Michelle Brinkman EDN 303 1/20/12 Project 1 20 Websites 1. http://www.discoveryeducation.com/freepuzzlemaker/?

?CFID=912237&CFTOKEN=40117786 This website allows you to create free puzzles; whether you are a teacher, parent or student. There are many different types of puzzles to choose from including: word search, criss-cross, double puzzles, fallen phrases, math squares, mazes, and more. 2. http://www.davis.k12.ut.us/ets/Teacher.htm This website offers a wide range of utility websites for teachers. From activities, to lesson plans, to teacher standards; this website would be a great resource to utilize. 3. http://www.teachade.com/ This website gives you the ability to collaborate with hundreds of other educators through chat and blogs. You can share lesson plans with fellow educators and get ideas and answers from them as well! 4. http://teachers.net/ This website includes a variety of resources that every teacher or teacher-to-bes can use. It offers teacher job listings, teacher chat boards, teacher mailrings, lesson plans, classroom projects, and teacher classifieds that allow teachers to buy and sell items from other classrooms.

5. http://www.toolsforeducators.com/ This website includes some amazing tools for teachers. It includes things such as a dice maker, board game maker, bingo board maker, maze maker, certificate maker, and more. 6. http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/collections/geographyawarenessweek/ ?ar_a=1 This is just one content area that national geographic covers well: geography awareness. This information and ideas would be useful during social studies. 7. http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jmresources/ausanimallinks/ This would be a great website when learning about some animals most children have never seen before. It has collected a handful of websites about each animal it has listed and put them in order according to reading complexity. 8. http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/holidays/ This content area includes information and activities about the different winter holidays celebrated around the world. It also includes a teachers guide. 9. http://www.teachervision.fen.com/presidents-day/teacher-resources/6658.html This website includes a wide variety of information and activities about Presidents day for teachers. 10. http://www.middleweb.com/INCASEscimeth.html This is a blog of one teachers own personal experience with teaching the scientific method. 11. http://www.360stlouis.com/zoo/coursetour.htm

This is a virtual tour of the Saint Louis Zoo. Different areas on the map featured can be viewed as a tour including the childrens zoo, elephants, sun bears, and more.

12. http://www.adventureaquarium.com/tours/aaqtour/tashark.html This is a virtual tour of the Adventure Aquarium in New Jersey.

13. http://www.swisseduc.ch/stromboli/virtual-excursions/index-en.html This website includes several virtual tours of different volcanoes around the world. 14. http://www.miamisci.org/www/virtualfieldtrips.html This website includes information on a virtual field trip to the Miami Science Museum in Miami, Florida. Unfortunately, it also costs 300 dollars per classroom to participate in one of these field trips. 15. http://www.nps.gov/featurecontent/stli/eTour.htm This is a great website! It includes a virtual tour of the Statue of Liberty.

16. http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson131.shtml This website includes several icebreaker activity suggestions for the first day of school. 17. http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/teaching-strategies/new-teacher This webpage includes tips and tools for new teachers like a new teacher survival guide and ways to energize lesson plans. 18. http://www.teachervision.fen.com/teaching-methods/resource/6748.html This website includes classroom survival tips and methods on how to teach different subjects at the elementary level.

19. http://bulletinboardideas.org/tag/elementary/ This website includes a wide variety of ideas for classroom bulletin boards. Bulletin board ideas are separated by grade, subject, holidays, seasons, months and themes. 20. http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech176.shtml This link suggests great ideas on how to integrate technology into the classroom.