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The chemistry lesson plans from pbs.org use multimedia, provide a variety of resources and arrange content around interesting topics.

What's the opposite of scaffolding a lesson? It would be saying to students something like, "Read this nine-page science article, write a detailed essay on the topic it explores, and turn it in by Wednesday." Yikes -- no safety net, no parachute, no scaffolding -- just left blowing in the wind.

LearnZillion provides Common Core-aligned lessons designed by expert teachers for grades 2-12. Although districts pay in order for schools to receive the full array of services, many of the lessons are free.

Just a little something fun and interesting I found!

This app for iPad is an interactive whiteboard and screencasting tool for teachers and students. You can create presentations, and can insert photos, draw pictures, include music and animate your work. You can create videos and sound to include in a presentation. This could be used to create lessons or be a portion of a particular lesson you are giving in the classroom.

Bringing multimedia into the classroom is a great way to engage students in learning. Supplementing lessons, opening up new interests, and offering inspiration, online videos make for an incredible teaching tool. In 2010, we covered our favorite 100 video sites for educators, and we've now updated our list for 2012 with more than 100 resources and more than 25 brand new entries.

The Federal Reserve offers free activities, lesson plans, interactive games and simulations for students and teachers based on the U.S. economy, currency, and money.

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Explore math with desmos.com, a free online graphing calculator I have used Desmos not only in my lessons as a point of references, but I have given students the opportunity to complete a linear equation project using Desmos to create a picture.

I completely agree. Most of my students cannot afford the TI-83 graphing calculators, but almost all of them have smartphones that would allow them to use this app for free. I will definitely be showing this to my classes, although they probably won't be as excited as I was about it!

I like this app. This would have definitely helped me when I took Algebraic Concepts for my undergrad content course. Sure, my class website had a graphing calculator tab that I could use for homework. But I found it really difficult to navigate and very hard to see. If I was still taking that class, I would definitely share it with my classmates, because as you mentioned alexamoore621 TI-83 calculators are pricey. Although, now that I think about it, it would be hard to convince my professor to let us use it in class...he had a no cell phone use during exams, even if the phone had an app.

This is a great tool for all of my math people! Creating interactives is a little bit tricky, but a quick search will give you ready-made interactives to enhance your lessons. I have used these with a lot of success for teaching transformations of functions and have created activitites to go along with them.

This website is very helpful when looking for ideas to do in the classroom. There are activities for every age and subject. Some cost money and many are free. I've really enjoyed the things that I have found on this site.