Website Resources

SEARCH ENGINES

The following links will take you to sites where you can find hundreds of teaching resources.

Yahooligans! - It should come as no surprise that Yahoo! has a great search engine

for teacher resources.  There are teaching ideas, poetry, stories, biographies of

authors, pictures, and most anything you might need.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Kathy's guide is another fantastic resource.  It even contains lesson plans!  Don't let the "elementary school" appearance fool you.  There's lots of great ideas and information appropriate for high school use.

Ask Jeeves - Have you ever wanted your own butler standing by to serve you?  Ask Jeeves your question, and he will point you to the answer.

Google - This is the "Big Mother" of all search engines!  Type in your own name, and you might get a surprise!

More Links

These links will take you to websites/pages containing teaching ideas that may be applicable to many areas.

Writing/Thinking Activities

Links to Specific Topics

These sites are good places to start planning your demonstrations. Note that several are university sites and/or may be designed as resources for university tutoring centers or classes. Don’t let that discourage you, because most of the ideas can be used in middle and high school classes will a little bit of “tweaking,” and many can be used with no modifications. These web pages also contain background information about your topics. Enjoy!

Reflection/Response Links:

Peer Workshops

How To Set Up Peer Response Groups – other resources available on this site, too!

Pre-Writing Links:

Freewriting

Prewriting Activities

Pre-Reading Links:

Pre-reading Activity

General Pre-reading Strategies

Vocabulary Development Links:

Fun Ways to Teach Vocabulary

ELL Links:

Message Board with Ideas

Lesson Plans – adaptable to many content areas

Notetaking Links:

Learning About Notetaking

A Plethora of Strategies