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"Here you can start thinking about what you want to do with the rest of your life. This Web site was built to help you plan for the future. What will you do after high school? Will you work? Go to college? Live in a place of your own? By using this Web site, you can plan for your future right now!" Uses polls and questionaires as well as bulletin boards for teens to communicate. Not specifically oriented to ESL/EFL, but of interest to a difficult age group.

How teachers can flip their classroom, and have kids make the videos to teacher other kids, in this case, math. If you are thinking of trying "flipping," you must watch this creative set of examples (in several languages) of kids solving problems.

A project to cultivate 21st century fluencies needed by the "digital citizen": creativity, solutions for real life problems, analyzing and evaluation information, using multiple media, ability to work in collaborations. Interesting article at http://mgleeson.edublogs.org/2012/11/16/21st-century-fluencies/. Focusing on young learners.

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

Link to a ninth grade class book used to help ELLs dvelop writing and thinking skills. Great ideas for your own wiki- or paper-based project.

This site would be useful for international teachers as well as U.S. teachers who work with the Common Core standards. .Each standard is listed with sample activities that students can do to show proficiency in each standard. Content-based.

Lookis like a fun activity for learning geography, names of countries in English, maps, etc.

"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."

"We learn most effectively when motivated. This is a list of games your kids will have fun playing ... while also learning important skills and lessons as a by-product!" Spotted this, via Sam Gliksman's blog. Several are social games also. I'm eager to try The Oregon Trail. Now, if only they made a Hypercard app.

Includes a list of useful links to help teach students digital literacy search skills.

"Free, 13-Page, Ready-to-Print EFL/ESL Lesson Plans on Current Events" - lots of ideas for using the news. Topics change regularly, and there are Kids Listening lessons, too.

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.

Online books for kids, read by children, with illustrations and all. Very nice read along.

Video of lesson for preparing students to write using textual evidence, grades 6-8, young learners.

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.

These are great tips for organizing content-based learning especially. Sound pedagogical advice for sharing responsibility, focusing on process rather than right answers, and using creativity to solve processes.

Free audio stories/audiobooks for kids. Usually features a holiday-related story on the frontpage, but includes classic English fairytales like Snow White and The Three Little Pigs. Not specifically ESL/EFL, but looks very useful for listening and culture activities.\n--EHS

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

The Open English series. Lessons in teaching English explained through short videos. Excellent ideas that can be adapted to many different levels of student.