TEACHER RESOURCES
CURRICULUM
USOE – Utah State Office of Education
UEN – Utah Education Network
Utah State Core Curriculum – Links outlining the Utah State Core Curriculum
Common Core – Common Core, State Standards Initiative
RESOURCES
Teacher Resources with Information About Becoming a Teacher – Teacher.org
Lesson Plans – Utah State Core Curriculum Lesson Plans
Pioneer Online Library – Pioneer is Utah’s Online Library of electronic resources.
Scholastic Teacher Resources – Resourses include lesson plans, teacher tools, etc.
teachers.net – A wonderful site with lesson plans, projects, articles, and much more.
Teacher Link – This is a great site, full of content for teachers. This site comes from Utah State University.
edhelper.com – Units, projects, and worksheets that can be reproduced for classroom use.
PBS – PBS teacher resources.
The Teacher’s Corner – Teacher resources and lesson plans.
Education World – “The Educator’s Best Friend”
teachers.net – Site with lessons, projects, articles, and much, much more.
thegateway.org – The Gateway to 21st Century Skills – “What educators are looking for.”
teAchnology – The Online Teacher Resource
thinkfinity – Lesson plans, forums, all things education.
TeacherTube – Videos, Docs, Audio, Pictures, etc., etc.
RESOURCES DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY FOR EDUCATORS
Activity & Materials Creators
Awards Certificates: www.educationworld.com/tools_templates/index.shtml#awardCertificates
Bookmarks and Book Plates: www.educationworld.com/tools_templates/index.shtml#book
Calendars & Classroom Organizers: www.educationworld.com/tools_templates/index.shtml#book
Flash Cards – Create Your Own at StudyStack (have to register): www.studystack.com/CreateStack.jsp
Flash Card Exchange (register for adv. functions): www.flashcardexchange.com
Form filler (have to register): www.fillanypdf.com
Holiday & Seasonal Worksheets: www.abcteach.com/directory/seasonal/
Puzzle Maker (lots of types – word search, math squares, mazes, much more!): puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com
Word Search Puzzles (lots of them): www.thepotters.com/puzzles.html
Worksheets (lots of preformatted worksheets): www.superteacherworksheets.com
Communications Tools (Print & Electronic)
EducationWorld Newsletters & Parent Communications:
www.educationworld.com/tools_templates/index.shtml#newsletters
TeacherFiles: www.teacherfiles.com/resources_newsletters.htm
Clipart
DiscoveryEducation: school.discoveryeducation.com/clipart
School-Clipart: www.school-clipart.com
TeacherFiles: www.teacherfiles.com/clip_art.htm
Educational Videos
Seven Online Classrooms Teachers Can Use to Augment Their Own
A Dozen Free Online Video Lecture Sites: www.emergingedtech.com/2010/02/a-dozen-great-free-online-video-lecture-sites
Seven Online Classrooms Teachers Can Use to Augment Their Own: www.emergingedtech.com/2012/01/seven-online-classrooms-teachers-can-use-to-augment-their-own/ (some overlap here with some of the listings in above article)
Watchknow: www.watchknow.org
Interactives (for White Boards, or Powerpoint)
4 Free Digital Whiteboard Apps for the iPad
ABCTeach: www.abcteach.com/directory/interactive
Promethean Plant (have to register): www.prometheanplanet.com
SMART Exchange: exchange.smarttech.com
TopMarks: www.topmarks.co.uk/Interactive.aspx
iPhone, iPad, and Android Apps
15 Favorite iPad Apps As Selected By Teachers
100 free iPhone Apps for Educators
Free iPad Apps for Educators (and Parents)
Attendance (for Android)
Grade Book (for Android)
Grade Rubric (for Android)
Grade Ticker (for Android)
Lesson Plans
AtoZ Teacher Stuff: atozteacherstuff.com/Lesson_Plans/index.shtml
Discovery Education: school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans
LessonPlansPage: www.lessonplanspage.com
Scholastic: www2.scholastic.com/browse/lessonplans.jsp
Teacher.net: teachers.net/lessons
Open Educational Resources
Curriki’s Resources and Curricula page: http://welcome.curriki.org/resources-curricula/
OER Consortium: oerconsortium.org
OER Commons: www.oercommons.org
Presentation Tools
Teacher’s recommendations for academic uses of 5 fun free presentation tools: www.emergingedtech.com/2012/01/teachers-recommendations-for-academic-uses-of-5-fun-free-presentation-tools/
Quizzes & Tests
(These types of sites require sign up)
Easy Test Maker: www.easytestmaker.com
Quizstar: quizstar.4teachers.org/indexi.jsp
Rubrics
4Teachers: rubistar.4teachers.org
Rubrics4Teachers: www.rubrics4teachers.com
iRubrics: www.rcampus.com/indexrubric.cfm
Social Learning & Collaboration
Edmodo: www.edmodo.com
Edutopia: www.edutopia.org
Room21: room21online.com
TakingITGlobal: www.tigweb.org
OTHER/Miscellaneous
Announcing the 2012 Free Education Technology Resources eBook from EmergingEdTech
Do You Know About The Many Free Resources For Education Available from Apple?
FlippedTextBook.com (create your own ‘flipped’ text book – in beta)
FreeTech4Teachers (Richard Byrne’s excellent blog, with lots of free resources that featured daily).
Google Apps for Education
Microsoft Live@EDU
OnlineCollegeClasses.com: Searching for online courses
GENERAL RESOURCES (not just for educators)
Animation
GoAnimate
Voki
Blogging
Blogger
Edublogs
WordPress
Document Management
Google Docs
Zoho
File Management
Dropbox
Group Projects
EnterTheGroup
iPad Apps
15 Favorite iPad Apps As Selected By Teachers
Onlive Desktop
Literature Summary/Analysis
CliffNotes
SparkNotes
Mind Mapping
Bubbl.us
Note Taking
Evernote
Online Interactive White Boards
4 Free Digital Whiteboard Apps for the iPad
Dabbleboard (link wasn’t working as of 1/27/12 – not sure if this is temporary or permanent)
Scribblar
Picture, Photo, & Image Editing & Organizing
Aviary
FotoFlexer
Photofunia
Picasa
Pixenate
PowerPoint
Watch this video to learn about creating your own Custom Animations, and learn about many other free resources.
This tutorial from Online Tech Tips explains how to create slide transition automations using easy pre-configured tools in PowerPoint.
Click here to access a preconfigured search of Microsoft’s Office Site, set up to return dozens of articles with hundreds of free templates for PowerPoint.
PresentationMagazine.com provides tons of tips, articles, PowerPoint templates, and more
Screencasting & Presentations
Fotobabble
Glogster
Jing
OneTrueMedia
Prezi
Screenpresso
Screenr
Screencast-O-matic
Slideshare
ZohoShow
Voki
Twitter
4 Great Twitter Applications for Teachers Using Twitter In The Classroom (these each have some free functionality, and some higher end paid functionality): www.emergingedtech.com/2011/10/4-great-twitter-applications-for-teachers-using-twitter-in-the-classroom/
Other/Miscellaneous
Google Image Search
Random.org (a true random number generator that some teachers have said they find useful).
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