RUBEN C. RODRIGUEZ ELEMENTARY   
R.C.R. PRIDE  Parent and Teacher Resources  R.C.R. PRIDE

"Empowering Students to Succeed"

        Math

  • National Library of Virtual Manipulatives - NSF supported project to develop a library of uniquely interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials, mostly in the form of Java applets, for mathematics instruction.

    Communication/Networking

  • Children's Express - Children's Express (http://www.ce.org/) provided by Children's Express Foundation is designed so that children can voice their opinion about current affairs. This site is run by children and the topics of discussion are chosen monthly and comment are posted for all to read.

     

  • Kidlink - Kidlink (http://www.kidlink.org/) provided by Kidlink Society, is aimed at involving as many youth through the age 15 as possible in a global dialog. This work is supported by 38 public mailing lists for conferencing, a private network providing a chatroom, and volunteer teachers and parents living throughout the world.

     

  • UNICEF Voices of Youth - UNICEF Voices of Youth (http://www.unicef.org/voy/) allows young adults to voice their concerns and share ideas about important world issues. Topics of discussion include solutions and actions on child rights, children in war, child labor, and children and urbanization.

 

  • Telementoring Young Women in Science - Telementoring young women in science, engineering, and computing, is a project provided by the Education Development Center (http://www.edc.org/CCT/telementoring). It is in its second year of a three year project that draws on the strengths of telecommunication technology to build online communities of support among female high school students, professional women in technical fields, parents, and teachers.

     

  • The Electronic Emissary The Electronic Emissary - The Electronic Emissary (http://www.tapr.org/emissary) is a telementoring project based at the University of Texas at Austin. It is a 'matching service' that helps bring together students, teachers, and experts in different disciplines, for purposes of setting up facilitated curriculum-based, electronic exchanges among them. Classroom interaction is supplemented and extended by exchanges that occur asynchronously via E-mail among teachers, students, online facilitators and experts.

     

  • Hotmail - Hotmail (www.hotmail.com) is priced right - it's free. From any place that you can access the world wide web you can send and receive your personal email. In addition to universally accessible, free email you get to keep your Hotmail address for life. So go ahead travel abroad or just take a job in the real world -- we'll keep your email. The disadvantage is that you must have Internet access.

     

  • Gaggle - www.gaggle.net offers safe email options for educators. One of the key features at this sight is the option for teachers to monitor their students' email.

 

  • Mad Scientists Network - Mad Scientists Network (http://www.madsci.org) is great for kids. Ask-A-Scientist includes the online archive of questions and answers, and a place to ask a question. The MAD Labs section has information about having fun with science. The MadSci Library lists science sites and resources on the WWW. This includes links to other Ask-A-Scientist sites, and information about careers in science.

     

  • Young Composers - Young Composers (http://www.youngcomposers.com) provides a site where young musicians can publish their compositions.

     

  • Young Writer's Clubhouse at Real Kids - Young writers! Join over 1,000 kids from across the globe in the Young Writer's Clubhouse at Real Kids (http://www.realkids.com). Students can enter writing contests, chat online with author Deborah Morris, pick up tips about how to get published, and more.

     

  • ClassroomWeb - ClassroomWeb (http://www.classroom.net) maintains a database of more than a thousand schools that have created Web sites on the Net. They also put school Web pages on their server for free if schools do not have access to a server of their own.

     

  • Young Author's Workshop - This site will guide you and your students on a journey through the world of writing from searching for ideas to the final product. The site is designed from students in grades 4-7. With links to online resources, these pages will take your students step by step through the writing process.

     

  • A Questioning Toolkit - A listing of different types of questions to ask students. It is suggested that you print these questioning formats on large charts and place them on the classroom wall for easy referencing.

     

  • NCREL: Graphic Organizers - This site contains graphic organizers to use with students. These graphic organizers can be copied and pasted into a word document so that you can use them with students.

     


 

Webquests

  • Hello Dolly - Students can participate in an inquiry-oriented activity to learn about the implications of cloning. The site describes a scenario in which the U.S. House of Representatives assemble a group of specialists to investigate cloning's widespread implications for all of American society.

     

  • Filamentality - Go to the link, 'Filamentality' and use this interactive website to teach you how to make a treasure hunt, hotlist, scrapbook, or webquest. The guides prompt your thinking in order to assist you in creating your own learning activity that students can access on the net. Think of it like a learning contract. The guides are very simple to use.

     

  • The WebQuest Page - This site provides you with reading, training materials and hundreds of examples of webquests. The webquests are found under the link,'Examples' and are categorized by subject and grade level. Link to those that interest you and begin to explore the power of a webquest.

     


 

Science/Mathematics/Literature/Writing

  • The Franklin Institute Science Museum - The Franklin Institute Science Museum maintains a list of online museums (http://sln.fi.edu:80/tfi/hotlists/museums.html)

     

  • Reaching for the Red Planet - Reaching for the Red Planet (http://lyra.colorado.edu/sbo/mary/redplanet.html) is a multi-purpose curriculum focusing on planning a Mars colony. The project entails learning general facts about the planets, learning about the Earth's environment, choosing a purpose for a colony on Mars, and planning and designing a colony on Mars. The students will use drawings, creative writing, research skills, team work, math, and the scientific method to explore their own environment, and design an artificial one for Mars. Several assignments, a teacher's tour guide to the planets, a guide to the question of life on Mars, and a guide to current and planned Mars missions are included in Reaching for the Red Planet and experiments for the students to perform in class are explained in detail.

     

  • The AskERIC Lesson Plan - The AskERIC Lesson Plan (http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/Lessons/) Collection contains more than 1,000 unique lesson plans which have been written and submitted to AskERIC by teachers from all over the United States.

     

  • Columbia Education Center Lesson Plans - Contains a large database of lesson plans k-12 in a variety of subject areas. This database requires the teacher to browse through the lessons to locate those that are appropriate to particular grade levels.

     

  • CyberGuides - Supplemental, stards-based, web-delivered units of instruction are centers on core works of literature. The guides have been created for students in grades K-12 and in many cases provide teachers with multiple reading selections that allow students to read a variety of reading texts as they explore a theme or a specific topic. You will also want to check out other links at this site. There is a wealth of teacher resources, including graphic organizers that can be used with your students.

     

  • The Children's Literature Web Guide - This site includes links to authors on the web, stories, readers' theatre scripts, and resources for storytellers and writers.

     

  • Figure This! - Launched by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, this site offers a set of problems, complete with solutions, for families to work on at home.

     

  • Eyes on the Sky, Feet on the Ground: Hands-on Astronomy Activities for Kids - Teachers can access six chapters of fun explorations into astronomy as a classroom tool for learning how to theorize, experiment, and analyze data.

     

  • Marcopolo - The MarcoPolo program provides no-cost, standards-based Internet content for the K-12 teacher and classroom, developed by the nation's content experts. Online resources include panel-reviewed links to top sites in many disciplines, professionally developed lesson plans, classroom activities, materials to help with daily classroom planning, and powerful search engines.

     

  • 4Teachers Webzine - Provides ideas and opportunities for engaging students in technology. Links to websites, online scavenger hunts, tutorials, telecollaborative research activities, lessons and articles.

     

  • The Staff Room - Needing a rubric? You should be able to find one here.

     

  • Rubric and Student Activities-SCORE - Browse through the list of rubrics, graphic organizers, journaling techniques, and literature connections. You are certain to find something here to use in your lessons.

     

  • Rubistar - Rubistar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to design rubrics, but doesn't have the time to create them from scratch. At this site you can customize your own assessments.

     

  • NCES”S: Create a Graph - Students can use the software to create graphs for their data.

     

  • National Library of Virtual Manipulatives - NSF supported project to develop a library of uniquely interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials, mostly in the form of Java applets, for mathematics instruction.

     

  • SITES for CHILDREN - These sites in science and technology are compiled by the Children and Technology Committee of the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association. Excellent curriculum resources.

     


 

Telecollaborative Research/Research

  • The New Jersey Department of Education - The New Jersey Department of Education has an ask an expert (http://njnie.dl.stevens-tech.edu/curriculum/aska.html) page that features an Ask an Expert index.

     

  • Education World - Education World (http://www.education-world.com/) is a site where education related web addresses and curriculum abound.

     

  • Globe Project - Students around the world collect climate conditions near their schools and share them at http://www.globe.gov/

     

  • The National Student Research Center - The National Student Research Center (http://youth.net/nsrc/webs.html) provides information on how to conduct student research as well as an area where students publish their research results.

     

  • Learner Online - Learner Online (http://www.learner.org/) has a variety of offerings. Among them are ongoing global studies of wildlife migration. Students gather and submit data about a variety of natural objects from butterflies to flowers.

     

  • Indexes of World's Newspapers - Indexes the world's newspapers (http://www.newspapers/com)--thorough site.They have the addresses of everything from international to college papers.

     

  • The Awesome Library - This site can be used by teachers, librarians, parents, and kids to gain information from several databases.

     

  • My Hero - This interactive website encourages visitors to read about individuals who have made contributions to the human race. It encourages children and adults to suggest their own heroes and to write short biographies about them. In honoring others, visitors, especially children, begin to realize their own power and potential.

     

  • International E-Mail Classroom Connections - A location to network your students with other students internationally to collaborate on international research.

     

  • International Education and Resource Network - International Education and Resource Network iEARN is a non-profit that enables young people to use the Internet and other new technologies to engage in collaborative educational projects that both enhance learning and make a difference in the world.

     

  • Project Approach - This site provides you with information on the project method approach to teaching. The student examples are wonderful investigations that were pursued by inquirying minds.

     

  • ICONnect - Telecollaborative projects that teachers and students can join.

     

  • Resources on Telecollaborative Projects - Interesting sites that encourage telecollaborative involvement.


 

Historical Thinking

  • The History Net - This site contains personality profiles, eye-witness accounts, interviews, and general iforamtion about most historical events imaginable. The resources at this site can be used to provide students with primary documents and other wonderful references to make history come alive.

     

  • Using Oral History form the America Memory Series - Using excerpts from the collection, students study social history topics through interviews that recount the lives of ordinary Americans. Based on these excerpts and further research in the collections, students develop their own research questions. They then plan and conduct oral history interviews with members of their communities.

     

  • Cyndi’s List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet: Oral History and Interviews - Listing of general research and resource sites devoted to numerous topics including, how to conduct interview, how to tape oral histories, the steps and procedures for carrying out historical research studies, etc.

     

  • Whyy: Across the Generations - This site contains links to oral history projects, student lessons, examples of oral histories from Americans in the 1930’s that can serve as a means of helping students (grades 7-12) understand the meaning of social history (history of the everyday experiences and beliefs of ordinary people). It also provides lessons that prepare students to conduct oral history interviews with members of their own communities.

     

  • Net Investigations: Inquiry Activities for Secondary History and Government Students - This site is maintained by Barbara Armstrong at Montgomery County Public Schools. The site links to a series of analysis sheets to analyze historical documents, artifacts, political cartoons, posters, etc. Teachers will find a wealth of resources here to support the study of history and government.

     

  • Turn-of-the-Century Child - A wonderful site created by Debbie Abilock and Cynthia Hirsch Kosut. The first series of exercises, using primary source photographs of young children of diverse backgrounds, are designed to teach and practice the skills of observation and deduction to build student understanding of 1900-1923, the 'first generation' of the 20th century. From the initial stimulus, a digitized photograph taken during the period, students develop a richly realized 'persona' from the same geographic region and ethnic background as the child pictured. Much as an historian fits a particular artifact into an assemblage of evidence for the purpose of constructing a model of the past, students identify, place, and interpret these images as part of their scrapbooks of an imagined child born in 1900.

     

  • History Channel - Highlights important historical events occurring on this day.

     

  • THOMAS Historical Documents - Searchable database of historical documents.

     

  • National Center for the History in the Schools - e National Center for the History in the Schools provides a range of standards for grades K-12 for both US History and World History. Of importance is an outline of the type of historical thinking that we are trying to develop in young people.

     

  • The American Civil War Homepage - Images of wartime, biographies, music, oral histories of those experiencing the Civil War.

     

  • Civics Online - Exciting ways to teach civics to your students. Teachers can retrieve primary sources, activities developed around civic themes, and case studies that examine how other teachers have used primary sources in their teaching.

     

  • What Kids Can Do - Examples of projects kids are working on with adults in their schools and communities on the real-world issues that concern them most.

The Internet Resources

  • CAST - CAST is a not-for-profit organization that uses technology to expand opportunities for all people, especially those with disabilities.

     

  • Sony Microvault - Sony proudly introduces Micro Vault™ USB Storage Media, a simple solution for storing, sharing and transporting data. It's the perfect medium for carrying Microsoft PowerPoint® presentations between home and office computers or sharing files with colleagues, clients, friends and family. It's ideal storage for big PDF files, MPEG files and large databases. And it's a powerful tool for maintaining the security of your personal files.

     

  • Hi-CE's Palm Pages - Today, handheld devices such as Palms are making technology accessible, affordable, and fun for teachers and students alike. The folks from Hi-CE (Center for Highly Interactive Computing in Education at the University of Michigan) have developed a collection of Palm applications for the classroom along with instructions for each.