This document provides a summary of various online tools that teachers can use to engage students and integrate technology into lessons. It lists resources for science, social studies, math and literacy and provides direct links to websites for weather data, lessons, videos, graphs, flashcards and more. The document emphasizes that taking time to research these available tools online can save teachers time in the long run when looking for ways to teach standards and keep students interested through technology integration.

1. EDTC 614: Integrating Technology into the curriculum
Topic 3: Activity 2
Betty Hustead
November 12, 2010

2. Teacher Tools
Feeding students and teachers gets their attention, but then you need to have
interesting presentations to keep it.
There are many tools to help teachers on line.
My favorite is Web 2.0.
http://sites.google.com/site/educationalweb20tools/Home
It has newsletters, current info, new tech, games, maps, blogs, and anything else
you can think about needing or using.

3. Tools for Science
Many Science Sources can be
Found Online.
National weather service on line school
www.srh.noaa.gov/jetstream/index.htm
Weather underground
www.wunderground.com
Discovery Education
http://school.discoveryeducation.com
Educator’s Reference Desk
www.eduref.org

4. Social Studies Tools
Geography lesson videos
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Geography+lessons&
History lessons, templates, …
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/history
BrainPop.com (subscription site) animated videos,
lessons, graphic organizers, quizzes, …
http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/

5. Create a graph Math Tools
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/
Create/Use Flash Cards
http://cueflash.com/search?cx=partner-pub-3048009152605
Quizzes/Flash Cards
http://quizlet.com/

6. Literacy
Are you still keeping the students
entertained?
Differentiation skills, Marzano’s Instructional
Strategies and RTI sources may help.
Differentiation
http://www.byrdseed.com/the-differentiator/
Marzano’s Strategies http://gets.gc.k12.va.us/VSTE/2008/
RTI http://www.interventioncentral.org/ Or
http://rti4success.org/index.php?option=content&task=blo

7. Standards
Be sure to integrate standards within your lessons!
1. ISTE NET standards for students and Teachers
http://www.iste.org/standards.aspx
2. 21st Century Skills
http://www.p21.org/
3. National Content Standards
http://www.nsta.org/about/positions/standards.aspx

8. Tools Overview
 If you are willing to spend some time online
researching tools for teaching, you will save
yourself time in the end.
 You do not need to create everything on your
own, many things are out there waiting for you to
find and use them.
 Collaboration with teachers is available online
through blogs, emails, webinars, and other
methods.
Have fun searching and learning!