A Media Specialist's Guide to the Internet: 8/28/11

Looking to create great motivational posters for your classroom? Big Huge Labs has a free online program called Motivator. Simply fill in a few specifics, upload a picture and type in your text. Your poster is now ready to print. Below you will find a listing of 25 links to the best quotations to inspire your students.

75 Inspirational, Educational Quotes For the Classroom

All Great Quotes- search by topic or author; also special categories are: proverbs, special occasions, literary

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations- search over 11,000

Brainy Quote- search by topic, type or author

Education Quotes

Educational Quotes For the 21st Century

Education and Technology Quotes

Great Quotes- famous quotes, search by author, keyword

Mathematical Quotations Server- yes, mathematical quotations from A-Z

Memorable Quotations- U.S. Presidents

Memorable Quotations- very extensive listing by category; quotes from writers, astronomers, poets, lawyers, much more

Motivational Quotations

Motivational Quotes

Open Directory Listing- 5 categories and over 2,200 listings

Quotable Women: An Archive of Memorable Quotes By Women

Quotations Archive- search by quote

Quotation Reference- search by subject or author

Quotations for Creative Thinking- more than 50,000 quotes from 3,000 famous people

The Quotations Page- 26,000 listed here; 3,100 authors

Quoteland.com- includes user groups listing

Quotes About History

Quoteworld- over 15,000 quotations

A Short Dictionary of Scientific Quotations

Story Quotations

Teacher Appreciation Quotes

Here's a list you won't want to lose! Resources for all the holidays celebrated from September to June. If you'd like to see any that I haven't listed, just let me know.

HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH (Mid September-Mid October)

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage- from Scholastic
Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month- Education World
Celebrating Hispanic Heritage- from BIO
Fact Monster's Hispanic Heritage Resources
Hispanic Heritage- book list from the Springfield City Library
Hispanic Heritage Biographies
Hispanic Heritage Month- US Gov. site
Hispanic Heritage Month 2011 Recommended Reading List- Florida Dept. of Education
Hispanic Heritage Resources For Teachers- from Teachervision
Hispanic Heritage Teaching Resources- from the Smithsonian
Lesson for Hispanic Heritage Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month- National Register of Historical Places

COLUMBUS DAY (October)

Animated Biography of Christopher Columbus- from the BBC
Beyond Columbus: Teaching the Lessons of 1492
Christopher Columbus: Fact or Fiction- worksheet with answers for the teacher
Christopher Columbus Videos- (4 ) from How Stuff Works
Christopher's Crossing- game for grades 3-5
Columbus Day: Native american Perspective
Columbus Day Crafts and Activities- from Enchanted Learning
Columbus Day Lesson- from elcivics.com; covers how Native Americans were treated
The Columbus Navigation Home Page- history, navigation and landfall
ESL Lesson on Columbus Day
History Channel Videos on Columbus- (20) listed
Top 10 Things You Should Know About Columbus- from TIME
Walk the Plank- interactive game
Web Quest: An Adventure to the New World- grade 5

HALLOWEEN (October)

Activity Village
Bizarre Halloween Recipes- do you have the nerve???

DLTK's Recipes for Kids

Eight Haunted Recipes

Enchanted Learning- small list of crafts

Family Fun- wonderful site with loads of ideas
Gross Halloween Party Food- they look really gross!!

Halloween Coloring Pages for Toddlers, Preschool and Kindergarten
Halloween Counting Coloring Pages
Halloween Recipes
Halloween Themed Coloring Pages

Halloweenispere.com

Halloween Printables
Kids' Turn Central- recipes

Tall Mouse Projects
MONSTERS AND CREATURES:
Alien: Assembly Required- for younger kids; part of the Arthur site
Goosebumps Monster Maker- based on the R.L. Stine series Goosebumps, students drag and drop body parts to create their own monsters.
Make a Monster- simple interface for younger kids
Me Make Monster- easy to use; share or save the monster created or print it on a tee shirt, mug, bag or baseball hat
Me Make Zombie- students upload a photo and make it into a zombie
Monster Maker- select various body parts for your monster and control the width, height, texture and background
Playnormous Monster Gallery- choose eyes, nose, ears etc. and have your monster rated on the site; gallery currently has over 5400 monsters.
Tinkatolli- create a "Tinka"
Toonix- create a "toonix" on this colorful site; many choices to create
The Troop: Monster Creator- the premise is simple: students recreate the monster they saw by clicking and scaling body parts

AMERICAN INDIAN HERITAGE MONTH (November)

American Indian Heritage Month- from Infoplease
American Indian Heritage Month- FactMonster
American Indian Heritage Month- from Scholastic
American Indian Heritage Month- from the Smithsonian
American Indians and Native American Teacher Resources- nice list of lessons, printables, quizzes and activities from TeacherVision
Celebrating American Indian Heritage
National American Indian Heritage Month
Native American Heritage Month- US Gov. site
Native Americans- from Education World
Online Native american Activities For Kids- from Apples4theTeacher

VETERANS DAY (November)

Experiencing History: Stories From the Veterans Day Project- from the Library of Congress
Remember Our Soldiers- for any grade; Education World
Remembering Our Veterans- for grade 7
Take a Veteran to School Day- from History Channel
Teacher Guide to Veterans Day- from TeAchnology
The Teacher's Guide to Veterans Day
Tomb of the Unknowns- scavenger hunt
United States Department of Veteran Affairs- teacher resources
VA Kids, K-5th
VA Kids- resources for grades 6-12
Veterans Day- activities, lesson plans, worksheets
Veterans Day Crafts- from Enchanted Learning
Veterans Day Lessons from Scholastic
Veterans Day Resources- this is a Livebinder with many links
Veterans History Project- from The Library of Congress

THANKSGIVING (November)

AOK Teacher- coloring pages, arts and crafts activities

A to Z Teacher Stuff

Apples 4 the Teacher- coloring pages with cute captions

Billy Bear for Kids-games, crafts, puzzles

Books for Thanksgiving

Coloring Pages- choice of 10 different pages

Coloring Pages- choose from four pages

Coloring Pages- some are funny
Everything For Thanksgiving - Scholastic.com

Internet Activities For Thanksgiving

Kids' Domain- coloring pages

The Pilgrim Hill Museum- located in Plymouth, Mass.

Resources from Midge Frazel

Rexanne.com- recipes, cooking ideas, cards, graphics

Teacher Planet- lessons, worksheets, clip art

The Teacher's Corner

TeAchnology- Thanksgiving printable worksheets
Thanksgiving Crafts, Lessons and Activities

Thanksgiving Teacher Resources

Turkey Hunt- play this game online; primary grades
USA.gov- resource list

CHANUKAH (December)

AtoZ Teacher Stuff- coloring pages and crafts; sorted by grade level

Awesome Library- recipes, worksheets, activities

Billy Bear 4 Kids- crafts and games

Class Brain- coloring pages

Internet 4 Classrooms- games, songs, stories

Kids' Domain- coloring pages

Teachers First- traditions, learn about the menorah, games

Teacher Planet- lessons and worksheets

Teachnology-worksheets, songs, writing paper, workbooks

Yahoo! Kids- cards, recipes, history, stories, poems, games

CHRISTMAS (December)

A to Z Teacher Stuff- sort resources by age level

Christmas Around the World- long list of countries

Christmas Lessons and Teacher Resources- from the Lesson Plans Page

Christmas Teacher Resources- from TeacherVision

K-12 Teacher Resources- nice listing includes lesson plans, worksheets, interactive online activities

Online Christmas Games

Puzzles and Word Searches
Super Teacher Worksheets- includes puzzles and Christmas math worksheets
Teacher's Guide to Christmas Holidays- from TeAchnology

Teacher Planet-lessons, worksheets, clip art

The Teacher's Corner-how Christmas is celebrated around the world

KWANZAA (December)

Apples 4 the Teacher- coloring pages

A toZ Teacher Stuff

Class Brain-coloring pages

DLTK Kids-coloring pages (posters)

Internet 4 Classrooms

Kids' Domain- coloring pages

Teachers First- planning materials, fun, games

Teacher Planet- lessons, worksheets

MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY (January)

Google Timeline of Dr. King's Life
Infoplease- covers biography, facts, timeline and activities
The King Center- "Established in 1968 by Coretta Scott King, The King Center is the official, living memorial dedicated to the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr."
King Papers Project- primary and secondary documents pertaining to Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King Online- biography, speeches, (text) quotes, videos and pictures
Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
NAACP- King's biography
NAACP Honors Dr. King's Legacy- includes links to speeches
Nobel Peace Prize: Martin Luther King, Jr.

CHINESE NEW YEAR (January)
China Coloring Pages- color or black and white printables
Chinese New Year- activities, lessons, clip art

Chinese Lion Paper Bag Puppet
Chinese New Year- lesson plans, activities, printables
Chinese New Year Games and Activities- from Apples4theTeacher
Chinese New Year Recipes- from Food Network
Chinese New Year Recipes For Kids- from Nick jr.
Chinese New Year Symbols- printables
Chinese New Year Teacher Resources- from TeacherVision
Chinese New Year's Celebration- coloring sheet for primary grades
Crafts and Activities For Chinese New Year- from Enchanted Learning
Origami Dragon Puppet
The Teacher's Guide to Chinese New Year

BLACK HISTORY MONTH (February)
The African-American Migration Experience- contains 8,300 images, 17,000 pages of texts and over 60 maps; this site is hosted by the New York Public Library.

African Voices- Africans talk about their lives and cultures; EXCELLENT SITE from the Smithsonian Institution.

African-American World-from PBS, this site has highlights such as the Kids section (with games and e-cards), and the Brainteaser Quizzes. There are related lessons plans for grades three through twelve.

Black Baseball-from Sports Illustrated, this site has a timeline from 1861-1947, when Jackie Robinson won the Rookie of the Year award.

Culture and Change:Black History in America- Scholastic's site has a timeline, jazz audio clips, and information on famous African Americans.

Enchanted Learning-find out information on African-American women in history, biographies on African-Americans, African-American inventors and inventions and many printable worksheets.

Encyclopedia of Prominent Africa-Americans- from Ali to Malcolm X

Fact Monster- biography, timeline, quotes from Martin Luther King Jr.

The History Channel-you will find African-American icons, great speeches, maps, video clips and more on this site.

Infoplease-loads of information here, including history and timlines, contemporary issues, special features, holidays, education, awards and quizzes and crosswords.

The King Center- established in 1968, the center was named for Martin Luther King Jr., a leader in the laregest nonviolent movement in American history.

MLK Online- this site is all about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., from his biography, to multimedia clips of his speeches.

Rosa Parks' Biography

Thomson Gale- biographies of famous African-Americans

VALENTINE'S DAY (February)