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not just for preschool - excellent resources organized here

Connect young people to after-school opportunities

Research shows that skilled readers use a set of learning strategies that help them make meaning from text. Into the Book provides you with tools to help elementary students learn to use these strategies in reading, the arts, and across the curriculum.

Field Trip Earth is the global resource for teachers, students, and proponents of wildlife conservation.

These free, downloadable resources are designed to help you educate yourself and others about computer security, privacy, and online safety issues and to help you prevent problems and correct problems that do arise. You can also use them as supplemental materials for consumer online safety events. For additional resources, see our Event Guide and PowerPoint presentation pages. You can download low-resolution PDF files for home printing, or high-resolution PDF files if you want to have the materials professionally printed and folded for an event.

ACLU Facebook Quiz - Illustrates the dangers in Facebook apps

How schools are killing reading and what you can do about it

Calendar of training/demos, etc that are free from Study Island.

Deliver rich feedback on student work & check for potential plagiarism.

WriteCheck presents users with easy to interpret results showing which sections of a paper appear to be unoriginal and that the writer should verify as properly cited, summarized or paraphrased.

How about this with our countries?

"Across the planet, documentary filmmakers, students, and inspired citizens will record the human experience over a 24-hour period. By participating in this historic event, you will help capture the diversity of life and culture on this planet. Together we will create a document that is a gift to the world. One Day on Earth is a documentary and new media project about the amazing diversity, conflict, tragedy, and triumph that occurs in one 24-hour period on Earth. More than a film, One Day on Earth is a multi-platform participatory media project. The flagship of this project is a 120-minute documentary to be released theatrically. Through the One Day on Earth platform we will establish a community that not only watches, but participates."

A plethora of music related sites to use in your classroom

Assistance with using Google Earth

Great list of websites to discover this summer for your own kids, grandkids or students next year.

If you like Google Earth you'll love this

"Welcome to the 21st Century Student Learning Example Page Why? As educators focusing on 21st Century Learning, it is important that we are able to share examples of powerful student work that we can share with educators around the world. It is important that we have this opportunity to not only talk about how we can empower students, but as examples of how this has ALREADY affected student learning. The Motivation? This wiki was inspired (as many things are) by a student that did a phenomenal job on discussing her PLN that was shared numerous times on Twitter Examples (Please list by title, format (linked), and then brief explanation) Student Examples Description Portfolios/Blogs * Cary Academy Student Portfolios - Student Blogfolios - Using WordPress as a platform, students at this school created their own portfolios that are open to the world and can be shared with the entire world. * Ancaster Meadow School Grade 1 Student Blogs -- Student Blogs -- Using Kidblog, my Grade 1 students have blogged on a variety of topics relating to numerous curriculum areas. These blogs have almost become portfolios: showing their best work in all subject areas. * Oaktree Elementary Grade 3 Reading Response Blog-Reading blog Third grade students using a blog to talk about the books we are reading, share what they are writing about, and comment on each other's thoughts. I used WordPress for this blog and all the blogs we use in class. These students also collaborated with 4 other schools on a blog about the rain forest , and we blog with a student that moved so we can keep in touch. * Mrs. Cassidy's Grade One Blog - The students' work is shown through pictures and video on the teacher's blog, and each student's blog (linked from the teacher's blog) is an online portfolio of their learning in many subject areas through the course of the year. * Student Blogging - www.dablog-dablog.blogspot.com - Getting teen students to write is usually an impossible task.

Free educational program for respecting all forms of intellectual property.

"Teaching Resources Library Subject Selection"