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ForTeachers
http://www.forteachers.co.nz/
Welcome to New Zealand's Online Community Environment for Primary and Intermediate Teachers. FOR TEACHERS allows Teachers to communicate with one another and to share skills and practices related to the practice of Teaching.

FOR TEACHERS operates at a grass-roots level. We invite you to Share Articles so that other Teachers can benefit from your own effective personal Teaching practices. We trust that you will enjoy and benefit from the FOR TEACHERS experience.


Manzana
http://www.manzana.co.nz/
Easiteach is the Teacher's favourite interactive teaching software. It's an easy to use, interactive whole-class teaching software package for all your curriculum needs. Easiteach also works with every interactive whiteboard, making teacher skills and lessons transferable between classrooms or schools, and it provides the interactive software standard, saving schools time and money on teacher professional development.

Manzana Limited provides solutions which improve class and individual learning outcomes. Our solutions emphasise learning through full engagement, full involvement and continuous formative assessment. Our product suite consists of collaboration solutions for classrooms and interactive presentation tools, as well as automation software for large employee groups.


ACTIVboardNZ
http://www.prometheanworld.com/
Promethean Ltd is a manufacturer specialising in the delivery of information technology designed to create collaborative classroom systems which support learning and knowledge transfer.

Imagine a lesson where every student is focused & motivated. The ACTIVstudio Standard Solution helps to achieve just this, by creating a collaborative classroom environment where teachers have the opportunity to produce & deliver truly interactive teaching material for their students.

The ACTIVstudio Standard Solution combines ACTIVstudio software with interactive whiteboard technology. This dynamic teaching solution helps you to create inspiring lessons, improving understanding and enriching the learning experience for your students. ACTIVstudio has been developed after listening to the needs of the teachers and learners who use our software.


Big Smile - Intreactive Videos & Software
http://www.thebigsmile.org.nz/
At Big Smile, interactive instructional videos and animations teach music theory and practical in a fast, standardized, easy and very enjoyable way! The videos play at the pace of the class! - they are controlled through an on-line computerized software which constantly assesses each student’s performance.

They are developed by experts in the field who have created and practiced this teaching method for years - so the essence is not lost. Each hour is well-planned and precisely structured, to ensure that maximum matter is delivered in a fast and easy way. The videos are packed with interesting games, jokes, riddles, facts educating the student in other topics of education. This makes the learning process so enjoyable, that even young children as little as 6 years of age are able to concentrate over a 4-hour long music class!


TeacherVision.com
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/
TeacherVision® is dedicated to helping teachers save time. Find 15,000 pages of classroom-ready lesson plans, printables, and resources. Sign up for a 7-day free trial to explore, or learn more about our annual subscription.

TeacherVision® is the Internet's most popular teacher site for trusted online tools and resources that save time and make learning fun. Resources include a variety of lesson plans, free email newsletters and literature tie-ins, quizzes, and printables to help teachers easily enhance learning and incorporate technology into their classrooms.

TeacherVision® emphasizes practical results for teachers and gives them the opportunity to exchange ideas with their peers. Our Teacher Channel uses the latest in technology, including Quiz Lab and MyGradeBook, to bring together a caring community of parents, teachers, school administrators, and professionals whose expertise involves children.


Educational & Adobe Software Online at Edsoft
http://www.edsoft.co.nz/
Edsoft is an e-learning solutions specialist company focusing on the education segment in Australia and New Zealand. We provide leading software and ICT tools to enhance the learning experience in the 21st Century. We are an aggreagation service providing tailored solutions. We have been in operation since 1984 and are wholly Australian owned and reside in Melbourne Australia.
The products must meet our stringent expectations of intuitiveness of use, expanding student's creativity, cost effectiveness and improving learning outcomes directly linked to the core curriculum. We have teaching and learning product managers knowledgeable in key subject areas which attend key conferences and which also provide targeted small workshops to assist professional development. We stay close to the classroom by working with educators at a variety of levels across the regions. We use a face to face relationship model to contact schools, relevant associations and other industry groups to heighten the awareness of the benefit of the software we distribute.

Clickteaching :: primary teaching resources :: classroom worksheets :: lesson plans :: schemes of work :: education activities :: infant and junior schools and teachers
http://www.clickteaching.com/
Clickteaching offers worksheets, lesson plans, activity ideas, schemes of work and primary teaching resources for key stage 1 and 2 , infant, junior and primary schools and teachers.

Welcome to Clickteaching - your online resource database for primary education. All of the teaching resources and lesson plans available on this site have been produced by teachers who use the teaching activities and worksheets in their own classrooms. The activities are designed to link to the National Curriculum and to meet the requirments of the Primary Strategy. Clickteaching is an approved content provider for Curriculum Online.
To help you get the most out of Clickteaching you will need to subscribe to our primary teaching resources section. For one small fee, you can get unlimited access to thousands of resources to support your work in the classroom. Clickteaching uses WorldPay to process your subscription. Your transaction is 100% secure and protected. Sign up to Clickteaching to get access to thousands of high quality teaching resources.


SimBio.com - Biology Experiments on Your Computer
http://www.ecobeaker.com/
SimBio.com - Biology Experiments on Your Computer

Active Educational
http://www.activeeducational.co.uk/
Following extensive research, we have put together, for your convenience, unique primary school / teacher resources that offer a wide range of lesson plans and teaching ideas. These teacher time savers are bright, attractive and designed to help create a stimulating learning environment in the classroom. Your time is important and valuable - more so now than ever before, hence our range of convenient topic resources.

We offer a superior, unique range of themed topic packs, primary teacher resources, lesson plans and primary school supplies. We aim to provide convenient "topic solutions" for today's busy teaching staff. Our themed project packs are cross curricular - and growing!


Lesson Plans
http://www.animalsandus.org.nz/
Resources for teachers and students in New Zealand regarding animal and human relationships and animal issues such as animal welfare and protection. Topics include animal experiments, animal testing and cruelty, welfare acts and battery farms in NZ.

Teachers are busy, so in order to assist you a selection of starting points and lesson plans have been created for your use. These can be used either on their own or together as a unit of study. Feel free to adapt them to suit your needs. Curriculum areas: English, Science, Social Studies, Economics, Health and Education ,Technology, History, Geography, The Arts.


A to Z Teacher Stuff
http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/
There are thousands of pages here to explore, so enjoy your visit! A to Z Teacher Stuff is a teacher-created site designed to help teachers find online resources more quickly and easily. Find lesson plans, thematic units, teacher tips, discussion forums for teachers, downloadable teaching materials & eBooks, printable worksheets and blacklines, emergent reader books, themes, and more.

Download English lessons
http://www.churchillhouse.com/
Welcome to the download page - from here you can download free English language software (CALL) or access ready-to-use classroom materials for English language classrooms.

Teaching materials for teachers of English! Tired? Frustrated? In need of a quick lesson idea? We have put together some of our favourite lesson ideas at Churchill House and put them on this site for you to download. Each piece of material comes as a PDF file, which means that you need the Acrobat Reader program to open it and print it.


Cool Teaching Lessons And Units
http://www.coollessons.org/
A source of teaching lessons and units for all grades and subjects, including many webquest and problem based learning resources.

It is designed as a resource for teachers K-12 who wish to find quality ready-made units and lessons for all subjects, or who wish to develop their own units. This page emphasizes engaged learning models such as WebQuests, Research Modules and Project-Based Learning, but links include other forms of lessons and tutorials. Included also are sites to help you build your own units as well as some examples of sources to help students do research.


Classmaker - Lesson Planning Software
http://www.creditscore.co.nz/
Classmaker is a calendar based planning tool for teachers and small project managers. It can be used by anybody who wants to plan ahead using a calendar centric view of the world.

When planning how do you think? Most of us like to brainstorm first and after that out comes the calendar. Classmaker can be your calendar, lesson plan generator and diary, all rolled together into one piece of software, designed to meet the needs of teachers and others who find that their plans are constantly changing as they unfold.

Why use Classmaker? Classmaker is not assessment (grading) software. It does not store your children's records of achievement. There is lots of other software available that can do that e.g. Microsoft Excel. Classmaker was built instead, to address five major lesson planning problems.


Domabotics
http://www.domabotics.com/
Simple to build robots that are perfect for the classroom. This book outlines a 10 week set of lesson plans for teachers wishing to implement robotics in their classroom. A set of robotics challenges are presented, centered around the LEGO RCX MINDSTORMS system. The workbook includes 10 robotic based challenges as well as 3 additional modules with assessment activities covering Robots in Society, Flowcharting and Multimedia Presentations.

Each module includes: A real world scenario; Basic theory of the concepts presented; Teachers notes outlining the most common issues and how to solve them; Example Programs in the RoboLab development environment; Extension activities; Student worksheets.


EnergyAustralia - Lesson plans
http://www.energy.com.au/
The lesson plans form part of the Teacher's Resource Kit - developed by EnergyAustralia in conjunction with a panel of primary school teachers. Aimed at students aged 10-12 years, the lesson plans aim to educate students about electricity and safety, and to assist them in preventing accidents around the home and in the community.

There are eight lessons and each lesson takes approximately 30-40 minutes. The lessons contain the following teaching tools: Lesson plan, Discussion picture, Worksheets, Overheads, Student activities.


English-4U : ESL Lesson Plans
http://www.english-4u.com/
ESL lesson plans for English language instructors teaching adult one-to-one and group classes - ready-to-use worksheets based on news and hit songs. Our English lesson plans are: designed for one-to-one and group classes, focused on developing speaking skills, based on current news stories and hit songs, easily integrated with coursebook material, available 24 hours a day & wherever you are, developed by teachers for teachers.

Imagine that you are asked to fill in for your colleague at a moment's notice. You get the level of the group you are going to teach, maybe the information which grammatical structures or topics they have covered recently, then you select an appropriate ESL lesson plan, print copies for students, teacher notes for yourself and off you go to your afternoon classes.


Homeschooling
http://www.homeschooleducator.com/
English-To-Go for Homeschoolers makes education relevant, engaging and rewarding for less than 30 cents per day. Empower your children to think and communicate globally through ready-to-go lessons that use real Reuters news stories.

Excellent English language photocopiable lesson plans: 9 exercises per lesson - reading, writing, grammar and listening; Linked to online interactive self-study exercises; Motivate and inspire your children to improve their results; Fun, current, topical and international; Join a community of other Homeschool educators. Your complete English language learning center.


Teacher Worksheets
http://www.instantmathworksheets.com/
Attention Teachers! Do you want to Teach Awesome Lesson Plans... Access Ready-to-Teach Resources... And Download hundreds of Maths, English, Science Worksheets Right Now? Have you ever searched the internet for quality resources only to find out that the links lead to pages you can't even look at... let alone access?

Can you think of a time you were desparate for maths worksheets, computer lesson plans or some other resource, wasted an hour online only to have to give up and start from scratch and do it yourself? If you answered a resounding "YES" to any of the previous questions then your world is about to change forever! Look no longer!

What we've done is started this new site called Instant Math Worksheets and guess what? We are 100% committed to keeping our promises to the very letter. In fact, we plan on exceeding our members expectations.


Kidsmart
http://www.kidsmart.org.uk/
On this part of the website you can find 5 lesson resources on internet safety which you can use in the classroom. Some are simple, for example the 'Have Fun Communicating' exercise, while others will take more time and involve you using or ordering other resources from this website. We are constantly revising and improving these resources following your feedback, so if you do download them we would really like to hear about your experience using them.
Do also click on the pupils section which includes further stand alone resources that pupils can use on their own. Each exercise is briefly described below and the worksheets and detailed lesson plans can be downloaded and then photocopied. The key stage which is most relevant for the materials is indicated.

LessonPlanSearch
http://www.lessonplansearch.com/
Free lesson plans - math lesson plans, science lesson plans, printable worksheets, thematic units, seasonal lesson plans, thousands of lesson plans for all areas of education.

LessonPlanZ.com
http://www.lessonplanz.com/
Find online lesson plans and teaching resources more easily... More lesson plans are being added each week!

Searchable directory for teachers containing thousands of lesson plans, themes, and resources in all subject areas - math, science, language arts, social studies, themes, computers, PE, health, worksheets and printables pages, songs, poems, and more.


Free Lesson Plans and Teaching Resources for Teachers
http://www.lessonsite.com.au/
Whether you are looking for a Science Lesson Plan, a Math Lesson Plan, an English Lesson Plan or a Lesson Plan for any other school subject, you have come to the right place.

Each Lesson Plan has been prepared for use in an Australian school. The material covered in the Lesson Plan is according to the syllabus of the relevant education department. The teacher who prepared your Lesson Plan used it, or plans to use it, to teach his/her students. These lesson plans are what you need if you teach in an Australian school. Unlike generic lesson plans downloaded from the web, these can be used with very few, if any changes.

Please note that a lesson plan can have other teaching resources associated with it, like a presentation or documents which can be printed as handouts. You simply zip any number of files together and upload them as a single file. Mention in your description that the plan contains other teaching resources and what they are.


Michael Leyden Publications
http://www.leyden.co.nz/
Michael Leyden Publications has produced teaching resources for New Zealand schools for over 30 years. We are well poised to support the curriculum your school is designing to best suit your students and community.

Our visual resources have always been designed with flexbility in mind and are particularly suitable for: inquiry based learning, integrated planning, thematic approaches, formative assessment, cover the 8 learning areas and 5 competencies. All resources contain: visual informations (charts, photos and maps), written information (including learning activities), comprehensive teachers reource book, are laminated and packaged conveniently for storage and access, and cater for a wide range of learning styles, levels and ability.


Teaching Portal - by Lighting Bug
http://www.lightningbug.com.au/
The Lightning Bug Teaching Portal audience includes teachers in primary and secondary schools, universities and home school educators. I'd like to welcome all of you!

Teaching Portal offers a guide to introducing narrative to the classroom. Though Lightning Bug covers many aspects of narrative structure, there are some elements more fundamental than others when teaching writing basics: Writing Exercises, planning, evolving story. A suggested writing program for the classroom - helping you incorporate writing as a daily activity. Part 1 and Part 2 introduce a suggested outline. Lesson Plans mentioned in the outline are listed below.


Nestlé Australia: Free Teacher Resources from the Australian Institute of Sport
http://www.nestle.com.au/
To help teachers instil the benefits of a balanced lifestyle, the Australian Institute of Sport in partnership with Nestlé have developed this free resource. Teachers will be able to empower students with knowledge, understanding and personal skills to help them go on to be champions in their own right - whether on, or off, the sporting field. The resource has been designed for students of upper primary schools and fits the PDHPE curriculum for each state.

OnCourse - Systems For Education
http://www.oncoursesystems.com/
Founded in 2002, OnCourse Systems for Education is a full-service provider of web-based tools that automate and streamline educational processes for public and private schools. OnCourse's suite of tools helps improve student performance and support school accountability by: Enabling teachers to work more efficiently and effectively, Giving administrators access to classroom data and the ability to analyze it, and Helping districts document compliance with federal and state standards.

OnCourse Systems for Education provides best-practice applications powered by a premier Oracle database and delivered via an application service provider (ASP) business model. Thanks to our ASP model, school districts can enjoy the advantages of using advanced technology solutions while avoiding the work, risk, and investment typically associated with purchasing and maintaining them.


PBS Teachers - Resources For The Classroom
http://www.pbs.org/
PBS Teachers provides PreK-12 educational resources and activities for educators tied to PBS programming and correlated to local and national standards and professional development opportunities delivered online.

Are You a PBS Teacher? You are if you use digital media to teach! Sign up and join thousands of classroom teachers, home educators, media specialists and professional development providers who use PBS and public media resources to engage students. When you register, you will receive: Access to select PBS resources, A personalized page with resources aligned to your subject & grade, A customized local station program schedule, A 10% discount coupon for PBS Shop for Teachers.


Simbiotic Software and SimBio Virtual Labs - Simbiotic
http://www.simbio.com/
SimBiotic Software produces inquiry-driven virtual laboratories for biology courses. Convenient workbooks guide students through engaging simulated experiments that explore a wide range of key concepts. Our strong track record receiving competitive educational research grants and our resulting publications reflect the rigor and quality of our products.
Although developed with college classes in mind, many of our simulated laboratories are also ideal for advanced high school classes. Based on feedback from teachers, we created special collections of our college labs covering topics from osmosis and the cell cycle to natural selection and Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium to ecology. These specially discounted "high school only" collections are great on their own or as complements to field and wet labs and provide students a nice taste of the college curriculum.

Singing Teachers Worldwide Community
http://www.singing-teachers.co.uk/
Welcome to Singing Teachers Worldwide Community and Virtual Classroom, part of Vocalist.org.uk. We aim to provide information and resources for Singing Teachers, Vocal Coaches and Singers. Registered Teacher members may add events including Singers Workshops, Masterclasses and anyone may participate in the open forums.

Singing Teachers Virtual Classroom aims to provide singing teachers and voice facilitators with the means of supplying their own online interactive courses.


Southern Seabird Solutions - Kids' Space
http://www.southernseabirds.org/
Our 10 web-based fact sheets give school children aged 7- 11 an opportunity to explore the lives of seabirds and why New Zealand is considered the seabird capital of the world. The fact sheets are available in both English and Maori.

Along with information about seabird ecology and human interactions, the fact sheets emphasise conservation efforts and the cultural importance of seabirds. They also highlight actions each of us can take to benefits our seabirds and oceans. Our lesson plans give teachers ideas for the fact sheets.


Australian Survival Guide For Beginning And New Teachers
http://www.survivalguideforteachers.com/
Getting started in a new primary school classroom can be very daunting, scary, and stressful. It can be straight out very difficult. Many teachers feel overwhelmed, nervous and unprepared before beginning their first primary school teaching position. In fact, if I was to survey all beginning teachers I’m confident over 90% would be feeling worried about their first day at school.

Teachers aren’t eased into their new role: we’re thrown in the deep end. Standing in front of your very own classroom is nothing like the student experience of taking a lesson. Virtually overnight, you are an expert and there are big expectations of you.

Abolish (well as much as humanly possible) those scared and nervous feelings that you have about walking into the classroom with easy to follow checklists and virtually fail-proof activities that will get you started and help you survive your start to teaching.


TagTeacherNet
http://www.tagteacher.net/
Welcome to TagTeacherNet - the online community designed to meet the needs of teachers using the Internet. Lesson plans on TagTeacherNet UK make teaching a breeze combining the best of the web's puzzles, tools, lesson plans, classroom resources and games. TagTeacherNet is the online area for teachers. Features include newsletters, resources, teaching materials and ideas, jobs directory, profiling and much, much more.
Share news, views, resources and advice. TagTeacherNet is your own support network. Get in touch with like-minded people from across the entire teaching community of over 750,000 people. Use TagTeacherNet's communication tools - including a weekly newsletter emailed to every member - and lookout for our discussion boards in the Grapevine area. If you don't have an Internet connection for your computer at home, you can get online with the free TagTeacherNet Internet service which includes 25mb of webspace!

The Teacher's Desk
http://www.teachersdesk.org/
Welcome to The Teacher's Desk, a resource designed for teachers of grades five and six. Please feel free to sit down, relax, and take your time browsing through the contents, a collection of lesson plan ideas and classroom activities. Most are my original ideas, while others have been shared with The Desk via e-mail.

A collection of over 150 lesson ideas for Spelling, Writing, English, Reading, and Vocabulary activities, with a few extras thrown-in, currently being utilized in a fifth or sixth grade classroom.


Lesson Plans and Lesson Resources
http://www.teaching-resource.co.uk/
TeachingResource.co.uk was developed by Jane Carruthers to provide Teachers, Parents and Children in the UK with some of the best Educational Resources in the UK and beyond.

Educational Resources and Lesson Plans, Behaviour Management, Gifted and Talented, Secondary Curriculum...


TESOLANZ
http://www.tesolanz.org.nz/
TESOLANZ (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Aotearoa New Zealand) provides professional support, networking and a voice for people involved with ESOL at all levels. Check the website regularly for updates on local ESOL news, professional development, conferences, resources and jobs.

TESOLANZ is the national association of teachers and tutors of ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) at all levels of education from pre-school to tertiary. Its purposes are to promote the professional interests of its members and to cater for the needs of learners of English as an additional language.


The Teacher's Corner
http://www.theteacherscorner.net/
They are all FREE - you don't have to subscribe! There is NO software to download! Free Lesson Plans, Pen Pals and Key Pals, Teaching Jobs, Lesson Plans, Bulletin Board Ideas, Thematic Units, Teacher Forums, Teacher Resources. Need some tips to help make you and your classroom run a little smoother? Visit our "Teacher Resources" resource page and browse through the ideas.

Virtualteacher
http://www.virtualteacher.com.au/
Dozens of time saving tools, templates and ideas that I have written, trialled and tested, that work. Send in your best templates and ideas for teaching and I'll put them here to share.

With over 7,000 subscribers VT is one of the largest and most successful subscriber based education newsletters in Australia. It has over 14,000 distinct page requests per week, with an average data transfer rate of over 70 megabytes per day.


Wazmac - Teaching Resources
http://www.wazmac.com/
This page provides links to a variety of sites which are designed to support K-12 classroom teachers. Links to all sorts of things, related to the use of technology in K-12 education. These pages are designed to support teachers in NSW schools.

Links to useful ICT planning information for school technology leaders, professional learning co-ordinators and school Principals. Includes info about setting up file servers, proxy servers, etc, in schools. Also links to useful network utilities and resources. Links to useful utility software - audio, video, FTP, PDF, screen capture, curriculum software, and more, plus a variety of system & network utilities. A brief introduction to Intranets and their use in school environments. Includes templates and info for setting up your own student-centred intranet.


Web English Teacher
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/
Web English Teacher presents the best of K-12 English / Language Arts teaching resources: lesson plans, WebQuests, videos, biography, e-texts, criticism, jokes, puzzles, and classroom activities.

At Web English Teacher educators can take advantage of online technology to share ideas and to benefit from the work of others. Beginning teachers can find guidance; experienced teachers can find inspiration. Think of it as the faculty library and faculty workroom on a global scale.


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