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Hi, Debi! I also love TED Talks like Joe and because of that I'm a little sad I may not be able to include them in my classroom if I teach in the primary grades like I hope to do. Where I'm at now, I hope that technology will be a help and not in a hindrance in my classroom. I think that using YouTube projected on the Smart Board would be a great way to show read alouds of books I don't have in the classroom, for kids yoga, Go Noodle, chromebooks for ABCYA, playing music for cleanup or relaxing music during writer's workshop, using an Amazon Echo in the classroom for music and timers as well as a break time for kids to ask it questions, etc. I've heard from my mentor school that they use Class Dojo to stay updated with parents and I hope to learn more about that. I know that Google Classroom is great and is what my mentor school used for distance learning.

Lesson Plan Library on U.S. History

Great site full of historical maps and podcasts. There are also links to geography standards, lesson plans and field trip ideas.

The Learning Network is a blog connecting learning with content found in the New York Times. There are lesson plans and ideas to teach students about what is happening today and in the past.

This provides a really good intro to planting your own vegetables. It covers flower pot gardening, raised gardens and traditional gardens

Many of you suggested lesson plans revolving around food labels. Check out this easy to read blog that explains how to read food labels.

sproutrobot tells you when to plant & even sends you the seeds.  Great for planning a personal or classroom garden.

This site is created by National Geographic. It contains lesson plans, activities, atlases, etc. It links to U.S. national geography standards. Nice resource.

This is a lesson plan focused upon the Lakota Sioux and their keeping record of time and events with the use of Winter Counts. This detailed set of activities is appropriate for all grade levels: elementary, middle, and high. This lesson fulfills MN Standard I A 1 and MN Standard I C 1

PBS Teachers provides PreK-12 educational resources and activities for educators tied to PBS programming and correlated to local and national standards and professional development opportunities delivered online. As stated in the lesson plan overview: "Through the activities presented in this lesson, students will become familiar with the tenets of the Homestead Act, the shifting borders of the American frontier, and the life faced by homesteaders. After a class discussion and examination of a variety of Web sites, students will complete an written assessment in which they will determine whether or not the land available through the Homestead Act was, in fact, "free." This lesson can be used as an introduction to a unit on American settlement in the latter half of the nineteenth century, or as a pre-viewing activity to the PBS series FRONTIER HOUSE. A basic knowledge of 19th-century United States history is required."

This has a few historical documents on the main page. There are lesson plans times lines historical information, maps and more.

This site offers great lesson plans, games, projects and many other neat tools for teachers to use in the classroom and for students to explore on their own.

Founding Brothers This biography tells about how Hamilton got to be Secretary of Treasury. Talks about his frustration with Thomas Jefferson, his introduction of the first Bank of the United States, and his plans for a US Mint.

This is a real cool website about snowmobiles and creating your own little one through recycled parts. Living in northern Minnesota I see the importance of the snowmobile and see many that depend on this industry for their livlihood.

Curriculum tied to NYT topics for teachers in K-12 settings.

Site offers many resources on immigration. Provides lesson plans, printables, references and articles to use in the classroom on immigration.

Lesson plan using interviews of people who worked as child labor in the cotton mills in the Carolinas.