Educator's Resources from the Library
 

American Rhetoric
AskERIC
Assistive Media
BookHive
EDSITEment
Education World
Educational Materials
ERIC
Grammar
Higher Education
Learning Network
Learning Page
Lesson Plans
Math--Ask Dr. Math
Missouri DESE
Private School Review
Story Place
Themes
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American Rhetoric:  The Power of Oratory in the United States--Provides online access to speeches.  Contains an index to more than 5,000 full-text audio and video versions of public speeches, the 100 most significant American political speeches, and memorable speeches in Hollywood movies.

Answers.com--References on people, places, and things.  Updated daily.

Ask Dr. Math--Provides answers for math students from kindergarten through college.  It also has a Teachers2Teachers service for math instructors.

AskERIC--Personalized Internet-based service providing education information to teachers, librarians, counselors, administrators, parents, and others.

Assistive Media--The mission of Assistive Media is to heighten the educational, cultural, and quality-of-living standard for people with disabilities.  This site "expands the world of reading" by offering spoken-word recordings of short-subject literary works through the Web.  It reproduces copyright-approved materials from a variety of periodicals, such as The New Yorker, Wired, Smithsonian, Granta, and from independent writers.

BookHive--Provides book reviews and reading recommendations for children, birth to 12 years in nearly two dozen reading interest areas.

EDSITEment--The best of the Humanities on the web.  Online humanities resources from some of the world's great museums, libraries, cultural institutions, and universities directly to your classroom.

Education World--The educator's best friend.  Provides lesson plans, information on school issues, professional development, technology intregration, and much more.

ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center)--Provides 16 subject-specific clearinghouses on a broad range of education-related issues.

Federal Reserve Education--Provides access to matrials for teachers; elementary, high school and college students; and consumers trying to decipher complicated financial issues.  Features:  matching games and word puzzles for younger students and interactive simulations for older students. 

Finding Missouri: Our History and Heritage--This video series, for students and teachers in Missouri's elementary and secondary schools, was funded by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) and the Historical Preservation Section of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Each of the 18 digitized videos focuses on a single topic and lasts approximately 10-15 minutes.

Gateway to Educational Materials--The key to one-stop, any-stop access to high quality lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources on the Internet!

Grammar

  • Guide to Grammar and Writing --Guide to grammar and writing:  clauses, phrases, sentence fragments, capitalization, subject-verb agreement, rules for comma usage, spelling, plague words and phrases, abbreviations, sentence fragments, and other basics.  Quizzes, Ask a Grammar Question, Grammarlogs Archive, Handouts, Pop-Up Lexicon.
  • Grammar Slammer Deluxe -- The help file that goes beyond a grammar checker; quick and to the point with a "common mistakes" feature and a letter writing section.
  • Owl Online Writing Lab -- A writing lab that includes handouts and exercises on grammar, spelling, and punctuation; contains a section for ESL.
  • Grammar Bytes -- This site includes definitions, exercises, handouts, as well as tips and rules.
  • Guide to Grammar and Style -- This guide is a miscellany of grammatical rules and explanations, comments on style, and suggestions on usage.  Includes many great links.

Higher Education--A hub of information related to professional organizations, research centers, graduate programs, and policy making in the field of higher education.

Learning Network's Fun Brain--This site is for K-8 teachers and kids!  Provides motivational and educational online math games for all students. 

Learning Page--The online gateway to the National Digital Library Program historical collections (American Memory) tailored to the needs of students and educators.  History mysteries, educators' page.

Lesson Plans

  • Qutta Ray's Head--Lesson Plans, Handouts, and Ideas.  A collection of lesson plans with handouts.

Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education--This site has publications, school data, news, programs and services, educational initiatives, and personnel information for K-12.

NetSmartz Workshop--An interactive, educational safety resource from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children ® and Boys & Girls Clubs of America for children (ages 5-17), parents, guardians, educators and law enforcement that uses age-appropriate, 3-D activities to teach children how to stay safer on the Internet.

Missouri-specific materials are available from http://www.netsmartz.org/education/mo/ . MOREnet offers training on how to implement NetSmartz Workshop materials into a school or library.

Net Trekker--An Internet search engine specifically designed for children and their parents. It combines the power of 180,000 teacher-approved websites to return search results that are 100% academically relevant, timesaving and easy to use for students in grades K-12.

Private School Review--Profiles of private elementary day schools and high schools.


Story Place--Provides animated online stories, interactive activities, reading lists, children's craft projects, and activity sheets in English and Spanish.

Surf the Net with Kids provides educational web site reviews for teachers and families.

eThemes is an extensive database of content-rich, age-appropriate resources organized around specific themes for educators to use in their classrooms

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