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This is a great resource to allow students to work at their own pace.  It reinforces quick recall of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems.  It is great for both elementary and middle school students.

This site provides specific tactics to help alleviate the attention-deficit woes of your most inattentive students. Typical suggestions include decreasing the length of your lessons and structuring some guided daydreaming time.

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.

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.

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

Reading A-to-Z is a popular and effective reading resource. Not only are the texts leveled, but each text includes an extensive lesson plan, teaching strategies, and extension activities. OVerall, a total winner!

I've used it mainly for the reader's theater for a club I am running. There is a small fee to use the resource, but if you contact me, I can give you my login!

THAT's what I'm talkin' about! Look at these teacher's sharing.

This is a collection of resources for science demonstrations. I teach 8th grade science and my kids just want to do something fun everyday. They learn better when they can manipulate something or ground abstract knowledge in something that they see in real life. Starting with a demonstration almost every class is a great way to reel in the students!

I love love love both the NYTimes educational supplementary materials and the fact that they exist. Recently I tweaked a Times lesson plan on writing your own obituary to help the students set goals. As we move toward the Core Standards, it's more important than ever for kids to read non-fiction and journalism.

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

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.

My students were getting bored with just completing basic worksheets or problems from the book; so i went looking for something a little more fun that wold not take me forever to create. In my search I ran across these PDF sheets. This is a collection of math worksheets where your answers solve a puzzle or riddle. My students like having these puzzles to solve and though they may act disinterested, they are always proud when they are the first to solve the riddle. This is just a simple way to make practice a little more fun.

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.

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.

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

This resource is especially useful for activities dealing with geography for both guided and independent practice. It also has short video clips for hooks, and great ideas for lesson plans!