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A great resource for teachers and tutors. Gives ideas about literature, vocabulary, and lesson plans.

This is an article that teaches you how to keep your classroom green like recycling.

This is a website that you can go to to create worksheets for the class.

This is a website made by fellow teachers that has ideas for all kinds of things. (For things to do on the first day of school, for things to do on holidays, for service learning so on) The things I like about it is that it comes from people that already used these ideas in the classroom and tell how it worked. It's a good way for fellow educators to help each other and to be inspired by one another.

This website is basically a website full of different game ideas, mostly for the elementary to middle grades. It's a great place to either find games to interact into a lesson or into the classroom, or a place to get inspired to think up some games of ones own to be utilized in the classroom setting.

This site contains lessons and manipulatives for various math topics from grades K-12.

This site provides teaching and learning resources to use with SMART Boards in the classroom. These resources include math, English, and geography.

Ok this is the real deal when it comes to Spanish! The Real Academia Española is the one who regulates Spanish, so if you need a SERIOUS DICTIONARY which you can trust, this is the place. Oh yes and any new stuff, such as changing of spelling or incorporation of new vocabulary will be here.

This is an interesting article about school reforms that took place in the D.C. area but similar situations are happening across the country. It is good to know that people are standing up to injustices towards teachers. Many teacher have been laid off in the name of budget cuts... but is that justifiable? There still must be good reason for "ousting" a teacher. "Reform doesn't mean changing things just because you feel like it," said the PTA president. Reform should be considered to better the education process with students and teachers as the main constituents.

NASA Quest Challenges are FREE Web-based, interactive explorations designed to engage students in authentic scientific and engineering processes. The solutions relate to issues encountered daily by NASA personnel.

See real middle school teachers incorporating the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards into their lessons, while learning as much about teaching as their students do about math. The programs demonstrate how teachers guide and assess student understanding, and offer strategies for keeping students motivated and engaged at this critical age.

Gives parents a resource to help thier kids learn that education can be fun.

helpful website that gives you different ideas on teaching and strategies

Things to do before the school year starts to make sure your classroom is organized etc....

The Latest News Headlines, Videos and Images. Kind of like the alpha for diigo. I like it better and it has a huge network.

THE search engine. It is very helpful for finding just about everything. One thing is that the advanced search is much better for specific topics.

This is a cool website, it is the SMART website. You can find detailed information about all the SMART Technology Education Solutions available. I am noticing that classrooms are increasingly becomes "SMART" classrooms. Looking through, there are a lot of very cool resources available to classrooms. Unfortunately, it will depend if the classroom you teach in, is fortunate enough to be a "SMART" class.

This site offers a variety of quizzes and games to add to a child's learning experience outside of the classroom. This site would be a good way for teachers to integrate the use of technology in the classroom.