BETA Site-of-the-Day
| Name | URL | Brief Description | ||||
| John Lyman | http://miclase.org | Mi Clase es Tu Clase. This site aims to infuse the Internet into the bilingual classroom. | ||||
| Sheila Edstrom | http://district125.k12.il.us | This school web site portrays many uses of the Internet. Be sure to check the staff development link along the left side of the page. | ||||
| Mishawna Manning | http://brainpop.com/ | Brainpop.com is a site with movies for students on a wide variety of topics such as science and math. The site allows two movies per day without charge. | ||||
| Nataki Edmond | http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/gilly/ Schoolhouse_Rock/HTML/schoolhouse.html |
This site takes us back to all the learning fun of Schoolhouse Rock. | ||||
| Cathy Mallare | This site offers great video and audio of animals in their natural enviornment as well as written commentary. Actually, the whole national geographic site is cool and fun and educational for both teachers and students. | |||||
| John Robertson | http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/worms/index/html | Topics in this site include anatomy, environment, ecology, behavior, and changes in heart rate over time. History of the earthworm has many components of a good web site, and is one that I find useful. | ||||
| John Lyman | If you are interested in creating a bank of online quizzes, then give QUIA a visit. | |||||
| Sheila Edstrom | http://www.explorescience.com | explorescience.com has a plethora of interactive science related activities. | ||||
| Kim Buckles | http://mathforum.org | This site provides resources, materials, activities, and online help for students and teachers. The site resouces are for students in kindergarten through college. | ||||
| Juan Centeno | http://www.askeric.org/cgi-bin/lessons.cgi/Foreign_Language/ | This website provides information on a variety of different subjects. It contains lesson plans, assessment guides, resources, links, etc. on all subjects k - 12. | ||||
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| Janet Deutsch | See hand out. | These sites offer an amazing array of useful and interesting information related to children's literature. | ||||
| Lisa Glover | http://www.teachernet.com | This site is called an online community for educators who teach grades K-8. | ||||
| Julie Hines-Lyman | http://historymatters.gmu.edu/ | History Matters and evolving web site that is targeted for high school and college U.S.history survey courses, but I've found many sections useful for the middle school unit I'm working on. Of special note are the many primary sources available, and the guide for analyzing primary sources. There is a strong philosophy of seeing history through the lives of everyday people. | ||||
| Candy Lievsay | http://www.madsci.org/ | This sight provides answers to hard science questions and list several exciting hands on science experiments you can perform at little or no cost. |
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| Dwayne Moore | http://www16.brinkster.com/pszczerb/edu.html | This is an excellent all-in-one educational web site. It's a great one-stop page with lots of useful links created specifically for CPS teachers. |
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| Syvilla Rushdan | http://www.factmonster.com/ | This site is for children to use for researching information in all core subject areas, home work help etc. There are quizzes and other stuff for teachers and children. | ||||
| Holly Vandervoort | http://www.archives.gov | This site provides access to the national archives, including primary resources and lesson plans. | ||||
| Marcella Winters | http://www.teachervision.com | This site's major goals is to provide teachers with insights on lesson plans, resources, and materials that would make teachers lives easier. | ||||
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