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Fit kids clubhouse has loads of ideas to engage young students in the learning process. The Preschool Science matters blog introduces a great lesson on solids, liquids, and gas using balloons that I could easily adapt to a 2nd grade level. I love that through this lesson a three year old child made the statement, "a solid is heavier than a liquid", brilliant.

This site offers social stories and picture cue cards to aid students in learning everyday routines. Some of the topics include personal care and hygiene, safety, food and eating habits as well as calendar practice. These pictures would be great to use as a reference tool for the students, and have them review in the morning before their daily begins.

This website is accessible for all ages, elementary, middle and high school. It has four main tools and services: The Renzulli Profiler, Differentiation Engine, Grouping and Reporting Tools, and Personal Success Plan. The Renzulli Profiler uses a strengths based assessment to find out a student's top three strengths, interests, and learning and expression styles. The Grouping and Reporting Tool then takes these results and uses them to group students.

This website has well done games and videos to help students learn about U.S. History.

An interactive website for helping children learn the alphabet.

Another great site to support special education students that need more practice and sometimes modified work. It's also a great resource for all students.

This is a great site for printouts and theme based activities. I use the project ideas on the site a lot. It is free, but you need to create an account. 

A fun way to learn about the hydraulic cycle. Appropriate for grades 3 and under :)

Another great site with learning games. This one seems to be completely free (I haven't used it a ton, so maybe I just didn't reach the free-use limit). Best of all, it has games for nearly every subject, and the games are categorized by grade and subject.

PARCC test questions measure deeper learning, critical-thinking and problem- solving skills. Compare existing test questions with PARCC and see the difference for yourself.

Easy directions to learn about Diigo

Empowering and connecting teachers, administrators, and parents with innovative solutions and resources to better education. This site has ideas for group learning and motivating students.

Keith Hughes explains how to flip your classroom. He gives a quick tutorial about how to do the video piece. He emphasizes three things: 1. Know your curriculum, 2. Know your audience. 3. When you know your curriculum and your audience, you can focus on how to engage kids so they understand your objective clearly. He suggests making a 10 minute video, and explains how incorporate the videos, font and lecture into the video. The students watch it at home and come to class prepared to discuss the concept. In this way, class time is not used to teach content, but to respond to the concepts the students viewed in the video at home.

This site provides a student rubric for blogging and would be a good guide for students as they begin this exercise.

Students approach real world problems using robotics and software, employing all 21st century skills. Teachers are facilitators and coaches.

I wanted to learn more about SETT as I know so little.

Annenberg Learner Interactive website that covers many content areas, including math, science, history and language arts. This site has many layers to it with lessons for upper elementary through high school, and a video library for teachers.

Learner.org

For every correct answer you choose, 10 grains of rice are raised to help end world hunger through the World Food Programme. This website has two goals. One is to help end world hunger and the other is to help educate people. People of all ages can answer questions and for each question that they get right, 10 grains of rice are donated to the UNWFP (United Nations World Food Program). They can answer questions in a variety of subjects such as humanities, math, and science.

Khan Academy is like your very own digital tutor. This site has a ton of educational videos and interactive exercises (particularly in math) that cover skills that range through grades k-12. Students, teachers, and parents alike can learn an abundance of things from Khan Academy, and it's completely free.

Free website with hundreds of educational games, activities, quizzes, and articles for all ages

IXL has hundreds of Math related games, categorized by grade and topic. It is a subscription based site, but allows quite a few free uses, and even once you've used up your free practice for the day it refreshes and let you try again the next day.

I've used this for students to play independently at my classroom computer

IXL is the world's most popular subscription-based learning site for K-12. Used by over 5 million students, IXL provides unlimited practice in more than 4,000 math and English language arts topics. Interactive questions, awards and certificates keep kids motivated as they master skills.