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This is the National Park Service's site for kids of all ages. If you love our National Parks, Monuments and Historic Sites, this site is for you. If you are new to our National Parks, we hope this site helps you experience how wonderful they can be.

"It is imperative to teach our students beginning with their first experience online to "read" the web discriminately. Students need to understand that just because something is posted on the Internet, it isn't necessarily true. Teachers should practice the skill of web site evaluation before instructing students. The Yahooligans Teacher's Guide: Evaluating Web Sites gives a good overall synopsis of web evaluation while the Cyber Bee's WWW.CyberGuides rubrics clarify the issues of both content and design. Tammy Barcalow has somegreat suggestions to consider when first introducing website evaluation. Check them out! There are also many alternatives for teaching students how to critically evaluate websites and several links are included below. Kathy Shrock's Criteria Evaluation Survey: Elementary Level is an excellent choice to use with upper primary students. The Schrock criteria are simply stated and appropriate for students starting in about fourth grade. However, the form is bit long and may overwhelm some kids. Since we need to consider the reading level of lower primary students, I have created two checklists specifically for younger children. These alternatives require minimum reading and writing while introducing website evaluation. There is one version for kindergarten and first graders and another for second and third graders . Another good option for our students is this Web Evaluation for Primary Grades. Regardless of the specific tool you use, site evaluation should include judgement about the following areas: navigation and usability, authorship and content validity."

great resource for using sites in class!  4th grade examples here...

Tracy Purdy's Digital Citizenship site from VA Google Summit.

a digital literacy site to explore.

example of how to take Cornell notes on a google site.

Resources for using Chrome, Google Apps in Education, etc.  This site has the resources from the Cville GoogleSummit held spring 2013.  She's always updating...

This site from England is the first resource of its kind designed specifically for the students and teachers of Math and Science. It leverages the expertise of top teachers in their fields for the development of its content.

Lessons on digital citizenship; great starting point for gathering lessons and building your curriculum support; great resources for web sites.

The Chromebook Classroom: another resource for implementing chromebooks.  Resource from #followmolly

Chad's site and blog:  Starting Change from the Classroom

site that addresses instruction of academic language

Walton College Center for Economic Education resource site.

Energy site for educators; great lessons for k12.

a badge creator; this site has templates to use, but requires login

"The photographic dictionary illustrates over five thousand common words with beautiful photos, and has many more common words sorted into categories. Short, simple language definitions Familiar categories Make lists for quizzes and puzzles Learn English as a second language (ESL) Find rhymes for common words 'Stock' images by category You can use this site as a learning tool or a children's picture dictionary, or just to browse to look at the pictures!"

this will come in handy for some vocab work! thanks!

AIMS Education Foundation's blog site called math and science SANDBOX... aligned with Common Core Standards and organized by grade-level strands... free activities found here.

Using Google Docs to support your PLCs... this site would be helpful for sharing all about google docs to teachers that are not using them with their colleagues.

great site for props to use in literacy stations or for retellings, etc.