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Here's a textbook assigned in at least one other Gordon class. It presents a model of teaching mathematics that is far more engaging for students than what you and I likely remember. It's free by using your Gordon library number, so this could save you about $40 as it did for me.

TenMarks is an excellent resource to use for Math. This website is aligned with the Common Core Standards and provides students with excellent practice and understanding of each standard. The classroom teacher can sign her class up on the site and provide each student with a username and password. From there she can assign different problems for the class to solve based on the skills they are learning or have already learned. Each question has a video lesson and hints to support the students if they are struggling. TenMarks also automatically provides the students with an intervention or a re-teaching video if they continue to struggle with a concept. It also provides the teacher with reports on the progress of each student. This is something that my fifth grade colleagues and I started this year and it has been great!

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've heard that refrain numerous times. "But... he doesn't want to be seen as different." It's usually uttered in response to specific technology recommendations offered during the IEP team process. The team typically nods their head in agreement; after all, it is a priority that the student completes school tasks in the same manner as their peers, or uses the same school tools as their friends.(Or is it?)

This Concept Map, created with IHMC CmapTools, has information related to: Learning Theory, zone of proximal development The area of capabilities that learners can exhibit with support from a teacher., Montessori constructivism, Lave & Wenger situated learning, Piaget constructivism, Philosophy Dewey, Learning Theory Learning Theory v45 isa hypertextual concept map of established learning theories 19th February 2012.

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RubiStar is a tool to help the teacher who wants to use rubrics, but does not have the time to develop them from scratch.

Writing is a struggle for many students as they struggle with writer's block. Here are 50 writing prompts you can use!

Socrative is a site where teachers can create assessments for their students to take using laptops, tablets or smartphones. Teachers can watch in real-time as their students progress through the assessment.

This website has interactive math and reading games that can be played as a class on the smartboard, or individually on the computer. It is very clearly organized by grade, and the games are engaging and fun!

Games and activities for elementary students in grades 1-5. Created by teachers

ABCya is a wonderful website that we use at out centers with Pre-K and K ages. It is loaded with free online educational games. The games are mostly math and ELA based and are fun and interactive.

Socrative lets teachers engage and assess their students with educational activities on tablets, laptops and smartphones. Through the use of real time questioning, instant result aggregation and visualization, teachers can gauge the whole class' current level of understanding. Socrative saves teachers time so the class can further collaborate, discuss, extend and grow as a community of learners.

ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone easily create his or her own 3D pop-up books. On this site students can create their own digital storybooks. Students can also use this site to write reports and to deliver presentations. They can choose the 3D images from the large collection of library clipart that is provided on Zooburst. They can also add chat bubbles to these images. These books can be shared with others through a hyperlink.

"The only kids' eBook subscription service that offers thousands of high-quality books from well known publishers like HarperCollins, National Geographic and others." Check out this website, and App for free digital books to use in your classroom!

Educreations is a website on which teachers can create online video lessons and tutorials using their own voice. This tool is utilized a great deal at our school to explain math concepts. It helps students (and parents) when they need help doing homework--they can simply log onto a tutorial that the teacher has created in order to clarify the day's lesson.

Rowland Ricketts uses the natural dye called indigo to make rich blue fabrics and designs.

This website includes interactive hands-on activities for Pre-K to 12 in the areas of Numbers and Operations, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement, and Data Analysis & Probability. These are great for use with the SMARTBoard, on individual computers for practice, or even just projected onto a screen and done as a class activity.