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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

this is seriously amaaaazing gracias gracias!!!!

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.

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!

This is a great resource for teachers studying Explorers. Its an interactive map that actually shows all of the routes taken by European explorers during the Age of Exploration.

This is a great site to use for Vocabulary. You can level up the words or even change the subject.

This is a great resource for free writing activities. The site helps engage the entire brain in the writing process and the students really seem to like the creative limitations put on their writing.

List of strategies to differentiate instruction in a social studies classroom. While teaching my high school students, I have noticed they enjoy moving around the classroom. Once of the most effective strategies of doing this is by having a "gallery walk".