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Lots of great ideas, resources, and lessons for how to use SMART boards in elementary classrooms!

Welcome to the Elementary Education Curriculum and Instruction Web Site

SCPS Winter Springs Elementary

A great article regarding apps and BYOD in the elementary classroom. This article also links to other resources and research.

A how to article

Organizational techniques for elementary teachers!

To challenge and support each child at his or her own level, the educators of Forest Lake Elementary deploy a powerful array of digital-technology tools. Discover what your school can learn.

To challenge and support each child at his or her own level, the educators of Forest Lake Elementary deploy a powerful array of digital-technology tools. Discover what your school can learn.

Excellent place to find resources for the elementary classroom! Search by grade specific or subject area specific criteria....

Amazing website for elementary school teachers!!! Provides digital copies of books, lesson plans, digital and printable book reports, quizzes, and so much more! Highly recommended!!!

Funschool offers free online educational elementary games for kids as well as printable activities, coloring and crafts that will help kids learn and get ready for school.

Great example of the theory of connectivism in the classroom. This could be an upper elementary, middle or high school project.

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. :)

Elementary Educational Language Arts games for grades K-6. Great for cold reads, worksheets and themed based worksheets and games. There are also ready-to-go lesson plans available on language arts topics.

Ten great story starter activities for elementary school students.

This report provides national data on the availability and use of educational technology among teachers in public elementary and secondary schools during the winter and spring of 2009. The data are the results of a national teacher-level survey that is one of a set that includes district, school, and teacher surveys on educational technology.

This site seems like it's geared toward elementary school, but I love all the useful tips!

Common Core changes Clay county (suburban Jacksonville) grading scale

Helping keep the digital world civil . . . This blog post lays it all out: the rationale for teaching digital citizenship; how to start teaching it in elementary grades, and some follow up ideas for middle and high school. It's never too late to start working with students on digital citizenship, though! :-)