GREAT resources for any English teacher who teaches The Crucible. Mashup the resources for your own personal approach. Quite a variety of material here.
Teaching Development tips for Preservice teachers - a wallwisher tool embedded in a wiki with lots of tips from teachers left for advice to those just starting out.
Interested in reading one teacher's reflection on the first day of school? Here's a blog by Karl Fisch, who created that original "Did you know?" powerpoint. This looks like a blog specifically to share what happened in class each day as a part journal, part reflection, part transparent "open" teaching. It's worth reading - and rings true to what the first day is often about (if you are organized and everything goes according to plan).
Classroom activities broken down by grade : K-4, 5-8 and 9-12 (also undergraduate). Some physics references in 9-12, but mostly ocean, ocean floor, climate change, tectonics, etc.
Is this an implementation of the ideas about letting students follow their interests/passions through choice, or about starting college in Kindergarten? What's the difference? Risks? Benefits? What do you think?
children as young as seven placed in classes according to their interests, with the mandated curriculum taught by a teacher who's similarly passionate about it.
This widget follows a range of ed chats happening on twitter so you can follow the scrolling twitter stream of comments from participants. Awesome way to see the wealth of information shared on twitter while not seeing the less helpful chatter.