Marc Sheehan's Lesson Plan Page

A site to sites

Art is challenging, this site give resources and ideas that are fun

Museum resouces:

Other Resources:
Teachers.Net
PBS TeacherSource
Scholastic Teachers
Teacher Resources
TeachersFirst - Opening Page
The EnviroLink Network
CNN Student News - Teacher Resources
Instrumental Music Teacher Resources

Other Exciting Links:

Kids Health 

www.KidsHealth.com
This site has many definitions and teaching areas about the body.  It uses kid size language and gives pronunciations.  The list of information about the body is easy to choose what you want to know there are short videos to see and explain the body systems.  I went to part that had games and should have left it out.  It can download Shockwave and link to games.  This part is not needed for the classroom. There are also loud and annoying noises. As a teacher, it does have the helpful part of giving the option for a printer friendly version. In the resource room, it will lead you to other sites such as: BrainPop

http://getsmarter.org  Excellent!!!
Put some pep in test prep! At this site, K-12 kids test their test-taking smart! Math and science challenges, including “Goo Laboratory” and “Math Safari,” are written in test-taking format with amusing graphic. “The Real Challenge” is a timed quiz with feedback and resources to help users improve their scores. Kids can even compare their scores to those of students in other countries. For more about testing, click on “Parents and Educators.

Perfect Project
www.4teachers.org/projectbased
4Teachers.org works to help you integrate technology into your classroom by offering FREE online tools and resources. This site helps teachers locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars. There are also tools for student use. Discover valuable professional development resources addressing issues such as equity, ELL, technology planning, and at-risk or special-needs students.

Plan class projects without a problem! Visit this site to plan class projects using project-based learning approaches and multiple intelligences. Then create personalized student check-lists (in English and Spainish) for activities in writing, science, multimedia, and presentation tasks. Be sure to check “Rubistar” and “Casa Notes” to customize class rubrics, certificates, and letters.

Songs and Rhymes  Words not music
www.mamalisa.com/world
Tune in to this Web site for songs and rhymes from around the world. Select songs by continent, country, or from the A-Z list. Share new chants such as “Firefly, Firefly” (a Tuscan rhyme with versions in both English and Italian) or “Kookaburra” (a traditional Australian song). Find old favorites, learn the meanings of the lyrics, and read about their origins.

Grammar Guide 
http://www.commnet.edu/grammar
This online grammar guide explains it all-the parts of speech, sentence types, punctuation, and spelling rules! You’ll also find full-text examples of good usage, as well as cartoons an songs that explain rules. Kids can read definitions, get writing tips, ask advice and take quizzes. Teachers can check “Peripherals” for a list of “grammar goofs” and Power Points” for demos that introduce “The Might Apostrophe,” Our Friend, the Semicolon,” and more.

Dig it!
www.digonsite.com
Kids will really dig this online version of Dig, the archaeology digest from the publishers of Cricket magazine.  At “Fantastic Factoids,” they’ll unearth secrets of the past using photo of fossils and artifacts. Kids can also delve into the “Glossary” (from A.D. To ziggurat) and ask Dr. Dig about the “dirty” work of excavation sites. Teacher’ Guides and “links” will help you dig deeper into subjects including rock art and ancient tombs.

Book Adventure!
www.bookadventrue.org
This free book site, sponsored by the Sylvan Learning Company, takes kids on reading adventures! Book Adventure features challenges for more than 5,000 books by award-winning authors. Kids use the “Book Finder” to find good reads by making their grade level with topics of interest such as “history,” “Family,” and “Humor.” After reading a book offline, they test their comprehension of the story using the site’s “Quiz-O-Matic” challenges. Teachers can view students’ scores and monitor class progress. Visit the “Teacher’s Lounge” for award-winning book lists, reading activities, incentives and more!

Make Times
www.worldtimeserver.com
Get up-to-the-minute accurate times for places around the world-in every time zone! Search an alphabetical list by country and city or enter the name of a specific place.  Then view the location on a globe an learn its day, time, and time zone. You’ll find that the benefits of this Internet clock just keep on ticking-it even adjust for Daylight Savings Time!

How Stuff Works
www.howstuffworks.com
Stop wondering how car alarms, smoke detectors, and cuckoo clocks work! Log on to this site to learn the mechanics behind everyday gadgets. Browse topic by category including “Home,” “Science and Tech,” and Toys and Games.” Each explanation provides definitions, labeled illustrations, and detailed summaries and relates topics for further study.

Net Know-How
www.knowthenet.org
How well do your students know and use the Net? With these online quizzes sponsored by Dell, kids can find out just how much they know about topics such as navigating and Net Lingo. Five quizzes send kids to safe sites and then ask question about each. Older kids can also check out http://public.dell.come/ktn for more challenges

Thunk About It
www.thunk.com
Think you’ve seen it all on the Web? Thunk again! At this secret code site, kids type words and then click “scramble” to display them written in code. The “How-To” section teaches kids about adding the code words to e-mails and Web pages. At “Learn”, they’ll read the history of coded messages. You can even get kids to crack the site’s secret code! (jjj.cqdex.tfz means www.thunk.come!)

www.creativeclassroom.com
No Child Left Behind
Maupin House
Free catalog: 800-524-0634 www.maupinhouse.com

Soliloquy Reading Assistant
1-866-442-0920 www.readingassistant.com

Teaching Made Easier
Order online www.TeachingMadeEasier.com

Harper Collins Publishers
http://www.harperchildrens.com

RFB&D Learning through listening
866-RFBD-LTL or www.rfbd.org

Kids Discover

Cobblestone Publishing        www.cobblestonepub.com
Curriculum Associates          www.CAsamples.com
Delta Education                  www.delta-education.com
Gateway                           www.gateway.com
GPN/University of Nebraska  www.readingrainbow.org/literacy
Harper Collins Publishers       www.harperchildrens.com
Learning Resources             www.learningresources.com
Letterland                         www.letterland.com
Maupin House                    www.maupinhouse.com
Random House Children’s Books       www.randomhouse.com/teachers
Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic www.rfbd.org
Renaissance Learning          www.renlearn.com
Sleek Software                  www.sleek.com
Soliloquy Learning               www.soliloquyleaning.com
Teaching Made Easy           www.TeachingMadeEasier.com
Triumph Learning                www.triumphlearning.com
Weekly Reader                   www.weeklyreader.com
Wright Group                     www.WrightGroup.com