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Grades K-12 Classroom Connections: There are tabs at the top to direct the viewer to the correct grade level. This site gives easy to read explanations of social studies concepts for kids.

Grades 3-8 Classroom Connection: New York State Perfomrance Indicators for math. This direct site allows teachers to follow what is expected before and after the state exam in the content area of math.

Special Education & General Education Teachers Classroom Connection: It is a subscription to various topics within special education. Provides support and guidance on varying topics within special education. An example is checklists of symptons of various disorders. Any sort of help can be found within the site. Cons: It is a paid subscription

Elementary Grades 4-5 Classroom Connections: This is a screen cast of how to divide two digits by one digit. The site allows you to create screencasts of various topics to explain or talk about a topic. Cons: It easily picked up the background noise while creating a screencast.

3-8 Factsheets, quizzes and activities to build skills in math and literacy. Classroom Connections: Students can use independently as a center choice to reinforce skills in math and literacy. Teachers can use to project on SmartBoard for introducing concepts and whole group practice and reinforcement of concepts.

Elementary Classroom Connections: A site that has math and ela games to improve your skills in these areas. Puts content into fun practice for students.

Grades K-12 Classroom Connection: Gives students finance and real world lessons for economics. This gives scenarios to real life dilemmas. Cons: Although it is for all grades, it is primarily the older grades.

Elementary Classroom connections: This site puts social studies concepts into easy to read format for children. Although I tagged this on the Declaration of Independence, there are various topics throughout the site. It even has current events in the U.S., education, the world.

Elementary K-6 Classroom Connections: It is a magazine in which students can look at for current global events. It is a great supplement for social studies, stories can be shown on the smart board. Cons: has ads

Elementary Classroom Connections: This is a site which requires a membership. It gives the students practice with various content areas. The ELA section specializes into author's purpose, and other areas within ELA. It also allows the students to log in so that their progress can be tracked. It is a site which requires a membersip

Elementary Grades appropriate Classroom Connections: This website that explains to students how the U.S. Constitution came to be. Teaching 4th Grade social studies, I want my 9 year old students to understand what they are learning about and specifically the hard work our forefathers put into our government. This is a great site to do that. It also gives a section titled "show what you know" to give students a chance to review what they learned. This site also gives more information on governmental social studies topics.

Professional- K-12 Teacher resource for writing objectives for lessons. Includes an interactive Blooms Taxonomy table for reference. Classroom Connections: Teachers- use this resource for examples of tasks/activities to use in classroom to meet various objectives according to Blooms Taxonomy

Professional- K-12 Tool to measure the Lexile reading level of given text. Cut and paste or type in a portion of a text and the tool will analyze and give the readablity of the text. Classroom Connections: Teachers- use to to ensure students are reading the appropriate text for their reading levels.

K-12 Math resource for students and teachers. Site provides interactive math activities for students. Site also provides lesson plans for teachers to go along with activities. Classroom Connections * Use lesson plans in conjunction with math activites to reinforce concepts * Teachers- use student interactives to introduce math concepts and practice in whole group setting using SmartBoard * Students can independently practice concepts using interactives as a center choice.

K-12 Interactive math manipulatives to address/teach/practice various math concepts. Classroom Connections: Use interactively on SmartBoard to introduce and practice math concepts in a whole group setting Students can use as a math center to practice and reinforce math concepts independently. Give students word problems. Have students demonstrate the answer using the manipulatives- whole group, pairs or independently

Professional for K-12 teachers Reading comprehension strategies and activities to prepare students for state tests- without "without teaching to the test", presented by Mary Blow. Includes a blog area. Classroom Connection: * Refer to and practice various types of questions daily and across all content areas so students are familiar with them for the test--as well as a life skill * Use "think pair share" to review homework, questions from assignments. * Use blog to communicate with other teachers about strategies to prepare students for state tests *K-2 teachers- begin to use strategies and teminologies with younger kids to familiarize them

Grades 3-8- students and teachers Interactive resources for teaching and applying writing research skills. Classroom Connections: *Teachers- Use "Getting Started" prompts to interactively teach each step of the writing process as it relates to research *Students- use the "Getting Started" prompts to independently work on a research project * Teachers- Use research mini lesson to instruct how to find resources

K-6 Audio children's stories--Narrated, illustrated, with text for students to read along. Fairy Tale section Classroom Connections: * Use for Daily 5- Listen to Reading activity-- to improve fluency and comprehension * Have multiple students listen to chosen stories and form a discussion group

K-8 Student reference site with educational resources, activities and games addressing all content areas. Classroom connections: * Reference resources- dictionaries, atlases, encyclopedias etc. can be used interactively on SmartBoard- for whole group instruction and practice * Reference materials and search engine can be used by students for research projects and content area assignments * interactive/educational activities and games can be used as a center choice

Professional K-12 Resources for teaching writing--Prompts, lessons and resources for teachers. 6+ one writing traits and ideas for using mentor texts is addressed. Classroom Connections: * Use list of mentor texts as examples to model different writing traits * Use various writing prompts to help students get started with writing * Use "Across the Curriculum" to teach and encourage writing in all content areas

K-12 Students, Professional, Parents Internet search guide- prompts user to choose who they are- then gives topics based on the users needs. Allows user to search alphabetically, by topic, or by typing in specific topic. Provides lesson plans for teachers. Classroom Connections: * Teachers: get lesson plans on different topics. Research educational/professional topics * Offer as a resource for parents * Students: can use for doing research projects