Cool Teacher Tools
Need something extra to fill those last few minutes in your day. What about those students who need just a little extra practice to master a concept. The following sites offer ready-made or customizable puzzles, worksheets, quizzes, lessons, and more.
yourhomework.com
This site provides a simple solution of keeping students up-to-date and informed of homework, projects and tests. Students can remain in touch with their assignments whenever they miss a class or just want to stay ahead of the game. We've created a place that allows students to improve academic achievement, and parents to become more involved with their child's education. Teachers fill out a registration form on their first visit and then are given access to space to enter homework for one or multiple courses. Students and/or their parents view assignments in seconds from any web browser.
Idiom Site
Ever wonder where some of our more popular sayings came from This site lists popular idioms in alphabetical order with an explanation of their meaning and where they were originated.
Starfall
Starfall is a creative website designed to teach children to read. It makes use of interactive books and rhyming word family games that teach phonemic awareness, comprehension, vocabulary building and spelling skills. The interactive books available here have sound - so turn your speakers on! You are welcome to use the Starfall program in your school for free! Teachers may request free writing journals for classroom use that reinforce the sequential phonics lessons of each interactive book.
Inspiration/Kidspiration Standards Match (Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)
This is an interactive .PDF document that shows you the best Inspiration template or Kidspiration activity to use for the highlighted curriculum standard. Simply double click on the note attached next to the standard.
PowerPoint Jeopardy
Explore a PowerPoint template that makes it easy to generate an interactive Jeopardy game. Build your own game from scratch.
Click here to download the Jeopardy Template, Jeopardy Worksheet or Setup Instructions.
PowerPoint Who Wants to be a Millionaire
These PowerPoint presentations can be modified with your own questions to create an interactive review or test for your students. Instructions for Millionaire game. Get more PowerPoint game templates.
TeAch-nology
A Web portal for educators. Here you'll find tips, lesson plans, worksheets, ideas, tutorials, and much more.
Certificate Creator
Allows you to customize the generation of certificates for school, business or personal use to be printed out on your own printer! Select Create a Certificate, click on a category and you're ready to go. There are currently 38 prebuilt certificates to choose from and customize in 5 different categories.
Kidzone (For elementary teachers)
Contains math worksheets, science experiments, theme units. Check out the DLTK Teach page for printable classroom activities and monthly bulletin board ideas.
Online Educational Games
Who said learning can't be fun. Kidsdomain.com offers educational games in many subject areas for the elementary age student.
School Express.com
Offers over 5000 free worksheets, 200 free educational software programs for downloading, make your own math problems, and an award maker.
Puzzlemaker
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 their specialty hand-drawn mazes created around holidays and classroom topics.
Worksheet Generator
Now you can create customized worksheets in less than 5 minutes! Choose from several vocabulary and math worksheet templates or just use a teacher-created worksheet in their library of "Worksheets to Go"!
Rubistar
RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch.
edHelper
10960 Lesson Plans, 1223 WebQuests, 5000 Free Worksheet Generators, 1600 Word and Critical Thinking Problems, Exams and Puzzles for Standardized Tests.
ABC Teach
This is the place for teachers, student teachers, kids, and parents. Contains theme units, shape books, activities, puzzles, and a lot more.
A to Z Teacher Stuff
Growing collection of worksheets and pages you can print and use with your lesson plans.
Gary Olltwit's Educational Freeware
Downloadable educational software for "free". Includes a screen shot of each program along with instructions on how to download.