| RESOURCES FOR LOUISIANA TEACHERS |
| TLTC A regional Teaching, Learning, Technology Center provides training in your area. Find out where it is. |
Making Connections |
| Marco Polo Louisiana is a Marco Polo partner. High quality standards-based lessons and activities are linked to seven major national partners. |
| Louisiana INTECH INTECH is a professional development model and framework for INtegrating TECHnology into the classroom. |
| Teach Louisiana This career development network for teachers offers certification information, a recruitment center, and a professional development center. |
| ThinkQuest Students and teachers together build content-rich web sites in collaborative international teams. Louisiana offers a ThinkQuest Camp to prepare students and teachers for ThinkQuest competition. |
| Universal Designs for Learning Universal Designs for Learning is an initiative for educators who are committed to improving educational outcomes for all learners. |
| LESSON PLAN COLLECTIONS |
| The Educator's Reference Desk This site contains the thousands of lesson plans for every subject that were once posted at AskERIC (closed December, 2003). |
| Cool Teaching Lessons and Units There are many resources here, including a large number of links to WebQuests and information about WebQuests. |
| The Gateway to Educational Materials The Gateway to Educational Materials Project is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education and is “the key to one-stop, any-stop access to high quality lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources on the Internet.” |
| The Lesson Plans Page This is the home of the largest collection of lesson plans on the Internet. |
| The New York Times Learning Network The New York Times posts a lesson plan daily; the plans are archived and searchable. Each plan is complete and ready to teach, even including links to national and state standards. |
| TeachersFirst.com Find the subject and grade level you're searching for, then click in the appropriate box for web resources and lesson plans to match your needs. |
| THE R*TECS There are nine Regional Technology in Education Consortia funded by OERI of the U.S. Department of Education. Many useful tools for teaching and learning can be found on some of these sites. |
| A*Tec The Appalachian Technology in Education Consortium (A*TEC) is a consortium of public and non-profit private organizations that provide research-based direct assistance and practical solutions to educators striving to integrate technology into the classroom experience. |
| NEIR*Tec The Northeast and the Islands Regioinal Technology in Education Consortium (NEIR*TEC) includes Education Development Center, Inc.; Learning Innovations at WestEd ; TERC; and The Education Alliance, Brown University . The focus is on leadership. |
| NCR*Tec The North Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium offers some useful tools including: Scoring Guides for Students, Amazing Picture Machine, DigiKnow (now featuring articles on the One Computer Classroom and web-based language translators), and a Lesson Planner. |
| HPR*Tec Among the projects at the High Plains Regional Technology in Education Consortium are Profiler, TrackStar , RubiStar , Web Worksheet Wizards, and PBL checklists. |
| NETC Early Connections, Classrooms@Work , and useful links to other resources are available at the Northwest Educational Technology Consortium. |
| SEIR*Tec SEIR*TEC, the SouthEast Initiatives Regional Technology in Education Consortium, provides technical assistance, authentic professional development in the areas of curriculum and instruction, leadership for technology, policy, and planning and evaluation. |
| South Central R*Tec The focus is on professional development, standards and assessment. They maintain TALON, a searchable database of K-12 resources. |
| West Ed R*Tec The focus is on delivering technology to the disadvantaged. |
| STANDARDS |
| Louisiana Content Standards Download Louisiana Content Standards documents. |
| Louisiana Grade Level Expectations A grade-level expectation (GLE) is a statement that defines what all students should know and be able to do at the end of a given grade level. GLEs add further defintion to the content standards and benchmarks. |
| ISTE National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) Project The site features technology standards and profiles for students, teachers and administrators. |
| Align to Achieve Standards Database This site allows you to search for state curriculum standards by subject and grade level and even to compare two states' standards. |
| Developing Educational Standards This site, developed by Putnam Valley Central Schools in New York , is a comprehensive site with links to national and state standards by subject and state as well as links to the US Department of Education, all state departments of education, national standards setting organizations, and standards background information. |
| McREL Compendium This site is a compilation of content standards for K-12 curriculum in both searchable and browseable formats. |
| State Standards.com This site, owned by Scantron , uses a clickable U.S. map as an interface to locate standards by state and to link the standards to curriculum documents and lesson plans. |
| WEBQUEST EXAMPLES |
| WebQuest Portal Bernie Dodge and Tom March have been helping teachers understand how to use the Internet in their classrooms since 1995. WebQuests are teacher created activities that encourage engaged learning and higher order thinking. Browse Top, Middling, and New for lessons you can use. |
| WEB TOOLS |
| Backflip This free online tool allows you save your bookmarks so that you can access them from wherever you are. |
| Artsonia Artsonia is an educational company founded to use the power of the Internet to unleash the creativity of young people all over the world! |
| Rubistar Create your own rubrics (scoring tools) for Oral Projects, Multimedia, Research & Writing, or Work Skills quickly and easily. |
| TrackStar TrackStar is a tool that allows teachers to create directed web surfing activities. |
| Landmarks for School David Warlick's site for teachers includes a Citation Machine, a Rubric Builder, and a Permission Request form. |
| Quia! This learning game collection provides a fun way to help students review a wide variety of topics. Visitors can create their own java-enabled flashcard drills, matching games, concentration, and word search puzzles using a simple editing tool. Try Quia free for 30 days; join for a nominal annual fee. |
| Nicenet Create a classroom website here, free. |
| Free Tools for Teachers A huge collection of web tools are linked from this site. |
| ONLINE REFERENCE RESOURCES |
| Encyclopedia.com “Because knowledge is cool,” the site includes Today in History. |
| InfoPlease.com The Information Please Almanac contains information and statistics on a wide variety of subjects. |
| Fact Monster This is InfoPlease for children. |
| GaleNet Databases This Louisiana resource includes the Professional Development Collection, General Reference Center Gold, Kid's Edition, Junior Edition, Student Edition, and others. If asked for a password, it is pelican. |
| HyperHistory Take the link to the HyperHistory interactive time line of 3000 years of history with links to related sites. |
| Internet Public Library This site is run by librarians to serve the public by selecting and organizing quality information resources. |
| Library of Congress The LOC has a wealth of resources on many subjects including links to other U.S. government sites. Check out American Memories for lesson plans. |
| Smithsonian Institution You'll find selected images and documents from the SI Collection. |
| Worldbook Online This is a Louisiana resource. Log in as louisiana. The password is: elementary, middle, or highschool . |
| CURRICULUM PROJECTS |
Ask An Expert |
| Ask Dr. Math The Math Forum at Drexel answers math questions. |
| Global School Net This foundation founded by Al Rogers serves as a clearinghouse for K-12 collaborative Internet-based projects. |
| I*Earn The International Education and Resource Network sponsors a variety of international projects for K-12 students. |
| Journey North Each spring students track and share information on animals and seasonal changes. |
| KidLink This is a site containing mailing lists and other resources for teachers who want to set up learning dialogs for their students. |
| KidPub This is a place for kids to publish stories and read those written by other kids. |
| TEACHER FAVORITES |
| ABC Teach This is a place for students, parents, student teachers and teachers. |
| Blue Web'n Web sites are categorized by subject area and type; a weekly e-mail reviews a few new recommended sites. |
| Fun Brain Games for kids cover the whole curriculum. |
| Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators This rich source of lesson plans, information, and curriculum-related web links for teachers is updated daily. |
| Scholastic Network This site is full of online projects, lesson plans and wonderful things for students and teachers. |
| Teach-nology Teach- nology is a favorite portal for teachers. You'll find lesson plans, rubric makers, puzzle makers, free work sheets, and other good things. |
| www4teachers The site has an indexed collection of resources created by teachers for teachers. |