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Apparently oriented to the younger learner. Has tutorials, worksheets and activities for math, English, and science.

"Succeeding with Science is a website built around fun and interactive educational games, activities, and videos to help students learn and love science. The student activities are sorted by age range from 4-7 years up to 16+ and there is also a teachers section. Each activity come with PDF lesson plans and support materials as well. Science teachers at all levels should find this site to be useful way to support their curriculum."

This blog has a series of lessons using different media to help kids experiment with painting. Have students write about their work and the process afterwards. Appropriate for K-5, but lessons are adaptable to adults, who also have fun making art.

This article includes a link to a journal template. Writing about reading is something I always had my intermediate-advanced students do, and I'm sure it could be adapted to lower levels as well.

Interactive, educational safety resource -- teach kids and teens how to stay safer on the Internet

Wiki ,with link to other activities and blog by Dani Lyra, has ideas for lessons with young learners using a variety of online tools. Great for ideas, with RLOs. This particular page shows how to use VoiceThread to discuss differences in people.

This might be of interest for beginner ESl, as the Dolch sight words are used throughout the US education system.

ESL related software reviews from the CALICO association. Based on Phil Hubbard's review paradigm. However, titles are not alphabetical, nor sorted by learner level or other criteria.

Links to family/kid sites.

"Kidblog.org is designed for elementary and middle school teachers who want to provide each student with their own, unique blog. Kidblog's simple, yet powerful tools allow students to publish posts and participate in discussions within a secure classroom blogging community. Teachers maintain complete control over student blogs. Set up your class with no student email addresses. Provide your students with an authentic, engaging, and interactive learning experience with Kidblog." Looks like a safe environment for elementary/middle school kids.

A great collection of links to poetry of the ages for all ages. Divided geogrpahically by sources of poetry: Poetry of Africa, Poetry of the Americas, etc., and by specific authors, e.g., Mahmou Dariwsh, Vinicious de Morais, etc. Some bilingual.

This site for creating your own comics now has a disabled students section.

Intended for native-speaking children in U.S. public schools, this is a phonics-based reading program. May be somewhat helpful for ELLs in that it can provide sounds and animations to help motivate young learners.

The YDC Educator's Kit is designed to help teachers and educators working in schools, youth clubs, community centres, and training institutes to generate and manage project-based learning activities with young people. --EHS

From the blog, 1:1 in Practice at Sinarmas World Academy. This is a nice short course in educational aps for very young learners.

"The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) provides a foundation for professional development for technology integration and a common vocabulary for talking about effective uses of technology in teaching and learning.... The newly revised TIM was launched in February 2011, and features 100 classroom video example lesson plans, revised and expanded descriptions of student activity, teacher activity, and instructional settings for each TIM cell, focus pages for each characteristic and level, new professional development resources, and indices for grade levels and digital tools. The site includes 25 videos lesson examples in each of four core subject areas - math, science, language arts, and social studies. These lessons were videotaped in classrooms across Florida. "The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed (i.e., reflective), authentic, and collaborative (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003). The TIM associates five levels of technology integration (i.e., entry, adoption, adaptation, infusion, and transformation) with each of the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments. Together, the five levels of technology integration and the five characteristics of meaningful learning environments create a matrix of 25 cells. " This is an amazing resource for teacher training. TIM is easily accessbile and recommends you look at grade levels beyond your own for ideas.

This wiki has "great tips for using technology with kids": audio tools, class projects mobile learning, etc. Collected by Ozge Karaoglu and Shelly Terrell.

Lots of ideas to help students (K-12) organize and map their writing.

"Listening Lessons Activities include multimedia, free MP3 files, vocab tasks, language notes, print page and more." English Listening Lesson Library Online with over 1,000 lessons, designated by level, and ordered by difficulty. Topics include news and scenarios, interviews, etc. K-12 Online Curriculum link.

Wow! This has articles on how to use comics, lesson plans, and links to places on the Web where you can create comics. Excellent blog feature.