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From the National Endowment for the Humanities edsitement offers lesson plans for K-12 on anthropology, art history, civics, folklore, history, language, literature, mythology, religion, social studies, and writing.

This is another website that is part accessible for free, but there is a pay option to take advantage of the rest ($ per year). Scholastic offers lesson plans, worksheets, mini books, a whole section of "computer lab favorites" with learning activities students can do on the computer in 30 minutes or less, videos, a class homepage builder, and more. Building a whole unit (any subject) is made easy with the resources available on this site. There is even a special section for new teachers!

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

This is a great site with many kid friendly games. Most of the games have some correlation to math related topics. I find it best to preselect which games the students should play so as to enhance the lessons to be learned or alredy learned.

Great website for all ages and grades. This website offers free educational games in all subject areas. In addition, this website offers brain teasers, organized by grade.

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.

Pete's Power Point contains hundreds of free Power Point presentations on all core subjects for both primary and secondary educators. All of the Power Points can be downloaded and used as is, or you can alter them to fit your lesson and teaching style.    

This website is definitely worth bookmarking! There are numerous premade PowerPoints for all content areas. It would be very helpful for anyone who has a projector or uses a TV for instruction. These PowerPoints could be used as an introduction or for reviewing content before an assessment.

Erik, I didn't realize you posted this great website already. Sorry- I tried to delete my bookmark but I was unable to. I will find another resource to contribute :)

I love everything about Discovery Education, not to mention their streaming library which offers video clips of pretty much anything educational you can think of from lessons on "What do Scientists do?" to Chinese Dragon Dancers. I use this site all the time in my classroom, highly recommend!

Free resources for teachers for every subject and grade level.

This is one of my favorite sites for science lesson plans. Discovery has some re;evant and useable lesson plans.

This is a website that is great for providing your students with extra support on problematic areas in the classroom. I think this website is best for worksheets. They offer ebooks and they are organized by topic. Membership for this site is free; however, their suggested sites (i.e. vocabularyatoz and writing atoz) are not free. Overall, this site is great for content specific extra support in the classroom, in all core subject areas.

A social studies site for kids. The site shares information about the famous explorer with October 12 (Columbus Day) approaching.

This website has a good assortment of online games for many subject areas. There is also a section of pre-school read alouds to explore. Be careful! As this website is a free site, there are some ads along the sides and top of the pages.

This site has educational games for kids grades Pre-K to 8th grade.

ABC book ideas for students from kindergarten to college. The ideas are for various subject areas.

Digital Images for Students and Teachers to Use- Organized by content

This website provides great math resources including games, puzzles, and flashcards for students for various educational levels.

A great place for multiple subjects K-5

This is a link to the abstract of an article I found through EBSCO by UCF Associate Professor Dr. Gina Gresham. The study she conducted is about the math anxiety levels of pre-service teachers before and after taking a specialized course on how to teach the subject using tools like manipulatives.

Hi Hope! I actually came across the same article. I find articles about math anxiety really interesting.

Science for Kids | Grades K - 5 This site has videos, games, and links to other websites over a variety of subjects.

Teacher Information Directory with 1000's of links to Teacher and Educator Resources including Teaching with the Internet, Integrating the Internet into Curriculum, internet guides and much more.

An article that addresses some of the flaws with rubrics.

Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner. Our 175,000 members in 119 countries are professional educators from all levels and subject areas--superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors of education, and school board members.

A great site of rubric maker tools, very informative one, recommended .

Links to tools for creating rubrics in a variety of subjects, including some that can be used for undergraduate level work, such as team work assessments and writing rubrics.

The Clayton Christensen Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank dedicated to improving the world through disruptive innovation. Founded on the theories of Harvard professor Clayton M. Christensen, the Institute offers a unique framework for understanding many of society's most pressing problems. Our mission is ambitious but clear: work to shape and elevate the conversation surrounding these issues through rigorous research and public outreach. With an initial focus on education and health care, the Christensen Institute is redefining the way policymakers, community leaders, and innovators address the problems of our day by distilling and promoting the transformational power of disruptive innovation. The Christensen Institute is based in the San Francisco Bay Area in California.