PARCC technology guidelines for district online testing

PARCC has developed recommendations and guidelines for districts in the implementation of the new assessments using technology.  You can find the document here that details requirements:

PARCC's technology recommendations for online testing

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

Check out these grade level resources for virtual manipulatives.

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

LearnZillion Common Core Lessons

There are over 2000 lessons available on this website.  Thanks, Cheri Zullo, for the recommendation!

http://learnzillion.com/

School Librarians and the Common Core

livebinder link for librarians

Thanks, Doreen Brown, for sharing this livebinder from the PARCC site especially for school librarians!

Video resources

These video resources are from Tennessee's compiled list.

E is for Explore!: Place Value Initial

E is for Explore!: Place Value Initial

Neat lesson using your own initials!

Unpacking the Standards

North Carolina has a grade by grade list for both ELA and Math.  I found it very helpful.  There is also a list of the text exemplars with links to websites to support those texts.

Unpacking the Standards-Math and ELA

THE Common Core Standards

The Common Core standards and resources can be found here.

http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards

ELA Standards-Aligned Question Stems

Christina Hank has a great ELA blog.  She posted these question stems created by high school teacher Robert Belprez.  Thanks, Robert and Christina!

http://turnonyourbrain.wordpress.com/2012/07/09/standards-aligned-question-stems/

Next Generation Science Standards

You can download a free PDF of our new science standards framework here:

http://www7.nationalacademies.org/bose/Standards_Framework_homepage.html

Inside Mathematics Problem of the Month

This site has some great problems ready for teachers to use.  Find them under the Tools for Educators, Problem of the Month.  They are aligning their problems to the Common Core.

http://www.insidemathematics.org/index.php/home

MyGroupGenius

MyGroupGenius is a project of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This site provides teachers with an opportunity to connect with other teachers who are using new tools in Math and Literacy to implement the new Common Core State Standards. Teachers can seek ideas and advice, share challenges and A-ha! moments, or find specific teaching tools and strategies to use in their classrooms.
There are good resources here for middle and high school teachers at the present and it is still under construction.  Pass along this site to your middle and high school friends.  Be sure to scroll to the bottom of the page to go to the math and literacy resources.
www.mygroupgenius.org

Colored vocabulary cards

Granite School District has developed colored vocabulary cards that would display beautifully in your classroom.

Rational Number Project--Great Fraction Lessons!

http://www.cehd.umn.edu/ci/rationalnumberproject/rnp1-09.html

Fourth grade teachers, here's an entire set of fraction lessons that are great!  Be sure to scroll all the way to the bottom for the flash manipulatives.

Classroom Posters for Practice Standards

Be sure to check out the Utah Education Network.  Find the free, printable classroom posters for the Practice Standards.  There's something for everyone on this site.
Classroom Standards Posters from Utah and more

Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics has a task for each of the standards.  Choose your grade level and standard, then choose illustrations.  That will take you to a task.
Illustrative Mathematics

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Helpful Websites

Tennessee Curriculum Center

TN Core Education in Tennessee

Education Northwest

 New York City Department of Education Common Core Library

 University of Arizona Common Core Toolkit

NAEP--a great resource, especially for 4th grade and 8th grade

NAEP is especially great for fourth grade teachers as a resource because it has a large bank of performance based assessments that are already graded rubric style. You can choose the level of difficulty and the subject matter.    NAEP has a wealth of information about how we are performing state by state. The most recent results were released in May of 2012

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