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This site has free educational videos for every subject area.

This website is a great resource form information, strategies, best practices, professional development and middle level advocacy. They have a large selection of research summaries and reports to choose from, which are directed at middle grades topics. In addition they have an annual conference, which should be of interest for Middle Level Teachers to attend.

World War II photographs of Europe then and now.  These could be used in 7th grade SS to show the effects WWII on Europe and how the countries have been rebuilt.

A WWII veteran recounts a remarkable experience when compassion outweighed winning.  Can be shown to class while studying WWII in order to emphasis the mental aspects of war.

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

A great site for ideas on literature, writing prompts, grammar and much more.

website for ideas that cover all facets of teaching for an english teacher. Publishes a newsletter, blogs, information sharing for english teachers

Gives videos describing on how to use the SMARTboard. Pretty detailed and they also have downloadable PDF files. The guys who are showing these aren't boring and are very energetic.

This site has a nice collection of assessments for algebra I, algebra II, geometry, and trigonometry.

This site offers many classroom activities and project ideas for use with the Geometer's Sketchpad program.

This is a site that teachers can go on to help to get math problems and get involved in discussions about math related topic. This is a very useful sites for math teachers.

This is one of the biggest and most respected newspapers in Germany and always has the most uptodate information. I could use this as a way to practice reading and have an activity on the side for effective communication. Students would learn new vocab, use the language and catch up on what is important in Germany.

What a great website! I spent a good hour just looking at all the things on here. They have tips for us "new" teachers, ideas for lesson plans split up by subject and grade, articles from other teachers. if you have a bit of time check it out! it was really helpful to me

This is very cool. I just checked it out, and I think this is something I will reference later once I graduate!

Mainly used in math classes as I've seen so far, but a great tool to be used in the classroom. if you ever have a chance to try on out, do it! It's fun and the kids seem to pay attention better when using it.

this website talks about a book that James Gaudio wrote to help substitues and student that are going through student teaching.

An online Party Planning Website. Basic functions are to plan and send out invitations, etc. This could be a great source for teachers. This could be used to plan a school function, event, field trip, class project, group meetings, club meetings, fundraisers, rallys, parent nights, etc.

This is a great source for teachers to use whether middle school, high school, or college level. This could be used for group assignments or individual assignments. Teachers can send out assignments via Live Writer to students. And students can submit assigments via Live Writer as well. This takes out the extra step of sending it either as an e-mail, or having to print the assignment all together. A great way to go green, and move away from printing. It is also a great way to integrate technology into the everyday classroom. This tool can also be used by teachers when assigning group assignments. Similar to our 6 facets assignment with Google Docs, student can share a document with the others in their group. Once they have collaboratively worked together to complete the assignment, they may then share it with the teacher to turn it in.

"Surgically altering your social network appearance and getting rid of old friends will make you the ideal job candidate." 

This is a site that helps you as a teacher learn more strategies to help the students become better students in your classroom as well as other classes