New Jersey Testing Resources

Internet Based Resources

A good resource for NJ Teachers is located at The South Jersey Academy Site- http://southjerseyacademy.com  There are multiple resources and links especially for NJ educators.

Rubrics

Rubric star is an Excellent resource for Building rubrics quickly and easily. It’s URL is http://rubistar.4teachers.org

Language Arts/Writing

Picture Prompts

Story It is a great site for early elementary students. http://storyit.com

http://picts4learning is another good picture prompt site.

National Geographic provides a “Photo of the day at http://lava.nationalgeographic.com/pod/

Corbis has “Royalty free” pictures at http://procorbis.com

You can use either google or yahoo image searches for your own ideas and download them to your computer or copy and paste them into a document.

Persuasive Writing

This site link leads to an entire page of resources for persuasive writing, even “Plug and Play” lessons.  http://southjerseyacademy.com/academy/persuasive.htm

More persuasive writing

http://www.eduplace.com/cgi-bin/searchengine.cgi?SEARCH=Persuasion+or+Pursuasive&WORD_POINTS=0,1,0,0

http://volweb.utk.edu/Schools/bedford/harrisms/propagan.htm

http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/gen_act/view/convince.html

http://www.col-ed.org/cur/lang/lang25.txt

Writing Outline

General Language Arts/ Writing

Interactive Resources - http://southjerseyacademy.com/new%20webpages%20to%20upload/Interactivelessons.htm

Reading Resources -http://southjerseyacademy.com/academy/readrec.htm

Writing resources - http://southjerseyacademy.com/academy/Writing.htm

Speaking Resources - http://southjerseyacademy.com/academy/speakres.htm

Media Resources - http://southjerseyacademy.com/academy/mediares.htm

Read/Write/Think: Great Language Arts resource -http://www.readwritethink.org/

Fun Interactive Tools - http://southjerseyacademy.com/new%20webpages%20to%20upload/Interactivelessons.htm

Younger Children

Children’s story books online http://www.magickeys.com/books/

Star Fall Interactive - http://www.starfall.com/n/level-a/learn-to-read/play.htm?f

ABC Match http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/abcmatch/

Alphabet Organizer - http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/alphabet/

Picture Match - http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/picturematch/

What’s in the bag - http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/in_the_bag/index.html

Word build and bank - http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/wordbuild/

Word family sort - http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/wordfamily/

Great Lessons by Grade http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/index.asp?grade=0&strand=0&engagement=0

Graphic Organizers for Writing

Animal Inquiry - http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/animal-inquiry/

 Circle Plot Diagram - http://readwritethink.org/materials/circle-plot/

Drama Map - http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/dramamap/

Persuasive Map - http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/persuasion_map/

Webbing Tool http://interactives.mped.org/view_interactive.aspx?id=127&title=

Story Map - http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/storymap/index.html

Related Lesson Plans

     She Did What? Revising for Connotation

Can You Convince Me?: Developing Persuasive Writing

Memories Matter: The Giver and Descriptive Writing Memoirs

Critical Literacy: Point of View

 Creative Communication Frames: Discovering Similarities Between Writing and Art

The Orphan Trains

Egyptian Hierolyphics

 Picture Prompt Lesson

Expository Escapade—Detective’s Handbook

Mathematics

That Quiz -  http://www.thatquiz.com/

Illuminations – Best Interactive  site on web - http://illuminations.nctm.org/

Ideas from Internet4classroom

• First Grade Skills  http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_1st.htm
• Second Grade Skills http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_2nd.htm
• Third Grade Skills http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_3rd.htm
• Fourth Grade Skills http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_4th.htm
• Fifth Grade Skills http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_5th_original.htm
• Sixth Grade Skills http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_6th_original.htm
• Seventh Grade Skills http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_7th_original.htm
• Eighth Grade Skills http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_8th_original.htm

AAA Math - Fourth Grade Math Lesson

• http://www.aaamath.com/grade4.html
• Math Activities List - http://mathforum.org/teachers/elem/3-5/projects.html

Create a Graph

• http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/Graphing/

Ideas from A+Math

• Worksheets on & offline http://aplusmath.com/Worksheets/index.html
• Homework help http://aplusmath.com/
• Fun Games http://aplusmath.com/Games/index.html

CoolMath for Kids from the UK

• Fun Games - http://www.coolmath4kids.com/
• What's What? - http://www.cut-the-knot.org/WhatIs/index.shtml
• Math Activities - http://www.cut-the-knot.org/Curriculum/index.shtml

Cyberchase Weekly Poll (graphs)

•  http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/

Virtual Manipulatives 

 Internet Virtual Manipulatives K-2

 Internet Virtual Manipulatives 3-5

 Internet Virtual Manipulatives 6-8

• Number Operations http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/grade_2.html
• Algebra http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/category_g_2_t_2.html
• Geometry http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/category_g_2_t_3.html
• Measurement http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/category_g_2_t_4.html
• Data Analysis http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/category_g_2_t_5.html

Fun Activities

• Weekly Brain Teasers http://www.eduplace.com/math/brain/
• Great site for Tessellations http://mathforum.org/sum95/suzanne/tess.intro.html
• Problems and Puzzles http://mathforum.org/k12/mathtips/

Education World

• Math K-3 - http://www.education-world.com/a_tsl/archives/01-1/lesson0017.shtml
• 3-4 - http://www.education-world.com/a_tsl/archives/01-1/lesson0022.shtml
• 3-4 - http://www.education-world.com/a_tsl/archives/01-1/lesson0006.shtml
• 3-4 – Listing of plans - http://www.education-world.com/a_tsl/archives/gr_3-5.shtml#mat

Ask ERIC

• Homepage http://ericir.syr.edu/cgi-bin/lessons.cgi/Mathematics
• Lessons – Arithmetic http://ericir.syr.edu/cgi-bin/lessons.cgi/Mathematics/Arithmetic

Fun Brain

• Educational Online games http://www.funbrain.com/kidscenter.html

All Math .com

• Games and Puzzles - http://www.creativepuzzels.nl/spel/speel1/frameng.htm

Quia

• The basic site is free
• Mathematics
• Spelling
• Language Arts
• Science
• Social Studies
• Mythology
• ESL/ELL
• Earth Science
• Art
• Astronomy
• History

Look at "Java Games"

• Matching
• Flashcards
• Concentration
• Word Search
• http://www.quia.com/jg/65799.html

Identifying & Classifying Polygons

• http://www.eduplace.com/math/mathsteps/3/a/index.html

Lite Brite (patterns) 

• http://www.sfpg.com/animation/liteBrite.html

Math SURF

• http://www.mathsurf.com/teacher/index.html

Patterns - Play and Learn

• http://www.arcytech.org/java/patterns/patterns_j.shtml

SBG Math

•  http://www.sbgmath.com/

Tangram Fun

• http://enchantedmind.com/puzzles/tangram/tangram.html

More Tangrams 

• http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/classrooms/

USA Today Graphs

• http://www.usatoday.com/snapshot/news/snapndex.htm

Visual Fractions/Find /NumberLine Game

• http://www.visualfractions.com/index.htm