Links for Teachers
These sites are intended to help teachers in preparing activities in support of the East Brunswick curriculum. These are sites that provide lesson plan ideas or links to classroom resources.
The subject areas covered are: General, Social Studies, Language Arts
| Ready Kids | |
| URL: | http://www.ready.gov/kids/ |
| Grade level: | Elementary |
| Subject: | Emergency Preparedness |
| Education Place | |
| URL: | http://www.eduplace.com |
| Grade level: | K-8 |
| Subject: | General |
| Activities, bibliographies, discussion forums, projects, links, etc., including specific activities, etc., for East Brunswick’s social studies textbook series (K-8). Check out Kids’ Clubhouse, Teachers’ Center, and Parents’ Place. | |
LibrarySpot |
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| URL: | http://libraryspot.com/ |
| Grade level: | 3 to adult |
| Subject: | General |
| Provides a reference desk, which includes a dictionary, encyclopedias (some of which require subscription), biographical dictionaries, and map resources. Also provides links to the Library of Congress, U.S. Census Bureau, and the Federal Web Locator. | |
Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators |
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| URL: | http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/ |
| Grade level: | Teachers, parents, and children of all ages (Kidstuff) |
| Subject: | General |
| Provides teachers resources in all curricular areas, including lesson plans. Also gives links to great children’s sites, including Disney, the Amazing Picture Machine, How Stuff Works, and many others. | |
Yahooligans! The Web Guide for Kids |
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| URL: | http://www.yahooligans.com/ |
| Grade level: | All |
| Subject: | General |
| Easy to use subject search engine, with categories such as School Bell, Science and Oddities, Around the World, Computers and Games, and more. | |
50+ Great Sites for Kids & Parents |
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| URL: | http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/50.html |
| Grade level: | All |
| Subject: | All |
| A list of sites for elementary school children which is constantly changing. Created by the American Library Association. | |
Berit's Best Sites for Children |
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| URL: | http://www.beritsbest.com/ |
| Grade level: | All |
| Subject: | All |
| Provides hyperlinks to many children's sites in categories like "Just for Fun," "Holidays," "Serious Stuff," "Creatures Great & Small," "Kids on the Net," "And More." The Serious Stuff category includes Art, Environment, Government, Health and Safety, History, Science and Math, Space, and World Travel. | |
Equity Education On Line |
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| URL: | http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Villa/1776/equity.html |
| Grade level: | Teachers |
| Subject: | Gender equity |
| An on-line resource for information on people, resources, organizations, and information on gender equity issues in the public schools. | |
The Awesome Library |
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| URL: | http://www.awesomelibrary.org/ |
| Grade level: | |
| Subject: | General |
| Searches 12,000 articles by keywords and categories of Teacher, Parent, and Student. | |
| East Brunswick Social Studies site | |
| URL: | http://www.ebnet.org/ssweb/ |
| Grade level: | All |
| Subject: | Social Studies |
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This
page is designed to assist K-12 social studies teachers in the research and
development of curriculum, grade level and content related teaching
resources and strategies. On the Lessons page, you can click on the school
and grade level to access resources that have been selected specifically for
your classes and curriculum. This site is also designed to highlight and
share lessons that you have developed with your colleagues on the
"homegrown" page. Please feel free to submit your ideas so they can be
shared with your colleagues. Contact us by e-mail:
Megan Malley or Angela Pata.
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| Kent School District Social Studies Resources | |
| URL: | http://www.kent.wednet.edu/curriculum/soc_studies/index.html |
| Grade level: | 1 and up, teachers |
| Subject: | Social Studies |
| Includes links to sites on subjects such as farms, communities, U.S. regions, Native Americans, Explorers, the Colonies, Revolutionary War, and more. | |
Other Native Sites (Native American) |
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| URL: | http://www.nativeonline.com/great.htm |
| Grade level: | 4 and up |
| Subject: | Social Studies |
| Provides links to Native American
tribes’ home pages and other Native American links, listed by tribe. |
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| Adventures from The Book of Virtues | |
| URL: | http://pbskids.org/adventures/ |
| Grade level: | K-5 |
| Subject: | Language Arts |
| Presents stories, poems and essays that illustrate compassion, courage, honesty, responsibility, self-discipline, and work. Includes various links including a parents/teacher guide and reproducibles. (Character Counts) | |