Teacher Resources
Pre K-Grade 12 Literacy for the 21st Century
Each one of our Carroll County Public School students will purposefully and critically engage texts and communicate with accuracy, clarity and impact.
Hand-in-Hand Knowledge
The "New Literacies" Resources:
Universal Design for Learning-CAST - a non-profit research org. for flexible curriculum - http://udleditions.cast.org/index.html
Visual Thesaurus - www.visualthesaurus.com
Instructionally Speaking - Steve Johnson's Blog - http://instructionallyspeaking.blogspot.com/
Education in Second Life: Examples of Possibilities
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMGR9q43dag
Thinking Maps - http://www.mapthemind.com/
Disciplinary Literacy - http://www.hepg.org/her/abstract/640
New Blooms - http://www.odu.edu/educ/roverbau/Bloom/blooms_taxonomy.htm
Bringing the Outside In - http://www.bringingtheoutsidein.com/
by Sara Kajder
Thank you to Dr. Thomasina Piercy for the above links.
Culturegrams
Information about countries, states, famous people, flags- even multicultural recipes!
School and Home Access
http://online.culturegrams.com
SIRS
At School:
User:MD13949
Password:21102
At Home:
Tumble Books
http://www.tumblebooklibrary.com
Online books to read and hear!
WorldBook
Up to date information, Maryland facts, atlases, educator’s tools & historical trivia.
At School
http://www.worldbookonline.com
At Home:
http://online.k12.carr.org/worldbook/index.html
Ask your media specialist for the secret pass words!
Teachers May Want to visit the Carroll County Public Library's web site to visit their many datadases! Click here! http://library.carr.org/
