Teacher Resources:  K-8 Teacher Tools
General | Templates | NY State Curriculum Links | Graphic Organizers | Games and Puzzles | Tests and Quizzes

General

WMHT Video on Demand
An wonderful collection of videos that can be searched by subject, topic, grade level, or curriculum strand. Videos may be streamed or downloaded to your computer. District username and password available from Ann Hayes or Lourdes Lejano.

PBS Teacher Line
Take on-line professional development courses related to math, science, reading/language arts, and instructional strategies.  Free tuition available for courses.  Please contact Lourdes Lejano.

4Teachers
A wonderful resource for making rubrics (RubiStar), calendars (AssignADay), and sets of links for students (TrackStar).


Personal Educational Press
Create form-based printable bingo cards, tracing sheets, word lists, flash cards, etc for science, math, writing, reading, geography, government, Spanish, and French.

Abcteach
Use up to 5000 free printable materials for the classroom. Classroom labels, lunch and homework passes, certificates, and more are included!

TeAch-nology- Free Worksheets for Teachers

Free worksheets, graphic organizers, rubric makers, timelines, and more.

Kathy Schrock's Online Tools for the Classroom Use
An excellent collection of online tools for teachers and for students. Site includes calendars, certificate creators, puzzlemakers, timeline makers, a citation machine, and more.

DiscoverySchool.com Teacher Tools
Links to a puzzlemaker, lesson planner, quiz center, worksheet generator and clip art gallery.

Templates

Templates for Teachers
A collection of online templates compiled by Education Week, including letters, charts, and certificates.

Template Gallery from Microsoft
A collection of templates to use with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Publisher.

NY State Curriculum Links

New York State Teacher's Net Tools
Projects and resources created by NYS Virtual Learning Space. Searchable by grade level and subject.

New York State Learns
A searchable database of educational resources developed for NY State.

MarcoPolo NY
These lessons from the MarcoPolo site specifically align with the New York State Standards.

New York State Department of Education: Curriculum, Instruction, and Instructional Technology
Links to subject specific standards.

Graphic Organizers

Using Inspiration or Kidspiration 

SCORE Language Arts: Graphic Organizers

Create Your Own Venn Diagram 

35 Printable Graphic Organizers

Games and Puzzles

FunBrain.com
Free educational games and quizzes in math, grammar, science, spelling, and history. The Teacher tab leads to links to grade specific games.

PuzzleMaker

Create and print different types of puzzles including word searches, cryptograms and crosswords. To save puzzles for future use, registration is required.

I Know That 

Select from dozens of educational games for your grade level. Teacher's Guides explain each activity. Registration required to save work.

Kids' Place Games
Houghton Mifflin's collection of English / Language Arts (editing and spelling), Math, and Social Studies games for students.

Tests, Quizzes, and Worksheets

Easy Test Maker
Create and save multiple choice, fill-in-the blank, matching, short answer, and true and false quizzes. Option to create a master answer sheet and insert instructions available. Free registration required.

Funbrain Quiz Lab
Create a quiz or use quiz library. Students can take the quiz online, and teachers can receive results through e-mail. Registration is required. Free Trial lasts 30 days.