Stress Relieving Web Sites for Secondary Educators

Lesson Planning--This site gives a good description of the parts of a lesson, as well as how to plan a lesson or unit. 

This site of the Asia Pacific Education Office is titled--"Teaching Methods, Part 1," and that is exactly what you'll find there--Descriptions, Purposes, and Examples of Teaching Methods. 

Critical Issue:  Educating Teachers for Diversity

Critical Issue: Providing Hands-On, Minds-On, and Authentic Learning Experiences in Science

The Busy Teacher's Web Site for K-12 Teachers 

The World Wide Web Education Virtual Library

Web Resources for Educators--a page of a social studies teacher's web site

Web Resources Helpful to Middle School Teachers---many links, divided up by core areas
 
Teacher's Edition Online--Tools for Teachers.  This site even includes interview and portfolio tips. 

Connections+consists of Internet resources--lesson plans, activities, curriculum resources--linked with corresponding subject-area content standards (from Content Knowledge: A Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks for K-12 Education).  Also included in these resource packages are other links to assist teachers. 

The Teacher's Lounge---"Welcome to the Teacher's Lounge!  This homepage was created to recognize those teachers who contribute to the Internet community.  It is also to provide links to teachers or future teachers who have done or plan to develop engaged school projects.  This page is accompanied by the music from Mission Impossible—get it? 

Welcome to TeacherLINK, the online teacher resource center provided as a service to public education. Here you'll find links to wonderful educational resources, lesson plans and classroom activities, NASA educational materials, and much more.    

Scholastic.Com—There is a links to Classroom Magazines.  When you go there, you find info on the Scholastic magazines that are available for use in the classroom.  There are two for secondary social studies. 

Lesson Plans and Resources for Social Studies Teachers.  Lesson Plans, teaching strategies, resources, online activities, etc. 

ED-scape Teacher—Instructional Resources and Lesson Plans, Basics for Teachers, Teaching with the Web, etc. 

This site is a must for current events.  “Welcome to the Newsweek Education Program Web Site! A site designed to help teachers build bridges to real-world issues.”  There are lessons to use with actual articles from Newsweek magazine.  Just click on a magazine date, and PRESTO!! Great Lesson ideas!  

Prentice-Hall, the Publisher.  This is their site for social studies.  There are links to other sites as well as information about some of their publications and some sample activities.  

Marc’s Word Search Page.  Make your own word searches.  This page is set up to take up to 20 of your words and create a word search. 

TheEarly American History Crossword Puzzle--This puzzle is updated and past editions can be accessed. 

Welcome to Puzzlemaker, a site that allows you to create puzzles and games for your newsletters, flyers, handouts, or classroom assignments. Create your own mazes, word searches, crosswords, number blocks, math squares, and more. Enter information and click the "Create" button; wait a few seconds; print a customized puzzle.   

Lesson Ideas listed by subject.  Listings in Social Studies include geography, history, personal growth, and society.  There is a section for internet lesson ideas and also a section of miscellaneous.  

San Jose State University’s Critical Thinking on the Web—a project of the Institute for Teaching and Learning. 

CyberGuides:  Teacher Guides and Student Activities. CyberGuides are supplementary, web-based units of instruction centered on core works of literature. They are designed for the classroom with one online computer. Each CyberGuide contains a student and teacher edition, objectives,a task and a process by which it may be completed, teach-selected web sites and a rubric.
 

The Study Skills Help Page--Strategies for Success.  Getting the most from taking notes or reading your textbook, time management, setting goals, etc. 

Resources related to Academic concerns of students.  This is a great site with lots of links.  There are links to a lot of social studies resources like news sources and historical documents or the U.S. House of Representatives. 

American Universities—Looking for a particular school?  Try here. 

Study Web—Focusing the Web for Education.  This is a searchable site with links to many subject areas. 

HomeworkNOW™ is the only on-line service that keeps teachers, students, and parents connected! HomeworkNOW™ allows teachers to post their classroom assignments daily/weekly on the Internet and gives students and parents easy 24 hour access to those assignments through a Web browser. 

4th and 5th Grade Student Research Resources

The 5 Paragraph Essay Wizard
 

Realizing School Improvement Through Understanding the Change Process

Innovative Approaches to School Reform

A Community Guide to Multi-Cultural Programs

Improving America's Schools: Newsletter on Issues in School Reform

National Foundation for the Improvement of Education

An Educator's Guide to Evaluating The Use of Technology in Schools and Classrooms

Site Based Management: Making it Work 

Critical Issue:  Educating Teachers for Diversity 

The Distance Education Clearinghouse—This site has links to articles, online journals, mailing lists, discussion groups, resources, etc. 

A Brief Summary of the Best Practices in College Teaching

Developing Content Standards: Creating a Process for Change

“Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a classified list of sites on the Internet found to be useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth.  It is updated daily to keep up with the tremendous number of new World Wide Web sites.” 

Pedagonet—Learning Material and Resource Center 

Connections+ consists of Internet resources--lesson plans, activities, curriculum resources. 

I Love Teaching.Com—“Welcome: I'm glad that you stopped by. This site is dedicated to encouraging teachers.  Because I am new to the profession (going on 3 years now) I am particularly interested in helping those studying to be teachers and those who are just starting their first few years of teaching.”  Some things include on this page are:  Internet in the Classroom, Great Links, Discipline, etc.  At the bottom of the page is a connection to a Teaching Resource Ring.  This is a link to more sites like this one. 

E-Conflict—Anthems, Flags, Maps, Weather, and Nations of the World. Eradicate Conflict by increasing cultural awareness. 

From Now On--The Educational Technology Journal

Florida Information Resources Network (FIRN)-Instructional Resources 

Professor Pat Greene’s Site at FGCU, which contains links to hundreds of lesson plans by subject area—all indexed according to the Florida Sunshine State Standards. 

Education Week Magazine 
Teacher Magazine 
Direct links for both of these can both be found at Education Week  on the Web, as well as links to their archives, special reports, and daily news. 

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Organizations Engaged in Effective Teaching

An Empirical Framework for Implementing Lifelong Learning Systems
 

More and More Schools Putting Block Scheduling to the Test of Time

Block Scheduling--Resources for Planning

Block Scheduling--from University of Minnesota

All Around the Block: The Benefits and Challenges of a Non-Traditional School Schedule

Collaborative Planning Time for Teachers

Student Perceptions of a 90 Minute Period

Teaching and Learning with Block Scheduling