Resources for Elementary Education

From Eduwiki

Brain Pop
www.brainpop.com.
K-12.
Site says K on up. Disciplines covered are Math, English, Social Studies, Arts and Music, Science, Health, and Technology. This is an interactive site for students and educators. Site is meant to support educators and be fun for students. Aligned with state standards, the site has quizzes, movies, experiments, and lessons that cover the above disciplines. It also says it has differentiated learning and close captioning for those with special needs. This is a membership site where a fee has to be paid to get access to its features. (Pat Kondzella)

Fun Brain.
www.funbrain.com.
K-12.
History, Math, Language Arts, Science, Arts, Music, and Geography.
This site has great educational games across all these disciplines. It also has web books and an area for teacher resources. Writers have blogs on this site also that are segmented for different ages and sexes. (Pat Kondzella)

PBS Kids
www.pbskids.org.
K-2
Math, Reading, Art, Music, Science.
This site uses some celebrities, popular kids’ show figures, animated animals, and other characters in games, lessons, and activities. (Pat Kondzella)

Kids Educational Websites.
http://kidsedwebsites.com.
Grades 3-8.
Arts, Business, Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies.
This is a portal for many other websites in these subjects. Games and activities are said to be better than drill or arcade style games. The sites can be used for teachers to do lessons with interactive white boards. (Pat Kondzella)

Discipline: Special Education, Autism, ADHD Grade Level(s): pre K – 12 Address: www.autismspeaks.org Description: This easy to navigate site provides comprehensive information about autism, everything from basic definitions to how to get involved in the community. The bottom of the home page contains links to special features, personal profiles, and an “in the new” area which scrolls across links to more than 17 current news stories. The site is rich in multi-media links, providing video and pictorial accounts of the life of someone with autism. (Catherine B. Lee)

Discipline: Special Education, Learning Disabilities Grade Level(s): pre K – 12 Address: http://www.ldanatl.org Description: This well written and organized site provides helpful strategies for both teachers and parents to help children with specific learning disabilities. A special link for parents provides a wealth of information on learning disabilities (LD) and on negotiating the special education process. The information on the site is “cutting edge” and practical, and it also provides a comprehensive network of referral resources. It is positive and uplifting, stressing that every student with LD can be successful in school given the right opportunities. (Catherine B. Lee)

Discipline: Special Education, Intellectual Disabilities Grade Level(s): pre K – 12 Address: http://www.ndss.org Description: This site of the National Down Syndrome Society contains comprehensive information on Down syndrome; it presents opportunities for becoming politically active in advocating for legislation to help people with Down syndrome and for becoming involved in the community in general. A link called Education, Development, and Community Life provides valuable information for educators. Information is also available in Spanish (and there is a nice tribute to Senator Kennedy!). (Catherine B. Lee)

Discipline: Special Education, ADHD Grade Level(s): pre K – 12 (adults) Address: www.chadd.org Description: This site is aesthetically “busy” and might turn off visitors with ADHD; nevertheless, it is an important site for information about this ubiquitous disorder. I learned that, as with many disabilities, early detection is critical, and that September 14 - 20 has been designated National ADHD Awareness Week. The site contains a lot of good information for parents in terms of how to work with their child’s teacher and school; unfortunately you have to sign up as a member to view more extensive information. (Catherine B. Lee)

Discipline: Early Education, Special Education, Inclusive Practices Grade Level(s): pre K – 3 Address: http://www.circleofinclusion.org Description: This site provides information on effective practices of inclusive educational programs for young children. It is greatly beneficial to classroom practice; for example, educators must be cognizant of changes in lighting and noise level, accessibility of materials, physical arrangement of the room, adaptation of materials such as adding Velcro and strings to objects, and using contrasting colors to help children with movement, retrieval, and participation. In short, the site makes you provides useful suggestions to incorporate into the classroom to make inclusive practices successful. (Catherine B. Lee)

Discipline: Exceptional Children, Gifted Children Grade Level(s): pre K – 12 Address: http://www.nagc.org Description: This site contains general information about the National Association for Gifted Children, policy papers, publications, parenting information, and state and federal information. There are 15 links along the left margin of the home page, as well as a great section on tools for educators. There is a comprehensive parent information section, which includes a way to contact parent resource specialists for more information and a list of summer and other enrichment programs for parents to enroll their gifted children in. (Catherine B. Lee)

Discipline: Special Education, Computers and Technology Grade Level(s): K – 12 Address: www.closingthegap.com Description: This is mostly a web site to help educators find trainings on different technology that can benefit children with special needs; the site’s goal is also to facilitate in finding, reviewing, and comparing current products on the market. However, there is not information available on the web site itself without buying a subscription to their online magazine or signing up for a workshop (hence the .com in the address). Still, users can get a free 14 day trial period of the online subscription, and it is still a good resource for people who are completely in the dark about using technology in the classroom. (Catherine B. Lee)

Discipline: Special Education, Other Health Impairments, General Education Grade Level(s): K – 12 Address: www.efa.org Description: Visitors can click on different categories such as parent, teen, woman to read information for that particular perspective. It can be used to educate and empower students with epilepsy. It is important for all teachers to be familiar with procedures for dealing with a student experiencing a seizure in class and to be familiar with how seizures affect the child’s brain and ability to learn; this site provides comprehensive information on the disorder. (Catherine B. Lee)

Discipline: Special Education, Speech and Language Grade Level(s): pre K – 12 Address: www.asha.org Description: This site’s home page is clear and easy to use; along the left side, there is an “Information for” with different categories such as students, speech-language pathologists, and the public to help tailor navigation of the site. There are also 10 Quick Links, including a link to an A to Z Index, an area for upcoming events, as well as 9 links at the top of the page. (Catherine B. Lee)

Discipline: Special Education, General Education Grade Level(s): pre K – 12 Address: http://www.wrightslaw.com Description: Names after one of the court cases that launched special education in the United States, this is a great site for new teachers or teachers who are not familiar with basic information about special education laws and practices. It also provides current information regarding policy pertaining to Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, which is important for anyone in the teaching field. With links to dozens of topics and updated as currently as today’s date, this is an important site to tag as a favorite. (Catherine B. Lee)

Kid Friendly Websites Kids Space (K-5) (writing)

www.kids-space.org This website has been around since 1995 and it claims to be for kids by kids. Its very bright and kid friendly and has pictures of children in multicultural clothing. The website allows children to create their own picture books, write their own stories or add a story to other children’s artwork. (Silvee Islam)

Enchanted Learning (K-8) (all subjects)

www.enchantedlearning.com This website is very useful for both students and teachers. The website requires a $20 membership for one year but a lot of its content is free of charge. This site can be used to teach reading, math, science and includes topics by holidays, animals, etc. It also has a lessons in languages other than English. The also has many helpful art ideas for classrooms across all grade levels and ever changing ideas for the classroom teacher. (Silvee Islam)

Teacher Website

The Teacher’s Corner- Teachers resource and Lesson Plans

http://www.theteacherscorner.net/ This website is an all in one resource site for teachers. There are lesson plans, thematic unit plans, collaboration with other teachers online, printable worksheets, even a link to vacant teacher jobs. There are links to ways that a teacher can make the classroom run smoothly with “Teacher Helper”. The site also has a message board and an experiment of the week. (Silvee Islam)

The Education Trust
Discipline: Education Research and Data
Grade Levels: K-12
Web Site Address: http://www.edtrust.org
Description: The Education Trust offers “a range of publications to help you learn more about the achievement gap and what can be done to close it.” The site contains data and evidence in the form of shaded maps, graphs, fact sheets, and a myriad of other documents. I believe that this site is important for educators to visit to get a broader perspective on how our students in our county and our state are doing, in comparison to students in other countries or states. In this sense, the Education Trust contains information on both the educational legislation and the results of student assessments. (Susan Boorujy)

Busy Teacher Cafe
Discipline: Teaching ideas and lesson plans, several subjects
Grade Level: K-6
Website Address: http://www.busyteacherscafe.com

The Busy Teacher Café is a very useful website full of wonderful printables and student activities. These are categorized by season, holiday or theme. There are also terrific calendars, charts and lesson plan templates for teachers. You will find cute clipart pictures that go along with the various themes. The name of this website says it all and is perfect for busy teachers. (Kristina Ibarra)

National Education Association
Discipline: Teaching ideas and lesson plans, most subjects
Grade Level: PreK-12
Website address: http://www.nea.org

PBS
Discipline: Multiple subjects
Grade Levels: K-12
Web Site Address: http://www.pbs.org/teachers/
Description: This website not only has resources for in class activities, but also a forum for teachers to post and discuss and a link to further classes teacher can take themselves. Most of the activities offered on the website at first glance are online activities. These online activities are good because they are interactive. However, though they are not the first activities shown, the site does also offer ideas for offline activities. It has resources for all grades and all subjects. At the top of the page the grades are broken up into groups, i.e. K-2. When scrolled over a drop menu of disciplines drops down. It is a user-friendly site with some cute activity ideas. (Caitlyn Carhart)

Teacher Tube
Discipline: Multiple subjects
Grade Levels: K-12
Web Site Address: http://www.teachertube.com
Description: This site is a public site where teachers can share ideas and resources. The most interesting thing about this site is that teachers can post videos. There are videos that feature teachers and their “perimeter rap” and a video for teachers about the idea of students becoming “digital learners” and all sorts of information.(Caitlyn Carhart)

Teacher Corner
Discipline: Multiple subjects
Grade Levels: K-12
Web Site Address: http://www.theteacherscorner.net/
Description: This site is a multisubject, multigrade level site. Teachers can submit activities they’ve done for all subjects, like health, math, science, and more. It is a great site to use when looking for lesson ideas. However, google ads are integrated into the site to a point that it is sometimes difficult to tell what is teacher submitted and what is google.(Caitlyn Carhart)

Teacher.Net
Discipline: Multiple subjects
Grade Levels: K-12
Web Site Address: http://teachers.net/
Description: : This website offers several different types of teacher resources. It’s homepage tabs range from lessons and projects to blogs and classifieds. It is a diverse site that is designed for teachers. The lessons and projects on the site are submitted by teachers and are organized by either grade or discipline. This makes it more difficult to find a 3rd grade lesson on multiplication than some other sites, but the lessons are interesting once found.Caitlyn Carhart)

The NEA website has a list of topics from classroom management to academic activities. The activities vary on subject matter. They have one that uses gingerbread men cookies to help with graphing for math. The information in the reading area varies from book lists for diversity readers to ideas on having students tape record some of their reading at home. I enjoyed this site because it has suggestions for teachers, activity ideas, as well as articles about educational issues. (Kristina Ibarra)

ProTeacher
Discipline: Teaching ideas and lesson plans, most subjects
Grade Level: PreK-8
Website Address: www.proteacher.com

ProTeacher is a wonderful website full of lesson plans for students from preK to 8th grade. There is also information about classroom management, child development and teaching practices. ProTeacher appears to have everything. Each topic has several posting and ideas from classroom teachers. You can find a variety of approaches presented for you to try in your classroom. (Kristina Ibarra)

I Love That Teaching Idea
Discipline: Teaching ideas and lesson plans, most subjects
Grade Level: K-6
Website Address: www.ilovethatteachingidea.com

I Love That Teaching Idea contains hundreds of ideas regarding many areas of teaching. There are topics such as character development, assessment, math and reading. This site provides a lot of creative center ideas submitted by classroom teachers and the I Love That Teaching Idea Staff. If you have any great ideas be sure to post it on this site! (Kristina Ibarra)

A to Z Teacher Stuff
Discipline: Teaching ideas and lesson plans, most subjects
Grade Level: PreK-12
Website Address: www.atozteacherstuff.com

A to Z is a fun website to explore. It contains lesson plans, worksheets and tips for teacher. Themes can be accessed by month or subject. There is a really cool handwriting worksheet perfect for early elementary students. You can also find relevant articles posted on the A to Z website. Be sure you have some time to explore when you look at this site because you don’t want to leave due to all of the exciting things you find. (Kristina Ibarra)

“Teacher Social Network” Discipline: This website is good for all subjects across the curriculum. Grade Level: n/a Website Address: http://www.teachersn.com/ Description: Teachers Social Network is a great website for just teachers. It offers an opportunity for all teachers to communicate their ideas about the classroom. It is said to be a type of Facebook, but just for teachers. They can register, find other teachers and communicate. There are also many topics that can be shared, for example “Home Schooling Advantages and Disadvantages”, and “Education Through Life Experience”.

Graphic Organizers(printable)for all subjects
Discipline:all subjects
Grade Levels:Preschool to Grade 12
Web Site Address:http://www.teachervision.fen.com/graphic-organizers/printable/6293.html
Description:Can search by grade,subject,themes.Site has alot of additional resources for lesson plans,worksheets,small booklets.Need to subscribe for full access.(Deborah Drucker)

Teachers Helping Teachers
Discipline:Teaching
Grade Levels:K-12
Web Site Address:http://ww.pacificnet.net/-mandel/index.html
Description:Lesson plans and advice contributed by teachers,listing of resources and materials for various subjects.(Deborah Drucker)

Sites for Teachers
Discipline:Teaching
Grade Levels:all grades
Web Site Address:http://www.sitesforteachers.com/index.html
Description:Listing of links to multiple educational web sites supplying resources and lesson plans.(Deborah Drucker)

National Education Association
Discipline: Interdisciplinary
Grade Level: K-12
Web Address: http://www.nea.org/
Description: NEA offers its members links to Publications, Tools and Ideas, Grants and Events geared toward offering quality education for every child in America. Tools link to 350+ free interdisciplinary lesson plans for all grade levels and subjects, and 1,500+ practical classroom tips written by teachers, for teachers, and Classroom Management and Promising Practices both online and in print. Calendars provide opportunities for conferences, meetings and assemblies. Issues and Action link to NCLB/ESEA, Education Funding, Minority Community Outreach, Dropout Prevention, Legislative Action and a Reference Center. Links go to a Press Center and State Affiliates with a form to Join the NEA and links to NEA Other Websites.(Shelley Singer)

Thinkfinity
Discipline: Teacher Resources
Grade level: K-12
Website address: http://thinkfinity.org
Description: This website is an excellent first stop if you are searching for new lesson plans, worksheets, assessments, interactives, reference materials, or media. The website is very clearly organized, allowing users to select the subject, grade level range, and resource type. The site acts as a search engine for several other content partners, such as Illuminations, ReadWriteThink and Smithsonian’s History Explorer. Resources can also be browsed by Theme (i.e. book reports, interactive games, computer activities, book lists) or by Subject (i.e. Art, Social Studies, Literacy, Math, Reading and Language Arts, Science, or Geography). (Alexandra Gorelick)

Scholastic
Discipline: Elementary Resources
Grade level: K-12
Website address: http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/home.jsp
Description: This website has an abundance of information for teachers including lesson plans, teaching strategies, time-saving tools, a planning calendar, and printables/mini-books. Lesson plans are organized by grade level, subject matter and theme. Lesson plans are thorough and easy to follow. Each lesson plan includes objectives, materials, necessary preparation, and a very thorough set of directions including things you can expect to see, and the direction you should guide your students throughout the lesson. There is also a section for new teachers, which provides tips from veteran teachers who have valuable wisdom to impart. (Alexandra Gorelick)

Elementary Teacher Resources
Discipline: Teacher Resources
Grade level: K-2
Website address: http://www.elementary-teacher-resources.com/
Description: This website was created by a teacher with 10+ years experience you has valuable “tricks of the trade” to impart. While many of the advice on this page can be adapted for K-6 it is most directly relevant for primary grade levels. On this website one can find tips on a variety of subjects, from buying great inexpensive classroom materials to several sample lesson plans (primarily writing, math, and science), as well as a checklist for new teacher preparation before the first day of school. There is also helpful step-by-step instruction on implementing Guided Reading, Writer’s Workshop and Literacy Centers. This site has great tips for daily classroom routines that will engage students while they learn. (Alexandra Gorelick)

National Service_Learning Clearinghouse
Discipline: Interdisciplinary
Grade Level: K-12
Web Address: http://www.servicelearning.org/
Description: First time hearing about Service-Learning? This site offers easy navigation through the service-learning model of education through community service. Many schools require community service hours for graduation and this site provides tools for students, parents and teachers to achieve that goal. There are Fact Sheets, Bibliographies, Lesson Plans, Syllabi, and Project Ideas with a Research Capacity Hub, Library and Search Options to assist you. News on the local and national level, including The President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll are updated regularly. Tabs on this site guide interested parties to pages geared to Higher Education (HE), K-12, Community Based Organizations (CBO), Tribes/Territories and Learn and Serve America (LSA) Grantees. Join a Blog, read FAQs or watch an 8-minute video. This site is open to the public and can be used to Find a Job, Promote Your Project, Order Publications and Keep Up to Date. (Shelley Singer)

Library Instruction
Discipline: Language Arts
Grade Level: 6-12
Web Address: http://www.libraryinstruction.com/
Description: This site currently contains 18 library instruction lessons useable for students of varying grade levels, including college students; 23 articles, some written in Spanish; a large library bibliography under the headings History, Assessment & Criticism, Active Learning, Methods & Theory, International, Higher Education, Subject, Special Populations and Technology. The extensive resources include clearinghouses, archives, instruction & lesson plans, bibliographies, and exemplary practices websites. There are 11 multidisciplinary articles relating to information literacy . Selected for awards such as Joeant and Library in the Sky, this site asks for submissions and contributions from the public in all categories and includes a Blog. (Shelley Singer)

Lakeshore Learning
Discipline: Language Arts. also science, mathematics, music, and social studies
Grade Level: K-12
Web Address: http://www.lakeshorelearning.com/home/home.jsp
Description: This website has a wealth of resources for Parents and Educators, primarily in Language Arts. It does offer tools for science, mathematics, music, and social studies. Main links are Teacher’s Corner, Parent’s Corner, Craft Ideas, Clip Art, Calendars, Templates, Catalogs & Correlations, Classroom Designer, Grants & Organizations, E-cards and Award Maker. Tabs along the Top take you to Shop by Category, Shop by Grade, Store Information, Free Resources, and Sale Items. Teacher’s Corner is divided into 3 sections: free for teachers- Projects, Worksheets & Printables, and Activities; classroom spotlight- Exceptional teachers in real classrooms who highlight helpful explorations of educational issues; and great ideas for teachers Creating a Classroom of Readers- with Teachers Talk, Encouraging Independent Reading, and Fluency Fun.(Shelley Singer)

Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)
Discipline: Education Standards, NCLB
Grade Level: All
Web Address: http://www.ccsso.org/
Description: CCSSO is a nationwide non-profit leader in advocacy and technical assistance on major educational issues, and nearly 50 member-driven projects, plus Boards, committees, conferences and countless policy statements, and manuals (many available for free download) inform its objective as it “leads and facilitates collective state action to transform our public education system in these four strategic areas: Standards, Assessment & Accountability; Comprehensive Data Systems; Next Generation Learners; and System of Educator Development.” Home page Banner headings are Chief State School Officers, What’s New, Projects, Advocacy, Publications, Events, and About the Council. Active toggling through live links to other websites offer ways to subscribe for updates on Common Core State Standards Initiative, The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and School Data Direct.(Shelley Singer)

Connections Academy
Discipline: Math, Science, Language Arts & Social Studies, for Gifted & Diverse Learners
Grade Level: K-12
Web Address: http://www.connectionsacademy.com/free-online-public-school.aspx
Description: This site introduces Connections Academy, its core curriculum and lesson plans, to interested Teachers and Parents. Accredited curriculum combines online lessons and other resources from leading publishers, ex) Prentice Hall, McGraw-Hill and BrainPOP. Members of the Learning Management System (LMS) can log-in with Username & Password. Site headings include Curriculum, & Proven Results. A Side Banner includes such links as News, Careers, and FAQs. Click Request Information. Helpful online resources for immediate and free use by parents and educators can be accessed from the Curriculum link. Sample Lessons for all grades pertain to the core curriculum subjects Language Arts, Math, Science and Social Studies. Lessons provide detailed instruction to guide the student and are accessible online, through their LMS and many are in print.(Shelley Singer)

The Educator's Reference Desk
Discipline: Teacher Resource
Grade Level: Pre-K-12
Web Address: http://askeric.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/Virtual/Lessons/Mathematics/Probability/PRB0002.htm
Description: The Educator’s Reference Desk offers lesson plans on all school subjects and a guide for writing your own lesson plan. Teachers can search for lessons based on grade level, key words, and subject. The lesson plans are thorough and easy to follow. This is also helpful for beginning teachers who would like ideas for innovative and interdisciplinary lesson plans.(Charlotte Purcell)

Discipline: Teacher Resources and Art
Grade Level: K - 6th grade
Web Site Address: http://www.geocities.com/theartkids/artlessons.html
Description: This site makes kindergarten through sixth grade art lessons available to teachers for free. The art lessons are categorized by grade level and themes, and they meet their corresponding grade standards. This site is a great tool for teachers to get helpful ideas for their K-6th grade classrooms. (Shayla Collins)

Discipline: Resources for Elementary Education (All subject matter)
Grade Level: Pre-K - 12th grade
Web Site Address: http://www.school-clipart.com
Description: This site offers a vast array of clip art for parents, and educators. It provides several different topics to choose from. To receive the full inventory of the clip art materials, there is a small subscription fee. However, hundreds are available to anyone for free. (Shayla Collins)

Discipline: Teacher Resources and Social Science: Holocaust Resources
Grade Level: 4th - 6th grade
Web Site Address: http://www.museumoftolerance.com/site/c.tmL6KfNVLtH/b.5052467/k.4B6/Holocaust_Resources.htm
Description: This site is operated through the Simon Wiesenthal Center/ Museum of Tolerance website and provides resources for teachers to teach the Holocaust to students. The site also provides helpful tips on what methods to use to teach the Holocaust. In addition a teacher can find information on planning a class field trip to the museum. (Bethany Adler)

Website: teachers.net
Discipline: Teacher Resources, Classroom Management, Math, Language Arts, Social Science, English, Music, Art
Grade level: K-12
Website address: http://teachers.net/
Description: This site offers forums, job listings, lesson plans, project ideas, articles, mailrings and much much. It is nicely organized and one can find information by grade level, subject area or by state requirements. (Brittani Krutzler)

Discipline: All Subject Matters
Grade level: K-12
Website address: http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/
Description: A to Z Teacher Stuff is a website geared towards helping teachers find online resources more quickly and easily. This site provides endless features such as lesson plans, thematic unit tips and ideas, discussion forums, downloadable teaching materials, ebooks, and worksheets. Teachers can use this as quick go-to resources for anything they may need. (Heather Gurnick)

Discipline: All Subject Matters
Grade level: Pre K-8
Website address: http://www.abcteach.com/
Description: ABC Teach is a user-friendly educational website that provides quality printable materials for immediate use by teachers. There is currently over five thousand documents (from simple worksheets to full ten-page units) for every subject matter and topic imaginable. This site also has an ABC tools application where you can generate your own worksheets and activities. (Heather Gurnick)

Discipline: Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, and Misc.
Grade level: K-12
Website address: http://www.col-ed.org/cur/
Description: This site has been created by the Columbia Education Center and provides an extensive collection of mini-lesson plans for K-12 classes. These mini-lesson plans were developed to help improve the quality of education in the Unites States, particularly the quality of math and science education. All the lessons are very user friendly and can be easily reproduced in any class setting. (Heather Gurnick)

Discipline: Interdisciplinary
Grade Level: K-8
Web Address: http://www.skirball.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=40
Description: This website is hosted by the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles and containers teacher resources on teaching tolerance and understanding and class field trips to the museum as well as information on teacher development and teambuilding. The site also offers information on several workshops for teachers the museum hosts on world arts such as music and dance'.(Bethany Adler)

Website: A to Z Teacher Stuff
Discipline: All subjects
Grade level: K-12
Website address: http:// www.atozteacherstuff.com
Description:Created by teacher, A to Z Teacher Stuff, is designed to put online resources at teachers fingertips. more. They have lesson plans, thematic units, teacher tips, discussion forums for teachers, downloadable teaching material, eBooks, printable worksheets and blacklines, emergent reader books, themes, and more. (Jennifer Hines)

National Women's History Project
Discipline: Social Science: Women's History
Grade Level: K-8
Web Address: http://www.nwhp.org/
Description: The National Women's History Project website is a great resource for teacher's to use to find books, posters, and other teaching materials on women in History. The organization sponsors essay contests that students can participate in and information can be found on the website..(Bethany Adler)

Website: Tools for Educators
Discipline: All subjects
Grade level: K-12
Website address: http://www.toolsforeducators.com/science.php
Description:This website allows you to make worksheets with images, text only or mixed text and images. There are templates for reading worksheets, writing worksheets and spelling worksheets. In addition there are printable science games, board games, word searches, crossword puzzles, dice, dominoes, and bingo. There are also printable handouts for vocabulary printouts, and other worksheets. (Jennifer Hines)

Discipline(s) – All Subjects Grade Level(s) – K-6 grade Web Site address- http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html Description: Enchanted Learning is an educational website where you can find fun activities with children. It has different creative craft projects and it covers a wide range of themes that all children are sure to enjoy. (Maria E. Carranza)

Discipline(s) – All subjects Grade Level(s) – K-8th grade Web Site address- http://www.abcteach.com/ Description: ABC Teach is an online resource webpage for children’s education. It has thousands of free printable worksheets and activities. It covers all subjects and has many themes to choose from. (Maria E. Carranza)

Grade Level(s) – K-12th grade Web Site address- http://www.projectglad.com/ Description: Project GLAD is a model of professional development in the area of language acquisition and literacy. GLAD teaches teachers how to promote English language acquisition, academic achievement, and cross-cultural skills. (Maria E. Carranza)

Discipline(s) – Violence Prevention Youth program Grade Level(s) – K-12th grade Web Site address- http://www.peacebuilders.com// Description: PeaceBuildres is a valence prevention program. The purpose of PeaceBuilders is to evoke a core sense of safety, belonging, support, and competence to deal with life’s inevitable complications and challenges. This is a cool website were you can find how to get involved. (Maria E. Carranza)

Discipline(s) – All Subjects Grade Level(s) – K-12th grade Web Site address- http://www.clrn.org/home/ Description: CLRN (California Learning Resources Network) is a guide to standards aligned electronic learning resources and assessments for teachers, administrators and parents. In this website, you can find and compare different links to different resources.

Discipline(s) – Great tools for teachers Grade Level(s) – K-12th grade Web Site address- http://www.csun.edu/~SB4310/ Description: This is Dr. Susan Belgrad homepage. She is a professor of elementary education at CSUN. In her website you can find many resources such as articles and interesting link for all teachers or who are interested in teaching children. (Maria E. Carranza)

Discipline(s) - Drug Abuse Resistance Education Grade Level(s) – K-12th grade Web Site address- http://www.dare.com Description: D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) is a police officer-led series of classroom lessons that teaches children from K-12th grade how to resist peer pressure and live productive drug and violence-free lives. In this website you can find different resources for kids, parents, and caregivers. (Maria E. Carranza)

Discipline(s) – All subjects Grade Level(s) – newborns to 12th grade Web Site address- http://www.teachervision.fen.com/ Description: This website provides a wide range of resources such as lesson plans, printables, graphic organizers, classroom management, calendar activities, and much more. Also, it provides professional development resources for teachers. You need to subscribe to be able to access all the resources. However, you may sign up for a free newsletter and access some free resources. (Maria E. Carranza)

Discipline(s) - Educating the whole child, one who is healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. Grade Level(s) – All ages Web Site address- http://www.wholechildeducation.org/ Description: The whole child promotes the development of children who are healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged. This website ask that parents, educators, policymakers, and communities work together to ensure that children become productive, engaged citizens. In this website you will be able to find different resources such as articles, books, and videos with the most updated information on children development. (Maria E. Carranza)

Website: A to Z Teacher Stuff
Discipline: All subjects
Grade level: K-12
Website address: http:// www.atozteacherstuff.com
Description: A to Z is a great tool for teachers. Teachers can use it to enhance any lesson on any subject. It provides endless features such as lesson plans, theme ideas, unit opener suggestions, worksheets. Any teacher can use this site as a go-to for practically anything they need. (Arpie Yalenian)

Website: Teacher Vision
Discipline: All subjects
Grade level: K-12
Website address: http:/ http://www.teachervision.fen.com
Description: Teacher Vision is set up as a fast and easy source that teachers can navigate through. It provides thousands of classroom ready lesson plans, printables and resources. It is set up so that one can check based on subject matter and or grade level. It even provides links and ideas for classroom management and how to effectively implement classroom management in the classroom. (Arpie Yalenian)

Website: The School Box
Discipline: All subjects
Grade level: K-12
Website address: http://www.schoolbox.com/index.aspx

Description: The School Box is an online catalog of everything and anything a teacher may want or need in his or her class. They provide a variety of classroom supplies one can choose from, a series of teacher resource books, teacher helpers, products based on all subjects such as math, language arts, social studies, science, health, PE, the arts and even homework helpers. It also has a resource center link to help out if one is searching for a lesson plan to teach. (Arpie Yalenian)

Website: Fun School
Discipline: All subjects
Grade level: K- 6
Website address: http://funschool.kaboose.com/
Description: Fun school is a website filled with thousands of games based on the core subject matters (Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, Science). It’s a great website to use in the classroom because it can be used as an activity to reinforce a concept recently covered in class. Students will be playing a game while learning at the same time. (Arpie Yalenian)

Website: Internet4classrooms
Discipline: Back to school
Grade Level: K-12
Website address: http://www.internet4classrooms.com/back_to_school.htm
Description: This site provides ideas on how to survive going back to school, or if you are a first year teacher, how to survive the beginning of school. It gives ideas on how to set up a classroom to make it learning friendly. It gives a lot of helpful hints what you can do to help your students make the best possible start to his or her school career in any grade level. (Arpie Yalenian)

Website: EdHelper
Discipline: Interdisciplinary
Grade Level: K-6
Website address: http://www.edhelper.com/
Description: The website provides resources for teachers including printouts, theme ideas, and assessment information. The site has information on reading, language arts, math, special education, science and social science as well as links to information on other subjects and high school information. The site contains printable puzzles and games teachers can use. (Bethany Adler)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/prehistoric_life/dinosaurs/ (submitted by Whitney Harrison) Discipline: Animals Grade Level: k-8 Description: If you enjoy the show “Walking with Dinosaurs,” then you will enjoy this site. Learn about the rise and fall of dinosaurs, fossils, and sea monsters. Get answers to questions such as “Was T-Rex a wimp?” See what dinosaurs may have looked like in the picture galleries. You can also learn about human beginnings.

Discipline: Supporting Student Achievement
Grade Level Parents and Teachers
Website:www.wholechildeducation.org/clearinghouse/
Description:This is a site dedicated to educating the public about how students achieve and what can be done in our homes, schools and communities to support the academic achievements of students, through Health, Safety, Engagement, Support and Challenges. (Stacey Phelps)

Discipline: Current News
Grade Level 4th-12th
Website:www.cnn.com
Description:This is a news site where students can look up current events happening in the field they are studying. This site provides pictures and live video clips for students to watch in order to bring the story to life. They cover a wide academic spectrum. There are also achieves for the most resent stories to date. (Stacey Phelps)

Discipline: Dictionary / Reference
Grade Level 4th-12th
Website:www.onelook.com
Description:This site provides and easy way for students to quickly look up the definitions of words, find cognates of roots and has a thesaurus. Good for looking up Latin roots in science and math. (Stacey Phelps)

Website: Try science
Discipline: Science
Grade levels: k-8
Website address: http://www.tryscience.org
Description: This web site is packed with science education, experiments, and museums. It is brought to you through a partnership between IBM Corporation, the New York Hall of Science (NYHOS), the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC), and science centers worldwide.(Youngsun.Nam)

Website: Starfall
Discipline: Reading and writing
Grade levels: k-2
Website address: http://www.starfall.com
Description: This is an interactive reading website that helps young children learn to read and have fun at the same time. (Youngsun.Nam)

Website: Fact Monster
Discipline: Math, Science, History
Grade levels: k-5
Website address: http://www.factmonster.com
Description: This site offers fun facts and features, and its individualized homework help. It has received high praise for its presentation(Youngsun.Nam)

Website: Earobics Games for Kids
Discipline: Reading and Writing
Grade levels: k-8
Website address: http://www.earobics.com/gamegoo/gooeyhome.html
Description: This website was created by Earobics to help kids with early reading skills. Kids can learn naturally about reading and writing, having so much fun with this website.(Youngsun.Nam)

Website: Book Adventure
Discipline: Reading and Writing
Grade levels: k-8
Website address: http://www.bookadventure.org/
Description: It is designed to encourage students to read more often, for longer periods of time, with greater understanding.(Youngsun.Nam)

Website: Cool Math 4 Kids
Discipline: Math
Grade levels: k-5
Website address: http://www.coolmath4kids.com/
Description: This website has grown to be one of the most popular sources for math education in the world. Children can learn basic math facts that relate to curriculum in each grade level.(Youngsun.Nam)

Website: Brain POP.
Discipline: Food/Health, Art & Music, Geography, History, Science
Grade levels: k-3
Website address: http://www.brainpop.com/
Description: It is an educational program, providing content spanning 7 main subjects including: Science, Math, English, Social Studies, Health, Arts and Music, and Technology.(Youngsun.Nam)

Website: edHelper
Discipline: Math, Reading and Writing, Language, Science
Grade levels: k-8
Website address: http://www.edhelper.com/
Description: This is definitely a site that all elementary school teachers will want to bookmark and use often. At edHelper student can easily and quickly learn math, reading and writing skill, language, science, even foreign language.(Youngsun.Nam)

Website: 4Kids
Discipline: Math, Reading, Geography
Grade levels: k-5
Website address: http://www.4kids.org/
Description: This website will help kids learn about Technology, Math, Reading, Geography, and even has lots of games.(Youngsun.Nam)

Website: Teachersfiles
Discipline: Art
Grade levels: k-12
Website address: http://www.teacherfiles.com
Description: This website was created exclusively for students and teacher in a K-12 setting to provide clip art, photographs, pictures and other images for school use. It is a place to copy and use graphics legally with proper referencing for teachers and students.(youngsun.Nam)

Website: Time for Kids
Discipline: Language Arts, Science, Social Science, Health, Art, Math
Grade level: K-6
Website address: http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/
Description: Time is a weekly classroom magazine. The issues cover a range of current topics including social science, science, math, and health. The websites provides articles for students to read, background information/guides for teachers and parents, and worksheets to be used in the classroom. It is useful for building reading and writing skills and is easily integrated across the curriculum. (Kati Davis)

Website: A to Z Teacher Stuff
Discipline: All subjects
Grade level: k-12
Website address: http:// www.atozteacherstuff.com
Description: A to Z is a great tool for teachers. It provides thousands of ideas to make an excellent lesson. Teachers can use this website to enhance any lesson or topic. Tools such as: lesson plans, worksheets, theme ideas, teacher tips, teachers tools and links to everything you could ask for as a teacher. (Amie Hull)

Website: Ed helper
Discipline: Teachers resource
Grade level: k-12
Website address: http:// www.edhelper.com
Description: Ed helper is a great tool for teachers. It provides thousands of ideas to make a excellent lesson. Teachers can use this website to enhance any lesson or topic.. . (Amie Hull)

Website: Homework Spot
Discipline: Language Arts, Science, Health, Social Science, Math: all disciplines
Grade level: Kindergarten - 12
Website address: http://www.homeworkspot.com
Description: Homework Spot is a great tool for all ages to help with all education needs. Students are able to search any topic through homework spot and are then linked with various websites to research the answer to their questions. This is also a great site for teachers to research a certain topic. (Amie Hull)

Website: Fact Monster
Discipline: Language Arts, Science, Health, Social Science, Math: all disciplines
Grade level: 3-9
Website address: http://www.factmonster.com
Description: Fact monster is a great website for children to research interesting facts to add on to their research papers. It is a fun website for children to relate to. Fact monster can help students in all disciplines. (Amie Hull)

Website: Education World
Discipline: Language Arts, Science, Health, Social Science, Math: all disciplines
Grade level: k-8
Website address: http://www.education-world.com
Description: Education world is a great tool for teachers. It provides thousands of ideas to make a excellent lesson. Teachers can use this website to enhance any lesson or topic. (Amie Hull)

Website: FunBrain
Discipline: Language Arts, Science, Health, Social Science
Grade level: Kindergarten
Website address: http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/getskill.cgi?A1=gba&A2=6
Description: Website includes interactive games that support all content areas of Kindergarten curriculum (math, language arts, science, history, music, geography, art, technology, and physical education). (Kati Davis)

Website: The Idea Box
Discipline: Art
Grade level: Kindergarten
Website address: http://www.theideabox.com/
Description: This website includes great ideas for parents and teachers looking for kids crafts, games, recipes, and more. This site includes seasonal ideas and great crafty tips. (Kati Davis)

Website: Kids Health
Discipline: Health
Grade level: 2-5
Website address: http://kidshealth.org/kid/
Description: This is a great website for kids to navigate as they ask questions and research about their bodies and health. It discusses feelings, staying healthy, everyday illnesses and injuries, people and places that can help, glossary of medical terms, and more all in kid friendly language. This would be ideal for use with a classroom question concept board or a health investigation center. (Kati Davis)

Website: EdHelper Word Wall
Discipline: Reading, Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, Music, and Logic.,
Grade level: Pre-K-5
Website address: http://edhelper.com/word_walls.htm
Description: Edhelper is a fantastic website in providing worksheets, craft ideas, and activities for students. The above link is a component of the website that helps to create picture word walls using your vocabulary words. It is a great tool for ESL classrooms. (Kati Davis)

Website: Creating Music
Discipline:Music.
Grade level:Pre-K-K
Website address: http://www.creatingmusic.com
Description: Creatingmusic.com is a children's online creative music environment for children of all ages. It's a place for kids to compose music and play with musical performances, music games, and music puzzles. (Kati Davis)

Web Site: Tumblebooks
Discipline(s): Language Arts.
Grade Level: Kindergarten
Website address: http://www.tumblebooks.com/library/asp/home_tumblebooks.asp
Description:Tumblebooks is a collection of animated, talking picture books that enrich the reading experience. It is a website provided by the Los Angeles Public Library where students can choose a book from a list of hundreds. The book pages are displayed on the screen and the story is read to the student. Students can also read along as the words are highlighted on the page as they are being read (Kati Davis)

Website: PBS
Discipline:Reading, Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies, Science, Early Learning, Character and Values, Health and Safety, Art, Holiday and Seasonal, Sports, Technology.
Grade level:Pre-K-12
Website address: http://pbskids.org/
Description:This website was created by the television network PBS. It is a new online learning tool that helps kids prepare for schooling by playing interactive games. This websites offers young children a chance to learn about early educational concepts by help from their “friends” they watch on television. Furthermore, this site contains viewing tips and activities for parents to help guide their children’s success. It also has a teacher’s resource for students up to grade 12 to support learning at home and school that align with the educational standards across 25 subject areas. (Christine Heisley)

Website: Brain Pop Jr.
Discipline: Reading, Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies, Science, and health.
Grade level: K-3
Website address: http://www.brainpopjr.com/
Description: This website, created by Brain Pop Jr. which provides many activities including movies, quizzes, games, and vocabulary. It also provides educational movies and homework help. This website also includes lesson plans for teachers to use as resources inside the classroom as well as family activities to participate with their children. (Christine Heisley)

Website: Apples 4 the Teacher
Discipline: Reading, Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies, Science, Holiday Activities, Creative Arts, Foreign Language, and Music.
Grade level: Pre-K- 6
Website address: http://www.apples4theteacher.com/
Description: This website created by Judy Miller is a fantastic primary website for teachers and students. Everyday new educational resources for students and teachers are added to the website. Also included on this website are puzzles, interactive learning games, coloring pages, web links and educational resources, and a kid’s safe search engine. (Christine Heisley)

Website: Starfall
Discipline: Reading
Grade level: Pre-K-2
Website address: http://www.starfall.com/
Description: This website is designed to help young children learn to read and write. This reading program provides parents with tools to support young readers by engaging them in fun interactive reading activities for every stage of readers which include motivation, phonemic awareness, systematic phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. They also have an online store for parents and teachers who would like to buy books, journals and other supplement materials. They also are producing a Kindergarten curriculum which is perfect for any classroom or homeschooling program. (Christine Heisley)

Website: FunBrain
Discipline: Reading, Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, Music, and Logic.,
Grade level: Pre-K-8
Website address: http://www.funbrain.com/index.html
Description: This website is a game centered website for teachers and students that includes many interactive educational games for all subjects. A curriculum guide is offered to teachers so that they can find the most appropriate games for their class. The games are divided into subject areas and a leveled index so it will be appropriate for all students. The website also targets parents to get involved by providing them with games, challenges, and resources. Furthermore, it provides students with educational books, comics, and flash cards for everyday learning. (Christine Heisley)

Website: School Express
Discipline: Reading, Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, Thinking Skills.
Grade level: Pre-K-8
Website address: http://www.schoolexpress.com/create.php
Description: This website has a variety of great educational materials that is useful for teachers, parents and students. This is a great website for teachers because it has many free activities and printouts. It also allows teachers to make puzzles, spelling lists, sight wall cards, awards, while offering a wide variety of other educational resources for lesson ideas and thematic units. (Christine Heisley),

Website: Room 108
Discipline: Reading, Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, music and art.
Grade level: Primary
Website address: http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/108.html
Description: This website is a great educational website for parents and students. It covers disciplines from across the curriculum. It also has interactive games and resources for students to practice skills. This web site also offers homework help and free web resources to teachers. It also provides stories for read aloud in the classroom and independent books for students. (Christine Heisley)

Website: Education Place
Discipline: Reading, Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, and Spelling.
Grade level: K-6,
Website address: http://www.eduplace.com/kids/
Description: This website was produced by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This is a great resource for teachers and parents who use this curriculum to help support and engage by interactive learning activities. On this website you can search by the student’s grade level for appropriate learning games, lesson plans for teachers and resources for students. This website also includes bilingual resources, currents events, homework help and a library link for researching. (Christine Heisley)

Website: Ed Helper
Discipline: Reading, Writing, Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, Critical Thinking, Science, Foreign Languages, High School Prep.
Grade level: K-12
Website address: http://www.edhelper.com/
Description: This website was created by a team of teachers who know exactly what teachers need to make the curriculum fun and exciting. It also allows other teacher to make suggestions and leave feedback. This website contains many resources for teachers as well as parents including; thematic units, printables, worksheets, readers, test prep, puzzles, and games. It also allows teachers and parents to create their own puzzles, word wall rings, spelling lists, ect. The website also offers a student log-in page so they may also use the resources to guide them in their studies. (Christine Heisley)

Website: Songs for teaching
Discipline: Reading, Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, health art, life skills, fine arts, seasons and holidays.
Grade level: K-6
Website address: http://www.songsforteaching.com/aboutus.htm
Description: This website allows teacher to provide their students with music to support, help, and retain the curriculum, while making it fun and engaging. This website also provide teachers with the lyrics, downloads and available ways to purchase music for future use. Bringing music in the classroom to help students learn reading, math, or even the 50 states is an exciting way to help support the learning process. (Christine Heisley)

Morphie’s Great Water Ride Adventure
Web Site Address: http://www.on.ec.gc.ca/greatlakeskids/morphie-story-title_e.html#content
Discipline: earth science (water cycle)
Grade Level: 1-3
Description: “Morphie’s Great Water Ride Adventure” is an online narrative about a water drop named Morphie who changes his form as he travels through the water cycle. The story can be read online or downloaded and printed out for students to read on paper. By integrating the science topic with a narrative plot, appealing character, and illustrations, this narrative input strategy helps students gain a clearer understanding of what water actually does throughout the water cycle. There is also a poster that can be printed out for students to label the different parts of the water cycle. For a challenge, students could write a sequel in which Morphie goes through the water cycle in a different order because, although it is a cycle, water does not have to travel in the same order all the time. (Alison Munson)

Harcourt Reflections
Web Site Address: http://www.harcourtschool.com/hss
Discipline: social studies
Grade Level: K-6
Description: The publishers at Harcourt have a website that supplements their “Reflections” series of social studies texts. Both teachers and students can access this site, click on their appropriate grade level, and select their current unit and lesson of study (e.g. grade 1, unit 3, lesson 1). This website provides primary resources, current events, activities and games, an atlas, multimedia biographies, and virtual tours that supplement every lesson in the social studies text book. Upper elementary students can use this to gather research from multiple sources for a report or expository text assignment; lower elementary students can make better connections between history and the present by looking at current events. (Alison Munson)

Image Detective
Web Site Address: http://www.edc.org/CCT/PMA/image_detective
Discipline: social studies (analyzing primary sources) and reading (drawing conclusions)
Grade Level: 3-6
Description: The Image Detective website contains nine primary source photographs from turn-of-the-century America. Students select a photograph to practice their skills in analyzing historical documents. As students enter the upper elementary grades, they will encounter more and more primary sources and historical documents. It is important that students receive direct instruction in how to analyze them for additional information and make inferences in relation to the events taking place at the time. After choosing a photograph, students pose a question from a list of options that they want to gather clues about. Next, students roll over the picture to gather clues. On a virtual notepad, students type in objective observations. They may also read a brief paragraph about background information for the photograph. Finally, students are ready to draw a final conclusion about the purpose of the historical document and fill in the sheet to answer their original question. (Alison Munson)

Professor Garfield
Web Site Address: http://www.professorgarfield.org/ReadingRing/Strips/strips.html
Discipline: reading (sequencing events and drawing conclusions)
Grade Level: 4-6
Description: Using the Professor Garfield website, students interact with brief comic strips to practice their inferencing and sequencing skills. A three-panel comic strip is displayed on the screen. After reading the text and analyzing the illustrations in each, students draw a conclusion about what order the panels correctly go in: first, second, third. If correct, students must answer three questions about that comic strip that rely heavily on inferring using the strip’s dialogue and illustrations. For a challenge, students can create their own comic strip using “Garfield’s Comic Creator” at www.garfield.com/fungames/comiccreator.html and write their own original questions with multiple choice answers that make the reader infer. Having the students provide an answer key lets the teacher know if the student can actually draw conclusions. (Alison Munson)

CyberChase
Web Site Address: http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/games/percent
Discipline: mathematics (fractions and percents)
Grade Level: 4-6
Description: This game is based on the popular PBS series CyberChase, an animated show that integrates adventure, action, and math. This particular web game centers around building the skill of finding relationships between fractions and percents. Students are presented with several squares, each containing either a fraction, a percent, or a visual picture of parts of a whole. The objective is to create sets of three (one from each category) that represent the same value. For instance, the fraction 2/5, the percent 40%, and the picture of 4 boxes out of 10 colored in. This game helps students visualize fraction-percent relationships. (Alison Munson)

Kids' Place: Houghton Mifflin Reading
Web Site Address: http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr
Discipline: language arts (vocabulary)
Grade Level: 1-6
Description: Kids’ Place: Houghton Mifflin Reading is a website that accompanies the Houghton Mifflin Reading anthology for elementary grades one through six. It includes the “eWord Game” in which students match definitions with vocabulary words from the current story the class is reading. It is presented as an exciting skateboarding game to motivate students. When used with headphones or speakers, English Learners greatly benefit from hearing the correct pronunciation of words before selecting their choice. Secondly, it features the “eGlossary” containing all key vocabulary words from each story in the reading anthology. By selecting a word, it presents a visual picture and reads aloud the pronunciation, part of speech, definition, use in a sentence, and word history. Lastly, there is a section called “Focus On Activities” that correlate with each of the major themes of the anthology. These are activities that challenge students to relate the text to their own life. (Alison Munson)

Illuminations
Web Site Address: http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=70
Discipline: mathematics (geometry)
Grade Level: 3-6
Description: The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics has a resourceful website called Illuminations. The specific link that I found is “Geometric Solids.” For those who are teaching anything involving three-dimensional solid figures, this resource would be highly useful for reteaching, challenging, or as a math station during rotations. If your school lacks solid figure manipulatives, then students can use this website to select their virtual shape; highlight faces, edges, and/or vertices using different colors; and rotate the figure to view various angles. It can be a tool to assess students on their ability to identify solid figures based on the number of edges, vertices, and faces and analyze the relationship between F, E, and V. (Alison Munson)

BBC Schools
Web Site Address: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/english/spelling_grammar.shtml
Discipline: language arts (punctuation)
Grade Level: 2-5
Description: The BBC Schools website has an activity, mini-lesson, and quiz on punctuation for students to guide themselves through. The activity portion provides ten sentences for students to correctly place punctuation marks into. Each sentence has at least one punctuation mark left out, the student must select the punctuation mark from the splat gun, and send the punctuation mark flying to splat in the correct spot. If correct, they move on to the next sentence; if incorrect, the computer explains the correct usage of the punctuation mark. Next, the “Revision Bite” is a section that provides a mini-lesson about the various punctuation marks. Students may choose to read this before, during, or after the activity game depending on their prior knowledge. Finally, clicking on “Quiz” will ask the student ten questions and provide multiple choice answers. By clicking on an answer, the computer responds why the answer is correct or not. At the end, you can write down the students’ scores as a form of assessment. (Alison Munson)

EdHeads Weather Activities
Web Site Address: http://www.edheads.org/activities/weather/index.htm
Discipline: earth science (forecasting weather)
Grade Level: 5
Description: The EdHeads Weather Activities website provides students with specific and strategic practice in reporting the weather and forecasting future weather. First, select “Click Here to Start” and choose a type of forecasting. In “Report the Weather” students can receive differentiated practice by selecting the appropriate level (1-3) based on their prior knowledge. This section helps students practice identifying weather symbols and the weather associated with each. The second section, “Predict the Weather,” students apply their knowledge of weather symbols and cause-effect relationships to forecast three days of weather based on the direction of fronts and wind speed. Students receive immediate feedback and explanations about the forecasts. At the end, they can print out their score and view specific areas to focus on for improvement. This website provides a very visual and age-appropriate way for fifth grade students to achieve mastery in this specific earth science standard. (Alison Munson)

Pumps Your Blood
Web Site Address: http://www.dgs.k12.il.us/heart.htm
Discipline: life science and music (circulatory system)
Grade Level: 5
Description: This website contains the printed lyrics, actual music, and visual diagrams of the heart for the song “Pumps Your Blood” sung by Anson Williams. This song is associated with the show “Happy Days” in which one of the characters had his friends help him create a song to remember important information about the heart and circulatory system for a high school test. The CA standard for fifth graders states that students must learn “how blood circulates through the heart chambers, lungs, and body, and how carbon dioxide (CO2) and oxygen (O2) are exchanged in the lungs and tissues.” By singing along to the song over repeated sessions and tracing the flow of blood on the diagram, students are utilizing multiple learning modalities to better remember this important sequence. (Alison Munson)

Enchanted Learning
Disciplines: Reading, Writing, Science, Geography/History, Art, and Math
Grade Levels: PreK-3
Web Site Address: http://www.enchantedlearning.com
Description: This website is a great resource for teachers and students alike. Teachers can print out educational worksheets and craft ideas from all the core subject areas, while students can have fun learning about science, history, math, and reading through the interactive games. The website is organized in a multitude of ways. You can search through the worksheets and games by theme, grade, subject, or alphabetically and it is easy to navigate for students and teachers. The best part about this website is the colorfully animated pictures that go with craft instructions and that are in the games. (Lauren Smith)

Discovery Education
Disciplines: In-depth History and Science subjects and some Math
Grade Levels: K-12
Web Site Address: http://school.discoveryeducation.com
Description: This is a great website for teachers who want to incorporate engaging curriculum and provide their students with meaningful learning. Through this website, teachers can find thorough lesson plans, create puzzles, and print free clip art and worksheets. The website provides an organized library of lesson plans for all grades in history and science subjects. There is also a quick and easy to use puzzle maker on this website where teachers can create original puzzles (i.e. word searches, mazes, cryptograms, and hidden messages). This website also provides an organized list of reliable links that help enhance curriculum in multiple subject areas. In addition, printing from the clip art gallery and the worksheet library is free! One of the coolest things about this website is the section dedicated to first-year teachers because it provides a myriad of resources and survival tips. (Lauren Smith)

Crayola
Disciplines: Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, Visual Arts
Grade Levels: PreK-12
Web Site Address: http://www.crayola.com/educators
Description: The educator section of the Crayola website is a great resource for teachers. This website has really neat lesson plans for all the core subjects and has great craft ideas to incorporate in lessons for the core areas. Teachers can search the plethora of lessons by grade, subject, theme, and/or Crayola product. Using the website will help teachers make their lessons come alive with meaningful art projects that are fun and promote original art. (Lauren Smith)

KidsClick
Disciplines: Reading, Writing, Science, Math, History, Humanities, Arts, Technology, and much more
Grade Levels: K-12
Web Site Address: http://www.kidsclick.org
Description: KidsClick is specifically designed for children to use and learn from. This website offers children an organized way of searching through trusted links on an array of information. The information ranges from starting your own babysitting business to research about the loch ness monster to math games. The website was developed my librarians and is organized by theme and alphabetically. Students will love getting caught up in the thousands of links that lead to interesting and educational information. (Lauren Smith)

KIDiddles
Discipline: Music
Grade Levels: K-8
Web Site Address: http://www.kididdles.com
Description: This website has hundreds of songs geared towards children. Many of the songs have audio samples and printable songsheets to use in the classrooms. In today’s schools, it is difficult to incorporate music lessons and using the songs form this website could help teachers stop for 5 minutes a day to get their class singing songs. The best part about this website is all of the different songs that could be used to teach or reinforce lessons that are being taught. (Lauren Smith)

Time for Kids
Disciplines: Social Studies, Science, and Current Events
Grade Levels: K-6
Web Site Address: http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/
Description: This website is a teaching resource that contains printable worksheets, quizzes, and graphic organizers for current issues that teachers can bring up in class. This website can be used as a supplement to the Time for Kids magazine or can be used on its own. There are a couple of games for children to play, but mostly this website if for teachers use. The nicest thing about the website is the organization of the resources because it is easy to navigate and find what you need. (Lauren Smith)

Kids Know It
Disciplines: Language Arts, Science, Math, History
Grade Levels: K-12
Web Site Address: http://www.kidsknowit.com
Description: This website is strictly for students to use and it is an excellent resource for any student because the site uses many types of techniques to relay concepts. The website is organized my subject and then within each subject there are subcategories that can be researched. There are games, mini-lessons, songs, and video clips to go with each subject. In addition, this website offers a link to free tutoring in any subject. My favorite part of the website is the educational songs because they are original and are helpful for students who want to remember those difficult facts. (Lauren Smith)

I Love That Teaching Idea
Address: http://www.ilovethatteachingidea.com
Discipline: Resources for Elementary Education - Math, Spelling, Reading, & More
Grade Levels: K-6 Teachers
Description: This website has ideas for activities and games, submitted by teachers. It has the games categorized by subject. Within each subject, the game or activity has a description and the grade level that it is intended for. There are games and activities for many subjects, including math, spelling, reading, and science. There are also categories with tips and advice for teachers, such as classroom management, field trips, and even how to deal with noisy chairs. There is also advice and tips for substitute teachers. Free. (Joseph Grillette)

The Lesson Plans Page
Address: http://www.lessonplanspage.com
Discipline: Resources for Elementary Education - Math, Language Arts, Science, & More
Grade Levels: K-12 Teachers
Description: This website claims to have over 3,500 lesson plans, covering math, language arts, science, social studies, art, computers, music, physical education, and health. In addition to the lesson plans listed under each subject, the website also includes related activities. For example, in the science section, there are suggestions for science projects, and in the math section, there are worksheets and flashcards. There is also a message board for teachers to discuss lesson plans. Free. (Joseph Grillette)

Free Math Worksheets
Address: http://www.math-drills.com
Discipline: Resources for Elementary Education - Math
Grade Levels: K-5 Teachers
Description: This website advertises that it has 6,000 math worksheets and answer keys. The worksheets cover everything from addition and subtraction to algebra and geometry. There are also "holiday worksheets," which are the standard worksheets, but with decorative boarders or graphics related to a holiday, such as Thanksgiving or St. Patrick's Day. Free. (Joseph Grillette)

Busy Teacher's Cafe
Address: http://www.busyteacherscafe.com
Discipline: Resources for Elementary Education - Reading, Language Arts, Writing, Math
Grade Levels: K-6 Teachers
Description: This website features free "printables," which are worksheets that cover various subjects, such as reading, language arts, writing, and math. There are also lesson plans and activities categorized by subject, and also by themes, such as holidays. There is also a calendar that has the themes categorized by the month that they are in, such as Thanksgiving in November, for easy reference and planning. Free. (Joseph Grillette)

Open Court Resources
Address: http://www.opencourtresources.com
Discipline: Resources for Elementary Education - Reading
Grade Levels: K-6 Teachers
Description: This website advertises to be the largest collection of free Open Court resources on the internet, and that it was started in 2003. Open Court is a program used to teach students how to read, in grades K through 6. The website is categorized by grade level, and features power-points, lesson plans, writing templates, and more. There is also a blog, pod cast, discussion board, and newsletter. Free. (Joseph Grillette)

Renzulli

http://www.renzullilearning.com

Discipline: All Grade Level: All Description: We tried using this program at our school last year. It allows students to create their own learning environment, in which the teacher can moderate and adjust based on a learning profile that the student can set for themselves. (Jason)

Book Database

http://www.dawcl.com/
Grades: K-12
Discipline: Reading
Description: This compilation of 3,686 award-winning books has an extensive search function that makes finding a good read easy. The students enter their age, gender preference, favorite genre, desired historical period, preferred setting, and even a keyword or phrase, and then they press "Search." Results include winners from more than thirty distinct literary awards. (Melissa Smith)

Education World

http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/worksheets/Highlights/#PictureStory
Grades: preK-1, or Beginning ELL students
Discipline: Reading
This site features rebus stories for emergent readers (pictures are either substituted for or added alongside words). The twelve printable rebus stories at Education World are taken directly from Highlights for Children. The illustrations and the story lines capture young readers interests and gives them the success of reading! Other printables from the magazine include Hidden Pictures Puzzles and Crafts. (Melissa Smith)

Website address: http://www.k12academicsBold text.com/ A complete resource center for Parents, Teachers and Education Officials to locate After School Programs, Camps, Colleges and Universities and much, much more anywhere in the United States.

Website address: http://abcteach.com/ This site has 5000+ free printable pages ranging in subjects, holidays and theme units.

Website address: http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/ The Sparkle Box Foundation and KSI This site has worksheets for math and language arts along with flash cards and number lines with different figures on them.

Website address: http://www.sitesforteachers.com/ This lists 1140 websites that are accessible and useful for teachers and they are ranked in order of the most popular.

Website address: http://www.123certificates.com/ This site is comprised of awards for all categories and all grade levels. There are bookmarkers to recognize a reader who read 10 books and recognition certificate for achievement and excellence in a particular subject.

Website address: http://www.toolsforeducators.com/ A great tool indeed, with links to other websites for free downloadable worksheets and templates for award certificate makers, vocabulary handout, listening tests, reading and writing reproducibles.

Website address: http://free.ed.gov/ Federal Resources for Educational Excellence. This site contains pictures and documents relevant with all subject matters English, Math, History, Science along with news articles past and present related to education. (Carina Diaz)

http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/ Field Trips (Resources for elementary education) K-12

The Smithsonian website is a great way to encourage educators to take their students on field trips. It has a special link for teachers to help plan and guide a trip to any of the museums. It gives you an outline as to how you go about planning the entire day. From scheduling the school bus to worksheets pertaining to the material presented, this website helps the teacher. There are downloadable worksheets, tips on conducting a smooth, organized trip, discussion questions for after the trip, and a standards chart to connect the exhibitions with national education standards. This link also enables the teacher to specify whether they would like a tour guide or if it would like to be conducted personally. (Sondra Dingcong)

Website address- www.abcteach.com (Francesca Verano)

Discipline – language arts, math, science, social studies

Grade level- preschool through Eighth grade

Description- anyone can access this site but members have wider range resources. This websites can be used to download worksheets, clip art, flashcards, and can be used to make your own documents for your classroom.

Website address- www.encahntedlearning.com (Francesca Verano)

Discipline – Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, Science, and Languages Crafts

Grade level- Preschool through Twelfth grade

Description- You are able to view all worksheets, crafts, and books, but it will not allow you to print them without a membership. This can be a great resource for teachers that need to create easy projects.

Website address- www.atozteacherstuff.com  (Francesca Verano)

Discipline – Math, Language Arts, Health, Science, Social Studies, Physical Education, Special Education, Cooperative Learning, Computers.

Grade level- Preschool through twelfth grade

Description- This website is useful for teachers to use in their classrooms. The website has structured lesson plans, thematic units, worksheets, discussion forums, and many more.

Website address- www.edhelper.com (Francesca Verano)

Discipline – Reading and Writing, Math, Social Studies, Language, Science, Foreign Languages, Special education, Theme Units

Grade level- Kindergarten through Twelfth grade

Description -This site helps creates many different types of worksheets, puzzles, color books etc. If you are member of the website it allows you use the entire website

Website address- www.carlscorner.us.com/ (Francesca Verano)

Discipline- Language Arts

Grade Level- Kindergarten through Third grade

Description- This website was designed for teachers, specialist, parents, and students. It offers phonics worksheets, little books, books on specific sounds, cut and paste worksheets, and your subjects are compound words, vowels, contractions, synonyms antonyms, etc. This website is great because it is free. ) Website address- www.opencourtresources.com (Francesca Verano)

Discipline- Language Arts

Grade Level- Pre-k through Sixth Grade

Description- This website is useful for teachers teaching open court. It offers ideas for unit openers and IWT activities. It gives clip art for vocabulary words, high frequency worksheets, and power point lesson.

Website address- www.songsforteaching.com (Francesca Verano)

Discipline- Math, Social Studies, Language Arts, Science, Languages

Grade Level- Prekindergarten- Twelfth Grade

Description- This website is great for teaching through music. It is fun a new ways for kids to learn about all different subjects. This will also help children who have different types of learning styles.

Website address- www.mes-english.com/ ( Francesca Verano)

Discipline- Language Arts

Grade Level- Kindergarten through Six Grade

Description- This site offers free flash cards, worksheets, games especially designed for esl learners, and also has projects that help with writing skills. This would be a great resource flash cards they have over 1800 flashcards. This website is very easy to navigate.

Website address- www.teacherplanet.com (Francesca Verano)

Discipline- Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, Math, Art, Computers

Grade Level- Kindergarten through Twelfth Grade

Description- The website has lesson plans for all subjects, worksheets that can be searched by subjects or months, and also offers theme units to go along with the curriculum. They also have gradebooks, job posting, and forums for teachers.

Website address- www.freemathworksheets.org (Francesca Verano)

Grade Level- Sixth through twelfth grade

Description- The site offers free worksheets for math. They are for older children it starts at pre- algebra. Easy to download worksheets come in two sets with and without answers. This website is good for both teachers and parents.

http://abcteach.com/ All subjects Teachers

This is a wonderful site for teachers. It provides a ton of lessons and actual handouts that can be downloaded and printed out for free for every subject matter and topic available. It has ideas for holidays, seasons, lessons, activities, decorating the classroom, everything imaginable. If you become a member you get access to even more of this same information but without even being a member there is more than you can think of. . (Jenna Fodor)

GoKidding

Site- http://www.gokidding.com/

Grade Level- Kindergarten

Diciplines- Logical, Rhymes

Description- Learn about telling time, continents, world flags, math, cursive writing, and lots more. Also includes games, worksheets, quizzes, rhymes, and greeting cards to print out. (Brenda)

CBC 4 Kids

Site- http://www.cbc.ca/kids/

Grade level- Elementary

Diciplines- Language arts, science

Description- Get kids' news, sports, science activities, and homework help. You can also play musical games, send in stories and poems. (Brenda)

Professor Garfield

Stie- http://www.professorgarfield.org/

Grade Level- Kinder- 8th

Dicipline-Vocabulary, writing, phonics, fluency

Description- Garfield and friends will crack you up as they teach you about math, science, reading, art, and more through tons of cool games and activities!(Brenda)

FE Kids

Site- http://www.fekids.com

Grade Level- 1-3rd

Dicipline word recognition, language art, science, reading, math

Description- Includes a boy's and a girl's guide to life, homework help, and some cool games. By going to the parent guide the site will offer many activities and worksheet for children (Brenda)

ALA

Site- http://www.ala.org/greatsites

Grade Level- Preschool- middle school

Diciplines- Art, Social Science, Science, mathematics, History,

Description- Not only does ALA offer great resources for children from preschool to middle school, but it also offers it to caregivers and teachers. The website offers geography and maps, cultures of the world, astronomy and space, biology, booklists etc.. (Brenda C.)

Crayola for educators

Site- http://www.crayola.com/educators

Grade Level-K-5

Diciplines- lesson plans, color science, math, language arts, social science,

Descpription- This website is intentended to Provide links to other web sites offering free resources, information and supplemental material. (Brenda C.)

The Magic School Bus

Site- http://www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/parentteacher/index.htm

Grades- K-5th

Dicipline- Science

Description- This website offers tour guides, games, pop quizes, books, and videos that children can use aswell as teachers and parents.(Brenda C.)

PBSKids

Site http://pbskids.org/curiousgeorge/parentsteachers/activities/resources.html#curiosity_center

Dicipline- Teacher and parent resources (Science Concepts)

Grade Level- K- 12

Description- PBSkids website offers tools that can be used both for teachers and parents that will educate children. Not only do they offer hand on activities like the Science concept which demonstrates the different type of dirt and how they look and feel and how they behave when mixed with water. The website also includes fun videos, games and coloring books. (Brenda C.)

LESSON PLANET

Discipline: Science, Math, Music, Health & Nutrition, Arts & Crafts, Physical Education, Reading, Science, Social Studies, and Writing.

Grade Levels: all grades

Website Address: http://www.lessonplanet.com

Description: a site for teachers and even college students, to get lesson plans for all subjects that are fun and academically challenging. It’s mot free, but there is a 10 day free trial available. It’s worth it to subscribe.(Elizabeth)

BRAIN POP

Discipline : Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Arts &Music, Technology, and Health.

Grade Levels: All grades, but especially for Middle school and High school

Website Address: http://www.brainpop.com/

Description: this site is a free and extremely informative site for students to view movies about subjects that they might be having difficulty with. There is also information available about sub-subjects like doing research for English or note taking, etc… (Elizabeth)

TIME FOR KIDS

Discipline: Current Events, Social Studies, and History.

Grade Levels: Kindergarten thru 6th grade

Website Address: http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK

Description: this website offers excellent worksheets for teachers to use in their classroom for homework or class work based on specific lessons (i.e.: Martin Luther King). These work sheets are in form of a magazine that they can read and answer the questions at the bottom. The articles and the worksheets are both fun and interesting.(Elizabeth)

KIDS NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

Discipline : Animals and geography

Grade Levels: Elementary (K-6)

Website Address: http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/

Description: this site has many different activities for children to do so that they can learn about various countries and their animals. There are videos to watch, games to play, activities, stories, pictures, and many interesting animals to learn about.(Elizabeth)

KID SITES

Discipline : Math, History, Art, Astronomy, Science, Music and Animals.

Grade Levels: School age children (K-6)

Website Address: http://kidsites.com/

Description: this site consists of fun activities, as well as, educational links. There are also links for parents and educators to have access to other useful links for children.(Elizabeth)

Web Site Address http://www.free.ed.gov

Grade Level Pre Kindergarten to Grade Twelve

Discipline Arts and Music, Health and Phys Ed, Language Arts, Math, Science. World Studies, U.S. History,

Description Federal Resources for Educational Excellence. Offers teaching and learning resources from Federal Agencies. Provides links to other web sites offering free resources, information and supplemental material. (A. Latrovalis)

AAA Math

http://www.aaaknow.com/grade2.htm

Dicipline- Teacher Resources (MATH)

Grade Level- k-8

Description: aaaknow.com offers math worksheets that can help second and other grade students on topics starting from adding comparing, counting, place values, substraction all the way to algebra and statistics. This website also provides with online activities and tools. There are games where second grade students can use their math knowledge and apply it. There is also feedback on how to get additional help on homework problems. (Brenda C)

KIDS KNOW IT

Discipline(s): History, Geology, Spelling, Geography, Music, Biology, Math, Memory, Astronomy, Life Science, and Earth Science.

Grade Level(s): This website can be used for students from 3th grade to middle school.

Web Site Address: http://www.kidsknowit.com/

Description: This is a free and fun website for young students. It encourages them to want to learn. It talks about interesting things that our kids should know about like outer space, dinosaurs, animals, and many fun games and music to get them engaged.(Elizabeth)

PBS KIDS

Discipline(s): Math, reading, writing, spelling, listening, speaking, etc…

Grade Levels: This site can be used for children from Pre-k to 12th grade.

Web Site Address: http://pbskids.org/

Description: This is a free educational website that supports learning at home and at school. It has educational games, music, and fun activities that deal with math, reading, spelling, and writing amongst many others.(Elizabeth)

Brain Pop

Science, Social Studies, English, Mathematics, Art, Music, Health

http://www.brainpop.com/

3-6

BrainPop is a fun, educational website with hundreds of short, informative animated cartoons, “movies,” that teach students about all subjects across a variety of curriculums. After viewing the tutorial on a specific concept, students can then take the pop-quiz to evaluate their own learning. With kid-friendly layout and visually appealing pages, this website is a great way to encourage independent learners. (Christina C.)

Edupics
Site - http://www.edupics.com/
Discipline – Teacher Resource (All Subjects)
Grade Level - K-6
Description: Edupics.com offers prescreened education pictures, coloring pages and photos. The images are broken up into various categories frequently used in the primary grade. There are 235 topics including geography, history, health, environment and many more. Images can be found in both grayscale and color and can be printed directly from the site for coloring pages or downloaded to be added to other piece of work. (Elizabeth Martinez)

Kids Know It

Language Arts, Science, Mathematics, History, Music

http://kidsknowit.com/

3-8

An excellent resource because it links to a number of other extensive sites, this website offers games, movies, activities, comics, worksheets, music, and exercises. Featured animals, and historical facts or quotes, are also sure to peak students’ interests and draw them into discovering a number of different topics. The site is devoted to making learning fun. (Christina C.)

Art

Grade 1-6 http://www.howtodrawit.com (Leslie)

This site gives step by step instructions on how to draw different animals. It shows the steps in picture form without written instructions which makes them easy to understand and follow.

Grade 1-6 http://www.drawingnow.com/how-to-draw-cartoons.html (Leslie)

This site shows students how to draw popular cartoon characters. Students can work at their own pace since the students can decide when they would like to be shown the next part of the drawing by click on a “forward” button.

TEACHkind
http://www.teachkind.org/
Grades: K-12
Disciplines: Biology, Creative Arts, Current Events, English, Environmental Education, Ethics, Health, History, Language Arts, Life Skills, Math, Nutrition, Philosophy, Reading, Science, and Social Studies.
Description: This website is a valuable resource to those who want to teach compassion to their students. There are activities for children of all ages in the subjects listed above.

(Edgar Gomez)

Crayola

Discipline: Math, History, Art, Science

Grade Level: k-5

Website: http://www.crayola.com

Description: A colorful website for educators, students, and parents. This site has lesson plans for educators with craft ideas, games, products to buy and coloring pages.

(Edgar Gomez)

Smithsonian Education

Discipline: Language Arts, Science, History, Arts

Grade Level: k-12

Website: http://www.smithsonianeducation.org

Description: A website for educators, families, and students. A site where educators can find materials and links to online resources. Students can find online information through interactive games via the website. A lot of links can be found to various subjects that go indept with information.

(Edgar Gomez)

Kids Zone

Discipline: Geography, Language Arts, Math, Science

Grade level: k-5

Website: http://www.kidszone.ws

Description: This site focuses in grades k-5. Each grade has worksheets for various subjects to use. It helps to know narrow down what is available for each grade level. It is free to sign up for this website which is a great advantage.

(Edgar Gomez)

Awesome Library

Discipline: English, Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, P.E., Technology

Grade Level: k-12

Website: http://www.awesomelibrary.org

Description: Awesomelibrary is a resource that links to other webpages according to there subject. It is both teacher and student friendly. You can find lesson plans with standard-based emphasis and links for students to search for resources for specific topics.

(Edgar Gomez)

ABCTeach

Discipline: Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies

Grade Level: k-8

Website: http://www.abcteach.com

Description: Special access for members allow them to search various links. Within this site you can find a variety of printable worksheets and activities an educator can use. members can create new documents for others to use and therefore have a vast resource in worksheets and documents.

(Edgar Gomez)

Teacher Planet

Discipline: Math, Science, Language Arts

Grade Level: k-8

Website: http://www.teacherplanet.com

Description: An abundent source for lesson plans for a selected number of subjects. This site has links to theme units that may be the focus during the present month. So for example in November, the focus could be Thanksgiving or the season pertaining to Fall. The site is a great source to rely on to a months worth of planning because it is specific to a month.

(Edgar Gomez)

PBS

Discipline: Health and Fitness, Math, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies

Grade Level: k-12

Website: http://www.pbs.org/teachers

Description: A useful source to find lesson plans on a variety of subjects. The resources found are standard-based and teachers can join to have full access to the links the website offers.

Web Site Address: http://www.funbrain.com

Grade Level: Kindergarten to Grade Eight

Discipline: Primarily math and reading and a few games related to science, spelling, and history.

Description: “Funbrain” features online educational games for students K to 8 in various subject matters. There are links to Flash arcade in areas of Math, Reading, Arcade, Playground; Classic Funbrain, which includes, Math Baseball, The Plural Girls, Proton Don, Grammar Gorillas, etc, Comics, Brain Teasers. There are also links for teachers to resources such as, MyGradebook.com, Quizlab.com, Standards etc. (Adriana Latrovalis)

Web Site Address: http://www.awesomelibrary.org

Grade Level: Kindergarten to College Students

Discipline: English, Mathematics, The Arts, Science, Social Studies, Health and P.E., Technology, Languages, Geography etc

Description: “Awesome Library organizes the Web with 35,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education.” The website is for teachers, kids, teens, college students, parents, librarians. It provides links to topics from Language Arts to Special Education. A student will be able to find help with a specific subject matter and a teacher will be able to find help in completing an IEP form. (Adriana Latrovalis)

Web Site Address: http://edhelper.com

Grade Level: Kindergarten to Grade Twelve

Discipline: Reading and Writing, Math, Pre K-3, Language, Critical Thinking, Social Studies, Science, Special Education, Foreign Languages, Theme Units

Description: Edhelper.com is a great website for teachers. Teachers can create worksheets and puzzles, word searches, etc. However, you must be a member to access the entire web site. Once you are a member it can be used to create worksheets in basically any subject area from preschool to grade 12. Membership is $19.99 per year for basic subscription or $39.98 for everything subscription. School licenses are also available. (Adriana Latrovalis)

Web Site Address http://www.dositey.com

Grade Level Kindergarten to Grade Eight including resources for Teachers and Parents.

Discipline Math and Language Arts

Description The website features interactive online games, exercises, worksheets, for students to use. The website provides fun activities in the areas of math and language arts. Resources for parents and teachers are also available. (Adriana Latrovalis)

Web Site Address http://www.kidzone.ws

Grade Level Preschool to Grade Five

Discipline Geography, Language Arts, Math, Science

Description Free printable worksheets, activities by topic or by grade level. Includes Thematic Units. (Adriana Latrovalis)

International Games

Disciplines: Social Studies, P.E.

Grades: 1-6

http://www.gameskidsplay.net/games/foreign_indexes/index.htm

Description: This website lists many games that kids play in other countries. This would be a good website to go to to find a P.E. activity that would tie in with a lesson about other countries or cultures.

http://www.kinderart.com/

Teachers and parents can use this website to find fun art activities for kindergarten and elementary students. There are many different ideas to choose from. For example: Architecture, bulletin board ideas, seasonal crafts, art ideas that can be integrated into the curriculum, sculpture, recycling projects, art history ideas, arts and even crafts for students with special needs. Here is where teachers can find many resources for integrating art into the classroom or creating art centers. (Sam Z)

Time4Learning

http://www.time4learning.com/index.htm

Discipline: Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies

Grades: Preschool, Elementary, and Middle School.

Description: This website was founded by parents to focus on using online resources to improve education. There is a “Comprehensive Education Program” which includes thousands of learning activities, lessons, and assessments which provide a comprehensive enrichment program for preschool, elementary, and middle school. Teachers are able to use this site for lessons plan and game ideas. Lessons are provided for students online to go at their own pace and be able to repeat any lessons; this is also good for homeschooling and afterschool programs. There is customer support provided via email or phone. Special needs children who love the computer can really take advantage of this program. Time4Learning supports a variety of instructional strategies, learning styles and integrates ongoing assessment to make sure that your child is on the right learning pathway. As your child improves his/her school performance, the elementary teaching tools will continue to support and challenge your child to succeed. (Natalie Guerboian)

Clip-art.com—free simple clip art
Site: http://www.free-clipart-pictures.net/
All grades
For teachers, parents and students--free
Add pictures to anything. Free and simple to use. The clip art is listed by category, and is very clear without the backgrounds that can cause art to look cluttered. Categories range from school to butterflies to people. Also has links to other clip-art sites. (Janeth Benjamin)

Apples 4 The Teacher

Site: http://www.apples4theteacher.com

Grade Levels: Pre-K thru 6th

Discipline: Multiple Subject Resources

Description: This website provides a “one stop shop” for educational resources for elementary teachers. It includes activities and lesson ideas for the Arts, Languages, Literacy, Social Studies, Math, and Science. For example, the math page includes links to online math games helpful in developing students understanding of basic geometry, measurement, counting, and number sense. I recommend this website because it appears to be an excellent collection of resources compiled to provide the best of the best of online educational tools. (Morgan Irving)'Raz-kids.com Web Site: http;//www.raz-kids.com (Dora Alvarado)

Raz-kids.com

web site: http://www.raz-kids.com

Grade Levels: K-6

Discipline: Language Arts and science

Description: Raz-Kids provides multiple resources in Language arts and science to help students improve their academic skills in these two areas.The following are just some of those means raz-kids offers to help students do better at school: It provides an online Reading library to improve reading skills by using a variety of resourcessuch as the following:a) They can choose books in the bookroom or log in to find books and quizzes assigned by their teachers. b) They can check their reading comprehension with quizzes. c) they can read for practice or record their reading and find out where their weaknesses and strenghts are. Raz-kids also provides writing lessons and materials in several writing genres such as expository writing,narrative and persuasive writing. It also offers Science A-Z, a collection of lessons and materials in the following four scientific areas: life,earth, phisical and process science.These are put into units and individual material to help with current curriculum. "It provides hundreds of thousands of teaching and learning resources for K-6 educators and students. (Dora,Alvarado)

Discipline: All grade levels Grade: K-12 http://www.education.com/activity/all-grades/

This website includes various lesson plans for teachers to use when they teach reading, writing, math, science. For example for second grade, there are samples lesson plans called 'Punctuate with Pasta,' 'Make an Abbreviation Book,' etc. The lesson plans gives helpful steps on what you need and what to do to make the activity worthwhile. The website's home address has other features, such as forums, book clubs, and options to sign in as a member. (Therese Zeyadeh)

Site: http://www.cde.ca.gov/

Grade Level : Teaching Credential

Discipline : Teacher preparation The website lists all of the teaching standards for all subjects. It is an interactive site showing all the standards and requirements for teaching. It can connect the web surfer to linked websites that help them research the board of learning and their mission. They have an organized section that allows the viewer to see the members and staff of the department. It provides links to see how testing works whether it is for development, high school, English language testing the list goes on. It provides curriculum and instructional information. A necessary site for a teacher to visit to learn the standards. (Shannon Carney)

Site: http://www.childcareexchange.com/

Teacher preparation and information about young children

Discipline: Teaching Young Children

The website keeps one abreast of what is going on in the field of early childhood 0-8 years. Articles about teaching and lessons plans. It is an international organization. It recommends books for teaching. It is a great source of information for teachers, parents, and child advocates.(Shannon Carney)

Teacher Stuff

http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/

Grade level: K-5 Description: This is a really good resource page for teachers. This site has tools like making a really nice word search which turns the search in shapes like a happy face, car, diamond, star, spirals that students might enjoy. You just play around with the generator settings to create your own puzzles. There are also worksheets you can print out to practice their handwriting and math. You can also browse lessons and crafts under the various themes. For example under the theme Halloween you get a list of activity titles and next to it in green letters it tells you if it’s a lesson plan, a printable or an art project. (Candy Castro)

Lesson Plans

http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/plans.html

Discipline: Multi Subjects

Grade level: 1-12

Description: There is a collection of lesson plans in almost all the subject matters. Besides lesson plans you can also find curriculums and background information in many of the subject matter your looking for. (Candy Castro)

Education Place

Address: http://www.eduplace.com/

Discipline: Resources for Elementary Education

Grade Levels: K-6

Description: This website allows teacher’s to look for textbook support materials in your state and in other states across the country. (Rene Ramirez)

Teaching pre-K to 8

Address: http://www.teachingk-8.com

Discipline: Resources for Elementary Education

Grade Levels: K-8

Description: The website has professional development activities for teacher’s. Some topics that are found on the site include creating an art curriculum and how to implement children’s books into literacy lessons. (Rene Ramirez)

Kids Know It

Address: http://www.kidsknowit.com/interactive-educational-movies/index.php

Discipline: Resources for Elementary Education

Grade Levels: K-6

Description: This website has different educational movies that deal with many topics such as astronomy, adverbs and biology. (Rene Ramirez)

Learn 4 Good

Address: http://www.learn4good.com/kids/index.htm

Discipline: Resources for Elementary Education

Grade Levels: K-6

Description: This website has various resources that include lesson plans, math puzzle games and alphabet learning color worksheets. (Rene Ramirez)

Discipline: Language Arts, " WORD CENTRAL"

Grade Level: 4th

Web: http://www.wordcentral.com/buzzword

Description: This site is for students to study rich vocabulary words learning to pronounce the word, understand the meaning and create a sentence using the word. It's a great way for students to grow in their vocabulary skills and comprehension skills. The more they practice the better they will perform on tests and activities. (Christine)

Discipline: Language Arts, " Giggle Poetry"

Grade Level: 5th

Web: http: //www.gigglepoetry.com/poetryfun

Description: This site is great for kids to learn how to write creative poetry by filling in the blank on a given sample poem. It gives students clues such as rhymes, nursery rhymes, alliteration, repetition, etc to fill in the blank. This is a great way for students to develop thinking skills and be creative. (Christine)

Language Arts, " Learning Alphabet"

Grade Level: K-1st

Web: http://www.learningplanet.com/parents/alphabet/

Description: This site is perfect for kindergardeners to practice their alphabet skills by coloring the letters, sounding out the letters and learning to write in certain order. (Christine)

Language Arts, " ABCs of the WRITING PROCESS"

Grade Level: 2-5th

Web: http://www.angelfire.com/wi/writingprocess/

Description: This site is for students to review how the writing process is done when they are assigned with their writing assignments. It reviews important terms like prewriting, writing, revising, editing, publishing. It shows examples of each so students can visually see and learn. (Christine)

Language Arts, " Whootie Owl Stories"

Grade Level: K-3rd

Web: http://www.storiestogrowby.com/

Description: This site is great for parents, teachers and children to learn stories that are full with folk tales, children's plays and fairy tales. This site is interesting to check out and browse because it engages students to learn specific positive themes from the story. It's a great way for students to engage themselves in reading and learn to love reading. (Christine)

Math, "Cool math for kids "

Grade Level: K-4th

Web: http://www.coolmath4kids.com/

Description: This site is great for elementary kids to practice and engage themselves in practicing all kinds of math skills. It has variety sections to choose from and they can play games to learn, practice and quiz themselves. (Christine)

Math, " AAA math"

Grade Level: K-6th

Web: http://aaamath.com/index.html

Description: This site has variety of concepts review such as addition, subtraction, counting, comparing, fractions, graphs, measurement, mental math, money, multiplication, division. It's a great way for students to practice and learn math skills. It's also a great way for teachers to derive ideas from this page and give extra problems set as class activities. (Christine)

Science, " Science News for kids"

Grade Level: 4-6th

Web: http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/pages/search.asp?catid=6

Description: This site contains newsletters about specific topic and for students to play a game that involves key terms learned from the article. It's a great way for students to browse and visually look at the pictures and study terms and such. (Christine)

Science, " Colors matter"

Grade Level: 3-5th

Web: http://www.colormatters.com/kids/animals.html

Description: This site contains information about how color matters in our everyday life and how it affects our daily life. It has examples of how animals and human beings see the world as to how they see colors. It has visual pictures with examples to better understand the concepts. It's a very condensed format and it's more interesting to learn for kids. (Christine)

Science, " ZoomSci"

Grade Level: 4-6th

Web: http://pbskids.org/zoom/activities/sci/

Description: This site is great for kids to learn and watch couple of the educational slides or mini clips to see examples of experiments with science. It has games, activities for kids and newsletter for parents and teachers. (Christine)

Website: Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators

Discipline: Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies, Science, Art, Physical Education, Health, Technology, Career and Consumer Education, Evaluation tools for educators, Assessments and Rubrics, Bulletin board ideas

Grade level: K-12

Website address: http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/

Description: This website is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing all areas of K-12 curriculum and professional growth. It contains a very extensive variety of links to activities, worksheets and lesson plans all compiled by subject area as well great tips for educators about the use of technology in the classroom, student assessment, and classroom management. This website is frequently updated to provide educators with the most current resources for teaching and learning. (Alina Moffitt)

Website: Math is Fun

Discipline: Numbers, Money, Time, Measurement, Algebra, Geometry, Data

Grade level: K-12

Website address: http://www.mathsisfun.com/

Description: This website contains many interactive lessons, games, worksheets, and hands-on activities categorized by various areas of mathematics, from basic to advanced. In addition, this site includes an extensive, illustrated math dictionary that can be used as a quick reference guide. Perfect for visual learners, parents attempting to help with math homework, and teachers looking to bring math to life! (Alina Moffitt)

Website: Education World

Discipline: Art, Health, History, Language Arts, Mathematics, Physical Education, Science, Special Education, Holidays and Celebrations, Professional Development, Technology Integration

Grade level: K-12

Website address: http://www.educationworld.com/

Description: This website known as the “educator’s best friend” offers many lesson planning ideas and lesson plan samples, information about classroom management resources, and tips for integrating technology into the classroom. Furthermore, it discusses current school issues that may concern today’s educators. (Alina Moffitt)

Website: The Teacher’s Corner

Discipline: Art, Health, Mathematics, Music, Reading and Writing, Physical Education, Science, Social Studies, and Technology

Grade level: K-6

Website address: http://www.theteacherscorner.net/

Description: The Teacher’s Corner is a website primarily geared towards elementary school teachers. It offers a variety of lesson plans (organized by subject matter), thematic and seasonal units, and bulletin board ideas. In addition, this site contains printable worksheets, discusses ongoing education news, and allows educators to chat with each other via an online message board. (Alina Moffitt)

Website: Scholastic Teacher

Discipline: Reading, Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies, Science, Early Learning, Character and Values, Health and Safety, Art, Holiday and Seasonal, Sports, Technology

Grade level: Pre-K – 12

Website address: http://www2.scholastic.com/

Description: This website, created by the famous book publisher Scholastic, allows teachers, students, and parents to access lesson plans (listed by grades and subjects), activities, mini-books, printables, and interactive educational games. Furthermore, this site contains book suggestions, information and educational products, and ways to teach current events to elementary school children. (Alina Moffitt)

Website: PBS Teachers

Discipline: Art, Health, Mathematics, Reading and Language Arts, Science, Technology, Social Studies, Early Childhood Development

Grade level: Pre-K – 12

Website address: http://www.pbs.org/teachers/

Description: PBS Teachers provides educational and professional development resources as well as activities to teachers of all grades. The many creative lesson plans offered by this site can be selected by either grade level or subject, and they are linked to local or national standards. This website also allows students to discover Internet resources that promote inquiry-based learning for research and class assignments. (Alina Moffitt)

Website: National Geographic – Education

Discipline: Science, Geography, Environment

Grade level: K-12

Website address: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/education

Description: National Geographic’s education website contains a wealth of resources for teachers and students. Educators are able to bring lessons to life as students go on virtual tours and adventures to explore distant places and learn about the world around them. This site offers lesson plans (sorted by grade level and topic), interactive activities, printer-friendly maps and mapmaking guides, and photo galleries. (Alina Moffitt)

Website: StarChild – A Learning Center for Young Astronomers

Discipline: Science, Astronomy, Space Exploration

Grade level: K-8

Website address: http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/StarChild.html

Description: This website created by two teachers in conjunction with National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) offers facts, interactive activities, music, related Internet links, and lesson plans on the topics of space exploration, the solar system, and the universe. The information and activities provided on this site will assist teachers in bringing such abstract subject as space into life, and engage, excite, and educate elementary school students. (Alina Moffitt)

Website: Smithsonian Education

Discipline: Art, History, Science, Social Studies, Mathematics, Music, Technology, Special Needs, Language Arts

Grade level: K – 12

Website address: http://smithsonianeducation.org/index.html

Description: This is a great website that contains many resources for educators, students, and parents related to art, history, science, language arts, and social studies. Smithsonian Education includes a database of lesson plans, sorted by grade level and subject/topic and allows users to access Smithsonian educational services aligned to specific state standards. In addition, this site offers interactive learning labs that bring the Smithsonian to life and allow students to virtually explore American history, science, and culture. (Alina Moffitt)

Website: Community Learning Network

Discipline: Language Arts, English as a Second Language, Art, Health/Nutrition, Technology, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Physical Education

Grade level: K-12

Website address: http://www.cln.org/

Description: Community Learning Network is a website designed to assist K-12 teachers with integrating technology into the classroom. It offers thousands of annotated links to useful educational sites and lesson plans organized by theme, subject, and keyword search. This is a great resource for teachers looking to expand their lesson plan collection as well as students and parents looking for educational activity ideas. (Alina Moffitt)

Enchanted Learning 1)Math, reading, writing, science, health, etc. 2)various 3)www.enchantedlearning.com 4)Enchanted Learning has thousands and thousands of resources for teachers to use in the classroom. In addition students are also able to use the web site's picture dictionary. For example, 2nd grade teachers can print out an assignment in which students will then have to use their dictionary to find the answers. This teaches the students to use the Internet, use a computer and a dictionary all at once. (Katherine Lacabe)

Ed Helper 1)Math, reading, writing, science, health, etc. 2)various 3)www.edhelper.com 4)This website provides theme units, math for multiple grade levels, social studies, language and several other subject ares for teachers and students to use. It provides grade levels to help teachers see what is appropriate for their classrooms. It is an easy navigational site. (Katherine Lacabe)

Star Fall 1)Reading 2)various 3)www.starfall.com 4)This site provides help with the different stages of reading. From learning the ABC's, to learning to read, to finding reading fun and finally being able to read fluently. It also helps students to learn to make different things, such as calendars, on the website. (Katherine Lacabe)

ABC Teach 1)Reading 2)various 3)www.abcteach.com 4)ABC Teach provides theme units, reading comprehension information, information on portfolios, clip art, and help for ESL students as well as fun activities for children. (Katherine Lacabe)

50 States 1)Social Studies/Geography 2)various 3)www.50states.com 4)This website lets students learn about the 50 states, their capitals, and details about each particular state and location. (Katherine Lacabe)

The Write Site 1)Writing 2)various 3)www.writesite.com 4)This website helps students learn about who, what, when, where and why. It also gives them information to help them learn about journalism and writing. (Katherine Lacabe)

Kinder Art 1)Art 2)Kindergarten 3)www.kinderart.com 4)This site provides art lessons for kindergarten teachers. It also provides examples of art for teachers to share with their classrooms. It also has a place where you can send int art work for them to post. (Katherine Lacabe)

Math Playground 1)Math 2)Various 3)www.mathplayground.com 4)This website is interactive where students can use the site in order to learn different math concepts. It provides math problems, word problems, games and other ways to learn mathematics. (Katherine Lacabe)

AAA Mathematics 1)Mathematics 2)Various 3)http://www.aaamath.com/ 4)This website is a good site to help students learn different areas of math. It is detailed and helpful for teachers to supplement classroom teaching of math. (Katherine Lacabe)

Discovery for Kids 1)Science 2)Various 3)http://kids.discovery.com/ 4)This Discovery website provides many, many different resources about science and activities that students can do to learn and be entertained at the same time. (Katherine Lacabe)

Website: Time for Kids
Disciplines: Math, Science, Language Arts, Social Studies, Health
Grade Levels: K-6
Website Address: http://www.timeforkids.com/TKK/
Description: This weekly classroom news magazine covers a wide range of real world topics. Each issue contains informative articles, along with appropriate teacher resources such as worksheets, graphic organizers, and printable quizzes. (P. Daly)

Website: Math Playground
Discipline: Math
Grade Levels: K-8
Website Address: http://www.mathplayground.com/index.html
Description: This teacher created website is an action packed site for elementary and middle school students. Math skills can be learned via various math games, word problems, logic puzzles, and math videos. (P. Daly)

Website: Math is Fun
Discipline: Math
Grade Levels: K-12
Website Address: http://www.mathisfun.com/
Description: The main content of this site is aimed at basic math skills. However, there are both more complex and much easier math concepts included. The user can obtain information in the areas of algebra, geometry, measurement, and data. There are also puzzles and quizzes. In addition, there is an easy to understand illustrated math dictionary. (P. Daly)

Website: Apples 4 the teacher
Disciplines: Language Arts, Foreign Arts, Creative Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies
Grade Levels: PreK-6
Website Address: http://www.apples4theteacher.com/
Description: Educational resources include interactive learning games, quizzes, and worksheet generated tools by subject. (P. Daly)

Website: Starfall
Discipline: Reading
Grade Levels: PreK-2
Website Address: http://www.starfall.com/
Description: This ad free site offers ABC animations, animated interactive books, and reading exercises as well as downloadable materials. The website is easy for young children to navigate independently. (P Daly)

Website: Tutpup
Disciplines: Math, Spelling
Grade Levels: K-8
Website Address: http://tutpup.com/
Description: The goal of this site is to aid in the mastery of basic skills. Students play timed math and spelling games against competitors from around the world, in real time. (P. Daly)

Website: Eduplace
Disciplines: Reading/ Language Arts, Math, Science, History/S. Science, Spelling
Grade Levels: K-6
Website Address: http://eduplace.com/
Description: This is a Houghton Mifflin Harcourt website. Students may access puzzles, games and brain teasers. They may acquire tips on proofreading and writing strategies. E-glossaries are available in most subjects. Weekly Reader current events are available as are many interactive maps. (P. Daly)

Website: Kids Know It Network
Disciplines: Astronomy, Biology, Geology, Geography, Math, Memory, Spelling
Grade Levels: K-6
Website Address: http://kidsknowit.com/
Description: The Kids Know It Network is a free educational resource. It offers games and songs as a way to promote learning. It also offers free educational movies, each ending with an interactive online quiz, and free educational music. In addition, they offer a large dinosaur database. (P. Daly)

Website: Fact Monster
Disciplines: Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies
Grade Levels: K-8
Website Address: http://factmonster.com/
Description: The Fact Monster site supplies valuable reference material to the user. Its reference desk provides information via the usage of an almanac, encyclopedias, as well as offering dictionary and atlas usage. It also contains historical timelines. Facts on multiple subjects may be instantaneously acquired. Furthermore, it provides help through its homework center. (P. Daly)

Website: Mathway
Discipline: Math
Grade Levels: 5-12
Website Address: http://mathway.com/
Description: This site will solve Math problems. It covers the following math subjects: basic math, pre-algebra, algebra, trigonometry, trigonometry, and calculus. In addition, it aids in graphing and contains a glossary of math definitions. (P. Daly)

PBS Discipline(s): language arts, math, science, social studies Grade Level(s): k-3 Web Site Address: http://pbskids.org Description: This website offers an array of interactive games with characters from PBS shows. Students are able to identify and match alphabet letters and thus get the early letter and sound recognition that is needed to start blending. Some of the games include, Mama Mirabelle where students are exposed to pictures of different habitats and are given clues as to what type of animal might live there. For every game there is a parent/teacher link giving more information of how to further expand the student’s knowledge on the topic that was covered in the game. (Elsa Lopez Viramontes)

Brain Pop Jr. Discipline(s): science, health, writing, reading, social studies, math Grade Level(s): k-3 Web Site Address: http://www.brainpopjr.com Description: This website offers an array of mini videos on many different subjects. The video-clips can be used as an introduction to a lesson or as the culmination of a lesson. Students like to watch Moby, the main character in the video clips that grabs their attention in the content being taught. There is also a link that includes the standards which are aligned by state, subject, and grade, when one fills out all three categories the videos that fill that criteria will show up. Therefore not only is one showing interesting videos to the students but aligning them to the essential standards that need to be taught. (Elsa Lopez Viramontes)

Starfall Discipline(s): Language Arts Grade Level(s): k-3 Web Site Address: http://www.starfall.com Description: This website is a great tool to use for Language Arts. Students can play games for letter recognition. Once they recognize the letters they can move on to harder concepts, such as making words with different word families. Students can also read stories that focus on a specific vowel or word family. Students, who are not able to blend a word on their own, when reading a story, can click on the word and they will receive help blending the word. There are also mini clips on different skills such as long e, vowel pairs, and chunking. For the independent readers there are plays, comics, and poetry. Lastly, there are skills such as writing a letter and clips for holidays that are presented in fun way to the students. (Elsa Lopez Viramontes)

PE Central Discipline(s): PE Grade Level(s): Pk-12th PE Lesson plans for teacher Web Site Address: http://www.pecentral.org Description: This is a great website when you want to incorporate physical education into your day and you don’t have too much time to plan. The website has a link for lesson plans by grade level and then by component. If you have an awesome physical education lesson plan, you can upload it and share it with other educators. There are also wonderful bulletin board ideas that have been submitted by other teachers. If one is confused by the materials that might be needed in order for a lesson to be successful there is plenty of advertising within each lesson plan. Last, there are many links which are helpful when teaching physical education. Those links include assessments, classroom, management, and physical education programs. (Elsa Lopez Viramontes)

International Reading Association Discipline(s): Language Arts Grade Level(s): Teacher Web Site Address: http://www.reading.org/General/Default.aspx Description: This is a great website for professional development. One can browse through educational journals, lesson plans, and grade appropriate booklists just to mention a few. There is a link that shows grants that are available to educators. For those who want to further their professional growth there is a list of conferences the International Reading Association holds throughout the country. When one joins the IRA there is access to the Reading Research Quarterly which offers many articles that are currently prominent in education. (Elsa Lopez Viramontes)

National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Discipline(s): Math Grade Level(s): k-12 educator Web Site Address: http://standards.nctm.org/ Description: This website is a great tool for teachers to see ways in which to present math to students in a fun and exciting way. There are various links such as lesson plans, publications, and a list of conferences that are held throughout the country. When one subscribes to the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, newsletters are mailed throughout the year on education policy and new publications that are out. This website offers many ways to stay updated in what are some of the changes that are going on in Washington that affect a teacher in the classroom. (Elsa Lopez Viramontes)

Kids spell Discipline(s): Language Arts Grade Level(s): k-3 Web Site Address: http://www.kidsspell.com Description: This website offers an array of games that let children work on their blending and spelling. Teachers can put in a list of words or choose a list that is already in their system. Children are then presented with different choices of games. The games get harder as the students pass each level. For example, I typed in our classroom’s spelling list. The students played a game where they are presented with different words that are missing a letter or letters. The student then has to grab the letter, using the mouse, to match it to the correct word. As students pass the level they are presented with more words and more letters to make the level harder. The students in my class had a great time with this website and I am sure yours will too. (Elsa Lopez Viramontes)

NASA’a Newsbreak Discipline(s): science, math Grade Level(s): k-2 Web Site Address: http://ksnn.larc.nasa.gov/k2/k2_math.html Description: This website a great way to introduce students to science, math, and technology. This website has videos that can be used to introduce and capture your students’ interest in a vast array of topics. It also has lesson plans and activities that you can do with your students. Almost every video has lesson plan that one can implement before or after the students watch the video. (Elsa Lopez Viramontes)

Stop Bullying Now Discipline(s): Social skills Grade Level(s): k-8, educator Web Site Address: http://www.stopbullyingnow.hrsa.gov/kids/ Description: This website offers an array of resources for teachers to talk about bullying and the effect it has on individuals. It offers teachers tip sheets on various topics such as what to do if you suspect a child is being bullied and the characteristics of children who bully. It is also an interactive website for students. The material presented in the website empowers the students to stand up for themselves if they feel they are being bullied. The website offers games and webisodes. (Elsa Lopez Viramontes)

Kids.gov Discipline(s): many Grade Level(s): educator Web Site Address: http://www.kids.gov/ Description: This website a great resource for an educator since it offers many educational websites for grades K-8th. There are links for educational websites in many areas some include: health, science, math, science, and social studies. The list of websites is broken down by k-4grade and 5-8 grade. The websites are then broken down by subjects. Since educators are usually short on time, the website has a link for the most popular websites. (Elsa Lopez Viramontes)

Scholastic http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/learn.jsp Grades: K-6 Discipline: All subjects Scholastic is a great website, but this portion is geared towards students. The tabs that students can search through are Scholastic News, Computer Lab Favorites, Word Wizard Dictionary, Write and Publish, and Reading Response. My favorite activity was the Story Starters, where students can spin a wheel, and are given a writing task along with ideas such as the “who” and “what”. (Kalpana Somanathan)

Yahoo Kids http://kids.yahoo.com/learn Grades: K-12 Discipline: All subject areas On this site, students can use the reference section to conduct research on anything from the solar system to Lewis and Clark. The site includes science videos, an Ask Earl section where students can ask questions, and a World Factbook section where students can find detailed information on countries around the world. This website is useful for students looking for a variety of activities and information in multiple subject areas. (Kalpana Somanathan)

The Teachers Corner http://www.theteacherscorner.net/ Grades: K-12 Discipline: All subjects The Teachers Corner is a teacher resource website. Teachers can search for lesson plans on all major subject areas. The site contains printable worksheets such as calendars and puzzle makers. Teachers can find children’s book titles as well as professional book titles, in the Book Nook section. One thing that makes this site different is that teachers can also search for teaching jobs. (Kalpana Somanathan)

Word Search

Discipline(s): Reading, Math, Science, Spelling
Grade Level(s): educator
Web Site Address: http://www.armoredpenguin.com/wordsearch/
Description: This website is ideally for students who are elementary aged children. It is of great use for all subject matters. This can be given as homework or perhaps when children are done with in-class work they can work on this fun activity. There are a variety of word searches already created for your own use. You may also choose to create a new list that correlates with the subject matter. Teachers can increase children’s awareness of vocabulary words when beginning a new chapter. (Carin Truong)

Teachers Pay Teachers

Discipline(s): All Subject Matter
Grade Level(s): educator
Web Site Address: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/
Description: This website offers a variety of reading material, manipulatives and other activities for all subject matter. It offers discounts for teachers, which is a great plus when purchasing items for the classroom. Printables can be downloaded or purchased at a low expense for use in the classroom. They offer used material at discounted prices. Browsing different subject matters allows one to use and gather ideas for their own classroom. (Carin Truong)

Discipline: Subject matter on this site includes computer technology, health, language arts, literature, math, P.E, science, social studies, special education, and the arts.
Grade Levels: The subject matter on this site is appropriate for early childhood education and preschool, as well as grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12.
Web Site Address: http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/
Description: This site is a very helpful tool for all classroom teachers as it provides resources, lesson plans, themes, tips, printables, and worksheets for elementary through high school educators to utilize. Organized to aid teachers in finding online resources more efficiently, this site is very user friendly. One very useful tool is the word search maker, enabling educators to make and print their own subject/content related word search. This site also features a section with academic articles related to teaching and an online store for purchasing materials. (Ashley Gazzaniga)

Discipline: Materials provided on this site are specific to disciplines including arts, education, education reform, foreign language, literature and language arts, mathematics, science, social studies and history.
Grade Levels: Materials on this site are intended for grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8. 9-12, and college/adult.
Web Site Address: www.learner.org
Description: Learner.org is a site that provides teacher resources and teacher professional development across curriculum. In particular, this site is useful because it serves as a model for ways in which media and telecommunications tools and resources help to advance education in schools. Featured on this site are a number of different resources, including videos, interactives, and telecommunications workshops and presentations that teachers can benefit from and also incorporate into their classrooms and lesson plans to supplement standard class materials and curriculum. (Ashley Gazzaniga)

Discipline: Information on this site is pertinent to arts, health and fitness, math, reading and language arts, science and technology, and social studies.
Grade Levels: Grade levels covered include PreK, K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12.
Web Site Address: http://www.pbs.org/teachers/
Description: This site features a number of different classroom resources for teachers. In particular, classroom activities provided on this site include both interactive and offline components. One really great feature of this site is its emphasis on media literacy. In order to help students succeed in a “media-filled world”, teachers can use the information, resources, and activity ideas provided on this site to quiz students, read and refer to related materials and research, and incorporate media into the classroom. (Ashley Gazzaniga)