Curriculum Resources for Wabash CUSD 348

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	Classroom Connect offers curriculum content for the on-line classroom. From the Quests to Classroom Today, the activities will help you engage your students' minds. ISBE supported subscriptions for the 2001-02 school year have been purchased for North Intermediate Center of Education, Mt. Carmel Middle School, and Mt. Carmel High School.
MCHS Media Center Coordinator Eileen White has Mt. Carmel High School set for 2 years (2000-2002) of Educational Structures. This is the 5th year of ISBE support for NCS Pearson's Educational Structures which has on-line instruction activites and lesson planning in the core curriculum areas and tied to Ilinois State Learning Standards. For authorization, contact your Media Center Coordinator or District Technology Coordinator: Eileen White \| Patti Dunkel \| Marcia Poland \| Linda Pfeister WeHelpKids.com, from NCS Pearson, is a custom web-based testing and skill preparation service for educators and students at elementary and middle school. With diagnostic benchmark level tests to measure student achievement relative to Illinois Learning Standards and the Illinois Standards Achievement Test (ISAT), We Help Kids targets reading and math for grades 3, 5, and 8 and reading readiness for K-2. Using results from online tests and the ISAT, a teacher or parent can link directly from WeHelpKids to the Educational Structures offering for enrichment or remedial activities targeted to individual learning needs identified by the tests. Additionally, WeHelpKids will provide an online community for teachers, parents, and students to learn about testing information and learning standards. NOTE: ISAT tests are scheduled April 1-12, 2002. PSAE Tests will be held April 24th and 25th.
The MarcoPolo program provides no-cost, standards-based Internet content for the K-12 teacher and classroom: panel-reviewed links to top sites in many disciplines, professionally developed lesson plans, classroom activities, materials to help with daily classroom planning, and powerful search engines.
	The bigchalk Education Network is a FREE on-line resource for all Illinois schools. Designed for teachers, media center coordinators, students, and parents, bigchalk includes eLibrary Classic, Test Boosters, ExplorAsource, and HomeworkCentral. See the ISBE description. If you're at home click here, and enter the district-wide username, IL$#6-REMOTE, and password, REMOTE006.
Scholastic Network still has resources for K-8 teachers. For hints on these resources, check with Lennette Holden, Marcia Poland, or Patti Dunkel. "Looking at Student Work" (http://www.aisr.brown.edu/LSW/) The site is hosted by the Annenberg Institute for School Reform, and the focus is on assessment protocol (norms and processes for reviewing student work collaboratively). Check out the 'Virtual Protocol' and the list of resources. EduHound.com, a division of T.H.E. Journal, is a highly specialized educational directory with built-in resource links offered free to educators, students and parents. EduHound.com seeks to harness the vast information resources of the Web, while enabling educators to use the Internet as a classroom tool. Since its launch in January 2000, the site boasts thousands of visitors per week and an ever-growing list of subscribers to their weekly newsletter, EduHound Weekly. Check out their EduPuppy for Pre-K through 2nd grade resources.