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This is a free, easy to navigate resource for teachers where free worksheets, quiz ideas, and fun activities can be found. The website has free resources for Pre-K to Middle School grades.

This website would be great to use for web quests. It is a website created for kids to obtain knowledge about historical figures and events. It is also categorized for primary to middle school. This site lists governmental sites that are kid friendly and and also allows students to upload reports as well. I find this site particularly useful because each age group as well as the educator have separate links that can be accessed and used for educational purposes. This site also provides visitors to make suggestions on how this site can be improved. I think this is extremely helpful because you get the opinions of the students as well. This site is essential when learning about laws and constitutional vocabulary that may sometimes not be fully explained in the textbook.

This website provides the students an opportunity to allow History to come alive!! This site promotes the content while integrating the technology that makes History fascinating and fun. Students can also access different museums as well as interact with historical figures and places This site would be excellent when using web quests and virtual field trips. This site is easy to manipulate and navigate and this site also provides the educator with tips and guides for lesson design. I believe this is an effective learning tool, especially when differentiating instruction. This site is completely free, and the content is age appropriate, especially when conducting student lead activities.

This free website provides innovative way for students to enhance their knowledge in Science, Social Studies and beyond. It provides games as well as videos that will promote investigative learning among students of all ages. If an educator chooses to utilize this site, it would be very helpful if the educator knew the concept as this website has many activities and links. It is fairly easy to navigate. The colors may not be as appealing as other websites, but the content of this site is very effective when being utilized as a learning tool. This particular site is designed for students in grades k-8, depending on the content.

This website is excellent for teaching world history. This is a free website is excellent for teaching world history to students in grades k-8. It provides students with time to interact with ancient artifacts from different parts of the world such as Egypt, Greece, China and etc. This site is very helpful in navigating through historical concepts as site is designed for student friendly access. The vivid colors and topics are appealing to all students, especially those who have display an appetite for historical adventures. This website also assists in the process of differentiated instruction due to the plethora of instructional avenues an educator can choose from. Due to this website being free, there is a section that an educator as well as student can access for assistance and frequently asked questions.

This free site is very useful for implementing technology with teaching History. This site is very useful for implementing technology with teaching History. This particular site specializes in accommodating ages 4-11. Although teaching history to this age group can sometimes be a straining task, this particular website also offers educators an opportunity to stream their lessons for others to observe. This particular website also assists in interdisciplinary activities as the side bars include all subjects and lesson ideas. This particular site is extremely interactive and is can be an effective learning tool. Educators and students can also access the Contact Us link and receive assistance if needed. This site is also designed for student friendly access and is very easy for navigation.

Free website to use for presentation of information for projects. I would use this website for grades 4 and up. Teachers would like this website because it motivates students to participate in a different form of presenting information. There are also free lesson plans teachers can view on the website. Students would enjoy using the website because he/she can create their own voki, use their own voice, and create a background. There also is a teacher's comment to provide questions and find answers about using Voki. The website is easy to navigate and create a presentation using Voki.

Online math games for students in 4-6th grade to practice math concepts. This is a free website for students to practice various math skills. Students will enjoy this website because students who are weaker in math can review math concepts. I think students would enjoy having the freedom to choose the games to play to review the concept. All the games are listed on the left side, but to find which concepts to review the student would need to go through each game. The directions for each game are listed and students can also play games in pairs. The website was updated in 2010, but there is no link to ask for any assistance to use a game or to leave any comments. The games itself are fun to play, great graphics and background music and best of all students are having fun with math!

Free website to use to cite various sources. Easy to follow steps to cite a variety of sources. I feel this would appeal to students because many students struggle with putting the correct punctuation marks and to cite sources correctly. The aesthetics is very general there are no creative graphics. I feel the website is up to date since 2010. I loved the fact I could just put in the ISBN number and the book information would pop up and I just click submit. This information can be used from 4th grade and up. The only negative is there is no contact support available.

Zunal allows for a free registration to create one free webquest This site is up-to-date since 2010. This site offers step by step directions to create a webquest and also provides answer to common questions about using Zunal. Students from grades 4 and up would be able use this web site. The information on the site is informative to help create a webquest and even few examples of webquests. Students get more involved and use higher-level thinking when using the tools to create a webquest. This site itself is well organized and colorful. Students would enjoy creating a webquest because he/she are able to work together in groups and use creativity.

Free website used to develop lesson plans in art. Lesson plans contain the objectives, materials, planning, assessments and examples. This website is better used for teachers, but students who are interested in art projects would enjoy this website. This is very effective learning tool because the website uses various forms of art from clay, abstract, collage, sculptures and etc. The information is up-to-date and contains unique art projects. The website is organized by grade level to help find appropriate art for each grade. There is an email available to contact the creator by email. The art lesson were submitted by teachers and allows users to add comments about each lesson.

Free classic literature at you fingertips on this beautifully designed web site. Very straight forward and simple to use, anyone at any age can find a classic here. Very little support offered as this is really just a list of books you can read electronically. I think its great because you can read all the classics and learn what good literature is here. Great for students.

This site is free and is a great study guide for basically anything. You can make your own test, quizzes, or flashcards, or make your own if you chose to do so.

This site claims to be the largest independent study site in the U.S. Extremely easy to use this is a great site to test yourself on the knowledge you have on almost any subject. This free tool uses a flash card system to educate you and multiple tests are available to test your knowledge. Students would love this aesthetically pleasing tool and it is very educational. I love the simple concept and the depth of information on this site. The amount and accuracy of the information is outstanding, and the great thing about it is that any age individual could enjoy this site.

This site claims to be the largest independent study site in the U.S. Extremely easy to use this is a great site to test yourself on the knowledge you have on almost any subject. This free tool uses a flash card system to educate you and multiple tests are available to test your knowledge. Students would love this aesthetically pleasing tool and it is very educational. I love the simple concept and the depth of information on this site. The amount and accuracy of the information is outstanding, and the great thing about it is that any age individual could enjoy this site.

It appears that sparknotes was originally designed to be used as a footnote - intended to summarize books required for reading. This site is well organized and easy to use and students would be crazy not to use this site. It is organized intoseveral tabs - Spark notes guides (provides summaries and analysis - 500 guides for Literature and a number for History, Math, and Biology), No Fear Shakespear, SparkCollege (info on colleges including intro videos0, Test prep (for standardized tests), Flashcards, Miss Marm (writing help), Spark Test (self-evaluation), and Spark Life which is all about school life. It appears to be free with up to date valid information and all your support questions can be answered under the help tab.

This website provides information about all 50 states. It gives quick access to a variety of state specific facts and other useful information like state trees, state bird as well as famous people,and fun fact and trivia. It also provides a states map.It is very quick and useful resource for social studies teachers.

This website provides quick animated lessons on life skills like cyberbullying, self-esteem,self-control, peer pressure, online safety,and others. After every lesson students are given opportunites to try and apply the skill in a form of test and conversation.

This a interesting website that students can visit every day and find sections like "This Day in History", "Mind Benders", "Word of the Day", "Word of the Day". Give students the opportunity to choose a subject and a grade level and compare themselves to other students by taking a quiz. In the section "Graph" gives students a chance to create different types of graphs.

This website is great for students and teachers. It provides math game that are differentiated by skills. Students can practice their addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division skills while playing a math game. It also gives a opportunities to generate worksheets.It is a free website.

Educational games are a great tool for building foundation math and language skills that today's elementary school curriculum requires. These online learning games and songs for kids are fun, teach important skills for preschool and elementary school kids and they're free.

This website provides quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles to help you learn English as a Second Language (ESL). It is very helpful is you have ESL students in your classroom. It is a free website.