Staff Links

BSD Resources:

BSD Grade Level Links
BSD K-8 Curriculum Resources
PILOT Survey

General Resources:

Kathy Schrock's Guide For Educators
Enchanted Learning
Education World
EduHound

Time-Savers:

Puzzlemaker create word searches, crosswords, cryptograms, and a number of other puzzles from your own word list
ShapeBooks.com Write the words of a story or poem inside a shape
BINGO Card Generator Create and print your own BINGO cards
Jeopardy Create your own game
Math Facts Cafe generates worksheets by grade level and math strand
abcteach Print elementary-level reproducibles worksheets, bookmarks, flashcards, word puzzles, shape-book patterns, labels, and much more!
Rubistar Create your own rubrics
Publishing Templates

Literacy:

Read Write Think.org Lessons, standards and Web resources in reading and language arts instruction
Region 15 Graphic Organizers Graphic Organizers for every genre imaginable
Reading a-z.com Print 30 free books
The Writing Bug Printable writing prompts

Math:

Illuminations Online interactive math investigations, Internet based lessons plans and more from National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Teach R Kids Math Online worksheets for most math concepts, organized by grade level
PBS Teacher Source ~ Math
Curriculum and School Reform Mathematics Resources for mathematics
Math Facts Cafe generates worksheets by grade level and math strand

Social Studies:

The 50 States of the U.S.A Links to school-friendly information for students on the states--maps, rankings, governments, laws and even quizzes! Also find links to information on each state.
NetState.com Excellent site for state research. Drop down menus are easy to manipulate and the information categories are straightforward and well-presented: symbols, almanacs, people, news, geography, schools, rankings, and quizzes.
Colonial America from Innovative Teaching Newsletter gives links to many Web sites.

Graphics:

Pics4 Learning Copyright friendly images for education
Amazing Picture Machine An index of graphical images from Internet resources that can be used to create interesting classroom lessons

Tech Tutorials:

Microsoft Outlook
Using Birchwood Calendar (.pdf)

Microsoft Word
Making Labels (.pdf) Using Hidden Text (.pdf) Creating Comments (.pdf) Creating Tables (.pdf)
Creating a Letterhead (.pdf) Creating an Online Form (.pdf)

Microsoft PowerPoint
PowerPoint Basics (.pdf) More Fun With PowerPoint (.pdf)

Accelerated Reader
Registering (.pdf) Deleting a Quiz from a student's record (.pdf)