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Art

A. Pintura, Art Detective
The @rtroom
ArtsEdge
National Art Education Association
Art Education Page for K-12

Blogs and Wikis

Blogs as Writing Practice
Edublogs
Class Blogmeister
21 Classes
PB Wiki
Wikispaces for Teachers

Current Events

Political Cartoons
It's No Laughing Matter: Analyzing Political Cartoons
Debate - Debatabase
News Busters Game
Who's Who and What's What
New York Times Learning Network
Time for Kids
CNN Student News
Newsweek Education Program (Teacher resource)

Electronic Portfolios

Electronic Portfolios: Students, Teachers, and Life Long Learners
Creating An Electronic Portfolio
Teacher (and Student Teacher) Portfolios
Professional Electronic Education Portfolio

Essential Questions

Asking the Essential Question
Creating Essential Questions
Examples
Framing Essential Questions (Jamie MacKenzie)
Questioning.org (Jamie MacKenzie)

Fun sites

Middle School Science Humor
SodaPlay
Cartoonster- Fun Animation Tutorials
Invention At Play
SuperThinkers
Bears!
Paper Toys
Book-a-minute
Tom Swifties
Authentic Assessment
Richard Lederer
Peeps Research
Learning Laffs
WhizzBall
Planarity Game
Bomomo

Health & Phys. Ed

Anorexa Nervosa and Related Eating Disorders
Health Central
Web MD
Kids Health
Teen Health

How To

Atomic Learning

Inspiration Resources

Inspiration Site
Alignment with MLR
Inspiration/Kidspiration Resources
Review from LD OnLine
Top 10 Template Tips
Inspiration Tutorial
eMints Resources

Interpreting Images

How to Interpret Photographs
Through the Lens
Photographic Analysis Form
Researching and Interpreting History through Photographs (pdf)
Reading Photographs
Photo Foolery

Laptops and the Writing Process

Research on Laptops
enGuage Resources: Future Directions for Technology and the Teaching of Writing

Literacy - Elementary

Flat Stanley
Reading Rockets
Starfall
ReadWriteThink
Reading Strategies
Knowledge Loom
Prompt Generator
KVL Kids Research Portal

Maine Studies

Maine Historical Society
Northeast Historical Film
My Maine Resources Page - Beware of dead links (I can't update it.)
Secretary of State's Kids' Page
Windows on Maine

Math Resources

A Plus Math
Gallery of Online Interactive Geometry
Math Activities List from King Middle School
Math Songs
Open-Ended Math Problems
Project Interactivate
SCORE Math Lessons
Tessellation Tutorials
The Math Forum
Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles
MathLine - Lesson Plans with Video (PBS)

Music

World Music Webquest
Music Resources for K-12 Teachers
Music Notes - ThinkQuest Site
Heather Graves
From the Top
Handy Transposition Chart
The Music Rack - Sheet Music Online
Songs for Teaching
Dallas Symphony Orchestra

Poetry

Poetry.com: The International Library of Poetry
The Academy of American Poets
Twentieth Century Poetry in English
Shadow Poetry - Be sure to check out the Types of Poetry Page
Online Poetry Classroom
Poetry Lessons Online

Teacher Resource Hot Lists

MaineLearns - Click on Content Specific
Jim Moulton

Teacher Tools

BSD Technology Integration Discussion Board
Evaluation for Brunswick Tech Integration Seminar
4Teachers
Citation Machine
iTeachMath
Pics4Learning (Copyright friendly pictures)
Countdown Timer
Practice Keyboard
Puzzlemaker
Teacher Tools from Scholastic

Graphic Organizers

Graphic Organizers

Collaboration Tools

Imagination Cubed - Collaborative Drawing Board
Writeboard - Collaborative Writing
Writely - Collaborative Writing in Real Time (Beta)
NumSum - Collaborative Spreadsheet

The Research Process

MARVEL - Databases
Information Literacy Quiz
Quick! (Web site evaluation)
ABC
Welcome to the Web
The Research Process Flow Chart
MARVEL!
Summarizing, Paraphrasing, Quoting

Notetaking

Ideas About Note Taking and Citing Sources
Note-take Effectively
Ideas About Note Taking and Citing Sources
Note card database

Tracking

Ability Grouping, Tracking, & Alternatives (Bibliography)
Creating Equitable Schools (Forum Brief)
Crossing the Tracks (Introduction)
School Tracking Harms Millions
Successful Detracking in Middle and Senior High Schools

Universal Design for Learning

Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age
Web Site Accessibility

Video Games and Education

Games-to-Teach Research Vision
Game Research

Web Quests

Best Web Quests (Tom March
iwebquest.com
Kathy Schrock
The Web Quest Page (Bernie Dodge)
WebQuest 101 (a tutorial)
WebQuest Index
WebQuests: Explanation

Differentiated Instruction

All Kinds of Minds
CAST: Differentiated Instruction

Drama

Drama Workshop: Ideas for Teaching Drama
PBS: Broadway, The American Musical
Reader's Theatre Basics
Resources for Teaching Drama and Theatre Studies
Speech and Drama in the Middle Schools
The Puppetry Home Page

Dance

Roots of US Folk Dance
An American Ballroom Companion