Links
Check out these useful sites:
National Geographic Xpeditions - find all sorts of activities, lesson plans, maps: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/
SNAP Math Fair - an awesome idea for a math fair in your school, also a source of many math puzzles: http://www.mathfair.com.
Math Fact Cafe - a great website for elementary math teachers. You can create worksheets, for adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, time, etc. Excellent teaching resource: http://www.mathfactcafe.com/
Sites For Teachers- this is a list of many websites specifically for teachers, including free lesson plans, free worksheets, free games and puzzles. Lots of info to look through and find something good specifically for you: http://www.sitesforteachers.com/
Major Fun - a great site to get up-to-date info on FUN.
Let's Play Math - a blog dedicated to teaching/learning math. Excellent resources available, and great discussions. This blog is updated on daily basis, and is easy to read and enjoy.
Alpha Sleuth is a great word puzzle. Check it out!
Worksheet Library has a huge set of printable worksheets for Educators and Students (mostly for grades K - 6), and many of them are free.
YES Mag's Projects is a great site for science idea projects to do at home or in class.
Science Olympics Ideas - lots of ideas for science olympics events - more for the high school or higher level projects - a great resource.
CrosScan Puzzles - a cross between crossword and wordsearches - fun but challenging.
3 Smart Cubes - this site is full of IQ tests and other personality tests. Lots of fun stuff!
Family Vacay - a site for vacationing families - you can rate and discuss where you stayed and read about other's experiences.
Academic Earth - the "YOU TUBE" of academic lectures. All free, whole courses included from famous lecturers and universities such as MIT, Yale, etc.
Creativity Workshop Creative Writing, Drawing, Storytelling and Memoir - Many of the teachers and students taking the workshop receive financial help from their schools and can also get 3 university credits and CEUs.
Professional development for teachers: Professional development for educators. Continuing education
is critical.
www.searchplanit.com: A lesson plan search engine for all of us teachers.
-It only searches lesson plan sites (about 300 and growing!)
-Teachers can rate the sites
-Higher-rated sites are at returned at the top of your search results
-Teachers can collaborate by sharing their results through Twitter, Facebook,and E-mail
It's totally free and is meant to be run by the teacher community.
White Group Mathematics
This is a website created by a Singaporean tutor which caters to the A level H2 mathematics syllabus-sections including advice/recommendations, question locker vault with 200 fully worked-out problems. The worked our problems are high-school or college level, but many of these are very interesting and the solutions are very comprehensive. Also, the website offers solving math problems for a fee(like $5 / problem set) - interesting concept!
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