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PIE: Professional Development and Internet
Instructional Development
 
 
It's time to update your teaching through professional development in the area of instructional development. Regardless of whether you've been teaching for five months, five years, or fifty years, you can always use some fresh ideas. Explore new teaching ideas, expand your lesson plans, incorporate educational television resources, and visual resources into your "bag of teaching strategies".
Teacher Resources
There are many teacher resources including general sites, subject area resources, and teacher guides.
 
Links to Teaching Resources
http://www.ipl.org/youth/
http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/
http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/bjpinchbeck/
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/LibraryLand/
http://www.arts.ufl.edu/art/rt_room/index.html
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listspanish.html
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/
 

 

Lesson Plans
If you're looking for something specific. Do a search for subject area lessons and grade level lessons. You can find both on and off computer activities, thematic units, and activity ideas. Look for general lesson planning sites, State Department of Education resources, materials from Regional Labs, Grant Projects, Schools of Teacher Education projects, and School District sites.

Why reinvent the wheel? Use lesson planning sites. If you don't find what you need, use a search engine and try searching for a topic, book title, or software title + the words lessons, tips and tutorials, student projects, and./or grade K, 1, 2, 3, 4 … That's how I found this great K-3 unit site: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/9893/units.html

 
Links to General Lesson Planning Sites
 
http://www.eduplace.com/ - look for the publisher of your textbook series
http://encarta.msn.com/schoolhouse/default.asp - Microsoft Schoolhouse - great lessons with Internet links
http://www.mbr.nbs.gov/bbs/song.html - birds link
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cla.html - California SCORE project
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyk3.html
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/sarah/sarahtg.htm
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cy68.html
http://www.mcrel.org/connect/plus/index.html
http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/
http://www.thegateway.org/ - good starting point for lessons, links, and resources
http://scrtec.org/track/ - teacher-produced websites, create your own!
http://faldo.atmos.uiuc.edu/CLA/
http://www.teachnet.com/lesson/index.html
http://www.teachers.net/lessons/
http://www.yahoo.com/Education/K_12/Teaching/Lesson_Plans/
http://www.youthline-usa.com/lessonstop/
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/archive.html
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/000606tuesday.html
 
 
Educational & Instructional TV
Search for your favorite TV show! There are wonderful educational resources available to go with dozens of television and video programs.
 
Links to TV resources for educators
http://www.pbs.org
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/
http://www.pbs.org/saf/index.html
http://www.pbs.org/kids/
http://www.pbs.org/rogers/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/arthur/
http://www.pbs.org/kratts/
http://www.nickjr.com/
http://www.sesameworkshop.org/
http://www.aande.com/
http://www.historychannel.com/
http://animal.discovery.com/animal.html
http://www.biography.com
http://turnerlearning.com/
http://fyi.cnn.com/fyi/sb/
http://www.courttv.com/
http://www.weather.com/learn_more/
http://nyelabs.kcts.org/
http://place.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/index.htm
http://www.rosieo.com/
 
 
Visual Resources
You can find lots of materials to help visual learners in your classroom. Use cartoons, drawing, buttons and arrows, photographs, and other visual resources. When looking for visuals, use expert starters, and search engines designed to locate visuals in speciality areas.
 
Links to Visual Starting Points
http://webclipart.about.com/internet/webclipart/ - general subject list to clip art
http://school.discovery.com/clipart/index.html
http://www.rcls.org/psearch.htm - links to many search tools for images
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/ImageFinder/ - good for photographs
http://www.ncrtec.org/picture.htm
http://www.ncrtec.org/tools/picture/goodsite.htm
http://www.servtech.com/%7Emvail/images.html
http://www.yahooligans.com/Downloader/Pictures/ - good for pictures, audio, videos
http://ditto.com/
http://www.freefoto.com/
http://www.freegraphics.com/
http://www.webplaces.com/html/clipart.htm
http://www.barrysclipart.com/
 
Links to Specialty Sites
http://australiansevereweather.simplenet.com/photography/
http://www.concierge.com/dda/PhotoGallery.html - travel
http://www.graphicmaps.com/graphic_maps.html - maps
http://terraserver.microsoft.com/default.asp - satellite photos
http://www.si.edu/cgi-bin/image_archive.pl - Smithsonian
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/finder.html
http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/print/
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/pansubjindex1.html
http://photo2.si.edu/
http://www.sjmercury.com/goldrush/goldrush_gallery.shtml
http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/
http://www.nau.edu/~cline/speccoll/imagedb.html
http://138.23.124.101/default.html
http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/exhibitions/immigration_id.html
http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/images/images_of_the_sw.html
http://www.thinker.org/
http://www.thinker.org/fam/thinker.html
http://www.bartleby.com/107/
http://www.hon.ch/Media/anatomy.html
http://www.cohsoft.com.au/nature/gallery/
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/
http://www.aip.org/history/esva/
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/graphics/photos/
 
Think Project
  • How much time do students to have to explore?
  • Do students need specific or more general pictures?
  • How will students use the photos?
http://gallery.yahoo.com/
  

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 Created by Annette Lamb, 01/01.