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Graphic organizers can be a great help to our students. Here is a link to several web sites that offer free graphic organizers that you can adapt to your classes' needs for research help, writing prompts, journaling and more. |
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From the SC Department of Education - South Carolina Online Professional Development (SCOPD) to provide educators with opportunity for online professional growth program in the area of technology integration that is current, efficient, and intensive. Browse the web site for a catalog of available courses including web page development, power point, using new technologies in the classroom, InteGrade Pro, and much, much more. |
| The State Department of Education has launched a new website for the state's teachers. SCTLC - South Carolina: Teaching, Learning, Connecting - links to thousands of lesson plans, assessment items, and curriculum resources that support the state's standards-based instruction. Currently, educators can access information in the subjects: English/language arts, math, science, social studies, health, the arts, foreign language and physical education. |
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The SC DOE has posted a collection of sites to help teachers better understand the copyright laws and their impact on the classroom. For additional help consult your library media specialists. |
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Want some help in guiding your students toward avoiding plagiarism? See what advice and information Perdue University offers their students. Need help verifying possible plagiarism by your students? Try these sites, but remember that you might have to visit them at home because of the district's Internet filters. Essay. freehomepage.com, http://www.superior-termpapers.com/ or 7-12educators.about.com/education/7-12educators/cs/plagiarism/index.htm |
The DISCUS Reference Library
is part of the DISCUS Project of the South
Carolina State Library which provides reference materials for student
and staff use. To use the following links from home (a login name
and password are now required and can be obtained from one of your
media specialists). Be sure to enter the password in lower case
letters, NOT in capital letters. The password will change in August
each year.
Included in DISCUS are 3 Grolier encyclopedias, and 9 periodical databases within the InfoTrac Periodicals and Reference database. What Do I Read Next, Biography Resource Center & Who's Who, and Health and Wellness Resource Center are all available from the GaleGroup. Another valuable resource in the DISCUS Virtual Library is the SIRS program, Knowledge Source, which provides students with access to international newspapers, journals, and magazines as well as U. S. government publications and historical documents. SIRS Knowledge Source provides wide ranging coverage of our world through 4 different databases that provide an amazing amount of information on countries, current events, government, arts and humanities and much, much more. This one's got to be seen to be appreciated! |
| Have you been to the PBS web site for teachers? PBS TeacherSource offers lesson plans and listings of coming programming that can be of use in a variety of subject areas. Remember, we can videotape programs that you request and they can be kept as long as copyright allows. |
Be sure to look for the Cable in
the Classroom magazine in the teachers' workroom, teachers' lounge
or here in the Library for upcoming television programming available on
cable.
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then there's Marco Polo
whose host organization is working to incorporate specific South Carolina
Framework standards into their teacher materials to help us find Internet
resources and activities to use with our students. Check it out! |
| The American Memory Learning Page, offered by the Library of Congress, was created to assist educators in using the American Memory site to teach about U.S. history and culture. The site features information about elections, immigration and historical figures, as well as lesson plans and activities. |
| We all know how invaluable National Geographic's television programming, software, and magazine have been, well now there's a web site for teachers that has lesson plans and online activities also provided by National Geographic. Be sure to visit and see what they have to offer. |
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EASE History is a rich
online environment that supports the learning and teaching of US History.
Hundreds of historical videos and photographs are currently available in EASE
History.
Learn about US History through the prism of US presidential campaign ads, better understand the complexities of campaign issues and their historical context by looking at historical events, and explore the meanings of core values by examining how these values have been applied in both historical events and campaign ads. |
| Have you been wanting to get that something special for your classroom that will make you job a little easier, but don't know how you can afford it? School Grants provides information on grant opportunities, grant writing tips and resources and links and news to help you. |
| Have you visited Quizhub.com? This new educational Web site contains a growing collection of online interactive learning games, puzzles and quizzes in many subjects including English, geography, history, French, Spanish, art, music, math and the sciences. The site includes High School Ace - The Academic Homepage for High School Students, Math Quiz, Current Events, The Teacher's Hub, and much more. |
| Economics teachers and parents can use themint.org to help teens learn about money management skills and gives teachers and parents advice on how to be effective fiscal models for today's youth. |
| Anglophiles and linguists will enjoy askoxford.com which includes some interesting and esoteric information on the proper use on the English language, as well as a special section for teachers. |
| Science Teachers, check out The Science Learning Network! It incorporates inquiry-based teaching approaches, telecomputing, collaboration among teachers and classrooms world-wide with sources from other educators, museums, other institutions, and more. |
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Random House Publishers
hosts a web site for teachers and librarians that has many resources for
children's and young adult literature, including teachers' guides, thematic
and interdisciplinary indexes, readers' companions as well as author biographies
and more.
Another site for teachers is the San Diego County Office of Education which has a large collection of cyberguides, literary teacher guides that help teachers incorporate the World Wide Web into their units of instruction. |
| Halsall's History Internet Resourcebook "The Internet History Sourcebooks are collections of public domain and copy permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use." |
Here are just a few
subject area web sites where you can find something to help you in your
classroom:
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 MLA Bibliography Presentation, presented at the conference of the South Carolina Association of School Librarians, March 1, 2006 |
For additional information go to the SC Department of Education Educators web page.
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