cluemaster, a free subscription service for grades 5-12, offers a collection of hundreds of crossword puzzles, word searches, and othe rword games that can be pirnted from your browser. The 50 quizk crosswords and word searches are suitable for younger students, whereas the more challenging cryptic crosswords are suitable for high school students. Each word puzzle includes a printable answer sheet.
Share my lesson has lesson resources for teacher from over 50 content partners. It is free and you can search for content by subject, and grade level. Lots and lots of resources for free.
Crayola Art Education Lesson Plans provide K-12 teachers with a wide variety of lesson plans and projects that integrate art with other curriculum areas. Users can search by products (crayons, markers, colorred pencils, etc.) subject area, and age.
"Anyone can use LeveledLibrary without registering for a free account. However, registered users have access to many features that are not availble to the unregistered users. Most notably, registered users can:
Everyone
Keep an inventories of the books you own and their levels
Specify the leveling system in which you want the book levels displayed.
Print labels for your leveled books in popular label sizes
View book details, such as binding, dewey decimal number, suggested categories, and cover images
Keep books in your shopping cart across multiple computers
All Educators
Search the inventories of colleagues at your school
Vote on book levels for books in the system
Manage Courses and Track Student Lending
Access reports about your classroom library
Administrators
Purchase and unlock reports:
See what books are in your school
Analyze how well a teacher's library matches the students in the class
Track student reading growth over time
See how well your students are picking books on their reading
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this site is a free online listing of grants available for K-12 schools and teachers. Grant Wrangler can be especially helpful as school technology budgets tighten. Grants can be searched by keyword or by deadline. The news bulletins are updated daily and contain direct links to applications that are available online. Teachers and administrators can also subscribe to Grant Wrangler's daily e-mail blast, which lists up-to-date grant opportunities.
Middlespot is an innovative web site for social bookmarking that allows users to collect sites in a visual way. This would be a great tool for teachers to organize content appropriate web sites and then share them with their students.
This site provides a variety of ready to use lesson plans on a variety of topics. The lessons have an essential question as well as an outline of strategies and activities that can be used to teach them. In addition, if appropriate, graphic organizers will be provided for use with the lessons. When you get to the site use the Find a Lesson Plan search feature to easily see if there is a lesson that aligns to your curriculum.
The NASA for Educators page includes information abut NASA's various missions, as well as NASA careers, internships, and scholarships; image galleries and multimedia materials; and more. An education Materials Finder will help teachers locate NASA resources that can be used in the classroom; users can search by keyword, grade level, and subject.
Edhelper.com is a site with a variety of activities for students. Teachers can create puzzles, print quick handouts, provide critical thinking handouts, word search, sudoku, hidden square puzzles, logic shapes, and much more.
This is a really great site. Users can create book lists of books you have read, want to read or are currently reading. You can connect with friends and family and see what everyone is reading and share your book reviews. It is free.
What a great tool for groups of people to network about what they are reading. One of my grad students shared this with me. She uses it for her gifted students. She is able to see what they have or are reading. She can also see what their goal is and what books are yet to be read from their goal. Free site. Users add their own book reviews.
PBS Teachers is a wonderful site with lots of resources and supplemental material for teachers to use with students. This particular link will take you directly to the STEM education resource center: Professional Development and the focus on this page is Global Climate Change Modules from PBS and NASA. However, if you look at the top of the page you can choose a specific grade band and then within that there are various content areas that can be chosen. Looks like a very interesting site with lots of resources to select from.