Rock Creek Elementary School

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Books, Books, Books

• DIGITAL BOOK TALK

• PLACER LIBRARIES Contains a link to TumbleBooks which are Audio Picture Books online!!!

• STARFALL Where children have fun learning to read

• WILLBOOKS Offers educators the books they need at the best possible price

Brain Food

• Daily Sudoku also known as Number Place, is a logic-based placement puzzle.

Cue Cards & Other Study Aids

• ACTIVE SCIENCE MODULES Interactive, learning modules for students.

• FREE COMMON CORE RESOURCES AND TOOLS  Flash Cards, Practice Tests, Learn by Concept

• LERNER INTERACTIVES ". . .provides educators and students with strategies, content, and activities that can enhance and improve students' skills in a variety of curricular areas"

• ZD NET CUE CARDS Make cue card study aids

• SIGHT WORDS  Sightwords.com is a comprehensive sequence of teaching activities, techniques, and materials for one of the building blocks of early child literacy.
  
  

Music, Music, Music

• Songs for Teaching ^TM "The Definitive Source for Educational Music"

Photo Editors

• FotoFlexer  The World's most advanced online image editor. No need install.

• Pixlr  Similar to Photoshop, but free.

• Canva  A free, easy to use photo editor.

• Picasa  From Google, Picasa is a free photo editing software that makes your pictures look great!

Support Sites for Teachers

• A B C TEACH The ultimate teacher resource of useful materials and tools for kids, parents, and student teachers.

• APPLES FOR THE TEACHER A fun, educational website of interactive learning games, quizzes, and worksheet generator tools by subject for teachers and students.

• Best on the Web The web portal for educators.

• BRAINPOP JR. BrainPOP Jr. is especially made for Grades 3 students and younger. BrainPOP Jr. provides animated movies about several school subjects and is frequently updated. Though you must subscribe for usage, one free movie is played daily.

• CTAP EdTech Leadership Network CTAP Staff Development Workshops are offered in a variety of formats. Some of the workshops below are conducted as traditional face to face training while others are provided in a live online environment.

• California.gov Ports - Free, live videoconferencing fieldtrip

• Cool Teachers Cool Teachers is a weekly series that brings you the tips, tricks, and insights into the use of technology in the classroom as well as the Cool Teacher Podcast.

• EDUCATION PLACE Houghton Mifflin Pre-K–6 resources for teachers, students, and families to support instruction in the classroom and at home.

• EDUCATIONAL PLANET Quality Web Resources for Students and Teachers.

• eLEARNING Online instruction and staff development.

• ENCHANTED LEARNING MONTHLY ACTIVITY CALENDAR

• GAMEQUARIUM A portal to online, educational, interactive games and learning activities.

• GAMEQUARIUM COMPUTER LAB

• GREAT WEBSITES FOR KIDS Search great websites for kids.

• INTERNET FOR CLASSROOMS Helping teachers use the internet effectively.

• Literacy Connections Literacy Connections provides a wealth of information on reading, teaching and tutoring techniques, ESL literacy, and adult literacy. We recommend resources that are useful for teachers, volunteers, and directors of literacy programs. Topics include the language experience approach, phonics, word study, word families, and the best in children's literature.

• MLA STYLE

• READ, WRITE, THINK A very impressive array of lesson plans, student materials, web resources, and online tools for students.

• READING A-Z Reading A-Z offers thousands of printable teacher materials to teach leveled reading, phonemic awareness, reading comprehension, reading fluency, alphabet, and vocabulary. The teaching resources include professionally developed downloadable leveled books, lesson plans, worksheets, and reading assessments.

• SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE IN EDUCATION eEdition

• SANTA MARIA BONITA SCHOOL DISTRICT This website provides lesson plans, vocabulary, and comprehension posters for Houghton Mifflin.

• SCHOLASTIC LESSON PLANS Teaching strategies, tools (such as class setup), lesson plans & other resources.

• SCHOLASTIC TOOLS  SCHOLASTIC ACTIVITIES

• KATHY SCHROCK'S GUIDE A categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth.

• SITES FOR TEACHERS Hundreds of educational websites rated by popularity.

• SONGS FOR TEACHING If you are searching for music to teach content across the curriculum, give this link a go. Sorry, this is not a free site.

• TECH-CONNECTED TEACHER  A collection of online resources and tools for the classroom teacher.

• THINKFINITY An exciting collection of online educational resources.

• TOP 50 KID ACTIVITIES

• TOPMARKS Quickly find the best homework help, revision websites and educational sites for use in the classroom.

• Troy School District Check out the way this classroom does things!

• TURN IT IN Scan students' work for improper citation or potential plagiarism and so much more.

• WEBMASTER'S FAVORITES: Color  Color Codes  W3 Validator  No more tables
  Best Backgrounds  EW Tutorial  A List Apart

• WEBQUEST A Web Quest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web.

Website & Media Sites

• Animoto Create slideshows, greeting cards, and more online. Viewing with just one click.

• Audio Pals Incorporate audio onto your website, blog or social network.

• Catapult Help

• Google Sites You can sign up for this free, fairly easy to use website.

• Homestead You can try Homestead for one month free; then it's $4.99 a month.

• SCHOOL NOTES Post school information on the internet without worrying about knowing HTML.

• School World Teacher Sites Easy to use and create from home. There is a charge.

• Teacher Tube A safe place to show your videos, and watch other videos, too.

• Troy School District Check out the way this classroom does things!

• Weebly "Create your website. Fast. Free. Easy. Now."