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An amazing way to communicate with your infant by teaching them sign language.

An amazing way to communicate with your infant by teaching them sign language.

An amazing way to communicate with your infant by teaching them sign language.

This site teaches children not only about healthy food choices but also includes disease prevention games and information.

This site teaches children not only about healthy food choices but also includes disease prevention games and information.

An exciting new concept- teaching children as early as Pre-K how to code/program with simple apps and games. Teaches useful skills that this generation will need.

If you're planning on teaching for the DOE. You must check out the website. Especially becoming familiar with the common core standards.

Excellent resource for early childhood educators, especially for preschool.

Learn about the Project Approach, a kind of project-based teaching and learning (PBL) that represents best practices in 21st-century education. Resources help teachers design and implement their own projects.

I've recently become very interested in the work of Lilian Katz and the Project Approach, especially when considering ways to incorporate STEM learning in early childhood...

handwriting practice--it teaches directionality, while being interactive and fun *students love this one!

"Teaching spelling and vocabulary is made easier with Vocabulary Spelling City! Students can study and learn their word lists using vocabulary and spelling learning activities and games as well as take final or practice spelling and vocabulary tests right on the site. Plus, IT'S FREE!"

Free reading activities for teachers and parents to help with dyslexia, fluency and other reading strategies.

I teach Spanish, and this is a great resource for finding songs that are sung around the world. They are organized by country.

must subscribe (schools can buy school-wide subscription) interactive learning and videos for math, language, science, social studies, etc. kids love the videos: age appropriate and funny

This is one of my favorite teaching tools. It has short (5 minute) cartoons that are appropriate for K-3rd grade. The language they use and level of information is amazing. Subsciption needed.

Interesting and inspiring news website for educators. Focused mainly on K-12 but offers good insights into the overall U.S. education system from an educator's standpoint. Includes links to blogs and browsable by grade.

"This is the place to share plans, ideas, tools, frustrations and any other ideas related to teaching and using technology.The site contains robust community forums, and the blogs, rather than being written by a single author, are written by a number of authors, which exposes readers to a wider variety of current issues and ideas in classroom technology."

Edutopia blogger Andrew Marcinek describes the versatility of his five favorite iPad apps and makes a case for using them to replace the dreaded back-to-school shopping list.

Teaching students about a different city, country, habitat, etc? Show them what it really looks like in real life.