Gifted Education

Learning Theory

1. Links on the Social Science, if not the Art, of Teaching, compiled by McGraw-Hill
2. Learning Theories, a collection of sites on education theory
3. Multiple Intelligences, a set of links supporting Gardner's view of how we learn

Links to Pre-Kindergarten through High School Educational Activities

1. (some assembly required), classroom projects; cool projects
2. Master Teacher, products, publications, and services for teachers
3. Teacher's Links from The Mailbox.com, education center for classroom activities and bulletin board ideas
4. Teacher's Tool Box, mostly reading and social studies activities
5. A to Z Teacher Stuff, lesson plans, units, activities, and resources
6. Education World, the self-proclaimed "Teacher's Best Friend"
7. Virtual Manipulatives, interactive math for grades K-12
8. 20 Questions, web-based version of the traditional category/logic game
9. Math, Language, Logic, etc. tools and worksheets from SuperKids.com
10. Family Education Network with Parent, Teacher, Teen, Child, and Reference tabs
11. Created by Teachers, math, reading, and general daily tracking materials done by and for teachers
12. Internet4Classrooms, K-7 basic skills help
13. Clocks, Counters, and Countdowns; debt, doomsday, and even dead clocks
14. Pet Education, powerful but easy to use database of household pet information
15. Public TV's TeacherSource
16. Web Resources for Teachers and Students from the Educational Testing Service
17. LA Freenet Teacher's Center, teachers' stuff, but it also has similar links for students and administrators
18. Teacher Talk Articles from the University of Indiana; it's geared toward teachers of adolescents
19. Drug Abuse Resistance Education, some drug awareness activities and curriculum links
20. Multicultural Teaching Toolbox, some awareness activities and readings
21. Intervention Central, searchable behavior tools and general education materials
22. Study Tools for Kids from Ask Jeeves, the search engine with the question query format
23. HP Creative Projects Site, cards, games, and templates from Hewlett Packard
24. Preschool Coloring Book.com, coloring pages, journal pages, and "no line" coloring sheets, arranged by themes (animals, western, sports, etc., even dental health)
25. Big Chalk, a searchable network for grades K through 12
26. Microsoft's Encarta Encyclopedia Online, a handy reference for any subject
27. 4Kids.com treehouse graphic with clickable games and activities
28. Worksheets4Teachers.com, searchable by grade level and topic
29. 4Teachers.Org Tools, this takes a little figuring out, but you can build customizable worksheets, class calendars (and search other teacher's calendars by subject), even annotate photos, plus a bunch more
30. Interactive Test.com, a site for creating multiple choice tests in various content areas
31. K-12 Web Resources, for various subject areas (and the Internet itself). Also see their Math and Science links.
32. Competitions by Subject, Grade, and Age (from Sevierville Middle's Janet McCullough)
33. Bingo Game Sheet, for a 4-by-4 round of Bingo
34. Bingo Game Sheet, for a 5-by-5 round of Bingo ("free" block in the middle)

Pre-K - Third Grade Activities

1. Parent Report.com does other age spans, but this link is geared to 3-5 year olds' activities
2. Education World's Early Childhood Center: references, resources, and fun
3. Marilee's Kidsworks and Kidspix, some neat K-2 activities
4. Preschool Zone, teaching ideas for early childhood and special education
5. DLTK's Crafts and Activities, some school related, some not
6. Big Idea, for fans of Veggies Larry the Cucumber and Bob the Tomato
7. Funschool Games, a lot of word, picture, and puzzle match up activities
8. Kids' Domain, activities, downloads, and lesson plans
9. First School Themes, activities, crafts, and lesson plans
10. Crayola, busy site by the crayon people, with links for children, parents, and teachers
11. A Kid's Heart.com, online games and activities, with a lot of good links for children in the early grades and their teachers
12. Perpetual Preschool: themes, teaching tips, and a teacher to teacher section
13. Letter Lane, an engaging alphabet-based activity page
14. Dolch Words, good list with a table for each grade level's words
15. Edupuppy, elementary materials for various subjects
16. Early Childhood Education/Daycare, one person's short list of the very best sites
17. Early Childhood Education, another view of the most important links
18. Beginning Reading Worksheets, alphabet and some early Math sheets for downloading
19. Early Childhood Education Listserv (discussion group) and some sites
20. Journal of Early Intervention from the Council for Exceptional Children's Division of Early Childhood (back issues online)
21. Words and Pictures, phonics builders and games for 5-7 year old level
22. TumbleBooks, books online (with sounds and motion)
23. Preschool Coloring Book.com, coloring pages, journal pages, and "no line" coloring sheets, arranged by themes (animals, western, sports, etc., even dental health)
24. Pics4learning, a site for creating flashcard-type pictures, with many ready for downloading
25. Learning Page.com has a lot of great worksheets and other materials, too
26. Educational Games, Worksheets, Word Lists, etc., for teachers and parents
27. Technology Resources for Early Childhood Education, some Boardmaker canned files and other software support
28. Boardmaker keyboard shortcuts and a few other suggestions
29. Tic Tac Toe Math Game, requires math flash cards and a 3x3 grid
30. K-3 Math from the Jacksonville School District
31. Cool Math for Kids, this is for elementary and middle school, but the site has links for higher math too
32. K-3 Language Arts from the Jacksonville School District
33. 2-Week Unit on Body Parts with activities for students of various levels
34. 2-Week Unit on Shapes with activities for students of various levels

 

 

Fourth - Sixth Grade Activities

1. Energy Theme Contest, with teacher guide, and Energy Jeopardy and Energy Squares games (from http://www.energyhog.org's Educator link) (adapted by Sevierville Middle's Janet McCullough)
2. Brain Pop, fun site that uses short videos for lessons in Science, Math, and English based on U.S. national standard for grades 3 through 8 in these subject area
3. Exploration Destination, enrichment activities with links to the 3rd through 8th grade curricula (from Green County [not the one in Tennessee])
4. Exploration Destination with Additional Activities for Gifted students, with links to the 3rd through 8th grade curricula
5. Math and Reading Help for Kids is an article directory full of tips and resources for helping kids perform better at school.  There is also a homework help section for all grade levels
6. Cyberbee, various elementary activities and curriculum ideas
7. Kids' Freeware, a lot of free software (games and activities) for downloading
8. Sentence Building Game, downloadable freeware
9. All 4th and 5th Grade Subjects, useful research and homework help site
10. Cool Math for Kids, this is for elementary and middle school, but the site has links for higher math too
11. The Internet as an Encyclopedia, and a great effort at that!
12. Reading Planet, the kids' link on the Reading is Fundamental site
13. Kids in the House, informative and entertaining site from the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives (meant for middle school-aged students)
14. Virtual Science Fair, with a lot of experimental designs and ideas for Science Fair projects
15. All Science Fair Projects, over 500 on this site, categorized and searchable
16. Stories to Grow By, for elementary schoolers to use (with parent and teacher links to help)
17. 50 States, nicely done set of facts about each of the United States
18. SodaConstructor, students can create and then move objects or set in motion objects developed by others
19. Science Activities Manual for kindergarten to 8th grade

 

 

Seventh - Ninth Grade Activities

1. Genetic Disorders Webquest, created by a middle school science teacher
2. Mrs. McCullough's Home Page for CSA activities at Sevierville Middle and county wide
3. Cell Activities for the classroom, from Kathi Mitchell
4. Cells Worksheets/Quiz from Utah's science curriculum for 7th graders
5. Meiosis tutorials for the 7th and 8th grades, from Arizona
6. Mitosis tutorials for the 7th and 8th grades, from San Diego State University
7. Mitosis animated tutorials for the 7th and 8th grades, from Stanford University
8. Mitosis Songs to help students learn the phases
9. National Geographic for Kids. The homepage also has links for parents and teachers
10. Glencoe, the textbook publisher's site for sixth through twelfth grade activities
11. Applied Math Activities, linked to specific occupations 
12. SOS Mathematics, help with middle and high school math
13. Channel One Teacher, good current events/news activities site for intermediate and early high school students
14. TerrServer, from the U.S. Geological Survey; check out the advanced search to find your school or home
15. U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Publications, includes a great World Factbook and maps
16. County/City Databook, a searchable resource from Census 2000
17. Country Studies from the Library of Congress
18. Discovery Channel's school link. Also see BJ Pinchbeck's Homework Helper
19. PuzzleMaker, from the Discovery Channel's school link, good for crossword and wordsearch puzzle development
20. Ancient Civilizations, great site from a middle school teacher in Pennsylvania
21. Basic Human Needs Course, content from a Vermont middle school teacher's course
22. Aesop's Fables, nicely done collection of the famous stories with morals

Tenth - Twelfth Grade Activities

1. MIT Open Courses on Science video lectures on electromagnetism, etc.
2. Study Guides.net, well done collection in all subject areas
3. Study Skills, suggestions for high school students from Studyguides.net
4. Digital Reference Library, easy to use source from the University of Pennsylvania
5. Bulfinch's Mythology, fables, epics, etc.
6. Complete Shakespeare, MIT's link to each of the plays
7. List of Classic Works available for Literature.org, by author
8. Bartleby, classic works and reference books online
9. A Book a Minute, highly condensed classics, science fiction, and bedtime stories. Irreverent, but it's a hoot. The site even has a movies link.
10. SparkNotes, better at online study aids than its more famous cousin, CliffsNotes. These sites are for students, of course. But teachers will enjoy the user's comments sprinkled throughout the SparkNotes site.
11. Grammar, help at the senior high, college level
12. Britannica, a searchable version of the encyclopedia
13. Periodic Table of Elements, clickable, printable, and manipulatable
14. Economic Overview from Economy.com
15. Recent U.S. Supreme Court Cases by year
16. U.S. Senate, happenings at the Capitol in Washington, D.C.
17. U.S. House of Representatives, happenings at the Capitol in Washington, D.C.
18. Statistical Abstract of the United States, based on the year 2000 Census returns
19. U.S. Government Notes on Foreign Countries, arranged geographically (by region) and alphabetically
20. Country Studies from the Library of Congress
21. U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Publications, includes a great World Factbook and maps
22. Federal Statistics, U.S. statistics arranged by state or region and grouped by various topics
23. Scientific American, the online version of the magazine
24. Applied Math Activities, linked to specific occupations
25. SOS Mathematics, help with middle and high school math 
26. Math Links from textbook publisher Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
27. Math Prep for Standardized Tests, from Chicago Public Schools
28. ThinkQuest, a searchable database of 4,500 education-related Web sites
29. Schoolwork.org is for high school help
30. 700+ Great Sites for History, Geology, Science, and Technology
31. Glencoe, the textbook publisher's site for sixth through twelfth grade activities
32. Delphi For Fun.Org's classic math topics
33. ExploreMath.com for Math activities and lesson plans
34. Hot Math.Org has odd-numbered solutions for many of the texts used in high schools
35. Secondary Education Vocational Programs from the State of Tennessee Department of Education, site gives the curriculum standards for many of the areas
36. Tennessee's Link on the College Scholarships Page. It also has a scholarship search link

Special Education Activities

1. Quizzes and Puzzles for ESL Students in grades K through 12
2. More ESL Quizzes, Puzzles, and Word Games from ManyThings.Org
3. Read, Please, allows you to download a demo version (or a $70 version) of a program that will read aloud (with a male or a female robotic voice) any text you paste into it
4. Preschool Zone, teaching ideas for early childhood and special education
5. CeDIR's Kids Web Page, from Indiana's Center for the Study of Disability's Information and Referral website
6. Self-Study ESL Quizzes in grammar and vocabulary for English as a Second Language students
7. Spanish Language Math Resources from Math Forum.org
8. ESL Handbook for Teachers and Administrators, guidance from Virginia's Department of Education
9. ESL Handouts from Purdue University's Online Writing Lab
10. Multicultural/Bilingual Education, scroll down for a great collection of sites from Weber State
11. National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education's Classroom link
12. Speech and Language Games from the Peoria Unified School District's site
13. Widgets, interactive problems from Washington State University (you have to have Shockwave loaded first, or download it from their site, then reboot)
14. Different Learning, a good variety of materials at reasonable prices
15. Kaplan Company, materials for elementary and special education
16. Stages Learning Materials, featuring language builder picture cards
17. Attainment Company has both IEP development and assistive technology materials
18. Brighteye Technology, Asheville, NC, company specializes in a computer add-on device that allows the students to hear the text as they scan over it
19. K-8 Access Center, reading, math, and science activities, especially for kids with learning abilities
20. Enrichment Activities for Gifted students, with links to the 3rd through 8th grade curriculum
21. Circles of Friends, an inclusion activity
22. Shoebox Tasks, manipulatives to develop organizational skills
23. Picture Exchange Communication System, for nonverbal students to make needs known via icon cards
24. Eye-cons Version 2, from KidAccess.com
25. Beyond PECS, good collection of picture icon sites
26. School Clip Art, for schedule and activity tracking
27. Chores Icons, flashcard sized, for schedule creation
28. Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies, Applied Behavior Analysis materials and training
29. Teacher Link of the Just Free Stuff Site, a lot of materials for teachers to "borrow"
30. ABA Materials, 8,500 pictures in 65 categories available for purchase on CD-ROM
31. Real Life Stories, books about special needs people
32. Social Stories, for students who are socially unaware or nonverbal
33. Social Stories, visual stories to use in teaching appropriate interactions with others
34. 2-Week Unit on Body Parts with activities for students of various levels
35. Unit Planning Map, 10 considerations for Special Education unit planning
    

 

 

 

Activities by Subject

1. Tips on How to Study Better, from St. Thomas University
2. Blue Ribbon Learning Sites, a database of sites sorted by subject area and type of activity
3. Resources by Subject, from 7 East Nebraska county school districts
4. Study Stack, java application for self-quizzing in various subjects
5. Quiz Hub, like Study Stack, but this one requires a shockwave download first (and has free or membership options)
6. Library in the Sky from the Northwest Regional Education Lab
7. Homework Elephant, for homework help by subject
8. Schoolwork.org is for high school help
9. Shodor Interactive, Math and Science activities (requires java-enabled web browser) 
10. Infoplease.com's Homework Site, by subject and it also has a few neat search engines
11. Helping Students with Homework, a nicely done U.S. Department of Education publication for teachers
12. Enchanted Learning's Zoom School, various subjects from which to choose
13. Critical Thinking.Org's Resource link; do check the "remodeled" lessons for each grade span
14. TEAMS Classroom Projects grouped by subject area
15. U.S. Public Television Programming by academic subject