Technology Tools

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Discipline: Subject Variety Grade Level: All grades Website: www.awesomelibrary.org Description: Awesome Library is organized with categories and sub categories. The Categories are: Teachers, Kids, Teens, Parents, Librarians and College. The subcategories are divided into three parts, but with eight topics in each section. One section is composed of solely subjects (Math, Social Studies, Arts, Science etc..) while another section comprises of topics such as Titles, Literature, Authors, and Lessons etc. In each subtopic, the website offers a page dedicated to that topic, with even more topics branching from that one. There is a lot of information offered in this website, so I find Awesome Library very useful. (Lauren Gillingham)

Discipline: Website for students, teachers and parents Grade Level: K-8 Website: www.kidsites.com Description: This website guides kids into another world of learning while having fun! Kidsites.com is a fast way to look up something that you need. The site is divided into three classes: Educational, Fun Sites and Grownups. Educational class contains topics such as Animals, Art, Dinosaurs, History, Music and Space. If a student clicks on one of these categories, lets say Art for instance, another great site will pop up just devoted to activities and lessons that are art related. The Fun Sites class embraces online games, coloring activities, comics and crafts, just to name a handful. Parent and teacher links fall under the Grownups category, and with these links come several websites that parents or teachers may be useful, like www.Math.com for a needed math lesson idea, or www.Familycorner.com for some parenting tips, or homeschooling topics. (Lauren Gillingham)

Discipline: For Teachers Grade Level: For teachers, student teachers Website: www.atozteacherstuff.com Description: A to Z Teacher Stuff is a teacher-created site designed to help teachers find online resources more quickly and easily. Find lesson plans, thematic units, teacher tips, and discussion forums for teachers, downloadable teaching materials & eBooks, printable worksheets and black lines, emergent reader books, themes, and more. I enjoy how the website is clean and simple. This website offers tips on how to have a successful back to school night, or what to say in a job interview, and many more wonderful suggestions. (Lauren Gillingham)

Discipline, math, science, and history (Mahsa Bokhour ) Grade level, K-8. Web site address http://www.factmonster.com Description, this web site is great for children who need to find something on a map, encyclopedia, and or dictionary. All this sources are available at this web site. The web site also offers a great search engine, which makes it very simple for students to search for facts. There is games and quizzes on the web site which can be another great way to learn for children. The atlas also can be very useful in finding information’s. there is also a section on homework which helps children in many different subjects such as math, science, history, and many other subjects.

TINA SONG 3. Discipline Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Arts & Music, Health, Technology Grade LevelK-12th grade Web Site Address http://www.brainpop.com/ DescriptionThis website is phenomenal! This website covers so many different subjects. When you click on the certain subject, there are other components or subtopics that are available. For example, when you click on English, 5 topics come out: Famous Authors & Book, Study & Reading Skills, Free Movies for English, Grammar, and Writing. When you click on one of those topics, more specific subtopics come out, such as adverbs, adjectives, antonyms, capitalization, etc. This website is designed to give definitions and clearer explanations of key term vocabulary used for that certain subject and lesson. This wonderful website also offers videos for students visually see a demonstration that can be shown during classroom instruction time.

Tools for Educators
Discipline: Technology Resources
Grade Level: K-12
Website address: http://www.toolsforeducators.com/
Description: FREE worksheets, worksheet creators, printables wizard and on-line teaching materials makers with images from Tools for Educators.com. Use these printout generators, game makers, and programs for teachers to make and print teaching resources with picturesor text. An excellent teacher resource for all grades and disciplines! (Michael Crawford)

Web Resources

Discipline: Reading and Mathematics Grade Level: Elementary and middle school level Web Site Address: www.funbrain.com Description: Fun Brain is an engaging website that include mathematics, reading and other games. They have games that are appropriate for elementary and middle school kids. When you first start, you have to log in stating if you are a boy/girl and your grade level. They organize grade appropriate games for your students to play. Then they are able to play either math games or regular games. This website also allows you read books. They offer a few books including, “The Diary of a Wimpy Kid.” They also have resource links for teachers such as “my grade book” and “quiz lab.”

Discipline: Language Arts, Geography, Science and Math Grade Level: Preschool-Elementary Web Site Address: http://pbskids.org/ Description: PBS kids is a great website for younger kids. It is educational and it also covers a few disciplines. This website also includes all the PBS shows that you are able to view. The top section of the website have different categories: a little girl (reading), animals (geography) and a dinosaur (science/math). The reading section has many games that include rhyming, spelling and reading. The animal section allows you to discover different parts of the world. Last, the dinosaur section includes measurement games, and descriptions of each dinosaur with what they eat and their skeletal form.

Discipline: Reading, phonics, calendars, special holidays, shapes, color Grade Level: Preschool, kindergarten, first and second grade, special education and ELL Web Site Address: http://www.starfall.com/ Description: This website focuses mainly on reading. It has 4 different levels starting from learning your ABC’s to reading books. They have a variety of books you can choose from categorized by genre. Over on the right side of the website, they have other icons such as calendar, snowman, earth day…etc. These are also fun activities for younger students and ELL students who are just learning about the holidays, colors, shapes and more. This is a fabulous website for students who are just learning English because it is very interactive and the letters and words are read to you when you click on them.

Discipline: Science Grade Level: Elementary Web Site Address: http://www.sciencewithme.com/ Description: This website mainly focuses on Science with a bit of Math. First, you have to subscribe to the site, which is free. Otherwise, you can preview all of their games, video clips and classroom experiments. I think this is a great website for both students and teachers. The students are able to view different clips such as learning about your 5 senses and your body. They can also play science games. They have great ideas for teachers as well. They have multiple experiments for teachers to use with their students. It gives step-by-step directions and materials you need. They also have a Math section, but it seems like its still in the process of growing. They only have teacher resources and printable worksheets for teachers.

Discipline: Science, Geography, Social Studies Grade Level: Elementary Web Site Address: http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/ Description: This is a great website for students who want to learn about animals and geography. There are many different things to do on this website. There are endless amount of games, stories, animal information, activities and more. Students can go on this website and explore many different things. They can read about recent discoveries and interesting stories about certain animals. They can also watch video clips on animals. This would be a great website for students who are learning about animal camouflage or writing a report. Although, it looks like an elementary level website, middle school students would probably find some interesting stories on this website.

Discipline: History Grade Level: Middle School/high School Web Site Address: http://www.kidspast.com/ Description: This website seems fit for more older students. They have 3 categories to choose from: Historical Quotes, World History, and History games. This would be a great website for students who are learning about World History. They have different chapters and different topics to learn about. If you click on one, they give you a summary about that section with pictures. They have games where you have to answer questions correctly to move up levels. The historical quotes page includes many famous people in our past such as Abraham Lincoln, Shakespeare, and more.

Discipline: Math, History, Astronomy, Spelling, Geography, Geology Grade Level: Elementary- Middle School Web Site Address: http://www.kidsknowit.com/ Description: This website features many different links that cover a variety of disciplines. It includes activities, games, lessons and study strategies. This would be a wonderful website to go on for 2nd grade students when they cover the dinosaur unit. There is also an astronomy link that would be a good resource for 3rd and 5th grade students learning about the solar system and the stars. This site also has an educational music player! Each discipline has a list of songs that you can listen to.

Discipline: Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Arts & Music, Health and Technology Grade Level: Elementary- high school Web Site Address: http://www.brainpop.com/ Description: This site may be a bit childish for the older kids, but if you want to refresh your memory about angles, US History and more, this would be a great site for the students. Instead of reading straight from a book, this site explains facts and lessons in simplified terms. The animation is also a great way to get younger students engaged. Unfortunately, you have to subscribe to this website. They do, however, allow you to preview some videos and they do offer some free clips and lessons.

Discipline: Mathematics Grade Level: Elementary- Middle School Web Site Address: http://www.mathplayground.com/ Description: This website focuses on Mathematics. They have several categories: Math games, word problems, logic puzzles and Math videos. The Math games are very fun and educational. There are different games for different topics. If something is difficult, they have a “how to” icon, which helps you solve the problem. It also has great word problems that are categorized by grade level. The logic icon includes games such as sudoku, connect 4, and the rubik’s cube. There are also Math videos that teach you concepts that were submitted my students.

Discipline: Mathematics Grade Level: Preschool-High School Web Site Address: http://www.coolmath4kids.com/ Description: This website offers lessons and games for students in all grade levels. This website also has a section just for students in preschool. They have things to do to get your child ready for kindergarten such as making patterns, colors and more. This site has different math lessons, practice problems, a math dictionary, and Math games. They also have specific Math level such as pre-algebra, algebra, geometry and calculus. This would be a good site for older students who need a review.

Discipline: Math Grade level: k-12 Web site: http://www.coolmath4kids.com/ Description: Cool math 4 kids is a web site designed to help children strengthen their basic math skills through games, puzzles, and lessons. A variety of activities for all ages are offered on this site and each game is designed to motivate and engage children as they practice math. Some game options include Sudoku, Crazy Taxi M-12, Yellowstone Puzzles, and Bloons Tower Defense 3. Each game is fast-paced, colorful, and allows children to practice math in an exciting way. (Dara Sacher)

Discipline: Multi-discipline Grade level: k-12 Web site: http://www.funbrain.com/ Description: FunBrain.com features educational games for students of all ages in the areas of grammar, science, spelling, math, and history. Children can choose from a variety of math games that practice basic skills, various books that can be read online such as Diary of a Wimpy Kid, or other brain stimulating games such as Sudoku. This multi-faceted web site is a one-stop-shop for children looking for “fun” skill practice at home. (Dara Sacher)

Discipline: Math Grade level: 3-8 Web site: http://www.mathplayground.com/games.html Description: Math Playground is an exciting math web site for elementary and middle school children. It features math games, word problems, practice worksheets, logic puzzles, and videos. Each game is both fun and challenging and every math topic imaginable is covered by the wide variety of games offered. A bonus feature on this site is the section that allows students to work with manipulatives and move different types of pieces around such as pattern blocks in order to practice pattern and logic skills. (Dara Sacher)

Discipline: Multi-discipline Grade level: K-12 Web site: http://www.scholastic.com/kids/stacks/books/?lt=stacks/nav/books_and_authors Description: The Stacks is a section of the Scholastic web site that offers children many different resources. One resource children can find here are lists of books as well as information about well-known authors. Children can learn about books in different genres, read excerpts from books, link to the book’s web site and also learn about the authors. Children can also play games such as writing games, puzzle games, and arcade games. The Stacks accommodates children of all ages and is a great at-home resource. (Dara Sacher)

Discipline: Language Arts Grade level: 3 and up Web site: http://www.eduplace.com/tales/ Description: Wacky Web Tales is a web site offered by Houghton Mifflin that gives you the new wave of Mad Libs. Here, children can choose a Wacky Web Tale to create by clicking on a title such as “New Year’s Resolution” or “Road Trip!”. They are then linked to a page that has the user type in various parts of speech and numbers. In case the user is not familiar with each part of speech, there is a help button that provides the child with definitions and examples of each part of speech. Once the parts of speech are all filled in to the form, children get to click on “See your Wacky Web Tale” and a story is generated from the words they chose. This is a simple way for children to practice their parts of speech while having fun. (Dara Sacher)

Discipline: Multi-discipline Grade level: 2 and up Web site: http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/ Description: National Geographic for kids is the host to hundreds of games, activities, videos, and stories all related to topics children today are interested in learning more about. From activities to do at home that can help the environment to games such as Quiz your Noodle that test your knowledge of animals to stories about life at a wild dog research camp, this web site has it all for the young, blooming scientists of the World. With colorful pictures, challenging games, and thrilling videos, this site is a great way for children to increase their science and current events knowledge at home. (Dara Sacher)

Discipline: Math and Science Grade level: 1-8 Web site: http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub/flash/index.html Description: Nasa Kids’ Club is a web site that allows children of all ages to choose a appropriate skill level and then play various games and activities. Some games offered at the various levels practice math skills such as adding and multiplying while others allow users to learn more about space and the astronauts that explore it. This site has great sound effects for the user to enjoy as they navigate around this site as well as a variety of options for activities to play. (Dara Sacher)

Discipline: Language Arts Grade level: k-8 Web site: http://www.bookadventure.com/ Description: Book Adventure is a reading web site for children in grades k-8. This site allows children to create their own customized book list based on their reading level and interests. These tailored book lists include the title, genre, reading level, and author of each book and are a great tool to take with you to the library. Also on Book Adventure are multiple choice quizzes to test one’s knowledge of the books they’ve read. In addition, points can be earned for literary successes which can then be used to claim a prize such as a subscription to Highlights magazine. (Dara Sacher)

Discipline: Language Arts Grade level: k-6 Web site: http://www.poetry4kids.com/ Description: At poetry4kids.com, children can find new poems, learn to write their own poems, play fun poetry and word games as well as listen to poems on podcasts. Some bonus features on this site are the rhyming dictionary, web links to other related web sites, magazines, and writing contests. Children will be inspired by the funny poems that can be found throughout this web site and can also build their vocabulary by playing the word games provided in the game section. (Dara Sacher)

Discipline: Math Grade level: 1-6 Web site: http://www.ctkmathgamesforkids.com/ Description: CTK math games for kids is a site that offers numerous fun and engaging math games. Many math topics are covered by the games on this site including measurement, money, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division. Each game is challenging and interactive which will keep the child’s attention. Also, most games have multiple levels and degrees of difficulty in order to accommodate different abilities and skill levels. Simple instructions are provided for each game and allow for children to navigate this web site independently. (Dara Sacher)

ABC TEACH (Haleigh Baker) Discipline: Thematic units, math, reading, science, art, and social studies. Grade Levels: This website is appropriate for students in grades Pre-K to 8th. Web Site Address: http://www.abcteach.com Description: This website provides limited free worksheets and lesson ideas, without membership, in all disciplines for elementary and middle school grades. It is very user-friendly and simple to navigate and find exactly what you are looking for. I especially enjoy the enrichment opportunities that it provides. You can also use a tool on this website to create your own worksheets.

FREE MATH WORKSHEETS (Haleigh Baker) Discipline: Math. Grade Levels: This website is appropriate for students in all grade levels, from Kindergarten to High School. Web Site Address: http://www.math-drills.com/ Description: This website provides free worksheets for math without membership. There are different math areas listed at the top of the website homepage. Once you decide which topic you want to address, then you can preview and choose from a number of different worksheets.

THE LEARNING PAGE (Haleigh Baker) Discipline: Themes and reading. Grade Levels: This website is geared towards mostly Kindergarten through 2nd grade. Web Site Address: http://www.learningpage.com Description: This website provides free worksheets, books, and clipart for teachers. The themed worksheets correspond nicely with science instruction. The themes also correspond with themes that are integrated throughout the school year.

ED HELPER (Haleigh Baker) Discipline: Thematic units, math, reading, science, art, and social studies. Grade Levels: This website is intended for use with students grades K through 5. Web Site Address: http://edhelper.com/ Description: Although, it does require a membership in order for one to have full access, this website has a lot of resources for teachers. . I love the different topics in which this website offers worProxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0

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STARFALL (Haleigh Baker) Discipline: Reading. Grade Levels: This website is appropriate for K through 2nd grades. Web Site Address: www.starfall.com Description: This website is great for student interaction. It is a program that allows students to select stories which will help them learn to read. The stories require Proxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0

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ENCHANTED LEARNING (Haleigh Baker) Discipline: Thematic units, math, reading, science, art, and social studies. Grade Levels: This website is intended for use for teachers teaching grades K through 3rd. Web Site Address: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html Description: You cannot really access much of anything on this website without a subscription, which is unfortunate, because I have heard great things about the resources that are offered on enchanted learning.

WATERFORD EARLY LEARNING (Haleigh Baker) Discipline: Reading. Grade Levels: This website is intended for Pre-K through 2nd grade. Web Site Address: http://www.waterfordearlylearning.org/ Description: I have seen the full version of this website in action in my student teaching classroom. It works great with our kindergarteners, but might be too remedial for the average 1st and 2nd graders. The program provides instruction in early reading through songs, stories, and poems.

DISNEY (Haleigh Baker) Discipline: Reading. Grade Levels: This website is best for kids in 1st through 5th grade. Web Site Address: http://disney.go.com Description: This website provides fun games for students to play while they learn the parts of a story and how to spell certain words. The games also allow students to use strategies and critical thinking.

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF VIRTUAL MANIPULATIVES (Haleigh Baker) Discipline: Math. Grade Levels: This website is appropriate for use with students in grades K through 12th. Web Site Address: http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vLibrary.html Description: This website provides lessons in the following areas: number & operations, algebra, geometry, measurement, and data analysis & probability.

ILLUMINATIONS (Haleigh Baker) Discipline: Math. Grade Levels: I think this website is best for students in grades K through 12th. Web Site Address: http://illuminations.nctm.org/ Description: This website is a wonderful resource for teachers. It provides activities for students based on the National Council for Teaching Math standards. It also provides lesson plans for teachers, which are also based on NCTM standards. Teacher Tap
Discipline: Technology Resources
Grade Level: K-12
Website address: http://eduscapes.com/tap/tap4.htm
Description: Teacher Tap features resource links related to technology tools, internet resources and utilities, and professional resources. This home page features prominently displayed links on a variety of topics dealing with various technologies. In each section, software and hardware is discussed, and where to find it, with specific directions for finding what the teacher is searching for. The site is straightforward and relatively easy to use, and vast in it's scope of technology. Projects that teachers can take part in are highlighted, and project ideas can be shared with other teachers via email. (Edward B. Wahl)

“Teacher Planet” Discipline: Teacher Planet offers a variety of subject matter such as health, the four seasons, holiday activities, and environmental themes. It also offers the major subject areas such as reading, language arts, science, social studies, and math. Grade Level: Pre-K-12 Web Site Address: http://www.units4teachers.com/ Description: Teacher Planet has many ideas for teacher to use in the classroom. It offers theme units, lesson plan templates, craft ideas, worksheets and teacher tools. This is definitely a website to turn to when in need of ideas.

“ABC Teach” Discipline: ABC Teach covers many subject across the curriculum such as reading comprehension, music, math, sign language, spelling, social studies, reading and so many more Grade Level: Pre-K –Junior High Website Address: http://abcteach.com/ Description: This website has so much to offer in terms of subject matter that can easily be used in the classroom for children. It is very user friendly and very colorful. It makes me want to use many of the activities. It also allows you to create some of your own worksheets which is very helpful when covering specific subjects.

“Tools For Educators” Discipline: Tools for Educators offers activities for math, reading, writing, vocabulary and spelling. Grade Level: K-8 Website Address: http://www.toolsforeducators.com/ Description: This website allows educators to search for custom worksheets, and games such as puzzles and word searches. It seems like a very useful website for all types of educators.

Inspiration
Discipline
graphic organizer
Grade Level
Kidsinspiration- K-5, Inspiration- 6-12
description
This site provides the technological software that aids many students throughout the United States. The site allows for a free trial so students, educators and parents can try it out. Inspiration helps students outline their papers by providing a proper web tree to get out the ideas and an automatic outlining system. The software also has “kidspiration”, which is a more animated version of the original for younger students. The downside to this site is that the free trial only lasts a limited amount of time, so eventually one would need to purchase the software. (Tova Leibovic)

How Stuff Works
Discipline: Computer, Electronics, Geography, Health, History, Money, Science, Communication
Grade Level: Approximately grades 1-12
Web Address: www.howstuffworks.com
Description: This website gives credible, unbiased insight and easy-to-understand information on how the world works. Comprehensive articles—such as, how a prosthetic limb works and how solar power sunglasses work--images and videos help children understand a variety of disciplines, people, places and things. This site includes many top 10 and famous quotes lists.

Discipline: Science, Health, Computers
Grade Level: 9-12
Web Site Address: http://science.howstuffworks.com/
Description: This website is great for the inquisitive science student (or teacher, really) who is always looking for answers. What is the difference between hydraulic and cable elevators? What makes my knuckles pop? How do ocean currents work? This site has the answer to all those questions and more. There are various sections – such as Food, Science, and Health – which contain several articles on each topic. The site also includes puzzles and quizzes to keep students interested. (Heather Feldbaum)

Discipline: All
Grade Level: pre-K-8
Web Site Address: http://www.abcteach.com/
Description: This website is a fabulous resource for teachers of all grades. For anyone looking for worksheets – this is the place to look. From reading comprehension about Clara Barton to fraction worksheets, this site has fun and easily downloadable activities. (Heather Feldbaum)

Discipline: Language Arts, Social Studies, Math, Science
Grade Level: pre-K-12
Web Site Address: http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/learn.jsp
Description: This website offers activities for students, as well as teachers in Language Arts, Social Studies, Math, and Science. The site is broken up by grade: pre-K, 1-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12. Each section has articles, quizzes, and games for every imaginable subject matter. There are also sections, which explain certain holidays, American and Religious. But it’s not only for students – there are sections for teachers, as well. (Heather Feldbaum)

Discipline: Teacher Resources and Geography, History, Science, Math and English
Grade Level: 2nd - 8th grade
Web Site Address: http://www.factmonster.com
Description: This site enables students and teachers to engage in games and subject-centered activities and includes educational facts that foster development in every subject. It even includes a homework center, which provides research information on every subject and access to tools such as almanacs, atlas’, dictionaries, thesaurus’, encyclopedias and biographies, as well as search engines and study skills. This site is very informative and helpful to both students and teachers and can encourage learning in every area, due to it’s animated atmosphere. (Shayla Collins)

Discipline: English, Math, Music, Science, Social Studies and Language
Grade Level: Pre-K - 6th grade.
Web Site Addres: www.gamequarium.com
Description: This site is packed with an array of multi-subject applets and resources to choose from. It allows students, parents and teachers to enhance their understanding of many different subjects through the use of games, videos, e-books, printables, and teacher resources. (Shayla Collins)

Linkasaurus

Discipline: Search Engine
Grade level: Pre-K-12
Web Site Address: http://www.linkasaurus.com
Description: This is a search engine that is for young children and students of any age to use. Each result is pre-selected and protected against any inappropriate information or sites. In addition to the search bar at the top of the page there is an enormous amount of categorized lists underneath the bar that include any subject imaginable that contain additional links that would save the student time needlessly searching the web for a source that is provided. Each box is a different color so as to help those who are visual learners. (Dave Miller)

Atomic Learning
www.atomiclearning.com
Discipline: Technology
Grade Level: Educators
Description: This website can help teach and tutor educators in how to integrate and use technology in their classroom. The site has training videos and articles that can prepare a teacher for 21st century learning. (Jeff Lawhead)

Blackboard
www.blackboard.com
Discipline: Educational tool
Grade Level: 6-12
Description: A resource that allows the teacher to communicate with the students via the web much like webct. The teacher can leave lessons/links/info that the students can access with an account number and password. This tool can be useful in integrating the internet outside of school. (Jeff Lawhead)

Net Trekker
www.nettrekker.com
Discipline: Educational search tool
Grade Level: This is a tool that can be used by any grade k-12.
Description: This website tool can be used for searching the internet for relative material. Students or teachers sign up for a subscription and can log in to access educational data bases and resources allowing them to get the info they need on any subject. (Jeff Lawhead)

Study Island

http://www.studyisland.com

Discipline: All Core Subjects

Grade Level(s): 1-12

Description: Study Island is a web-based state assessment and standards-based learning program that prepares students for their state standards test. The site offers online, interactive multiple-choice tests that assess students’ knowledge and mastery of specific state standards. As students show a pattern of success on their test scores, they are given the opportunity to play online games. The website is organized by grade-level programs and state standards. In alignment with their curriculum, teachers simply manage a list of multiple-choice assignments based on their specific standards of focus. Students then log in anytime to take their tests. Each answer comes with a brief explanation to further reinforce the concept. Teachers can also access lesson plans, create reports of all of their students’ scores and progress, and message their students to provide encouraging feedback. (Sally Truong)

Atomic Learning

http://www.atomiclearning.com

Discipline: Technology

Grade Level(s): 6-12

Description: This website provides interactive, easy-to-use-and-understand tutorials for teachers, administrators, parents, and students on how to use a variety of technology tools, such as programs in the iLife Suite (e.g. iMovie, iTunes, iWeb, iDVD, etc.), Adobe Master Suite (e.g. Photoshop, Dreamweaver, etc.), and Microsoft Office (e.g. Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.). Since more and more schools are now integrating computer-based software as supplementary tools to traditional classroom instruction, this is a perfect website to train teachers, administrators, parents, and students on the most up-to-date computer programs. Technology can be quite daunting for many people. However, this website makes learning technology fun, practical, and easy for anyone. The website also provides technology-based classroom activities and curriculum resources. My school has a subscription to Atomic Learning, and we find it extremely useful to enhancing the quality of our education. (Sally Truong)

http://www.californiastreaming.org

Discipline: All Core Subjects

Grade Levels(s): K-12

Description: California Streaming is a media on-demand system that serves to provide high quality multimedia to teachers, students, parents, and administrators to help enhance standards-based learning through the use of technology. It offers a comprehensive library of videos, photographs, primary sources, audio files, documents, and podcasts that connect to core curricular concepts. Teachers can find a multitude of audiovisual resources and tutorials that make learning for children much more fun, comprehensible, culturally relevant, and appealing. You can find complete educational videos created by PBS, Bill Nye the Science Guy, and Horrible Histories from Scholastic. The site also offers a digital audio section that includes children's literature audio books, foreign language instruction, poetry readings, classical music, songs that cover certain content area concepts, and much more. (Sally Truong)

http://www.youtube.com or http://www.teachertube.com

Discipline: All Subjects

Grade Level(s): K-12

Description: This website offers an array of educational video clips and audiovisual tutorials. In order to make instruction more interesting, engaging, and culturally relevant for students, teachers should definitely use youtube as a supplemental tool to their instruction, either to introduce a unit of study or provide exemplars or instructional support. Teachers can search the website for clips on all sorts of topics and issues. They can find cartoon clips that demonstrate the cell cycle, documentaries on immigration, commercials, political ads and speeches, music videos, National Geographic and History Channel programs, sitcom and movie scenes, commentaries, student projects, and much more! It is also a great source for publishing and sharing student multimedia work for the world to view and provide feedback. (Sally Truong)

Internet 4 classrooms

Website: http://www.internet4classrooms.com (submitted by Rosemary Blankson)

Discipline: All subjects

Grade level: K-12

Description: This is a free web portal for educators who want to find high-quality, internet resources to use in their classroom instruction. This global resource is used by mostly teachers but can be a useful tool for parents or any home-school facilitators with an internet connection. On the site users can find several large collections of links for K-12 instruction, step-by-step tutorials for learning applications used in K-12 classrooms and web sites that have daily updates of resource content. The site also provides information to teachers to help prepare students for annual assessments.

Ed Helper

Website: http://www.edhelper.com (submitted by Rosemary Blankson)

Discipline: All subjects

Grade level: K-12

Description: This website has a wealth of resources that provide teachers with lesson plans, printable worksheets. Many of the worksheets can be used for extension activities such as puzzles, games, weekly word and language problems, downloadable books, daily themes, and writing prompts. Edhelper.com is a useful website to help teachers establish routines in their classrooms with daily objectives that follow curricular standards. It can be especially helpful to new teachers by providing easy to make or pre-made worksheets and other materials, thus saving them a tremendous amount of time from pre-planning resources themselves. The website also provides teachers with test preparation materials to give students additional practice and to sharpen their overall test-taking skills.

Brain Pop

Website: http://www.brainpop.com (submitted by Rosemary Blankson)

Discipline: All subjects

Grade level: K-8

Description: Brainpop.com provides animated, curriculum-based content that supports educators and engages students. It is a great way to integrate technology into the classroom and curriculum. The online resources include BrainPop, for grades 3 and up; BrainPOP Jr., for grades K-3; and BrainPOP Español. Though this site mostly caters to K-8 teachers there are some lessons and activities that can be used at the 9-12 grade levels. These resources are available through registering for a free online trial. BrainPOP Educators is free (no trial needed) for teachers to register and features free lesson plans, video tutorials, teaching tips, classroom tools (ideas, activities and worksheets), and professional development by and for its teacher community. BrainPOP.com is ideal for both group and one-on-one settings and can be used in numerous ways, from introducing a new lesson or topic to illustrating complex subject matter to reviewing before a test. Content is aligned to state standards and easily searchable on the site with the online state standards tool.

"My Grade Book

http://Mygradbook.com

Grades: K-12

Discipline: All Subject areas, Teacher assistance

This website allows teachers to keep track of children’s grades on line. It automatically updates their grade point averages and their class standings. Mygradebook.com also allows teachers to keep track of attendance on-line and when a student is tardy or absent to automatically send out emails to their parents. There is a tool that produces reports for administrators both on attendance and on grades. Finally teachers can also provide access codes to parents to allow them to access their child’s grades from their computers at home. This same access can be given to students who like to keep track of the grades they receive on their assignments and how they are doing in the classroom. (Melissa Smith)

The Kids Know It Network

http://www.kidsknowit.com/

Grades: K-5

Discipline: All subject areas

This is a great supplemental site that students can use at for independent projects in class or just practice and fun at home. Different parts can be used for different ages. The spelling lists can be difficult to use at home since there are hundreds and they aren’t labeled by age or grade level. A teacher can go through and try to find a list that could work for their class, but it could be tedious as there are so many. The spelling games, however can be fun for students to practice their spelling and unscrambling skills. The sciences links are great for a mid-level elementary student. Some of the words can be difficult to understand for younger elementary students, and the descriptions are not in depth enough for an upper elementary, but 2nd to 4th graders should be able to use them for information. The math link is also great for that mid-elementary student and also for the younger students, but there aren’t many activities for the upper elementary students to take advantage of. (Amanda Griffith)

edHelper.com

http://www.edhelper.com/

Grades: K-12

Discipline: All subject areas

This is a great site for teachers looking to add follow-up worksheets to lessons they are teaching. They have weekly and monthly theme units that tie every subject to the theme, helping teachers to link all of their lessons together. This site has great reading comprehension and social studies stories with activities to back them up. They also have writing prompts to spark writing lessons. There are some great math and science worksheets as well as fun worksheets for special occasions. In addition, there are activities for foreign language and science. While most of these worksheets, stories, and activities are for elementary students, there are a few activities for high school students and for test prep. To access all of the supplemental materials from this site, you need to subscribe and pay $19.99 for a basic subscription and $39.98 for an everything subscription. There are also school license subscriptions, the price of which depends on the number of teachers, subscription length, and type of subscription. (Amanda Griffith)

http://edhelper.com/
Discipline: All subject areas.
Grade Levels: K & up

Description: Edhelper is an excellent resource for teachers and parents. This site provides worksheets on all works of the spectrum according to grade level and task. Users can create individual worksheets that fit accordingly to the needs of the student. There is a small fee of $19.99 for basic unlimited use; however, there are school discounts available. Paying the fee will allow the member to print worksheets and answers directly out of the website. This however isn’t needed if the user is willing to use the “copy/paste” function on their computer. One can easily copy the worksheet onto their common word processor and print out the worksheet from there. (Hannah Kim)

Alice.org

http://Alice.org

Grades: 10-12 or create animations for K-12

Alice is a program that makes it easy to create animations for telling stories, videos or interactive games. The program is designed to help students learn foundational programming concepts in a safe environment while creating something they are excited about. Because of the drag and drop syntax, students immediately see the connection between their actions and the program. Additionally, this is a great tool for computer savvy teachers to use to illustrate classroom stories for their elementary audiences. (Melissa Smith)

Discovery Education

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/

Grades: K-12

Discipline: All subject areas

This website is an extension of The Discovery Channel and has many different resources for teachers. It has a Puzzlemaker cd rom that they sell which allows teachers to make all different types of puzzles, like crosswords, number puzzles, and many more. The site has hundreds of lesson plans for K through 12, in all different subjects, with other activities and extensions that link to those lessons. Many of their lessons correspond to different VHS and DVDs that they sell online as well. There is a link for Kathy Schrock’s Guide, which is a list of all sorts of other sites that are useful for both enhancing lessons and curriculum as well as professional development of teachers. The site has other “fun tools” like worksheets, clipart, brain busters, etc, however I would say there are many other sites that have a bigger and better set of worksheets. It does have a whole section dedicated to science fair information and resources that would be very helpful to older level science classes. There is a whole section dedicated to helping new teachers with things like classroom management, parent communication, and other “survival tools.” Finally, the site offers contests and grants for individual students to participate in. There is no subscription or registration required for this site, so it is available to everyone. (Amanda Griffith)

The Educators Reference Desk

http://www.eduref.org/

Grades: K-12

Discipline: All subject areas

This site is a collection of different resources for helping teachers to be successful in the classroom. It has links to over 3,000 other online sources for educational information. Some of these sites deal with classroom management, school safety, special education, libraries, motivation, learning theories, and much more. It also has over 2,000 lesson plans for grades K-12 and all subjects. Really, this site is a good jumping off point for finding sites about anything you can need. Other than the lesson plans, there isn’t a whole lot that this site actual offers itself, just a place to start to find anything you need. (Amanda Griffith)

Scholastic

http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/home.jsp

Grades: Pre-K - 12

Discipline: All subject areas

This website has an amazing array of things that can be brought to teachers and to the classroom in a number of ways. It is put together by the same people who make the Scholastic News magazines and there is a wealth of information to be had on the site. For teachers, there’s information for things like how to have a student reading conference, how to have an effective back-to-school night, how to make your own dictionary and much, much more. There are lesson plans, worksheets, links for new teachers, and other information about strategies and theories in the classrooms. For students, there are hundreds of online activities for every subject you can possibly think of, and with each of the activities comes a whole plan for teachers about how to use it with a whole lesson. Also, if you’re lucky enough to have a scholastic subscription sent to your classroom, there are many online activities that link to those newspaper articles. This is an amazing site! Definitely one of my favorites that I’ve found! (Amanda Griffith)

PBS Teachers

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

Grades: K-12

Discipline: All subject areas

This website offers lesson plans in every possible subject you could ever think of along with worksheets and activities that go along with those lessons. The activities are all offline, meaning they do not require access to computers for the students to use them. All of their resources are standards-based, so they are all ready to use to satisfy those standards you need help planning for. There are some great, creative lesson plans and activities available on this site. There are also links for professional development, where teachers can actually sign up for and take online classes in many areas for a fee, and PBS Teachers Connect, which is a forum for teachers to discuss different topics that are of interest to today’s teachers. PBS Teachers Connect does require registration, although I don’t think there is a fee. This is a great website for teachers to use when looking for lesson ideas and resources. (Amanda Griffith)

Kids Know It Discipline: Teacher Resources, math, science, social studies Grade level 1-6 http://www.kidsknowit.com/ This is one website that truly has everything. From this website you can explore anything from the many types of animals around the world, to math, to outer space. Each discipline within this website is easy to navigate and uses language that is easy for elementary school students to understand. There are also pictures to display each concept. The best part about this website is that you can watch educational videos and listen to educational songs for free. (Jessica Zafran)

Teachers.Net Discipline: Music Grades K-6 Site Address: www.teachers.net/cgi-bin/lessons/sort.cgi?searchterm=Music (Casey) Description: The Teachers.Net website has a vast amount of lesson plans, chatboards, and projects for elementary teachers. This site focuses on the art of music. It offers teacher fun lesson plans to help incorporate music into everyday activities as well as direct music instruction. Teachers.Net is user friendly and free for all users. This website is helpful for educators who are unfamiliar to the subject of music and help to the user feel comfortable with the subject matter.

A to Z Teacher Stuff Lesson Plans Discipline: All Grades: Elementary K-12 Site Address: www.atozteacherstuff.com/Lesson+Plans/indez.shtml (Casey) Description: The A to Z teacher stuff website is a website that provides teachers with hundreds of lesson plans that span the curriculum. This website is divided into nine major categories; themes, lessons, tips, articles, discussion, store, printables, subjects, and tools. This division of the website makes for easy access for the user. Information can be looked at by themes as well as by subjects. The most valuable part of this website is in the printables section. This area provides teachers with over 200 reproducibles that are ready to use in the classroom and are divided by subject for easy access.

Academy Curriculum Exchange Discipline: Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, Computer Skills, Character Building, Dance and Music, and Health Grade: K-12 Site Address: www.ofcn.org/cyber.serv/academy/ace/ (Casey) Description: The Curriculum Exchange is a website where teachers can find many different types of lesson plans. This website was started by a group of 14 teachers from the Columbia Education Center's Summer Workshops. These teachers were from 14 different states across the US and were dedicated to improving the quality of education in the rural, western, United States. These teachers focused mainly on the areas of math and science education but the website has expanded to incorporate other disciplines through out the years by submissions from other teachers across the country.

Can Teach Elementary Resources Discipline: All Grades K-4 Site Address: www.canteach.ca/elementary (Casey) Description: CanTeach is a website that was created to aide teachers in locating and utilizing resources online. This website has resources that all teachers and other educators might find useful to use in the classroom as well as school wide. This site has highlighted on lesson plans, resources, & links which have a Canadian focus however it is also very useful for all. This sites resources are divided into two different categories. The first is a section of Elementary Resources which contains lesson plans and other resources, and second it contains a section of annotated Links. This website is also teacher driven and continues to expand with the submissions of other teachers and educators.

Art Access Discipline: Art Grades: 5-12 Site Address: www.artic.edu/aic/artaccess/ (Casey) Description: The Art Access website is offered by the Art Institute of Chicago. It provides several multicultural art resources for teachers including lesson plans, family activities, an art glossary, books and media, and maps of the US. This website also includes examples of art pieces. Many styles of art are included on this website these styles include Ancient Indian Art of the Americas, African American Art, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, and Modern and Contemporize Art.

Creating Music

http://www.creatingmusic.com/

Grades: I think this would be appropriate for all ages

Disciplines: Music

Description: I LOVE this website! It has fun programs that help teach musical concepts. There is a "Musical Sketch Pad" where you can draw music and then choose an instrument to hear it played on. You can change the speed, turn the notes upside down, and write for up to four instruments at a time. I had a blast. There is another section called "Rhythm Band" which is like the sketch pad only you have 6 lines that you write the parts for different percussion instruments on. The site also has interactive games and activities that allow you to play with scales, work on developing your musical ear, and practice rhythm. This wesite is hands on and WAY FUN! (Jessica Charvat)

Health, " Germs on the Run!"

Kindergartners-3rd Graders

http://www.foodsafety.gov/~dms/fsegerms.html

This site i a reminder for kids to understand the importance of washing their hands before and aftr eaing or after playing sports. It has specific instructions for kids to follow and help them remember to stay healthy. This is t prevent them from passing germs to other kids and to promote healthy lifestyle. (Christine)

Art, " Apple"

Kindergarteners

http://www.kinderart.com/painting/handprintapple.shtml

This art activity is for students to create an apple for the teacher using teir handprint. The materials are things like paint so it gets on their palm of their hand and they can create an apple. This engages them to be creative and appreciate the meaning of art even at such a young age. (Christine)

Web Site Address http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/welcome.html

Grade Level For Teachers teaching Kindergarten to Twelve

Discipline Mathematics, Science, History / Social Science / Language Arts

Description Schools of California Online Resources for Education Aligned to the California content Standards. Teachers can find, lesson plans, resources, special features, related to above subject matters and also aligned to California Education Content Standards. Teachers can also find “CyberGuides” which are supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature. (A. Latrovalis)

Discipline: http://www.edhelper.com relates to the following subjects: Reading and Writing, Math, Social Studies, Science and more. They also have a section of resources for Foreign Languages, Special Education and High School.
Grade Level(s): This website has resources for grades kindergarten through high school.
Description: This website is quite well known for its variety of worksheets that can be used to reinforce skills taught in the classroom. I personally like this site because it provides hand outs that are fun for students. My second graders enjoy the word searches and word scrambles that are offered in the Language section. Another useful tool this site provides is allowing subscribers to personalize worksheets by creating word searches and crossword puzzles from scratch. This website has provided me with numerous assessments and review worksheets that I have needed. I also enjoy the bulletin board ideas that are posted on the site. (Melody Himidian)

Discipline: http://www.timeforkids.com is a website that focuses on Reading, Social Studies and Science.
Grade Level(s): This website is for grades K-6.
Description: This website is a great resource for finding current events and important events from the past. The articles are student friendly in that they are easy for kids to understand. The pictures are great and the geography that is covered is vast. There is also a link for teachers that provide mini-lessons for current events that are in the issues of the magazine. The site does not have many games, but it does provide a lot of interesting information that gives students the opportunity to find out more about the issues we face today. (Melody Himidian)

Discipline: http://www.pbskids.org is a site that teaches Science and music.
Grade Level(s): This site is appropriate for grades 1-3.
Description: This is a simple site that allows students to study habitats and animals, music and the different instruments from around the world and a coloring link that has printables that are available and free. Songs are also available for students to listen to and students can make their own music by choosing their own rhythm and their own instruments. It is great for motivating students to show their musical creativity. (Melody Himidian)

Discipline: http://www.funbrain.com is a website that focuses on Math and Parts of Speech.
Grade Level(s): This website is most appropriate for grades K-4.
Description: This website provides students with games and activities in Math. Students can go the Math arcade and play games that focus on addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. I think it’s a great way to practice drilling these operations. In the reading section of the site, they have a great way to practice and review the parts of speech. They use an interactive version of Mad Libs, which is also another way to practice reading. The site also offers web books for students, which are just books that can be read on the computer. This site is a lot of fun for students that need some extra practice with Math facts and parts of speech. (Melody Himidian)

ELD Picture File

http://www.clipart.com/en/index (Jeanette M. King)

Discipline(s): Visual Aids Grade Level(s): Teaching Tools Web

Description: I ask my mom for a clipart.com subscription for Christmas every year. One of the primary concepts I learned from my class on teaching ELD students is that the old adage is true – a picture is worth a thousand words. If there are over 10 million images on this site to download, how many words does that equal? After using it for a number of years, I have an extensive picture file to use to clarify for my second language learners, bulletin boards, PowerPoint presentations, etc.

Yahoo for Kids

http://kids.yahoo.com/learn (Jeanette M. King)

Discipline(s): Study and Research Skills Grade Level(s): Elementary & Middle School levels

Description: Yahoo Kids Study Zone (formerly Yahooligans) is a website I would always set as the homepage for my classroom computers. There are dictionaries, encyclopedias, Ask Earl, kid-friendly news, and an age-appropriate educational search engine.

Enchanted Learning

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html (Jeanette M. King)

Discipline(s): Cross-Curricular Grade Level(s): Preschool, Elementary, and Middle School levels

Description: I don’t know why I always hear, “Don’t use worksheets!” I never used them to teach a concept, but they are great for other uses. I have found students with learning disabilities often get anxious with independent open-ended assignments: They don’t know what to do exactly, or how much to do. I have found that worksheets work well for centers and homework. It is clear when the assignment is finished, there is usually an example problem, and they are usually not too complicated. Let’s not forget the fun factor - they can often be colored. Worksheets are also good for enabling parents who speak little English to help their children with their homework. Enchanted Learning has a variety of worksheets to print for free, and for a fee, you can subscribe to get access to more worksheets and other teaching tools.

Brain Pop

http://www.brainpop.com/ (Jeanette M. King)

Discipliorne(s): Cross-Curricular Grade Level(s): Grades 3 and up

Description: When trying to teach students that have disabilities that make it problematic to visualize and conceptualize, visuals are an excellent tool. Animation is that much more helpful, as cartoons are motivating and stand up to frequent repetition. Brain Pop provides not only enjoyable animations for a wide variety of subjects, but also activities, quizzes, and tools for educators. Our school subscribed to it, and I used it regularly as a research tool, a study tool, center activity, and a positive reward. There is a free trial available.

(Natasha Novian) Disciplines: Theme based resource pages featuring back to school sources, lesson plans, worksheets, theme units, free software, certificates, teacher tools and more

Grade Levels: Useful for elementary grade levels

Web Site Address: http://www.teacherplanet.com http://www.teacherplanet.com/resource/back2school.php

Description: This site provides theme based teacher resource pages. By clicking on dates on the calendar or using the alphabetical listing key one can find themes based activities pertaining to the event or holiday on that day. Lesson plans can be easily accessed; sub topics are displayed when clicking on t the link to make the search more specific. I found the back to school link to be a useful tool to use as well. It presents first day activities, lesson plans, work sheets forms and checklist which will aid a teacher in preparing for the beginning of the school year.

http://www.funology.com/

Here is a website that children in grades kindergarten through sixth will enjoy. Teachers or students can chose from many different experiments. Children who have Internet access can find fun things to do at home, recipes to cook, games to play, science experiments, and magic tricks to do. There are funny jokes and riddles about bugs, animals, seasons and others. Here also, students can find facts about the human body, outer space, weather, nature, and languages. (Sam Z)

Discovery Education

http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/

Grades: K-12

Discipline: All subjects

Description: This website provides lesson plans for elementary, middle and high school students. All these lesson plans have been created by teacher for teachers. When clicking on the grade level you want, it lists all the subjects for you in alphabetical order; for example, Ancient History, Animals, Astronomy, Earth Science, Economics, Geography, etc. By moving the mouse arrow over these subjects, it shows you another list of which lesson plans are provide for that subject; then you are able to click on whichever lesson plan you want to view. (Natalie Guerboian)

School of Fonts

http://www.schoolfonts.com/cursive-font-blockletter/_Letters_zaner-bloser_style.htm

Discipline: All subject area

Grades: K-2 up

Description: This is a website where teachers can create their own worksheets using different types of fonts. There are block letters and handwriting available to access and download. The types of fonts will allow teachers to create their own exercise sheets and study books. They work with any Windows or Macintosh standard application, and can be used with such programs as Microsoft Word, Claris Works, AppleWorks, and current software. (Natalie Guerboian

www.pbskids.org

Discipline: k-2

Subject area: all subjects

This website has a collection of activities for young children. Children are able to choose from coloring, music, games, videos, language arts, and even mathematics. I think it is appropriate for children from k-2.Tthey get the opportunity to explore the activities with their favorite PBS characters. They will be learning without even knowing it. The website is very colorful and it uses language that children can understand and easy to navigate.

http://www.headlinespot.com/for/kids/

Discipline: 3-5

Subject area: current events

The website is for students to keep up with current events. Children get to choose news according to city, state, and subject. No matter what their interests are, there is news available, such as sports, environment, science, and so on. The website is mostly for elementary children in the upper grades. For students who are more familiar on how to navigate the internet.

http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/
Discipline: All subject areas.
Grade Levels: 1st & up

Description: This site is a great resource for teachers. It is a free site that allows teachers to make crossword puzzles, word searches, math squares, mazes, hidden message worksheets and much more for whatever subject matter the teach desires. The teacher just needs to type in the vocabulary lesson, or any lesson they desire, into the given format and the site will produce the worksheet desired by the teacher. (Hannah Kim)

http://www.word2word.com/coursead.html
Discipline: Languages of the world.
Grade Levels: 5th & up

Description: This site provides free language lessons for nearly every common language spoken. What is great is that for each language, there are several alternative sites that the user can choose from. It provides assistance in vocabulary, spelling, grammar, and even tips on common phrases or words that may be needed. This site is a great resource for teachers who have ESL students or ELD students in their classroom. It will provide a better understanding for the teacher in terms of where their student is coming from. This site can also be suggested to students who have a desire to be exposed to the language of their friend. (Hannah Kim)

http://www.education-world.com/
Discipline: Teacher lesson planning.
Grade Levels: K & up

Description: Education world calls themselves the “educator’s best friend.” This site provides lesson plans incorporated with the national standards success rates for any particular kind of classroom. It also provides ideas that teachers can use in their classroom such as fun interactive ways to transition the classroom from summer to fall, or educating the students about a particular holiday. This site also provides “technology intergration,” which provides assistance in tasks such as making a an Excel spreadsheet. (Hannah Kim)

http://www.actsofkindness.org
Discipline: Building good character.
Grade Levels: K & up

Description: This site emphasizes on building good character in today’s students. The site offers lessons on acts of random kindness and different community activities that students can work on. It provides good ideas on what other classrooms are doing and teacher feedback on how the activity turned out for their students. It concentrates on the 6 pillars of character: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship, and other basic life skills, such as cooperation, saying no, bullying and other daily challenges students need to learn to overcome. (Hannah Kim)

http://www.kidsmc.com/penpal/
Discipline: Penpals with other students.
Grade Levels: 3rd & up

Description: This penpal site connects classrooms or individual students with penpals across the world. Teachers and/or individuals are allowed to post up their requests or respond to requests that have already been put up onto the website for penpals. Having a penpal encourages students in writing friendly letters, but also opens up an opportunity for students to learn and understand about countries, societies and cultures that is different from the one they are used to. (Hannah Kim)

http://dosomething.org/
Discipline: Taking an active role in society.
Grade Levels: 6th & up

Description: Do Something is an organization that is striving to “Powering offline action; using the power of online to get teens to do stuff offline.” It is a great resource that provides a list of “items to care about” such as education, poverty, environment, international human rights, discrimination and much more. Once students and/or teacher click on a cause, it provides each subcategory or current event. In each subcategory, there are brief facts about the issue/cause and further background information. One step further shows how students can “act now” and make a difference for the cause that they care about. (Hannah Kim)

http://www.gamequarium.com/
Discipline: All subject areas.
Grade Levels: K & up

Description: Gamequarium is a site that provides interactive games for students and classrooms of all ages for all different disciplines. What is unique about this site is that the games involve watching educational show clips in order to learn about a new concept. The site provides a list of different shows, and later directs you to a successful link for the desired lesson. This site must be used with parent or teacher guidance, as it is a little difficult for students to understand on their own. (Hannah Kim)

Discipline: All subject areas Grade Level: K-12 http://www.teach-nology.com

This website has examples of lesson plans for teachers to use in any grade level. For example,it has sample lesson plans for Arts/Humanities for all grade levels. Teachers can have access to more lesson plans and worksheets if they sign up. Even if you don't sign up, the samples in the website are useful and provide tips on how to make your lesson for math, science, etc. This website also has rubrics, graphic organizers to print out, etc for free. (Therese Zeyadeh)

Learn 4 Good

Discipline(s): Languages, Art, Math, Science, and Sports. Grade Level(s): Preschool – High School Website Address: www.learn4good.com Description: This is a great and free website for students of all ages. Students have access to games, activities, worksheets, lessons, other good websites, and even toys. It also has suggested reading for different grade levels as well special needs education books. (Diana Yerevanian)

Fun Brain

Discipline(s): Math and Reading Grade Level(s): K-8 Website Address: www.funbrain.com Description: This is a website for teachers as well as students. Although you can find things about a variety of disciplines, the focus is really on math and reading. Students can use this website as a fun way to learn since a lot of the website contains games, arcades, movies, and etc. (Diana Yerevanian)

Kids Know It – http://www.kidsknowit.com

This websites is intended for K-6 grade. This site is filled with fun learning activities and interactive games. All of the activities are geared towards education. Some of the subject areas in this site are astronomy, biology, dinosaurs, geography, geology, math, memory and spelling. (Oscar Jimenez)

Super Teacher Worksheets – http://www.superteacherworksheets.com

Super teacher worksheets is intended for K-6 grade. This site has many supplementary materials and fun worksheets that can be printed out. The subjects covered in this website are math, reading, grammar, spelling, vocabulary, and phonics. (Oscar Jimenez)

Illuminations - http://www.illuminations.nctm.org

This is a great math website that covers K-12 grade. This site has so many fun activities all related to math. All of the activities are interactive and online. There are no worksheets to print out on this site. This site is great to teach kids to love math. (Oscar Jimenez)

Open Court Resources – http://www.opencourtresources.com

This website covers grades K-6. It supplements some of the open court reading program with powerpoints, crossword puzzles, worksheets, and is filled with creative ideas done by other teachers. The subjects covered here are grammar, spelling, vocabulary, reading comprehension and writing. (Oscar Jimenez)

Reading Online – http://www.readingonline.org

This website covers grades K-12. The International Reading Association runs this websites so I figured it must be a credible source of information. This website provides many peer reviewed articles concerning literacy and reading education. Some of the features on this website are a keyword search and indexes to help educators of reading locate articles. Some of the titles of the articles I noticed in the index were: “New Literacies: Culturally Responsive Instruction,” “Bilingual Books,” “New Literacies: Diversity Issues in Teacher Education” and “New Literacies: Learning to Use Diverse Children’s Literature.” (Oscar Jimenez)

PBS Teachers – http://www.pbs.org/teachers/

PBS Teachers provides many classroom resources for teachers ranging from pre-k to 12th grade. Some of the resources provided by PBS Teachers are: online activities, interactive activities, online professional development for teachers, and peer connections. The “peer connections” was put together by PBS and the American Association of School Librarians so that teachers may have access to information concerning literacy and reading amongst children. PBS Teachers has activities for reading, writing, grammar, math, spelling, vocabulary and science. (Oscar Jimenez)

LD Online – http://www.ldonline.org

This website provides teaching strategies for students with learning disabilities (LD) and attention deficit hyper disorder (ADHD). This website is design to help students from K-12. LD Online has resources for educators, parents and kids. I did find a Spanish link so that the whole website is translated. Some of the resources include multimedia, newsletters, how to find expert advice and many peered reviewed articles. Some of the top articles I found were: “Components of Effective Reading Instruction,” “A Scientific Approach to Reading Instruction,” and “Multisensory Structured Language Programs: Content and Principles of Instruction.” (Oscar Jimenez)

Fun Brain – http://www.funbrain.com

Fun Brain is designed for K-8 grade. This site has many activities such as math arcade, reading arcade, math baseball, grammar activities and much more. It also has web books and comic such as Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and Brewster Rockit. All of the activities are fun and make learning pleasant. (Oscar Jimenez)

Primary Games – http://www.primarygames.com

Primary Games covers K-6 language arts, math, social studies, and science. This website has many games related to education and many fun activities that have to do with learning. This website allows for students to choose their level of math and gradually increases the difficulty when a student is successful. This site makes learning fun. (Oscar Jimenez)

Nobel Prize – http://nobelprize.org/educational_games

This website has many games and activities related to education. This site covers K-12, and covers language arts, science, math, social studies and history. This site is completely interactive and some of the activities do become challenging. This is another site that makes learning fun. (Oscar Jimenez)

Discipline: Subject materials on this website relate to arts and music, health and physical education, history and social studies, language arts, math, and science.
Grade Levels: K-12
Web Site Address: http://free.ed.gov/
Description: This site serves as a compilation of teaching and learning resources from federal agencies. These federal resources have been provided within this context so as to encourage educational excellence. Through this web resources, students and educators can research photographs, primary documents, videos, and animations that relate to, further inform, and enhance classroom curriculum. (Ashley Gazzaniga)

Discipline: Lesson plan subjects include the arts, health and safety, history, language arts, math, PE and sports, science, social studies, Special Ed, and specialty themes.
Grades: K-12
Web Site Address: www.education-world.com
Description: This site is extremely comprehensive. Featuring information for teachers, parents, students, and administrators, grade K-12, resources and tools cover topics including lesson planning, professional development, and technology integration. (Ashley Gazzaniga)