Educational Internet Websites

By Peggy Steffens

Here some educational Internet sites that you may want to try personally or with your students.

Johnnie’s Math Page –  provides links to interactive math tools and activities for teaching and learning for students in grades Kindergarten through 8th grade. http://everyschool.org/u/ohlone/admin/JIMS.html

Ruler Game - Cindy Senn from Wilson K-8 shared a web site that has really helped her students with learning the measurement scales on a ruler. 

http://www.rsinnovative.com/rulergame/index.html

National Atlas – provides a collection of resource maps for North America that can be printed and viewed in the classroom including satellite images, territorial acquisitions of the United States, time zone maps, maps of the west Nile virus, presidential election maps and more.

http://nationalatlas.gov/

PBS Teachers – PBS just launched a new comprehensive K-12 web site for educators that provides thousands of free lesson plans, local and national educator resources, teacher professional development, videos, blogs, and more.
www.pbs.org/teachers 
 

21st Century Information Fluency: Resources – provides outstanding resources and lesson plans for teaching students how to search and evaluate resources and information.
http://21cif.imsa.edu/resources/
 

The Gilder Lehrman Institute – provides a variety of American History resources for teachers and students. It offers professional development, lesson plans, and a collection of more than 60,000 primary source documents describing the political and social history of the United States from 1493 to modern times.

http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/index.html

Free Graph and Grid Paper – provides graph dot and grid papers in a variety of sizes in a PDF format.

http://www.incompetech.com/beta/plainGraphPaper/