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PROFESSIONAL SITES

Division of Educator Quality and Leadership 
Office of Educator Certification – Here you will be able to view your teacher certification status and find the forms necessary to make changes to your certificate, i.e. changing your degree level, years of experience, adding certification areas, etc.

SC Department of Education 
SC State Department of Education – This site
supplies resources to help you in the challenging and rewarding work of preparing today’s students for a demanding and rapidly changing world.

Alliance for Quality Education -
The Alliance for Quality Education, established in 1985, is an independent non-profit organization dedicated to the goal of improving public education in Greenville County. Every school, every classroom.

Grants Alert
Grants Alert - Our mission is to help educators find and secure the resources they need to do their work and do it well.

 

RESOURCES

**Clicking on the link(s) below will redirect you to websites not under the  of The School District of Greenville County.

Alternative Student projects Brain Pop (School password required)
Bulletin Board Ideas-Extensive list of creative ideas Science Fair resources
Enchanted Learning (School password required) Flash Card Exchange - This one is also printable
Puzzle Maker -  a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your word lists.  Pics4Learning - Copyright-friendly Images for Education
RubiStar - a free tool to help teachers create quality rubrics. The Educator’s Network -  Wealth of information on rubrics, certificates, worksheets, theme units, flashcards, web sites, language tools - menu on left
What is plagiarism? Technology in the Classroom Interactive sites and tips
Website Creation for Children - Help with website design and ideas. Web Worksheet Wizard - This web-based utility will allow you to create a lesson, worksheet, or class page and publish it on the World Wide Web.

Soundzabound
See school media specialist for username & password.

Questioning- Questioning strategies

REFERENCE

Roget's Internet Thesaurus - Works just like the book. Library of Congress - Information on the mission of the Library of Congress, special programs and services, and much, much more!
Online Rhyming Dictionary - Retrieve a list of words that rhyme with a given input word. On-line Dictionary - Look up words or build your own dictionary!
Copyright for Kids - Informational site to use with students on copying text and pictures from the Internet. Webliography - A comprehensive guide to internet resources.
Copyright Bonanza - Everything you ever wanted to know about copyright laws. SuperKids Software Review - An unbiased review of the "best" software for kids.
From Pokemon® to Picasso, Art Rights and Wrongs- This site was created by middle-schoolers to help other kids understand copyright, trademarks, licenses, etc. World Almanac for Kids - An online companion to the reference book, The World Almanac for Kids.


PROMETHEAN SITES

LANGUAGE ARTS

Poems and Rhymes a game involving patterns in rhymes and poems, includes a game, worksheet and teacher resources Synonyms- Replace words with another word that means a similar thing-game, worksheet, resources
Questions- Students find the question sentence from a choice of sentences-a game, worksheet, and teacher resources Descriptions- students make monsters by choosing traits described in the game, includes a game, worksheet, and teacher resources.
Proper sentences- a game where students arrange words to make a proper sentence to reveal a picture. Game, worksheet, teacher resources

Literacy- interactive literacy sites and games. Many fun games involving spelling, rhyming, consonants, nouns, synonyms, root words, and much more.

Characteristics- Students listen to characters speak, then choose the correct characteristic to match. Capital Letters –Find corresponding capital letters to replace the lower case letters.

MATH

Test the Toad  ( + and -  problems with numbers 1-15) Math activities and interactive games- Algebra, space, shape, numbers, charts and graphs Angle Activities /Protractor Activities
Little Animals Activity Center ( interactive number games for addition and subtraction) Find the Number  (Recognition activity for numbers 1-10) Great site for several math games- includes a daily math problem site, big interactive clock, broken calculator, Who Wants to be a Mathionaire? and more.
Polygrams- Drag the blue circles to create different polygons (scroll down for link) Estimation- Estimate whole numbers and decimals (tenth, hundredth, thousandth, etc., or enter your own value) Scroll down to Estimate Time- Use the buttons along the bottom of the screen to advance the clock the required minutes. Alternatively, drag either hand in a circular motion. At the top of the screen two digital clocks are displayed. The right hand clock will display the 24-hour clock time. (Scroll down to the Clock link)

OTHER PROMETHEAN SITES

Primary Interactive Whiteboard Resources- This site includes math, literacy, science, and other subjects-arranged by subject and level. Early Years-includes fun interactive sites from various subject areas, including colors, shapes, patterns, holidays, animals, and games. Flipchart game templates-The following flipchart templates can be used to create review games for the interactive whiteboards
Poetry White Board Lesson Plans –click on Poetry to download lesson plans.

Promethean Help- Promethean QuickTime videos on a variety of subjects.

Another great site for flipchart and Promethean Board resources
Science-This site include flipcharts and whiteboard resources on the web. Plants, life cycles, forces, light, earth and space, rocks, and more

Huge list of Interactive White Board sites-arranged by subject and grades.

View Mars 3-D: Here is a website for buying 3D glasses and viewing the 3D pictures from the Mars Rovers. There are also some of the 3D pictures here.
More 3-D Mars Images 3-D Tour of the Solar System  


CURRICULUM BASED SITES

ALL SUBJECTS

Blue Web’n Learning Sites - Blue Web'n is an online library of 1700+ outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and content. Marco Polo - commercial-free, standards-based content of the highest quality easily accessible to teachers and students South Carolina Teaching Learning Connections - thousands of lesson plans, assessment items and links to curriculum resources. Launched by the State Department of Education, all resources support the state’s standards-based instruction
Kindergarten Connection -  Offers valuable resources to primary teachers each week with new hints, tips, and information Grades 3-5 Themes for Teaching - Forty-five + teaching themes and each theme has a full page of wonderful sites. Also includes a super website for teachers - really cool. Pro Teacher - Lesson plans, education news, schools, reference desk, classroom management, tips - great site for teachers
Doc's Education Resource Pages - Links to K-12 education-related web pages. AskEric Home Page - All kinds of resources at your fingertips! Scholastic for Teachers - Site offers time-savers, professional resources, teacher tools, best online sources.
Teachers Helping Teachers -Web site created by teachers, and for teachers. Discovery Channel School - An online resource that connects teachers, classroom and communities. Educational Sites Page - Many, many links that are educational.
Educational Lessons - An in-depth collection of educational resources. Third Grade Skill Builders - A list of websites for math and language arts.  
Lesson Plans Page Early Childhood Games Education Place Activity Search
A to Z Teacher Stuff ABC Teach The Teacher’s Guide: thematic units


ALL ABOUT SOUTH CAROLINA

Explore the Zoo at Riverbanks South Carolina Aquarium
Cowpens National Battlefield Crisis at Fort Sumter
South Carolina SC history is the focus of this site.
The Charleston Multimedia Project
SC State Museum SC Reptiles and Amphibians
Study SC  


READING

Writing Memoirs: A Journey into Your Past Starfall
4 Blocks Literacy Reading Rockets
Lexile Framework for Reading

BOOK LISTS

Modeling Making Connections
Includes
Text to Self
Text to Text
Author-Schema (like memoirs)
Text to World

Modeling Sensory Images

Modeling Questioning

Modeling Drawing Inferences

Modeling Identifying Important Information

Modeling Synthesizing and Summarizing

VOCABULARY

Visuwords: Online Graphical Dictionary Pete's Power Point Station
Word Wizard Quizlet
Education Place (Houghton Mifflin) Santa Maria-Bonita Vocabulary Page
PBS: Homophones  


MATH

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives -  good computer-based mathematical manipulatives and interactive learning tools at elementary and middle school levels Principles and Standards for School Mathematics - an ambitious and comprehensive set of goals for mathematics instruction Elementary Math Sites for Teachers - Super site filled with resources for math teachers, lesson plans, incorporating technology in math
No Matter What Shape Your Fractions are In – Fun with fractions Virtual Math Manipulatives Math and Science Resources
NCTM- Ways to integrate technology into math lessons (AWESOME site) Need Graph Paper? Susan C. Anthony Teaches Math
     


SCIENCE

Argo Science - a tool enabling teachers to develop and deliver a science curriculum via the Internet All About Frogs for Kids and Teachers
Electricity and Magnetism Weather - (especially great for storm research and learning about weather-related careers)
Nature Explorers  


SOCIAL STUDIES

SC Social Studies Academic Standards – Support site for the SC Social studies standards including each standard, vocabulary and suggested literature The 50 States
Communities: What They Provide For Us Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids
National Geographic - National Geographic Online Sled Dog Information
America's Historical Documents America's Story

SPACE DAY RESOURCES

 


THE ARTS

ARTSEDGE: Exploring neighborhoods through art
Songs for Teaching
From the Top - Explore the world of young, classical musicians!
New York Philharmonic Kidzone

SPECIAL EDUCATION

Special Education Resources


RESOURCES ON LITERATURE

Book Lovers - Everything you need to know about fine books and literature. You will find information on writers, poets,  publishers, booksellers, and much more! The On-line Books Page - Look here for an index of thousands of on-line books, and for common repositories of on-line books and other documents.
Book Wire - The first place to look for book information on the World Wide Web. Children's Literature Web Guide - Internet resources related to books for children and young adults. 
Children's Books Online - Many books for children of all ages to read. Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Guide - Children's books reviews by author.
Page By Page - How to create a children's book Teaching Books - Bring authors into your classroom

 

 

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