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sponsored by scholastic an online magazine for students to access about current and historical events.

Cask of Amont. by Edgar Allan Poe. Comprehensive lesson plasn with clearly defined aims and standards. Wonderful enrichment activities and ideas on triggering prior knowledge in students.

This website allows you to look up audio, videos, worksheets, and lessons based on your topic/ unit. The site will even filter by grade level and subject and will give you different lesson plans/ worksheets you can use in the class. They also have interactive games for the lesson that students can do online.

This website is a resource for teachers to learn about new methods of teaching, what works best, and there is even a blog. This website is also broken down by topic area.

This is a site only for creating diagrams. It's another way of helping you organize your ideas. This could be used by a teacher who needs help in designing a lesson plan, or it could be used in the actual lesson plan to help students understand certain, confusing concepts.

This is a great source, I believe. Teachers can use this as a on-going project throughout the semester to catalog the work of their students throughout the year. There are several ideas I can come up with to how this would be useful: 1. In a math classroom, students can catalog the important knowledge they aquire and would like to remember after the year is complete. Throughout the semester, students create pages/files to be uploaded to their e-book, or go in and manually add information that they find important in their lessons. They can use their e-books as a source of reference throughout the year, and in future years. As a teacher, you can also use this source to upload important assignments to the reference, so students can reflect back on them at a later date. 2. Science teachers can use this to create a class-create book covering the information that they have covered in class, as well as to document research students have come across on their own. This could be compiled of student assignments/projects/research/etc that students complete through their unit. And then the teacher can publish the e-book allowing students to have access to their work. This is a great resource because it motivates students to do better, knowing that their work is available for view by not only the teachers, but their peers, and others online.

Here you'll find what we consider to be the best resources for teaching math at all levels. This space is not only for teachers, but has also been built in part by teachers.

A math Magazine that is organzied by cambrigde england

This site shows how to solve problems via video. You can search by book or by topic. You get to see a teacher work out these problems like you were sitting in a classroom.

10 proven tips for classroom management that have been tested by teachers

A site created by teachers to help others with classroom management ideas.

An online store for Carson-Dellosa Publishing. They have an assortment of books and other materials available for teachers and parents. Subject areas have materials listed by elementary and middle school grade level. A source for finding supplemental materials to use in class and help in teaching.

This site contains essay/writing basics that every student should learn and know by the time they graduate.

This website allows the user to create their own comics. I think it would be really fun and definitely different to incorporate this tool into the classroom, perhaps by creating a comic in German and having students discuss it, or I can ask them questions about it. Or, they can create their own comic to show what they have learned. It's fun, creative and different.

This website was actualy recommended by a teacher and allows people to make videos quickly with their own pics and music. It would be a great way to engage students visually.

Is "friending" students inappropriate?

In my opinion, I think that it is inappropriate for teachers to "friend" their students. Inappropriate seems a little harsh to say but I do think that its better safe than sorry. Maybe once the student has moved on to high school and college it is okay to accept a friend request from them but even still whatever you post on the internet, you do it at your own risk.

I agree with Ashley, only I still think that even in high school I feel that teachers and students should not interact with one another unless it is school related. It seems that more often today teachers are getting fired or in major trouble by having some sort of relationships with there students. I know it doesnt just happen because they might be friends with them on facebook or something like that, but like Ashley said, "its better safe than sorry" and just stay away from temptations.

This is a wonderful site that includes many classroom strategies that build vocabulary, comprehension, and writing skills. By clicking on the link of a strategy, you may find downloadable worksheets and even detailed descriptions of how to use a particular strategy in mathematics, science, social studies, or English.

This site clearly explains in simple terms many commonly used mathematical words. Definitions are accompanied by illustrations.

this website allows you to material for teachers in all subjects such as math, foreign languages, arts, etc.

programs, distance learning, and workshops to improve ones teaching abilities. Each subject is divided into its own category which is then broken down by grade levels

This website is an excellent place for teachers to get new ideas. There are videos that are similar to the conferences we looked at for our last assignment.