Recommended Websites

50 Fantastic Resources for New Teachers

Use these sites to plan your math lesson, launch an arts and crafts project, or motivate those hard-to-reach students.

NetTrekker.com
Teachers can download video clips if you have not received or have misplaced the MLPP VHS tape that was previously supplied.

http://free.ed.gov
A free educational resource site with more than 100 topics and the number of resources for each.

MLPP Video Library
NetTrekker.com is an award-winning academic search engine that's safe, fast and easy to use for teachers, school librarians, students and parents. A login must be created within one of our school buildings prior to using.

Wayne County RESA
Professional Development Web Input

Educator's Resources for the WWW
Websites designed primarily for teachers. These sites include lesson plans, computer guides, curriculum materials, and assessment materials.

The Professional Teacher
Free site designed to simplify the license renewal process for and support the professional development efforts for K-12 teachers. It has state by state license renewal requirements, links to forms, glossary of state terms, and a career center with professional development options.

Eduville
Offers parents and teachers information, advice, discussion forums, coaching, consulting and books on educational issues.

Cyber Smart Curriculum
CyberSmart! is a free K-8 curriculum that teaches students how to use the Internet safely, responsibly and effectively. It's based on National Educational Technology Standards and consists of 65 lesson plans organized in five units: Safety, Manners, Advertising, Research, and Technology (SMART). It addresses technical skills as well as character building and decision-making.

ePals
ePALS Classroom Exchange matches classrooms throughout the world for electronic pen pals.

Flat Stanley Project
Elementary literacy and communication activity in which students create and send journals to people throughout the world. Communication is via both "snail mail" and email.

Pen Pal Exchanges
Safety tips for pen pal exchanges.

ePal Activities
Topics and activities for e-pals.

Good Character
A site with resources on the tenets of character education: caring, citizenship, fairness, respect, responsibility, trustworthiness, and giving. For K-12 educators, coaches, and youth group leaders you'll find free resources organized by topic and grade level. It has curriculum materials, discussion questions, writing assignments, group learning activities, opportunities for student action and teacher support materials.

National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
Books, music and other material available online in Braille (free to registered users).

Teaching Books
Connect with authors and illustrators of children's books as well as find teaching materials. Site has videos of children's book authors, discussion guides to over 1,000 books, Q & A sessions with authors and more.

Math-kitecture
A hands on math and architecture lesson for middle school students. It is an activity that asks students to draw a scale model of their classroom. Other activities and resources are available.

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