the video here.
Schoolhouse Rock YouTube Video on hardware of the computer (3:19 minutes) and words for video.
The MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource Learning and Online Teaching) website is a free and open resource for online teaching, aimed at students and faculty.
Computer Using Educators goal is to promote the integration of technology in the classroom in all disciplines and at all educational levels from preschool through college.
Wonderful resource on technology for teachers it called Cool Tools for Schools.
Technology for Teaching and Kids
Jing from Tech Smith, look for the free version it's a great tool to learn to use for free. It will allow you to make small video recording of what you are doing on the computer with sound. Here's a website to teach you more about how to use Jing videos tool one and two tell you ways you can use the tool as a teacher.
Great site for how to videos using new technology video from a teacher who teaches english and other languages. Up to date on technology and helpful videos from Teacher Training Videos.
Creating Animations or Cartoons Online
Zimmer Twins is a website that allows you to make short cartoon animations. To learn more about Zimmer click to see a video.
Culture and Languages
Round The World with Ways to Say Hello by Hap Palmer is a catchy music tune. A short (2:14 minute) music tune sample on how to say hello in different languages is found on Palmer's MySpace site. It’s a great way to introduce students to different languages or culture. http://www.myspace.com/happalmer
Sign Language - type in words or small phrase in the search Sign Language Dictionary and a video will show you the sign. Signing Savvy is simple to use, although it has advertisements on the site it's a good resource for teachers to sign a word or phrase. http://www.signingsavvy.com/
Here's a site for learning to pronounce English words language and helpful tips for teachers.
Educational Sites
General help links
Great sites for Schoolhouse Rock productions including links to YouTube videos and words. http://www.schoolhouserock.tv/
Houghton Mifflin education place for all subjects and graphic organizers.
Fun and Games Sites
Web Sites jokes and riddles for kids
This is a page of links to Web Sites that post jokes and riddles appropriate for kids
Music links
Helpful sites for everyone
Top10 Web Tools for College Students
Helpful tools for writing a thesis.
I have compiled a number of YouTube videos I hope you will find helpful as you write your thesis. I hope to start this year with a good reference library which should save time later. I hope that learning to use tools that can support the process of writing a thesis will make life easier as deadlines grow closer
Please share any great site, tool, or technology you find helpful with teaching or writing.
Working with Microsoft word 2007
Great visual aid on YouTube for APA Citation Style & Format - Fifth (5th) Edition using Word 2007.
Adding a bibliography and references.
Good videos on using MS Word and Endnote web worth seeing if you use "Cite while you write" Endnote web.
You may want to look at Zotero for doing your citations. It will still work with MS Word 2007 with a plug in. Here is an additional video that will be helpful using Zotero.
How to make documents look better using Word 2007.
Tools for teaching
Turning Point is available for Palermo School District. Here are some resources on how to use turning point. There are addtional features in MS Office 2007 verse 2003.
Turning Point documents from Chico StateTLP.
You might find these Youtube videos helpful. Part 3 demo features of turning point, how to add participants to an assigned clicker. Setting up teams with turning 1 and part 2 video.
Whiteboards content
Activities you can do with whiteboards.
http://www.shambles.net/pages/staff/IWBcontent/
Parade of games in PowerPoint is a website that allows you to download the templates of design game ideas for free that you can then modify for fun games using PowerPoint 2007. This would be a great resource if you use TurningPoint in your classroom.
Create a Rubric online with this free website call Rubistar. It does require signing up for an account.
TECHNOLOGY CHECKLIST
Some schools provides access to resources to assist teachers in making the best use of information technology. Access to the Internet-based service Brain Pop is available which provides teachers with many 3 – 5 minute video segments that present high quality easily comprehensible training on math and science concepts. Also, Discovery Education is provided by the district which provides a wide range of Internet-based curricular resources. Additional technology is mentioned in the attached PDF document.
Fifth Grade links for students
20 Interesting Ways to use Google Search in the Classroom
https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dhn2vcv5_723gp8cf433
created by: Créez le vôtre !
36 ways to use search engines in the classroom
- Google Apps Terminology Explained
- Create and Edit documents in Google drive for ipad
- Lobsters Lighthouses and Google apps.
Additional links using the internet in the classroom:
http://edte.ch/blog/interesting-ways/
http://21cif.com/rkit/newRkit/gettingstarted.html
Great sites for search engine education all in one location. sources: 1/16/2011
http://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/infolit/searchless/#addalink
The Animated Internet: How the Web Works
Short little animation slide shows on web address work (URL-Uniform Resource Locator)
Short web movie I put together to introduce web searching for students.
Lesson plan introduction for web searching. Website validation tool for student to work with and help them determine if the site is creditable.
Google Web Search - Lessons and Resources
"The following search education lessons were developed by Google Certified Teachers..." all lessons come with a companion set of slides (and some with additional resources) to help you guide your in-class discussions. Source on 1/16/2011 http://www.google.com/educators/p_websearch.html
Teachers or anyone can create their own search engine with Google. Creating your own search engine, you can keep the search to one or just a few web sites you trust for your students to find information. This is great for younger students and projects.
Short 15 second Youtube movies using Google to look-up different types of information on the Internet with 17 different clips.
Key word searchig skills:
What is key word searching? Website with images explaining the difference between web searching and a web browser and how to revise your keyword combinations. Does it matter if you have capital letters when you search? Do you have to spell the word correctly? Using a thesaurus can be helpful when you are not sure what other word can help you look up the information you are looking for. If I change the word order will that make a difference in your search? Here's a little slide to address that questions.
The Boolean Machine
http://kathyschrock.net/rbs3k/boolean
The Boolean Machine
The Boolean Machine is a tool for visualizing the effects of Boolean operators on keyword searches. It was created to teach the importance of Boolean operators in effective search strategies. Source 1/16/2011
A lesson on how to modify search terms when using a search engine.
Are all websites trustworthy?
Website validation tool for students to work with and help them determine if the site is credible.
by Paul S. Piper, Librarian, Western Washington University
Source: Searchers Vol.8, No. 8 • Sept. 2000 dated on 1/16/2011
How to choose a password video
Media Awareness netwrok has interactive games for (4-12 grade) including internet safty like Top Secrete.
Steps to creating a good password
How do you find a word inside a search result?
Here's a short explanation with images on using Firefox as the web browser you can look for a word or group of words within the web page.
What is plagiarism?
21st Century Information website has a good simple definition in written and audio format for students. Additional resources to help explain plagiarism.
Librarians BLOGS
http://www.shambles.net/pages/learning/infolit/libblogs/
Great Parent Sites
Kid friendly web browser designed for 2-8 years olds called Zoodles. It's free, check it out.
Preschool children ideas.
Helpful Links for Special Education:
- Disability Rights California
- Iris Resources Locator- helpful site for different resource, case study, accommondation, assessment.
- Special Education Rights and Repsonsibilities chapter book online to read.(donation on website welcome if you print it)
- Other sites:
I hope these links are helpful for everyone!
Helpful Teachers Links
How to cite a website for a paper is in a video format on School Tube (8:18 minutes long with voice)
Is a website reliable? (video 7:51, no voice)
Helpful Links for Yola
Student Computing Yola information
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Google Educators Poster [PDF] Writing a Learning Objective: A website that shows you how to write learning objective: Stems and Samples make sure your objective is measurable. California Standards by Grade Level and testing requirements Click here to view the state standards for grades 4-5. Test requirements for California Teacher's helpful websites: Other useful sites for teachers:
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Travel tips that I found helpful
After school resources
California After School Resource Center supports quality after school programming via this comprehensive Web site
Extra for everyone
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We all want affordable decoration ideas here a number of home decorative blogs.
