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This section includes resources to help you facilitate the Challenge and provides a variety of enriching tools to integrate into your classroom instruction. Please take a look at the lesson plans, videos, reading passages, e-books, and more.

This site has more resources than just Internet Safety or Cyber Bullying. The parent section is an excellent reference, as are the "homework helpers." To find the latter, search for "homework" in the search area, as they are not readily available. The weekly e-Newsletter is also a great resource, particularly for the parents and teachers of elementary/middle school aged students.

This relatively new site from Discovery has some great resources for integrating STEM into the curriculum. It also gives students a look into future career paths.

This website is full of resources for clipart, backgrounds for Keynote/PowerPoint presentations, maps, technology in the classroom, and more. It is sponsored by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology and the Educational Technology Clearinghouse, which "provide(s) digital content, professional development, and technical services supporting the appropriate integration of technology into K-12 and preservice education."

CAST - the Center for Applied Science & Technology - has released a new web site devoted to UDL (Universal Design for Learning). Next week, they are also opening a UDL Resource Center.

Site for resources on pbl and problem-based learning.

I'm a big fan of Universal Design for Learning and CAST (http://cast.org) tools. This is a great resource for instructional materials.

While watching a brilliant teacher in action, you too may have wondered: "What is it that makes them excellent?" Do we, as an educational community actually realise what makes a true teacher? Is it purely down to perfect pedagogy, rigorous planning and assessing, diligent resource making and clever behaviour management; or is there something more?

Since Google created its new image search, I've been really frustrated. To do an advanced search, you now have to scroll to the bottom of the page, go back to "basic search", and then choose advanced search. Typically, I look for this feature because I want Creative Commons licensed images that can be reused on either my blog or the EdTechTeacher blog. While I feel like I heard about Photo Pin before, I'm glad that I rediscovered it today - thanks to Richard Byrne at Free Technology for Teachers. This is a great resource for searching for images licensed for reuse.

Ever get stumped by a question? Explania may have the answer. Animations range from the history of football to the inner workings of the human heart. This is definitely a good resource and could be a good model for student technology projects requiring them to demonstrate understanding of complex topics.

Sponsored by the George Lucas Education Foundation, this is a great resource for research as well as case studies of best practices. They have a feature section on Project Based Learning.

Beth: One of my favorite sites, good resources, good blogs, and plenty of good ideas under key educational issues. Bob

Richard Byrne, award winning social studies teacher from Maine, posts 4-5 new resources every day. His blog is an amazing resource for finding tools to use in the classroom.

Thanks for sharing this Beth! Did you get my message about your upcoming visit to Atlanta and trying to get together. Bob

If you want to get more out of your social media experience, review this website and resources they provide.

EdSocialMedia is also a great resource. http://www.edsocialmedia.com/

Generation Yes Blog creator (http://blog.genyes.org/) has put together this Wikispace on Games in Education. LOTS of resources to review for someone looking to incorporate "games" into a lesson.

Look at this interesting and rich resource of videos and interviews with scientists. Some good classroom material no doubt.

Time is a resource we still haven't figured out how to use wisely. This blog post addresses some of the questions about how we schedule learning in school.

Share this with your students who have a unique interest in STEM fields. Good resources, ideas, webinars, etc. Bob Ryshke