Software Santa
FREE and/or Open Source Desktop Software! => Educational Sites and Programs => Teacher's Treats => Topic started by: Software Santa on December 06, 2008, 06:58:17 PM
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NEA - National Education Association - has Free Stuff for Teachers!
http://www.nea.org/ (http://www.nea.org/)
http://www.nea.org/tools/LessonPlans.html (http://www.nea.org/tools/LessonPlans.html)
FREE Stuff for Educators
These free resources are listed by subject. Click on each subject to find items by grade level (Pre-K, K-12, Elementary School, Middle School, and High School).
Art
* Links to museum art resources by curriculum, topic, or artist; art lessons; and videos of artists demonstrating their art.
* Loans of slides/CD-Roms, DVDs.
Character Education
* Links to character ed organizations, tips, lessons, curriculum materials, online articles.
* Subscription to a biannual magazine.
Environmental Education
* Links to a wildlife group, a campaign, and an interactive program with lesson plan and workbook.
Health
* Links to health information news - from cooking to fitness to drugs to a SkinDictionary with audio pronunciations.
* Posters, tips for teachers cards on behaviors that threaten students, kits, and a teen survival guide.
Math and Financial Literacy
* Links to virtual manipulatives, math lesson plans and activities, interactive practice games, and worksheets.
Physical Education
* Link to indoor movement activities.
Reading and Language Arts and Literature Resources
* Links to digital book site for students with difficulties reading printed text, lesson ideas, and interactive vocabulary games and spelling practice.
Science
* Links to lessons, activities, puzzles; downloadable photos; printable PDFs of books; professional development cases
* Science bookmarks and posters.
Social Studies
* Links to lesson plans, videos, games, student stories, biographies, and a guide to inspire civic awareness.
* Posters of great Americans and a student travel magazine.
Spanish Language
* Links to interactive materials.
Special Education: Autism
* Links to background materials and strategies that work.
Supplies - General
* Links to free book draw; create-your-own calendars; environment, teacher, and mentoring posters, bookmarks and posters.
Teaching Tools
* Links to lesson plan management site; databases for Native Americans; photos from the news; puzzlemakers; materials for making presentations; downloadable books, lessons, and worksheets; interactive word games; interactive lessons.
Technology and Media Literacy
* Links to videos, tip sheets, and discussion materials; safety tips, web research tools, and a media literacy kit.
* Downloadable book on teaching with new media and a bimonthly e-newsletter on Internet safety.
U.S. History
* Links to radio spots on how Congress makes a difference in our lives and history of African Americans in the United States.
World History
* Link to online Holocaust workshop and teaching resources.
Writing
* Links to lesson ideas and activities; essays by young people with prompts for student writing; world newspapers; and a site where students to write and illustrate their own comic strips.
Career in Education
* Links to information on job searches, professional development workshops and case studies, and research reports and other publications on the latest studies in education today.
http://www.nea.org/ (http://www.nea.org/)