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Bill of Rights Institute Resources and lessons.

The Bill of Rights Institute has released a new game, Life Without the Bill of Rights? This free click-and explor activity asks students to consider how life would change without some of our most cherished freedoms. Life Without the Bill of Rights? invites studetns to understand the significance of their constitutionally protected rihts, including freedom of religion, speech, and press; freedom from unreasonable search and seizure; and the rights of private property. Other free resources include an interactive module that allows studetns to "travel through time" to converse with the Founding Fathers and report on the Constitutional Convention.

This free math worksheets site has numerous math topics from basic math to advanced math. The printouts are in PDF format and in addition to the question sheet thee is an answer key.

numerous math topics to choose from on this site.

This site has a variety of resources related to history.com. It includes topics for discussion, tv shows, this day in history, videos, and games.

This site lists a colelction of mainly science and health-related virtual field trips and online labs.

Take your children on a efieldtrip or check out this site to learn more about virtual fieldtrips. Free

This organization hosts electronic field trips with four main parts: the trip, journal, the virtual visit (a streaming video), an Ask the expert tool, and a hosted web chat.

Take your children on a efieldtrip or check out this site to learn more about virtual fieldtrips. Free

This site identifies each of the multiple intelligence and lists web tools and sites that connect to that intelligence.

Neat site that identifies tools and sites for each of the multiple intelligences

This site has links to Animals, The Arts, literature and Language, Sciences, Mathematics & computer, Social Sciences, History and Biography, Social Sciences, Reference Desk,. This site is sponsored by the Association for Library Services to Children

Lots of great sites in one place.

This site has links that provide information about various technology tools: PowerPoint, CPS clickers, document cameras, wikis, blogs, social networking, social Bookmarking, Podcasting, Vodcasting, Online calendars, event management.

Great site with lots of information on various technology tools.

Advise and asnwers about sexting.

Common sense media has information broken down by grade level. This link takes you to sexting there are resources for educators available on this link.

"K-12 School Lesson Plans, Curriculum and Materials Chemistry ... and Climate Change, Global Warming & Solutions"

One of the many cool sites you will find in the tired teacher's website K-12

A mneumonic Device is used to help memorize a string of words. For example Every Good Boy Dies Fine to remember the treble clef E, G, B, D, F.

mneumonic device tool, good one to share with the students

The literature life and times of Edgar Allan Poe

Interesting site on Edgar Allan Poe for anyone who works with poetry.

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.

Share your family tree. Free

I have used this site to upload videos created by teachers and students. I haven't seen anything inappropriate on it. I know it is monitored because I believe the video had to be previewed before it was released onto the site.

Schoo Tube is a great way for teachers and studetns to watch videos, upload videos, create a Free channel, enter contests, and receive the video of the day.

I have used this site to upload videos created by teachers and students. I haven't seen anything inappropriate on it. I know it is monitored because I believe the video had to be previewed before it was released onto the site.

Are you interested in using games in your classroom but just cant find ones that match your curriculum? Have you tried to create video or board games for your classroom only to be overwhelmed by the amount of time and effort required just to produce them? If you answered yes to these questions, this web site is for you. This site contains downloadable games, game templates, and utilities that teachers and trainers can use to enhance any lesson

Neat site. I have never seen this before. Hope it's something new for many of you.

If you like to create review game activities for your students then you will like the link above. There are a variety of game templates for you to use to create game activities for your students. -from Karen Sipe

Math by design is a math simulation where students are part of the TRC Architectural firm.

Today's math curriculum is teaching students to expect -- and excel at -- paint-by-numbers classwork, robbing kids of a skill more important than solving problems: formulating them. At TEDxNYED, Dan Meyer shows classroom-tested math exercises that prompt students to stop and think.

This site includes social network safety tips for teens and parents.

Site all about math. It provides resources for teacher, parents and students. The site includes math games, math lessons, math practice, math dictionary and I also used a graphing function from this site.

Lots of easy to use resources on this site for math.