General Sites

GLA Tools:
-GLA Alberta Education Teacher/Administrator Handbook

PeopleSoft Link: Login information sheet

Office 2010 Help Sites: Word Demo, Excel Demo, Power Point Demo, One Note Demo, Outlook 2010 Demo, New Features Demo, Microsoft Training Portal, Microsoft Intro to Office 2010 Videos, Office Migration Guides, Web Apps Demo

ProQuest Professional Education: This is a database of education related documents covering K-12. You will need C.B.E. account # and password information to access this website. Please talk to your Admin. team for this information.

Connections: Alberta Learning information for Teachers.

Learn Alberta: The Learn Alberta website. You will need to write down the username and password to access this website from home.

Alberta Assessment Consortium: Website with information and articles related to assessment in the classroom and the AAC itself.

Statistics Canada E-STAT: Statistics on the Canadian population. You will need Abbeydale's username and password to access this site.

Alberta Learning Curriculum and Resources: Curriculum and development information on various subjects as well as information for parents.

Alberta Learning Achievement Test Information:

Scholastic Lesson Plans: A good general resources for lessons and ideas based on subject area.

Alberta Teachers Association Local 38: ATA38 union homepage. You can find the Collective Agreement posted here.

LRC Link - For Ordering new curriculum resources

Forms and Policies: FOIP, HS forms and Policies etc.

Citrix Home Access: Online Help

Calgary Public Library

Excellent teacher search site: find all kinds of resources for teachers here. Just type in a topic and you will get a list of student and teacher based sites. Very useful.

Curriculum Links - Page that is organized by subject area

Language Art Sites

Teaching Books: Teacher Literacy Resource. The site has information on children's literature as well as short videos were author's and illustrator's talk about their work.

Read Write Think: Practical Ideas for literacy.

Children's Literature Web Guide: Authors on the web.

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Answers questions about grammar.

Reading Quest: Strategies for writing and reading comprehension.

Newspaper Activities: Calgary Herald has provided some activities to use in conjunction with the newspaper.

Simon Rose (Author Talk 2008 - grade 5/6) Teacher Resource

Science Sites

Social Studies

Social Studies Curriculum: K-12 Curriculum. PDF file, you will need the free Adobe Reader to view this file.

Sites related to Virtues:
Think Responsibly
Poverty 

Math Sites

Math Manipulative Resource: Great hands-on resource when the manipulatives are not available.

Mathematics Magazine: Math magazine with good resources.

Math Site List: Links to many different interactive math Sites.

Math Site: Elementary site with many online links - some are interactive.

Math Drills: Many different drill templates and game templates that can be downloaded.

Fun Math Videos:  Suitable for instruction for K-4.

Galileo Math Site: Great for introducing math concepts through hands on games. Games are outlined with easy to follow instructions.

Power of Ten Tutorial I
Power of Ten Tutorial II

Technology Sites

Alberta Learning Illustrative Examples: Illustrative examples to help with the integration of technology into the curriculum.

Alberta Learning ICT Rationale and Philosophy: ICT Curriculum

2Learn: Project Centre at Telus.

George Lucas Educational Foundation (Edutopia): Assessment, emotional intelligence, project-based learning, technology integration.

Infocus: SIRS website.

Web Quest Search: Find a Web Quest on this comprehensive site.

CBE Video Loan Pool (Medianet): Sign out Videos from the Video Loan Pool Online

Media Awareness Network Sites

Be Aware: Good tips on Internet Safety for teachers and parents

Web Awareness Site: an excellent resource for information about how to improve student awareness using electronic resources. There is also a parent link on this site.

Media Awareness Teacher Site - You can search for lessons and tools to assist you in teaching your students to be more web aware.

Internet Site Evaluation Tool - The 5 W's and H.

Educational Games for Students: Teaches Web Awareness concepts. For Example, the game called - CyberSense and Nonsense: the second adventure of the three cyberpigs takes students through an exercise reinforcing safe use of the Internet and chat rooms.

Cybertips

Kids in the Know Site: Here is a new web awareness site that CBE put out for grades 4-6.  It has interactive activities that focus on sharing information over the web.

Good ideas on these Canadian based Web Quest sites: