• A guide to the Media Center for JBE Teachers

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• CCSD Office of Instructional Technology This site lists, ISTE Standards, MS Office Lesson Plans, Technology Workshops
• South Carolina Curriculum Standards The South Carolina Department of Education's content area web pages
• Social Studies Academic Standards- Revised standards for 2005:
• Social Studies Lesson Plans, Activities and Correlations Lesson plans and activity packets, annotated lists of literature prepared by the SDE.
• Know-it-All: The ultimate resource for South Carolina Social Studies Activities. Check out Periscope for in depth looks at SC History, Listen to Gullah Tales, and try out the interactive SC Game with Scoot. Take a virtual field trip along SC Rivers or through a Cove Forest and Salt Marsh, or watch a slide show about South Carolina.
• Draft of the new Science Academic Standards for 2006-2007

Mail School News to:

• Post and Courier Neighborhood@postandcourier.com
• Moultrie News  news@islandpapers.com

Literacy Ideas and Links

• Lesson Plans for Reading  Link to lessons about specific books from the Educators Reference Desk
• The PBS TeacherSource: Pre-K Reading and Emergent Literacy Skills:  Links to video and interactive sites for popular characters such as Arthur, Berenstain Bears. Look here for links to other great PBS links science, math, etc.
• Kidspiration Ideas for the computer classroom

Sample Lessons:

• Phonemic Awareness Activities: Sheep in a Shop

• Planting a Rainbow: Learning the letter G sound

• The Sounds of 'ea': A Powerpoint

C.A.R.E.: Strategies for Closing the Achievement Gap: Articles from the NEA Site

http://www.nea.org/teachexperience/careguide.html

• Six Traits: Grand Slam Writing
• Using Six Traits in the Classroom
• Ideas for Teaching Writing
• Six Trait Writing Lesson Plans
• !  Write Traits - More help for you!
  

• Internet4Classrooms: Helping Teachers use the internet effectively. Mrs. Rooney says it is a "great site for all teachers.  Standards are listed for all subject areas and next to them are interactive sites to use."
• Midge Frazel's Home Page: Janice Mills' essential page for teaching
• The SC Teaching Learning Connecting)The SCTLC.com search engine uses a local database of resources and a specially designed web spider that returns lessons plans from a select group of websites chosen by Education professionals in South Carolina.
• Know-It-All Resources from SCETV. Scoot, Gullah Tales, etc. 
• Blue Web’n:  Blue Ribbon Learning Sites Outstanding sites arranged by subject, grade level and format (activities, lessons and tools)
  
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Search this site to find resources on cable to tape and use to enhance the curriculum. These shows can be taped either at home or at school for use in the classroom.

ABCTeach Activities, Thematic units, printable pages

AskEric Lesson Plans Lesson plans shared through the ERIC database

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators Sites to enhance curriculum

Mrs. Ritter's First Grade Critters: The best of the best first grade sites

Resources for Kindergarten teachers Great lessons for K-teachers

Teachnet  Smart tools for busy teachers, top 100 teacher websites

Teachers.Net Lesson Bank Real ideas posted by real teachers - quick and creative

Page updated February 2007 by Sally Pedersen. Please email any corrections or new links to be included to me. Thanks for your suggestions.