McCullough Middle School

Library/Media Center

Teacher Resources

Landmark for Schools - links to teaching and learning resources on the Net and valuable Web tools, including Rubric Machine, Citation Machine, (Web) Permission Request.

Reading Council of Northern Delaware

Science Resources

Education Resource Center - Peggy Dillner, University of DE
(ERC) provides preschool through grade 12 curriculum resources and related services for the preparation and professional development of educators in support of national and Delaware content and performance standards. The ERC is a part of the Delaware Center for Teacher Education, University of Delaware.

Bulletin Board/Art

AutoMotivator - Make motivational posters

Roflbot - Add text to a picture

Tiny Tags - Generate little tag graphics with text

Easystreet - Ttreet sign generator

SayWhat? - Add cartoon speech bubbles to a picture

Speech bubbles - Make your own speech bubbles

Screedbot - animated scrolling typewriter text generator

Awesome Clip Art for Educators

Bulletin Board "Hang Ups" - Looking for something to hang on your wall that will catch the mind as well as the eye? These Hang Ups should be just the ticket. Teachers' First has collected dozens of quotations, grouped them by topic, and created colorful, printable, 8.5" x 11" Adobe Acrobat files that are ready to use. All you do is print 'em out and hang 'em up.

Create cool, custom images to use on your website, or in your e-mail.

Reference

ERIC - Provides free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials

Awesome Library
O rganizes the Web with 30,000 carefully
reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education.

Telephone Directories (University of Delaware database) - Free Internet sites providing telephone numbers for people and businesses, including e-mail addresses, and more.

- On-line dictionary

Upload and keep your bookmarks on the web for free. Access from anywhere!

Lessons, Webquests, Information for Teachers/Librarians

 

Rubrics Judges’ Rubric	Technology Tiny Dots - make a long URL tiny Maximizing Smartboard Discover Education (United Streaming) Hot Chalk - for teachers, students and parents that includes a learning management system (LMS), lesson plans, digital content, and professional development. National Geographic Videos National Georgraphic Photos InterWrite Lessons and Activities Text to speech Software that lets your computer talk.. AT & T Text to speech Webquests Templates Stopwatch Copyright-Friendly and Copyleft Images and Sound (Mostly!)for Use in Multimedia Projects and Web Pages Itug - Instructional Technology Users Group, DE
Assessments/Products FREE tool to create a lesson, worksheet, or class page to publish online, set up classes and assign projects to students. Students then create their own online projects or reports. Create a brochure Create a "z-fold" brochure Puzzle maker - Create a puzzle Create your own online contact form
Internet Safety	Create a Webpage Free Website Protopage SchoolNotes

Lesson plans and Class Activities Thinkfinity: Find Quality Internet Content for Your Classroom! Thinkfinity features seven content Web sites with lesson plans, student interactive content, downloadable worksheets, panel-reviewed Web sites, and additional resources created by the nation's leading education organizations. Lesson Plan Library, Grades 6-8 Middle School Language Arts Lesson Plans Middle School Science Lessons Social Skills for Middle School Students Lesson Plans and Teaching Strategies, Social Studies Math Forum: Middle School Teachers' Place (Drexel University) Teachers.net Lesson Bank Middle School.net - "For teachers by teachers" Web Resources for Technology Integrated Lesson Plans and Resources from ITUG 4Teachers I ntegrate technology. Locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars. Smartboard Lesson plans from Smart Technologies Smartboard Interactive Activities Smartboard Resource Page Discover School.com Num Sum: Easy, Sharable Web Spreadsheets NIE (Newspapers In Education) Newspaper Lessons Graphic organizers ESL Teacher Handouts, Worksheets, Printables Scholastic's Internet Made Easy (Using workbook)

 

Librarian Resources

Library of Congress

National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS)
Reprinted with permission from National Educational Technology Standards for Students, Second Edition, © 2007, ISTE® (International Society for Technology in Education), www.iste.org. All rights reserved. 11/08

A Webquest About School Library Websites

Librarians' Shelf (Education and Employment, Connections, Publications, Library Roles, Issue, & Internet and Libraries)

Information Power (AASL)

8th grade Tech Literacy - PortaPortal (Pat Sine)