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Mathwire, an awesome math site which features lesson plans for math-related picture books, as well as free, downloadable related resources for classroom use. For One Grain Of Rice, for example, the site features a lesson plan with pdf handouts, and an interactive website called The Million Dollar Mission. On that same Mathwire page you'll discover Two of Everything, a Chinese folktale describing a pot which has magic doubling powers. This book makes another terrific comparison piece for discussion.

This website hosts lesson resources and videos of classroom instruction that exemplify the Common Core key shifts.

Screenbird is an online method of recording step-by-step tutorials and sharing them with colleagues, classmates, anyone. What I particularly like about it is there's no log-in required. Students can record their how-to, save it to a class wiki and create a collection of how-tos that everyone-even teachers-can use. You can create a 30 minute video (Animoto's is 30 seconds) Screenbird will host 150 minutes on their server, but you can create a lot more if you host it on your own wiki or YouTube. You can capture the entire screen or just the part you want. It's intuitive, allowing it to be more student-centered than other online tools. There are great tutorials on the website. The class can watch the videos, test it out, and get help where needed.

"Explore the SMART Exchange website at exchange.smarttech.com to find, preview and download over 50,000 classroom-ready resources that can be used with a variety of classroom technology products. "