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ShapeBooks

Using this shapebook builder, your text is automatically formatted to fit inside of an outline in whatever shape you choose. Cut out the outline and you have an personalized shape book. In the directory, you will find many free shapebooks you can print out and use however you like! Adobe Acrobat is required to view the shapebooks.

http://abcteach.com/directory/shape_books/

Penmanship!

Free Fonts for Teachers offers these print, cursive, and trace fonts that mimic the style of type used to teach print and cursive handwriting skills. Each link goes to a larger sample, author and description info, and download link. Some downloads are available only at the author site and are so noted and linked on each description page.

http://desktoppub.about.com/library/fonts/bl_schoolfree.htm

Webbes - Create Little Digital Books

This site enables you to download templates for making terrific little books. Students can write adventure stories. They can add graphics to illustrate them and/or draw pictures and scan them into the templates. They easily print and are very effective!

http://www.realebooks.com/

Graphic Organizers:

Help students organize their writing ideas, research notes, projects, and papers. Over 30 graphic organizers are available in English and Spanish. Print, copy, and distribute for classroom use.

http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer

Index of Graphic Organizers

This one has it all; try out the many indexed graphic organizers to see which one works best for your students. They all include diagrams and examples, with links for further exploration. Created using Inspiration.

http://www.graphic.org/goindex.html
Research Cards:

Printable cards help students properly learn and conduct research. Choices include questioning cards, note cards, computer keywords, and quotations. Also print out graphic organizers to help students organize and synthesize their findings. The same category will also yield assignment sheets, graphing paper, and book report forms.

http://www.abcteach.com/Research/tableofcontents.htm

RHL School

"Free Teaching Resources: Your place to get an enormous supply of free quality worksheets for teaching, reinforcement, and review. Free worksheets that are truly unique! Many of these worksheets can serve as the basis for lessons."

http://www.rhlschool.com/

Teacher Tap

The Teacher Tap is a free, professional development resource that helps educators address common technology integration questions by providing practical, online resources and activities. Check out the Project Overview for more information.

http://eduscapes.com/tap/

EdHelper

10960 Lesson Plans, 1223 WebQuests, 5000 Free Worksheet Generators, 1600 Word and Critical Thinking Problems, Exams and Puzzles for Standardized Tests. (Whew!!)

http://www.edhelper.com/

Easy Bibs

This tool will automatically format, alphabetize and print your bibliography!

http://www.easybib.com/

Bulletin Board Ideas

Links to many sites with ideas for monthly or themed bulletin boards.

http://www.teachertools.org/bulletinboards_dynam.asp

http://www.teachnet.com/how-to/decor/bboards/index.html

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/9893/bboard.html

Personal Educational Press

This site will allow you to produce your own educational material for any unit of study that you desire. You can print out flash cards, lists, bingo cards, study sheets, quizzes, matches, scrambles, tracing sheets, and big signs. All free :-)

http://www.educationalpress.org/educationalpress/

Homeworkopoly

This is a neat idea - You can download a 35" square Monopoly game board with Chance cards to use as a bulletin board. It can be customized to make up your own street names. There are some basic instructions for its use - kids keep the game going by doing their homework.

http://www.teachnet.com/homeworkopoly/index.html

Map Collections

A terrific resource from the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress. These digital maps include "General Maps", "Cities and Towns", "Conservation and Environment", "Discovery and Exploration", "Cultural Landscapes", "Military Battles and Campaigns" and "Transportation and Communication" You can Search by Keyword | Browse the Subject Index | Creator Index | Geographic Location Index | Title Index.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/gmdhome.html

Welcome Back to School

This one has it all; try out the many indexed graphic organizers to see which one works best for your students. They all include diagrams and examples, with links for further exploration. Created using Inspiration.

This tool will automatically format, alphabetize and print your bibliography!

Teacher created site with lots of downloadable goodies like charts, awards, notices, nametags and bookmarks.

This is done online and very easy to use.

Here are some good links for those "hard to express" observations you want to convey at report card time.

This is a neat idea - "With this web-based utility, you will be able to create a custom quiz that others can take online! If you have a lesson plan centered around Internet websites, or if you want students to be able to do take-home assignments over the Internet, then QuizStar is for you! "

This is a commercial site that sells posters but also offers over 100 Free Posters you can immediately print out from their Free Poster Collection featuring motivation posters, educational posters, inspirational posters, and poster art.

http://www.p-rposters.com SuperKids provides:

"Reviews and ratings of educational software, practical and fun tools for online and off line use, news about important educational issues and views of visionaries and policy makers."

Here's a great site for creating original awards for your kids. You can create, personalize and print them right from this site.

Early Childhood Education and Activity Resources using music and songs, crafts, games and seasonal ideas.

Here is step-by-step instruction in developing an online research module for your students. It provides a solid base for outlining the research cycle, then developing it.

Create your own learning activities via Java-based, online tools or use any of the ones already created by fellow educators.

A great site that allows you to create puzzles and games for your newsletters, flyers, handouts, or classroom assignments. Note: not all images will load properly on all computers - you may need to experiment to be successful.

This is a jigsaw puzzle on the Internet with puzzles of stunning pictures that change every day.

Yes, it really works. Type in a phrase and see a translation. Supports English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Portuguese.

Neat little online dictionary with clickable links to other information, games or jokes. It can be accessed in English, or English with /Spanish/French/Portuguese/German

http://www.p-rposters.com
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