PIE: Professional Development and Internet

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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.