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This website has been forwarded to me from the Science Consultant Jane Diner:Here is a wonderful website focusing on resources to support the nature of science at all grades. I hope it can help you in your planning:

An article by Donalyn Miller (The Book Whisperer) about ways to increase a reading culture in your school

What it is: Story Time for Me is a beautiful collection of digital children's books for primary students in kindergarten through second grade.  Each story includes charming illustrations, animation and professional narration with music and sound effects.  Activities accompany every story that encourage imagination and creativity (these are coming soon!).  The stories have been developed to teach important values through positive moral themes.   Story Time for Me currently has a library of over 30 books and growing.  Next Friday (April 22, 2011) Story Time for Me will be launching free personalized activity books where students can become the star of a book. Students can choose to read each story with or without narration, with or without animation and choose to highlight the words as they are read.

part book recommendation service and part social network for young readers. Hosted by Scholastic, You Are What You Read is place where kids can share information about their favorite books. After creating a simple profile You Are What You Read asks participants to name the five books that mean the most to them. Members of the network can then see who else likes the same books and discover other books that might also interest them. You Are What You Read offers some excellent resources that you and your students can access without joining and creating a profile. You Are What You Read has a lengthy list of famous people like Kevin Durant, Tony Hawk, and Ellen DeGeneres who have listed their favorite age-appropriate books. Take a look at the book page for The Giving Tree which Kevin Durant listed as one of his favorites. The Book Links feature on You Are What You Read offers webs of books that are related to each other. For example, if you enter the title Green Eggs and Ham a web of books that are likely to interest students is generated. Click on any book in the new web to generate yet another web of related titles.

While not completely up to date with the latest version of Google SketchUp, this site has a few resources and tutorials that may be of use in the classroom.  Perhaps you might start with the collection of basic/intermediate/advanced tutorials

A British site of math activities. Monetary value is in pounds, but the scale and number activities are good. 

Using VoiceThreadto Promote LearningEngagement and Successfor All Students: Article in Technology for Teaching and Learning

All of the Dolch Sight words available in lists or flash cards. 

EPSB blog about integrating technology into division 1 subjects

"PowToon would be a great addition to the design thinking routine. Students can use PowToon to share their ideas or to "prototype" an idea. Students can create videos to show math processes, explanations of complex concepts, review new learning, teach others, explain processes, tell stories, or present research. The possibilities are really endless and students will come up with hundreds of other creative uses. Teachers can use PowToon to create animations for students. This is a great way to present new information or ideas for discussion. Tips: The PowToon Interactive Tour and How to Create series are very helpful to watch prior to creating your first animations."

Ideas for back to school for inquiry classrooms

Class website with lessons on Inanimate Alice

This is a great site to learn about how to tag. 

This site has a review of Animoto. Included are links to using Diigo, Wordle and Glogster with your students

Prezi is a site where you can create presentations online. Prezi meeting allows for up to 10 users to collaborate on a document at the same time.