A Collection of Web Sites Given to the Staff of Willett School Each Week

Welcome,

One of the following sites was presented to the Willett Staff each week as part of our weekly technology update. We hope you find them helpful.

Sincerely,

David Sisson, Technology Coordinator

Google Groups: Advanced Search http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search ...using this advanced search page, you can search the newsgroup postings back to 1995; this sometimes provides an interesting way to track events that have long since disappeared from the Web

U-Haul SuperGraphics Site http://www.uhaul.com/supergraphics/archive.html ...a unique educational site with in-depth regional information to support the illustrations that appear on the side of the U-Haul vehicles.

http://eduscapes.com/42explore/

Type in just http://eduscapes.com and get more info on many subjects in education. This site is just helpful all the way to supercalifraglisticexpealedocious.

http://kathyschrock.net

Great site for resources about education.

www.abcteach.com

Many teaching ideas, lesson plans and general source of info.

www.jumptheshark.com

This is a useless web site, a total waste of time, but funny. When did your favorite old TV show start to not be as much fun? Find out here.

Thanksgiving Resources on the Web

http://midgefrazel.net/wqtg2.html ...a list of links, WebQuests, resources, pictures, and much more dealing with Thanksgiving

http://www.umkc.edu/imc/

Many Educational sites. I like the calendar here.

http://www.microsoft.com/TechNet/win98/Reskit/Part7/wrkappg.asp
Short Cuts for Windows 98 (Key commands) Many key commands work in all OS’s (Win95 to XP)

http://www.kidskonnect.com/

Here you will find many useful educational resources. Try them out for lessons, facts, or just ideas. You may start with the Alphabetical list or the Subject List, then away you go.

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/

This site has information on most countries around the world.

http://users.aol.com/a100thday/links.html

100^th Day Activities. 100’s of them.

www.gsn.org/project/newsday

Your students become news gathers in a world wide newspaper project

www.st-patricks-day.com

March 17^th- St Patrick’s Day- activities

http://www.dottisweightlosszone.com/-

Go-Girls Group - Here you will find over 300 chain restaurant menus, listing the weight watcher’s points for each item on their menu. Plus Weight watcher info.

http://beaucoup.com/

Interesting search engine – Meta Search engine.

http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html

Solar System – everything you might want to know about our solar system

Search sites

www.yahoo.com

www.lycos.com

www.excite.com

www.google.com

www.northernlights.com

www.dogpile.com

www.searchengines.com

www.classroomconnect.com

This is great resource for activities. Many ongoing lessons online and in the classroom. Super place to share ideas with other teachers around the world.

K-12 resource. Lessons, ideas, contacts, much more.

http://www.wisenut.com/

Interesting search engine- Type a word, phrase, or a whole question. It will give you back results listed in order of what you are most likely interested in and also sorted the results by groups. This is good for students to use, too.

www.attleborsochools.com/gallery

Try this out. We have a tour of the school here.

http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/explore/index.html

I put this site in the Willett Whaler Newsletter. A great resource for students.

http://www.armoredpenguin.com/wordsearch/

Word Search Puzzle Maker

http://www.ael.org/rtec/ideas.htm

Great ideas for Integrating Technology Into Planning and Curriculum, 180 practical ideas for using technology for students to facilitate the teaching and learning process.

http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/hello.htm#S

This is a website that lists HELLO or Greetings in over 800 languages.

http://www.deweybrowse.org/index.html

This site has tons of materials for teachers. Did you every want to talk to another teacher in the US that teachers your same grade level? How about a teacher anywhere in the world that teaches your grade?

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/rhymes/wordfamilies/

http://www.oswego.org/staff/cchamber/webdesign/web_quests.htm

www.starfall.com

Good site for early readers.

This site is American History 1900-present.

http://www.nhmccd.edu/contracts/lrc/kc/decades.html

http://www.scottforesman.com/resources/health/index.html

http://libweb.uoregon.edu/it/webpub/

Want to learn about Publishing on the Internet? This is a nice site to start at. It will show you how to get your work on the Internet.

http://www.libsci.sc.edu/miller/Unitlink.htm

Whole units (themes) on subjects we teach. Please let me know if it is helpful.

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/

http://www.fontfoundry.com/

www.freeze.com

http://herrickses.org/searingtown/library/teachers/learninglib.htm

...a super set of useful links in the areas of learning theory, evaluation, instructional design, technology in education, and multicultural education

http://www.edbydesign.com/automath.html

http://www.richmond.k12.va.us/readamillion/readingresources.htm

Great Reading resources

http://www.mathsurf.com/teacher/index.html

Problem of the day for Math. Plus many more things.

http://zapmeta.com/

Try this Search Engine out. It is new. They have designed some interesting things in it for teachers.

http://www.best.com/~ejad/java/patterns/patterns_j.shtml

Shapes Turns and Flips – Grade 1 Investigations

www.bigchalk.com

Portal resource for lower elementary teachers

www.math.com

Math lesson plans and activities to do online

www.mathstories.com

Many helpful math word problems and much more

www.NCTM.org

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/

Kids Search Engine – nice organization

www.alfy.com

WOW what a fun site – Activities to do online

http://www.kidsdomain.com/clip/index.html

Thousands, Thousands, MANY ----- FREE------ CLIPART pictures

http://www.techtv.com/print/story/0,23102,3308751,00.html

How to make a great PowerPoint Slide Show

www.articblast.polarhusky.com

Travel across the Arctic with a team of scientist ----

http://solarviews.com/eng/solarsys.htm

Everything you would ever need about the solar system – pictures, text, graphs and more

http://www.mos.org/exhibits/online_exhibits.html#vft

Virtual FishTank - Design a fish, release it in the big tank and see how it lives –great for adaptation – FUN TOO

http://www.doghause.com/index.html

Fonts – very different – most are animals –

http://www.ameritech.net/users/paulcarlisle/MoonCalendar.html

The moon calendar for the year 000 to 2999.

http://www.ozramp.net.au/

Australian site – Everything you want to know about Australia

http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/SCORE/cyberguide.html

You will find hundreds of book titles and lesson plans to go with them. Sorted by grade level. The lessons are based on the California Standards. I have not checked how closed they are to ours, but the lessons for the books are good, even if the standards are a little off from ours.

www.primarygames.com