Teacher Resources:

Standards Resources

International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE):
http://.cnets.iste.org

Massachusetts Department of Elementary & Secondary Education (DESE):
http://www.doe.mass.edu/

Lesson Plan Resources & Teaching Tools

A to Z Teacher Stuff: 
http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/
Created by teachers by a teacher, the site features online lesson plans organized by themes, subjects, and grade level, and searchable by keyword....

Ask ERIC:
http://ericir.syr.edu/
Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a federally-funded national information system.  It includes a question & answer service, resource collection, question archive, lesson plans, database, & mailing lists.  This is a GREAT resource!   
Awesome Library: K-12 Education Directorywww.awesomelibrary.org 
Organizes selected Web resources by subject.  Includes categories for teachers and librarians, as well as kids, teens, and parents.  Site is searchable by keyword. 

Awesome Library / K-12 Education Directory:
www.awesomelibrary.org
Organizes selected web resources by subject. Includes categories for teachers and librarians, as well as kids, teens, and parents. Site is searchable by keyword.

Bigchalk.com:  The Education Network  
www.bigchalk.com
“Offers both subscription-based educational products (we subscribe) and free tools for students, teachers, and parents.  Categorizes best Web resources for study and research, lesson plans, students, parents, teachers, library/media specialists, and administrators.  Provides ability to search for best sites on the Web by grade level.”

Columbia Education Center (CEC):
http://www.col-ed.org
Lesson plans, web activities, links to educational resources, travel/grant opportunities, and funding opportunities are found on this site.

Discovery Education: 
http://www.discoveryeducation.com/
Excellent resource for teachers..including lesson plans, puzzlemaker, and professional development.....

Gateway to Educational Materials:
www.thegateway.org/
The National Library of Education (NLE) and the U.S. Department of Education collaborated to create this one-stop educational resource.  Sites listed provide information, lesson plans, and activities pertaining to K-12 subjects.  Users can browse by subject or keyword or they can search by subject, keyword, title, or full-text of the site description.

Jim Trelease's Web page: 
http://www.trelease-on-reading.com/
"Where the goal is to help children make books into friends instead of enemies....."

Filamentality: 
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/
"Filamentality is a fill-in-the-blank interactive Web site that guides you through picking a topic, searching the Web, gathering good Internet sites, and turning Web resources into learning activities....."

Noodletools:
http://www.noodletools.com
NoodleTools is a suite of interactive tools designed to aid students and professionals with their online research. From selecting a search engine and finding some relevant sources, to citing those sources in MLA or APA style, NoodleTools makes online research easier!"  UCT has a subscription to this great source all you need to do is create a username and password.

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: 
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/
"Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.".....

4Teachers: 
http://www.4teachers.org/tools/
This is a one stop site, where includes Rubistar(create rubrics), Quizstar, Persuade Star (helps students write persuasive essays), Academic Skill Builders (educational games),Classroom Architect, Track Star (online lessons & templates to create your own)........

PBS Teachers: 
http://www.pbs.org/teachers
Standards-based resources and excellent professional development opportunities.....

Smithsonian Education Gateway: 
http://smithsonianeducation.org/

Sites for Teachers: 
http://www.sitesforteachers.com/index.html
Great Index for materials for all subject areas.

Teachnology.com:
http://www.teach-nology.com/
"We provide free and easy to use resources for teachers dedicated to improving the education of today's generation of students."

Mathematics

ExploreLearning:
http://www.explorelearning.com/
Innovative lesson plans and online math demonstrations.

HotMath.com:
http://hotmath.com/
Math activities, videos, and practice tests. Some material requires purchasing but the 24/7 homework help is FREE.

The Math Forum:
http://mathforum.org/library/
Excellent resource sponsored by the Math forum at Drexel University.

Sciences

Lemelson Center: Sponsored by the Smithsonian
http://invention.smithsonian.org/home/
This site focuses on the study of invention and innovation.  “Online exhibits, Podcasts, audio and video resources, and shortcuts to indexes for students and teachers are easily found on the home page. 

Academy of Applied Sciences: 
http://www.aas-world.org/
A plethora of information including grant opportunities and interesting experiments to incorporate in the classroom. 

Beyond Discovery:  
 http://www.beyonddiscovery.org/
Articles on recent technological and medical advances from the National Academy of Sciences.

eNature.com:
http://www.enature.com/home/
Geared toward researching America's wildlife. The site contains field guides, part guides, and articles.

The Franklin Institute:
http://www.amnh.org/
Explore the museum online and find innovative resources and lesson plans.

Invention Dimension:  
http://web.mit.edu/invent/
Information on inventors along with games and activities.  From the Lemelson-MIT Program.

NASA Quest:
 http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/about/index.html
About NASA people and the national space program.

History/Language Arts

American Memory Historical Collections:
http://rs6.loc.gov/

American Museum of Natural History:
http://www.amnh.org

Massachusetts Historical Society: 
http://www.masshist.org/welcome/
An excellent collection of Massachusetts history including lesson plans and digital archives.

Library of Congress: 
http://www.loc.gov/index.html
Need we say more!   

History Channel: 
http://www.history.com/classroom/classroom.html
Free classroom materials including a speech archive.

Historyteacher.net: 
http://www.historyteacher.net/
A great resource organized by a history teacher that includes thousands of subject-specific lessons plans and powerpoints. 

ReadWriteThinK: 
http://www.readwritethink.org/resources/index.asp
“The Web Resources Gallery offers links to a myriad of useful English language arts resources on the Internet. You may use the drop-down menus above to sort ReadWriteThink's Web Resources by grade band and resource type.”

Web English Teacher:
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/.  This site contains mostly links to paid lesson plans.

The Holocaust Chronicle Website: 
http://www.holocaustchronicle.org/index.html

Web Design Tools

Learning HTML: 
www.ipl.org/youth/kidsweb
The Internet Public Library Youth Division explains what HTML is, defines different tags, discusses copyright, and includes links to more Web page design resources. 

Web Diner’s Web Adventure: 
www.webdiner.com/webadv/index.htm.
Offers beginning, intermediate, and advanced tutorials, as well as templates. Clearly organized to help you build your page in stages. 

Free Clip Art Sites

Animation Factory:  
www.animfactory.com
A collection of images that move.  Includes a few images in each subject area, such as animals, children, creatures, school, and many more. 

Awesome Clipart for Kids: 
www.awesomeclipartforkids.com/
Offers a general subject index and a holiday index with categories of free family-friendly images. 

Creative Commons

Center for Social Media at American University:
http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/resources/fair_use_and_teaching/
Center for Social Media at American University: Learn all you need to know regarding creative commons and how you can use and share with others.

Copyright Friendly: 
http://copyrightfriendly.wikispaces.com:  Constantly updated with valuable sites for free use…including sounds, images, and films.

Open Educational Resources/OER Commons:
http://www.oercommons.org/
“Find free-to-use teaching and learning content from around the world
organize K-12 Lessons, college courses, and more for your classroom.”

SlideShare: 
http://www.slideshare.net/
SlideShare is the best way to share and find presentations.  Share publicly or privately.   Add audio to make a webinar.

Equal Educational Opportunity
Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School admits students and makes available to them high school advantages, privileges and courses of study without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender or disability.