Becky Buck
ED 6310-5M1
Curriculum and Methodology Trends
Individual Project
First Grade Web Sites
I will be teaching Special
Education at the elementary level next year, so I wanted to find web sites that
would be helpful to myself and others that I will be working with. I have found some truly great sites that
offer teachers help in understanding how to implement new technology into the
classroom and develop a curriculum which will prepare students for the next millennium. It is a challenging goal for many sites which
bill themselves as educational.
Unfortunately, the internet landscape is dotted with haystacks of
educational information and resources.
The best sources are as elusive as the proverbial needle. Many of the sites tend to offer links to more
links with little or no explanation on the links or how the information can be
used in the classroom. The viewer is
often confronted with information overload.
Great educational sites are few and far between. They vary tremendously. Some fit the neat easy to follow magazine
type format of parent and kids sites.
Some are subject specific, some are grade specific, and some are project
specific.
I hope the following sites
will make my teaching easier and give my students and others an exciting addition
to their curriculum. They tend to inform
rather than overwhelm. They are worth
the most precious commodity a teacher has…time.
Scholastic – Back to School!
http://teacher.scholastic.com/professional/backtoschool/index.htm
This link has ideas and
suggestions that will help the teacher start thinking about the school year
ahead of them. It has suggestions for
designing the learning environment, organizing the classroom, establishing
rules, and suggestions for communicating with parents, students, and
staff. This site also has links to a
Class Set-Up Tool, Class Homepage, Construct a “Bill of Rights” lesson to set
up class rules, teaching students with special needs, and back-to-school
activities and ideas.
Welcome to the Smartie Zone
http://www.thesmartiezone.com/
This site is developed by
Staff Development for Educators and has links to every kind of teacher site
that you can imagine. You must take time
to explore this site. Click on the
rainbow fish and explore the favorite sites for teachers.
A to Z Teacher Stuff
http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/
A to Z Teacher
Stuff is teacher-created, and designed to help teachers find online resources
more quickly and easily. They offer lesson plans, thematic units, teacher tips,
discussion forums for teachers, downloadable teaching materials & e-Books,
printable worksheets and blacklines, emergent reader books, themes, and more.
ABC Teach
This site has links to basic
activities for reading, comprehension, math writing, handwriting, colors, and
shapes. It also has links to Theme
Units, Foreign Languages and extra teaching helps.
This is the place for kids, parents, student teachers, and
teachers.
Free Printables: 5000+ free printable
pages and worksheets.
Flashcard Exchange
http://www.flashcardexchange.com/
This web site
would be excellent for teachers, parents and students. You can create your own flashcards, study on-line,
print flashcards from all subject areas and grade levels. Just pick your subject and grade level and
start studying.
Graphic
Organizers
http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/index.html
This site
contains links to every kind of graphic organizer you can imagine. Here are a few that you will find: Clock, Cluster/Word Web, Five W’s Chart, Flow
Chart, KWL Chart, Spider Map, Sequence Chart, Story Map, Time Line, Tree Chart,
and Venn Diagram. These are just a few,
there are many more on the list.
Lesson PlanZ
This site has
lesson plans for all subject areas.
Sites for
Teachers
http://www.sitesforteachers.com/
This site has
900 links to every kind of teacher help you can imagine. I checked out many of the sites and did not
find a bad site. I would definitely
bookmark this site.
Classroom
Management from TeacherVision.com
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/page/6427.html
This site has
very good information for all teachers to refresh their memories whether they
are a veteran teacher or new to the profession.
Some of the articles include Behavior Management Advice, Classroom
Organization Tips, Helpful Bits of Advice, Lesson Planning Advice, and
Parent-Teacher Communication Advice.
Teachers.Net
This site is
mainly a type of chat board where you can exchange ideas with other
educators. I looked at several of the
exchange of ideas and was very impressed.
The chatboard is broken into categories so that you can pick and choose
the type of information that you are looking for.
Time Savers
for Teachers
http://www.timesaversforteachers.com/
Timesavers for Teachers.com specializes in teacher-created, often-used
classroom forms, worksheets, teacher resources and educational tools used by
teachers on a regular basis
The Busy Educator’s Guide to the World Wide Web
The Busy Educator's
Newsletter keeps educators informed
on useful websites, news
releases, book and e-book reviews, software reviews.
Fonts for Kids
http://www.momscorner4kids.com/fonts/index.htm
Here you will find a fun
collection of fonts.
Learn to Read at Starfall
http://www.starfall.com/n/level-a/learn-to-read/load.htm?f
The Starfall learn-to-read
website is offered free as a public service. They also provide writing
journals and books at a very low cost that can be used with the website
or separately. Teachers around the country are using Starfall materials as an
inexpensive way to make the classroom more fun and to inspire a love of reading
and writing.
RubiStar
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php
Rubistar is a free tool to help a teacher
make quality rubrics.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Education Agency –
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/teks/grade/First_grade.pdf