This is a really interesting site that is like traveling all over the world, but staying at home. You can use the internet to learn about destinations, remember goals, play games, write a diary and so on. It seems like a strange site for teachers, but I actually think it would be really cool to use in a history class, a social studies class, or a foreign language class. Its like traveling the world, but staying in the same room. They can learn about the countries we're studying about and write some ideas or questions about it on their blog.
This website emphasizes the importance of teaching writing. Without this skill it will be difficult for students to succeed in all other academic areas. There are helpful pointers on how to teach writing and a current listing different workshops teachers can attend.
The helpful pointers on this website are useful for both teachers and students. It addresses common issues such as spelling and grammar but also offers assistance for ESL students.
This is also a great website for middle school english teachers. Its good for all teacher but especially english. There are suggestions from other teachers of lessons that have worked well for them.
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.
provides free math worksheets, free math games, grammar quizzes and free phonics worksheets and games. Worksheets and games are organized by grades and topics. These printable math and phonics worksheets are auto generated.
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.
Create poems, proverbs or anything you want! You can choose a picture and it automatically shows all words associate with it. Great tool for foreign language and language arts. Let your students show their creativity!