3.+Teacher+Resources

= Teacher Resources =

This is a page for other teachers. Here are some resources I found helpful for me

Discovery Education. Retrieved December 1 2009 from school.discoveryeducation.com. . This is a Discovery Education Website. There is a specific classroom resources page you can visit. The page includes puzzle makers, clip art and many more resources. I was able to use this page to make a crossword puzzle and word find. for the students to practice with.  Stanely D. (1994) __//The// Gentleman //and the// Kitchen Maid.__ New York, NY: Puffin Books. This is the book that the vocabulary was chosen from. It is a short story about two specific paintings in a museum. Along with information on the two main paintings the author also describes the other painting in the museum.

Microsoft Office. __Free self-paced training courses for Office Programs.__ Retrieved December 1 2009 from http://office.microsoft.com. This is the Microsoft office tutorial page. The page was helpful for me when I was creating a kid friendly tutorial for the students. I was able to see how Microsoft worded their instructions to make it easier to create a kid friendly version. There are tutorials for all of the Microsoft 2007 programs.

Lesson Planet. Retrieved December 1 2009 from LessonPlanet.com. Lesson Planet is a search engine for teachers. You can choose the topic you want and the grade level. All of the lesson plans are teacher grades, so you will be able to tell if they are effective or not.

Classroom Clipart. Retrieved November 2009 from Classroom Clipart. Classroom clip art is the site I got most of my clip art from. There are over 58,000 images on the website and they are broken down into over 1000 categories.

Youtube. [|Miscrosoft Word Tutorial] This is a video I created to help teach the students how to use Microsoft Word. I was unable to find any kid friendly tutorials, which lead to me creating my own. I feel that the video is at a good pace, but if you would like to slow it down there is always the choice to pause it on certain parts, so that part can be explained in more detail.

Easy Test Maker. Retrieved December 4 2009 from Easytestmaker.com On easy test maker the user can sign up for a free membership. Once signed up the website allows you to generate different types of tests. Including: true/false, multiple choice, short answer, matching, and fill in the blank. After filling in the directions and information you want on the test it creates the test for you to print.

Scholastic. Retrieved Decemeber 4 2009 from Scholastic. Scholastic has books and activities you can look up. It is a great place to go to choose the books you want to use in future vocabulary lessons. It has a wide variety for all ages.

**Here are some helpful documents for this lesson.**
The first page of this document is the copy of the Vocabulary list the students will get. The second page includes the definitions which will be written by the teacher on the overhead for the students to copy down. If you wish to, you could give the students the copy with the definitions pre-written to save time.

This a crossword puzzle for practice for the students. I created it using Discovery Education. Here is a word find for student practice. I used Discovery Education to create this word find also.