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Apangea is an online math resource partially funded by the state of Indiana. It is primarily geared towards high school students taking the Algebra I ECA, but can be used for grades 3-12 with varying content. I use Apangea as part of my math lab.

Khan Academy has great video clips with detailed explanations of every middle and high school math topic (including linear algebra and statistics!) It's great for giving some variety in INM for students and having students practice note-taking skills by watching short video clips. It's also a great place to figure out how to explain complicated math topics.

Sejin, this is one of my favs! Science teachers and social studies teachers there are also excellent short clips on chemistry, biology, physics, economics and money and banking. Sal Khan's story is worth a look. He's a Ted talk presenter, has been featured on several news programs. This resource is excellent.

Researched based high impact teaching strategies (HITS) that affect student achievement (includes tech integration and gives examples)

Several types of concept maps (in INTERACTIVE pdf format) This means you can link to them, students can access them, complete them, save and turn in electronically. They can also be downloaded and printed if there's little to no access to classroom computers. Or do some collaborative/small group work. Have small groups of students complete a task, work together on completing and explain/defend their concept map to whole group. Non-linguistic representations are a high impact teaching strategy that work especially well with visual learners. Consider using these for organization, pre-writing, summaries, etc.

This site provides lesson plans for English/Language Arts teachers of all grade levels.  The lesson plans have preview, standard attached to the lesson, resources and preparation, instructional plan, related resources, and a comments sections.

Provides a variety of tools to help students study. I personally use it to help my students prepare for their weekly spelling/vocabulary quizzes, but I think every content area could find it useful.

This is a site that provides a great number of study aids for biology and anatomy teachers.  I've used the site as a great way to lead guided practice in my classroom by playing the review games as a class, letting individual students come up and fill in answers.  The pictures alone are fantastic for teaching everything from the skeletal skeletal sustem to histology.

For the other Spanish teachers or even Social Studies/ELA could use this for a cultural component to a lesson.

Great resource for math teachers...this website provides all different templates for graphs, numbers lines, etc. I use it on a daily basis--it's super easy to copy and paste these blank graphs into worksheets, and they are super clear when you copy them in.

I use this as a great resources to get some really challenging activities to help with critical thinking and problem solving skills. Caution: They are really addicting if you like challenging puzzles!

Great for article of the week, political cartoons, and current events

Here is a great song that I taught to my students and that we do as a break in between lessons. It is song to the melody of farajaqua. There are also hand movements: North America: lift your right arm up South America: right arm down below the waist Africa: arms rocking back and forth across your midsection Europe: lift your left arm up Asia: keep your left arm up high, and move it to the left Australia: bring your left arm down below the waist Antarctica: waddle like a penguin (they can also turn around as they waddle) This song really is great for play breaks, and when we are done, students are more focused. We sing it four times: First is in a medium voice, second in a low voice, third whispering, and fourth silent, just hand movements.

Great site for PowerPoints and worksheets to go along with Realidades I and II textbooks.

this is seriously amaaaazing gracias gracias!!!!

This document provideds simple, practical ways to implement brain based learning strategies in your classroom. It offers you something different for each letter of the alphabet.

Prezi is a way to jazz up your class presentations. As a visual learner, my attention is held better by something that is visually stimulating (e.g. not a white slide with black lettering). Prezi allows you to present the exact same content you would in any other presentation format, but allows for more excitement. We used this a bit during institute this summer and it was awesome. This link is just as much a resources for me, because I want to start using it more as well. I would encourage you to check it out if you do a slide show every day in class.

RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics, but does not have the time to develop them from scratch. I use it at the elementary level but it is great for all teachers!

This is an amazing resource - I've used it for years. Note also that rubrics can be saved on Rubistar and shared, or just use the tool to get a jump start on your rubric and copy and paste into Word.

A simple yet comprehensive site with numerous articles, downloads,and tools for navigating through the Response to Intervention (RTI) process.

I love how this website provides lessons that make math more relevant to our students. I haven't used any of the lessons from start to finish, but I've used bits and pieces of each lesson and love the ideas I get from this website.