E-town Elementary

Welcome to Math Playground, an action-packed site for elementary and middle school students. Play a math game, solve a logic puzzle, and have some fun!

Tizmos is a personalized homepage that allows you to see thumbnails of your favorite sites (tizmos) all in one place. You can add, edit, and delete Tizmos on your page. If you have any suggestions or problems with Tizmos, please let us know by filling out the contact form on the right.

List Sharing forum for word lists from different publishers or spelling programs...from Abeka to Words their Way

This site was created by Dr. Alice Christie to share an exciting new approach to teaching and learning. Enabled by Web 2.0 tools, GoogleTreks™ allows teachers and students to synthesize information in one easy-to-use map that places text, pictures, audio files, video files, and much more in one central location. GoogleTreks™ Video. GoogleTreks™ is organized by subject matter and grade level. Over time, as educators such as yourself, add GoogleTreks to the site, users can find GoogleTreks in Science, Matematics, Social Studies, language Arts, and other curricular areas. GoogleTreks are written for specific age groups: Primary, Elementary, Middle School, High School, and Higher Education.

edmodo Teacher Hub is a wikispace created by Bianca Hewes and Nordin Zuber to provide a working repository of ideas, experiences and resources working with edmodo. We work at two different NSW (Australia) Department of Education & Community secondary schools so the initial articles and contributions will probably reflect this context, however given edmodo's international reach, it is likely this wiki will go beyond our school system and locality. This space is open to all contributors - create a wikispace account and apply to join the wiki - everyone is welcome.

Forming the possessive forms of nouns can be one of the most difficult concepts to teach and to learn. VocabularySpellingCity provides lists to help teach how to correctly spell and use the singular and plural possessive forms of many nouns and how to distinguish them from simple plurals and from contractions.

This classroom guide is intended to inspire and expand your thinking about effective assessment for project-based learning. The tips are organized to follow the arc of a project. First comes planning, then the launch into active learning, and then a culminating presentation. Reflection is the final stage. Download this today and get started!

i-SAFE's education component provides students with dynamic, interactive, up-to-date e-Safety curriculum in the classroom, online and in the community. These prevention-oriented lessons employ peer-to-peer communication and cooperative learning activities to help students retain this valuable information.

SAFE-Net, a Cyber Safety Awareness program of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, focuses on raising the awareness of students, parents, and educators about cyber threats, measures of protection, and cyber ethics. Through this website, it provides materials to teach teachers, parents and students about cyber security issues. All materials can be downloaded free of charge. However, you will need to create a SAFE-Net account in order to access them. When you are logged in and agree to the Terms of Use, you will be given access to the materials.

Interactives for teaching elementary mathematics. Some are really great, some are so-so. Try them out!

Excellent visual literacy instruction- Guides students to answer questions and think critically about photos and images. Super site for social studies: Photos include immigration, the west, women and suffrage, children, WWI, etc., cities, industrialization

Hottest Apps used by Apple Distinguished Educators Educators everywhere are asking how can we use the new mobile devices like iPad and iPod touch in the classroom? What's good? What's bad? Why? So, we thought we'd put a site together to share what we use for teaching and learning - not just a list of apps that someone thinks might be cool. The site will be updated regularly so bookmark the site and come back often or connect using your favorite social site below!

Short videos on working in Smart Notebook..... from 30 seconds to 6:45... Getting Started Getting Connected Use your computer in a new way A whiteboard but smarter Creating Engaging Lesson Activities

A community of practice for teacher using edmodo

Classroom posters Want to help out students and colleagues with handy tips on improving search results and using popular Google products like Google Earth? Just print out these posters and hang them where everyone can see them.