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General Math Resources

Saxon Publishers
Saxon publishers website- This site lists several different interactive lessons, including an inroductory calculator lesson

http://saxonpublishers.harcourtachieve.com/HA/resourcelist.aspx?ca=Online+Activities&SRC1=28&SRC5=saxonpublishers
Harvey's Home Page
Great smart board activities for everything we talk about in class! Including matrix multiplication

http://almarolh.googlepages.com/harvey%27shomepage
National Counse of Teachers of Mathematics
NCTM Illuminations and other great resources

http://www.nctm.org/
National Library of Virtual Mathematics

http://nlvm.usu.edu/
Thinfinity!
GREAT resource for finding lessons and interactive activities

http://www.marcopolo-education.org/EducatorHome.aspx
Math Their Way Blacklines

http://www.center.edu/BLACKLINES/blacklines.shtml
Math Sense
All different ways of incorporating literacy and math, different websites to go to for resources, very nicely organized and spec

http://www.mrspohlmeyerskinderpage.com/mathsense.htm
Math Their Way

http://www.center.edu/NEWSLETTER/newsletter.shtml
Jefferson Lab
Wide variety of resources, lesson, and online activities for teachers and students.

http://education.jlab.org/

SmartBoard Resources

Smart Board Website
Here is where you download SB notebook and can also search for great lesson ideas.

http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-us/
Teacher's Love SmartBoard
I stole this one from Harvey. Great resource if you are looking for ideas to spice up the smartboard lessons.

http://www.smartboards.typepad.com/
Educator Resources
Go here for SmartBoard related downloads.

http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-US/Ed+Resource/
Animated Files
Nice way to add something different to SB lesson.

http://www.animationlibrary.com/

Lesson Plans

Marco Polo

http://www.marcopolo-education.org/home.aspx

Curriculum Development

Links to Kidspiration/Inspiration Order Site
Something I might want to invest in sometime

http://www.enablemart.com/Catalog?search=inspiration
Preventing and Responding to Challenging Behaviors
Great set of articles to help children with challenging behaviors, good tips for parents and teachers

http://www.journal.naeyc.org/btj/200307/
Resources for Early Childhood Educators

http://www.communityplaythings.com/mailing/collage/currentcollage.html
NAEYC

http://naeyc.org
Democratic Discipline

http://journal.naeyc.org/btj/200307/DemocraticDiscipline.pdf
Unit on Life Cycle of Plants
This article describes one schools approach to teaching about the life cycle of plants through learning about

http://www.edibleschoolyard.org/homepage.html
Making Bread
Great resource for cooking with kids.

www.pumpkincircle.com/bread
Science in Focus
Teacher Professional Development Video

http://www.learner.org/resources/series118.html
Long Term Projects: Shadows and Light

http://ecrp.uiuc.edu/v2n1/glassman.html
Discovery Education
Very useful resource to learn more about a certain content area

http://www.unitedstreaming.org
Annenberg Media
More teacher development resources

http://www.learner.org
National Science Teachers Association
A great resource for learning science content before teaching it to the class. Wonderful journal articles and worth joining.

www.nsta.org
ABC Teach
Lots of classroom downloads, from calendar to word wall print outs. Lots of resources to help set up your classroom.

http://www.abcteach.com/directory/teaching_extras/calendars/
Busy Teacher's Cafe
Wonderful sight for ideas ranging from classroom set up and management to thematic units. Concrete information and ideas, forms,

http://www.busyteacherscafe.com/index.html

SOL Stuff

RCPS Lesson Plans/SOL Practice

http://www.rockingham.k12.va.us/k5/k5.htm
Virginia Scope and Sequence
Great place to get a better understanding of SOLs and content area ideas

http://www.doe.virginia.gov/VDOE/EnhancedSandS/science.shtml
Virginia Standards of Learning

http://www.doe.virginia.gov/go/Sols/home.shtml
Old SOL tests
Interesting to see old tests...

http://www.doe.virginia.gov/VDOE/Assessment/releasedtests.html
Rubric Maker

http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php

Number and Number Sense

Counting Practice

http://members.learningplanet.com/act/count/free.asp
Number and Number Sense SmartBoards

http://almarolh.googlepages.com/number%26numbersense
24 Game
24 Game site where students can practice their 24 skills! Great fun way to practice computation and work with numbers.

http://www.24game.com/
Elementary Sites
Interactive games for kids

http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/ekowalcz/math/elementary_web_sites.htm
Number Sense Lesson
might want to try this with younger kids, sounds fun

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/MathNumberSense1.htm
Mental Math Strategies
More ideas and activities for increasing mental math skills

http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/de/math1-3/p-mentalmath.html

Measurement

Stop the Clock!

http://www.teachingtime.co.uk/draggames/sthec1.html
Gorilla Gallon Instructions

http://almarolh.googlepages.com/GorillaGallon.notebook
Money Practice
This site would be a great way for kids to practice counting money independtly. I might use this as a center one day. I like it

http://arcytech.org/java/money/money.html
NLVM Measurement Activities

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/topic_t_4.html
Measurement Resources

http://mathforum.org/paths/measurement/e.measlessons.html
Show Me the Money
Concrete way to teach money!

http://almarolh.googlepages.com/ShowMeTheMoney.notebook

Computation and Estimation

Missing Number SmartBoard

http://almarolh.googlepages.com/Missing-Number.notebook
Delta Education
It's neat to see what is available for teachers to use to teach computation.

http://www.delta-education.com/productgallery.aspx?subID=110&menuID=113
Ten Tiles

http://almarolh.googlepages.com/TenTiles.notebook
Matrix Multiplication
If only I had this when I was in school!

http://almarolh.googlepages.com/MatrixMult.notebook
Round Off the Mountain

http://almarolh.googlepages.com/RoundOffMountain.notebook