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Purpose of the Website: Internet searches can be difficult for young students. This search engine helps students use searching strategies to help them find specific information on topics they are looking for. Websites yielded in search are elementary appropriate. Grade Level: K-12 Classroom Connection: This website is a great introduction to searching for children. It helps students understand how to combine search terms to search for information they are looking for.

Grade K-2 A research based, comprehensive reading intervention program that helps improve reading proficiency, reading skills, and reading devlopment. This site can be used int he classroom as a reading center for students to help practice reading skills.

Purpose of the Website: This website lists the ISTE standards for educators and students. Grade Level: K-12 Classroom Connection: Educators should refer to this site when planning technology related lessons, so they can familiarize themselves with the national ISTE standards.

Grades K-12 A resource for lesson plans, interactive games and activiities, tools and professional development for all subjects. This site can be used to help deliver engaging and interacive lessons. teachers can find great professional development hours.

Grades K-12 A resource for teachers and students to receive practice and resources for reading and language arts instrucion. A great tool for teachers to use to assess students reading and language art skills.

Grades 3-8 This site provides free maps, photos, videos and daily news stories, as well as articles and features about animals, the environment, cultures, and other science topics. Teachers can use this site to reinforce concepts and topics. Students can use this site to help research specific scientific topics.

Grades K-8 Interactive science activities for students to go along with science curriculum. This site can be used with students to give them a visual component to different science topics.

Purpose of the Website: This website is a safe surfing website for children. The website was created by an elementary school teacher who wanted her students to have a safe place to gather information on the Internet. There are over 400 pages of information on various topics that students can explore. The information is easy to read and navigate. Grade Level: K-5 Classroom Connection: This is a great website for students to use when gathering information for homework, or small amounts of information for class activities.

Purpose of the Website: This website is a tutorial created by a librarian at SUNY Albany. The tutorial is an introduction to using the Internet. The readability of the website allows for use by secondary students. The information covers topics such as domain names, programing language, how to search, applications, etc. Make sure you read the "About" section to see what the permissions are for using this website in your classroom. Grade Level: 9-12 Classroom Connection: This website would be great for a library or computer class in high school. Librarians or computer teachers can use this as a reading assignment for students and create an application based activity to go along with it. I am not very comfortable with which kind of activities would be appropriate for a secondary level students since I am an elementary teacher.

Grades K-8 A resource for supplemental materials for all subjects. This site offers many activitiesfor teachers to use as supplemental materials for all subject areas.

Grades K-2 Offers strategies, lessons,activitiesand resources for struggling young readers. This site gives helpful information and resources to teachers and parents to enure their children become confident readers.

Grades 2-5 This site offers interactive games and activities to help students practice grammar skills. A great center for students to pracitce grammar skills.

Grades 2-5 The Screen Actors Guild Foundation reads stories aloud to children. The site offers writing activities to go along with the stories. This site can be used as a center to help students that have difficulty with fluency.

Grades 3-12 A great resource or tool to learn how to create screencasts. This site can be used by teachers and students as a tutorial of how to create scrrencasts for specific projects.

Grades K-2 A supplemental reading program to help young readers. This can be used as a reading center to help students with reading skills and strategies.

Grades Pre-K-2 A comprehensive supplemental reading program to help young readers This interacitve website can be used as a reader center for students to practice beginning reading strategies.

Grades K-5 A resource of interactive activities that incorporate math and language arts along with computer skills (using a mouse) for students. This site can be used as a center to reinforce math, language arts and computer skills and concepts.

Grades K-3 An interactive site that teaches students the importance of maps, how to use maps and offers map games to reinforce map skills. Teachers can use this site when delivering lessons on maps and maps skills.

Grades K-8 A resource of lesson plans and interactive activities for all subjects using a Smartboard. Teachers can create lessons using this site that can be delivered using a Smartboard.

Grade 2-5 Offes geography and map skills activities and games for students. This site can be used to reinforce map skills for students. Teachers can use these activities in a large group to assess students knowledge and understanding of map skills.