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This Project Based Learning website has a plethora of information about what project based learning is and why it is important, and offers free videos and articles about project ideas.  There are planning forms, student handouts, rubrics, articles, and project libraries.  What I found really interesting was the blog that you can post ideas and questions on.

This article talks about ways to have successful math centers in the classroom. It gives ideas of different centers depending on what you are wanting to teach. On this site you can also find games and other articles.

An article dedicated to using Podcasts as a learning tool in the classroom.  Good for students with different styles of learning, and allows them to review material more easily.

Very interesting site about ocean life and ecosystems. Includes videos, articles, fantastic pictures, and lesson plans/activities for teachers to use when teaching about this topic. Geared toward middle and high school students.

At some point during our career (especially if your an elementary teacher) we will have a student that is struggling with reading. This site/Article helps teachers to better deal with this.

This article gives ideas on how to integrate reading into the classroom and make reading more fun for students. There are also lesson plans and classroom ideas.

This site helps students learn to read. This article lists strategies to help them learn in the classroom. Not only is there stuff for teachers on this site but also Parents, principals, and librarians. That way all these people can help the students to succeed in learning how to read.

Provide students in your classroom with age appropriate news articles. Worksheets, quizzes, and graphic organizers are available to print off.

This site has many useful articles pertaining to special education.

Incorporating technology into teaching. Under Best Practices there are many resources in the form of video, webinars, articles, etc. Information on how to use iPads and other tablets as Assistive Technology and much more technology resources.

This is an interesting website that offers a lot of information to teachers, parents and students. It appears to be an article that gives good descriptions about SPED and then half way down, there are a number of resources that would be helpful to anyone teaching in this field or just to learn about.

A technology site offering free products to meet needs of technology coordinators, administrators, students, teachers and parents. Available in different languages as well. A digital library with over 4,000 plans, Articles and blogs by industry experts. Free with registration. Streamlining your classroom is another example of what HotChalk offers to help you focus more on teaching.

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.

Mathteaching.net provides teachers with free math worksheets for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.  Math lesson plans are also available to download.  The online math tools found on this website can be very helpful for students when they are working on their homework.  The website also includes some articles about interesting and helpful topics.

This is a cool website that has everything a teacher needs on it. This exact site goes to survival tips for teachers, tips and advice, survival tips for parents (K-4) and other related resources to help teachers out. The whole website has different tabs for different grades, subjects, themes, printables, organizers, lesson plans, classroom management and calenders.

this site has plenty of articles about survival tips for teachers these links will be helpful to new teachers. This site also has a lesson plans, classroom management ideas and printables.

This website describes strategies for teaching English to children who struggle with English or who are just learning it. There is a good chance that every teacher will have at least one student who does not speak English, and it is important that we create an environment where they can learn as well.

This site used both the pros and the cons for using computers in preschool. It is super interesting for us to see that with students in preschool it could help them progress but it could also hurt them when it comes to physical activity.

I really just thought this was an interesting topic. I still really hate powerpoints and I just find them super boring unless the teacher spices them up with fun videos, cute graphics, instead of just the boring words on the screen type of feel!

This website I found to be very helpful when it comes to language arts and spelling lessons in the classroom. It gives you many interesting ways to plan your lesson around spelling and language arts and general and gives many articles and useful words lists!

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