Teacher Zone

Educational Resources and Teacher Links

What's New - Recent Additions

TeacherTube - Contains teacher submitted video, documents, audio and photos. Submitted by Mr. Hreben.

Scholastic.com - Determine the grade level and genre of any book. Submitted by Mrs. Roberts.

Pete's PowerPoint Station has free presentations in every subject and interactive activities for students. Submitted by Mr. Hreben.

PD Central - CPS professional development classes for teachers.

Student Learning Activities - Standards Based

Interactive ISAT 2010 Multiple-Choice Sample Questions

Chicago Aerospace Initiative Space Explorers is a unique, internet-based curriculum designed to tap students’ natural curiosity and enthusiasm for space and technology.

BCCLA is Building Curriculum, Community and Leadership through the Arts. See what our Fine Arts Team is doing to integrate Fine Arts into the curriculum. Click Here.

My TestBook offers 100% FREE resources for students, teachers, and parents, including Math, Science and Reading tests and much more. Contributed by Mrs. Milon.

Read Write Think provides access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction. Contributed by Mrs. Roberts

ISTE's Educational Technology Standards for Students including essential conditions to effectively leverage technology for learning and profiles for technology literate students. Contributed by Dr. Crawford.

Interactive ISAT Multiple-Choice Sample Questions.

Schools Attuned Online - Teachers must register, but joining is free. Important and valuable modification information. Contributed by Ms. Owens

The Florida Center for Reading Research provides teachers specific activities for student centers relating to phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Contributed by Mrs. Roberts.

The Literacy Project - A resource for teachers, literacy organizations and anyone interested in reading and education, created in collaboration with LitCam, Google, and UNESCO's Institute for Lifelong Learning. Contributed by Dr. Crawford.

Chicago Math and Science Initiative - From Chicago Public Schools. Contributed by Dr. Crawford.

Tools for Reading, Writing and Thinking, from the Greece Central School District in New York State. Contributed by S. Roberts.

Mathematics Internet sites - Too many to mention here so it has it's own page. Based on Michigan state benchmarks.

Quiz Buddy has free quizzes on many subjects, including Elementary Math, Fractions, Spanish, Geography, SAT Verbal and Spelling.

Math Jeopardy games for grades 1 through 8.

Stemstar Literature helps you to construct questions based on the WASL Reading test stems.

Curriculum Maps courtesy of Carroll/Rosenwald Specialty School

CPS Standards Based Curriculum SBCI for English Language Arts and Social Science

Chicago Public Schools tutorials of internet use and computer programs.

The Collaboratory Project enables teachers to develop innovative curricular projects linked to Illinois Learning Standards.

Student Reference Materials

Vocabulary Workshop - Preparation for an American University Program.

Prefix list - Contributed by P. Englehardt.

Merriam Webster online dictionary and thesaurus.

Dictionary.com includes a dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia and more. Contributed by S. Walker

Internet Search Engines

Ask.com streamlined search engine.

Marco Polo Search Search engine for teachers.

HotBot Web Search.

DogPile.com

Google The worlds largest search engine.

AltaVista Search Engine

Yahoo Search

Student Learning Activities - General

Games for the Brain - Includes games to enhance brain power. Submitted by Mr. Hreben.

Reading a-z - Everything you need to meet the needs
of ALL your reading students!

	abc Teach is the place for kids, parents, student teachers, and teachers.
	Vocabulary Learning Can Be Fun for K12 and ESL students.

AAA Math - Hundreds pf pages of basic math skills and activities.

FunBrain is for kids, parents and teachers.

Internet4classrooms teacher resources for K-8 including all subject Skill Builders

English Works! from Gallaudet University Reading Exercises.

Sadlier-Oxford Student Activity Center phonics and word study Pre K through 6th grade.

McGraw - Hill interactive web site for teachers and students (all subjects).

PuzzleMaker.com from Discovery Channel School allows kids to make crossword puzzles online

StarFall.com has online activities for students

Portals to the World from the Library of Congress offers electronic resources from around the world.

Dositey offers free interactive lessons, exercises and worksheets, educational games, open-ended questions in Math and Language Arts, and more..

Teacher Certification and Organizations

CPS Alumni - Building relationships among alumni of Chicago Public Schools and their former schools and classmates. Highlighting CPS initiatives and opportunities for alumni to support student achievement. Donations can be made here.

PD Central, where teachers can register for PD programs and track their professional development progress.

GrowNetwork web site for teachers.

GrowParents web site for parents.

CPS "No Child Left Behind" web site.

CPS Test Score and Demographic Reports.

Educator Certification System - ECS is a web-based system that allows educators and district administrators access to certification data from ISBE's Teacher Certification Information System (TCIS).

The Collaboratory Project enables teachers to develop innovative curricular projects linked to Illinois Learning Standards.

2Learn.ca has over 8,000 pages of resources created by teachers for teachers.

ISTE is the International Society for Technology in Education.

ISBE is the Illinois State Board of Education

ThinkWave makes it easy for teachers, school administrators, students, and parents to securely communicate classroom information over the Internet.

Teacher Lesson Plan Resources

Eisenhower National Clearinghouse has K-12 mathematics and science curriculum resources.

Scholastic has classroom tools and resources.

TeacherVision, a part of the Family Education Network offers plans, research utilities and more to "make your teaching life simpler".

The Gateway to Education link has lesson plans galore.

Math Goodies specializes in math lesson plans.

LessonPlansPage has over 1500 preK-12 plans.