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1. What's It Like Where You Live?

The website, titled, What's It Like Where You Live? is a great tool for teachers to learn from, as well as students. The website is organized very clearly, and it is very easy to navigate from page to page, which makes it great for students. When you are on the homepage of the website, you will find links to different biomes of the world. There is a link to the rainforest, tundra, taiga, desert, temperate, and grasslands biomes as well as several links to freshwater and marine ecosystems. When you click on a link to one of the biomes, you are given a new page full of interesting information about each one of these biomes, the different habitats within these biomes, and a lengthy listing of all the types of animals that live within these biomes. It is a great website to use for a scavenger hunt or research assignment to get students acquainted with biomes, animals, and habitats.

2. The World's Biomes

The website, titled, The World's Biomes is another helpful resource for teachers and students, alike. Biomes on this website are grouped into six major categories, which is good for students because it is clear and concise. You will also find, on this site, some important information about the conservation and preservation of biomes. This is great for teachers who are teaching lessons on how humans impact natural habitats of animals and the importance of preserving natural habitats. When you are on the homepage of the website, the six categories of biomes are hyperlinked, which leads to further information about these biomes.

3.Animal Habitats

This website, Animal Habitats, is extremely useful for teacher who are wanting to teach lessons on habitats and animals that live in them and need a fun and easy introductory assignment for students on this topic. The first part of this website provides some information about habitats. As you read further, you will find a simple explanation for a fun and easy lesson on habitats and animals that live in them. Then, as you scroll down toward the bottom of the page, you will find a long list of animal names that link you to a website specifically for that particular animal. This would be great to use for a scavenger hunt activity.

4.  Verb Wheel Based on Bloom's Taxonomy

This verb wheel consists of many appropriate verbs to use when designing learning objectives. I have found this verb wheel to be extremely useful when designing a lesson plan because, unlike other verb listings, it provides some examples of student activities that are associated with a particular Bloom's Taxonomy level and the verbs that accompany it. For example, for the Evaluation level, you will find several appropriate verbs to use when writing objectives, but you will also find some student activities, such as, Group Discussions, Editorials, and Self-Evaluations. This can be helpful for teachers when writing objectives and when trying to think of activities to include in a lesson plan.

5. Verbs Appropriate For The Cognitive Domain

This is another helpful tool for using the appropriate verbs when writing learning objectives, based on Bloom's Taxonomy levels. This is displayed in a list format, in columns, which is easy to read and locate verbs. There are many more verbs presented in this list format than there are in the verb wheel. It seems more useful to have a few different verb references when writing objectives and creating lessons, which is why this is provided along with the verb wheel.

6.Best Practices of Technology Integration

This website has many examples of elementary science lessons written by elementary school teachers. The lessons have technology integrated into them in very beneficial and creative ways. This website can be useful to any elementary school teachers, especially new teachers, because there are some really creative and interesting ideas that integrate technology. If a teacher does not want to use one of these lessons, the website is still useful because it provides some great examples that teachers can build on.

7. Writing Objectives

This website is helpful in that it provides some very useful information on the importance of clear, well written objectives. It also provides many examples of well written objectives, as well as ones that are not quite there. You can also find some information on the ABCD model/method for writing objectives, which really helps to make objectives easy to understand and very informative. The website also includes some examples of typical problems one will encounter when writing objectives and ways to correct them. This is a great website for any teacher, but again, new teachers could benefit from this website even more because it will give them very useful and relevant information on a skill they may still be working on.

8. Classroom Clipart

This website is useful for any teacher, as well as students of all ages. It has pages among pages of free graphics, pictures, and clipart for teachers and students to use when creating assignments or projects. It is always important to be aware of copyright laws in an educational setting because visuals are used often, for a wide range of assignments.

9. Copyright and Fair Use Guidelines for Teachers

This website contains an informative chart that breaks down, for teachers, in a very clear and easy format, ways in which they can use certain forms of media or text. This is important for all teachers because it is not uncommon to lose sight of how easy it is to, accidentally, violate copyright and fair use laws with such busy schedules! Therefore, having a quick and easy chart to refer to when planning lessons will help teachers remember all of their rights when they plan to use certain media or text in their lessons or classrooms.