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"Edheads is an online educational resource that provides free science and math games and activities that promote critical thinking. Choose from Simple Machines, Virtual Knee Surgery or Stem Cell Heart Repair, among others. All activities meet state and national standards."

Students can research a specific body system and complete tasks in a competition format. Includes lesson, tasks, resources, and rubric.

Excellent resource for 6th grade Ancient Egypt unit. Great supplemental information and activities for students.

Complete list of directions, resources, materials, and rubric for cell model activity.

Great resource for learning how to build circuits, vocabulary about the components, and interactivity to increase retention of knowledge.

This unit is part of Gilder Lehrman's series of Common Core State Standards-based teaching resources. These units were developed to enable students to understand, summarize, and analyze original texts of historical and literary significance. Through this step-by-step process, students will acquire the skills to analyze any primary or secondary source material.

A collection of many web-based apps that can be used for varied resources, creation, publishing, and sharing of products.

STEW is an online resource for peer-reviewed lesson plans for K-12 teachers.

Top 10 STEM sites

Collection of 10 web pages for implementing STEM

The best websites EVER!

Khan Academy Mathematics Practice, Videos, Lessons

"A Web Whiteboard is touch-friendly online whiteboard app that lets you use your computer, tablet or smartphone to easily draw sketches, collaborate with others and share them with the world."

Literably scores oral reading assessments and provides regular, accurate information on your students' reading.

Several links to Literature Circle set up, jobs, differentiated by grade level.

Electricity and circuits webquest. Contains student worksheet and links to great interactive online resources for circuits.

Every NGSS standard has three dimensions: disciplinary core ideas (content), and engineering practices, and cross-cutting concepts. Currently, most state and district standards express these dimensions as separate entities, leading to their separation in both instruction and assessment. The integration of rigorous content and application reflects how science and engineering is practiced in the real world.

This is free online screen recorder where teachers can model right from their screens. It is simple to use and records whatever is on the screen as well as any talking.

This part of the site allows teachers to show quick movie clips that are fun and exciting.

Creative Educator focuses on effective ideas and strategies to foster creativity and engage students in the curriculum. Articles are designed to provide you with an informed and diverse view of today's educational technology field, including fresh ideas about project-based learning, classroom management, and creativity. The classroom stories illustrate how educators are already utilizing creativity tools in their classrooms and the lesson plans provide specific ideas, resources, and directions that make implementing creative work with technology even easier.