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Nine Essential Instructional Strategies
Integrating Technology into the Classroom using Instructional Strategies
This site provides ideas on how to integrate Marzano's classroom instructional strategies with technology. Includes templates, t
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Cooperative Learning

Cues, Questions, and Advance Organizers

Generating and Testing Hypotheses

Homework and Practice

Identifying Similarities and Differences

Nonlinguistic Representations

Reinforcing Effort and Providing Recognition

Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback

Summarizing and Note Taking

Confidence

Confidence Quotes

Conflict

Debate

Beauty Pageants

paddling

School Dress Codes

Skateboarding

summer school

year-round school

editorial cartoons

Essay Writing

Grants

History's Mysteries

House Design

Ginnie Mae
Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA).
HSH Home Plans & House Plans
Search collections of designs, floor plans, and blueprints.
B4UBUILD
Lots of information about residential construction & design.
Ilyce Glink
Money and real estate expert's website.
Watts Mobile Homes
Manufactured homes designer and builder.
RealEstate.com
Nationwide real estate listings for single family homes and tips for homebuyers and sellers.
Hometime
Website of TV show featuring step-by-step information to home improvement, remodeling, and repair.
Aspen Log & Timber Homes & Construction
Full service log home builders.
Drawing Floorplans
Here are simple instructions on how to draw a floorplan.
Arch Architecture
http://www.nps.gov/jeff/planyourvisit/architectureThis site has information about the construction of the Arch and the architect
How Mortgages Work
Find Houses
House Types
Different Types of Houses
House Types PDF
Missouri Connections

Area

A Math Dictionary for Kids
Use this interactive dictionary to learn about the area of polygons. Click on the "Aa" link and choose the "Area" for the term's
Area of a Square
Learn how to find the area of a square, then do online practice exercises. Click on the "Next Lesson" link at the top of the pag
Area
Learn how to calculate area by counting the square units. Includes illustrations and a quiz.
Area Formula Grid
This site has drawings of different shapes on a grid so students can count the units to use as the lengths and widths.
A+ Flashcards
Click on "Geometric Area", then choose the number of problems you want to solve. This generates area problems using a variety of
Quia: Area and Perimeter Formulas
Try these four games to practice area formulas.
FunBrain Game Finder
This game offers a fun way to practice calculating the area of rectangles. Select a level of difficulty, choose "Area" and begin
Area Formulas
Learn the area formulas for squares, rectangles, parallelograms, trapezoids, circles, ellipses, and triangles.

Interior Decorating

Glogster
Use Glogster to make your collage portfolio.
Ikea
Great place for economical furnishings.
Lowes
Furniture.com
Interior design for Children
Interior Design Ideas
Amazon
...for all of your electronic needs.
Wallpaper

Lewis and Clark

Ethnography of Lewis and Clark
Pictures of many of the objects Lewis and Clark used
Go West Across America With Lewis and Clark
this site uses the dramatic children's book, How We Crossed the West: The Adventures of Lewis and Clark, by Rosalyn Schanzer for
The National Park Service
Visit this site to see pictures of National parks located along the trail of Lewis and Clark. The site for Fort Clatsop and the
PBS On-Line: Lewis and Clark
The site contains a wealth of information regarding Lewis and Clark.
Lewis and Clark's Historic Trail
This site contains invaluable maps, a timeline, journals, information regarding the South Dakota Trail, and a "Did you Know" lin
Lewis and Clark Trail
You can read a short biography of the explorers, take a virutal tour, and play a trivia game. You can also click on state names
Discovering Lewis and Clark
This site has extensive information on the history of Lewis and Clark. Select "Preparation," "Exploration," or "The Return Trip"
Roster of Lewis and Clark
This is a list of those who began the expedition with the Corps of Discovery.
Degree Confluence Project
PBS: Lewis and Clark: The Native Americans
Click on any of the tribes under the PBS logo next to the "PBS Home" tab to view information on what that particular tribe has t

Mark Twain

Memory Builder
youtube quotes
Quotes
MT's Voice
Scroll down and choose a topic. You will hear an audio clip of an impersonator delivering some of Mark Twain's famous lines.
American Writers: Mark Twain
Watch these videos, especially the one called Twain's "Life Story," to learn more about Twain's early life and jobs. Includes a
American Library
These three pages introduce Mark Twain through a short biography and photos.
Mark Twain House and Museum
Students can click on "Biography," "Timeline," "Major Works," "Twain's Family Tree," or "Suggested Reading List." This house was
PBS: Mark Twain
Click on "Classroom Activities," "Chronology," and much more. Did you know Mark Twain invented the "self-pasting" scrapbook? Loo
The Mark Twain Papers and Project
This site has two databases; "Outgoing Letters" and "Incoming Letters." There are also some on-line exhibitions as well as publi
Mark Twain Birthplace
Look at photographs of the cabin where Mark Twain was born.
River Boats or Paddle Wheels
Read a brief explanation of river boats and how Mark Twain got his name.
The Official Website of Mark Twain
Biography: Mark Twain
Brainy Quotes: Mark Twain
Welcome to Mark Twain's House
Mark Twain Project

multimedia

14 types of student products

New Teacher

Instruction

Online Resources

eMINTS Winter Conference

Fluency

Graphic Organizers

Online Books

Phonemic Awareness

phonics

Secondary

Vocabulary Development

Learn

Understand

Apply

analyze

Evaluate

Create

Poe

Poetry

Presentations

Locate Slideshows

Scoring

Scoring

Tutorials

Templates

review

Shakespeare

Your Dictionary
This is a dictionary that will pronounce words for you.
A Guide to the Poetry of Shakespeare's Drama
Fact Monster: Pentameter
The Sonnets
This site will help you understand Shakespeares sonnets.
William Shakespeare
Listen to some of shakespeares speeches.
Folger Shakespeare Library
Shakespeare High
Elizabethan Architecture in England
The Globe
Star Wars Macbeth
The Shakespeare Authorship Page
Sparknotes

Hamlet

Romeo and Juliet

The Shakespeare Controversy

Sites for 2/16

survey

Theme

Character, Inc.

lesson development

Essential Questions

Unit of Instruction

Objectives

GLEs/CLEs
The Missouri Guidance and Counseling grade-level expectations were developed to align with Missouri standards and national guida
BYOC
Missouri Learning Standards

Essential Questions

Assessment

Rubistar
RubiStar is a free tool to help teachers create quality rubrics.
Roobix
Roobrix is a tool that helps educators avoid grading errors when scoring rubrics.
Intel Education Assessing
Implementing Performance Assessments
Look beyond high-stakes testing to learn about different ways of assessing the full range of student ability -- social, emotiona
Comprehensive Assessment
Authentic Assessment Toolbox
Designing Scoring Rubrics
Constructed Response
Problem Based Learning Checklists
Checklists to support Project Based Learning and evaluation
Electronic Portfolios
edmodo
Socrative
Socrative lets teachers engage and assess their students with educational activities on tablets, laptops and smartphones. Throug
Kahoot!
Pear Deck
Padlet
create and collaborate
Poll Everywhere
Poll Everywhere helps you gather live audience or class responses anywhere, anytime.
BrainRush
Adaptive Learning Games That anyone can create, share, and play.
Go Formative
Create incredible online assessments, classwork or homework.
Flubaroo
Free add-on to Forms that allows you to quickly grade multiple-choice or fill-in-the blank assignments.
literably
Literably is an amazing resource to help with running records for teachers.
linoit
a digital cork-board where you can put "Post-its".

Instructional Strategies

eThemes
eThemes is your source for content-rich, kid-safe online resources
Reading Quest
Strategies for Reading Comprehension
WebQuests
Online Projects
Izzit
Printable Graphic Organizers
Graphic Organizers
Advanced Organizers
Hypotheses
Nonlinguistic
Effort Templates
Note-Taking
Intel Education
School Reform Initiative
Evidence Based Practices--Writing
Online Resources
you will find some helpful online resources for locating news and other non-fiction tools for you to use as companion pieces wit
Article of the Week
Ed Puzzle
The easiest way to engage your students with videos pick a video, add your magical touch and track your students' understanding
TimeLine JS
Beautifully crafted timelines that are easy and intuitive to use.
Into the Book
a reading comprehension resource for elementary students and teachers. We focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior
diigo
Diigo is a great resource for teaching student to annotate or to use Close reading strategies when they read.
Story Line Online
Storyline Online has well-known celebrities who read a children's book to students.
Lit 2 Go
Lit2Go is a free online collection of short stories and poems in an audiobook format (MP3).

Differentiation

What Works Clearinghouse
Skill Builders
Florida Center for Reading Research
Differentiation Central
Differentiation Daily
Five Best Differentiation Websites
Tools for Differentiation
Move It
Gentle pop-up reminder to get up and move when at your desk.
Turn Off the Lights
Turns down all of the side lights and enhances the video you are showing to give your students a cinema-like experience.
Announcify
Reads any web-based material outloud.
Flocabulary
An online library of educational hip-hop songs and videos for grades k-12.
newsela
Rewordify

Self-Reflection

Teaching Assignment Criteria

Technology

Edublogs
Virtual Manipulatives
Create a Graph
Online Maps
Tux Paint
Starfall
ThinkPort
Interactive Whiteboard Activities
Little Animals Activity Center
Math Tools
Nobel Prize
Science Buddies
Edmodo
Library of Congress
Picturing America
Zimmer Twins
Lit Trips
LearnZillion
Teach like the experts! See visual, conceptual explanations of the Common Core State Standards. 4000+ videos tailored for grades
21 Things
easel.ly

Immigration