Websites and Resources
Assistive Technology
Websites and Resources
Assistive Technology
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4Teachers.org works to help you integrate technology into your classroom by offering online tools and resources. This site helps teachers locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars. There are also tools for student use. Discover valuable professional development resources addressing issues such as equity, ELL, technology planning, and at-risk or special-needs students.
The TechMatrix is a powerful tool for finding educational and assistive technology products for students with special needs.
Click on the “free movies” button and there will be some sample movies for Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Arts & Music, Health, and Technology.
http://www.microsoft.com/education/classtipsarchive.mspx
Get organized and learn how to use Microsoft software in the classroom with tips and tricks presented in the following how-to articles.
Click on “Enter this site as a Guest.” Click on a grade, then click on a subject, and you will see videos or visual resources to help understand challenging concepts.
http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/hiat/
High Incidence Accessible Technology (HIAT)
Supporting teachers using technology to support all students
http://coe.jmu.edu/learningtoolbox/
Tools and resources to enable students with learning difficulties to be better learners.
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/homeworkhelp/homework_help_home.html
On these pages, you will find resources to help students master the basics of mathematics of numbers and number operations, connect science content to things they can see and experience, assist students with their written and verbal communication skills, assist students with understanding the election process, as well as the powers of and people behind the U.S. presidency.
http://www.cliffsnotes.com/WileyCDA/
Free study help in literature, writing, foreign languages, math, science, and other subjects.
http://www.sparknotes.com/sparknotes/
Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes Study Guides give you the essentials that you actually need to know. With thorough summaries and insightful analyses, they're the perfect aid for studying and writing papers. Browse hundreds of titles below to read them FREE online.
Find a variety of information about homework, the world, United States, people, sports, science, math & money, words, cool stuff, and games & quizzes.
A web search for kids by librarians
http://www.dcmp.org/Default.aspx
Explore our Web site to learn how we are living our mission to promote and provide equal access to communication and learning for students who are blind, visually impaired, deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind.
http://www.graphicorganizers.com/downloads.htm
Graphic organizers to print
Lessons, ideas, articles and links for multi-sensory learning for people of all ages. Resources for people who learn differently, or have learning difficulties or learning disabilities such as dyslexia, dysgraphia, or dyscalculia.
Installing ReadPlease: Go to my Computer, click on X drive, click on Install Programs, click on ReadPlease, Click on icon to install.
There are over 27,000 free books in the Project Gutenberg Online Book Catalog.
*If you want to download a book, you would have to get permission from ETC to download it.*
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/story/sbi.shtml
For children 4-11yrs. Click on “More stories at CBeebies” for additional stories.
Teachers around the world use Starfall as an inexpensive way to make the classroom more fun and inspire a love of reading and writing. Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade.
Reading is Fundamental. Check out some of RIF favorites.
This site has books written by Stephen Cosgrove and read online. His first story and the all the books that followed reflected a sense of value in the plot and their natural positive resolutions.
StoryPlace, an interactive web site, came about to provide children with the virtual experience of going to the library and participating in the same types of activities the library offers. StoryPlace currently consists of two libraries, the Preschool Library and Elementary Library.
KIZCLUB provides lots of educational activities in language arts for preschool and elementary age children.
This is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics.
http://www.readwritethink.org/
Providing educators and students access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction.
http://www.readingrockets.org/
Reading Rockets is a national multimedia project offering information and resources on how young kids learn to read, why so many struggle, and how caring adults can help.
http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jeather/writingfun/writingfun.html
Using text organizers to assist students with the writing process.
MATH websites
You'll find over 100 instant-answer, self-help, math solvers, ready to provide you with instant help on your math problem.
AAA Math features a comprehensive set of interactive arithmetic lessons. Unlimited practice is available on each topic which allows thorough mastery of the concepts. A wide range of lessons (Kindergarten through Eighth grade level) enables learning or review to occur at each individual's current level.
This math site is designed for ages 13-100. The level of math is from fractions up (prealgebra and up).
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
Explore our library of 100 online activities that help to make math come alive in the classroom or at home.
A variety of games and activities
A variety of games
MathVids.com is a website dedicated to providing high quality, instructional, free math videos to middle school, high school, and college students who need math help.
Thinking Blocks is an engaging, interactive math tool developed by classroom teachers to help students learn how to solve multistep word problems.
http://www.mathplayground.com/
Welcome to Math Playground, an action-packed site for elementary and middle school students. Practice your math skills, play a logic game and have some fun!
http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com/
An animated, interactive dictionary for students which explains over 600 common mathematical terms in simple language.
http://www.googleguide.com/calculator.html
Want to add up a list of numbers, convert from miles to kilometers, or evaluate some other mathematical expression? Instead of using a piece of paper, your calculator, or a computer math software program, you can now solve mathematical problems with Google’s built-in calculator function.
Social Studies and Science Sites
Kids.gov is the official kids' portal for the U.S. government. It links to over 1,200 web pages from government agencies, schools, and educational organizations, all geared to the learning level and interest of kids.
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/
All kinds of social studies activities.
http://etc.usf.edu/maps/index.htm
Welcome to ETC's collection of historic maps. Here you will find over 5,000 maps representing many different time periods. A friendly license allows teachers and students to use up to 25 maps in non-commercial school projects without further permission.
This site provides learning tools for K-12 students, parents, and teachers. These resources will teach how our government works, the use of the primary source materials of GPO (Government Printing Office) Access, and how one can use GPO Access to carry out their civic responsibilities.
Windows to the Universe is a user-friendly learning system covering the Earth and Space sciences for use by the general public.
If you are looking for basic chemistry information, stay on this site. It's not just for kids, it's for everyone. We have information on matter, atoms, elements, the periodic table, reactions, and biochemistry.
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/
Science NetLinks' role is to provide a wealth of standards-based resources for K-12 science educators, including lesson plans, interactives and reviewed Internet resources.
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Rita Betts
January 2009
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