This page contains links and resources for teachers. To view a particular category, click on a link below.
Ms. Moran's Web Sites
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Promoting Effective Study Skills |
| This web site explores how technology can be used to promote effective study skills. Promoting Effective Study Skills provides research, strategies, and resources on the topic. | |
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Writing Resource Center |
| The Writing Resource Center is a work in progress, but contains information that may be helpful to students. Learn about the different types of writing, the writing process, and writing tools. This site also contains writing links and a handy writing glossary. | |
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Ms. Moran's Literature Links |
| This site contains activities and links for the stories in the fifth grade literature anthology, Don't Forget to Fly. It also contains a comprehensive list of annotated links. | |
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Read Across America Technology Activities |
| This site details some technology activities that can be done with students during the Read Across America national reading celebration. It contains a student and teacher activity page. | |
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NASA Planetary Mission |
| This web site contains an multidisciplinary lesson plan that details a project in which students research a planet and create a web site about it. The site includes a teacher lesson plan page, an assessment rubric page, and a student page. | |
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Inventors & Inventions |
| This site was one of my earlier creations. It contains information about various inventors and inventions. It also has links to more information on inventors and inventions. | |
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Beginning Microsoft PowerPoint |
| This web site contains links to PowerPoint tutorials, tips for using PowerPoint, lesson plan links, presentation tip links, assessment rubrics, as well as additional resources and a glossary. |
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Recipe for a Successful Website |
| Learn about the six "ingredients" needed for a successful website. | |
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Educational Web Design |
| There are many different web sites that educators can create. This site contains links to different types of educational web sites as well as web graphics, web tools, multimedia sites, Front Page sites, and tutorials. | |
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Webagogy: Teaching, Learning, and Web Publishing |
Would you like to create your own classroom web site? If so, these links are for you!
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Homestead |
| At Homestead you can build your own web site with the Homestead SiteBuilder. It offers lots of features to help you create a professional looking web site. Homestead offers 16 MB of free web space and places a Homestead bar on the bottom of each of your pages, but no advertising. | |
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Yahoo! GeoCities |
| At Yahoo! GeoCities you can build web pages by using the page wizard or page builder. GeoCities offers 16 MB of storage space for free, and if you are using FrontPage to create your web site it support the FrontPage Server Extensions. A small GeoCities window will be placed in the corner of each page, but it can be closed. | |
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Tripod |
| Tripod offers 50 MB of free space, site building tools, and add-on features. Tripod also has free CGI Scripts and JavaScripts that you can incorporate in your web site. A rectangular advertising bar is placed on the top of each page. | |
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NBCi |
| NBCi provides free unlimited web space as well as a page builder. A narrow rectangular bar is placed across the top of each page that contains links to NBCi and some advertising. The bar cannot be removed or closed. | |
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Angelfire |
| Angelfire provides up to 30 MB of free web space as well as online web site building tools. A large rectangular window that contains advertising and links to Angelfire is placed on the top of each page. The window can be closed. | |
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Crosswinds |
| Crosswinds offers free unlimited web space and doesn't place any advertising on your pages. |
There are lots of free clip art and graphics available on the Internet. Always read the copyright policy before taking any images. To save an image from the Internet, PC users, right click on the image and choose Save Picture As... Below are some of the better collections of free clip art and graphics as well as some sites that contain educational clip art and graphics.
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Barry's Clip Art Server |
| Barry's Clip Art Server is a searchable collection of animations and clip art. | |
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Animation Library |
| Do you like adding animation to your web pages? Then Animation Library is the site for you! It contains thousands of categorized free animations. | |
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Teacher Files |
| Teacher Files is a small collection of categorized educational clip art and animation. This site also contains some lesson plans and teaching units. | |
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Animation Factory |
| Animation Factory is a huge collection of over 30,000 animated GIFs. They are categorized to help you find the animation you are looking for. You can also sign up to receive animations via e-mail each week. | |
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Kid's Domain Clip Art Index |
| This is a collection of icons and clip art with a "kid's" touch. The clip art and icons are categorized into holidays, seasons, and other titles. | |
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Microsoft Clip Gallery Live |
| This is Microsoft's searchable collection of clip art, animations, photos, and sound. It contains over 120,000 items, so it's a great place to go for graphics. | |
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School Image Gallery |
| This large collection of images is maintained by students at Hoxie High School. The images are not categorized so it will take some time to sort through them. | |
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Re-vision Webpaper |
| This is a collection of GIFs that can be used as backgrounds. They all have a paper effect, such as spiral notebook, kraft paper, or graph paper. | |
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Graphic Map's Clip Art for Web Sites |
| This is a collection of clip art including continents, flags, globes, usa images, and more. | |
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Absolutely Free Backgrounds |
| This is a collection of categorized backgrounds. You can also sign up to receive a free background each day via e-mail at this site. | |
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NBCi Clip Art |
| Choose from animated GIFs, photos, or Java buttons at this site. The images are categorized by type and topic. You can browse the images without membership, but must become a member (for free!) to download them. This site includes a lot of unusual images and a choice of background color for many of the images. |
You can create your own educational quizzes and games on the Internet. Check out some of these great sites!
FunBrain.com At FunBrain you can create your own quizzes for students to take online! Quia At Quia you can create a variety of learning activities and a simple home page. The activities include matching, jumbled words, scavenger hunts, quizzes, hangman, and much more!
