Great instructional resources offered by the Instructional Coaches from the Cumberland Valley school district.

Useful descriptions and resources built around the idea of multiple intelligences

Pennsylvania Dept of Ed. archives speeches from annual conferences by experts. The archives include the video coverage, PowerPoints, and transcripts. The archives date back several years, so teachers have instant access to a number of experts on relevant topics (2012 - grading + assessment)

The Virtual History Museum is a history-learning environment designed to promote the historical understanding. The Virtual History Museum (VHM) enables a teacher or student, who serves as a curator, to develop an exhibit about a historical topic. Exhibits include activities that help viewers investigate the exhibit and then communicate to others the results.

Excellent resource based on the 3-part documentary by the same. Includes a host of varied resources on race, focusing particularly on its history in America. Wonderful interactives, background readings, and plenty to explore.

A collection of resources and stories leveled for language arts. A great host of documents and skillbuilders to add to teacher banks of materials. Requires an annual subscription, but you can set your own fee.

Collection of resources for teachers and especially students. Great number of study tools and skill builders. Especially great because it has resources on "The Outsiders" and "The Pigman" for 7th Grade Resources.

Compilation of Web 2.0 tools broken down into grade-level categories. Each tool is briefly described and links are provided.

Teachers and students can easily create FaceBook-style pages to: chart the career of a historical character, create a timeline of important events, outline the main plot of a book, play or film and so on!

Easily create a number of online educational interactives (ex: Crosswords, Wordsearches, Quizzes, Jumbles) that can be linked onto learning platforms - such as our Moodles!

Similar to Worlde, but provides more power in the form of searching and manipulation

Free online software for creating and sharing movies; similar to iMovie or Windows Movie Maker.

Strategies, resources, and tips from the NY Times (with lots of links to materials they provide + update) on teaching strategies for informational text to meet the demands of new common core standards.

A social-networking style web2.0 tool that allows people to share what books they've been reading and how they like them. Simple and direct, it seems to have potential for fast online exchange of book recommendations for kids and also as a tracking measure to see how much and what kids are reading.

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

Create professional webpages with ease. Can set up teacher-accounts that can group student accounts together in order to make online projects.

Provides a list of free graphic organizers. Shared by Chris Skimski

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

Shared by Brita Byers. "allows you to upload any digital image and then choose the size you want to make it. The website then allows you to print out the image using 8x10 sheets of paper that you can tape or glue together to create a poster-sized image."

A host of various reading + writing resources. Heavy emphasis on online graphic organizers as basic materials.