Jessica Pickrell20 WebsitesJanuary 25, 2011

1. The Teachers Corner – http://theteacherscorner.net – This site allows teachers to create and construct fun learning aids like crossword puzzles, words searches, etc. It allows you to make your own or use one they have already created. Not only that but it also has worksheets you can use and other tools as well.

2. Teacher Planet – http://myteachertools.com – Allows you to make puzzles, mazes, crosswords. It also has resources for teachers like rubrics, worksheets, gradebooks, and tons more!

3. Education World – http://www.educationworld.com – This website has a ton of interesting and helpful tools for teachers, but for this section I wanted to list it because it has amazing templates teachers can use to communicate with parents. From conference planners to weekly reports, field trip permission forms, basically any kind of form you would need to send to parents you can find on this site.

4. Scholastic – http://teacher.scholastic.com/homepagebuilder/index.htm – Scholastic is obviously a very well known company but I found this site even more important because it is an awesome and east way to create a classroom webpage. It is free and you can completely customize it. Basically you design it, then set up a username and password for parents. They have a form that you can print with this information to send home to your students. On the site you can list recommended books, list homework, any special announcements, basically anything!! Great tool!!

5. Teachers Network - http://www.teachersnetwork.org/ - This is a great networking site where teacher can visit and get lesson plans, apply for teacher grants, view teacher blogs, etc. It just has a ton of great information for teacher.

6. Internet4Classrooms - http://www.internet4classrooms.com/lang_elem.htm – My area of study is Language arts. This site includes a ton of different ways of teaching language arts and many tools for children to use. It includes worksheets and online games to incorporate in the classroom.

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7. NC Standard Course of Study - http://www.ncpublicschools.org/curriculum/languagearts/elementary/ - This is obviously the standard course of study for language arts for elementary schools. I listed this site because this tells me exactly what I need to teach to my students. I feel this needed to be included in my list of important teaching websites.

8. ToonUniversity - http://www.toonuniversity.com/aol/aol_language_k2.asp – Allows students to play interactive learning games in the area of Language Arts for grades 1 & 2. Teaches young students about opposites, alphabetizing, inferences, punctuation & capitalization, and abbreviations.

9. LessonPlansPage - http://www.lessonplanspage.com/LAK1.htm – This site has thousands of lesson plans available for teachers to print and use. You can get an idea for lesson plans and then create one of your own, or use the ones listed. You can choose the grade level and the subject and find something you need to help teach.

10. A to Z Teacher Stuff - http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/Lesson_Plans/ - Again this is a site that offers online Language Arts lesson plans. It also offers tips, articles, and discussions. This site would be useful if you need help figuring out how to teach a certain topic.

11. TeAchnology - http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/computing/web_quests/language/ - This is a webquest that provides worksheets, lesson plans, rubrics, and teacher resources on Language Arts.

12. Lesson Plan Central - http://lessonplancentral.com/lessons/Computers_and_Internet/Webquests/Language_Arts/Elementary/index.htm – This site offers webquests that deal with language arts in elementary schools. It lists a ton of different topics to choose from.

13. Best WebQuests - http://bestwebquests.com/bwq/listarea.asp?wqcatid=3&edid – This allows you to choose webquests in a variety of topics for the language arts subjects. It provides detailed description of the webquests to make it easier to choose one that will work for you.

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14. WebQuests Grades 3-4 - http://www.literacy.uconn.edu/34webqu.htm – This site provides you with webquest collections for grades 3 to 4 dealing with language arts. It also has specific examples in grades 3 and 4.

15. WebQuest Resourse Page - http://academics.smcvt.edu/cbauer-ramazani/Links/webquests.htm – Provides you with webquest for a ton of different topics, covering grades K-12. It also gives you a rubric for evaluating webquests.

16. TeacherVision – http://www.teachervision.fen.com – This website has a ton of information and tools for teachers to use. You do need to pay for a subscription but it would be way worth it for everything on this site. It has lesson plans, worksheets, games, printables (bulletin boards, awards, parent letters, etc.)

17. SuperTeacherTools - http://www.superteachertools.com/ - Again site that provides you with games, tools, fun activities, recommendations, etc. for teachers. You can create classroom jeopardy, who wants to be a millionaire, you can create seating charts, etc.

18. Teacher Created Resources - http://www.teachercreated.com/ - This site provides a ton of things for your classroom. It has a list of books that they recommend, it also have décor you can print or use ideas for accents, awards, bulletin boards, charts, teacher aids, etc.

19. Scholastic Book Levels - http://bookwizard.scholastic.com/tbw/homePage.do – This is a great site to be familiar with how to level books, or create a classroom library that is specific for your classroom. This is important because we need our students to want to read.

20. The Teachers Guide to Classroom Management - http://www.theteachersguide.com/ClassManagement.htm – Classroom management is probably one of the hardest aspects of teaching. This sites give so many resources to help with managing your classroom. It includes discipline strategies, tools for teachers, behavior charts, also breaks it down to the actual behavior and how to deal with it.

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