Teacher's Tools
Printable Resources For SEN (Special Educational Needs)- Has Many tools for teachers to use in helping students succeed!
Personal Educational Press - Create free educational worksheets such as flashcards, game boards, and quizzes to print directly from your browser.
Make tracing sheets, quizzes, study sheets, word lists, bingo cards, word scrambles, word searches and more! 
- Easy Test Maker - free online test generator to create your tests
- Guidelines for Appropriate Assessment - How can I ensure the integrity of my assessments? (A checklist of assessment procedures)
- HotPotatoes - The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web
- QuizMaker JavaScript Wizard - make tests easily.
- Quiz Star - Create quizzes for students to take and review online.
- Help with Rubrics - Many links that have ready made rubrics. You can also create some yourself online.Some excellent ones at this site are:
- RubiStar - a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics but does not have the time to develop them from scratch.
- Rubric Builder - a free service of the Landmark project
- Project Based Learning Checklists from 4Teachers.org
- Rubric Generators from Teach-nology - The generators will allow you to make several types of grading rubrics by filling out a simple form. The materials are made instantly and can be printed directly from your computer (scroll down)
- Online Resources for Assessment - Adopting, adapting, or developing an aligned assessment for your lesson
- Rubric Help - an extensive list of rubrics and rubric development sites
- Secondary Assessment Tools - excellent source of rubric for secondary education.
- Test Maker - utility which allows you to create free-standing, self-marking tests or quizzes which can be saved to disc and used offline as required.
Award Certificates - Print these certificates for incentives! Download the Word file and customize as needed. [unavailable on 8/13/05] Awards - BillyBear- Create your own.
FlipBooks - Create your own Flipbooks at this site. Fill out the info and even draw pictures for your books, then print them out. Pop-Up Books -When the page is opened, the illustration pops out. Making Books - Free projects and directions for making books
Bulletin Board Printables - Browse through the bulletin board border available, print as many as you will need to get around your board, then cut them out.
Calendars - Great for Math Teachers! All of these are 3-dimensional models of the conventional cut-out, fold-up and glue variety (2006 calendars) Calendars - Great for Math Teachers! 3-dimensional models from 2005 (Archive version)
Classroom Calendars- Jill Perkins - calendars in .doc format so that you can write in them and edit events Calendar - 30Boxes - On-line calendar - 30 Boxes was created for people looking for a robust yet simple social calendar that is easy to share with family and friends
Flashcard Exchange - a community supported site where you make flashcards for yourself, your students or your peers. Flashcards - from Myteachertools - multi links for numerous assortments of flashcards Flashcards - Letter cards, Verb cards, Story patterns, ABC cards, Phonics flashcards, Verb cards. Look to the left for your choices.
CasaNotes - make and customize notes that are sent home to parents or given to the students in Spanish and English. Coupon Books - make and customize your own coupon books for Mother's Day, Teacher Day, or any day! Coupons - print these off for rewards!(this is a GeoCities site and may be blocked by school filters) Charts and Logs - pdf files - Almost any type of chart or log you will need as a teacher is here! Planning, behavior, calendars, achievement forms, reward charts, too many to mention! (this is a GeoCities site and may be blocked by school filters but you will certainly want to pull this site up at home if it is blocked at school!) FlipBooks - Create your own Flipbooks at this site. Fill out the information and even draw pictures for your books, then print them. Forms for Teachers - Don't reinvent the wheel. Go here for ready-made forms teachers need: tardy log, staff development, progress reports, parent concern letters, make up work and more. 
Response-O-Matic - Need to create a form? Thanks to modern technology, all you need to do now is just create your forms in standard html. Then have your form call Response-O-Matic. (see an example form) Rulers - several printable paper rulers available 
on 11/02/06 SMILE: Server-Managed Interactive Learning Exercises - (formerly named Game-O-Matic) SMILE is a tool for creating interactive language-learning exercises. Create your own web games here! Cloze, multiple choice, concentration, sentence mix, vocabulary drill and more! Registration is required, but it is free. Timesaving Sheets - from Timesavers for Teachers; forms that are used in the classroom. This site also has a free mailing list that offers forms, in addition to information about books with forms and special offers.
Bingo Games - print out bingo cards in many subject areas; time, body parts, numbers, shapes, nutrition, and more. Great for ESL kids! Crossword Puzzle Generators
Games - PDF files for printing games, activities, and quizzes Games - Board game templates to print - (this is a Geocities site that may not pass through School filters) Games - Board game templates in MS Word format Maze Generator - This site creates complex mazes that you can print out and play! Puzzle Makers - from Myteachertools - multi links for numerous assortments of puzzle making sites Quiz-Busters Plenary Quiz - "interactive plenary quiz for two teams based on the popular television quiz program Blockbusters. The resource is designed to be used on an interactive whiteboard as a teacher led activity but can be played by individual students." 11-27-06 Word Search - Make your own word search puzzles with a personalized list of words.
Graph paper - Excel files with small, medium and large grids. Quadrille paper - Excel files with small, medium and large grids, every fifth line is darker 
Task Cards
Task Card - to print 5 x 8 index cards with Internet tasks for students
Venn Diagram - two circle, three circle, and instructions to make your own On-Line Planning Templates
Daily Assignment Maker - Give your students a head start on weekly assignments by filling out this form and giving it to your class. Homework for the Week - Print out a worksheet for your students to keep up with their homework assignments. LessonPro - Create online lessons with a user-friendly, fill-in-the-blank template. Lesson Plan Template - Learn to effectively create Standard based lesson plans. Free account but one must register.
AutoAssign - create online assignments using only a web browser. Students later return to this site to "do" the assignments. ClassNotesOnline is a way for teachers to communicate with students and parents by creating a Free web site. ClassNotesOnline allows teachers to keep students up to date and parents informed on the daily work, assignments, homework, and grades in all of their classes Digging into Teacher Treasures on the Internet - The links have been selected because they each have the capacity to provide something valuable to you as a teacher. Each one has been annotated to help you get an idea of what you will discover when you link to the site. They may provide some extraordinary timesaving techniques or tools; they might provide your students with a valuable on line resource; or, they may include some of the best and most innovative uses of technology as an integrated element of teacher instruction and student learning. DonnaYoung.org - Printables and Resources for Home schooling and Classrooms Free printables to help celebrate special occasions like Valentine's Day, Halloween or Christmas Free Printables - alphabets, calendars, games, bookmarks, paper dolls, certificates, books and more! Free Tools for Teachers - Compiled by Sue LeBeau, from miscellaneous free tools to templates for the classroom to web page building, check here for teacher resource tools! Grade book - Engrade - Online grade book that is a free resource. Engrade's online grade book suite includes custom grading scales, weighted assignments, attendance tracking, homework calendar, printable student reports, online student reports, and many more features. Mister Tall Height Chart - At the Mr. Men and Little Miss site click on Skip Intro and then select Fun and Games. Next select Little Miss Sunshine’s Print and Play. The height chart requires four sheets of paper. There is also a personalized Door Sign. Personal Educational Press - Create free educational worksheets such as flashcards, game boards, and quizzes to print directly from your browser. Simply choose a word list and an output style. PIXresizer - Free Image Resizer - PIXresizer is a photo resizing program to easily create web and e-mail friendly versions of your images with reduced file sizes (posted 7/23/05) Preschool Printables - awards, bulletin board borders, dotted paper, writing charts, teacher notes and more. (note: they are advertising their CD at times but a lot of printables are free. Pick and choose through their selections for the free printables) QuizStar - With this web-based utility, you will be able to create a custom quiz that others can take online! If you have a lesson plan centered around Internet web sites, or if you want students to be able to do take-home assignments over the Internet, then Quiz Star is for you! ReadPlease - Reads any text you see on your screen - all purpose text-to-speech software. Download the 2003 version (it’s free), not the Plus version for which there is a charge. After downloading this application, go back to download two Spanish voices. Remember the Milk - Remember The Milk is the easiest and best way to manage your to-do lists online. Rulers - several printable paper rulers available SchoolNotes.com - Create Notes for homework and class information and post them on the web in seconds using this free community service. Registration is required, however the account is free. Teacher Tools of the Week - Each week you will find new tips to help you plan classroom activities. There is a mixture of things here, so plan to do some looking regularly. Check out their links along the left of this page.
Assign-A-Day - Teachers create a calendar(s) for their class(es) and add assignments for the students to view
Swift Desk - This site offers free storage (30 MB), but also provides free bookmark storage and web page hosting. Village Photos - Upload images straight from your browser (no FTP required!). Free users get space for 25 images, access to their Page Designer HTML tools, create and send online greeting cards using your own images, order prints of upload images, and can post the images on other web sites Yahoo! Briefcase - the easiest way to put your files online and share them with friends or co-workers. (get 30 MB of space free) Your Image Host provides 5 mb of free image storage, 100 mb per month bandwidth, and the capability to produce slide shows and portfolios. Bookmark storage
Backflip - As you discover interesting Web pages, use the Backflip it! button to save them and Backflip will organize them for you. Then, simply go to your Backflip account and you'll find all of your favorite pages filed in your personal directory -- which you can access from any computer. MyBookmarks allows you to save your bookmarks and either make them available to the world, or keep them private. Why would you want that? Suppose you are in a workshop and bookmark some really great sites, but there is no floppy drive. This site is the perfect solution. Registration is free.
3-D Papercraft - from Canon's Bubble Jet Printer Creative Park - also - Science Papercrafts from Canon's Bubble Jet Printer Creative Park - or -Papercraft for Kids - a long list of topics, most of them are animals, to print and use in your elementary classroom (in .pdf format) Calendars - Great for Math Teachers! All of these are 3-dimensional models of the conventional cut-out, fold-up and glue variety (2006 calendars) Calendars - Great for Math Teachers! 3-dimensional models from 2005 (Archive version)
Dice - Print your own Literacy Dice!! May use number or letters in your creations.
(A word of caution: free sites are often blocked by filters)
Alfy - The Kids Portal Playhouse is intended for K-6 audiences. They provide free web pages to classroom teachers, and no knowledge of web page development is needed. Angelfire - Looking for a cool spot to hang out and build your site? Angelfire may be the place. They supply everything you need: easy to use building tools, scripts to cut and paste, free page designs, images to make your site look great, and more! Google Page Creator - 100mb of space with this free web page account. You have to have a email account, but you can sign up for one on this page too. Teachers.net has a Homepage Maker that will allow you to include some neat features. Their listing of what is available may give you some good ideas about what to include in your page. When you are finished, Teachers.net sends you the source code by Email. FreeWebspace.net - (the largest searchable guide to free web space providers) To find a free web host, use the simple search or the advanced power search. You can also view the complete list of free personal web space providers.
The File Cabinet - from the classroom of Laura Chandler - Activity sheets and black line masters that she has created for her classroom. All of them are in PDF format, so you'll need the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Also check out her Odds & Ends. FreeWorksheets - Many links to various topics, such as themes, units, lessons, graphics, plus over 2000 free worksheets. Math Worksheets - online/off-line Math Worksheet Generator; addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and fractions. Math Worksheets - Time, Money, Algebra, Pythagorean Theorem Radius, Area, Diameter, Circumference,Rectangle Area and Side Length, along with adding, subtracting,multiplying and division, plus Polynomials and more. Math Worksheet Wizard - Elementary school -create custom math worksheets for the classroom or as homework. Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division. on 11/25/06 Math Test Worksheets - create multi-operation problems (using parentheses), problems with exponents and roots, and non-parenthetical order-of-operation problems as well as randomly ordered math tests that are of varying levels of difficulty Math Worksheets - Missing Links - number skip worksheets that you can personalize. Science Worksheets (from Teach-nology) – 25 categories, several worksheets in each category (scroll down) Science worksheets - 21 Free printable worksheets for pre-K through 5th grade (in .pdf format) Telling Time - Select time intervals and print out worksheet. Tutorial World - free worksheets for K-6 in English and Math, 3-6 Science Web Worksheet Wizard - This web-based utility will allow you to create a lesson, worksheet or class page on the World Wide Web
Portal Sites
The Gateway to Educational Materials offers the key to one-stop, any-stop access to high quality lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources on the Internet! MarcoPolo - The MarcoPolo program provides no-cost, standards-based Internet content for the K-12 teacher and classroom, developed by the nation's content experts. Online resources include panel-reviewed links to top sites in many disciplines, professionally developed lesson plans, classroom activities, materials to help with daily classroom planning, and powerful search engines. EconEdLink from the National Council on Economic Education - Explore the connections between economics and real-world issues Xpeditions from National Geographic - The home of geography standards on the Internet EDSITEment from the National Endowment for the Humanities - Subject-based access to top humanities sites Illuminations by NCTM - Gateway to Standards-Based Mathematics Education Science NetLinks from the American Association for the Advancement of Science - a comprehensive "homepage" for K-12 science educators Caution: This link opens a new window. Close the page to return to this list. ArtsEdge from the Kennedy Center - helps educators to teach in, through and about the arts Read - Write - Think - ReadWriteThink, established in April of 2002, is a partnership between the International Reading Association (IRA), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation
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