Library : Faculty Resources

There are many great sites on the Internet which can be helpful to educators. Listed below are just a few of the sites which the Library Staff recommend for faculty at Prescott High School.

AskERIC is the Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), a federally-funded national information system that provides a variety of services and products on a broad range of education-related issues.

New Teacher Sites

Busy Teachers' WebSite K-12 will provide teachers with direct source materials, lesson plans/classroom activities with a minimum of site-to-site linking.

PBS TEACHER SOURCE-FIND 3000+ FREE LESSON PLANS AND ACTIVITIES http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/arts_lit/high-literatureliteraryterms.html

HELPFUL BOOKS FOR FIRST YEAR TEACHERS-Both books can be found on the Yavapai Library Network at http://www.prescottlib.lib.az.us/
The First Days Of School: How To Be An Effective Teacher by Harry K. Wong, Rosemary T. Wong (Paperback - 2004)
The New-Teacher Toolbox : Proven Tips and Strategies for a Great First Year by Scott Mandel

HELPFUL SITES FOR ALL TEACHERS

Educational/Teacher Lesson Plans
Cable in the Classroom
Discovery School Lesson Plans
Marco Polo
New York Times Learning Network

News
AZ Central by The Arizona Republic
CNN.com
New York Times
USA Today

ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION SITES

Arizona Dept. of Education - AZ Learns and No Child Left Behind
http://www.ade.state.az.us/azlearns/

Arizona Dept. of Education - Assessment standards section
http://www.ade.state.az.us/standards/

Scholastic
http://teacher.scholastic.com/index.htm
Great teacher resource center

Education World
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/archives/
Here you will find over 100 ORIGINAL Lesson Planning Articles written by the staff at Education World!

EXPLORER CURRICULUM

http://explorer.scrtec.org/explorer/
Contains several hundred math and natural science lesson plans which are painstakingly organized into nearly 100 specific categories

Asset website
http://www.asset.asu.edu/

PBS Teacherline
http://www.asset.asu.edu/asset_website_2004/pbs_wc.html

Multiple intelligences
http://www.surfaquarium.com/MI/index.htm

United States Dept. of Education
http://www.ed.gov/index.jhtml

Arizona Education Association
http://www.arizonaea.org/

NEA http://www.nea.org/index.htm

Arizona Content Standards
http://www.ade.state.az.us/standards/contentstandards.asp

Arizona's Instrument to Measure Standards (AIMS) http://www.ade.az.gov/standards/aims/

Educational Television Sites
http://www.discovery.com/
http://www.aetv.com/
http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/
http://www.copyright.com
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/copy.htm

Teacher Technology Tools:
Assign-A-Day - This FREE tool is designed to enhance teacher and student communication through an on-line teacher-managed calendar. Teachers create a calendar for each of their classes and add assignments for the students to view. Students view their teachers’ calendars in order to see assignments for classes they might have missed, or to get an overview of the class.

Teacher's Domain - a multimedia digital library for K-12 teachers and students. You'll find an extensive collection of classroom-ready resources, as well as media-rich lesson plans and professional development resources. Each resource is catalogued by grade level and correlated to national and state standards. Teachers' Domain is produced by WGBH, with major funding from the National Science Foundation.

Learning Checklists - Project-based learning checklists for for written reports, multimedia projects, oral presentations, and science projects. The use of these checklists keeps students on track and allows them to take responsibility for their own learning through peer- and self-evaluation.

Think Tank -Think Tank is designed to help students (grades 3-8) develop a Research Organizer (a list of topics and subtopics) for reports and projects. Based on the subject assigned, the students can refine it by choosing from a variety of suggestions and by using a random subtopic generator. This helps students learn how to refine a subject so that it is more manageable for Internet research.

Discovery School's Teaching Tools: Create quizzes, lesson plans, puzzles, and worksheets.

Scholastic Tools - Class Set-Up tool is a new, easy-to-use, virtual layout tool that helps you design customized and effective classrooms to promote learning. Use this tool to rearrange and set-up mock classrooms, and map out virtual seating charts.

Hot Potatoes -The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web.

Create a Graph
Brainy Betty's Free PowerPoint Backgrounds
Laura's Midi Heaven - For downloading soundhttp://www.prescottlib.lib.az.us/
Free Music Directory

A-Z Teacher Stuff
Created for teachers by a teacher--This site was designed to help teachers find online lesson plans and resources more quickly and easily.

ADVISEMENT: College & Career

Career
Arizona Career Information System (ACIS)

Career assessment & information
Occupational Outlook Handbook
Job Smart: Career Guides
USA Jobs

College
Educaid
GoCollege
U.S. News Online College Rankings

College Testing
The College Board--SAT & online college applications
SAT Question of the Day--sponsored by The College Board

HELPFUL SITES FOR BUSINESS TEACHERS

Future Business Leaders of America
http://www.fbla-pbl.org/

Curriculum ideas for business teachers
http://www.mark-ed.com/curricul/Standards/Curric_workshop.htm

Economic & Statistical Sites
Arizona Business Information by Arizona Library Association
Small Business Administration

Business News
BIZTALK
Career City
Federal Jobs Digest
Success Magazine Online

Miscellaneous Sites
CIA World Factbook
The Universal Currency Converter
Journalist Express

HELPFUL WEBSITES FOR FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCE TEACHERS

American Association Federation of Family and Consumer Sciences
http://www.aafcs.org/fcs/

Discover School's Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/vocation.html

Link to many sites for the Family and Consumer Science Teacher
http://www.pen.k12.va.us/VDOE/Instruction/CTE/facs/RelatedLinks/
related_link_topics/other_sites.htm

HELPFUL SITES FOR THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHER

Articles in Spanish (Newspapers and Magazines)

http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/mcclintock_lib
Informe! This InfoTrac subscription database requires a password off campus. See the McClintock Librarians for more information.

Countries Information
CIA World Factbook --Information on countries, including geography, culture and tourism.
Fodors Travel Site
Travelocity
Yahoo's Travel by Countries
Embassy World-- Directory & Search Engine of the World's Embassies & Consulates
CDC Traveler's Health --travel information issued by the U.S. Government’s Center for Disease Control
U.S. Treasury Rate of Exchange--by the U.S. Treasury Department
The Universal Currency Converter--provides foreign exchange rate conversions.

Spanish Websites
Centro Virtual Cervantes
Hispanic Online
Ole by Terra Networks
Quepasa!com

HELPFUL SITES FOR THE PHYSICAL EDUCATION/HEALTH TEACHERS

Diseases & Health
Center for Disease Control Topic Search by U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Diseases and Conditions by Yahoo Directory
MedicineNet.com by Smart Medicine
Medline Plus: Health Information by the National Library of Medicine Fitness
Cooper Aerobics Center: Links to health tips Human Body Systems
Britannica.com
Health: Human Body by Kid Info
Body Questby Think Quest
The Human Body by Indianapolis Marion County Public Library Substance Abuse
Drug Free America by Partnership for Drug Free America