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Here are websites teachers may find useful. They include Venn diagram models as well as other tools that can be used to create customized graphic organizers, rubrics, puzzles and graphs. There's also a site with blank maps and a top-notch online dictionary:

GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS AND GRAPHS

Printables: Has graphs and graphic organizers including column charts, time line, Venn diagram, several writing charts such as a story web, event map, main idea, vocabulary practice and many more. 

Education Place Graphic Organizers: Includes clock, word clustering, flow chart, observation chart, persuasion map, problem-solution chart, sequence chart, spider map, time line, tree chart, Venn diagram and more.

The Write Site Graphic Organizers: Covers several charts for writing exercises such as fact and opinion, paragraphs, story parts, newspaper analysis, the five "w's," and more.

VennDiagram.com: Includes directions on how to create your own Venn diagram as well as a database of existing diagrams.

Library of Graphic Organizers: Shows 24 blank charts/pictures including a web, analogy analysis, chain, decision-making model, steps, and a story map.

Label Me Printouts: Provided by enchantedlearning.com.  Covers a vast number of printable pictures and maps that can be labeled. Some topics: biology, animals, astronomy, geography, music, ELL, anatomy, plants, geology, weather, United States, art, math, Spanish, French, German, flags, clock, compass, and many more.

Create a Graph: Provided by Students' Classroom. Allows users to choose a graph type and insert their own data.

GRAPH PAPER

http://incompetech.com/graphpaper

 

http://www.engj.ulst.ac.uk/sidk/graph/graph.htm

http://share1.esd105.wednet.edu/bishopcj/EYES_on_IKE/graph_templates.htm

http://www.mathematicshelpcentral.com/graph_paper.htm

RUBRICS

RubiStar: A tool to help users create their own rubrics. Areas include oral projects, multi-media, math, research and writing, reading, art, work skills, science and music.

TeAchnology:  Provides step by step guidance on how to create your own rubric.

PUZZLES

Puzzlemaker: Provided by discoveryschool.com. Users choose the puzzle format from a drop-down list and then insert their own words to create customzied puzzles.

DICTIONARY

Onelook.com: Excellent online dictionary that is very simple to use and provides definitions from a variety of sources.

ACADEMIC RESEARCH FOR PROFESSIONALS

Gale’s InfoTrac Professional Collection: Full text periodicals (be sure to check the "to articles with text" box on the Advanced Search page) to use for advanced degree research.

EBSCO's Academic Search Premier and others: This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 titles. Academic Search Premier is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost. 

Infomine : Scholarly Internet Research Collections *Note:  If you want only "free" hits, on the "Advanced Search" webpage select "Free" under "Resource Access."

ERIC : The world’s largest digital library of education literature.  

HANDOUTS & PRESENTATIONS:




Get Acrobat Reader  Evaluating_Websites__Form_From_Berkeley_5-06.pdf   Evaluating Websites form from Berkeley
 Databases_--_How_to_Use___10-06.doc   How to Use Online Databases
 Smart_Searching_on_Google_10-06.doc   How to Smart Search on Google
 Info._Literacy_Standards_-_Presen._to_Faculty_8-08.doc   Wise Presentation to Faculty 8-08
 Important_Websites_to_Know_2-07.doc   Important Como Websites to Know for Researching
 Vocabulary - Information Literacy.doc   Terms Students Need to Know to Be 21st Century Researchers.

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