Henderson County Schools
Henderson, Kentucky
Educating for a Lifetime
From Earlene Cool, State TRT Coordinator
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Students and teachers can find their favorite authors on the web. It also has great information about new children’s literature and resources for teachers to use that literature. |
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This site is sponsored by Dr. Seuss’s publisher. It has LOTS of fun exciting activities that you can use with your students. Go Play! |
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The Grouchy Ladybug, Brown Bear and more. For those who love Eric Carle this site is for you. On-line activities relate to Eric Carle’s new books. From this site you can email Eric Carle and read a biography of the author’s life. |
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Some authors have placed their biographies and inspirations on the web for you to read. You may email them and they have said they will respond. |
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Read a bio of Judy Blume and find out about her latest books. She gives some writing tips. The site encourages students in writing and promotes new authors. Students can email Judy Blume. |
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Great site for young children. There is artwork for students to print and color. Wide range of projects that a student can use independently or have adopted as a classroom activity. An illustrated alphabet is available to help students learn their letters and sounds. You may also email a Jan Brett postcard from here. Make sure you see the Classroom-Help-a-longs. Be part of the 6 million who have visited! |
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At this site you can learn about Polacco stories and how she illustrates her books. There are illustrations to color from the author. You may tour her home and also check out upcoming stories |
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A large collection of fables, stories, and fairy tales online. Each story online has an activity or commentary to help you or your students to understand the piece of literature better. Great for reading comprehension and better understanding of reading difficult material, All grade levels. |
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The literature you use now has web activities to correlate with the literature and California state standards. The activities help promote higher level thinking and add to the text being read. |
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A web site designed by students to get students interested in William Shakespeare and his works. You can take a virtual tour of William Shakespeare’s home in Stratford and of his treasured Globe Theater. You can also read about Shakespeare’s famous quotes, including his humor and insults. |
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Students can write a post card with over 100 different graphics for the picture to anyone. Great way to foster student writing.. |
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Learn about current Caldecott Medal winners and see a small preview of the books. The Caldecott award is given yearly to an illustrator of a children’s book. You can also view a list of Caldecott winners from 1938 to present. |
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The Newbery Medal is awarded each year for writers of children’s books. You can preview a list of nominated books for the year and view a list of all Newberry winners from 1922 to present. |
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Look up words, encode text to change vowels, send encoded text to friends via e-mail, checkout the daily buzz word and try to find its meaning and build your own dictionary on the web. |
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This is a three-year NSF supported project to develop a library of uniquely interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials, mostly in the form of Java applets, for mathematics instruction (K-8 emphasis). The project includes dissemination and extensive internal and external evaluation. |
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A multitude of ways to utilize data in the classroom. Also try the 7-12 educators site or Spreadsheet Activities. |
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Sometimes, complicated information is difficult to understand and needs an illustration. Here you will find four different graphs and charts for you to consider. |
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Interactive math games for student learning. |
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Choose your topic and use the computer to simulate a hands on learning activity. |
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Room 108 is an educational activity center for kids in math. |
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A place to learn cool things about math and aeronautics. |
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King’s list of online math tutorials and math activities explains the concept then offers an interactive activity. All math core content is covered. |
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Internet math activities in math topics, resources and math education topics. |
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ENC Online is a K-12 math and science teacher center containing Classroom Calendar, Digital Dozen, ENC Focus, or Lessons & Activities. Or just Ask ENC. |
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AIMS Education Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to enriching teaching and learning through “Activities Integrating Mathematics and Science.” Designed by teachers for teachers |
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Math Resources for teachers including games, puzzles, lesson plans, ideas, activities and applications. |
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Amby's Math Instruction, Reinforcement, and Learning Activities |
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These lessons are designed for an entire class, although they could be adapted for smaller groups. Most lessons take approximately 25 minutes. All are introductory in that they assume no prior knowledge of the topic other than what is in the basic curriculum for that grade level. |
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Create lessons and worksheets with answer keys for assessing basic concepts. |
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Math Cats site is a fun, interactive site with lots of math information in all content areas. Math Cat provides immediate feedback with answers with by moving your mouse. |
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Find math lesson plans submitted by teachers for levels K-12. Create worksheets too! Try the Lesson Plans Page too for good multidisciplinary lessons as well. |
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Look at lessons and worksheets in everything from the 100th day of school to core content. |
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Math site for NCTM- that says it all! This is a strong content driven site, not to be missed by all math teachers! |
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An Internet service for mathematics teachers and students from kindergarten to grade twelve. The Resource Room is a place where mathematics educators can share resources, teaching ideas, lesson plans, etc |
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Exciting activities for elementary classroom teachers. |
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Yahooligans offers a great resource of math sites, activities, and Ask Earl for any questions your students may have. |
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Awesome site of resources and activities from early elementary to calculus. |
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These are designed to introduce concepts, and most may be used easily within the context of your own course and your own textbook. They lead students through various steps to develop the ideas. |
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A site loaded with activities for every math concept you teach. Take the time to view this site! |
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