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This site offered great information on media ratings. I have used this in middle school open house as a closing to remind parents that the ratings are on the box for a reason. I also let them know that what their students "play" at home shows up in school in there writing assignments, art work and converstaions. I was able to request bookmarks on year at a very low cost.

Good review for simple machines. This could also be used on a smart board as well.

I have used this website in Kindergarten and am excited to see that there are plenty of resources I can use for second grade. The NCTE is composed off dedicated teachers who share their resources, strategies, and best practices with others. You can enjoy the benefits of being a NCTE member by enrolling in the membership. Many of the resources are free and can be used in the classroom. There are lesson plans and student interactives to use for any subject on a computer or smart board. The great thing about this website is that parents and children can access it at home for after school resources. There is community involvement and professional developments that one can attend.

"Love it! My students and my own children can't wait to get on the computer, and I then have a hard time stopping them from using the site!" Special education teacher, Elmhurst, Illinois, U.S.A. "Thanks to IXL, our students' performance has increased dramatically.

This is great! now my nephew will stop having a fit about doing extra work.

All grades, all skills, provides explanation when students are incorrect, rewards, goals, badges to earn! It isn't free, but get enough teachers on board and your school could purchase for everyone. Teachers are sent class reports: we print them out and hang them up outside our classrooms "Miss Sipe's class has answered 3,000 problems on IXL"

Edutopia is all about change and innovation in education. It is a great website to explore for new ideas, educational resources and discussion boards.

This is great website to reference to as an educator. It has a variety of information and perspective from various professional in the field of education. I love the fact that it has blogs broken down into categories that covers topics in certain grade level. Overall this website is very user friendly and truly utilizes the multimedia format.

benifits of smartboards in the classroom

Get your students interacting with many math backgrounds and manipulatives that are commonly used in K-4 classrooms including: bar diagrams, calendars, grids, equation charts, number lines, place value charts and all the markers, counters, game pieces, money images, blocks, and clocks that you will need.

Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner. Our 175,000 members in 119 countries are professional educators from all levels and subject areas--superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors of education, and school board members.

The Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences (CBMS) National Forum will be at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Reston, Virginia, October 5-7. The focus and theme will be on building student success in the first two years of college math.

Scholastic is a great resource for teachers, and their website for Interactive White boards is very informational. This resource contains interactive lessons, graphic organizers, proofreading lessons, writing lessons, strategies, ideas, a shop, and so much more!

This is a great resource! I have an interactive whiteboard and the students love listening/viewing the online stories. I think it also shows a positive message from famous actors that reading is important. Thanks for sharing!

Have your students listen to a story being read by a famous person.

This website is provided through the Screen Actors Guild foundation. Stories are read by actors. There are about 25 stories geared more for younger children. They provide options to comment on the stories or buy the books.

Starfall.com opened in September of 2002 as a free public service to teach children to read with phonics. Our systematic phonics approach, in conjunction with phonemic awareness practice, is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, special education, homeschool, and English language development (ELD, ELL, ESL).

This is a great site for children ages 2-8. It teaches pre-reading as well as reading skills up to 2nd grade. Includes games, animated stories, songs, and writing activities. I use it daily!

Starfall is a free website that teaches children how to read through phonics. It has practice games on phonemic awaresness. The program is great for grades K-2, second language learners and special education.

This website provides students with basic outlines for using correct, polite Netiquette on the internet. It also includes a great infographic that gives you the "15 Rules of Netiquette" for online discussion boards.

This website contains information on Interactive White Boards and how they are used in the classroom. The website also provides information on other classroom resources as well as professional development opportunities.

An article that addresses some of the flaws with rubrics.

Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner. Our 175,000 members in 119 countries are professional educators from all levels and subject areas--superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors of education, and school board members.

A pinspiring place for teachers to find and share creative ideas. Follow these boards for lesson plans, classroom decor and lots more for lively learning.