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Type racer is a global typing race. Looks like a great way to practice and have fun at the same time.

This looks like a fun site to motivate students to work on their keyboarding skills.

"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 level"

I have often wondered if there was a tool to organize my own library of books and I think th is may be it.

This activity is a scaffolded process of working users through the understanding of fractions beginning with how to divide up an item through the creation of fractions. Would be a good IWB activity.

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.

Famous Actors read a book. There are a variety of books that are already to choose from.

Site that has a variety of books being read by famous actors.

Curiosity in the Classroom Discovery Education and Intel have teamed up to create this site. This is a program designed to guide teachers and students on a journey through life's biggest questions.

This site introduces civil engineering to students. If a teacher or parent clicks on the little green truck to the right of the screen it will take you to a page with information and resources on the site.

Google Classroom - This is a really nice slide show that in a quick easy way shows how the google tools can be intergrated.

Edward Bonver's Poetry Lovers' Page provides the complete poetry collections of Famous English and Russian poets for grades 6-12. Included are the poems of Edgar allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, and rudyard Kiplint, as well as the poems of Aleksandr Pushkin, Aleksandr blok, and anna Akhmatova. The site also contains poems submitted by readers, and features links to a poem of the day and a random poem.

This web site, suitable for students in grades 4-12, conains a library with full versionsof dozens of classic children's books, including David copperfield, Grampa inOz, and Peter Rabbit, as well as a few rarities such as The Bashful Earthquake by Oliver Herford and The Marquis of Carabas, painted by Edmund Evans.

this Internet encyclopedia of mythology, folklore, and religion is suitable for grades 6-12. You'll find everything from A-gskw to Zveda Vechanyaya,k with plenty in between. the mythology section is divided to six geograqphical regions: Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Middle East, and Oceania. The Folklore section contains general folklore, Arthurian legends, Greek heroic legend, and fascinating folktales from many lands. In addition, there are special topics, including A Bestiary, legendary heroes, an image gallery, and genealogical tables of various pantheons and prominent houses.

Fact Monster is a reference tool with fact-filled articles for elementary school students. It combines an almanac, atlas, dictionary, encyclopedia, and a homework helper. The site is owned by Pearson Education, the largest educational publisher in the world.

This poem generator makes you an instant poet. Pick a type of poem, place your words into the form, and you imediately become a success. The site, suitable for grades 5-12, consists of 60 kinds of writing activities in an interactive frame format including cinuain, haiku, limerick, septet, and other forms. Poems can then be exported into Word for revision and editing.

DLTK's Printable Crafts for Kids features a variety of fun children's crafts and coloring pages, including projects for Holidays, educational themes, and children's favorite cartoon characters. There are lots of crafts to make for space study and science and printable templates suitable for preschoolers and elementary school children. For each craft, you'll find a detailed materials list, mostly everyday household items, and instructions.

This link goes to a variety of interactive web sites for a variety of content areas.

A list of great free math websited for teachers and students.

This provided by BBC to improve students touch typing skills through a series of lessons covering four different levels. The difficulty moves up gradually from level one where students are introduced to a lesson on the right placement of their hands on the keyboard to level four where they will learn elaborate keyboarding tips.

This is a collection of free math resources, lesson plans, interactives and printables. Each slide links out to a resource. Someof the resources also align with science and language arts content.

This is a step by step for teachers to show them how to create a classroom group in edmodo and how to add an app.

The National Academy of the Sciences has launched this new website that gives an overview of the U.S. energy system. It covers 4 main topics: energy uses, sources of energy, the cost of energy (in terms of the environment, national security, and sustainability), and energy efficiency. The site has easy to navigate content and links to source material, and it includes n energy quiz, a glossary, and a source library. The site's producers are also developing curriculum-based materials for high school and middle school classrooms. Two special features--Our Energy System and Understasnding Efficiency--are designed to actively engage visitors and enhance their understanding of energy, including what it is, h ow we use it, and ways to conserve it.