hsnfresources

**PLANNING**
[|METS]
 * Forest Hills**
 * Penn Common Core**
 * Penn state standards**
 * [|Missouri "Show Me" Standards]**
 * [|Michigan State Standards]**
 * [|NY Learning Standards]**

[|Texas Essential Knowledge & Skills (TEKS)]

 * [|Alabama Learning Standards]**
 * [|NETS for Students 2007]**

[[image:nets_t_graphic.jpg align="right"]]
Online sources for finding national education standards: > [|www.mcrel.org/standards-benchmarks] > This online database of K–12 content standards and other valuable standards tools is used by district and state-level educators across the nation. > http://edstandards.org/Standards.html > This site is a comprehensive list of standard sources by subject and region. It also includes many resources related to standards development, law, and professional organizations. > [|www.ccsso.org/projects/State_Education_Indicators/Key_State_Education_Policies/3160.cfm] > This site links to specific subject area standards by state departments of education.
 * [|Nets for Teachers 2008]**
 * [|Partnership for 21st Century Skills]**
 * [|Technologically Integrated Planning]**-**NECC Webcast** (Judi Harris & Mark Hofler)
 * McREL's Compendium of Standards: Content Knowledge
 * Developing Educational Standards
 * Council of Chief State School Officers

=Needs Assessment/Pretest= > [|www.surveymonkey.com] > This survey site enables anyone to create professional online surveys quickly and easily. It has a free basic service that provides most of the features a teacher would need to survey students. > [|www.pollcat.com] > The free version of Pollcat is called Pollcat Lite. It provides an easy-to-learn interface to allow you to get your survey on the Web quickly. You can view/download survey summary reports, receive automatic e-mail notifications with your survey summary reports, and review/download each of the individual survey responses. > [|www.websurveyor.com/free-survey-tools.asp] > Here, you'll find a link to RSVME, a free application that integrates with Microsoft Outlook and other e-mail packages to make obtaining feedback from people a snap. You can quickly and easily put together a questionnaire on any subject. > [|www.profilerpro.com] > This comprehensive survey tool was developed to help K–16 educators measure both the effect of integrating new technology into learning environments and the effect of comprehensive staff development programs.
 * Here are some examples of free or inexpensive online survey Web sites:**
 * Survey Monkey
 * Pollcat
 * Web Surveyor
 * Profiler Pro

=**Assessment**= A number of resources are available that help teachers and even students create rubrics. The following are a few of the Web sites dedicated to providing and designing rubrics. Explore these sites to create a multitude of rubric types. > http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/rubrics/weblessons.htm > This site has a comprehensive discussion of rubric design for Web lessons and other topics. It also includes a generic rubric template and general guidelines. > http://rubistar.4teachers.org/ > This is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch. RubiStar provides generic rubrics that you can print and use for many typical lessons. It also provides these generic rubrics in a format that can be customized. You can change almost all suggested text in the rubric to make it fit your own objectives. > [|www.landmark-project.com/rubric_builder/index.php] > This “collaborative rubric toolkit” enables teachers to build effective assessment rubrics and to make them available over the Internet. Many teacher-designed rubrics are available. > [|www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics] > A number of well-designed rubrics are available for free on this site. After generating your rubric, you can select all, copy, and paste everything into a new word-processing document. Membership is not required to generate rubrics. > [|www.nwrel.org/msec/science_inq/guides.html] > The rubrics available at this site (here, they are called scoring guides) help teachers assess students' performance of the essential traits of science inquiry: connecting, designing, investigating, and constructing meaning. The scoring guides define these traits and provide descriptive criteria for student performance, enabling teachers to give students precise and useful feedback as well as to inform their instructional objectives. Ready to build a rubric from your learning objectives? Remember, the project objectives require the students to create and use a digital poster. For this example, go to RubiStar ([|http://rubistar.4teachers.org/)], scroll down to the Create a Rubric section, and choose Products.
 * Rubrics for Web Lessons
 * RubiStar
 * Landmark Project Rubric Machine
 * TeAchnology Web Portal for Educators
 * Northwest Regional Education Laboratory: Science Inquiry Model

**PBL**

 * Alabama Project Resources on PBL**

**CONTENT**

 * [|Thinkfinity]**
 * **[|Thinkfinity Tutorial]**
 * **[|Search Engine]**
 * **[|Lesson Plan Index]**
 * **[|Interactive Games]**


 * [|Route21]**


 * [|TeachNet]**


 * The Humanities**
 * [|EDSITEment]**
 * [|History]**


 * //Language Arts//**
 * [|ReadWriteThink]**
 * [|NCTE-Literacy in 21st Century]**


 * //The ARTs//**
 * [|ArtsEdge]**

//**Geography**//
 * [|Xpeditions]**


 * //Economics//**
 * [|EconEdlink]**


 * //Mathematics//**
 * [|Illuminations]**


 * //Adult and Family Literacy//**
 * [|Literacy Network]**


 * //Science//**
 * [|Science Netlinks]**


 * //Web 2.0 Tools//**
 * [|go2web20]**

**Other Great Resources for Content**
|| || || ||
 * **A to Z Teacher Stuff** || [|atozteacherstuff.com/Tips/index.shtml] ||
 * **AOL @ School** || [|www.aolatschool.com] ||
 * **Apple Learning Interchange** || [|ali.apple.com]
 * **Beginning Teacher's Toolbox** || [|www.inspiringteachers.com]
 * **Blue Web'n Learning Sites Library** || [|www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/]
 * **Busy Teachers’ WebSite K-12** || [|www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt] ||
 * **Children’s Television Workshop** || [|www.ctw.org]
 * **Classroom Connect** || [|www.classroom.com] ||
 * **CT Network State Civics Toolbox.** || [|www.ctn.state.ct.us/education.asp] ||
 * DiscoverySchool.com || [|school.discovery.com] ||
 * **Education Majors & Student Teachers** || [|www.iloveteaching.com/steacher/index.htm] ||
 * **Education Oasis** || [|www.educationoasis.com] ||
 * **Eisenhower National Clearinghouse** || [|www.enc.org/weblinks] ||
 * **FieldTrip.com - Connecticut** || [|www.fieldtrip.com/ct/index_ct.htm] ||
 * **4 Teachers** || [|www.4teachers.org] ||
 * **Gateway to Educational Materials** || [|thegateway.org] ||
 * **GLOBE Program** || [|www.globe.gov] ||
 * **Just 4 Teachers** || [|expage.com/just4teachers] ||
 * **MIT Open CourseWare** || [|ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm] ||
 * **My Wonderful World** || [|www.mywonderfulworld.org] ||
 * **NASA Explores** || [|www.nasaexplores.com] ||
 * **National Geographic Online** || [|www.nationalgeographic.com] ||
 * **National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration** || [|www.oceanslive.org/portal] ||
 * **National Wildlife Foundation** || [|www.nwf.org] ||
 * **Numb3rs...math from the TV show** || [|www.cbs.com/primetime/numb3rs/ti] ||
 * **PBS Teacher Source** || [|www.pbs.org/teachersource] ||
 * **Scholastic** || [|teacher.scholastic.com] ||
 * **teAchnology** || http://www.teach-nology.com/ideas/ice_breakers/ ||
 * **Teachers Domain** || http://www.teachersdomain.org/tdhome.html ||
 * **Teacher Mailring Center** || [|teachers.net/mailrings] ||
 * **Teachers Net** || [|www.teachers.net] ||
 * **TeachersNet Lesson Bank** || [|www.teachers.net/lessons] ||
 * **Teaching Johnny to Write by Sharon Heil** || [|www.TeachingJohnnyToWrite.com] ||
 * **Teacher Vision** || [|www.teachervision.fen.com/tv/] ||
 * **The Exploratorium** || [|www.exploratorium.edu] ||