Teaching Life Skills to Students with Disabilities
Title: Alphatyping.com
Creating
Agency: Alphatyping
Description:
This is a site where you can register and actually practice typing skills for
free. They have lessons, practice, and
tests that can be taken.
http://www.alfatyping.com/index.php?mode=main 
Title: Firstaidweb
Creating
Agency : FirstAidWeb Inc.
Description:
This Website is a great one for learning all of the basics of first aid and
CPR. It has graphics and explains in
detail the ‘why’ of what you are doing when you are performing CPR or first
aid. You can also chose to pay a minimum
of $24.95 to take a test and get a certificate.
Title: Distracted Driving
Creating
Company: General Motors
Description: This Website has a great activity for
learning how to keep distractions under control while you are driving. You can take a simulated drive, where you get
distracted by multiple things and get a rating as to how distracted you
actually are when on the road.
http://www.gm.com/company/gmability/safety/drivers_seat/distracted_driving/index.html
Title: KidsHealth
Creating
Company: Nemours Foundation
Description:
This is a great Website for teaching kids about their bodies. It covers all sorts of topics from the human
body (every body system), sickness, diseases, and mental issues. It uses great movies and graphics to show
things in real life. It also has
different pages for each age, so you can chose topics that might be of interest
to your age level, and comprehension skills.
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/
Title: Internet Field Trips
Creating
Company: Scholastic
Description:
This is a good site to use when you need to learn about maps and how to read
them. It tells everything from latitude
and longitude to what a map shows and map symbols. You can also link TerraServer, which lets you
get an aerial view of any particular place on the World map.
http://content.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=2884
Title: Kathy Schrock’s homepage
Creator:
Kathy Schrock
Description:
Kathy Schrock’s page is full of resources for teachers. From workshops, professional development, blogs, search engines; she lists numerous resources to help
teachers of all ages and subjects.
Title: The lesson plans page
Description:
The
Lesson Plans Page is a collection of
over 3,000 lesson plans from Preschool through High School and beyond, that
were developed by Kyle Yamnitz, students and faculty
at The University of Missouri, and more recently by the users of this website.
http://www.lessonplanspage.com/
Title: The Internal Revenue Service
Understanding Taxes
Creating
Company: The Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Easy
to use/read information about taxes, tutorials and simulations, lesson plans
for teachers and students. This site
also has assessments for teachers and students to use.
http://www.irs.gov/app/understandingTaxes/jsp/tools_using_hows.jsp
Wilderdom
Creating
Company: Wilderdom, James Neill
Social
skills activities, games, team building, etc.
This site is great for finding activities to do with students of all
abilities and ages.
http://www.wilderdom.com/games/
Apples
4 the teacher
http://www.apples4theteacher.com/translate.html
I
mostly use this site for the resources related to sign language. You can type in up to 30 characters and signs
appear for it. They also provide some
ASL activities and flashcards that can be printed out. This site also has many more resources
available for other topics.
