Search or browse lesson plans and teaching resources to find what you need for themes and thematic units, literature & book acti

Technology integrated lessons for each grade level

Lesson plans in all grades and content areas

Lots of lessons and mini lessons for all content areas

http://annettelamb.com/ladders/themes/webquests.htm

Google Earth is a great application that can be used for so many things. There is a collection of lesson plans using the applica

Do you use Google EDU with your students and want ideas? Great search tool

Great hands on activities that help you teach any concept!!!

Unit Plan Index

Fast way to find lesson plans

over 3,000 lesson plans online

Great novel activities and webquests for many popular books

Lesson plans by TEKS with tech links

Visit the lesson plans center to find your way to well over 27,234 lesson plans

One of the best sites available for teacher lessons and resources

Great site that has tiered activities for all grade levels and subjects

instructional video for kids

everything you need to know about all kinds of media use.

check these out to see if you know what the true answers are.

Need to write to a web site to get permission to use some of their items? Here are some template letters you can use:

Alief GT site with tons of links and projects for GT students

Money unit with lesson plans

Join a variety of characters as they show young students the fundamentals of money & banking. Learn everything from how money is

Visualizing huge numbers can be very difficult. The MegaPenny Project aims to help by taking one small everyday item, the U.S. p

a great game to practice counting money and making change.

copyright friendly images for educators.

Create all different kinds of puzzles online

designed to provide you with the philosophical bases for sound comprehension strategy instruction, directions for a range of com

The reading strategies presented in this publication are designed to provide teachers with alternatives and replacement tasks to

a visual search engine for kids

filtered search engine for kids

Microsoft's Free Search Engine for schools

Internet search guide for K-12

Fast meta search engine to crawl the internet for safe content.

Created by librarians and teachers

a custom Google search engine for kids

Excellent Search Engine for kids!! Safe and gives readability level of each site

alphabetized list of great resources for kids

Created by librarians for elementary school students and teachers

a SUPER resource for educational topics that you can search by readability level (need a password if not at an Alief Computer)

Websites written by kids for kids

search engine for kids (If you cannot find it on the above links - then us this one as a last resort)

Use Thinkport’s Annotator tool to analyze text and build writing skills

Online Books for K-2

All content areas for ages 4-11

All grade level content

Great videos for students to pick up tips and tricks on basic computer skills.

Games on basic math concepts

A great free drawing tool for students to show what they know.

Super videos and activities (paid site buy Alief ISD)

Great LA and Math activities

Sites that have an * next to their name are excellent sites, however, they have ad banners on the page.

a great resource for primary

great classroom activities

Great sites in all content areas for kids.

can be used as a teaching tool or workstation

All kinds of online stories and activities for kids

The interactive reading games below are ideal for developing the reading skills of your pupils.

all grade level activities

Kindergarden games in all content areas

You must registar to create an account but it is free. Great picture books, reading activities, and ESL games.

Math Vocabulary for all grade levels

The section of the National Geographic website devoted to online videos about animals, people and places, the environment and mo

Great search engine for kids and teachers

Create a free teacher account - add your students - a great current event site with different reading levels and quizzes

Great tool for keep on time

in English and Spanish

letters and sounds

Your Online Whiteboard

All content areas

Online Stories

LA and Math concepts designed for 1st grade but good for preK-2

Famous actors reading stories online.

math, phonic & word activities

Sudoku with graphics

A great Sudoku game for primary in color

Great site of games and activites

Great videos created by teachers for teachers

online analog clock that you can manipulate

Great Student Interactives to help teach or reinforce concepts

Great activities, crafts, rhymes, songs and a whole lot more

tons of items you can use

tons of items you can use

instructional videos for kids

Great site with 3 different reading levels - great pictures and in English or Spanish

a great game that helps you learn about the states, capitals and landscapes of our country.

Use Thinkport’s Annotator tool to analyze text and build writing skills

All content areas for ages 4-11

Tons of sites in all concept areas

CNN stories with TONS of activities - vocabulary, sequence, main idea, etc.

a nice online tool that helps students create their own comic strips.

a huge selection of comics to read

Great videos for students to pick up tips and tricks on basic computer skills.

great activities and lessons for tons of books

Great video site (Paid site by Alief ISD)

Every-Day Edit activities most appropriate for that month

Students can read writing from other students and even write and post their own

a game that you can test your knowledge of continents, capitals, countries and landscapes around the world

collection of interactive games and activities supporting past performances by the Children's Theatre

tons of sites for all grade levels

Great resources to teach a concept with the computer

The site is a collection of resources for K-5 teachers to use to enhance the literacy curriculum and improve students' reading a

Find movie clips that go with conent

Interactive math tools, math activities and math fun for kids

A podcast about the Children's Book we love.

all grade level activities

Kids try to solve all kinds of mysteries online

Safe search engines for kids - great for schools

Use these free, web-based tools to quickly create rubrics, graphic organizer worksheets, and citation lists for project.

Super Interactive Math Activities for all concept areas!

The section of the National Geographic website devoted to online videos about animals, people and places, the environment and mo

Create a free teacher account - add your students - a great current event site with different reading levels and quizzes

Great tools for staying on time!

Science Activities and Assessments

Great project based learning site for all content

Create your own puzzles.  Everything from crosswords, to wordsearches, to mazes!  Lots of fun

offers a collection of online Student Materials to support literacy learning in the K-12 classroom. These interactive tools can

Reader’s Theater Editions are free scripts for reader’s theater (or readers theatre) adapted from stories written by Aaron Shepa

Scripts and Plays that students can act out in all content areas

Student love to compare and anazlye data about roller coasters!! Great math everywhere!

Great site with tons of rubric templates you can customize or use as is.

the learning zone for kids, teachers and parents for science (ages 7-11)

Your Online Whiteboard

All Content Areas

Famous actors reading the story - great video and pictures

Math and Science

Lots of links in all concept areas

Great videos created by teachers for teachers

a great site with online books and author videos

teach mass, length and capacity

Spanish resources and lesson plans

Great Student Interactives to teach or reinforce a concept

This builder will help you construct a timeline, adding events, descriptions, and images

History, documentary and video online

tons of items you can use

tons of items you can use

great online fraction concepts

instructional videos for kids

Kids site all about the White House

Great site with 3 different reading levels - great pictures and in English or Spanish

All content areas for ages 16+

Learning about the Human Body? This is a Google CHROME plugin that lets you explore the body in 3D

Helps students to properly credit the information that they use.

tons of web sites in all content areas

Tons of already created PowerPoints on all contents and grade levels

Great lessons by Nasa for HS Math

High School web links on all content areas

Middle school math tools, math activities and math fun for kids

tons for resources on all concepts and grade levels

Instructional video in math and science content areas for Middle/High school

a great place for math educators to share resources.

Mathtrain.TV is a free educational "kids teaching kids" project from Mr. Marcos & his students at Lincoln Middle School in Santa

a resource for math and science middle school teachers

a full list of resources for all content

Create a free teacher account - add your students - a great current event site with different reading levels and quizzes

Great project based learning site for all content

Interactive lessons, diagrams, quizzes - a super resource

resource for students who are working on their homework or just need a little extra help on any given subject

Store & organize your notes, syllabus, practice tests, and flashcards - For High School Students

lets you create questions and then it will text you a question

web content and materials for all grades

A fun periodic table where every element has its own unique personality. GOOGLE CHROME PLUGIN

Search for web sites on any content area for any grade level

Instructional videos for kids

Great site with 3 different reading levels - great pictures and in English or Spanish

You ask the questions - it gets you the answer in step by step format - SUPER use!

all grade level topics

Learning about the Human Body? This is a Google CHROME plugin that lets you explore the body in 3D

visit this site to see virtual field trips from Guatemala, Peru, Ecuador, Ghana, Bolivia, Haiti, Kosovo, Madagascar, Nepal, Mali

You can select objects related to any topic, select images, and add text

great video resource for all grades

a great collection of web cams showing cities and sites from around the world.

National Geographics combine maps and pictures and videos to tell the story of events!

Visit each country and keep a travel journal as you go

Bring the world to your classroom with Google+

Discover exhibits and collections from museums and archives all around the world.

Learn all about Google Earth and download for free

This site is dedicated to the explorers, voyages, events, and historical backgrounds of countries throughout the World.

Pick a book and follow the character's journey on Google Earth

Great real time Google Earth Tours

Great interactive sites by National Geographics

A great resource with lots of image rich media on all topics.

Take a great 360 tour in lots of cities around the world - search for the city and start exploring

Explore Science - One interactive game at a time - done by Rice University

Easy site to find web quest for your grade level!

Webquests designed for ages 15-18

All levels

Quest designed for Middle/High School

Make one from scratch

search for any concept

Online Math Projects

Super site that teachers can sign up for free and find partners for projects all over the world.

enables teachers and youth to use the Internet and other technologies to collaborate on projects

Highly recommended site for educators. Offers Internet projects and lesson ideas from around the world. Also lots of contests fo

Links to a wide variety of online projects.

Online Projects

Find online projects or partners to work with on a certain project

nice list of resources

Free video conferences offered by NASA

Sign up on this teachers database to find classrooms all over the world

A video conference site that will allow you to create a video room then share that room with guests to have a group conference

Edmodo is a free and secure social learning network for teachers, students and schools

With a Google Account - a Google Site can be created and you can allow anyone with a Google Account to post, change or comment

Complete Free Learning Management System for Teachers to collaborate with students

All about Wiki

much more than a wiki. Wikidot gives you a rich set of 'modules', like image galleries, forums and petitions, and web widgets.

online encyclopedia that can be edited

free wiki spaces to create your own

Content that you can freely and legally use.

Great pictures and drawings - all science related

FreeFoto.com is the largest collection of free photographs on the Internet

Photo Library

over 275,000 images digitized from the collections of The New York Public Library

copyright friendly images for educators.

A visual dictionary that combines Wiktionary content with Flickr images, and more!

a database of 8,607,025 freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute.

Google Blog

Edmodo is a free and secure social learning network for teachers, students and schools

EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY BLOGS

Safe and simple blogs for your students

Download Audacity for free (music editing software)

This allows you to make MP3 files with your Audacity software

great resources for creating Podcasts and other audio theater

podcast newsfeed

Broadcast live to the web from a phone call

A great resource that divides creating Podcasts into four parts: preproduction, recording, postproduction, and publishing.

with descriptions

a great free template for planning your audio drama

Principles for writing a radio drama

On this site you think of an object and the computer will ask you questions and try to guess what your object is in 20 question

Strategy game you play against the computer. Just like the board game, Battleship!

This exciting collection of brain teasers, games and optical illusions are on a site that has been certified as safe for all age

A categorized archive of challenging Brain Boosters put together by Discovery School

Collection of hundreds of puzzles, ranging from word games to logic problems to riddles. Some are tricky. Some require innovatio

Has over 7,000 brain teasers, riddles, logic problems and mind puzzles submitted and ranked by users like you

Visit this NIEH site to find a great selection of challenges just for you. Be sure to check out the optical illusions!!

Play checkers against the computer.

Play chess against the computer.

Great math site with lots of games to test your skills and problem solving abilities!! Click on games and try your hand at the W

A word puzzle each day based on current news events

Tons of cool games that make you think!

Strategy game you play against the computer

Like the game, Connect Four, but you cannot put a piece down until you answer a fraction problem. Covers fractions, percents, de

Pre-K - 6th grade level links to games that cover many areas, from math to reading to critical thinking.

Great interactive games for ages 6 and up. Covers all subject areas. There are even challenges for parents and children to work

Enjoy a new word game, word search, brainteaser, trivia game, anagram, cryptogram, crossword and more each weekday! Two levels

This site provides over 1500 games - test your skill! Games are grouped for Pk-2 and 3-6+.

Click and drag the matchsticks (or numbers or puzzle pieces) to solve these online puzzles - 2 levels

Click on the games & puzzles links and try your hand at some challenging puzzles. Other links on the main page provide for some

Super puzzles to put together! Lots to choose from

Free, fun online jigsaw puzzles

Math Puzzles that can be done online or printed out

Use these fun-filled mysteries to teach critical thinking, logic and reasoning.

Teachers create your own logic and Saduko puzzles with a paid subscription - try out the free samples!!

Columbus State University’s College of Education is now the home of the Problem of the Week math contest

Tons of free online puzzles and games

Create your Own Geography Game for others to play

the computer thinks of a number and you select questions to try to guess what that number is. How many questions did it take you

Learn4good provides free online action games and hours of fun for Children, Teens & Big Kids

a huge variety of games to play on the internet all about math

Allows you to play this classic against the computer. Good for making predictions and discussing probability.

Can you move all the red pegs and blue pegs from one side to the other. How many turns did it take you? Remember your pegs can't

Come and play games and solve a lot of puzzles

Great puzzles where you have many shapes that you have to fit in a puzzle. You can turn and rotate the pieces as needed. Three c

This popular number puzzle is now online. There are tons of games from easy to just plain evil!

This site provides challenging puzzles for older students (middle - high school).

Can you get four in a row on one board or on all four? Can you beat the computer cat?

wonderful online game geared for students in grades 5-12 for learning about history and different cultures

Strategy game like Triple Yhatzee. Younger students will need help with the directions.

ABC Teach provides printable borders, “All About Me” sheets, student information cards, printable shape books, story starters, a

Tons of items including posters for your classroom

Internet4Classrooms provides printables and ideas for bulletin boards, bookmarks, flashcards, books to make, and many more.

a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles

Great free stuff for teachers!

Teacher’s Corner provides images of wonderful bulletin board ideas to start the school year

FREE worksheets, worksheet creators, printable wizard and on-line teaching materials makers with images

Subsription based but great short animated videos on all concepts

a great set of videos that focus on animals, habitats and the environment - SOME Videos NOT APPROPRIATE FOR YOUNGER

Discover and teach with the best free K-12 learning resources

Subscription based it is a huge collection of videos

Instructional video in math and science content areas for upper elementary to high school

a free, educational "kids teaching kids" project from Mr. Marcos & his Students at Lincoln Middle School in Santa Monica, CA

The section of the National Geographic website devoted to online videos about animals, people and places, the environment and mo

resources for students who are working on their homework or just need a little extra help on any given subject.

Great videos created by teachers for teachers

The videos on this page link to Flash files which require the Adobe Flash Player plug-in

Free educational videos organized by content or age level

Kids Current Events (News for kids in Video Format)

he place where you can easily convert a Google™ Spreadsheet into a set of online flashcards

•Pick-and-choose which elements you want to add to your custom rubric.

Great free resource to making rubrics

Super site for creating free rubrics

Free site for teachers to create

Great rubrics - free version and a paid version

build a customizable rubric that can be used for any writing activity