Annotated List of Resources for Staff Development and Classroom
Instruction
Websites
LESSON PLANS/CURRICULUM SOURCES
www.educationworld.org
Education World has a lesson planning center you can access by subject area, including
career-technical areas. One ROCP reports using it for developing creative short math
lessons to decrease level of math anxiety. There are tips for improving writing skills. It
also has a wide variety of resource information for teachers on standards, testing,
special education, etc.
www.horizonshelpr.org
This site features career-technical lesson plans that include academic standards.
Lesson plans are arranged both by career pathway and academic subject area.
Included are worksheets, tests, and links to other sites.
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn
Blue Web'n is an online library of 1700+ outstanding Internet sites categorized by
subject, grade level, and format (lessons, activities, projects, resources,
references, & tools). You can search by grade level (Refined Search), broad
subject area (Content Areas), or specific sub-categories (Subject Area). Each
week 5 new sites are added. You can get a list and description of these additions
sent to you by signing up.
www.rmcdenver.com/useguide/assessme/identify.htm
Using performance standards, lesson plan template
cstg@verizon.net
Hands-on-Academics Premium Series is an e-mail lesson that comes one time
per week; site license is $99 per semester
Each Issue focuses on one career and contains four academic activities (English,
math, science, social studies) plus a Challenge Level activity in one subject.
Additional features include career information, current events, critical thinking.
workplace ethics dilemma, ‘Just for fun,’ and related Web sites.
Every issue contains a comprehensive Instructor's Guide, which includes
instructional objectives, academic prerequisites, curriculum correlations,
instructional suggestions, assessment plan, and answers to the hands-onacademics activities.
www.sbchorizons.org
Contextual lessons and resources
www.teach-nology.com
Lesson plans, rubrics, tips
MATH/SCIENCE
http://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/scimathlit/
CDE searchable lists for math and science.
http://www.cut-the-knot.com/Curriculum/index.shtml
Interactive mathematics activities – a plethora of interactive math activities from
arithmetic and algebra to geometry, probability and logic. Includes games &
puzzles, other teaching resources
http://www.k111.k12.il.us/king/math.htm
On-line math activities from basic math to pre-algebra
http://www.mathpower.com
A resource for math help directed at the adult learner dealing with “math anxiety”
as well as tutorial help
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/graphing/
"Create a Graph" helps students create their own graphs & charts. This online
tool can be used to make 4 kinds of charts & graphs: bar graphs, line graphs,
area graphs, & pie charts.
http://www.practicalmoneyskills.com
Practical money skills- Lesson plans for practical money skills, by grade level
Homepage has links for teachers, as well as links for students, parents, and
consumers. Good resource for practical word problems.
www.csufresno.edu/mathed
CSU Mathematics Educator Resource Center" (MERC): This unique online
center serves as a major clearinghouse for information useful to all CSU
mathematics educators (over 200 in the CSU system), as well as to prospective
mathematics education majors, teachers, and administrators.
Contextual Lessons
NASA Why? Files
http://whyfiles.larc.nasa.gov/treehouse.html
The NASA Why? Files is a U.S.distance learning initiative that integrates the use of a television broadcast, web site, and
educator's guide. The project uses Problem-Based Learning to introduce students in grades 3-5 to NASA research and
missions. The television broadcast(or videotapes) and web site provides students with the opportunity to learn subject
matter and develop problem-solving skills while engaged in real-world problems. (added 2/23/02, reviewed 3/8/04)
NASAexplores: Express Lessons & On-line Resources
http://www.nasaexplores.com
NASAexplores provides free weekly K-12 educational articles and lesson plans on current NASA projects. Printable and
downloadable, these supplemental curriculum resources meet national education standards. NASAexplores seeks to
generate awareness of and to build students' interest in space, science, mathematics, geography, and technology.
Materials are adapted to three reading levels [K-4] [5-8] [9-12]. NASAexplores is managed and operated by the Marshall
Space Flight Center Education Programs Department. (added 2/2/04, reviewed 2/2/04)
Cleveland Clinic has launched Real World Connect, a web portal that provides online
learning opportunities in the areas of math, science, health and wellness, the arts, and
innovation. Resources include:
* Worldwide Classroom: a curriculum of state-of-the-art distance learning courses.
* Infotrac: a nationally recognized database of health information resources.
* My Health Librarian: a personalized service that provides answers to health questions.
* Earl's Virtual Garage: a narrated, minds-on educational playground for children of all
ages.
* Online X-Ray Library: a student-created database of authentic medical images.
* Virtual eXpressions Exhibition: an online collection of award-winning student art and the
scientific research that inspired it.
Career Development Activities and Vocational Lesson Plans
Tech Prep Mathematics Lesson Plans ... Dreaming Big NASA Explores Lessons Related
Transportation Resources Automotive Related Links ...
www.khake.com/page94.html - 86k - Cached - Similar pages
This website contains general lessons (not necessarily mathematics) in all four
schools.
rogertaylor.com (sample units). The company name is Curriculum by Design
www.nsta.org
www.nasa.org
www.nih.org
Engineering Pathway
The Engineering Pathway Portal to the National Science Digital Library
(NSDL) launched this week. The portal provides high-quality teaching and
learning resources in applied science and math, engineering, computer
science/information technology and engineering technology — for use by K-12
and university educators. More ...
www.teachengineering.com- k-12 resources
www.nsta.org
www.nasa.org
The Glenn T. Seaborg Center
Published by Everyday Learning; MATH Connections: A three-year high school curriculum
Published by ITS ABOUT TIME, Inc. Mathematics: Modeling Our World ...
www.nmu.edu/seaborg/math.htm - 16k - Cached - Similar pages
Cleveland Clinic has launched Real World Connect, a web portal that provides online
learning opportunities in the areas of math, science, health and wellness, the arts, and
innovation. Resources include:
* Worldwide Classroom: a curriculum of state-of-the-art distance learning courses.
* Infotrac: a nationally recognized database of health information resources.
* My Health Librarian: a personalized service that provides answers to health questions.
* Earl's Virtual Garage: a narrated, minds-on educational playground for children of all
ages.
* Online X-Ray Library: a student-created database of authentic medical images.
* Virtual eXpressions Exhibition: an online collection of award-winning student art and the
scientific research that inspired it.
Career Development Activities and Vocational Lesson Plans
Tech Prep Mathematics Lesson Plans ... Dreaming Big NASA Explores Lessons Related
Transportation Resources Automotive Related Links ...
www.khake.com/page94.html - 86k - Cached - Similar pages
This website contains general lessons (not necessarily mathematics) in all four
schools.
rogertaylor.com (sample units). The company name is Curriculum by Design
http://www.lut.ac.uk/departments/ma/gallery/index.html
Gallery of Mathematical Images
Images include the Mandelbrot set, Quaternionic Fractals, Molecular
Dynamics, Iterated Function Systems, Hyperspace, Self-similar
Structures, Lyapunov Pictures, and a JAVA applet to show Period
Doubling.
http://www.philtulga.com/HomemadeMusic.html
the harmonic series to notes in music
interesting applets showing the relationship of
Geometry Web Sites
> Does anyone have some good geometry websites?
* I recommend going to Yahooligans.com -> School Bell -> Math -> Geometry. There are lots
of good links there.
* One of my favorites is not listed there: It is
Manipula Math, at http://www.ies.co.jp/math/java/index.html
consisting of many Java applets which let you interact with geometric constructions.
* Another fantastic interactive geometry site (not listed in Yahooligans) is
Crystallographic Polyhedra at http://jcrystal.com/steffenweber (click on "wireframe
polyhedra," and also the link to the "crystal gallery," the "Java applets," or any of the other
links). You can rotate the wireframe virtual 3D polyhedra by clicking and spinning them with
your mouse.