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This page is intended to help
my students become more successful and prepared for class.
For students with learning disabilities, I have provided links that will help both them and their parents find strategies that have been used successfully. Honor students will find material that will challenge and stimulate their thinking about possiblilities and not just the acceptance of facts. |
Learning Strategies Resources
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| Study Skills |
Study skills Strategies Program- | Instructional
Handouts -Organizing Notes, |
| Improve Your Study skills | Outline -How to improve study habits, prepare for exams and Ten Traps of Studying. | |
| Study Guides and Strategies |
Study skills information in many languages - studying, classroom participation, project management, preparing for test, writing basics, reading skills, taking test, math and science and evaluating websites. |
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| The UT Learning Center: Our Students' Favorite Handouts |
Handouts - study
strategies, writing, reading, math/science, exam preparation, English as
a foreign language, reducing stress and learning difficulties. LD,
ADHD, and ADD. |
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| Dartmouth Academic Skills Center: Disability Information. | Reading
Your Textbooks Taking Lecture and Class Notes Where to Study/How to Study What is ADD or ADHD coaching? Disabilities and Academic Learning/Performance Disability Information Links |
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| Kids domain: |
Family Resources-
Free kids learning games, clip art and crafts based on several different
subjects. Science includes games on elements,
space and several on animals. |
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| Shodor Activity List
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Provides material
by topic and grade level |
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| Disabilities |
LDOnline |
Articles, activities,
and sharing forum about learning disabled children addressing reading difficulties,
ADD and ADHD. |
| Strategies for Teaching Students with Hearing Impairments | ||
| Strategies for Teaching Students | ||
| Classroom Problem solver- |
Tips to solve problems-
ADHD, lying, aggression, violence, destruction,
cheating, stealing, rudeness... |
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Learn more about
ADHD and LD students. Includes lesson plans) |
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| Language |
Ohio University ESL | Finding information on the Internet- search strategies |
| Read Aloud Stories and songs | Children Site |
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| Foreign Language Site |
Hot list related to different languages. Ex. CNN current
news at a level that student with problems reading and understanding standard
newspaper articles can comprehend. |
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| Babel Fish Translation | A translation site with French, Spanish, German, and Portuguese translations from English as well as translations from those languages back into English. | |
| Merriam-Webster online dictionary | Pronunciates words! |
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| Randall’s ESL Cyber Listening Lab | Listening activities for ESL students- divided into Easy, Medium, and Difficult: displays listening time, speaker gender, & topic. | |
| Interesting Things for ESL Students |
Word games, puzzles,
quizzes, exercises challenge students to practice their English. |
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| Activities for ESL students |
Bilingual Quizzes, activities, and puzzles to help learn English
as a second language. |
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| ESL Science | Archive of articles and work sheets- pictures, descriptions, questions, and a vocabulary review | |
| ESL and Science Teaching | Practical tips for laboratory
instruction. - Begin lab with demonstrations to illustrate proper technique. -Write lab with single simple sentences in a step-by-step sequence. -Post safety guidelines in text and symbol formats |
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| Internet Picture Dictionary | English, French, German, Italian & Spanish | |
| Illustrated Vocalulary |
ESL definitions with pictures |
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| Gifted |
Brain Pop- | Videos on many topics |
| ERIC-Hoagies" Gifted Education Page | ||
| IMSE
Net- Instructional Materials in Science |
Chemistry, Earth, Biology, Ecology, Oceanography, Physics, space, Shareware/Freeware, Science listservs, Search Engines, Interdisciplinary Resources, Demonstrations, Internet Project , science Magazines & Journals, science TV & Radio, Science Visual Instructional Materials & Resources |
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| Shodor Lesson Plan Index | Measurements, Labs -Tree, DNA, Heart, Chromatography, Engineers in Training, Population Genetics. | |
| Enrichment activities: |
K-12 teachers, students, and parents- Museums,
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| Nasa Kids Page | Activities include games, stories, and experiments. | |
| Virtual Field Trips | Many Subjects- easy to search | |
| How Stuff Works | Devices involving Computers, Science, Entertainment... | |
| The Gray Labyrinth | Puzzles to solve |
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| Physics 2000 | Interactive Journey |
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| News Snapshot | Current events broken down into 5
w's. Pictures, worksheets and extension activities |
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| Ask An Expert |
Mad Scientist | Archives & Questions. Link
to ask for help |
| "Outside the Box" | ADHD links & lesson plans |
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| ESL Zoo Project | Design a Zoo-online links & virtual
tours of zoos |
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| Technical Computer |
Techtorials | Computer Maintenance & Troubleshooting Ex. How to find lost files |