Teacher Resources
Teacher Resources
This website has resources for every curriculum. It provides worksheets, IEP's, progress monitoring, printables and more for grade levels K-8. Reading skills as well as vocabulary skills can be assessed and addressed at differentiated levels.
BetterLesson.com
This website has lesson plans, activities, etc. for every curriculum, every grade level. There are resources by topic and grade level. A great one stop shop! There are comments on the resources by other teachers who have utilized them in their classroom.
Animoto
Video length 30 seconds. It's a great tool for introducing information.
Comic Creator and Professor Garfield
Build your own comic strip. The teacher that shared this with me (Mrs. Steen) had her students practicing transitive verbs.......to possibilities are endless.
Glogster
this site allows students to create digital posters for free. Suggested use: Create this as an assignment on Haiku. As students submit weblinks of their glogs post them on your Haiku site for peer edit and review. This accommodates a several components of Common Core such as using technology, online publishing, peer editing and reviewing, and if you allow them to present their end product to the class you are even accommodating speaking and listening.
Prezi
An online presentation software that allows students to create dynamic non-linear presentations.
ClassTools.net
Create free games, quizzes, activities and diagrams. Host them on a blogsite, website. Mrs. Bealer (Language arts teacher who shared this and many other tools with me states that it is one of her favorite tools. Thank you Mrs. Bealer for all of your resources).
The Kahn Academy
This is content driven for both students and teachers.
Anneberg Learner
This is pedagogically driven for teachers.
Spelling City
This site provides math word lists based on the Common Core State Standards so teachers and parents can supplement the curriculum with interactive educational vocabulary games. Vocabulary lists are provided for grades K-12.
K-5 Math Teaching Resources
This site provides an extensive collection of free resources, math games, and hands-on math activities aligned with the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics. The free printables are suitable for use in math centers, small group activities or whole-class settings. Instructions for each activity are presented in child-friendly language to enable students to work on tasks independently after a brief introduction to the task.
NSDL Math Common Core Collection
contains digital learning objects related to specific Common Core Mathematics Standards.
Achieve
is an independent, bipartisan, non-profit education reform organization based in Washington, D.C. that helps states raise academic standards and graduation requirements, improve assessments and strengthen accountability.
Achievethecore.org
provides free, high-quality resources to educators now doing the hard work of implementing the Common Core State Standards.
Inside Mathematics
is a professional resource for educators passionate about improving students' mathematics learning and performance. This site features classroom examples of innovative teaching methods and insights into student learning tools for mathematics instruction that teachers can use immediately, as well as video tours of the ideas and materials on the site.
Math Assessment Resource Service (MARS)
offers a growing collection of resources to help leaders provide high-quality mathematics instruction to all students. Included on this site are strategies and tools to use when implementing the new mathematics standards.
Math Common Core Coalition
This site includes material or links to information and resources that the organization of the coalition are providing to the public and the education community about the CCSSM.
MathNEXUS
News and ideas for teachers and learners of mathematics.
National Council of Supervisors of Mathematics (NCSM)
is a mathematics leadership organization for educational leaders that provides professional learning opportunities necessary to support and sustain improved student achievement.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)
is a public voice of mathematics education supporting teachers to ensure equitable mathematics learning of the highest quality for all students through vision, leadership, professional development, and research.
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
provides a wealth of virtual manipulatives for grades K-12.
PBS LearningMedia
Is your destination for easy, instant access to thousands of classroom-ready, digital resources including videos and interactives perfect for the Whiteboard. You will also find audio files, photos and in-depth lesson plans.
Secondary Sample Tasks
These secondary tasks, with development led by the Dana Center, are a rich set of instructional tasks that exemplify expectations leading to Achieve's college-and career-ready standards. These tasks cover a range of student expectations, include a variety of solution strategies, and correlate to other documents being created for this work.
Shell Centre for Mathematical Education - Mathematics Assessment Project (MAP)
aims to bring to life the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in a way that will help teachers and their students turn their aspirations for achieving them into classroom realities. This site provides summative tests or tasks, formative assessment lessons and professional development modules. An excellent sources of tasks for high school teachers!