Brittany Lorah's List: Teacher Resources

Online activities that bring learning to life and engage students. This website would be perfect for upper elementary students to use, and teachers and parents could just use it as a tool. Teachers could use this to show videos, and stories about famous people in history among other things. Teachers can also choose the appropriate grade levels, and look on the "student activities" for ideas in the classroom.

This website zeros in on the branches of government, and the different roles that each branch has. The site allows students to place the facts on the correct branches. This is an awesome Smart Board activity, and is a great way to keep all of the students engaged in the educational activities about the government.

Teaching spelling is easy with SpellingCity.com. This website allows the teache rto put in the spelling words for the week and the students must enter the spelling city. It starts with the option of a pre test and then the website will teach anything that the student answered incorrectly. Then the teacher can pull up individual proogress reports on each student if he/she chooses.

Enchanted Learning allows access to games and worksheets for the classroom. It has access to graphic organizers, holiday activities, quizzes and tests. This website does require membership for major activities, but $20 for one year of access is well worth it. The website also has a few interactive games, but for the most part it would be a teacher tool. It includes activites for almost anything!

Teachers Sites, brought to you by KidSites.com, Your Online Guide to the Best in Kids Web Sites. This website allows teachers to choose their grade level, and search activities for what they are specifically covering in their classroom. The website allows teachers to have access to hundreds of mini-lesson ideas for their classrooms, and activities to accompany those lessons.

This webs9ite covers a wide variety of things. It includes everything from job availabiltiy to lesson plans and templates. It is a broad website, but is very detailed in the sub links that accompany it. This website also allows teachers to enter chat rooms with other teachers to discuss activities and get ideas for units, lesson plans etc. The website is very useful for teachers, and is very informative.

This website allows teahcers and parents to find recipes, coloring pages, printable puzzles, birthday invitations, costume ideas, holiday tips, coupons, expert advice, community message boards and more. This is a useful tool for teachers to come up with creative activities to include in the classrooms. This is a good tool for parents to use with their kids as well. The website is a very family oriented website, and allows for teachers to expand on their normal everyday curriculum activities.

This website gives detailed instructions to completing a wide variety of scientific experiments. The science experiments range from 2nd to 8th grade, and they could easily altered to fit a specific age group. The website also provides visuals to follow when making equipment for your experiment.

This website offers a lot of tools for teachers to use int he classroom. Teacher's Corner has everything from Bulletin Board Ideas to Job opportubnities availabe locally. The site is definitely user friendly. The site also suggests groups of books that would be appropriate to read during a specific unit or lesson. The site allows teachers to look at pre-planned thematic units and pre-written lesson plans. There is also a message board for teachers to post and talk about what has worked for them and what hasn't.

TeachersAndFamilies is a resource to build educational connections between children, their parents, and their teachers. The site gives parents ideas for helping continue their child's education at home. The site is a membership-only site, but there are tools that can be sampled on the homepage without membership. The site is helpful for both teachers and parents to stay connected and continue the education of a child. There are a wide variety of study tools once you do choose the membership option that are worth the time it takes to fill out and start a profile on the site.

This site is useful for mostly teachers but can be accessed and used by parents and students as well. This site can be used as an idea tool for the classroom. There are lesson plans that work with media files provided by this site. Students could definitely navigate the site on their own, and further research the topics being discussed in their classes. There is also a Puzzlemaker tool which allows students to make their own cross-word and word search puzzles.

This website is immensly helpful for teachers of classrooms that have a lot of technology available. The website offers tutorials of different programs on PCs and Smart Board tutorials. This is defintiely a helpful tool because teachers tend to shy away from using technology in the classroom because they do not know how to use it. This site allows teachers to have step-by-step instruction at their own pace.

This site includes educational information, activities and resources for educators, families, and students. The site can give tours of the Smithsonian, and reveals myths and secrets about the beginning of the museum and all of its items. The site is useful for teachers to reference when a trip to the museum itself is not an option. At the same time students have fun navigating around the site and seeing some of the miraculous things that the museum has to offer.

This site is a teacher tool that provides teachers with a variety of in class activities and worksheets to complete based on content knowledge. Teachers can use this to get lesson plan ideas, and activity ideas. The site has materials in every subject area taught in the primary grades, and is also a free website to use.

This website offers links to important classroom activites such as information on field trips, the possiility of virtual field trips, and lesson plans for specific field trip locations. The sit also offers special education tools for teachers and including special education students in the everyday classroom activities. Also different modes of education, and methods of teaching can be found on this site. This site is a good tool for teachers to have as a refresher or a place to get ideas.