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District Office Contact Information Superintendent BHCSD Information Board of Education Board Meetings Budget Information School Report Cards School Information Schools School Calendar School Menu School Closings PFK Supply List Handbook Student Links Teacher Links Employees BHHS Meissner Wolf Ridge Technology Workshops	http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/ An amazing site for educators! 24 different subjects to access, assessment rubrics, slide shows for teaching, learning & training, MUCH more! www.EnchantedLearning.com Stuffed dinosaur activity, nursery rhymes, family tree, dinosaur activities, animal printables, Great Wall of China www.parentsoup.com/babynames Find out what your name means www.nwf.org National Wildlife Federation. Butterfly garden. Science. www.searsportrait.com Letters to the Easter bunny or Santa. Customized stories. www.teachervision.com build your own free web page - easy & subscribe to great newsletters. Lesson plans galore. www.kididdles.com lyrics to songs - verbs, nouns, rhyming words http://www.alfy.com/teachers/index.asp thematic units, lesson plants, brain teasers http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/ kid friendly search engine - lots of resources www.epals.com connects 1.5 million students & teachers from 24,365 registered classrooms in 130 countries. http://www.ncrtec.org/picture.htm The amazing picture machine www.weather.com daily weather checks www.readingonline.org IRA journal http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html Internet Tutorial www.scholastic.com teachers - lesson plans & reproducibles, professional resources, books, online activities, research tools, much more! http://teacher.scholastic.com/annie/index.asp Annie's Rhyme Time - choose level of difficulty www.2learn.ca/research/search.html How to Search the Web http://www.2learn.ca/evaluating/evaluating.html Website evaluation form for children - by age groups www.graphicmaps.com/clipart.htm Build your own maps using clipart - continents, countries, flags, globes, USA images, world, world facts. www.freeskills.com Free tutorials on many popular software titles - Microsoft, Lotus, Novell, Macintosh, Internet, Graphics, etc. Penguin sites: http://astro.uchicago.edu/cara - take a virtual tour www.olympics.com Click on the kids section to find lots to do in your classroom. Then visit the teacher's section for activity sheets, teachers notes, resources, links & more. Daily summaries of activities - neat site! www.factmonster.com Features: Today in History, Word Quiz, Sports, Science, Math, Homework Center, Games & Quizzes, Dinosaur Central, Census 2000. In More Features: Cool Science Fair Projects, The Harry Potter Hub, Pokemon Crossword, Geography Challenge, Charlotte's Web - tons of neat Stuff! http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/ Busy teachers website K-12 - organized by subject. www.infoplease.com A great place to find any bit of information! Sources: Atlas, Almanacs, Encyclopedia, Dictionary. Biographies, Entertainment, Weather, MUCH MORE! www.kidsastronomy.com Explore the universe: Deep space, solar systems, space exploration, fun with astronomy. Also features Astronomy Academy where kids can take an online class thru email FREE! www.homeworkspot.com News, themes, field trips, student projects, articles, exhibits, expeditions, references, must see sites. Homework help from elementary thru high school. Also a parent & teacher section. http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/ 1400+ Activities & lessons. If you go to the "Teaching with Technology" link there are lots of great Tutorials for technology in your classrooms. http://teacher.scholastic.com/index.htm Scholastic's Teacher Page has loads of Info! Live author interviews. Daily Chuckle. Web Guide: Safe sites for K-8 - use as a great search engine for your topics! Online Activities, News Zone, Research Tools. Under the Professional Development Section in "Teaching with Technology" there are great articles to help you and your class better understand computers and the Internet. http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/ Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your word lists. Build your own maze or print our specialty hand-drawn mazes created around holidays and classroom topics. http://school.discovery.com/clipart/index.html Clip Art Gallery. Download clip art for projects. http://www.edhelper.com/ Currently 6072 Lesson Plans. 1182 Web Quests! 539 Resources! Updated Regularly! http://school.discovery.com/sciencefaircentral/ creative investigations into the real world! http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/webquest.html the how-to's of web quests www.awesomelibrary.org The Awesome Library organizes the Web with 15,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education. www.historymatters.gmu.edu Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History survey courses, this site serves as a gateway to the Web resources and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary documents and threaded discussions on teaching U.S. history. Mainly covers 1876-1946, but growing. http://www.firstgov.gov/ FirstGov is a brand-new, comprehensive guide to local, state, and federal government websites. No more wasting time trying to figure out which agency covers which topic, and then trying to find the desired information on their site. http://www.learn2.com/ Learn2.com specializes in free online tutorials covering a wide variety of interests -- from crafts, gardening, and home repair, to writing, computers, and business. To find a tutorial, select a Channel (category) or use the site search box. Tutorials are informal and friendly; each includes definitions of unfamiliar words and helpful tips. http://www.libraryspot.com/ LibrarySpot.com features links to specialized libraries (including film, government, law, and medical), an extensive reference desk (encyclopedias, almanacs, dictionaries, genealogy, public records, style guides, and more), and a reading room (books, newspapers, magazines, journals, and speeches). The site also spotlights current events; national projects and exhibits; science projects; and lists, facts, and statistics http://henson.austin.apple.com/edres/lessonmenu.shtml A collection of lesson plans for elementary, middle school, and high school students. Site sponsored by Apple Computers. www.mygradebook.com Try an on-line grade book free for 60 days! Works Great & you can password protect student grades and still let parents see their child's average at any point in time. Very easy to use! http://www.virtualfreesites.com/world.html Explore many countries and cities of the world via the Internet. Site designed for adult users so you may want to surf it first. http://www.howstuffworks.com/ Have you ever wondered how the engine in your car works or what makes your refrigerator cold? Then How Stuff Works is the place for you! Click on the categories below to see hundreds of cool articles. http://www.funbrain.com Educational games - math baseball, grammar gorillas, brainbowl. - teachers' quiz lab, parent section. http://www.thegateway.org Search over 7300 excellent lesson plans, project, & activities http://www.eduhound.com Everything education K-12. Safe search engines - lesson plans - more http://www.refdesk.com access an encyclopedia, dictionary, today in history, newspaper, too much to mention! http://www.studyweb.com Click on "The Classroom Internet" and find articles on safety, pen pals, online projects, free stuff for teachers, software reviews, tutorials, web page design help, web treasure hunts, etc. http://www.globalschoolhouse.com Looking for a collaborative project? Here's the place to go! http://www.new-teacher.com An interesting site for new teachers http://www.randomhouse.com/teachers/index.html Looking for author or illustrator info? Check this out! http://www.halcyon.com/marcs/lessons.html tons of lesson plan links. Lots of resources for teachers http://www.learningplanet.com Visit this completely internet-based interactive learning environment that is filled with fun, educational games for kids from pre-k to 6th grade. Choose a grade level and then get a list of games designed to improve learning skills. http://www.certificatecreator.com Need a quick certificate for a classroom award? Print one here. http://www.lil-fingers.com/ L'il Fingers Storybooks is a computer storybook site for toddlers, Parents and children are encouraged to click form pages to page reading and looking at colorful drawings (some of them even move!) http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/stdyhlp.html Study skills self-help information - a variety of techniques, ideas, and info which may be useful for students or great to put in a newsletter for parents http://www.geography.learnontheinternet.co.uk/ Geo Net - an extensive geography resource with links to physical, human, & economic geography sites & teacher-contributed lesson plans http://pblchecklist.4teachers.org/ Project-Based learning checklists - a series of checklists that allow you to design a student rubric in various subject areas. Internet Weather Links http://www.uen.org/weather/ http://www.themailbox.com If you subscribe to the magazine you'll get full access to the site. If not, you'll get samples! http://www.cyberkids.com a space for kids to have fun & find keypals.