PENCILS AND
OTHER THINGS
The Oriental Trading Company
has over 180 types of pencils that are fun to use in the classroom.
Also check out the
Product Index to find all of the great things to buy at this site.
The
Oriental Trading Company
Their
index page
Our lesson plan on giving
and receiving complements. (Word document, 195KB)
Compliment
lesson plan
HIGHLIGHTERS
Avery Carter's Economy
Highlighter with a broad chisel tip in a compact design can be found
at Office Max.
39¢
highlighters at Avery
If the above link doesn't
work for some reason, here is a link to the Office Max website, and
item descriptions for the highlighters.
Office
Max
HIGHLIGHTER,CHSLTP,FLPK
(pink)
Item # AVE06020 , Style # AVE06020
$0.39 each
HIGHLIGHTER,CHSLTP,FLYW
(yellow)
Item # AVE06023 , Style # AVE06023
$0.39 each
STORY WRITING
Lesson plan for whole class
story writing project. (Word document, 67KB)
Whole
class story writing project
Amazon Books and Tapes
is a great place to get any of the books mentioned in the talk.
Amazon
Books and Tapes
Here are direct links to
books and tapes at Amazon that were mentioned in the talk.
From
Pictures to Words: A Book About Making a Book for $13.56
What
Do Authors Do? by Eileen Christelow for $5.95
What
Do Illustrators Do? by Eileen Christelow for $12.00
The
Young Author's Do-It-Yourself Book: How to Write, Illustrate, and
Produce Your Own Book by Donna Guthrie for $33.90
If
You Were a Writer by Joan Lowery Nixon for $6.99
A
Book Takes Root: The Making of a Picture Book by Michael Kehoe
for $6.95
The
Films of Charles and Ray Eames - Volume 1: Powers of Ten for
$22.49
Powers of Ten - A
Flipbook - You may have to special order this or find it used
on Amazon or e-Bay.
Zoom
by Istvan Banyai for $7.99
Re-Zoom
by Istvan Banyai for $6.99
INEXPENSIVE SOFTWARE
For story creation software
look for: Storybook Weaver Deluxe, Ultimate Writing &
Creativity Center, Student Writing Center, The Amazing
Writing Machine, Imagination Express (various titles),
and Orly's Draw-a-story. Each product is available online for
under $10.00.
For morphing images use
Kai's Super Goo for under $15.00.
Software can be found at:
Software
Blowouts
GreenBayCD
Cyber
City Software
FILMSTRIP PROJECTORS AND
FILMSTRIPS
Check out e-bay to find
filmstrip projectors and filmstrips. You can usually pick put a filmstrip
projector for under $10.00 and sets of filmstrips for very
cheep.
eBAY
Free Teaching Aids
This site sells a set of
guides that list numerous free classroom aids that are available for
teachers and librarians.
Free
teaching aids
KEYBOARDING
Nickola's lesson plan for
Keyboarding. Watch out, this one's a bit bigger due to the graphics.
Keyboarding
lesson plan, Word document, 3.1MB
This is a lesson plan that
has work successfully for students from the end of first grade through
the sixth grade. If you take 4 to 8 weeks at the beginning of the
year, and 15-20 minutes a day, your students will each be able to
use the computer much more effectively.
The software used with
the keyboarding lesson plan can be found at:
FLIX
Productions - Animated Beginning Typing
THINGS FOR COPIES AND
PRINTERS
Transparencies and Other
Things for Copiers
Transparencies for copiers
and computer printers, Post-It notes in 8.5" X 11" size,
and Post-It large pads of yellow with blue lines or grids can be found
at Office Depot, 3M, and other stationary stories.
Office
Depot
3M
post-its
Make puzzles of information
from your teaching units with Puzzle Clonzz. They can be found at
the following places:
Compoz
a Puzzle
The
Utmost-way
DIGITAL CAMERA
When looking for a low
cost digital camera, try clicking on Yahoo shopping and try a search
for "digital camera". Then click on price to have the items
put in an order from least to most expensive.
If you are looking for
information on digital cameras and projects you can do with them in
the classroom check out the PDQ Guide to Digital Photography.
PDQ
Guide to Digital Photography
LESSON PLANS
My favorite place on the
Net to find lessons and good educational sites on the Internet is
Education World. Take some time to subscribe to one or all of their
newsletters. I especially like the Site Review newsletter that I have
been getting for years now.
Education
World
Education
World mailing list signup
The Lesson Plans Page is
where you can search for lessons by subject, or look for lesson plans
by seasons by date.
The
Lesson Plans Page
edHelper.com is a subscription
site that has lesson plans as well as worksheets in many subjects,
but the cool part of this is that they have links to over 1,200 Webquests
that are separate from the subscription site.
edhelper.com
teachernet.com also has
lesson plans and other things, but the best part is their daily cartoon
and their bulletin boards that let you print out the parts and have
your students color them to create your own bulletin board.
teachernet.com
OUR PRODUCTS AT CLASSROOM
TECHNOLOGY
To take a look at any of
our products go to our product page.
Our
products
EDUCATION SOFTWARE REVIEWS
SuperKids Education Software
Review - in addition to reviews of educational software they have
a searchable software price inventory.
SuperKids
Kids Domain has excellent
reviews for children's software. They do not review for use in the
classroom, but I enjoy their reviews because the include information
on actual use by kids and they review unusual as well as very commercial
software.
Kids
Domain
CLIP ART
One of the most requested
items when I have been working with other teachers or schools on using
technology in the classroom is how do you find copyright free photographs,
and clip art.
Art Today is my premier
site for clip art. It is a subscription site, but the rate is very
reasonable for the over 1.5 million images and other things they have
available.
Art
Today
Another subscription site
is ExpressIt. This site also has great a great collection of images.
ExpressIt
I would be remiss if I
didn't tell you that we also have a clip art site (clipartforteachers.com)
that has images that are specifically designed for teachers. This
site has images that are in categories that match curriculum units.
ClipArtForTeachers
COMPUTER POSTERS
The posters that Nickola
uses in her computer area.
Computer
posters on download page
GREAT SITES FOR TEACHERS
Here is a collection of
sites that you might be interested in from Classroom Technology.
Interesting
links for teachers
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