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Pbs Learning Media: Early Engineering With Ready Jet Go!: Pbs Kids Self Paced Learning
With real-life materials and exciting tools to touch and explore, engineering activities are a natural draw for many young children. In this professional development experience with Ready, Jet, Go!, we'll look at teacher practices for...
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Pbs Learning Media: Pbs Media Literacy Education Certification by Kqed
Demonstrate your expertise in teaching PreK-12 students to think critically about their roles as media consumers and creators -- or in training teachers to do so. Competency-based validation of media literacy skills for educators of all...
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Pbs Learning Media: Using Interactive Lessons in the Classroom
This teacher tutorial introduces K-12 educators to the interactive lesson format. Featuring videos that show teachers and students in a variety of classroom settings, the tutorial provides strategies and tips that will help educators...
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Pbs Learning Media: Peep and the Big Wide World: Professional Development
PEEP and the Big Wide World, the animated Emmy Award-winning series that teaches science and math to an early childhood audience, offers professional development videos hosted by and tailored to family child care educators and...
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Pbs Learning Media: Virtual Professional Learning Series: Collection
Our Virtual Professional Learning Series is created for teachers -- by teachers -- to bring together content experts and educators from all backgrounds. With an emphasis on fun, engaging, accessible, and free tools for classrooms, these...
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Pbs Kids: Self Paced Learning for Pre K 2 Teachers
PBS KIDS offers this FREE special collection of flexible self-paced learning to help inspire teachers and provide support for the classroom. Choose from several learning experiences designed to spark new ideas and expand your skill set...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Looking at Writing: Pre K
In this section, you'll find writing assessment resources, writing strategies, and additional tip sheets for teachers and parents on how to help preschoolers build strong writing skills. You'll also find a video modeling classroom...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: On Summer Loss
The Center for Summer Learning compiled this quick review of statistics on summer learning loss.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Helping Equip Teachers to Answer Questions on College Knowledge
In a Stanford University study, a majority of high school students reported speaking with a teacher at least once about college admissions requirements, but teachers reported receiving very little information to answer their students'...
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Pbs Learning Media: Effective Video Based Lessons
We offer you some hints, gathered over long experience of helping educators integrate video into their teaching, about how to make the most of VITAL video in your lessons.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Homeschooling
This encyclopedia entry on homeschooling covers all facets of this form of education including potential motivations for homeschooling, public opinions, laws, methods, results and resources.
Mr. Martini's Classroom
Mr. Martini's Classroom: Kid's Math Board
This interactive workspace allows teachers to model math problems using base ten blocks and numbers.
abcteach
Abcteach: Border Papers
[Free Registration/Login Required] Reproduce bordered papers for your students to write on with themes such as baseball, basketball, bees, calligraphy, Charlotte's Web, clouds, fire safety, hearts, owls, penguins, puffins, rain forest,...
SMART Technologies
Smart: The Interactive Educator Online Magazine [Pdf]
An excellent and thorough online magazine for educators, highlighting particularly the technological tools needed to help students be successful. Includes information about building online learning communities, the pros and cons of...
Other
Little Giraffes: Insects
Insect activities for early elementary students are pictured and described on this resource.
Other
Planet Book Club: Sing Down the Moon by Scott O'dell
This resource features book information, lesson plans and links to sites that can be used to enrich the book "Sing Down the Moon," by Scott O'Dell.
San Diego State University
San Diego State University: Sources of Copyright Friendly Media
A list of websites to look for photos, clip art, background textures, music, and sound effects that can be used for projects and presentations without violating copyright.
Other
Living Math!
A homeschooling website with a focus on Mathematics. Provides articles, wide-ranging lists of recommended books, Math activity ideas, book reviews, and some sample lessons. (Note: Some links may no longer work.)
Other
Living Math!: Math Readers
A collection of lists of books for learning concepts in Math, organized by topic and addressing all grade levels. Also includes a section of teacher resource books.
Other
Certificate Creator
Looking for a unique way to honor or recognize your students? This certificate creator will allow you to design your own awards. You can pay to join for endless options of designs or choose from the free certificates available.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Great Books About When Friends Fight
A great range of books for themed units and individual reading.
Other
On Line Math Worksheet Generator
Free math worksheets can be created and printed for use in the classroom. Subscription to the site allows for access to even more free worksheets.