Resources

This is a collection of teaching resources for teachers. Everyone is welcome to contribute to this collection.Please put your name after your entry as an acknowledgment of your contribution.

[|Bird Beak Activity] - an interesting classroom game focusing on bird beak adaptations [|Ecosystem Matters]-a large collection of classroom activities on all aspects of ecosystems for all grade levels. [|Natural Biodiversity]-activities for elementary level classrooms on natural biodiversity.
 * Environmental Science** - activities

[|Google: http://www.google.com] [|Wikipedia: http://www.wikipedia.org/]
 * Most Common Search Engines**

Edutopia:** [|http://www.edutopia.org]This a link to the edutopia site. You can find a lot of teaching ideas, for instance, Project Based Learning: []If you want to skip the project-based learning intro. you can go right to the main page above (Kerri)
 * Journals for Teachers


 * Classroom Activities**

__Brainpop__: []
====A great website for both students and teachers that explore all subject matters (Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Art & Music, Health, and Technology) in fun and innovative ways! Also includes links to BrainPopJr. (Kindergarten-Grade 3) and BrainPopESL! (Ashley Cross)====


 * Book Reading and Literature**

__Free Books for Kindergarten__: //Free Books for Kindergarten (Lindsey)//

__Reading Literature__//: Reading Literature (May, Jenna, Lindsey)//

__Blank Books__: //[]// Very nice quality books that students could use to make their own final projects/books.) (Laurin Taskey)

__Free worksheets:__ [] (There are TONS of them out there...just need to look around. Not all are free though.) //[] (Laurin Taskey)//

__Word Designs__: [] (January Gallagher, Meg Cole) - word designs.


 * More Advanced Stuff**

The Ten Best Web 2.0 tool for earlier learning/Top 10 things for young learners []

__Resources and training for Smart Board__: //[] (Judy Hockley)//

__Talor Mali__ Taylor Mali is someone I saw a video on during a class this past spring semester. This is not a site for students but if you are a teacher and need encouragement, just watch some of his videos and you'll be set! In particular, "What Teacher's Make" is a great video (it's on the right side of his silly picture on his site). Or, you can search for him on You Tube and all his videos are there as well! Enjoy! [|Taylor Mali] (Jenna)

//Growing Up Online// (60:00) @http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/video/flv/generic.html?s=frol02p4e&continuous=1

//The Machine Is Changing Us// (33:44) @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09gR6VPVrpw

**Google Earth Lesson Planning Resources:**(submitted by: Janice Degni) Google Earth Lessons – An educational resource for teachers. [|[[http://gelessons.com/lessons/]]]

Google Earth and Discovery Education unitedstreaming™

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GM Education Google Earth Project. []

Erin Gruwell's Closing Keynote in NECC 2009 Washington DC:

http://caisefiles.wikispaces.com/erin+gruwell

=Just For Fun=

Picnik- playing with photos: by Danielle Ziobrowksi and Becky Wheaton (from EDU315 Spring 2010) [|Create a Graph]- Sara and Liz (from EDU315 Spring 2010) taught us a site where you can create graphs easily.

[|thinkfinity] [|Prongo] [|//Game Quarium//] [|//National Geographic//] [|Fun Brain] [|//Yahooligans//]
 * Sites that offer Safe and Fun Games for Learning.** (Janice)