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" 1- Documentary storm This is a great documentary website that provides over 2000 full length documentaries gathered from several resources all around the web. Each documentary has a short description , there is a download button on and under each video, that is just an advertisement of a video tool and not a download page . 2- Documentaryz This is another cool documentary resource you can use to search for and find good documentaries to use with your students. It has thousands of videos and they are organized under different categories such as Art, Animal, Nature, Biography, Business...etc. 3- Free Documentaries This one here streams full length documentary films free of charge and with no registration needed. Some of the documentaries in this website has trailers and can also be downloaded. You might also like: 6 Things You Didn't Know you Can Do with Dropbox The Four Pillars of Education These Are The 16 Attributes of The Modern Educator 6 Excellent Lego Apps to Enhance Kids Thinking Skills Linkwithin Newer Post Older Post Home Twitter Facebook Google+ Pinterest RSS Email Visit Med's profile on Pinterest. "

Lingro provides an on-line environment that allows anyone learning a language to quickly look up and learn the vocabulary most important to them. You place a web address within this site and all the words on that web page will become clickable.

This site would be really helpful for those students who are struggling readers and often don't know the meanings of words they are reading.

Yummy Math provides free activities and ideas that relate math concepts with real life.

Blog post - ELL resources

"Today's kids connect, create, and collaborate through media. But who helps them reflect on the implications of their actions? Who empowers them to make responsible, respectful, and safe choices about how they use the powerful digital tools at their command? Our Common Sense Parent Media Education Program and our Digital Citizenship Curriculum give educators, administrators, and parents the tools and curricula they need to guide a generation in becoming responsible digital citizens."

Free materials on Internet safety, cyberbulling, digital citizenship, parent materials also included.

The National Archives has created a new web site to help educators teach with primary-source documents. The site, called DocsTeach, not only lets teachers explore documents in a variety of media from the National Archives holdings, but it also includes online tools to help teachers combine these materials and create engaging history activities for students. Shared by Jesse White

Docs Teach provides ready to use tools for teaching with documents in the classroom.

Math Warehouse provides interactive max examples on a variety of math topics for algebra and geometry.

Looks like a good resource for students to know about.

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.

WEB 2.0 Guru provides LFS strategies enhanced with Integrated Technologies. These strategies will not only assist students with core content area proficienty but also 21st Century skills and NETS proficiencies.

Great wikispace with lots of integration strategies for Essential questions, vocab activities, activating strategies, teaching strategies, summarizing activities, and extending and refining learning.

Karen Sipe shared this wiki with resources for LFS.

This site can be used to create 3D animations that can be used for storytelling. Digital storytelling would be possible with this site.

students can create their own animated stories.

This is CSI for the history classroom.

Looks interesting. It is investigation for the history classroom.

I checked out the investigation link. It looks like there are a variety of investigations that students could do.

The text that originated this movie was published on May 29, 1990 with the title "State of the Village Report", and it was written by Donella MEadows, who passed away in February 2000. The statistics have been updated based on specialized publications, and mainly reports on the world's population provided by different resources, like Un publications, PRB. org and others. Please see these statistics as a tendency, and not as accurate.

Something to think about regarding the global society.

I like this! Using for my 7th grade geography students and sharing with the rest of department.

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.

"TimeGlider is a data-driven interactive timeline application built on the (Adobe) Flash platform. You can "grab" the timeline and drag it left and right, and zoom in and out to view centuries at a time or just hours. TimeGlider allows you to create event-spans so that you can see durations and how they overlap. Being web-based, TimeGlider lets you collaborate and share easily. You can create timelines about the last year of your family, the last century of world events, or about pre-historical (bce/bc) times. Currently, one can zoom out to a scope of millenia:"

Timelines are great ways for students to organize and present information.

Stories about time: Interactive timeline tools. This is a helpful resource that outlines a variety of timeline tools that could be used educationally.

This is a cool site to checkout and bookmark the tools that you may be able to use at some point. Timelines are great in that they provide a way for students to organize their thinking about a particular topic. Check out some of the timeline tools outlined in this link.

Start you own book club. You can invite your friends. Have discussions online or in person. Find other people with similar book interest.

This is pretty cool. What a great way to share what you are reading with your friends. What a great way for kids to discuss their books. Wouldn't it be cook if a teacher could set up a club and invite their students to it to discuss what they are reading online.

This is a video that goes over 5 mindmapping tools: Bubbl.us, mindomo.com wisemap.com, mindmaster.com, mind42.com. All look interesting.

5 mindmapping tools you and your students can use.

LabWrite guides you through the entire laboratory experience, from before you walk into the lab to after you get back your graded report.

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.