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Dade County's Project WebSIGHT is based on Reciprocal Teaching which uses the five strategies prediction, clarification, visualization, questioning, and summarizing in teaching reading. This site gives you the lesson plans and resources to implement this

Lisa Parisi and Christine Southart co-teach a grade 5 classroom and use many UDL strategies.

Awesome TED Talk about a different way to teach math. Are we making things too simple? TED Talks Today's math curriculum is teaching students to expect -- and excel at -- paint-by-numbers classwork, robbing kids of a skill more important than solving problems: formulating them. At TEDxNYED, Dan Meyer shows classroom-tested math exercises that prompt students to stop and think.

Incredible collection of flash to teach middle and high school math. The flash is interactive, allowing you to change a variable such as the value of an exponent and then see how that changes the value in an equation. For example, kids can experiment by altering the value of exponents to learn why we keep the base and add exponents when we're multiplying two powers with the same base. Jim teaches in Alberta.

Helpful list of teaching/learning strategies from government website

Searchable site of thousands of quality teaching resources, interactive resources, homework, exam and revision help. Useful for teachers, pupils and parents." Recommended by Paul Hamilton March 2009 post.

Maureen LaFleche spotted this great resource and here's what she has to say about it "Check out CK-12.org. It is a website that provides open-source content and technology tools to help teachers provide learning opportunities for students globally. Free access to high-quality, customizable educational content in multiple modalities suited to multiple student learning styles and levels, will allow teachers, students and others to innovate and experiment with new models of learning. CK-12 helps students and teachers alike by enabling rapid customization and experimentation of teaching and learning styles. Text can be read at two different levels - grade level and basic. You can download books and activities as pdf, epub or mobi." I have checked out several of the units and they look excellent for middle and high school.

This website was recommended by Ross Powell in a presentation on Differentiated Instruction. Includes modules to learn about DI and examples of DI teaching (lessons and units) at several grade levels. DI is just one section of this website which also contains links to various subject areas.

Great Ted talk about using stories to teach science.

Scott McKay found this blog post by Dan Meyer on how to structure a very open-ended 3 part math lesson.

Paul Hamilton recently blogged about this great new phonics teaching site...high quality instructional videos, activities, ad-free

Shelley Moore from Richmond School District is currently working with Bulkley Valley teachers on class profiles and co-teaching. She's a strong advocate of UDL and inclusion.

Ning with 200 members now who are using vodcasting in their teaching. Aaron Sams and Jonathan Bergman from Woodland Park Colorado.

Kelley Tenkley reviews the Rustle the Leaf website designed to teach kids about sustainability.

Kelly Tenkley blogs about the 16 best sites that teach internet safety.

This is a Ning Social Network all around SMARTBoards. Great resource collection and sharing potential. All smart board educators, unite Let's share ideas, tips, and lesson files maximize learning children They our future Let's teach them well and let them...something other can't think anything right now.

Phenomenal set of lessons which use Google Earth to teach real world math. There are several lessons under each of 4 main topics: concepts, measurement, project-based learning, and exploratory. The author provides a screenshot, objectives and description of the lesson with a downloadable .kmz file and downloadable .doc worksheet. Probably more suitable for middle school or high school. If the Lessons link doesn't work from the main page, go to the resources page and click on lessons.

Interactive Whiteboard Resources for Teachers. A variety of free, easy to use IWB resources, for teaching a variety of subjects. New resources added weekly. These are great resources, mainly in math but there are a few language arts and one geography resource.

Recommended by iLearn blog. Website with materials for teaching Internet safety.