Here you will find links to lesson plans, worksheets, webquests, online quizzes & a chat room for teachers only. This website is designed to make our lives less stressful. It's time to stop reinventing the wheel. Hopefully this page will help us maximize student learning & at the same time minimize our precious prep time so that we can do new, creative things, instead of spending so much time searching for things that have already been done... Now I find myself rambling, so I'm going to start by making some links for us.
Lesson Plans
Multiple Intelligences Lesson; materials @ Laura Candler.com
Icebreakers for the 1st day of school
Who Done It? Sleuthing & Self-discovery for 7th & 8th Grade Creative Writing Students
Science Fiction Museum & Hall of Fame Lesson Plans & Units
Literature Sites
Internal Book Webpages of Middle School Books [These are websites that I have made that center on specific books. Each site has a book review, picture, discussion questions and external links about the book; all sorts of paraphanalia (sp?) that I've collected over the years about that book is stored here.]
Cyber Guides for works of Literature
Literacy Web for Classroom Teachers
Literature Lesson Plans - 30,000 resources for novels
Printable Worksheets, Assignments, etc.
Schoolexpress.com
Printable Welcome to School HW Pass
Printable Gaggle Email Permission Slip
Printable Missing HW Notification
Printable Corrective Assignment Form for Retests
Printable Field Trip Assessment
Printable Current Events Report Form
Printable Multiple Intelligence Survey
Word Searches, Crossword Puzzles, etc.
Clipart & Links for Net-savvy Teachers
Awesome Clipart for Educators
Mrs. Renz's Links to good school-related clipart
Quiz Star - Make quizzes that your students can take online!
Weekly Words: Spelling Online!
Good Ideas!/Things That I Like & Want to Remember
Classroom Layout [yes, there are some misspellings, but all in all, this isn't a bad article and it confirms some of the stuff I've tested out in my own classroom.
While You Were Away Folder, etc.
Language Arts [Up, sequencing, editing & revising 1 sentence, Talking Turkey, So You Thought You Were Tough Enough to Learn English?, Sentence Relay, Shoebox biography, Message in a Bottle, Reading English, Who, What, When, Where?]
Discovery's School Puzzlemaker
["This page is part of an awesome website hosted by the Discovery Channel. You can create your own mazes, word puzzles, crosswords and more! Click on the site's homepage to access all sorts of other great learning activities, like exciting science projects, games and other fun stuff." - Ron Burgess]
The Really Big List of Classroom Management Resources
MISC
The Family Poet["This webpage contains a hilarious collection of poetry for all ages. Some of the poems are illustrated." -RB]
KidsArt.com["This site offers art activities for kids, some of which can be downloaded for free. An online catalog includes teaching materials, games and learning enrichment activities."- RB]
KinderArt.com["This site provides free art lesson plans, reference material, and an online kid's gallery. There are activities for all ages, and they are divided into seasonal, multicultural, recycling, sculpture, cross curriculum, and many more categories." -RB]
Story Palace["This site is the place to read, to learn, and to share wisdom at the same time. It provides three main sections: Inspirational Stories, Jokes & Humor, and Children's Stories." - RB]
The Yuckiest Site on the Internet["Find quizzes, trivia, interesting facts, games, links to more yucky sites, and more at the Yuckiest Site. It has a section for parents and teachers too." -RB]
Good Middle School Contacts
Dan Weintraub
List of Mean, Horrible, Nasty, Children Who Will Never Amount to Anything & That We Don't Like
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Great Class Websites
Mrs. Renz's
4th Grade Class Web Site
Mrs. Lovdahl's Middle School Science Website
Mrs. Oak's Middle School English Page
Teacherlady's 8th grade English Syllabus