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A Different Place

This site provides a crisp overview of differentiation and types of learning activities that lend themselves to differentiating instruction based on the readiness, interests, and learning profile of the learners.
 

Differentiated Instructional Strategies

This site includes useful ideas for assessing students' understanding of the content.

 

Principles of Differentiation

This site includes a thoughtful discussion of why differentiation is important and an excellent chart discussing what differentiation is and what it is not.
 

Curriculum Compacting

Information from the Council for Exceptional Children on curriculum compacting for gifted students.

Ten Tips for Differentiation

Contains many sites for web quests, book reviews, news sources, and activities. "Do you have students who don't "get it"? What about students who just don't seem motivated or interested? These resources help students who need scaffolding to build connections."
 
Effective Performance Tasks

This website outlines effective performance tasks and how to assess them.
Steps in Task Design

This website provides a task oriented question construction wheel based on Bloom's Taxonomy.


Rube Goldberg

This website is dedicated to Rube Goldberg and his work. Goldberg was a cartoonist/inventor who was famous for his complex designs. This website also offers a yearly contest where students create a design with 20 steps.
 

RubiStar

Create rubrics using ideas from actual classroom teachers. Once the rubrics are created you can print them or save them.

Rubric Builder

Allows you to create your own objectives and the amount of objectives and performance indicators that you want listed on your rubric.
 
Rubric Creator from teAchnology

Fill in the blanks to create your own rubric. Teachers must write their own descriptors, unlike Rubistar, which offers editable choices.
 
Chicago Public Schools Ideas and Rubrics

This website provides teachers with performance assessment ideas and rubrics.
 

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators- Assessment and Rubric Information

While using the Internet in the classroom to support instruction, it is important the area of assessment be addressed. One usable method for teachers is to provide a rubric for student use and for both formative and summative assessment purposes. Another is to provide some type of graphic organizer. On this site, teachers will find a collection of assessment rubrics and graphic organizers that may be helpful to them as they design their own.
 
iEARN

Started in 1988, iEARN is the world's largest non-profit global network that enables teachers and young people to use the Internet and other new technologies to collaborate on projects that both enhance learning and make a difference in the world.
 

NASA Quest

NASA Quest provides a direct connection between the project teams working at NASA and classrooms around the world. This site has specific lessons and other opportunities for teachers. NASA Quest Challenges are FREE Web-based, interactive explorations designed to engage students in authentic scientific and engineering processes. The solutions relate to issues encountered daily by NASA personnel.
Global Schoolhouse

Share collaborative learning projects with other teachers around the world.
Eboard

Create your own teacher website for free.
 

Library of Graphic Organizers

This site includes a library of printablegraphic organizers.

 

Teach-nology Graphic Organizers

Concept Web, KWL Chart, SQ3R, Timeline, & Venn Diagram are all tools that students can use to organize their ideas to aid in complex thinking lessons.
 
Spider Map

The Spider Map is used to describe a central idea: a thing, a process, a concept, a proposition. The map may be used to organize ideas or brainstorm ideas for a writing project.
 
Interactive Graphic Organizer Sampler

This series of 17 thinking tools covers a broad range of activities, from creating graphs and balancing alternative actions to brainstorming and making prediction. These tools let you actively construct, examine, and modify your ideas.
Project Poster

"Project Poster allows students to make online school projects and short reports quickly and easily. Students can include one image (.gif or .jpg format), four links to other Web pages, and a report of up to 3,500 characters. These posters are available to the public on the Internet after they have been reviewed. The reports MUST relate to a school subject and the teacher must register so his/her students can use Project Poster, but there is NO CHARGE for its use."