CVSD Secondary Group

This website provides numerous games, interactives, and printables to help enhance and practice elementary in not only maths but also science and language arts.

This is a collection of free math resources, lesson plans, interactives and printables. Each slide links out to a resource. Someof the resources also align with science and language arts content.

Splash allows, for free, users to create an event. Users can track RSVP in real-time. Splash can be connected to the hosts' twitter feed to pull in relevant #conversations to bring your page to life.

Interesting tool. I have bookmarked an example of splash as well as this direct link to spash.

Sample of splash to promote an event

Kwiqpoll is a free quick polling tool for educators

40 interesting ways to Use QR codes to support learning.

50 movie themed fonts

Readability turns any web page into a clean view for reading now or later on your computer, smartphone, or tablet.

50 Educational apps for ipod touch

Safe share.tv This site provides a way to safely share Youtube videos.

100+ google tricks that will save you time in school provides lots of great tips.

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

35 interesting ways to use Twitter in the Classroom

This tools makes monitoring student behavior easy. Teachers can set up their class and monitor and make notes on behavior with their mobile device as they move around the room.

There are numerous videos that are history related. This site would have some materials that would possibly work to introduce science topics as well. There are a number of timeline.tv links about disease, plague, medicine of medieval times, etc. Very interesting material.

Marzanos instructional strategies. Each strategy is listed and defined. In addition, there are resources to go with each strategy.

Mohamed Kharbach's blog post list about graphic organizers.

Pat, I loved this link. I added them to the CVSD diigos and to the LFS wiki.

This collection of ready-to-use graphic organizers will help children classify ideas and communicate more effectively. All of our printable graphic organizers are designed to facilitate understanding of key concepts by allowing students to visually identify key points and ideas. By using graphic organizers across all subject areas, you will be empowering your students to master subject-matter faster and more efficiently. We have graphic organizers for reading, science, writing, math, and for general use. You'll also find blank printable templates like graph paper, dot arrays, and other useful tools.

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

Scholastic is one of the best graphic organizer providers online. It offers a wide range of graphics covering different topics particularly Reading Comprehension