Miscellaneous Teacher Tools

Links verified on 8/15/09

1. 5 Minute Fillers - use these numerous activities to fill in transition times!
2. 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
3. Classroom Labels Sets - Label your classroom with these colorful pictures.
4. Countdown Timer - you may select from a variety of sound tracks to accompany the timer
5. 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.
6. Digital Index Cards - a web-based tool for collecting and evaluating Net information.
7. DonnaYoung.org - Printables and Resources for Home schooling and Classrooms
8. Fabulous Freebies: Free Materials for Teachers! from Education World. More freebies are available in part 2 of this article.
9. Free Printables to help celebrate special occasions like Valentine's Day, Halloween or Christmas
10. Free Printables - alphabets, calendars, games, bookmarks, paper dolls, certificates, books and more!
11. Free Posters on Internet Safety - Get the Free Internet Safety Posters sent to you.
12. 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!
13. 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.
14. Holiday Gift Coupons and Worksheets - from EducationWorld
15. I Love That Teaching Idea!
16. Math Resources - Math resources to download; PDF format
17. Motivator - Make your own motivational posters! Add a picture and some words and print! You can also create your own calendars with photos, magazine cover with photos, or personal badge with photos. (this site may be blocked by school filters)
18. National Association of Advisors for Computers in Education - Many Teacher Tools, such as making Big Books, QuizMaker, Discloze activities, Video Book maker and more.
19. Paper Dolls - paper dolls to print
20. Paper Toys - put together these paper toys when work is finished!
21. 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
22. Random Name Picker - using a word document, copy and paste in the names of students. Select the fruit picker to pick a student to answer the question!
23. Random Number Generators - numbers between 0 and 5 - numbers between 0 and 15 - numbers between 0 and 30
24. 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.
25. Remember the Milk - Remember The Milk is the easiest and best way to manage your to-do lists online.
26. 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.
27. Teacher Notepads - from EducationWorld
28. Teacher Tools - Tools to make life a bit easier.
29. 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.
30. Thank you notes - Templates to create cute thank you notes.
31. Don't Miss These Three!
32. Printable Resources For SEN (Special Educational Needs) - Here you will find many, many tools for helping all of your students succeed!
33. 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!
34. SparkleBox - a UK site with Early Years teaching resources too numerous to name. Literacy, Math, Stories and more to print for your class.