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Exploring Florida Maps

The Exploring Florida Maps collection allows teachers and students the use of up to 25 maps in school presentations or websites without purchasing or requesting permission. 

http://fcit.usf.edu/florida/maps/

"Teacher Tools"

“Teacher Tools”  gives links for teachers to use in assessments, awards, books, bulletin boards, calendars, flashcards, forms and templates, games, classroom forms, lesson plan templates, new teacher help, portal sites, planning tools, bookmarks, storage, web page hosting, and worksheets.

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/teachertools.htm

Rubistar

Rubistar --By clicking a blue button topic at the bottom of the screen, you can find rubrics already created. Fill in the information. In each of the sections of the rubric, you can click on the drop-down areas that state, “Please Choose” for the category.  The rubric in that row lists the standards for the points awarded.  These may be edited by clicking in the cells and making changes.  Click “Submit” and then print or download your rubric.

http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php

My Florida Digital Warehouse

My Florida Digital Warehouse is a website provided by the Florida Department of Education and the Florida Center for Instructional Technology, College of Education, University of South Florida.  The links provided here give teachers access to audio files, clipart, photographs, maps, movies, and VRs.  (VR refers to Virtual Reality.)

http://myfdw.com/

Classtools.net

Classtools.net allows you to create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge!

http://classtools.net/

Tools For Educators

Tools For Educators provides many wonderful teacher materials links.  If you want to create a word search with pictures or puzzles, you can click on the “Free Word Search Maker.”  For creating printable dice with images or text on each side, click “The Dice Maker.”

Tools For Educators also has links so that a teacher can make educational board games, crossword puzzles, bingo, and dominos.

Tools for Educators provides word bank and matching worksheet generators as well as vocabulary sets.

http://www.toolsforeducators.com

Clipart ETC

Clipart ETC is another online source provided by the Florida Department of Instructional Technology with clipart available to teachers.

http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/

Teacher Tools

If creating forms takes too much time, Teacher Tools has the templates any teacher can use.  They include behavior forms, notes from the sub, good news notes, assignments, attendance, calendars, and so much more.

http://www.teachertools.org/forms_dynam.asp

Timesavers for Teachers

Timesavers for Teachers has won several awards for its links to resources teachers can really use.  Classroom forms, report card comments, substitute teacher instructions, math helpers, classroom awards, literature unit, lesson ideas, and more are provided through links on this site.

http://www.timesaversforteachers.com

Teachnology

Teachnology has a great rubric site.  Here you can choose a premade rubric by subject area and edit it, or create your own.  You should save your rubric to Word or print it after you create it unless you want to pay for a membership that will allow you to store it on this site.  You will find that the membership is not necessary to create any kind of rubric you might be able to use.

http://www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/

WebQuest.Org

Web Quests are wonderful teaching tools that incorporate technology in a safe, instructional way.  This site at WebQuest.Org provides a model for a teacher to follow in order to create a specialized web quest for a teaching activity.  Students are given web sites previewed by the teacher and a task to complete as they use these sites.  A rubric is the standard for evaluating this activity.

http://webquest.org

4Teachers

4Teachers provides links for professional development and offers online tools and resources to help teachers integrate technology in their instruction. This site makes available Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics, and classroom calendars.  Be sure and check out the Educational Video Games.  This link has a variety of math and language arts games.  The Think Tank helps students narrow their research topic.  A great tool for planning classroom arrangement is Classroom Architect.

http://www.4teachers.org

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