CT State Department of Education
Certification information and other useful info.
Plagiarism: What It Is and How to Recognize and Avoid It
A site with advice regarding plagiarism to help students avoid it produced by Writing Tutorial Services, Indiana University in Bloomington, IN.
"The New Plagiarism: Seven Antidotes to Prevent Highway Robbery in an Electronic Age" by Jamie McKenzie.
An article in From Now On: The Educational Technology Journal May 1998 issue. Contains suggestions for combating the problem.
A free web site to help teachers write rubrics. Teachers can register and set the criteria for their assignment and the site creates the rubric. Very snappy!
Teachers' Desk: The Ultimate Resource Center
A resource for lesson plans, educational news, and even job listings.
WebQuests
San Diego State University page. How to build a webquest and links to webquests at all grade levels and subjects.
Webquests organized for easy searching
Page created by a teacher/librarian about webquests and how to create them with many samples.
Science web pages
K-12 webquests listed by the year they were posted.
Exploring
the Environment
Includes project modules with CAPT like activities to guide students in the
study of various environmental issues or events.
USGS
(US Geologic Survey) Lesson Plan Site
A collection of online lesson plans for students in grades K-12. Lessons on
life sciences, geography, and earth sciences. Includes links to additional lesson
sites.
Cell & Molecular Biology Online
Links to sites that have been selected on the basis of how well they are organized and how useful they are.
List of topics of biological terms with links that lead to mini-essays on the topic.
Multimedia site that explains cell biology. Includes graphics and text on plant cells, animal cells, mitochondira, and various diseases.
National Audubon nature guides online.
Social Studies/History web pages
Civil
War Battles - A Webquest
A webquest for the study of the Civil War that includes an excellent rubric
for assessing the Internet based project.
ESL web pages
ESL
Lesson Plans
Grades K-12. Contains links to teaching resources for ESL teachers. Lesson plans,
handouts, teaching ideas and guides, games, and syllabi.