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A place for teachers to visit to find lessons connected to comprehension skills such as author's purpose, compare and contrast, and prediction. You can search by grade level and even alignment to the Common Core Standards. If you are a K-6 teacher that enjoys teaching with picturebooks, then this is worth checking out!

Great website that has thousands of passages for your students. You can seach by lexlie level, by skill/strategy, or by grade. I use these all the time in the classroom to review skills I've already taught. Common Core aligned, teacher & principal endorsed.

The website has reading passages that are based on lexile levels, skills, and type of passage. You'll love this research-based reading comprehension curriculum. Check out ReadWorks.org!

Great way to search for peer-reviewed (scholarly) articles and research papers. Thanks, Google!

*UCF NID Account Required* *Open in New Window may be Required* The article provides an overview of the process involved in envisioning, developing and incorporating mobile technology into the curriculum at 2 institutions of higher education and a public charter school. Topics discussed include the 3 projects for experiences envisioning, developing and integrating digital media and technology at the Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a prekindergarten class at Big Pine Academy, Florida and University of Central Florida (UCF)

Another good resource for supplemental material. Hundereds of topics from The Inquisition to Praire Dogs. Provides links to webistes that can be used as interactive lessons as well as links where educator's can find information and printable activities.

This site offers a wide collection of topic-based online education resources, clip art, and free lesson plans that meet state and national standards.

Educational website for teachers and students

Effective mathematics teaching is required to improve mathematics education. The experience that the teachers provide shape the students' understanding and their ability to use mathematics in their daily lives. This research study was carried out by a few UCF faculty members, as well as some from other colleges and universities. It focused on pre-service elementary school teachers and their ability to contextualize and decontextualize fraction subtraction problems by both writing problems and choosing problems that support given expressions.

In the article, it states that, "teachers of social studies content are less likely than teachers of other content areas to utilize technology in their classroom." This research study (carried out by a UCF faculty member) focuses on how a technology coordinators' beliefs towards technology, instruction, and students impacted how technology was used during a technology-enriched project with a group of fourth grade students. It was found that the coordinator's beliefs did in fact directly impact how technology was used.

PBS Learning Media Home Page has a number of multimedia activities and ideas for lessons. There are some great, short videos explaining definitions as well. The site can be searched by standard, subject or as a whole.

PBS Learning Media K-12 Videos

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!

CPALMS is an online toolbox of information, vetted resources, and interactive tools that helps educators effectively implement teaching standards.

FREE resource that contains FL standards' information and course descriptions. Maintained by the Florida State University.

FL Standards for reference

OPTIMUS PRIME wants YOU to showcase your NASA knowledge in a Glog! Your Mission: Search for Spinoffs in your Environment Spinoffs are like OPTIMUS PRIME- they come from Space to solve problems on Earth! That's why we need you to identify NASA Spinoff technology in your world and test your skills at changing an everyday object into something that will make your world a better place! John Lucyk

This is a site that I found on the FirstGov search. The site provides monthly math word problems for students. The site also provides an archives link so that past problems can be retrieved.

ESE students: myths and truths about integrating technology