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"Arcademic Skill Builders are free research-based and standards-aligned educational games! Engage and motivate students with our multiplayer and single-player games."

Sharing this again as there have been some additions to that that I think will be very helpful for teachers grades K-8.

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.

Ready to use lesson plans from the Smithsonian. Nice Site. Great resource for students and kids.

Lots of web tools for K-12 classrooms. Like the fact that all the information is in this one resource.

Thanks Joy Weikert for sharing.

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.

Looks like a good site full of supplemental resources. Worth the search and a look.

Studyblue is a free tool that allows users to create flashcards, quizzes, and lecture notes and share them with others. Teachers can set up a "class" and give students a code, and everyone with the code can create collaborative study materials. There are mobile phone apps that the students can use to take their flashcards and notes anywhere. They can access their files offline. StudyBlue also sends helpful test and study reminders via email and text message.

I learned about this tool from an article in Learning & Leading with Technology, August 2011. An educator shared how her students use it.

Kids' Poetry Page has different options for kids to use to create poetry or write stories.

PowerPoint Lesson Plans for elementary students

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.

Online professional development, TV programming and multimedia web content, lesson plan ideas, and ways to connect with other educators are all things featured on the PBS teachers page. The website also features news and webinars for teachers to view.

Word Twist is an online version of the popular board game, Boggle. Word Twist comes in two versions a four by four grid and a five by five grid. The purpose of Word Twist is to identify as many words as possible using the letters in the grid.

Check out this link for screencasting options.

"Educate your pupils using ARKive's many thousands of videos, images and fact files in a wide range of science, ICT, art and English projects. Use the ARKive multimedia materials to engage your class in key biology topics, such as variation and adaptation, habitats or life cycles, or use them as creative inspiration for art & design projects. All our photos, video clips and authenticated fact files are free and easy to use in your classroom activities and presentations."

Ipad apps Monster math 2 -educational math games for kids and multiplication and division math flashcard match games for kids in 2nd and 3rd grade

Ipad apps Monster math 2 -educational math games for kids and multiplication and division math flashcard match games for kids in 2nd and 3rd grade

Infogrqaphics tools Easel.ly, Stat Planet, Hohli, Creately, Many Eves, Wordle, Tableau, Inkspace

Infogrqaphics tools Easel.ly, Stat Planet, Hohli, Creately, Many Eves, Wordle, Tableau, Inkspace

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