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* Join the largest creative community established exclusively for visual arts educators, university professors, researchers and scholars, teaching artists, administrators, and art museum educators. Collaborate. Learn. Engage in thoughtful dialogue. Engage with January's Mentor through the NAEA blog! Thom KnabI am the K-4 Arts Specialist for Dodge Elementary school in the Williamsville School District.Links to approximately 125 electronic journals, articles on issues in aesthetics, arts education, art theory, and visual arts, statistics, and assorted databases

"Links to approximately 125 electronic journals, articles on issues in aesthetics, arts education, art theory, and visual arts, statistics, and assorted databases"

This sites has materials for Professional Development. The free resources include VoD's to enhance the instruction in all disciplines: Arts, Foreign Language, Literature/Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science. Materials also available for purchase.

This was a lesson plan that I found. It's for Language Arts and its about poetry. Seemed to have a good idea of cooperative learning in the classroom.

I found this website where you're able to print off free activities for students. This website has all subjects and topics. There are more then just activities, they give customer and arts and crafts ideas as well.

Art activities, worksheets for the Head Start Program In one lesson students complete a variety of activities related to the Maurice Sendak book "Chicken Soup With Rice." They identify the months of the year, identify words starting with the letter J, explore online illustrations created by Maurice Sendak, and create a rhyme using a class list of rhyming words.

This is an Interactive website for Reading and Language Arts. This site is more focused on the 3rd and 4th graders. It has lots of practice for students to do, but it also has lots of things for parents and teachers to get extra help on teaching their students.

This a video describing a really neat language arts cooperative activity. Using cards they go through a set of rules and help each other as well as silently classifying the cards. I find this a really interesting lesson to try with students.

The easiest way to create a WebQuest with more than 165.4 thousand users. I really like this website as you can create a brand new webquest or adapt and enhance existing webquests. There are some great learning webquests for pre-schoolers. The ones I viewed are "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" for art and music lessons and Science for Preschoolers. They have over 100 templates to use and target every subject. I will definately be using the Webquest now and in the future.

This site is dedicated to Language Arts. This site is for kindergarten to 2nd/ 3rd grade. It offers flashcards, worksheets, coloring pages, and a lot more.

This site contains a variety of software programs that are free downloads for registered schools and classrooms. It also offers a KidsCorner with a wide selection of games, and a number of content specific games. Click on a tab for Preschool, USA, world, animals, vocabulary, languag arts, health, science or math to access the games.

This website offers a wide range of material and lesson plans for grades Pre-K thru 12th grade. It provides a wide variety of subjects including reading, language arts, math, science, special education, technology, and many more. And it is user friendly.

Online games for students grades K-5. This website offers a great support for interaction learning on the subject matter being presented. It offers language arts and math.

This website is based on Ohio State Standards but offers great resources in Math, Science, English/Language Arts, and Social Studies. It gives options of instructional, content, professional and assessment resources.

This gives learning objectives for math and language arts for the first grade. This site also gives lesson plan ideas as well.

Standards for K-12 English and Language Arts curricula as well as lesson plans.

This site has multiple games not only for math but also language arts.

This kindergarten curriculum website has different subjects (language arts, math, writing, social studies, science) as well as different types of activities for kindergarten students.

I absoluetly love this website. You have to visit it if you have young children or neices and nephews. Looking for a game to match your school's curriculum? Use our Curriculum Guide to find the right game or activity to meet your classroom or child's needs. The guide is broken up into four areas: Math, Language Arts, Science and Social Studies. I actually did this with my 7 year old grandson. We did the detective search to see how "Cole" was eating and helped him pick out nutricious food in the lunch line at school. We were also able to print out a worksheet that shows how many teaspoons of sugar are in your soda drink. We will be doing the test this week. Children will have fun doing the investigation while learning about science adnd healthy snacks.

Lesson plan for expanding students' use of different verbs. Includes instructional plan to be covered in four sessions, print outs, and ideas for individual and group practice. Meets several national standards for the teaching of Language Arts. Promotes use of technology, dictionaries, and thesauri.

In this site you can access model curriculum supporting the state standards. You can select quarterly units or individual topics. These models provide sample that offer description, time frame, sample ideas, sample questions, vocabulary, resources. Individual models show the standards that will be mastered, gives instructional strategies, samples of instructional resources/materials that can be used, and even lists some common misconceptions related to the lesson. Unfortunately, it only provides for Language Arts and Mathematics but it could be a great base for creating your own plans in other subjects.