I enjoyed getting time in class to explore all the different websites this week. I know there are countless numbers of teacher friendly web resources available, but it was nice to see other people's favorites and ones our professors like, too. I already felt like I had been to a thousand different teacher websites, but I hardly ever take the time to really explore them with out having to use them for an assignment.
One of the sites we visited I am sure I would use in the future is readwritethink.org. We also talked about this in CI 588, so it makes me confident that it is actually a good tool to get great lesson ideas from. I am still deciding for sure what lesson plan I will use for our lesson plan assignment, but I think I might take one from there and modify it. Another good site we saw was the International Children's Digital Library. The ICDL has online books in different languages, so it can be used for ELL students or those wanting to learn more about another culture. Finally, one website I always recommend to other teachers is the Smithsonian site. I have used this one a lot in the last four years because it is very teacher and student friendly, has hundreds of age appropriate web activities, and ties history or science with language arts beautifully. Here is a link to the teacher portion of smithsonian.org, where you can search for activities by grade level, interest area, or state standard:
http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/
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I also thought readwritethink was extremely helpful. It is so nice to have a website for teachers to help other teachers. I think these resources will be extremely valuable to us during our first few years of teaching. Hopefully once we get situated, we can provide ideas for other new teachers.
Thanks for sharing the Smithsonian site! I always forget about this one. There are so many out there. I always tell myself I am going to take 1 hour a week and just explore. I just wish I would do it!
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