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Awesome website that donates 10 grains of rice through the World Food Program to help end hunger through answering vocabulary questions.

Encourage students to help the world through learning. As you answer vocabulary questions right, 10 grains of rice are donated to help feed the hungry. You can even keep track of your groups total.

Freerice.com is a website that shows a vocabulary word and you click on a synonym for that word and for every one you get right it donates 10 grains of rice through the World Food Programme to help end hunger.

Helps all kinds of teachers use the world as a means of learning. You do not have to be a social studies teacher to use this website, it can be used for all subjects.

A great teaching tool! Who better to aid your children in learning about other places than the people that live there themselves? Through "Around the world with 80 schools" teachers can connect with other teachers and classes that are using this skype approach in the classroom. What a fun way to teach geography!

Education World provides free resources such as lesson plans, practical information for educators, articles written by experts, web site reviews, and employment listings.  There are many different pages you can navigate to for both teachers and administrators, and even for professional development.  Some other features include a glossary of school issues, technology products, tips, and tools, a work sheet library, and information about school improvement, just to name a few of several.

Education World gives teachers a lot of different tools teachers can use, which involve technology.

This site provides information on techology tools that can be used by teachers with their students.

A branch of National Geographic that provides a rich cultural perspective of the world physically, geographically, and socially. The site offers news and information which is aligned with educational standards for students and teachers alike.

Teachers can find a world of printable worksheets to enhance instruction. I really like the wide selection of Math worksheets available. There are printables for all subject areas and for special areas and events.

This website it great for teachers and administrators. It has links for lesson plans as well as technological activities.

I was amazed to find that this website offered many ideas for incorporating technology in to the classroom. I liked how they had a link to help explain internet safety, a topic that I feel is very important and should be discussed before allowing children to access the internet. Also, it gave multiple ideas of implementing technology with curriculum.

This site is full of lesson plans, printable worksheets, suggested activities, and advice/tips for teachers. There is a lot to take in on the homepage because it full of information, but the tabs at the top will take you to very useful resources.

This really focuses on colleges, but if you read it the information is relevant for grade schools also. It explains how Ipads are a new interactive way that most students feel comfortable using!

Social studies lesson plans for preschoolers can be derived from the information on this website.

There is a "just for teachers" tab on this website that is perfect for helping preschool teachers prepare to teach science.

Free intererative presentations. Powerpoint on steroids!

A cloud-based presentation software that opens up a new world and makes presentations fun. Useful to make class more interesting for students and have an interesting presentation instead of a boring one. Great for making dry material more fun for the students to learn.

This is one of my favorite sites. It is a great tool when you need to make creative presentations. It is fast and easy to use!

This website provides information for Social Studies curriculum. Students are able to view different flags from all across the world, with information and statistics to go along with them.

A great website to keep up with all the new ideas and methods that are created everyday in the techno world.

Great website for teachers and students that are studying the second world war.

I am a sucker for anything Churchill so this is a great website for people like me. Churchill is such a inspiring person this web site would help both teachers and students understand more about the life of this great man.

This website has so many resources for teachers, including lesson plans, activities, calender ideas, parent & afterschool resources, inspiring stories from other teachers around the world, and so much more! What I really like is that, although this large amount of info can be overwhelming, you can choose the grade you will be teaching and narrow it down to all of the resources for that age group :)

Carol Gray developed Social Stories™ as a tool to communicate proper social cues and behaviors in different situations to Autistic children. The stories help children, with any social deficit, function and cope with the world around them. I use social stories with all my students.

This website lets young children learn about the world around us. This is a kid friendly current event website.

This is an interactive website that was created by a school teacher and is approved by school teachers around the world. The website is set up with the games grouped by grade level. The website also introduces basic computer skills and provides a tutorial for using ABCYa buttons. The graphics are awesome and some of the games have sound which adds interest to the games.