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REGION VII |
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CLIPART
Discovery School Clipart
- offers lots of educational clipart
Free
Education Clipart - features some unique
education clipart from GIFART.com
The Science Spot
- School and science clipart, science resources, lesson plans
Teachnet - free
education clipart, sorted by category
EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES
700+
Great Sites - Educational websites for children compiled by the
American Library Association.
FunBrain.com
Great Sites for
Children and Adults - lots of topics, including PreK, Careers,
Distance Learning, WebQuests, Special Ed, etc.
TryScience - science
experiments,
online field trips, live cams and science adventures let kids explore
science.
Whitehousekids.gov -
friendly pets take kids on a tour of the White House and introduce the
President, First Lady, and others.
LESSON PLANS
Creating Web-based Lessons
- from ESC Region 20.
Creating
Internet-based lessons using Texas State Standards - samples and
instructions from the STAR Center.
D.A.V.E. - Drug and Violence Education
- lessons and activities from the Texas Education Agency and Region IV
ESC.
Discovery
School
D & W's Teacher Spot -
lots of tips, activities and ideas.
Education World
McREL's
Educator Resources - sorted by subject area
PBS TeacherSource
- find lesson plans and activities that meet state standards.
TeachNet.com - lots and lots of
lesson plans, activities, downloadable resources.
Texas-Made
Lesson Plans incorporating TEKS objective. From START Web.
PICTURE BOOKS IN SECONDARY CLASSROOMS
100
Picture Books Everyone Should Know - from the New York Public
Library
Looking
Critically at Picture Books - suggested techniques for using
picture books in the classroom
Picture
Books for Older Readers - Picture books listed by theme such as
environment, death, war.
Themed Reviews
of Picture Books for Older Readers - Annotations for picture books
to use with upper grades.
Ways to Use
Picture Books with Secondary Students - character study, story
elements, style, and other examples.
TEACHING TOOLS
Calendar
Ideas - ideas for each month
Character Counts -
activities, free materials and teaching tools for Character Education.
Cyber Smart -
Lessons and activities for grades K-12 on how to use the Internet
effectively. Safe surfing, web page evaluation, research skills,
how the internet works, etc. Sorted by grade level.
Creating a
Class Web Site - Step-by-step instructions for creating a simple
web page using Netscape Composer.
Mathematics
Benchmark Performance Assessments - choose a grade level, then a
Content Strand, and see sample questions and sample student answers for
TEKS-based instruction. The sample student work models multiple
approaches for all tasks.
Mathematics TEKS Toolkit
Science TEKS Toolkit
Social
Studies TEKS Toolkit
Technology TEKS Toolkit
WebQuests -
how to design and create webquests.
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