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This is a free web portal designed to assist anyone who wants to find high-quality, free Internet resources to use in classroom instruction, developing project ideas, reinforcing specific subject matter areas both in the class and at home and even for online technology tutorials. This is a great site for everyone to utilize. I have used this website with all four of my boys, and they love it.

This website gives plenty of resources to further your professional development as a teacher. It gives books to read, and different websites to look at.

This site offers help in how to use a WebQuest, tips on using WebQuest, how to use them in a classroom, and how to make a WebQuest. I found this site helpful in learning about WebQuest.

This website offeres a expansive list of Cooperative Learning activities for the students to do. These can intergrated into lesson plans or used as a introduction activity.

Cooperative Learning Structures Explanation Jigsaw Groups with five students are set up. Each group member is assigned some unique material to learn and then to teach to his group members. To help in the learning students across the class working on the same sub-section get together to decide what is important and how to teach it.

Educators Professional Development is the largest online database of professional development conferences and workshops for educators and teachers from Early Learning to Grade 12.

Educators Professional Development is the largest online database of professional development conferences and workshops for educators and teachers from Early Learning to Grade 12. You are able to search for conferences in your area, or even suggest a conference for others to view.

This is a website where a teacher can find conferences and workshops to go to and keep growing professionally. It looks like a great idea because you would be able to find conferences all around the United States

DLTK'S website is filled with lots of free printable material that a teacher could easily use in their classrooms.  There mini book unit is great to print out free books for your classroom.  This will allow students to apply their knowledge of letter sounds to read simple sentences. 

Mrs. Large is a second grade teacher that created this web site for her students to use as they study each of the themes throughout the year. She encourages everyone that comes to her page to just try them out.

This website contains many WebQuests for all subjects at the elementary level. It also includes links to websites on how to create WebQuests. This site has links to WebQuest sites suggested by Innovative Teaching Newsletter.

This site helps you walk through a set up of a web quest.

This site gives an overview of how to design a webquest and why they are useful. The information is useful to know because it is step by step and shows how a well-planned webquest can enhance learning.  Links to pre-existing webquests are found here as well.

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.

This website provides different workshops that teachers can go to to help with professional development and to better your school district.

This goes with the Publications and Organizations part of the COPE. It is a publication that will keep you informed on what you need to to do to keep up with your professional development as a teacher in Indiana.

"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!"

An article from the Washington Post discussing how to prepare teachers for the challenges of STEM. I feel the article touched on the importance of the teachers' preparation along with the need to help future students.

The Common Core State Standards provide a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn, so teachers and parents know what they need to do to help them.

This site has some interesting educational games. You have to go to the Parents and Teachers section in order to discover the age grouping.

A website where you can use the current WebQuests or change it to fit your class. Good examples for grades K-3

A website with a list of different activities involving webquests. I find it helpful because as a teacher, I will not necessarily have the time or resources to create a unique webquest lesson plan. I may have to adapt what is already in place for my class but use the main ideas as a foundation.

This is the Library of Congress's site. I find this to appropriate because it is from the government and it gives your mulitple choices on how to grow. You just decide on what exactly you want to do and search for it on the page.

The Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program provides primary source-based staff development to teachers across the country. I included the site because it is both a government ran website and allows teachers the opportunity to expand what they know with their own decisions.

This site offers lesson plans, tips, themes, printables, and a lot more. A great site if you are needing to teach on a certain topic, and need an idea on what to do.

An excellent site for teaching science to any elementary grade. A free site but requires signup to utilize all the features.