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CPALMS is an online toolbox of information, vetted resources, and interactive tools that helps educators effectively implement teaching standards.

FREE resource that contains FL standards' information and course descriptions. Maintained by the Florida State University.

FL Standards for reference

Handy listing of educational search browsers provided by Professor Thompson

This article is written by Dr. Campbell, it talks about the importance of integrating Technology into the classroom. She talks about how students love social media and using their phone. Therefore, it is important for a teacher to continuously utilize these tools to further interest and engage the students in the classroom. She also talks about various tools the teachers can use in the classroom to further interest the students in the curriculum. Such tools may include Prezi, Voicethread, Tagxedo, and Museum Box.

You can search Social sites

For over a decade, TeAchnology has been providing free and easy to use resources for teachers dedicated to improving the education of today's generation of students. We feature 46,000+ lesson plans, 9,600 free printable worksheets, rubrics, teaching tips, worksheet makers, web quests, math worksheets, and thousands of other great teacher resources.

Great site for lesson plans and assessment rubrics. Plenty of worksheets and other resources.

This site gives an example of a discipline specific search engine for technology in education

TeachersFirst is a rich collection of lessons, units, and web resources designed to save teachers time by delivering just what they need in a practical, user-friendly, and ad-free format. Busy teachers, parents, and students can find resources using our robust search tools.

"Create a Rubric"

I love this site. I used this last year for classwork, homework and projects. One of the difficult parts of teaching is assuring that students are graded fairly on assignments. Grading projects is a snap with a good rubric. Not sure what to fill in to make a rubric, no problem. Rubristar has pre-made rubrics you can use. ;)

RubiStar is a free tool to help teachers create and search for quality rubrics.

Uses Flickr photos for image search. Images come up as surrounding a globe. Students click on individual images.

" Create your own printable word search worksheets, handwriting worksheets , and crossword puzzles.

A very useful tool for middle school and high school teachers, and maybe even later elementary grades.  Not very useful to me as a first grade teacher, but when students are asked to do research papers, and they start citing Wikipedia as a reliable source, teachers should utilize this.  :)

For any middle/high school teachers who plan on having their students write research papers - to avoid Wikipedia and other unreliable sources students may find via simple Google searches. :)

Lists 210 educational technology resources in alphabetical order. Also searchable. Found using The Gateway to 21st Century Skills search engine.

Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, criss-cross, math puzzles, and more-using your own word lists.

The writers explore the role of literacy leaders in changing student achievement. Literacy leaders must have high expectations for all students, be empowered through professional development, collaborate with all of the adults within the school, and infuse technology with digital media. The writers discuss tools for literacy leadership and outline considerations for and examples of literacy leadership in the wider community.

Visual thesaurus -- especially good with Smartboards when students struggle with words during a lesson.

Graph Words is a free visualization tool to explore English dictionary and thesaurus, helps you to search the meaning of words and other associated words.

A website to search for great power point type presentations that others have already made an uploaded. You can also upload your own to share online with as many people you want without them being able to edit them!

Discover, Share, and Present presentations and infographics with the world's largest professional content sharing community.

WOW! I just discovered this site via the search tools from our text book's website. Everything from themed lesson plans to printables to science experiments.

The A to Z Teacher Stuff website is designed to help teachers find online resources more quickly and easily. It comprises lesson plans, thematic units, downloadable teaching materials, and eBooks to name a few.

A to Z Teacher Stuff is a teacher-created site designed to help teachers find online resources more quickly and easily.The website offers thematic worksheets, units, downloadable materials and more!

Awesomelibrary.org is an excellent website for educators. This website has links for teachers that are organized by subject. The topics vary from subject to subject (i.e. U.S. government or writing). What I liked most about this website is the mini-lessons that are provided for each subject. This is a great tool for reteaching activities in the classroom.

The Awesome Library organizes 33,000 carefully reviewed K-12 education resources for teachers. It contains a directory, an index, and a search engine. This site has valuable resources for teachers, parents, and students. There are activities, lesson plans, games, and additional help for teachers and parents to help their students.