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One of the best websites I found while researching Standard 6.4 was the National Education Association's Lesson Plan site. The site focuses on lesson planning and provides teachers with a number of strategies for whatever topic they need. Not only does the NEA provide ideas for lesson plans, but they also offer different strategies and support for inside the classroom. Even better- it's free! There is no sign up or membership requirements. This is an excellent site to advance a teacher's own learning process and update their educational practice.

This website goes along with Standard 6.1 by providing teachers with multiple ways to enhance their classroom. There are free worksheets to print out, many links to other websites to get educational material, educational games, and more. It has lesson plan ideas sorted by subject area and even emergency lessons for substitutes to keep students engaged. As a beginning professional, you can look at tips on how to write a lesson plan and improve it as well.

If knowledge was power this site would be invincible. With countless free lesson plans, activities, and games for both students and teachers this site has it all while adhering to standard 6.1.

Teachnology.com is a teacher's resource site that offers educational and instructional tools for teachers. This site reflects Standard 6.5, because this site features research in educational topics and teacher development, student and teacher safe search engines, information in educational technology, teacher newsletters, and teacher forums that allow teachers to communicate on updates and ideas in the educational world. Teachnology.com also offers classroom resources such as lessonplans, worksheets, templates for graphic organizers, and rubrics that can be used in the class.

For Standard 6.4., one can use the Crayola website to find art-related lesson plans for any subject. Materials, time, grade level and significance are listed for each project. Additionally, techniques for all art supplies for the educator are given.

This website offers teachers, parents and students resources for use in the classroom and at home. Resources include lesson plans, strategy guides, activities and more. 6.4 Candidate use technology in their own learning process and to change their current educational practice. I believe this website met the 6.4 standard because it educates teachers on innovative ways to set up lessons and activities in the classroom. This website also offers teachers educational websites which show them how to incorporate technology into their lessons.

Thought I'd share an RSS feed from one of my favorites, NPR. This series reminds us why we WANT to be teachers. Here's NPR's blurb: You may have already heard of StoryCorps, the American oral history project on NPR. Two people sit down in a studio and talk, telling stories about their lives, and the people at StoryCorps record and archive the conversation. StoryCorps is honing in on lessons about learning with a new project for the academic year, called the National Teachers Initiative.

Gamequarium is an online interactive website with games and worksheets to supplement the instructional strategies that the students learned in class. This website also provides teachers with access to lesson plans and teaching tips on how to teach students, Teachers also get access to information about the importance and saftey of internet access and different ways to include instructional technology into the classroom such as YouTube.Gamequarium is an educational website that supplements the instruction of both teachers and students via hands-on technology.

This website is useful for teachers in grades K-5. It is a site that aligns lessons with Common Core Standards for individual learning for each student. This website gives personalized lessons for each student and the teacher can view student progress and make comments to students throughout their course of learning. It is a great assistive technology to reinforce concepts that have been introduced in the classroom.

* Teaching Channel is a great place for teachers to go to watch videos about common core standards or lessons from other teachers. It is free and it has so many things that are beneficial to teachers. You can bookmark different videos or lesson plans so that you can go back to them whenever you want to. You have a question and answer board so that you can ask questions to other teachers or answer questions that other teachers have asked. You can choose your subject and grade level and the website will notify you of new videos that are related to your subject interests.

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I decided to use www.deepspacesparkle.com as my website of the day because this site is an excellent resource for K- 6th grade art teachers. The lessons are simple and easily understood.

A collection of educational worksheets, lesson plans, activities and resources for teachers and parents. This site has classroom management ideas, a message board, book lists, bulletin board ideas and so much more.

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World's largest and most advanced online repository of math and science simulations for grades 3-12. Research-proven, inquiry-based learning tools for teachers and students. Web-based for anytime, anywhere learning. 6.1 Candidates integrate instructional technology to facilitate learning in their classrooms, to supplement instructional strategies, to design instructional materials, and the enhance hands-on experiences and problem solving. I felt like this website met the standards of 6.1. This is a great resource for teachers and parents who are teaching math or science. There are a variety of lesson plans as well as interactive "gizmos" that will help students learn. Students can do the interactive portion and then be asked to complete the lesson plan. It's such a helpful site that will benefit the students and teachers.

Great site for Math and Science. Access to state standards as well as by textbook or by grade level.

Grades K-12 + Lesson Plans + Activities + videos + current events

TeacherTube is free to everyone. Members are encouraged to not only upload educationally relevant videos, but also to make constructive comments and use the rating system to show appreciation for videos of value to one as an educator or learner. Users also have the ability to preserve the integrity of the site by flagging inappropriate videos.

I love the search engine. I typed in War of 1812 and it came up with a bunch of video clips and more. Great site! Thanks for sharing!

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Mimio is a company that makes interactive technologies for the classroom. The interactive whiteboard is similar to a smartboard except it just attaches to the teachers exisiting whiteboard magnetically. Students or teachers can use the pens to write on the board and control the computer screen by using the whiteboard. Mimio also makes a reading tutorial called MimioSprout. This helps children from kindergarten to second grade with reading. This website meets standard 6.1 because it allows students to use interactive technology in the classroom. It also allows students to further their education while playing games and doing activities on Mimio Sprout. The white board would allow teachers to use technology in a positive way to have students interact during a lesson instead of just listening to the teacher. With the interactive white board, students can get up and interact with the teacher and their peers.

Lessoncast is something I have never heard of before, but seems very useful to teachers. It is an interactive site that teachers use to get and share ideas. It has a blog, and all kinds of lessoncasts that teachers can use. A lessoncast is a short video elaborating on new ideas for different lessons.