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New California State Science Standards (download pdf file) National Board Certification site: For excellent teachers looking for the next step professionally. ESPECIALLY FOR NEW TEACHERS: First Days of Middle School Advice on management, discipline, curriculum and more. Beginning Teacher's Tool Box Everything from an "Ask Our Mentor a Question"section where you can e-mail questions or concerns to a veteran teacher, to"Tips for New Teachers" Teachers.net: Mentor Support Center A chatboard specifically for beginning teachers, lesson plans, live meetings, etc. I Love Teaching.com The experiences and wisdom of a veteran teacher. Click "Tid-Bits" for a list of things a rookie teacher wishes that she had known before stepping into the classroom. What to Expect Your First Year of Teaching: a FREE online book (in PDF format, requiring an Acrobat reader): a compilation of award-winning first-year teachers' experiences, challenges, and successes. Lesson Plan Resources Teachers Helping Teachers: The best resource on the web for teachers. Check out lesson plans, links, and a great rolling sign-in page. EdHelper.com: Thousands of lesson plans, plus free gradebook software. The Education Index: A large, well organized set of lesson plan and resource links National Science Teachers Association Ron MacKinnon's Educational Bookmarks Physical Science Activities Manual: Excellent, well developed lessons for secondary physical science. Web Sites and Resources for Teachers is compiled by Dr. Vicki Sharp and Dr. Richard Sharp, professors of Elementary Education at California State University, Northridge. This site contains links to lesson plans and resources on the Internet for language arts, social studies, math, science and art. MiddleWeb: All kinds of resources for middle school teachers, with an emphasis urban education. National Center for Science Education: Lots of resources related to teaching about evolution, and responding to challenges to evolution. ESL Home Page: Material for students learning English Lawrence Hall of Science: a wide variety of programs and projects. Marc Sheehan's Lesson Plans: A K-3 teacher shares lessons on science, social studies and math--with emphasis on thematic learning and inquiry. Links to more lesson plan sites also. Online projects and Virtual Trips for Students: Women of NASA: Students and teachers can enter live discussions with women scientists at NASA. Global Access to Educational Resources: A Cybrary of links CTI Virtual Field Trips and Tours Links to museums and galleries the world over! The Awesome Library organizes your exploration of the World WideWeb with 10,000 carefully reviewed resources. It includes a directory, an index, and a new search engine. The US Library of Congress Photos, documents and sounds from the United States of the past. Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Tour the collections on each floor. Geologylink: Field trips around the world. Monterey Bay Aquarium: Explore the life of Monterey Bay. FairTest: This group challenges the fairness of standardized tests Rethinking Schools: A strong, progressive educational journal, not afraid to take on issues of race, class and gender. MiddleWeb: Exploring Middle School Reform. National Center for Education Statistics (NCES): Lots of educational data. Pathways to School Improvement National Science Education Standards Online Third International Mathematics and Science Study: Find out how the US actually compares to the world! In Motion Magazine: A Progressive Webzine Salon Table Talk : All round fun discussion site, for discussing social issues, politics, and everything else: How Stuff Works : A great source! The Faces of Science: African Americans in the Sciences Amateur Science: Lots of fun projects and links. Franklin Institute Online Science Museum James Randi (the magician and skeptic) Bad Science A site devoted to correcting misconceptions, including those found in text books. The Skeptical Inquirer An excellent journal that debunks pseudoscience. BADGER (Bay Area Digital Geo Resource) View and download aerial photos of any location in the Bay Area! New: Mathematically Sane: Rational Reform Fibonacci Numbers in Nature: This is a trip!
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