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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.

"TheHomeworkZone provides teachers with a FREE, simple-to-use and easily editable classroom web site . Quickly post assignments, test dates, study guides, printable worksheets, events, announcements, and custom web pages to the internet. Now students and parents can keep up-to-date with what's going on in class just by visiting your personalized HomeworkZone!"

Atomic Learning features a guided, step-by-step path for tech integration through online teacher workshops, classroom-ready projects, assessments, and just-in-time training and support on over 205 applications and over 50 assistive technology programs relevant to district and individual technology needs.

This webpage guides to different context area for professional development. It also gives information about lessons plans, themes, technology, and class management.

Educator's Professional Development Online database of conferences and workshops around the world. Professional Development for Educators Library of Congress The Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program provides primary source-based staff development to teachers across the country. LeaningForward.org Networking and Professional Development Resource for educators.

This site has different professional development links including professional development courses, networking sites, and workshops for professional development.

This website offers a variety of subjects for all grades Pre-K thru high school. I like this site because it also has a Lesson Plan Writing guide for you to follow.

A number of ideas for high school social studies curriculum.

Concepts of Comprehension Lesson Plans Standards Alignment with Lessons and Curriculum Many different lesson plans with lists of materials needed and ideas for think check, guided practice and independent practice.

This is a resource guide that has different blogs from people and a free printables a news letter a free book for first time teachers.

This is a first grade curriculum from Delano Public Schools in Delano, MN

Here is a guide to creating and using WebQuests. This takes you through each step to help you be successful with the WebQuest.

This is another site I found really helpful on how and why we have WebQuest. There is a 90 minute tutorial that I find very useful.

Cooperative learning is an instructional strategy that simultaneously addresses academic and social skill learning by students. It is a well-researched instructional strategy and has been reported to be highly successful in the classroom. For a more in depth explanation of this strategy, follow this link to the self-guided tutorial.

This article has several ideas for small group activities that build skills and promote teamwork. It focuses on building learning strategies with diverse learners. I really like this website and will be using it it the future for teaching Reading and helping those that are struggling with this subject. ABCs of Teaching Reading classroom strategies helping struggling readers, reading topics from a-z Cooperative Learning has been proven to be effective for all types of students, including academically gifted, mainstream students and English language learners (ELLs) because it promotes learning and fosters respect and friendships among diverse groups of students. In fact, the more diversity in a team, the higher the benefits for each student. Peers learn to depend on each other in a positive way for a variety of learning tasks. Students typically work in teams of four. This way, they can break into pairs for some activities, and then get back together in teams very quickly for others. It is important, however, to establish classroom norms and protocols that guide students to: Contribute Stay on task Help each other Encourage each other Share Solve problems Give and accept feedback from peers

A collection of tools for classroom use.

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.