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This article shows a variety of apps that will have students to demonstrate a variety of skills of and for learning.

This free site has a variety of online tours that cover a variety of biology anataomy, human health related topics.

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

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.

This ed tech blog includes a variety of chrome apps  for a variety of purposes.

Digitales is a great site to assist in the development of evaluation rubrics for a variety of project types.

Digitales is a great site to use for development of rubrics for a variety of projects.

Super Teacher Tools is a site that shares a variety of teacher resource tools, and games. Instant classroom allows teachers to set up a class seating chart and randomize partners in class. The site includes a classroom jeopardy, speed match a quiz maker, who wants to be a millionaire, seating chart, group maker, random name generator, splitflap counter for a quick timer or countdown for your classroom, USA population counter, Global Head Count, hangman, flash lottery, random fact desk, classroom update

This blog shares a variety of resources that can be used to do academic research. Tools include resources to researc, curate data, save and organize data, read and review data, synthesize and take notes, and cite data

"Mind maps are great organization tools that students can use to structure and visualize their ideas and thoughts. They can be used for a variety of educational purposes. For instance, students can utilize them in pre-writing tasks to brainstorm ideas around a given topic. They can also be used as synthesis tools to enhance reading comprehension. As we have argued elsewhere, Mind mapping is proved to boost a number of key thinking skills that include creating, synthesizing and analyzing information. In today's post, we are re-sharing with you this handy chart comprising some of the best digital tools to use in class to create visually appealing mind maps. We have categorized these applications into tools that work on Google Drive and the web, iPad apps and Android apps. Check them out and share with us your feedback. "

Art Access looks at objects from the The Art Institute of Chicago's permanent collection. This site has a variety of online resources including lesson plans for the classroom and art projects for the home. The site is suitable for grades 5-12.

Article has a variety of apps for K-12 students. Some are for secondary and others are for elementary.

This site lists, by categories, a variety of FREE teacher tools.

tons of free teacher resources by categories

Teachnology has a variety of graphic organizers worksheets that can be printed out.

Great resource with a variety of web 2.0 resources for secondary teachers. Great exampl of livebinder (another free tool)

This site offers an introduction to mathematics and its variety of topics. It's not just for kids, it's for everyone (even if you aren't a number nut).

Mindleap education apps for kids - links to the best ipad, ipod, iphone apps for kids across a variety of content areas.

Common sense media provides a variety of science games for kids ages 2- 13+

How to smile.org includes a variety of science & math activities. There are interactives as well as videos.

Thought Audio is a producer and provider of free audio books featuring classic titles across a variety of genres. Thought Audio audio books are professionally narrated works that you can listen to online or download to play offline. The library of audio books on Thought Audio contains some titles that are hard to find as audio files. For example you'll find titles like Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Life of PT Barnum, and The Madman. You'll also find more commonly read titles like Alice in Wonderland, and Poe's The Raven. Thanks to Richard Bryne's.

This site has a variety of icebreaker activities for free. There are also some additional activities that can be purchased, but there are a number of them free.

Here is a neat site for anyone looking for icebreaker activities.