• Teacher and Librarian Resources

    Tapped In-Great Collorboration Website for Educators.

    K-12 teachers, librarians, administrators, and professional development staff, as well as university faculty, students, and researchers gather here to learn, collaborate, share, and support one another.

    The Big Deal Book Online

    Save time and money while identifying top quality resources for schools and classrooms. Big Deal Books offer invaluable resources for educators, while serving very specific audiences including K-12 Technology, ELL and middle school/high school educators of struggling students.
     

    Yahoo Teachers

    Vist this site for support and collaboration.- teachers.yahoo.com

    Assissment Questions for a Variety of Information Literacy Skills for H.S. Students

    TRAILS is a knowledge assessment with multiple-choice questions targeting a variety of information literacy skills appropriate for high school students. This Web-based system was developed to provide an easily accessible and flexible tool for library media specialists and teachers to identify strengths and weaknesses in the information-seeking skills of their students.

    VoiceThread

    Students post pictures and record their thoughts about the image.  They are also able to create text.  A good  site for visual learners. 

    FREE-Federal Resources for Educational Excellence

    This is a great resource for those in need of more web links for Language Arts, Social Studies/History, Math, and Science. 

     

  • Lesson Plans

    Helping a Teen Plan and Conduct an Interview

    Interviewing family members or friends can be a valuable way for teens and preteens to learn about themselves and their families. 

    Book Report Alternatives

    Students are bored with the traditional book reports.  This site offers some great ideas for alternatives for book reports.

    Editorial Cartoon Collection Project Lesson Plan

    The editorial cartoons and related lesson plans from The Dirksen Center will teach students to identify issues, analyze symbols, acknowledge the need for background knowledge, recognize stereotypes and caricatures, think critically, and appreciate the role of irony and humor.

    New York Times Lesson Plans

    This website offer numerous lesson plans.

    Pinopedia

    This specialized database indexes classical pianocompositions of more than 862 composers from 50 countries andincludes more than 5,200 works. The database is accessed through asearch engine, which performs flexible queries on the database of pianorepertoire. This site is designed for piano teachers and students, as wellas performing pianists, as it can be used to explore the repertoire insearch of new works to learn and perform.-