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Printable Resources For SEN (Special Educational Needs)- Has Many tools for teachers to use in helping students succeed! Personal Educational Press - Create free educational worksheets such as flashcards, game boards, and quizzes to print directly from your browser. Make tracing sheets, quizzes, study sheets, word lists, bingo cards, word scrambles, word searches and more!
1. Easy Test Maker - free online test generator to create your tests 2. Guidelines for Appropriate Assessment - How can I ensure the integrity of my assessments? (A checklist of assessment procedures) 3. HotPotatoes - The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web 4. QuizMaker JavaScript Wizard - make tests easily. 5. Quiz Star - Create quizzes for students to take and review online. 6. Help with Rubrics - Many links that have ready made rubrics. You can also create some yourself online.Some excellent ones at this site are: 1. RubiStar - a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch. 2. Rubric Builder - a free service of the Landmark project 3. Project Based Learning Checklists from 4Teachers.org 4. Rubric Generators from Teach-nology - The generators will allow you to make several types of grading rubrics by filling out a simple form. The materials are made instantly and can be printed directly from your computer (scroll down) 7. Online Resources for Assessment - Adopting, adapting, or developing an aligned assessment for your lesson 8. Rubric Help - an extensive list of rubrics and rubric development sites 9. Secondary Assessment Tools - excellent source of rubric for secondary education. 10. Self-Grading Quiz Creator - Create your quizzes and save them on your own computer.
11. Test Maker - utility which allows you to create free-standing, self-marking tests or quizzes which can be saved to disc and used offline as required.
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Award Maker - from ALFY Award Maker - from Lakeshore Learning Materials Award Certificate Maker Award Certificate Maker - from TeachNology (scroll down) Award Certificates - Print these certificates for incentives! Download the Word file and customize as needed. [unavailable on 8/13/05] 6. Award Certificates - from Teachnet 7. Awards and Certificate - from EducationWorld 8. Awards and Certificates - from Preschool Printables 9. Awards - BillyBear- Create your own. 10. Certificates - KidPrintables 11. Certificates from Professor Garfield - You really stuck to it! on 4/26/07 12. Certificate Maker - Very easy program to use to create your certificates. 13. Certificates and Memories - good site for end of year certificates
1. FlipBooks - Create your own Flipbooks at this site. Fill out the info and even draw pictures for your books, then print them out. 2. Pop-Up Books -When the page is opened, the illustration pops out. 3. Making Books - Free projects and directions for making books
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Bulletin Board Gallery - Interactive, Student and Seasonal ideas Bulletin Board Ideas - Tired of the same old bulletin boards? Try here for creative ideas. Bulletin Board Ideas - Kathy Schrock Bulletin Board Ideas - Elementary Level Bulletin Board Printables - Browse through the bulletin board border available, print as many as you will need to get around your board, then cut them out. 6. Bulletin Boards for Business Classes 7. Bulletin Boards for English Teachers 8. Bulletin Boards for Music Classes 9. Bulletin Board Printable Images - Thematic pictures to be used to display on Bulletin Boards 10. Bulletin Board Resources - from Educationworld 11. Reading Bulletin Board Ideas - Many ideas from many contributors. 12. Ideas for Displays - subject areas
13. Interactive Bulletin Boards for Secondary Math 14. Subject Bulletin Boards - all areas
1. Calendar Printouts - A to Z from Enchanted Learning 2. Calendar Creation - Create your own customized calendar. 3. Calendars - Great for Math Teachers! All of these are 3-dimensional models of the conventional cut-out, fold-up and glue variety 4. Calendars -Basic blank calendar templates 5. Calendars - from Educationworld 6. Classroom Calendars- Jill Perkins - calendars in .doc format so that you can write in them and edit events 7. Calendar On-line - Create a Calendar That You Can Access from Anywhere 8. Calendar - 30Boxes - On-line calendar - 30 Boxes was created for people looking for a robust yet simple social calendar that is easy to share with family and friends
1. Create and Print your own flashcards - Type in the information you need to study and print out the cards. 2. Flashcard Exchange - a community supported site where you make flashcards for yourself, your students or your peers. 3. Flashcards for Math - Create your own math flashcards. 4. Flashcard Math - Create math flashcards 5. Flashcards - from Myteachertools - multi links for numerous assortments of flashcards 6. Flashcards - Letter cards, Verb cards, Story patterns, ABC cards, Phonics flashcards, Verb cards. Look to the left for your choices. 7. Oversized Playing Cards - Use these for a variety of math activities. 8. StudyStack - Create your own or use their stacks
1. Brochures and Flyer Templates - from HP 2. Brochures, Booklets, Flyers and Newspapers - Just fill in these templates and print out your creations! 3. CasaNotes - make and customize notes that are sent home to parents or given to the students in Spanish and English. 4. Coupon Books - make and customize your own coupon books for Mother's Day, Teacher Day, or any day! 5. Coupons - print these off for rewards!(this is a GeoCities site and may be blocked by school filters)
6. Charts and Logs - pdf files - Almost any type of chart or log you will need as a teacher is here! Planning, behavior, calendars, achievement forms, reward charts, too many to mention! (this is a GeoCities site and may be blocked by school filters but you will certainly want to pull this site up at home if it is blocked at school!) 7. Classroom forms (.doc or .pdf) 8. Concentration Game Generator - Make your own concentration games to play on the web. 9. Concept Web Generator - from Teach-nology (scroll down) 10. Election Templates - from Education World 11. FlipBooks - Create your own Flipbooks at this site. Fill out the information and even draw pictures for your books, then print them. 12. Forms for Teachers - Don't reinvent the wheel. Go here for ready-made forms teachers need: tardy log, staff development, progress reports, parent concern letters, make up work and more. 13. Forms for Teachers - developed by teachers in Canada. 14. Flyers, Posters, and Signs - from EducationWorld 15. General forms for teachers - from Professor Garfield; Hall pass, Open house, Things to do.
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16. Graph paper - several sizes 17. KWL Generator - from Teach-nology (scroll down) 18. Norman Public Schools Templates for Teachers - (MS Word, PowerPoint and Excel templates) download them and make any modifications needed 19. Number Lines - printable number lines to help with math on 4/17/07 20. Parent-Teacher forms - from EducationWorld 21. Parent Communication - from Professor Garfield on 4/26/07 22. Response-O-Matic - Need to create a form? Thanks to modern technology, all you need to do now is just create your forms in standard html. Then have your form call Response-O-Matic. (see an example form) 23. Rulers - several printable paper rulers available 24. School Supply List Maker - from Scholastic 25. Science Lab Generator - a template for setting up an inquiry based lesson (scroll down) 26. SMILE: Server-Managed Interactive Learning Exercises - (formerly named Game-O-Matic) SMILE is a tool for creating interactive language-learning exercises. Create your own web games here! Cloze, multiple choice, concentration, sentence mix, vocabulary drill and more! Registration is required, but it is free. 27. SQ3R Chart Generator - from Teach-nology (scroll down) 28. Teacher Templates - EducationWorld- many to select from in all areas. 29. Time Line Maker - from Teach-nology (scroll down) 30. Timesaving Sheets - from Timesavers for Teachers; forms that are used in the classroom. This site also has a free mailing list that offers forms, in addition to information about books with forms and special offers. 31. Venn Diagram Generator - from Teach-nology (scroll down) 32. Web Quest Generator - engage students in inquiry based learning (scroll down) 33. Writing Paper - customized writing paper to download and print.
1. Bingo Games - print out bingo cards in many subject areas; time, body parts, numbers, shapes, nutrition, and more. Great for ESL kids! 2. Card Games - print outs on many subjects 3. Crossword Puzzle Generators 1. Crossword Puzzle - create your own puzzles 2. Create Crossword Puzzles - create your own. 3. Crossword Puzzle Maker - from Teach-nology (scroll down) 4. Crossword Puzzle Maker - from Discovery 5. Crossword Puzzle Maker - create your own 6. Instant Online Crossword Puzzle Maker - create your own crossword puzzles 7. School Candy - Crossword Puzzle maker 4. Elementary Word Search Maker - (for early childhood) from Teach-nology 5. File Folder Games - download the template and create games 6. File Folder Games - Download and print out these folder games (from PreSchool Games) 7. Free On-Line Puzzle Maker - make word search or crossword puzzles 8. Games - PDF files for printing games, activities, and quizzes 9. Games - Board game templates to print - (this is a Geocities site that may not pass through School filters) 10. Games - Board game templates in MS Word format 11. Maze Generator - This site creates complex mazes that you can print out and play! 12. Puzzlemaker from Discovery School - Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. 13. Puzzle Makers - from Myteachertools - multi links for numerous assortments of puzzle making sites 14. Sudoku Puzzles - Print these for students 15. Word Scramble Worksheet Maker – from Teach-nology (scroll down) 16. Word Search - Make your own word search puzzles with a personalized list of words. 17. Word Search Generator - Create your own. 18. Word Search Maker - from Teach-nology (scroll down)
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Graph paper - Excel files with small, medium and large grids. Pre-Reading Clock - establishing vocabulary readiness Quadrille paper - Excel files with small, medium and large grids, every fifth line is darker Task Cards 1. Task Card - to print 5 x 8 index cards with Internet tasks for students 2. Task Card - letter size
3. Task Card Explanation 6. Venn Diagram - two circle, three circle, and instructions to make your own 7. On-Line Planning Templates 1. Web-based Lesson 2. Elementary Lesson Plan 3. WebGuide
ALFY Lesson Builder Classroom Forms and Testing - Jill Perkins Classroom Organizers - from Educationworld Daily Assignment Maker - Give your students a head start on weekly assignments by filling out this form and giving it to your class. 5. Excel Lesson Plan Template - nice layout and can easily adjust to own needs. 6. High School Lesson Plan Template! 7. Homework for the Week - Print out a worksheet for your students to keep up with their homework assignments. 8. LessonPro - Create online lessons with a user-friendly, fill-in-the-blank template. 9. Lesson Plan Template - Learn to effectively create Standard based lesson plans. Free account but one must register. 10. Lesson Plan Template - Each day is a separate table; doc. file 11. Weekly Lesson Plan - elementary 12. Weekly Template - replicates Squibb's Lesson Plan Book No. 8
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1. AutoAssign - create online assignments using only a web browser. Students later return to this site to "do" the assignments. 2. ClassNotesOnline is a way for teachers to communicate with students and parents by creating a Free web site. ClassNotesOnline allows teachers to keep students up to date and parents informed on the daily work, assignments, homework, and grades in all of their classes 3. Classroom Labels Sets - Label your classroom with these colorful pictures. 4. Digging into Teacher Treasures on the Internet - The links have been selected because they each have the capacity to provide something valuable to you as a teacher. Each one has been annotated to help you get an idea of what you will discover when you link to the site. They may provide some extraordinary timesaving techniques or tools; they might provide your students
with a valuable on line resource; or, they may include some of the best and most innovative uses of technology as an integrated element of teacher instruction and student learning. 5. Digital Index Cards - a web-based tool for collecting and evaluating Net information. 6. DonnaYoung.org - Printables and Resources for Home schooling and Classrooms 7. Fabulous Freebies: Free Materials for Teachers! from Education World. More freebies are available in part 2 of this article. 8. Free Internet Tools for Elementary Teachers - flash cards, rubrics, quizzes, certificates, books, newsletters and calendars and more. 9. Free printables to help celebrate special occasions like Valentine's Day, Halloween or Christmas 10. Free Printables - alphabets, calendars, games, bookmarks, paper dolls, certificates, books and more! 11. Free Posters on Internet Safety - Get the Free Internet Safety Posters sent to you. 12. Free Tools for Teachers - Compiled by Sue LeBeau, from miscellaneous free tools to templates for the classroom to web page building, check here for teacher resource tools! 13. Grade book - Engrade - Online grade book that is a free resource. Engrade's online grade book suite includes custom grading scales, weighted assignments, attendance tracking, homework calendar, printable student reports, online student reports, and many more features. 14. Holiday Gift Coupons and Worksheets - from EducationWorld 15. I Love That Teaching Idea! 16. Math Resources - Math resources to download; PDF format 17. Mister Tall Height Chart - At the Mr. Men and Little Miss site click on Skip Intro and then select Fun and Games. Next select Little Miss Sunshine’s Print and Play. The height chart requires four sheets of paper. There is also a personalized Door Sign. 18. Motivator - Make your own motivational posters! Add a picture and some words and print! You can also create your own calendars with photos, magazine with photos, or personal badge with photos. (this site may be blocked by school filters) 19. National Association of Advisors for Computers in Education - Many Teacher Tools, such as making Big Books, QuizMaker, Discloze activities, Video Book maker and more. 20. Paper Dolls - paper dolls to print 21. Personal Educational Press - Create free educational worksheets such as flashcards, game boards, and quizzes to print directly from your browser. Simply choose a word list and an output style. 22. PIXresizer - Free Image Resizer - PIXresizer is a photo resizing program to easily create web and e-mail friendly versions of your images with reduced file sizes (posted 7/23/05) 23. Preschool Printables - awards, bulletin board borders, dotted paper, writing charts, teacher notes and more. (note: they are advertising their CD at times but a lot of printables are free. Pick and choose through their selections for the free printables) 24. QuizStar - With this web-based utility, you will be able to create a custom quiz that others can take online! If you have a lesson plan centered around Internet web sites, or if you want students to be able to do take-home assignments over the Internet, then Quiz Star is for you! 25. Random Number Generators - numbers between 0 and 30 - numbers between 0 and 5 numbers between 0 and 15 26. ReadPlease - Reads any text you see on your screen - all purpose text-to-speech software. Download the 2003 version (it’s free), not the Plus version for which there is a charge. After downloading this application, go back to download two Spanish voices. 27. Remember the Milk - Remember The Milk is the easiest and best way to manage your to-do lists online.
28. Rulers - several printable paper rulers available 29. SchoolNotes.com - Create Notes for homework and class information and post them on the web in seconds using this free community service. Registration is required, however the account is free. 30. Teacher Notepads - from EducationWorld 31. Teacher Tools - Tools to make life a bit easier. 32. Teacher Tools of the Week - Each week you will find new tips to help you plan classroom activities. There is a mixture of things here, so plan to do some looking regularly. Check out their links along the left of this page. 33. Teacher Tools and Templates - from Education World; awards, calendars, graphic organizers, name tags, coupons and more! 34. Thank you notes - Templates to create cute thank you notes.
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Beginning Teacher's Toolbox - Empowering New Teachers Around the World New Teacher help - links to help new teachers New Teacher Resources - multi link site of resources New Teacher Support St. Clair County New Teacher Resources Survival Guide for New Teachers is provided by the U. S. Department of Education. This site is designed to show how new teachers can work effectively with veteran teachers, parents, principals, and teacher educators. While you are there, be sure to visit their Help Desk: Resources for First-Year Teachers.
1. Assign-A-Day - Teachers create a calendar(s) for their class(es) and add assignments for the students to view 2. Classroom Set-up Tool - Create your classroom environment without moving a chair! 3. Do the Research! Worksheets - A variety of activities for getting students engaged in the research process. 4. Free Rubric Makers - from Teach-nology (scroll down) 5. Schedules and Planners - must have Excel 97 or higher. 6. Time Line Maker - from Teach-nology (scroll down) 7. Weekly Assignment Sheet Generator - great for weekly homework assignments 8. Weekly Multi-Subject Assignment - from Teach-nology (scroll down) 9. Weekly Planning Tool - Calendar help for planning 10. Weekly Assignment Sheet Generator - from Teach-nology (scroll down)
1. Bookmarks for your Students- -Design and print your own personal bookmarks. 2. Bookmarks from Primary Games - In just a few minutes you can make your very own bookmarks. Just print, cut out, and enjoy! 3. Bookmarks from Dositey - bookmark cut-outs 4. Bookmarks from Alphabet Soup - Beware of numerous Pop-ups! 5. Bookmark from Professor Garfield - Three bookmarks on 4/26/07 6. Earth Day Bookmarks 7. Exclusive Bookmark Designs from John Fisher 8. Graphic Gardens Free Bookmarks 9. Harry Potter Bookmarks 10. Make your own bookmarks in Word - Learn how to create your own bookmarks. 11. Photos of Animals bookmarks - from BillyBear4kids 12. Reading is Fun bookmarks 13. Reading Strategy Bookmarks - Jefferson County Schools 14. Scarecrow Bookmarks - from abc Teach 15. Story Elements Bookmarks - Tenia Mason 16. Sue Ellen's Bookmarks - from the PBS site devoted to Arthur (they also have a text to Braille translator) 17. Train your Brain to Read Bookmarks - reminder of the reading comprehension strategies associated with Reciprocal Teaching
1. Swift Desk - This site offers free storage (30 MB), but also provides free bookmark storage and web page hosting. 2. Village Photos - Upload images straight from your browser (no FTP required!). Free users get space for 25 images, access to their Page Designer HTML tools, create and send online greeting cards using your own images, order prints of upload images, and can post the images on other web sites 3. Yahoo! Briefcase - the easiest way to put your files online and share them with friends or coworkers. (get 30 MB of space free) 4. Your Image Host provides 5 mb of free image storage, 100 mb per month bandwidth, and the capability to produce slide shows and portfolios. 5. Bookmark storage 6. Backflip - As you discover interesting Web pages, use the Backflip it! button to save them and Backflip will organize them for you. Then, simply go to your Backflip account and you'll find all of your favorite pages filed in your personal directory -- which you can access from any computer. 7. iKeepBookmarks - A Web-Based Bookmark Manager 8. MyBookmarks allows you to save your bookmarks and either make them available to the world, or keep them private. Why would you want that? Suppose you are in a workshop and bookmark some really great sites, but there is no floppy drive. This site is the perfect solution. Registration is free.
1. 3-D Papercraft - from Canon's Bubble Jet Printer Creative Park -a long list of topics, most of them are animals, to print and use in your elementary classroom (in .pdf format) 2. Calendars - Great for Math Teachers! All of these are 3-dimensional models of the conventional cut-out, fold-up and glue variety. 3. Dice - Print your own Literacy Dice!! May use number or letters in your creations.
(A word of caution: free sites are often blocked by filters) 1. Alfy - The Kids Portal Playhouse is intended for K-6 audiences. They provide free web pages to classroom teachers, and no knowledge of web page development is needed. 2. Angelfire - Looking for a cool spot to hang out and build your site? Angelfire may be the place. They supply everything you need: easy to use building tools, scripts to cut and paste, free page designs, images to make your site look great, and more! 3. Google Page Creator - 100mb of space with this free web page account. You have to have a email account, but you can sign up for one on this page too. 4. Scholastics.com - A free homepage maker for classroom teachers. 5. Teachers.net has a Homepage Maker that will allow you to include some neat features. Their listing of what is available may give you some good ideas about what to include in your page. When you are finished, Teachers.net sends you the source code by Email. 6. FreeWebspace.net - (the largest searchable guide to free web space providers) To find a free web host, use the simple search or the advanced power search. You can also view the complete list of free personal web space providers.
1. Alphabetical Order Worksheets - Scroll to the bottom for a selection. 2. Basic Math Worksheets - add, subtract, multiply and divide. Can customize the sheet. 3. Blank Math Printables - decimal squares, number lines, and place value tables on
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4. Classroom Material Makers - Fill out a simple form. The materials are made instantly and printed from your computer. 5. Drawing Hands on Clocks -Select time intervals and print out worksheet. 6. The File Cabinet - from the classroom of Laura Chandler - Activity sheets and black line masters that she has created for her classroom. All of them are in PDF format, so you'll need the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Also check out her Odds & Ends. 7. Farm Worksheets for kids 8. Fraction Worksheet Generator - Select your topic to create worksheets, four levels to select from. 9. Free Worksheets, Printables, Lesson Ideas and Support 10. FreeWorksheets - Many links to various topics, such as themes, units, lessons, graphics, plus over 2000 free worksheets.
11. Free Worksheets from Teach-nology (scroll down below the membership information) 12. History worksheets - 11 Free printable worksheets through 5th grade (in .pdf format) 13. Kids Page Archive - free printable worksheets for home and school use. 14. Literacy Lesson - Letter Fans - Creates fan blades using letters and word fragments 15. Math - Numeracy World - numeracy resources, worksheets in PDF format 16. Math Worksheets - Time, grids, fractions and more. 17. Math Worksheets - online/off-line Math Worksheet Generator; addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and fractions. 18. Math Worksheets - Time, Money, Algebra, Pythagorean Theorem Radius, Area, Diameter, Circumference,Rectangle Area and Side Length, along with adding, subtracting,multiplying and division, plus Polynomials and more. 19. Math - Algebra Worksheet generator 20. Math Test Worksheets - create multi-operation problems (using parentheses), problems with exponents and roots, and non-parenthetical order-of-operation problems as well as randomly ordered math tests that are of varying levels of difficulty 21. Money Worksheets - from Teach-nology (scroll down) 22. Math Worksheet Wizard - A simple-to-use math worksheet generator. Teachers and parents can create custom math worksheets for the classroom or as homework. 23. Math Printables - from Edhelper 24. Math Worksheets - Missing Links - number skip worksheets that you can personalize. 25. Science Worksheets (from Teach-nology) – 25 categories, several worksheets in each category (scroll down) 26. Science worksheets - 21 Free printable worksheets for pre-K through 5th grade (in .pdf format) 27. Spelling Practice - Make a spelling scramble or word search 28. Super Teacher Worksheets - Math Skills | Math Word Problems | Multiplication Facts | Grammar | Writing Prompts | Holiday Word Search 29. Teacher Time Saving Science Worksheets - five categories from Teach-nology 30. Telling Time - Select time intervals and print out worksheet. 31. Tutorial World - free worksheets for K-6 in English and Math, 3-6 Science 32. Web Worksheet Wizard - This web-based utility will allow you to create a lesson, worksheet or class page on the World Wide Web 33. Worksheets - a long list 34. Worksheets and Awards for your classroom - Some links are not working and a few send you to subscription sites. However, there is a wealth of free resources here. 35. Worksheet Generator - Create your own worksheets or use readymade ones for skill practices.
Portal Sites 1. Free Federal Resources for Educational Excellence - Hundreds of education resources supported by agencies across the U.S. Federal government are now easier to find by using the index at this site. 2. The Gateway to Educational Materials offers the key to one-stop, any-stop access to high quality lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources on the Internet! 3. MarcoPolo - The MarcoPolo program provides no-cost, standards-based Internet content for the K-12 teacher and classroom, developed by the nation's content experts. Online resources include panel-reviewed links to top sites in many disciplines, professionally developed lesson
plans, classroom activities, materials to help with daily classroom planning, and powerful search engines. 1. EconEdLink from the National Council on Economic Education - Explore the connections between economics and real-world issues 2. Xpeditions from National Geographic - The home of geography standards on the Internet 3. EDSITEment from the National Endowment for the Humanities - Subject-based access to top humanities sites 4. Illuminations by NCTM - Gateway to Standards-Based Mathematics Education 5. Science NetLinks from the American Association for the Advancement of Science - a comprehensive "homepage" for K-12 science educators Caution: This link opens a new window. Close the page to return to this list. 6. ArtsEdge from the Kennedy Center - helps educators to teach in, through and about the arts 7. Read - Write - Think - ReadWriteThink, established in April of 2002, is a partnership between the International Reading Association (IRA), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation