American Association of School Libraries (AASL)

AASL Resource Guides for School Library Media Development

American Library Association

American Memory Collection Finder from the Library of Congress - great primary documents and pictures.  Use this with Visual Literacy .

Archimedes Principle

Baseball (Little League)

Baseball (Major League)

Baseball (National Baseball Hall of Fame)

Benchmarks Pacing Calendar for Tulsa Public Schools

"Best Books" Lists for Young Adults

	If You Like Harry Potter, Try These -
	Newbery Winners and Honors - presented by ALA's ALSC (Association for Library Service to Children)
	YALSA (ALA's Young Adult Library Service Association)

Biography - Teaching Ideas and Links

Bloom's Taxonomy 

Book Awards - All the current winners - from Reading Rockets

Book Awards - from The Children's Literature Web Guide

Book Awards for 2004 - from The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

Book Awards for 2005 - from The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

Book Lesson Plans from Carol Hurst

Book Lists by Genre

	Comic Books for Young Adults - Lockwood Memorial Library
	Fantasy - from Trinity Grammar School

Book Lists by Theme

	Fiction with a Bullying Theme (Australian School Library Association)
	Book Lists by Theme from Nancy Keane

Book Reports that have pizzazz!  Ideas from Education World that make this an exciting project to create and listen to!  You will need to create a rubric for each of the choices you decide to offer.

Booktalks

	Author Videos - by Reading Rockets
	Grades 5-8 by Nancy Keane
	Historical Fiction by Nancy Keane
	for Young Adults from King County Library System

Brainconnection.com - Brain Research presented in a fascinating and practical format.

Carol Hursts' Children's Literature Site:  Curriculum Connections

Certificates using PowerPoint

	Open PowerPoint
	Go to File and then New.
	Choose Templates on My Computer.
	Click the Presentations tab.
	Click Certificate.
	Modify it as you wish.

Certificate Creator

Certificates for Teachers

Certificates You Can Make Online!

Certificates, Bookmarks, passes, lesson plan templates, and other teacher tools - by

Character Education HOTLIST

Children's Literature Newsletter from Carol Hurst - This is an awesome resource!

Children's Literature Web Guide

China HOTLIST

China HOTLIST - Franklin Institute

China HOTLIST -

Clay Recipes

Classroom Connect

Clipart

Community Service Toolbox

Copyright -This is an easy overview that can be shared with students.

Copyright - Government site

Copyright Links for Multimedia - Association for Information Media and Equipment

Culture HOTLISTS

Education HOTLIST

Educators' Reference Desk (formerly AskEric)

The Eighth Floor Units of Practice

Eisenhower National Clearinghouse for Mathematics and Science Education (ENC)

Encyclo-Media

Essential Questions Article by Jamie McKenzie

Essential Questions  Module Maker by Jamie McKenzie - How to engage students in meaningful research and eliminate copying.

Field Trip Project - Sign up to allow your students to investigate and answer questions that students from remote sites would like to know about.

Finding People on the Net

Flash download site

Follett  - Library Information

Fractions

From Now On

National Geography Standards

Xpeditions 6-8 grades Geography Lesson Plans

Geography - Landforms

Geography and Books Lesson Plans

Geography HOTLIST

Graphics

Grant Opportunity Resources

Grant Resources

Happy Libs

Health - It's a Snap

Hispanic World Lesson Plans

The Best of History Web Sites

National History Education Clearinghouse

Smithsonian Education - Lesson Plans for History and Culture

Holidays

Information Literacy Links

International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE)

Internet Activities to support specific lesson goals

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Teachers

Langston University

Langston University in Tulsa

Language Arts (Library in the Sky)

Learning Styles

Legends, Native American

Lesson Plans Archive - By grade and then subject

Lesson Plan Samples from books for sale

Library:  "Awesome"

Library of Congress

Library - TCCL - You can view the public library catalog and request books to be sent to the library of your choice!

Lifeskills and Books - See our own web page about this too!

Literature-Based WebQuests

Literature Circles

	Literature Circles - from EdTech
	Literature Circles, Article and Links
	Literature Circles, Process and Evaluation
	Literature Circles, Resource Center

Madlib-like activity #1 to create a personal silly story

Madlib-like activity #2 to create even more stories

Magazine Directory - Please remember that you can get full text articles from magazines and journals by going to the TPS Library Sources.

Magazines Online

Make and Take Web Page - Create flashcards, word lists, Bingo boards, study sheets, matching, tracing, word scramble, or sign for any curriculum area!

Marc Records - Library of Congress

Marco Polo

Martin Luther King, Jr., Civil Rights, and Diversity

Music (Library in the Sky)

Music Resources

National Certification Information Sites

	National Board for Professional Teaching Standards
	Oklahoma Commission for Teacher Preparation

News and Weather

Nobel Peace Prize Winners

Oklahoma Department of Libraries

Oklahoma Library Association

Oklahoma - Official Home Page

Oklahoma School Testing Program (OSTP)

Oklahoma State Department of Education

Oklahoma State Department Education - Library Media/ITV

Oklahoma State University

Oklahoma State University in Tulsa

Organized Investigator - Research Model adopted by Tulsa Public Schools

OU - Oklahoma's University

Pacing Calendar - Tulsa Public Schools

Pacing Calendar Collaboration

PASS Objectives

PASSport - Scroll down to PASSport and click.

Pathfinders - an excellent introduction

Poetry - use the "magnets"

Poetry -Giggle Poetry that is!

Poetry - Haiku Links

Poetry - Excellent Haiku Lesson Plan

Poetry Zone - The "recipe" and examples of different forms of poetry

PowerPoint Activities and Templates

Professional Development for Tulsa Public Schools

Professional Library for Tulsa Public Schools

Project Based Learning Checklists

Questioning Toolkit - Jamie McKenzie

Quia - Great resource of games and activities.  You can make your own or use existing ones.

QuizStar

Quote of the Day

Readers' Theater

Readers' Theater Scripts of the Month

Readers' Theater Tips for Reading

Use author interviews available from teachingbooks.net for Readers' Theater

Reading and Writing Lesson Plans - These are excellent!

References Online

Reference Shelf

Research Says . . .

Research Basics

ABC books - Students can write ABC books about a research subject.  This can be done in groups or individually.

Acronym pages - Students can write Acronym pages individually or with a group if there isn't enough time to write an ABC book.

AutoShape Art - Use WordArt in PowerPoint to build landforms or other pictures.  (Geography From A to Z:  A Picture Glossary by Jack Knowlton is a good resource for building landforms.)

Comic Books - Create PowerPoint comic books.

Cubing - This is listed in the language arts PASS objectives' glossary for 6th - 8th.

Cubing

Flyers - Use Publisher or Word to create these.

Graph and more with Excel

Inspire with Inspiration - software to create graphic organizers

Newspapers - Use Publisher to create these.

Online Posters - Click and register.

Picturing to Learn

Readers' Theater - Write scripts based upon nonfiction.  See Reader's Theater sites above too.

Timelines - Many choices on how to do this.  Include times when various inventions were first available.  Draw conclusions from the timelines.

Who am I?  What am I? - This is a link to the author Linda Sue Park's web page.  Students could research to create Who am I? or What am I? trivia questions.  They would have to cite their sources in case their answers were challenged.

Write poems about topic of research

Write songs about what you are studying

Use Tulsa Public Schools Subscription Databases before the free Internet.  (Ask Mrs. Edwards or Mrs. Hinckley for login information.)

Using Local Resources

Review Tools

Rocks and Minerals

Rubrics - Rubistar

Rubrics - Rubric Builder

Scavenger Hunts HOTLIST

Scholastic for Teachers

Scholastic for Kids

School Libraries.Net

School-to-Work (Library in the Sky)

School-to-Work Official Site

Schoolmatters.com - compiles data on schools, districts, and states across the country from state departments of education, the National Center for Education Statistics, the U.S. Census Bureau and testing vendors. This is a service of Standard & Poor's.

Schools on the Web

Science Resources for Teachers - ComPADRE- Digital Resources for Physics and Astronomy Education

Science - Force, Motion, and Energy

Science Multimedia and Activities - (Teachers' Domain) This is the registration link.  Registration does not take long.  The site is free and has excellent multimedia illustrations of concepts.