* Brush High School Library Catalog
* Brush Middle School Library Catalog
* Beaver Valley Elementary Library Catalog
* Thomson Primary Library Catalog
How Products Are Made explains and details the manufacturing process of a wide variety of products, from daily household items to complicated electronic equipment and heavy machinery. The site provides step by step descriptions of the assembly and the manufacturing process (complemented with illustrations and diagrams) Each product also has related information such as the background, how the item works, who invented the product, raw materials that were used, product applications, by-products that are generated, possible future developments, quality control procedures, etc.
Internet4Classrooms. The links on this site are grade specific to help students practice on specific concept areas. Kindergarten through 8th grade skills are covered in the areas of language arts, math, social studies, and science. (This site submitted by Lori Curlee)
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Your link to the newest TecKNOWLEDGEy on the web.
Find teacher tools (puzzlemakers, lesson plans, science fair central, ect) and student activities.
The Starfall learn-to-read website is offered free as a public service. Teachers around the country are using Starfall materials as an inexpensive way to make the classroom more fun and to inspire a love of reading and writing. Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall.com is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade.
Student and teacher resources are available via this site.
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The Center is an excellent resource for student center ideas aligned with DIBELS data. http://www.fcrr.org/Curriculum/curriculum.htm
Our mission is to improve education around the world by empowering teachers, students and parents with user-created, open source curricula, and it's all free! We believe that access to knowledge and learning tools is a basic right of every child. Our goal is to make curricula and learning resources available to everyone.
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PBS launches new teachers' site:
Find thousands of free lesson plans, local and national educator resources, teacher professional development, videos, blogs, and more! Yes, it is designed for PK-12, but there is a lot there that we can adapt for adult educators. Enjoy!
Based on current brain-imaging information, Layered Curriculum is an exciting and effective student-centered teaching method.
The 3 layer model of differentiated instruction encourages complex thinking and holds students highly accountable for their learning.
This website contains all you need to get started designing a unit for your classroom TODAY.
We provide free and easy to use resources for teachers dedicated to improving the education of today's generation of students: Worksheets, Teacher Tips, Teacher Resources, Lesson Plans, and Rubrics.
This site has a variety of games and activities to support the instruction of academic vocabulary as well as sample vocabulary lists.
Computing Technology for Math Excellence is devoted to resources for teaching and learning mathematics (K-12 and calculus), technology integration, and the standards movement in education.
How Products Are Made explains and details the manufacturing process of a wide variety of products, from daily household items to complicated electronic equipment and heavy machinery. The site provides step by step descriptions of the assembly and the manufacturing process (complemented with illustrations and diagrams) Each product also has related information such as the background, how the item works, who invented the product, raw materials that were used, product applications, by-products that are generated, possible future developments, quality control procedures, etc.
Providing educators and students access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction.
Internet4Classrooms. On-line practice modules for PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Netscape, Mac, etc. One of the PowerPoint lessons provides Instructions on how to set up a PowerPoint presentation teaching the skill of adding two one-digit numbers without regrouping.
4Teachers.org works to help you integrate technology into your classroom by offering FREE online tools and resources. This site helps teachers locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars. There are also tools for student use. Discover valuable professional development resources addressing issues such as equity, ELL, technology planning, and at-risk or special-needs students.
RubiStar is a free tool to help a teacher make quality rubrics
TrackStar is your starting point for online lessons and activities. Simply collect Web sites, enter them into TrackStar, add annotations for your students, and you have an interactive, online lesson called a Track. Create your own Track or use one of the hundreds of thousands already made by other educators. Search the database by subject, grade, or theme and standard for a quick and easy activity. There is a fun Track already made for each day of the year, too!
What is the Casa Notes Tool: Casa Notes is designed to allow teachers to quickly make, and customize, typical notes that are sent home to parents or given to the students. This is done by using templates and allowing the teachers to customize some of the content, choose a color scheme and add a graphic. The notes can then be printed on a black-and-white or color printer to be used. Teachers can select whether the notes should be in English or in Spanish.
ProfilerPRO allows for the evaluation of knowledge, attitude, and skill based on simple surveys implemented via the World Wide Web. Inspired by the widely popular collaboration tool - Profiler, ProfilerPRO maintains the ability for members of a group to share knowledge and promote collaboration based on responses to skills-based survey items.
Blue Horizons, Inc. is an organization that provides for the holistic needs of youth by:
1. Coordinating volunteers for various youth activities, organizations and groups.
2. Helping youth know and find programs that meet their needs.
3. Assessing the needs of youth and planning programming to meet those needs.