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"Standards-based teacher lesson plan books make it easy to integrate visual thinking and learning across the curriculum. Teachers get practical ideas and step-by-step directions for engaging students in activities that encourage learning, thinking and creativity."

A perfect search engince created for students ages 6-12. Safe and fun way for young learners to engage in research.

Search engine sorted by disciplines.

This website can help you improve performance at all levels. You'll be able to streamline processes, automate tasks, empower teachers, boost parental involvement, and engage every student with personalized learning experiences on the devices they love with "Blackboard".

Ron Peck (@Ron_Peck on Twitter) teaches social studies at North Valley High School in Medford, OR. A self-proclaimed history and tech geek, he's the co-creator and co-moderator of #SSChat and #APChat on Twitter. Visit his blog at http://historygeek29.blogspot.com/. How many times have you thought to yourself, "In what way can I spice up this unit and make it student-centered?"

This has been in Beta for a while but they have a pretty good free version available. This allows for online question response and instant feedback like a set of classroom clickers some of us use. It works well and is free so check it out.

Like a Polleverywhere.com but better! Allows for quizzes, exit slips and more.

Socrative lets teachers engage and assess their students with educational activities on tablets, laptops and smartphones. Through the use of real time questioning, instant result aggregation and visualization, teachers can gauge the whole class' current level of understanding. Socrative saves teachers time so the class can further collaborate, discuss, extend and grow as a community of learners.

If you teach 3rd-8th grade this is an excellent tool for reviewing parts of speech. Using the old "mad libs" concept of creating ridiculous stories by replacing words before reading the story, this site engages students in grammar, and they don't even know it :-) It includes a "parts of speech help button" and plenty of different stories.

Think of Netflix for Education video and you've got SAFARI Montage. With entire video libraries (All of Reading Rainbow and Bill Nye the Science Guy for example ) available locally at a school or centrally via the district, SAFARI Montage will allow you to create custom play lists, clips and lessons you can show your students with engaging and safe video materials.

I was waiting to post this one! It is such a great resource. I use it all the time and get a lot of my introductory to certain lesson videos here.

"I took the huge leap of flipping my library classroom today with Office Mix. I recorded videos on the weekend after deciding being the person on stage wasn't working. My videos aren't perfect and we enjoyed some laughs, but it didn't matter. Office Mix engaged my students and put the shift of learning back on them.

Three educators share their favorite social media sites to use within their classrooms. Diigo, Instagram, VoiceThread, Scoopit.com, Pinterest, and Feedly help these educators stay up-to-date while keeping their students engaged.