Online+Resources+for+Educators

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Resources for Teaching the Inquiry/Research Process
These documents outline the information skills your students should be learning at each grade level. || ISTE standards for students, teachers, and administrators help to measure proficiency and set aspirational goals for the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to succeed in today’s Digital Age. || The Basic Level of IIM was developed to teach the foundation skills that prepare students for advanced research. At this level, the class as a whole researches the same topic following the 7 steps. //**This document is password protected. Please see library media specialist for password.**// || The Basic Level of IIM was developed to teach the foundation skills that prepare students for advanced research. As part of this process, students work independently, while research skills are modeled at each of the 7 steps. //**This document is password protected. Please see library media specialist for password.**// || This document shows the correlation between the steps in the inquiry process and the steps of the Independent Investigation Method research process (a practical methodology for applying the inquiry process). //**This document is password protected. Please see library media specialist for password.**// ||
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 * < [] || ====**Information Fluency Standards, Benchmark Skills & Indicators**====
 * < [] || ====**National Education Technology Standards**====
 * [[file:ps146lmc/Basic Level Group IIM Process.pdf|Basic Level Group IIM Process.pdf]] ||< ====**K-12 Research Methodology (The Independent Investigation Method)**====
 * [[file:ps146lmc/Basic Level Independent IIM Process.pdf|Basic Level Independent IIM Process.pdf]] || ====**K-12 Research Methodology (The Independent Investigation Method)**====
 * [[file:ps146lmc/The Connection of IIM and IFC.pdf|http://ps146lmc.wikispaces.com/file/view/The+Connection+of+IIM+and+IFC.pdf]] || ====**The Connection Between the Independent Investigation Method (IIM) and the Information Fluency Continuum (IFC)**====
 * [|November Learning: Information Literacy Page] || **A MUST READ!!!** ||
 * [|BibMe] || Online citation creator ||

**Online Tools**

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 * < [] || We are a leading Internet-based social expression and personal publishing service that enables consumers to share, print and preserve their memories by leveraging our technology-based platform and manufacturing processes. Today, our primary focus is on helping consumers manage their memories through the powerful medium of photos. We provide a full range of products and services that make it easy, convenient and fun for consumers to upload, edit, enhance, organize, find, share, create, print and preserve their digital photos in a creative and thoughtful manner. ||
 * < [|Turn it in!] || Teachers and students may use this site to check for plagarism. ||
 * [|Scholastic Teacher Book Wizard] ||< Search for books by reading level, find similar books with that same reading level, create book lists & more. ||
 * [|Scholastic Reading Counts!] || Search for books by title, author, keyword or ISBN (item number). This site will give you a word count of the book, genre, guided reading level, skills that can be taught with the book, topics and themes the book covers and more! [GRL=Guiding Reading Level]. ||

**Tools and Resources for Communication and Collaboration**

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 * < [] || K-12 online community used by educators and learners worldwide. 200 countries and territories safely use ePals to connect, collaborate and build community using school-safe email, blog tools and learning projects. Great tool to use to help you find a pen-pal community for students to communicate with or set-up safe email accounts for students to use. ||

**Primary Sources**
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 * [|Awesome Stories] || A database that includes thousands of hand-selected and relevant links to pictures, artifacts, manuscripts, documents and other primary sources, IN CONTEXT, within each story. The first eight chapters of every story are available to all.
 * [|Library of Congress American Memory Project] ||  ||
 * [|NY Historical Society: Digital Learning Project] ||  ||
 * [|NY Learns] || The overarching thrust of //NYLearns// is to identify, organize and deliver educational resources that are aligned to learning standards. A second major thrust of NYLearns is to provide teachers with easy-to-use integrated classroom tools that enhance their teaching effectiveness.

**Copyright Free Resources** (under the Creative Commons License, in the public domain, or...)

 * Images**
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 * [|Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day] || Blog post by Larry Ferlazzo on the best online sources for images. ||
 * [|WikiMedia Commons] || Wikimedia Commons is a **media file repository** making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, [|in their own language]. ||
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 * [|Karen's Whimsy] ||  ||
 * [|Teacher Tap] ||  ||


 * Music**

Offers recordings of concerts and live-broadcasts. ||
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 * [] || The New York Philharmonic is by far the oldest symphony orchestra in the United States, and one of the oldest in the world. Founded in 1842 by a group of local musicians led by American-born Ureli Corelli Hill, the Orchestra currently plays some 180 concerts a year. On December 18, 2004, the Philharmonic gave its 14,000th concert — a milestone unmatched by any other orchestra in the world.
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**Online Reference**

 * [|Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary] ||

Web Sites with Lesson Ideas/Lesson Plans/Resources & Support Materials:

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 * [|ABC Teach] ||  ||
 * Super Teacher Worksheets || Free worksheets for all subject areas!!!! Especially great for differentiated math worksheets. ||
 * [|TeachNet] ||  ||
 * TLS Books || Features thousands of worksheets and well as coloring pages, teacher resources, puzzles, and reading tips ||
 * [|4 Teachers] ||  ||
 * Teacher Vision || 20,000 pages of classroom-ready lesson plans, printables, and resources ||
 * Busy Teacher's Cafe ||  ||
 * [|Read.Write.Think] ||  ||
 * [|Thinkfinity] || Includes: lesson plans, interactive activities, primary source materials, interactive student resources, grade-specific research lists & and other online resources. Also includes professional development materials for teachers. For more info click on this link: http://thinkfinity.com/about.aspx ||
 * [|Free Word Search Creator] ||  ||
 * [|Making Learning Fun] || Includes free worksheets, lesson plans, reading lists for emergent readers, lesson activity ideas. ||
 * [|NY Learns] || Website developed by New York State for teachers with resources and lessons linked to New York State standards. ||
 * [|S.O.S.] || **S.O.S. for Information Literacy ** is a dynamic web-based multimedia resource that includes lesson plans, handouts, presentations, videos and other resources to enhance the teaching of information literacy. Information literacy skills enable students to effectively locate, organize, evaluate, manage and use information. ||
 * [|Internet 4 Classrooms] || A database of mostly interactive, standards based websites organized from K - 8 ||

**Multimedia/Interactive Resources** **//(all content areas)://**

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 * [|Discovery Education Streaming] || * This multimedia database contains educational media resources that can be used for instructional purposes such as: videos, digital photographs, audiobooks, music, Some of the other great features provided through this site are the ability to create lesson plans, assessments and lists of resources that can be shared with others.
 * You can access the resources in this database through your individual account by creating a username and password. To create an account you must have our school's passcode. This information is provided by Ms. Laforestrie, the P.S. 146 Library Media Specialist. ||
 * [|Vital] || * Teachers’ Domain is an online library of more than 1,000 free media resources from the best in public television. These classroom resources, featuring media from NOVA, Frontline, Design Squad, American Experience, and other public broadcasting and content partners are easy to use and correlate to state and national standards. Teachers’ Domain resources include video and audio segments, Flash interactives, images, documents, lesson plans for teachers, and student-oriented activities. ||
 * [|TeacherTube] || * TeacherTube is a dynamic, video-based web site for teachers and students, from K-12th grade. With over 2 MILLION page views per month and rapidly growing, TeacherTube offers teachers and students the opportunity to view engaging videos on every subject taught in schools across the country. (//AIHE, the nation's leading provider of Professional Development for History and Social Studies teachers, is now the// History Channel //on// //[|www.TeacherTube.com]////)// ||
 * [|SchoolTube] || * A website for K-12 schools that blocks out inappropriate content through an innovative Chain of Accountability process. Videos and pictures are student produced and moderator approved, thus producing a pure and refreshing site that is appropriate for school use.
 * SchoolTube.com is different than other media-sharing websites that currently exist. The SchoolTube platform allows students to upload media into a ‘holding’ area that keeps the media inactive. An email is sent to a moderator informing them that the media is available to be viewed for approval. Only after the media has been approved by the moderator is it available for viewing on the site.
 * SchoolTube can be used by students, teachers, administrators, and school-related associations.
 * For more information, click on the following link: http://www2.schooltube.com/AboutUs.aspx ||
 * [|Voice Thread] || * Online tool that allows you to import media which you can then annotate, add voice comments to. Each account can be associated with many identities. Therefore, this tool can enable collaboration between students and teachers, teachers and other teachers as well as among students. ||
 * Additional Databases ||  ||

Reading/Writing:

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 * Online Storybook web sites ||  ||
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 * [] || "Put Reading First" - a free publication created by the National Institute for Literacy for teaching reading K - 3 ||

**Math:**

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 * [|Math Playground] || Interactive games and instructional videos organized by content geared towards students ||

**Social Studies:**

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 * [|Oral History Online] || A highly regarded gateway to web resources as well as a repository of unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents, and guides to analyzing historical evidence. ||
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**Science:**

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**Health:**

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 * [|My Pyramid Match Game] ||  ||
 * __[|My Pyramid Blast Off Game]__ ||  ||

**Arts:**

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 * http://ibdb.com/ || IBDB (Internet Broadway Database) archive is the official database for Broadway theatre information. IBDB provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today. Details include pertinent people involved as well as interesting facts and production statistics. Get a list of every production of Hamlet on Broadway or a list of your favorite actor's credits. Find out what played at a particular theatre or what shows opened in a specified Broadway season. ||
 * http://www.allmusicals.com/ || Access lyrics to musicals ||

Assesessment Tools

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 * [|Rubistar] || This is a tool teachers can use to create and save rubrics. Includes ready made templates. You can even make your rubrics interactive! ||


 * ==Standards== ||

Professional Tools:
Website you can use to help you level the books in your classroom collection using the Fountas and Pinnell leveling system. ||
 * [|Fountas and Pinnell Leveling site]

Professional Development
Provides tools educators can use to be successful with technology in their classrooms. ||
 * [|Tech 4 Learning]


 * [|Blue Web'N] ||
 * [|Books in Print] ||
 * [|Digital History Reader] ||
 * [|Discovery School] ||
 * [|Education World] ||
 * [|Enchanted Learning] ||
 * [|EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) Teacher Center] ||
 * [|Gateway to 21st Century Skills] ||
 * [|Gateway to Educational Materials] ||
 * [|Links to resources for kids] ||
 * [|Marco Polo] ||
 * [|National Archives and Records Administration] ||