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 Teaching
Ideas for Early Childhood Special Educators
Don't reinvent the wheel - there are lots of ways to share teaching
ideas on the web. Choose from:
[actual ideas sorted by theme] [Linda's
database of teaching ideas] [links to other sites
with teaching ideas]
Ideas sorted by Theme:
(A  indicates a link that will take
you to a new web site. All other links are to pages on this web site.)
 Animals including
farm, zoo, water, birds, bugs
Apples
Art
Body Parts
Candles
Christmas
This is a great time of year for a Store
Unit
Circle Time Daily Routines
Clothing
Colors
Community Helpers
Dinosaur
Eggs
Egg and Bunny
Fall
Food
- Communication Board in Boardmaker for Windows format for Today
is Monday
 by Eric Carl.
You must have Boardmaker for Windows in order to use this file. --submitted
by Kim Kahn
- Pancakes Theme Ideas
-- by Paul Many
Gross Motor Activities
- Check out the Preschool
Menu at PE
Central. Here are neat ideas for teaching
basic gross motor skills written just for young learners.
Halloween
Houses/Homes
Letters and Promoting Literacy
Martin Luther
King
Mother's Day
Music
Night and Day Moon balls snack
Nursery Rhymes
Ocean
Opposites - here is a 5 page online animated story book
of opposites. Note that there will be a plug for an online store at
the end of the book.
Play Skills - ideas to teach students with disabilities
Schedule - Here you
will find ideas that will help you with daily scheduling of preschool
classes for children with special needs.
Snack Time
Snow
Snowmen
Spring
St. Patrick's Day
Store
Summer Ideas
Teddy Bear adapted
book
Thanksgiving
The Three Bears
The Three Little Pigs
Three Billy
Goats Gruff
Transportation
Valentine's
Day
Links to other resources for teaching ideas on the
Web
There are not a hundred garbled links here. Only the select few that
I have found that offer ideas for the preschool teacher that can be
implemented right now. In selecting these links, I have chosen only
those that focus on preschool, leaving out sites that have resources
for PreK-12 or, more commonly, K-12. You can be confident that you will
not waste a lot of time looking for content by following these links.
In many cases, the link is not to the home page of the organization,
but to the page dealing with preschool. Enjoy!
 Links
to websites for pictures - This page has links to sites that give you access to pictures for
making schedules, etc. The list is published by the AT:Last,
Inc, the Maryland Assistive Technology
Cooperative, and is compiled by Linda Burkhart.
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- Sarah
Clutterbuck’s Special Education Home Page
- This page has software reviews, Intellitools downloads in Mac format,
teaching ideas, and links to other relevant sites.
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- FamilyTLC
- provides tools to enhance the parent/child relationship. Find parenting
tips, articles on child development, child safety and 500 new age-appropriate
child activities each month.
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- MCPSs Early Childhood
Technology Literacy Project
- This award winning website has resources, downloads, and how to
projects for early childhood.
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- MCPSs
Digital Vertical File
- A database of graphics, video, and sounds sorted by media type and
category.
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- Tinsnips
- This site focuses on tips for kids with autism, but many of the
snacks, ideas, and themes are appropriate for all children. Also,
there is a good list of links to other resource sites.
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- Preschool
Ideas
- This site has ideas organized by theme. Under each theme, you can
find songs, activities, and curriculum links.
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- Early
Childhood Greets the Web
- This is one of the first listing of sites that I have found that
has many links that take you to sites that are not just more collections
of links. Many of the links listed are actual activities that you
can use with preschoolers right on the web. They are all described
accurately so you can choose wisely which one to click on.
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- Chalkboard
- This site has an listing of ideas for preschool and kindergarten
teachers organized by type of idea: snack, art, craft, holiday, math/science,
rhymes, social studies, etc. They are not organized by theme.
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- Theme Links for Early Childhood Educators
- Linda has compiled the thematic units from many other pages to create
this categorical list. Much like this page, you can use your browser
to search for a particular word since all the themes are listed on
the main page.
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- Mrs. Peterson's Preschool Page
- This page has a no nonsense approach to getting the information
that you want. The most useful section is the "thematic units."
There aren't a lot of them, but there is hardly a wait for the pages
to load and you can get right to the theme you are interested in.
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- Activity Cupboard
- This site has ideas derived from the daycare-l listserve. They are
also organized under various categories. You'll find craft ideas,
snacks,
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- Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
- This page offers reviews of books useful in preschool as well as
interesting teaching ideas for some of the best books.
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This page was last updated on January 8, 2005
Please send comments to Linda Bastiani (Linda_Bastiani@mcps.k12.md.us)
since September 12, 1999
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