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Teachers Network is a major, non-profit education organization offering online multimedia professional development and teacher education packages in order to improve student achievement. The particular page provides teachers with inexpensive field trips which help students see the real world application of the math concept they have learned.

PBS Teachers provides PreK-12 educational resources and activities for educators tied to PBS programming and correlated to local and national standards and professional development opportunities delivered online.

Podcast channels on applying creative potential to everyday life and current affairs and stories from around the world (including Asia) - listed in the general studies and citizenship category of the podcast directory for educators, schools and colleges.

This website offers so many great ideas, resources, tools, lessons, activities, and professional development articles for teachers. I found this website from an LEA (Lutheran Educators Association) e-mail. This website it just stuffed full with awesome information!

ide@s provides Wisconsin educators with teacher-reviewed, standards-aligned lessons, interactive tools, video, and other resources for use in curriculum development and classroom instruction.

Comprehensive mathematics resource for questions on content, links to educational resources, etc... If you click on Math Help on the top tab, and then "Ask Dr. Math," you can search previously asked questions regarding mathematics and can get explanations for a wide range of mathematical procedures, concepts, and applications.

NCTM serves math teachers, math educators, and administrators by providing math resources and professional development opportunities. Working for more and better math for all students.

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Just in time for the 2010 Winter Olympiad taking place in Vancouver, BC this February, NBC Universal (NBCU) has teamed up with the National Science Foundation (NSF) to produce "The Science of the Olympic Winter Games," a 16-part educational video series that gives students extensive insight into the physics, physiology, and related science of sports like figure and speed skating, ice hockey, slalom-course skiing, and even curling.

HotChalk (www.hotchalk.com), is a free online learning management system (LMS) designed specifically for K-12 educators. HotChalk helps teachers easily and quickly develop customized lesson plans and assignments, locate and integrate curriculum materials, and manage assignments and grading.

Champions, an educational technology developer, has released Virtual Science Club, a Web-based program designed to help children learn scientific concepts and skills.

This is an awesome website that takes different math topics, vocabulary, etc., and makes mnemonics to help students remember what the topic or vocabulary words is. The website also contains really great lesson ideas and professional development articles to better stay in the know.

This site provides free elementary and preschool math activities. There are online math games, lessons, and printables as well. It is educational, interactive, and seems like a great resource.

Searchable database for literature related to mathematics and science curriculum.

Contains descriptions of several books which may be used for mathematics lessons. Includes books for middle school and high school level classrooms.

This is a link to the schedule for an online conference that will be held February 25-26th. A plethora of relevant and useful topics will be discussed, including "SmartTeaching" (how to use a smartboard), Technology Funding, Podcasts, Digital Storytelling, and MORE! Also,CUW's very own "MathMaster Muth" and Dr. "Digital Story Master" Uden (along with numerous others) will be presenting. There will be recordings of each session, which will be a great resource for the future.

This website is full of really useful tips, advice, and articles about all aspects of teaching and learning math. I found this useful when I was working on creating worksheets and activities because the website suggests ways to make learning fun and educational.

This site was created by the National Center for Education Statistics. While it is aimed towards children, teachers can use this website to spark ideas when teaching probability and graphing in mathematics. By clicking on 'Graph' on the top toolbar, students can enter data and decide to create pie charts, bar graphs, line graphs, and more. The site provides math teasers, quizzes, and even allows children to explore probability through a game using dice.The dice game allows you to see how increasing or decreasing the number of dice rolls affects an outcome. This would be a great site to have students access sometime throughout the year when focusing on graphing and probability!

Scholastic.com offers lesson plan ideas for all subjects areas and grade levels K-12. I found 516 math lesson plans that cover standards such as probability, addition and subtraction, geometry, etc. The math lesson plans featured are thorough and even include objectives and links to worksheets to be used along with them. I found one interesting lesson plan where students had to estimate and practice deciding how much water could be put into a glass jar. Activities such as these allows students to be active in their math education! This is a great site for teachers to find lesson plans!

This website provides teachers with many lesson plan ideas that integrate different subjects into math topics. While they are set for high school students, there are some that could be easily fixed to fix middle school students too.