Teachers / Parents 

Providing teachers and parents with resources to help their students and children is an important goal at Notre Dame Catholic School.  Below are sites that educate, inform, and guide teachers and parents.

Active Learning on the Internet:
Curriculum-Based Projects 
An collection of Internet projects that students can participate in.
Exploring the Environment Projects 
Environmental situations that students participate in.
Filamentality 
This is an interactive fill-in-blank site that allows you to collect web sites on a chosen topic. A variety of formats are available to put the sites into.
FunBrain 
Provides a quiz builder for teachers and parents as well as two player games for parent and child.
Global Grocery List
Project that compares prices of food world-wide.
WebQuests  
This site provides an definition of a webquest and some webquests to use.
More WebQuests 
This site defines what a Web Quest is and how they are used. It also gives some example Web Quests to try out.

Internet Activities and Curriculum Support:
Free Internet Resources 
Resources (EBSCO, World Book, Atomic Learning, AP Multimedia Archive, Digital Curriculum, Unitedstreaming, ClipArt.com) paid for us by our Keystone Area Education Agency (AEA)
Scholastic Reading Counts  
Information about program that we use to promote reading and comprehension skills.  Classrooms and library have a complete list of available quizzes. 
McGraw Hill Reading Series  
Information and additional Internet resources that go with our reading series.
Scott Foresman Math Series
Information and additional resources that enhance our math series.
Rubistar 
Rubric making website that provides a variety of rubrics to choose from.
4Teachers.org
Checklist making website provides a variety of checklists to pick from.
Netbabies 
A directory of Internet sites and information for parents or teachers of 3-8 year olds.
Integrating the Internet  
Internet resources for K-2
Big6 Model 
Teacher and parent help and information about the Big6 Model.
MarcoPolo Education Site
Internet support for arts, economics, geography, humanities, mathematics, and science curriculum. 
Interactive Learning Games  
A variety of learning games found on the Internet
Math Lesson Plans 
Teacher and parent guide to math lesson plans and online activities to participate in.
General Reference Resources 
A collection of general reference resources for teachers,  parents, and students.
Ask An Expert 
This site provides link to experts that could answer student, teacher, or parent questions. The site is organized by curriculum areas.
Virtual Field Trips 
This site provides a list of close to 100 possible virtual field trips. It provides a definition of a virtual field trip as well as guidelines for teachers or parents to follow before going on the trip.
Keystone AEA 
Our local area education agency that provides us with curriculum related materials.
Teacher Vision 
Resources include printable graphic organizers, lesson plans, classroom management, and much more.

General Teacher/Parent Support and Information
Kids Communicate  
Discusses communication skills and ways to communicate through language, music, artistic expression, and food.
Families Connect  
A site to promote family Internet activities and information on Internet issues.
Family Education 
Provides grade level activities, parenting tips, information about ADHD and gifted children, and much more.

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