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Most teachers are frequently looking for classroom materials that are inexpensive. If you're interested in making some of your own materials, most likely you still don't want to spend a lot of money on them. Paint chip crafts are a great option. Not only are paint chips readily available but many teachers have already come up with great ideas for them. Most of the academic ideas here are for elementary grades, but they can be adapted for older students.

"The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a law ensuring services to children with disabilities throughout the nation. IDEA governs how states and public agencies provide early intervention, special education and related services to more than 6.5 million eligible infants, toddlers, children and youth with disabilities."

'Ideas to Inspire' is a collection of Google Docs presentations, which offer a large number of ideas for engaging lesson activities in a range of curriculum areas.The presentations are a collaboration between lots of fantastic teachers around the world.

This is a subscription-based resource, however, there are plenty of sample ideas and resources that are available on the welcome page. Autism Inspiration provides a variety of resources for parents and teachers of children with autism spectrum behaviors. Resources provided include social scripts, lesson plans, games, group activities, sensory integration ideas, and other valuable tools and information to help teach children with Autism, Asperger Syndrome, Pervasive Developmental Delay (PDD), Sensory Integration Disorder, and other related behaviors.

This interactive graphic organizer helps students develop an outline that includes an introductory statement, main ideas they want to discuss or describe, supporting details, and a conclusion that summarizes the main ideas. 

StoryToolz is a nice assembly of useful tools for writers. Writers who are struggling to come up with ideas for fiction stories will like the story starters featured on StoryToolz. StoryToolz has three tools that you can use to get story ideas; Random Conflicts, Half Title Generator, and Story Idea Generator. To use any of these three tools just select the tool from the main menu then look at the randomly generated idea. If you don't like the options, run the tool again until you get options that you like. In addition to the writing prompts tools StoryToolz offers a few tools to help you edit your work. The Cliché Buster analyzes your work to find clichés that you have used in your writing. The Readability tool analyzes your text to estimate a reading level on several scales.

Great ideas for making dry erase and white boards, dry erase walls, dry erase activity books, dry erase you-name-it!

If you're looking for an idea to Wow! students -- or parents, you'll find it here. These teacher-tested ideas include learning projects, inspiring lessons, fun work sheets, learning games, parent involvement ideas, and much more.

The basic idea for place value cups is to use Styrofoam cups and labels them with numbers.

The definition of Assistive Technology as written in the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Improvement Act

1000+ Ideas on Pinterest for recycled use of DVD cases

Low Tech, You Bet! A variety of creative ideas for crafting educational supports from recycled products and low-cost resources.

free download, shoe box tasks

Work task ideas and free printables

Photos of shoebox work tasks that provide students with structured hands-on activities, all contained within a box.

101+ Ideas for Using the BIGMack or Other Single Message Communication Devices

These are some great ideas for using foldables in the classroom.

Legal definition of "Assistive Technology Service"

"Welcome to Teaching Channel, where you can see hundreds of videos of inspiring teachers Free Registration A weekly newsletter with new videos and great tips A free pdf with "10 Common Core Insider Secrets" A free lesson planner to save and schedule great ideas"

Teaching Channel is a video showcase-on the Internet and TV-of inspiring and effective teaching practices in America's schools. We have a rapidly growing community of registered members who trade ideas and share inspiration from each other. With the help of the Tch community, our mission is to revolutionize how teachers learn, connect, and inspire each other to improve the outcomes for all K-12 students across America.

Jennifer Ro and Amy Thomsen presentation on how to implement core vocabulary IDEAS 2014 Conference Forsyth County Schools Assistive Technology Team

Great ideas to use in the classroom! Creative and inexpensive ideas to incorporate in any classroom.

Pixie 2 Resource Documents. Did you know it has Text-to-Speech and Voice Recording Options? Sample lessons and integration ideas at http://www.tech4learning.com/pixie/integration?#standardsMatrix