Teacher Resources

Technology Resources for High School Teachers
compiled by Dr. Christophy

Go To: SmartBoard Sites      General Resources   Collaboration Sites     Math
             History        Science               English        Languages       Health
             Religion        Fine Arts

SmartBoard Sites

http://pdtogo.com/smart/ - a fabulous podcast filled with links and ideas for using the SmartBoard.

http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-US/Ed+Resource/Lesson+resources/toolkit/ - Lesson Activities Toolkit from Smart Technologies - This is a beta set of flash files, allowing the teacher to make multiple choice questions, hangman games, matching and other exercises.

http://www.amphi.com/departments/technology/whiteboard/lessonplans.html - Links to Interactive Whiteboard lessons from Peggy Steffens from Tucson, AZ

http://www.eduscapes.com/sessions/smartboard/ - links to a range of Smartboard sites of every level.

http://education.jlab.org/indexpages/elementgames.php - Smartboard games and puzzles

http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-US/Ed+Resource/Lesson+Activities/Notebook+Activities/Browse+Notebook/United+States/ - Download templates from Smart Technologies

General Resources

http://people.uncw.edu/ertzbergerj/ppt_games.html - templates for PowerPoint games

http://www.teachertube.com/ - YouTube for teachers - educational videos on all subjects

http://www.kenton.k12.ky.us/tr/ - all kinds of links in all subjects

http://www.4teachers.org/ - Teaching with Technology

http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/ - Education World site. Don't miss the "techtorials" - step by step lessons on using technology in all kinds of ways.

http://teachvu.vu.msu.edu/public/ - Teach Online, a website dedicated to the pedagogy of teaching online courses

http://webquest.org/index.php - Find webquests of all kinds here.

http://www.quia.com/web - a site to build and share interactive games, quizzes and other activities.

Collaboration Sites - Places to find and share information

http://www.twitter.com - send a short message and get instant feedback.

http://del.icio.us/ -bookmark favorite sites with tags to help you remember why you bookmarked them. Search through other people's tags to find resources for yourself.

http://tappedin.org - Chat with other educators about topics of interest to you.

Math

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html - National Library of Virtual Manipulatives - a variety of math interactive games/exercises of all grade levels

http://hotmath.com/hotmath_help/games/kp/kp_hotmath_sound.swf - Algebra Vs. the Cockroaches - game to practice finding the equation of a line

http://www.veazeys.com/math/lessons.htm - Interactive algebra - a series of Algebra practice problems

http://scottbryce.com/ - math practice worksheets, geography help and more!

http://www.analyzemath.com/precalculus.html - interactive tutorials in Precalculus

http://www.multiplication.com/ - all kinds of fun games to practice the times tables.

http://www.classbrain.com/artgames/publish/math_games.shtml all kinds of math games can be found here, such as "guess the angle" and "math coordinates game".

http://www.uen.org/7-12interactives/math.shtml - interactive math games from the Utah Education Network.

History

http://www.tenement.org/Virtual_Tour/index_virtual.html - a fascinating virtual tour of a tenement house.

http://xtimeline.com/ - a place to view and make timelines of all kinds

http://www.mapsofwar.com/images/EMPIRE17.swf - Flash file of the history of the Middle East from 3000 B.C.E to the present

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/timeline/timelineO.cfm - Digital History - an interactive map that shows the history of the United States from the 1500's to the present

http://www.egyptancienthistory.com/ - View sites from ancient history on Google Earth.

http://thwt.org/ - The Center for Using Technology for teaching history.

Science

http://www.exploratorium.edu/ - The Exploratorium Museum in San Francisco. See live Webcams, Iron Science Teacher videos and more.

http://www.hazelwood.k12.mo.us/~grichert/sciweb/applets.html - Virtual Labs and Simulations

http://science.nhmccd.edu/biol/animatio.htm - Science animations, movies and interactive tutorial links

http://www.madehow.com/ - Describes the manufacturing process of everyday products from airbags to cereal to scissors to windshield wipers.

Electron Configuration Activity - a SmartBoard Notebook file that allows students to drag orbital labels and arrow-filled orbitals into the correct orbital notation for any element.

x-ray webquest - a Webquest about the electromagnetic spectrum

Thermochemistry of Food - a description of a project where students find the calories in a sugar-laden food by experiment, then compare their results to a virtual bomb calorimetry experiment. The rubric for this lesson can be found here or here.

English

http://web.eku.edu/flash/inferno/ - A virtual tour of Dante's Inferno

http://drb.lifestreamcenter.net/Lessons/planet/index.htm - This is a webquest for Madeleine L'Engle's Swiftly Tilting Planet. There are links here to webquests for other L'Engle books.

http://www.theclassictales.com/ - The Classic Tales Podcast. Hear classic stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allen Poe and others. Listen on your computer or your MP3 player.

The Grammar Ninja - a great grammar game that could be played individually or on the SmartBoard.

Languages

http://webgerman.com/languages/ - all kinds of online resources for many different languages, from Arabic to Yiddish

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/flang.htm - lots more foreign language resources

http://www.cortland.edu/flteach/flteach-res.html - the Foreign Language teaching forum

http://joedale.typepad.com/integrating_ict_into_the_/skype/index.html - Using technology in the foreign language classroom.

Health

http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/ - full of interactive games and exercises about healthy living.

http://www.mclph.umn.edu/watersedge/teachers_guide.html - Outbreak at Watersedge: A Public Health Discovery Game - find the cause of an outbreak in a small community and stop it before it gets worse.

http://www.smartplay.net/ - SmartPlay - an interactive Australian site about playing sports

Religion

http://www.cyberfaith.com/weblinks/wl041501.html - virtual field trips to the Holy Land

http://www.usccb.org/nab/index.shtml - New American Bible on-line, including links to the Daily Readings and the Saint of the Day

http://academics.smcvt.edu/pcouture/ - Links for Bible Study

http://www1.yadvashem.org/new_museum/virtual.html - Virtual tour of the Holocaust History Museum

http://www.cyberfaith.com/liturgical_year.cfm - An interactive liturgical calendar

Fine Arts

http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/tours/ - Web Gallery of Art

http://www.louvre.fr/llv/musee/visite_virtuelle.jsp?bmLocale=en - Virtual Tour of the Louvre Museum

http://www.usd.edu/smm/galleries.html - Virtual tour of the National Music Museum

http://www.raymourflanigan.com/room_planner/ - A place to design your perfect room.