Teacher Tools


Catalogs and Suppliers

Calloway house - organizational supplies

Lakeshore Learnng Store - educational toys, games & materials

Online Services & Freebies

Autism Games has a ton of interactive activities which all kinds of kids might like.
sites.google.com/site/autismgames/ 

Great Bingo card generator at the Teachnology site.
www.teach-nology.com/web_tools/materials/bingo/5/

British Library Sounds collection has thousands of recorded samples of people, animal sounds & natural events.

Bryback Manor is a site filled with activities, songs & recipes for early learners.
www.bry-backmanor.org/index.html

Classroom architect will help you plan the position of objects in your classroom.
classroom.4teachers.org/

classtools.net/

This Cognitive Strategies Instruction (CSI?!!)page from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln has information on how to teach kids strategies for learning. This is an important element of helping our kids become indepemdent life-long learners.
www.unl.edu/csi/

Creative Commons- published to share.
creativecommons.org/

Do2Learn has a lot of free printables & some online games for early learners.
www.do2learn.com/

Eanes ISD Wiki contains a lot of tech training information.
www.eanes.wikispaces.net/

Flashcard Flash  lets you search a bunch of different flashcard sites with a single query. 

Free Music Archive has sound files you can use for free.

Kids Learning Station has free printables for early learners
www.kidslearningstation.com/

Lil Fingers has stories & interactive activities for early learners
www.lil-fingers.com/

First School is a site with tons of avtivities & printables for early learners.
www.first-school.ws/INDEX.HTM

Make Belief Comix is a site for generating your own comic strips.
www.makebeliefscomix.com/

MES-English has a huge bank of picture flashcards without text, which is great for stimulating word finding skills & sentence production activities, as well as sorting activities.
www.mes-english.com/worksheets/

The Ohio Center for Autism & Low Incidence Disorders (OCALI) has a lot of great PDFs, particularly on topics related to Autism.
www.ocali.org/view.php

PapaJan.com has printables for early learners & online games as well.
www.papajan.com/

Royalty Free Music offers music files for free for use by students & educators.

Rubistar is a site for building rubrics.
rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php

Lulu is a self publishing site.
www.lulu.com/


Sites for Teachers is an aggregator with a ton of links.
www.sitesforteachers.com/index11.html



SpellingCity.com is a site that lets you enter a list of words & then puts them into all sorts of activities.
www.spellingcity.com/

techchicktips.wikispaces.com/

Tinsnips is a British site with a lot of activities & links for early learners & kids with special needs.
www.tinsnips.org/

The TEACCH site has a ton of articles on their techniques.
www.teacch.com/

This page has some examples of TEACCH style activities.
www.preschoolfun.com/pages/teacch%20work%20jobs.htm

TLS books has loads of printable materials for Pre-K-6th grade.
www.tlsbooks.com/

Tools for Educators has all kinds of tools to make games, dice, quizzes, etc.
www.toolsforeducators.com/

Tumblebooks is a site with tons of stories & interactive pages.   The district is a subscriber.
www.tumblebooks.com/library 

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Book Builder is a free site.  It requires registration, but you can make a lot of cool stuff! bookbuilder.cast.org/

This Word Game Boards   page comes from Jefferson County Schools in Tennessee, & provides templates & instructions for making simple boardgames.
jc-schools.net/tutorials/gameboard.htm

This article has an excellent explanation of the theory & process of using visual schedules, with a lot of pictured axamples.
www.setbc.org/setbc/communication/vss/default.html

Wordle is a tool that takes your text & makes it in to a word cloud.
www.wordle.net/