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WEB RESOURCES

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GENERAL

Website for interesting educational activities in various subject areas


CULTURAL AWARENESS

Yupik Masks at the National Museum of Natural History. Resource for level 5 and 6 Cultural Awareness

Excellent Video on Alaska's Native Leaders


EMPLOYABILITY

Alaska Career Information System (login: lakeandpen pword: 4akcis)



MATHEMATICS

Free Math Help http://www.freemathhelp.com

Mudd Math Fun Facts: All Fun Facts http://www.math.hmc.edu/funfacts/allfacts.shtml

A Collection of Assessment Strategies A comprehensive listing of different methods of assessment in math and science, including examples. From the State of Alaska Department of Education website.

Math & Science Frameworks: Vignettes Eight descriptions from Primary to High School levels, that show examples of what thematic instruction can look like in Math and Science. Included you will find examples of scoring guides along with standards addressed. From the State of Alaska Department of Education website.

State of Washington Math Modules An excellent resource of problems and activities geared towards secondary students. Included are five weeks of lessons, links to standards and assessments, and warm-up activities. All free and available for download off the site.

Resource for Level 11 Consumer Math


READING

Techniques for Teaching Reading Effectively

Fry word lists and printouts, along with other fry activities.

Links to online fiction

Great site for language arts activities at all levels

Houghton Mifflin Support

This website has great reading activities for level 1-6.

The site you'll get to is an interactive vocabulary site (mainly for upper levels) and is pretty neat. They donate 20 grains of rice to the United Nations for each word you get right. Doesn't seem like much, but after 20 words, you're up to 400 grains of rice. :)

Site that works with real player for helping instruct phonemes and diagraphs. Can be used for students in higher grades and lower levels.

Library Association website

Daily News for Students


SCIENCE

The Tree of Life Web Project http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html

Excellent resource for earth science.

Resource for life science.

weblabs/ DragonMeiosis/ DragonMeiosisMenu.html/ a simulation to show meiosis using dragons

weblabs/ SexDetermination/ SexDeterminationLinkage.html/ Sex Determination & Linkage using flash animation

go/ frog/ Frog2/ Net Frog: The On-line Dissection for use before you cut the real ones open.

SC 5.5 Classification of living things, mainly human classification categories.


SOCIAL STUDIES

Early US History - SS Level 7

Site that contrasts early childhood labor laws

Website for Level 3

Novels in History for secondary

This is a cool site where they are trying to collect pictures from all of the places where the latitude and longitude lines on the earth meet. There are plenty of them near our villages.

Print free black-line maps

This website includes great geography activities at all levels

Website that includes interesting world and U.S. information and activities

Great site for social studies at all levels

Excellent Video on Alaska's Native Leaders


TECHNOLOGY



WRITING

List of Online Grammar Resources

Great site for language arts activities at all levels

Transition Sentences Lesson

rubrics organized into Elementary, Middle and High School levels. Different rubrics for different genres.

Rhyme Zone-rhyming dictionary

A list of prompts for all levels.

A myriad of resources for helping teach everything about writing. Power points and quizzes abound here

A site with many prompts and writing help

| Online writing lab from Purdue University, great helps for grades 7-12

A downloadable prompt generator+timer for kids to do 5 minute or more or less timed prompts

A site with many prompts and writing help

| Online writing lab from Purdue University, great helps for grades 7-12

A downloadable prompt generator+timer for kids to do 5 minute or more or less timed prompts

A site with many prompts and writing help

| Online writing lab from Purdue University, great helps for grades 7-12

A downloadable prompt generator+timer for kids to do 5 minute or more or less timed prompts

RAFTS Great Site for Pre-writing strategy

Great website for writing resources at all levels


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