100 Websites to Facilitate Instruction and Learning Compiled by and for the Participants of the University of Miami New Teacher Support Network

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1 1 Web Site Name URL Description Free Phonics Worksheets 2 Print Activities 3 ABC Home Preschool 4 DLTK Kids 5 Lil Bunny Hops 100 Websites to Facilitate Instruction and Learning Compiled by and for the Participants of the University of Miami New Teacher Support Network s/a_names.html Numbers.htm es_one_thru_twenty_free_printables.html Subject Area Free phonics worksheets to assist in learning phonics rules for reading. These free worksheets are printable and designed to accommodate any lesson plan for reading that includes phonics. Conveniently organized by the skills covered, these worksheets come with answer keys. Tracing printable worksheets. Use these Children's Number Coloring Pages below along with the ABC Home Preschool Curriculums. Features a variety of fun, printable children's crafts, coloring pages and more including projects for holidays, educational themes and some of our children's favorite cartoon characters. Grade Level Primary Primary Primary Primary 2,000 Free Preschool and Kindergarten printables Primary 6 Internet 4 Classrooms Kindergarten writing resources. htm Contains more than 5,000 developmentally appropriate activities in the following 7 Kids Soup areas: language arts, music, art, mathematics, social studies, science, dramatic play, health, and nutrition. 8 Kid Zone Type in anything you like into the custom tracer pages to practice printing (standard block or script type printing fonts) or cursive handwriting. A systematic phonics approach, in conjunction with phonemic awareness practice is 9 Starfall perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, special education, homeschool, and English language development (ELD, ELL, ESL). 10 Brain Pop Jr. Video lessons on almost everything! Free trial available, but membership is required for full access. 11 K-3 Merriam-Webster Word This site has an online dictionary, thesaurus, ryhme search, games for students, and Central resources for educators. Primary-K Primary-K Primary - Primary -

2 12 Reading Rockets Reading Rockets offers a wealth of reading strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help young children learn how to read and read better. Our reading resources assist parents, teachers, and other educators in helping struggling readers build fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills. 13 Spelling City Over 42,000 spelling words and ten learning games 14 Writing Bug 15 It All Adds Up 16 Cross Puzzles writing_bugs italladdsup.shtml numbercross.shtml Monthly/situational writing prompts. The It All Adds Up puzzle is a weekly feature of Education World. Perfect for homework or in-class, the puzzle challenges students to find the missing numbers so every column, row, and diagonal adds up. A fun way to reinforce math skills. 17 Playground Interactive math games, word problems, logic puzzles and videos. 18 Origami Club com/en/ Origami for all occasions! 19 FunBrain Activities for students and resources for teachers. 20 Hurricane Watch 21 Show-Biz Science: A De-Mist-ifying Event sson076.shtml science/showbiz_science005.shtml To meteorologists, September signifies the peak month of the Atlantic hurricane season. This web site rpovides activities designed to help your students understand this powerful force of nature., Science This experiment will help students understand fog "clearly." Science 22 A to Z Teacher Stuff A to Z Teacher Stuff is a teacher-created site designed to help teachers find online resources more quickly and easily. Find lesson plans, thematic units, teacher tips, discussion forums for teachers, downloadable teaching materials & ebooks, printable worksheets and blacklines, emergent reader books, themes, and more. 23 ABC Teach Useful for report ideas and formats, bulletin board materials, lesson plans, etc.

3 24 Busy Teacher's Café 25 Coloring Castle 26 Crickweb Busy Teacher's Cafe is a K-6 resource site for busy teachers! Here you will find resources, ideas, lessons, free printables, and more! All the coloring pages on this site are free and printable! Download and print as many copies as you like -- for your personal use or for the classroom. Color individual pages or download a bunch to make your own coloring book. 190 free to use educational interactive resources for Primary Schools. 30 free to use fun games for kids aged plus links to free interactive, image and software resources. 27 Enchanted Learning A little bit of everything on all subjects! Pete's Power Point Station San Marcos Free Presentations in PowerPoint format & Free Interactive Activities for Kids Lesson plans, videos, activities and quizzes. 30 Scholastic Reading resources for students and teachers. 31 School Express 16,000+ worksheets, funtime games, online math, activity fun worksheets and United States Units. 32 Skillswise Factsheets, worksheets, quizzes and games to help improve students' skills. 33 Teacher Planet 34 Education Place Forney International, Inc. Sylvan's Book Adventure Free access to over 10,000 theme-based resources including lesson plans, templates, rubrics, worksheets, and more. An A-Z Index. Website provided by Houghton Mifflin. Resources for teachers, students, and families to support instruction in the classroom and at home. K-6 Handouts, presentations, and teacher forums. Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 7,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes. Book Adventure was created by and is maintained by Sylvan Learning. K-8 K-8

4 37 Brain Pop 38 Time for Kids Teacher-Submitted Lesson Plan: The Perfect Teacher FCAT Skills & Strategies by Cluster 41 FLDOE - FCAT sters%20and%20skills.htm Video lessons on almost everything! Free trial available, but membership is required for full access. An interactive website for students. Provides worksheets and lesson ideas for teachers. This fun activity drives home to students the need for mutual respect and high expectations. An incredible collection of lessons and activities for FCAT clusters! A teacherdeveloped page for a 9th grade Intensive Reading class. All the skills needed, however, to teach reading skills from the 3rd grade on. Information regarding the FCAT. You can download anchor sets of expository and persuasive essays for students. 42 Gizmos Over 450 highly interactive online simulations. K-8 K-8,, Science Teaching Sexual 43 A comprehensive resource for teaching human growth and development. Science Health s.html 44 Major Tests SAT Word Lists 45 Google Lit Trips 46 Architect Studio 3D html An SAT Prep site, a great focal point for anyone teaching vocabulary, particularly at the high school level. This site is an experiment in teaching great literature in a very different way. Using Google Earth, students discover where in the world the greatest road trip stories of all time took place... and so much more! English, Intermediate Design a house online, and walk through a virtual 3D model of it. 47 Cool A math site designed for ages The level of math is from fractions up (prealgebra and up). Links to more basic math sites for younger students as well. 48 Glencoe 49 I Want to Teach Forever eo_04/index.php/fl Online study tools: lesson, chapter, & unit resources Algebra II project on exponential and logarithmic functions.

5 50 Celebrity Automated math lessons, homework lessons, quiz generators and answer keys. 51 Warehouse Interactive flash-based activities for students. 52 Bits metry/geometrystudent.htm Geometry Student Resources are a collection of free resources for students studying and/or reviewing a course in high school geometry. 53 way Online problem-solving resource site. 54 Purple Only those sites with something immediately useful (and free, or free-to-try) for algebra students are listed. You won't find math jokes or recreational math sites here. Instead, check these review for sites containing lessons, tutoring forums, worksheets, articles on "how math is used in real life", and more. 55 The Calculus Page Calculus problems with detailed, solutions, tips on preparing for exams, and much more! 56 Exploratorium An online museum of science, art and human perception. Science 57 NASA Everything NASA! Great images and articles. Science 58 Teaching from the Heart Everything you've ever wanted to know about the heart! Science 59 Psychology Links Psychology links and resources 60 Cloudnet History plans & resources 61 Edsitement Indexes of lesson plans, features, and websites with common special feature themes. 62 The Learning Network The New York Times Education resource for lesson plans by subject. This site also has additional resources and current events in education. For students, there are activities and a student opinion blog, where students ages 13 and up are invited to comment on issues in the news.

6 63 Teachers.net A resource site for teachers: lesson plans, blogs, projects, job announcements, etc. Primary Everything ESL 65 Every-Day Edits 9.shtml This link is more ESOL directed but has 43 content based ESOL lesson plans for beginning through intermediate students. Use Every-Day Edits to build language skills, test scores, and cultural literacy. ESOL 66 FCAT Explorer An interactive program that offers practice on FCAT benchmarks. Reinforces reading comprehension skills and is available at no cost to all Florida public schools. 67 Grammar Bytes! Grammar terms, exercises, handouts, quizzes, presentations, etc. 68 Reading Plus 69 TumbleBooks 70 Free Worksheets Online reading program designed to increase scores on standardized tests and producing gains in fluency, comprehension and vocabulary. An online database of e-books, read-alongs, and audiobooks. Free trial, membership required for full access. Generate mutiple kinds of worksheets for your classroom. Choose from Basic, Pre-Algebra, Sudoku, Word Searches, Word Scrambles and more. All worksheets may be printed and reproduced for classroom use.no need to register or pay for anything. 71 is Fun dictionary, puzzles, and activities. 72 About This site has links for different topics related to math. 73 National Council of Teachers of ematics resources, professional development, lesson plans, research, etc. 74 NCTM Illuminations Illuminations has 549 lesson plans available. 75 The Forum resources by subject.

7 76 Bridges 4 Kids 77 Teaching Tolerance 78 Geography A to Z 79 Mr. Donn's Lesson Plan File 80 World Atlas sson294.shtml geography_az.shtml ps.htm We are a non-profit organization providing a comprehensive system of information and referral for parents and professionals seeking help for children from birth through transition to adult life. Martin Luther King, Jr. dreamed of a world more tolerant than the one he lived in. These lessons are designed to teach kids about King's dream of tolerance. Included: Lessons on stereotyping, appreciating differences, recognizing how words can hurt (or heal) and more! Education World presents three fun printable geography features for your students. These work sheet series will challenge students to learn about geography as they explore famous places around the world one letter at a time, learn about Europe's most famous landmarks, and track Mrs. Waffenschmidt to all corners of the Earth. Lesson plans for all grades. Outline Maps and Map Tests Parent Advocacy Amy yjo Johns' PowerPoint games, such as Who Wants to 81 be a Millionaire, Jeopardy, and Hollywood K12 Techknowledgy Spot m Squares. Use examples or use templates to create your own. 82 Compass Learning A K 12 software-based curriculum which assesses each student s understanding of key objectives. Based on this assessment, a student is automatically prescribed a personalized learning path filled with engaging activities. 83 Discovery School Puzzlemaker, lesson plans, professional development 84 EdHelper Provides access to worksheets and materials, such as lesson plans, games, and classroom decorating ideas. Membership required for access, $20 annually. 85 Education World Provides information on professional development, lesson plans, and school issues. 86 Freaky Freddies Indexes of lesson plans, features, and websites with common special feature themes. 87 I Love Schools Create an account to sign up for classroom donations.

8 88 Just Free Stuff 1 Freebies for teachers 89 Lesson Plan Page Lesson plan links 90 PBS Teachers Videos, resources, and blogs. 91 School Clip Art Free Clip Art Images For Teachers and Students 92 Smithsonian 93 Study Zone The central education website of the Smithsonian Institute. Resources for educators, parents & students. Although, this site was put together by teaching professionals to help students and teachers gain more information and preparation for the New York State tests, each testing area provides lessons, practice activities, teacher resources, and sometimes literature tie-ins that teachers everywhere can use. Click on the subject area ou are interested in to find the tutorials and practices pages for that content. 94 Super Teacher An educator search engine with worksheets. 95 Teacher Tube ideolist 96 Teacher Vision A plethora of fun, educational videos! TeacherVision is dedicated to helping teachers save time. Find 20,000 pages of classroom-ready lesson plans, printables, and resources. Free trial, membership required for full access. 97 TeAch-nology Teacher resources & lesson plans, free trial, membership required. 98 Texas Instruments yexchange/activity_list.do?cid=us A free, collaborative forum where educators can share favorite activities using TI technology. You can begin browsing for activities by selecting a subject area. 99 TLS Books Provides free printable worksheets & activities. 100 WebQuest.org Lesson plan database. Whether you're an education student new to the topic or an experienced teacher educator looking for materials, you'll find something here to meet your needs.