• AT&T Knowledge Network Explorer: Blue Web'n Homepage
  Blue Web'n is an online library of 2163 outstanding Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources, tutorials, activities, projects). You can also browse by broad subject area (Content Areas) or specific sub-categories (Subject Area). See "About this Site" for a scoring rubric and answers to other burning questions!
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• Book Understanding by Design, Expanded 2nd Edition
  by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, This books explains Understanding by Design, presents research related to how "understanding" promotes transfer. Chapter and intro online. See also the related Professional Development Workbook.
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• Curriculum Mapping: Greece Central SD New York
  This site provides templates for curriculum mapping using backward lesson design (Understanding by Design) with themes and essential questions. It is not ESL specific but is a most valuable resource to help ESL teachers include these components in their curriculum development for ELLs.
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• eThemes | eMINTS
  eThemes is an extensive database of content-rich, age-appropriate resources organized around specific themes. These resources are created for educators to use in their classrooms. eThemes is a service of the eMINTS National Center. eThemes resources are created and maintained by University of Missouri-Columbia College of Education staff and graduate students from the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies
  Information about, and access to, an extensive database of content-rich, age-appropriate resources organized around specific themes. These resources are created for educators to use in their classrooms.
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• K12 Core Curriculum (Must see)
  Utah Education Network This site provides support for curriculum development, interactives across the grade levels and very beneficial links for Math, World Resources, Interactive Projects and Learning Community. Rec. by Suzanne Havilecek Does not include"understandings", but very helpful resources.
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• Learning Strategies
  Enhance Learning with Technology provides a great list of learning strategies, links to instructional designs and other resources for strategic teaching.
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• Powerpoint Presentation of UBD by Grant Wiggins & Jay McTighe
  This 2002 Powerpoint presentation by UBD presents the "big ideas" of the model. Instead of opening, save the file in a powerpoint to view the presentation
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• SBC Knowledge Network Explorer: A Library of Blue Ribbon Web Sites
  Blue Web’n is an online library of outstanding internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (tools, references, lessons, hotlists, resources.tutorials, activities, projects). Blue Web’n does not attempt to catalog all educational sites. Sites are hand-picked and are among the most useful for classroom or instructional use. Rec. by Barbara Tolan
  The Knowledge Network Explorer (KNE) is the official web site of the AT&T family of companies education program. Our mission is to help schools, libraries, and other institutions of learning acquire and effectively use technology.
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• Teaching Every Student site for Universal Design for Learning
  The Teaching Every Student (TES) section of the CAST Web site supports educators in learning about and practicing Universal Design for Learning (UDL). UDL is a framework that can help you turn the challenges posed by high standards and increasing learner diversity into opportunities to maximize learning for every student.See Tools and Activities, includes tutorials
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• UbD Related Web Sites (Support for Assessment)
  This site provides resources for Understanding by Design. Scroll Down for the resources for phase II which focuses on the performance tasks. There is assessment help for all content areas. See the multiple examples of rubrics.
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• Understanding by Design Overview PDF
  This PDF file provides an overview of the UBD design: templates and explanations, including GRASPS for performance tasks
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• Welcome to VIPS (A must see!)
  Valle Imperial Project In Science Select the science curriculum topics of interest for great lesson resources. Be sure to see the Storylines which provide a graphic representation of each unit.
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• Career Development Activities, CTE and Vocational Lesson Plans
  Funded by the Vocational Information Center, this website provides a comprehensive resource list that can be used by both teachers and students. It presents career activities, preparation for career lesson plans, work-related lesson plans, vocational lesson plans, and lesson plans and activities organized by career path (agriculture; applied academics, including mathematics and science, arts and media, business, economics, and finance; construction and building trades; health and human services; and transportation and manufacturing).
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• CyberBee
  This is a great site for teachers looking for more ways to integrate technology into their classroom. Look to the Curriculum Ideas, How Tos, Treasure Hunts, and the fine articles to give you fresh ideas. (
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• Differentiation: From Planning to Practice, Grades 6-12
  In this practical and accessible book, Rick Wormeli shows middle- and secondary-level teachers how to plan a differentiated lesson from start to finish, detailing the steps to take before, during, and after to deepen connections for students. At each stage, Rick offers time-tested strategies and reflective advice about reaching a wide range of learners within the same classroom. He presents annotated models of effective differentiated instruction, including tiering, flexible groupings, and adjustments based on formative assessments.
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• Differentiation: From Planning to Practice, Grades 6-12
  In this practical and accessible book, Rick Wormeli shows middle- and secondary-level teachers how to plan a differentiated lesson from start to finish, detailing the steps to take before, during, and after to deepen connections for students. At each stage, Rick offers time-tested strategies and reflective advice about reaching a wide range of learners within the same classroom. He presents annotated models of effective differentiated instruction, including tiering, flexible groupings, and adjustments based on formative assessments. Through extensive interdisciplinary examples, teachers also learn how to extend these processes to any subject.
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• Dr. Kathie Nunley's Layered Curriculum Web Site for Educators
  These lesson plans were created by teachers from around the globe. Feel free to browse, borrow and adapt as needed!!
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• edHelper.com
  This website offers free services for some activities such as making a cross word puzzles (with one’s own vocabulary words), you can make quizzes, cloze activities, word walls, graphic organizers, and many others. You can choose the difficulty level of each activity; this makes it very easy to differentiate any lesson. This website can be used for any subject and teachers who wish to purchase a membership (about $21.00), can also take advantage of other services, such as activities for special needs students, bilingual, and monthly topics. Rec. by Carina Avalos
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• Education World ® Lesson Planning
  This site provides multiple resources for educators across the grade levels for lesson planning
  September 15 to October 15 is National Hispanic Heritage Month. Try these fun ideas in the classroom.
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• Effective Lesson Planning for ELLs
  4 by 4 Lesson Design (a modification by Jill Kerper Mora, Ed.D. of Madeline Hunter's 5 step design differentiate for English language proficiency levels.
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