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English

Awesome Library
Web English Teacher
The Teacher's Guide
English Lesson for Current Events
Read-Write-Think
Mrs Donn's Free Language Arts
Storytelling Lesson Plans
Expo Classroom Ideas
International Literacy Day
Playing with Picture books
Enasco free downloads
Free Reading
Dr. Seuss
Online Reading Character Scrapbook
Building Blocks For Literacy
Research-based Program
Jumpstart Read for the Record
Read for the Record Campaign
Speakaboos
Celebrity Readings
Storyline Online
Video program that features actors reading children's books
Martha Speaks
Early Readers
Book Wink
free videos and podcasts about books grades 3-8
All About Adolescent Literacy
info. for struggling writers in grades 4-12
Free Reading
Reading Tools
Reading is Fundamental
Reading Games
Learn to Read
My new favorite phonics site

Poetry Unit

Readers' Theater

Writing Letters

Business Letter Format

Writing Paper

Author's Links

Shel Silverstein
Patricia Polacco
Tim Raskinski
Time to Read With Mrs. P
Website That Reads to Kids
Roald Dahl
Official Roald Dahl Page
Beverly Clearly
Author Study

Bilingual Resources

Teaching Tolerance
Dancing with Languages
The National Association for Bilingual Education
Resource
The University of Southern California's Center for Multilingual, Multicultural Research
A base in multilingual education
National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education
Center for Applied Linguistics
Cooperative Learning Center

Spelling

Spelling
Ages 5-18

Mathematics

Elementary Math
The world of math online
Teach R Kids Math
The Math Forum
Math can take you places
Interactive Lesson Plans
Student References
AAA Math- all grades
touchmath
Once Upon a Time
Time for Time
Symmetry
Multiplication
Many free games to help with multiplication
h.i.p. pocket change
resources for learning money
Smarty Games
math and reading games
Math Baseball
IXL Math
Unlimited Math Topics
The Math Forum @ Drexel University

Tangrams

Telling Time

How to tell time

Money

America the Beautiful Quarters Program
Quarters Lesson Plans

Science

Science Lesson Plans
teAchnology
Structures of the Earth
Energy Kid's Page
The Lessons Plans Page
Variety of science lessons
Adopt a Butterfly Program
life cycle of a monarch butterfly
Spirgot Science Magazine
Published 5 times a year
http://www.sciencewithme.com/

Owl Unit

Owl Research Websites for Students

Balance and Motion

Hula Hoop Lesson Plan

Rainforest

Students Resources for Rainforest Unit

Dinosaurs

Earth Day

Earth Day

Technology

The National Technical Assistance Center on PBIS
Resource
Open Office
A Free Word Processing Option
Simple Games for Preschoolers
Counting, stacking, and matching
Typing Instructions
Teaches Children How to Type on the Computer

Health and Fitness

Subway
Make Healthy Choices
National Children's Dental Health Month
Resource for teachers

Social Studies

Current events
Education World
Tolerance
Geography Awareness
Geography and Why It's Important
Take a Veteran to School
Learn About Veterans
Museum Box
Kids Create Their Own Website
Library of Congress
original documents from history
My Wonderful World
National Archives

Character Education

Standards and Expectations

National Council for the Social Studies
Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory
Has a variety of professioal development opportunities

High-Stakes Assessment and Reporting

PBS program Frontline
array of interviews, links, and other resources on relationship between standards and assessments
No Child Left Behind
Actual Text to No Child Left Behind Act

Economics

Diversity

Sneetches by Dr. Seuss
Milestone Project
Lemon Lesson
Teacher Feature Lesson
Lesson-Developing a Respect for Diversity
Assessment of Diversity in America's Teaching Force
ABCDE Approach
Diversity Activities
Diversity Activities
Approaching to Teaching Diversitywww.uww.edu/learn/diversity/dozensuggestions.php
Understanding Prejudice Exercises and Demonstrations
Target-Dream in Color
k-5 unit
Teaching Tolerance
Teaching Tolerance
Resources
Mix It Up
Encourage students to cross social boundaries
Todd Parr
It's Okay to be Different

Anti-bullying

Teaching Tolerance
Reduce gender-based bullying

Mexico

Africa Resources

Teaching Tolerance
Click on: "I Didn't Know There Were Cities in Africa!"

Misc.

Kentucky Educational Television
American Library Association
Media Lesson Plans
http://www.factmonster.com/
A little bit of everything
Activities/ Resources
Lakeshore Elementary
Mexican hot chocolate
Digital classrooms
Grade Level Letters Template
Maine Teaching Standards
Ask kids
New Learning Results
Lights On After School
Info. on afterschool activities
Certificate Street
Free certificates
Club Girl Tech

All subjects

Beacon Learning Center
Has every subject you need!
Apple's 4 the teacher
Lesson Plans
Ed Helper
Educator's Reference Desk
Classroom Activities
PBS teachers
Sites for Teachers
Teachnet.com
Google Lesson Plans and Reproducibles
New York Times Daily Lesson Plan
EDsitement
Center for Media Literacy
The Teachers Corner
A to Z Teacher Stuff
Teach Learn Communicate
Jan Brett
Fun Brain
Scholastic
Cool units and lesson plans
Discover channel
Teacher Created Resources
Sample Lessons and Free Stuff
Classroom Zoom
Sample Lessons Grade K-6
Simon & Schuster
Book lovers resource
We are Teachers
Profile website with resources partnered with Walden
Teachers Pay Teachers
Sell your lesson plans
Electronic Portfolios
The Problem Site
Skill Practice and Entertainment
Tools For Educators
Tons of stuff
School Express
Library Web
Discovery Zone of Answers

News Articles

How to Verify Information that is Researched

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
A series of surveys designed to help students learn to critically evaluate the reliability of internet info.
Kathy Schrock's Homepage

Classroom Management

Responsive classroom
Teacher vision
National Education Association
Indiana University
About dot com
Teachers net
Dr. Jean Workshop
Minneapolis Public Schools
Creating a Positive School Climate for Learning
Brain Honey
Personalized Learning Platform

Behavioral Change Plans

http://www.superteacherworksheets.com
Behavioral worksheets for both educators and students

Rubrics

Exemplars K-12
Performance tasks for a variety of grade levels
Chicago Public Schools Instructional Intranet
Tips on creating rubrics
RubiStar
Rubric generator
Teach-nology
General rubric generator
Rubrics

Kid's Educational Rights

Dancing and Moving Arts

Cheering
variety of cheers and chants
Pom-poms
directions for making pom-poms
Music for sale
Music that supports the teaching of school curriculum
PBS Kids
Offers young children's music and dance ideas
Video Clips
Free Demonstration video clips of dance
Song Lyrics
Find printable song lyrics
How to play the spoons
Directions with pictures
The Bear Hunt
Participation Story
Lyrics
Database of Lyrics
Song Storybooks
Extensive list of song storybooks
Music Lessons for Hails

Free Things

Free Things
Homeschool buyers co-op
Every lesson every unit...look here first

Art

The Art Zone
Wonderful art website

Music

Morton Subotnick's Creating Music
Compose your own music