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Teacher videos, resources and lesson plans. Discover great ideas and strategies to use as a teacher with this collection of videos covering Math, Science, English, History and more.

This is the Teaching Channel's website filled with educator resources.  I have found several Science lab ideas from this site.  Many resources are standards based and grounded in STEM research, but there are resources for all subject areas.  There are also videos available that show lessons in practice.  

Learn about the chemistry of the cheeseburger, household cleaners, chocolate, biotoxins, changing leaves, and more! Lesson plans from the National Science Teachers Association designed for middle and high school.

Thanks good site, it will help students see chemistry, very nice!!

This was a cool site with nice videos. Chemistry is complex to students with low reading levels, videos are extremely helpful.

Interactive activities about water topics including water cycle, ocean, fresh water, watersheds, water conservation and protection, indirect and direct water use and water and health for elementary and middle school students and their teachers. Designed for ages 8-12.

Ask Kids is a search engine designed exclusively for young people ages 6 to 12. It provides a safe and fun way for kids to research educational topics. While most search engine websites provide filters and safe mode searches, it is not guaranteed to be age appropriate. Ask Kids is an excellent web resource for educators and students.

This article looks at gaming on a variety of levels and offers interesting stats (i.e.,"42% of gamers are women . . . (representing) a greater portion of the game-playing population than boys 17 or younger.") No wonder the White House is interested.

This site is designed to support teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) to elementary school students. On this site you will find fun and exciting resources to help keep your students motivated to learn, without sacrificing the learning experience. This site is especially great for classrooms with multimedia capabilities. Introduce new vocabulary with the vocabulary viewer, play fun flash games for the classroom, and print your own customized worksheets and flashcards. You can also download PowerPoint presentations and use fun teaching tools.

An explicit, intensive instructional method that allows students of all abilities to become confident, capable learners.

ESL software designed for teachers

Tapestry helps seniors and their families stay connected. Tapestry is designed to be easy to use by anyone, no matter how familiar they are with technology.

Great way to create rubrics for your students!

iRubric is a comprehensive rubric development, assessment, and sharing tool. Designed from the ground up, iRubric supports a variety of applications in an easy-to-use package. Best of all, iRubric is free to individual faculty and students. iRubric School-Edition empowers schools with an easy-to-use system for monitoring student learning outcomes and aligning with standards.

For those interested in how to maintain quality and best practices when designing e-Learning activities

This is a website designed to provide students with projects centered on Technology and Science subjects. The projects are intended to be completed during the summer, off school, months so that students continue learning.

This is an educational site in which teachers will find a large collection of reading suggestions and materials for their students. The site lists all of the books found in the Young Patriots series, which is a series designed for children. It then goes on to provide additional websites and links for each specific Patriot and individual mentioned. As you explore a little further, you will find several short videos on each of these individuals that can be used as great lead ins to any lesson about these Patriots. I found this cite to be very easy to use and navigate through, and filled with great resources and content.

ExitTicket is a student response system, designed by teachers to achieve one simple idea: Accelerate student achievement. I haven't used this before, but came across it and thought it may be useful to share.

TEACHERS PLAY A VITAL ROLE in leading sustained efforts to improve learning in our schools. NWP teacher-leaders study and share effective practices that enhance student writing and learning, work collaboratively with other educators, design resources, and take on new roles in effecting positive change.

LDC "teaching tasks" are the meaningful reading and writing assignments that teachers "teach" and students "do" to demonstrate they have learned college and career skills. LDC teaching tasks define what students will be asked to do and know: the challenging content and CCRS-aligned literacy skills that become the heart of the LDC module.

Interesting Template for use with Project Based Learning

Soundzabound Music Library offers a wide variety of music, audio themes and sound effects for grades K -12 and universities that ensures your copyright safety. Perfect for podcasts, PowerPoint™, videos, news shows, video yearbooks, digital storytelling, presentations, TV broadcasts, web design and more!

Pan, C., & Thompson, K. (2009). Exploring dynamics between instructional designers and higher education faculty: An ethnographic case study. Journal of Educational Technology Development and Exchange, 2(1), 33-52.

A framework that was designed to provide districts and schools a step-by-step process to use in developing and implementing school counseling programs.