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ESL Grammar

ESL Vocabulary

ESL Science

Weather Games, Stories, and Activities
Drippy
The Water Cycle Song
Animal Cell Identification
EdHeads- Weather, Simple Machines
Windows to the Universe: Bilingual Universe
Animal Sites
How Stuff Works- Science
Science Online- Interactive Activities and Games
Sea and Sky- Sea Links
Tom Snyder Science Songs
I See a Sea of Snowflakes
Matching Activity
Try Sciece!
Virtual Field Trips, Experiments, and Games
5 Senses Videos

ESL Social Studies

A Classroom Bill of Rights
Eduplace Outline Maps
Scrambled States of America
Activities related to the book by Laurie Keller
Document Analysis Worksheets (Movies, Cartoons, etc.)
Geography Teaching Ideas and Links
iknowthat.com Label Maps Game
National Geographic Printable Maps
Chinese New Year Activities and Links
Competition Pizza (Economics Gr. 3-5)
So Fun!!
Maps in the K-12 Classroom
TerraServer-USA: Aerial and Topo Maps
Middle TN Counties Map
Tennessee Outline Map
Tennessee Outline Map (w/ Capital)
North America Outline Map
Internet 4 Classrooms- Christmas
Social Studies Online- Interactive Games and Activities
EconEdLink Online Lessons Grades 3-5
Chinese New Year Resources
Facts, Video Clips, Crafts, Worksheets, Songs, and Poems
Ben's Guide to Government for Kids
Leveled by grade and addresses state standards! Games, teacher "stuff", and workpages!!
50 States Resources
EL Civics Lessons for ESL Students
Civics, U.S. Holidays, Famous Americans, Geography
Tennessee History for Kids

PowerPoint Presentations

Web Quests

Especially for Newcomers

ESL Instructional Materials

ESL Images (Grammar and Vocabulary)
everythingESL
Web Links for ESL Teachers
Thematic Unit Plans
ESL Websites
Boggle's World Worksheets
Education Place: Graphic Organizers
ESL Flow
http://www.dpsk12.org/programs/almaproject/pdf/Tortilla.pdf
Intel Unit and Project Plans
Kid's Page Archive- Free Printable Worksheets
Shelby County Schools ESL Resource Page
The Internet Picture Dictionary
Slater Software Rebus Stories
Primary Ideas
"For those hard to find resources"
MES-English
Garden City Technology Integration Project Sharing
View and share PowerPoints and Lesson Plans!

Marzano

Mainstream Teacher ESL Tools

Graphic Organizers

Comprehensive ESL Sites

Online Stories

The Little Animals Activity Center (BBC)
CBeebies Story Circle
Storytime Online
Kiz Club Online Stories
Dreambox Story Box
Animals: Online Stories and Activities
Wired for Books Kid
Indigenous Australia- Stories
Storyplace- The Children
RIF Reading Planet Online Stories
BookBox- Free Stuff
Storyline Online
Screen Actors Guild members read stories!
TumbleBook Library
Story Place Pre-School Library
Interactive Stories & Activities- Great for Newcomers!!

Educational Songs for Teaching

Virtual Field Trips

Beginning Readers

Get Ready to Read!
Starfall
Read-Along Nursery Rhymes
Kiddonet Flash Phonics
Another great alphabet and vocabulary builder!!
Alphabet and Vocabulary Builder
Like Starfall for Newcomers!!!
Julia's Rainbow Corner
Again, ABCs and Vocab!!
Printable Books
Shared Reading, Sight Word Books, and Word Family Books
Learning Island
Printable Books for Grades 1-4
Mrs. Jones' Mini-Book List
A Comprehensive List of Printable Mini-Books

Literature Links

Creative Writing Sites

Comic Creator
Shape-Book Patterns
Addressing Envelopes
Decorated Paper for Creative Writing
Picture Prompt Story Starters
High quality pictures with a space for adding vocabulary!!

Teacher Planning

Grant Writing

Proposal Writing

Educational Online Games

Online Video Clips

National Geographic Channel
Endangered Animals Videos
Extreme Storms
Curious George Video Clips
100s Day, Balls & Ramps, Floating, Animal Tracks, Shadows, Gears, Sound, Volume

Math Tools

General Instructional Tools

Incentive Charts, Stationery, and Templates
Kids' Page Archive: Free Printable Worksheets
Thinkfinity Search Engine
Literacy, Education, and Technology Searches
Nettrekker Elementary Search Engine
Google for Educators
Communicate, Show, & Share
Interwrite Learning Resource Center

Speaking/Conversation Skills

Conversation Questions

Kidspiration Templates

Digital Storytelling/Movie Making

Webpage Design

BBC Games- COOL!

TCAP Achievement

Girl Power!

TAVP- 4th Grade

Author's Purpose

TAVP- 5th Grade

TAVP- 3rd Grade

TAVP- 2nd Grade

TAVP- 1st Grade

Podcasting

The Education Podcast Network
Yahoo Education Podcasts
Storynory
Free Audio Stories for Children
The Fairy Tale Lady

Crime Scene Investigation

RCS CSI Page
A to Z Home's Cool Homeschooling
How investigators use science to solve crimes and capture miscreants. A Unit Study.
Crime Lab Article
Science News for Kids
Dragonflytv- Birthday Bandit
PBS Kids
Forensic Science Activities
Fingerprinting, shoe prints, lip prints, handwriting analysis, chromatography
Planet Science- Whodunit?
All About Forensic Science
K-12 Forensic Bibliography

Textbook Resources

Treasures Student View
Oral Language Activities, Research and Inquiry Activity, and Meet the Author
Treasures Teacher View

Summer School 2008

Teacher Tech Tools

MNPS Tech
MNPS Tech
Nettrekker
Search Engine for Educational Tools!