Online Classes for Teachers

Sites featuring professional development that can be conducted and experienced in an online setting. These generally require registration and may include assignments that are carried out in the classroom.

1. Learning math: number and operations
   Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): K - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 029239
   This Internet site offers a college-level online mathematics course designed to teach concepts involving numbers and operations to teachers of elementary and middle school. The site focuses on the relationships among numbers and operations and attempts to engage teachers through video lessons, problem-solving activities, and online demonstrations.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)
   
   
2. Patterns in mathematics
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2004 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 015482
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, an online Teachers' Lab funded by the ANNENBERG/CPB MATH AND SCIENCE PROJECT, offers interactive activities for teachers to use to explore three categories of patterns: logic, number, and word. The goal of the project is to provide high-quality professional development materials and resources for math and science teachers.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)
   
   
3. Thirteen Ed Online
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2004 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 013768
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site is designed to help grades K to 12 teachers use the Internet effectively in the classroom. This Web site, created and maintained by THIRTEEN/WNET, the New York Public Broadcasting Station, offers teachers opportunities for sustained teacher training on the uses of technology with online courses such as Internet in Action: Web in the Classroom.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)
   
   
4. The physics classroom
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2004 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 014539
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained for grades 9 to 12 by physics teacher, presents an online physics tutorial. The coverage of topics at The Physics Classroom coincides with the coverage of topics in the Physics 163 class at Glenbrook, Illinois South High School.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)
   
   
5. Shape and space in geometry
   Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2004 Grade(s): K - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 016445
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, an online Teachers' Lab funded by the ANNENBERG/CPB MATH AND SCIENCE PROJECT, offers interactive activities for teachers to use to explore the geometry of shape and space. The goal of the project is to provide high quality professional development materials and resources for math and science teachers.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)
   
   
6. Learning math: geometry
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2003 Grade(s): K - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 028716
   This Internet site offers a college-level online mathematics course designed to teach geometry content to teachers of elementary and middle school. The site presents geometric reasoning as a viable problem solving method and attempts to engage teachers through video lessons, problem solving activities, and online demonstrations.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)
   
   
7. Shedding light on science: an elementary science content series
   Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2001 Grade(s): K - 5 Cost: Free ENC#: 020668
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site, developed by Annenberg/CPB for K-5 teachers, is a professional development tool designed to increase science content knowledge. Organized around an eight-part video series, the site provides a framework for conducting interactive, online workshops and maintaining support networks.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)
   
   
8. Learning math: patterns, functions, and algebra
   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2001 Grade(s): K - 8 Cost: Free ENC#: 028833
   This Internet site offers a college-level online mathematics course designed to teach the content of patterns, functions, and algebra to teachers of elementary and middle school. The site focuses on key ideas of algebraic thinking and attempts to engage teachers through video lessons, problem-solving activities, and online demonstrations.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)
   
   
9. Fantastic fractals online!: explore the frontier
   Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
   Date: 2002 Grade(s): 4 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 018758
   This World Wide Web (WWW) site presents online tutorials with information about the mathematics behind fractals and interactive activities for exploring the nature of fractals. Two tutorials, one for older students and one appropriate for younger students, offer step-by-step explorations of the terms and processes related to the formation of fractals along with interactive applications for exploring fractal formation.
   (For more details, see ENC Record.)
   
   
10. Math Academy
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2001 Grade(s): Pre-K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 020860
    This Internet site, part of the PBS TeacherLine site, offers teachers free online professional development to help implement the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics' (NCTM) Principles and Standards for School Mathematics. The principles are equity, curriculum, teaching, learning, assessment, and technology.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
11. It all adds up
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2001 Grade(s): 9 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 021277
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site offers interactive modules designed to help high school teachers and students understand responsible personal finance management and the proper use of credit. The site provides real-world applications relevant to high school students, such as buying a car, creating a budget, and preparing for college.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
12. Interdisciplinary learning in your classroom
    Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1999 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 020714
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, created through the collaborative effort of the Walt Disney World Learning Partnership and Thirteen Ed Online, offers eleven free workshops designed to inform teaching practices in the classroom. This interdisciplinary teaching and learning workshop is divided into four sections, which include an explanation of the approach, demonstration of what an integrated lesson plan looks like for different grade levels, and instructions for implementation of the method using a seven-step template, as well as helpful hints from an expert.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
13. INTEC
    Featured in ENC Focus   ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1998 Grade(s): 5 - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 014664
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site is the home of the International Netcourse Teacher Enhancement Coalition (INTEC). The goal of the INTEC project is to offer a set of online professional development courses that will support teachers in developing inquiry-based teaching and learning in mathematics and science classrooms at the middle and high school levels.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
14. webTeacher: your source for Web knowledge
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1999 Grade(s): Pre-K - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 016953
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, developed for educational professionals but also useful for advanced or technologically oriented students, offers a user friendly tutorial that combines text, images and interactive exercises to teach novice and intermediate computer users about the Internet and the World Wide Web. The site was designed by two teachers from Tennessee with help from professional Web developers, and is maintained as a free service by the National Cable Television Association.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
15. MathArchives
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 2001 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 002462
    The Internet site organizes and provides access to public domain software and shareware as well as other materials accessable via the Internet which may be utilized in the teaching of mathematics. Abstracted 01/97.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
16. CERES Project
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1998 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 013855
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained for grades K to 12, presents a library of Web based astronomy lessons developed by the Center for Educational Resources (CERES) Project. The CERES project is a collaboration between NASA, the University of Minnesota, and classroom teachers from across the nation to develop online, interactive science education materials that make maximum use of NASA resources, data, and images.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
17. DNA from the beginning: an animated primer on the basics of DNA, genes, and heredity
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1998 Grade(s): 8 - 11 Cost: Free ENC#: 015775
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the DNA Learning Center at Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory, is designed to be a multimedia primer on the basics of DNA and heredity. It contains a series of twenty four concepts that combine scientific information with the history of science.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
18. The Biology Project: an online interactive resource for learning biology
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1997 Grade(s): 9 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 011805
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, designed for students in grades 9 through 12 and post secondary, is an online resource for learning biology developed at The University of Arizona. From the home page, visitors can review topics in biochemistry, cell and molecular biology, genetics, immunology, and human biology.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
19. Math teacher link
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1997 Grade(s): 9 - Post-Sec. Cost: Free ENC#: 009503
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the University of Illinois, is designed to deliver professional development opportunities and classroom resources to teachers of mathematics, statistics, and related subjects at the high school and lower division college levels. One menu option, Classroom Resources, provides links to online resources available at this site, organized according to traditional high school math courses as well as advanced classes in subjects such as probability and statistics, discrete mathematics, linear algebra, and history of mathematics.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)
    
    
20. PBS Mathline
    ENC Digital Dozen Site  
    Date: 1996 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: Free ENC#: 004048
    This World Wide Web (WWW) site, maintained by the Public Broadcasting System (PBS), is an online professional development program that uses a blend of technologies, including video and e-mail forums, to facilitate collaboration among teachers. Created in collaboration with the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), the service provides online learning communities of 25 to 30 teachers facilitated by experienced classroom teachers.
    (For more details, see ENC Record.)