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Open Office is an open software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose.

I used open office before and was so grateful for it! Very comparable to Microsoft.

Helps explain math words in kid friendly language with visuals.

This is a visual thesaurus in which students can enter a word and immediately find dozens of synonyms...which then give even more. No longer will you have reports handed in with the same drab vocabulary. Encourage the use of this in your class!

Ever stand before your class and realize you have no idea how to pronounce the foreign word in the book? Words are pronounced by native speakers

ePals is the social network optimized for K-12 learning. Over half a million classrooms in 200 countries and territories have joined the ePals Global Community to connect, collaborate and exchange ideas. ePals now translates in 35 languages!

USA TODAY newspapers, article collections and curriculum programs effectively support the literacy and cognitive skills needed for success in college and careers by engaging students in real-world news and information. USA TODAY Education creates innovative, interactive, multi-platform learning programs that engage students with real-world information to improve their literacy and critical thinking skills and prepare them for college and career paths.

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.

Great legal photo website. This keeps us safe with copy rights.

The site features a dodgeball game with a teacher and has students determine and create number sentences. There are science, language arts, and social studies games as well.

The site presents the challenges faced by educators when teaching technology to ESL students.

This site offers teachers resources aligned with NETS-T as well as students resources in the English Language Proficiency Standards as defined by TESOL.

Instructional technology tools can reshape your curriculum, or they can be a way to reinforce concepts and address gaps in language skills.

Fantastic, fun, and EASY! Kahoot! is a free game-based learning platform that makes it fun to learn - any subject, in any language, on any device, for all ages!

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.

Math, Geography, and Language Arts games! Great website!

Fun and free educational games for students to complete collaboratively. Games are available for all subjects and grade-levels.

Arcademic Skill Builders provides free research-based and standards-aligned multiplayer educational games. Our mission is to create the highest quality educational games possible in order to assist teachers and motivate students in the classroom, at home, and on the go

This website has over 100 interactive games for students to play on topics such as animals, geography, science, math, and language arts.

Tons of free educational games for all different elementary levels, including pre-k. Covers all subject areas. Has great graphics

One more website I use from time to time. Internet4classrooms is a great site because you can find your topic and grade and you can access a bunch of projects, websites, and also lesson plans. My kids are in the prehistory chapter and I used a lesson plan from this site in which students can only use cave man sign language to talk the entire and they loved it!

Encourage reading and writing! Plus, your students can get published!

This is an awesome website with short (and free!) videos to help teach all types of math from 1st - college and some higher level sciences. It's great for those days when the kids don't want to listen to your voice anymore.

Great video library for tutoring and support on a wide variety of subjects from math to science to art history.

Really liked this site,thanks for posting it