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General Math Resources
Saxon Publishers
Saxon publishers website- This site lists several different interactive lessons, including an inroductory calculator lesson
http://saxonpublishers.harcourtachieve.com/HA/resourcelist.aspx?ca=Online+Activities&SRC1=28&SRC5=saxonpublishers
Harvey's Home Page
Great smart board activities for everything we talk about in class! Including matrix multiplication
http://almarolh.googlepages.com/harvey%27shomepage
National Counse of Teachers of Mathematics
NCTM Illuminations and other great resources
http://www.nctm.org/
National Library of Virtual Mathematics
http://nlvm.usu.edu/
Thinfinity!
GREAT resource for finding lessons and interactive activities
http://www.marcopolo-education.org/EducatorHome.aspx
Math Their Way Blacklines
http://www.center.edu/BLACKLINES/blacklines.shtml
Math Sense
All different ways of incorporating literacy and math, different websites to go to for resources, very nicely organized and spec
http://www.mrspohlmeyerskinderpage.com/mathsense.htm
Math Their Way
http://www.center.edu/NEWSLETTER/newsletter.shtml
Jefferson Lab
Wide variety of resources, lesson, and online activities for teachers and students.
http://education.jlab.org/
SmartBoard Resources
Smart Board Website
Here is where you download SB notebook and can also search for great lesson ideas.
http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-us/
Teacher's Love SmartBoard
I stole this one from Harvey. Great resource if you are looking for ideas to spice up the smartboard lessons.
http://www.smartboards.typepad.com/
Educator Resources
Go here for SmartBoard related downloads.
http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-US/Ed+Resource/
Animated Files
Nice way to add something different to SB lesson.
http://www.animationlibrary.com/
Lesson Plans
Marco Polo
http://www.marcopolo-education.org/home.aspx
Curriculum Development
Links to Kidspiration/Inspiration Order Site
Something I might want to invest in sometime
http://www.enablemart.com/Catalog?search=inspiration
Preventing and Responding to Challenging Behaviors
Great set of articles to help children with challenging behaviors, good tips for parents and teachers
http://www.journal.naeyc.org/btj/200307/
Resources for Early Childhood Educators
http://www.communityplaythings.com/mailing/collage/currentcollage.html
NAEYC
http://naeyc.org
Democratic Discipline
http://journal.naeyc.org/btj/200307/DemocraticDiscipline.pdf
Unit on Life Cycle of Plants
This article describes one schools approach to teaching about the life cycle of plants through learning about
http://www.edibleschoolyard.org/homepage.html
Making Bread
Great resource for cooking with kids.
www.pumpkincircle.com/bread
Science in Focus
Teacher Professional Development Video
http://www.learner.org/resources/series118.html
Long Term Projects: Shadows and Light
http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v2n1/glassman.html
Discovery Education
Very useful resource to learn more about a certain content area
http://www.unitedstreaming.org
Annenberg Media
More teacher development resources
http://www.learner.org
National Science Teachers Association
A great resource for learning science content before teaching it to the class. Wonderful journal articles and worth joining.
www.nsta.org
ABC Teach
Lots of classroom downloads, from calendar to word wall print outs. Lots of resources to help set up your classroom.
http://www.abcteach.com/directory/teaching_extras/calendars/
Busy Teacher's Cafe
Wonderful sight for ideas ranging from classroom set up and management to thematic units. Concrete information and ideas, forms,
http://www.busyteacherscafe.com/index.html
SOL Stuff
RCPS Lesson Plans/SOL Practice
http://www.rockingham.k12.va.us/k5/k5.htm
Virginia Scope and Sequence
Great place to get a better understanding of SOLs and content area ideas
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/VDOE/EnhancedSandS/science.shtml
Virginia Standards of Learning
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/go/Sols/home.shtml
Old SOL tests
Interesting to see old tests...
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/VDOE/Assessment/releasedtests.html
Rubric Maker
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php
Number and Number Sense
Counting Practice
http://members.learningplanet.com/act/count/free.asp
Number and Number Sense SmartBoards
http://almarolh.googlepages.com/number%26numbersense
24 Game
24 Game site where students can practice their 24 skills! Great fun way to practice computation and work with numbers.
http://www.24game.com/
Elementary Sites
Interactive games for kids
http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/ekowalcz/math/elementary_web_sites.htm
Number Sense Lesson
might want to try this with younger kids, sounds fun
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/MathNumberSense1.htm
Mental Math Strategies
More ideas and activities for increasing mental math skills
http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/de/math1-3/p-mentalmath.html
Measurement
Stop the Clock!
http://www.teachingtime.co.uk/draggames/sthec1.html
Gorilla Gallon Instructions
http://almarolh.googlepages.com/GorillaGallon.notebook
Money Practice
This site would be a great way for kids to practice counting money independtly. I might use this as a center one day. I like it
http://arcytech.org/java/money/money.html
NLVM Measurement Activities
http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/topic_t_4.html
Measurement Resources
http://mathforum.org/paths/measurement/e.measlessons.html
Show Me the Money
Concrete way to teach money!
http://almarolh.googlepages.com/ShowMeTheMoney.notebook
Computation and Estimation
Missing Number SmartBoard
http://almarolh.googlepages.com/Missing-Number.notebook
Delta Education
It's neat to see what is available for teachers to use to teach computation.
http://www.delta-education.com/productgallery.aspx?subID=110&menuID=113
Ten Tiles
http://almarolh.googlepages.com/TenTiles.notebook
Matrix Multiplication
If only I had this when I was in school!
http://almarolh.googlepages.com/MatrixMult.notebook
Round Off the Mountain
http://almarolh.googlepages.com/RoundOffMountain.notebook
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