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"Vocabulary Games"

This website offers free, interactive resources online featuring Latin & Greek root-based activities at grade levels. It was listed as an instructional resource on the Florida Department of Education website.

This site provides interactive and fun ways for students to practice and learn new vocabulary words via games, puzzles, and crosswords. It is suitable for students from high elementary grades through college!

Great website for educators to access royalty free clip art, lesson plans, clip media, and presentations.

This website is AMAZING. It has clip-art, photographs, presentation images, maps, lessons, and answers to tech questions. There are so many images available, they are free (up to a certain amount, but it is very generous), it tells you exactly how to cite them, and it has options for file size and format. It took some clicking/digging around, but this is what led me to this site: FL DOE - Educators button at top - Curriculum, Instruction, Student Services - Instruction & Curriculum - Instructional Technology - Educational Technology Clearinghouse

FCIT (the Florida Center for Instructional Technology) and ETC (the Educational Technology Clearinghouse) provide digital content, professional development, and technical services supporting the appropriate integration of technology into K-12 and preservice education. ©2011 Florida Center for Instructional Technology, College of Education, University of South Florida

12 Resources All Social Studies Teachers Should Try

Some great resources for teachers on digital storytelling!

Teacher, writer and speaker, Richard Byrne writes about all things ed tech, providing a wealth of new information as well as FREE resources using technology!

Blog by Richard Byrne with tools and how-tos on implementing free web based technology tools. Big emphasis on Google.

This link provides a wealth of free educational resources for teachers.

This website is a great place to get free worksheets. There is a quick link to quickworksheets.net that will take you to a site that you can produce your own worksheets according to what you are teaching.

The GTA is a FREE professional development experience designed to help primary and secondary educators from around the globe get the most from innovative technologies.

FREE lesson plans, including preschool. Teachers share and archive great ideas, thematic units, classroom projects, printables and more

Find and share teacher resources for K-12 teachers and engage with the largest online community of educators in the world.

This web site is free! It offers teacher resources as well as a math practice program for your class.

This is a great website for teachers to look up lesson plans, games, assessments, glyphs, worksheets, etc., for any subject. Some things can be accessed for free, some cannot. Annual membership is only $20, and allows you unlimited access. Teachers may search by subject, skill, or grade level. The site is very user friendly, and has a lot of great resources!

Art Babble is a video website designed and maintained by the Indianapolis Museum of Art. The purpose of Art Babble is to provide a place for people to learn about the creation of art, artists, and collections through quality video productions. Visitors to Art Babble will find videos related to many forms of and formats for art.

The Florida Center for Instructional Technology is located at USF and is funded by the Florida Department of Education.  It provides links to numerous educational technology resources.

The Florida Center for Instructional Technology (FCIT) provides leadership, instructional materials, and support services to educational institutions with regard to the integration of technology into K-20 education. Has thousands of royalty-free clipart and images.

I really like the resources for presentations and technology incorporation in the classroom in the Educational Technology Clearinghouse section of the site.

Free grammar lessons and quizzes for teachers to use in the classroom.

This is good for art teachers

Great resource for no cost "free to use" digital images. I've used this site in several projects for the program and while they don't have EVERYTHING, they've got quite a bit.

Digital Storytelling resources

This was actually introduced to me recently by my daughter's preschool teacher. Sure I had seen the commercials- but I had no idea it is FREE for teachers! I shared it with my Kindergarten team and we are all in love. So many lessons can be used on the smartboard, and you can create individual learning paths for each child.

Make flashcards for students to study both online and on-the-go with Apple and Android apps. Students can quiz themselves from flashcards and track their mastery of key concepts. StudyBlue is free, secure and requires no extra work by your IT department. Built for students.Loved by teachers. This is not a top-down, group-purchase, fee-licensed product.

Whole Brain Teaching is fun, free and powerfully engages challenging students... Whole Brain Teachers of America is one of the fastest growing education reform movements in the United States. Whole Brain Teachers of America Improving student reading speed, of all serious educational problems, is one of the easiest to solve. LOVE THIS SITE!!

Wow great site, I love that they have an area that will help you with challenging students. I am going to keep searching to see if they have anything on ESOL students, if not it would be a great addition to the site. The site is GREAT!! Thank you!