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"Into the Book is a multimedia package designed to improve students' reading comprehension, as well as their ability to think and learn across the curriculum. Based on current research, the project focuses on eight learning strategies: * Using prior knowledge * Making connections * Questioning * Visualizing * Inferring * Summarizing * Evaluating * Synthesizing Into the Book includes: * student Web site featuring interactive reading comprehension activities * teacher Web site featuring music, video clips, classroom design ideas, posters, teacher guides, lesson plans and lots more * Into the Book video series: nine 15-minute classroom videos teaching children how to be strategic readers"

Harvest of History is designed with elementary school students in mind. The teachers' page provides 16 lesson plans for use with students of fourth grade age. The question, "where did you last meal come from?" and some of the content of Harvest of History could also be used with older students to spark discussion about the development of modern agriculture.

WatchKnowLearn has indexed over 33,000+ educational videos, placing them into a directory of over 3,000 categories. The videos are available without any registration or fees to teachers in the classroom and to students at home 24/7. Users can dive into our innovative directory or search for videos by subject and age level. Video titles, descriptions, age level information, and ratings are all edited for usefulness. Our Web site invites broad participation in a new kind of wiki system, guided by teachers. We have had a tremendously positive response from educators to the website. If we continue to work together, we can create an incredible, free, educational resource for students across the world.

Helps students create work in a new and exciting way. Kids'Vid is an instructional website to help teachers and students use video production in class to support project based learning.

Part I: Knowing your Students & Teaching with the Library of Congress Here are some criteria that can help narrow your search before you begin and keep you focused on what will be the most effective primary sources to use with your students.

"Words Their Way is a word study program in which students learn by sorting words into categories. The links provide Powerpoints that can be used by teachers to model the word sorts or have individual students access the sorts on the computer. "

"Ready for use in elementary classrooms with any type of interactive whiteboard, these high-quality virtual manipulative tools help teachers connect students with great ways to make sense of math. Use these tools to create an environment for students to explain, discuss, and defend their mathematical thinking."

"What2Learn is a national award-winning interactive learning solution which provides effective educational resources and revision games. A great tool for students with learning difficulties such as ADHD and literacy difficulties. It is also a great resource for high achieving students looking to work independently to get ahead. "

"The students take a virtual field trip to City Hall in this kid-friendly site. This beginning civics/economic lesson will introduce your students to city government and teach economics on the way!"

"IXL's math skills are aligned to the 2006 Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards for Kindergarten, the 2005 Pennsylvania Early Learning Standards for Pre-Kindergarten, and the 2005 Pennsylvania Assessment Anchors, providing comprehensive preparation for the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA). With IXL's state standards alignments, you can easily find unlimited practice problems specifically tailored to each required standard. Even better, IXL automatically tracks student progress and displays proficiency scores in the state standards report. This report allows you to quickly evaluate student aptitude and identify trouble spots. "

"delve into the topic of copyright and Creative Commons to help my students develop good blogging habits."

This section contains reproducible copies of primary documents from the holdings of the National Archives of the United States, teaching activities correlated to the National History Standards and National Standards for Civics and Government, and cross-curricular connections. Teaching with primary documents encourages a varied learning environment for teachers and students alike. Lectures, demonstrations, analysis of documents, independent research, and group work become a gateway for research with historical records in ways that sharpen students' skills and enthusiasm for history, social studies, and the humanities.

The Internet can be a scary place for elementary teachers. On one hand, you want to share the Internet as a wonderful tool with your students, but on the other, you worry about safety and helping them find the most useful resources without getting lost on the information superhighway. Because of this, we've put together a listing of some of the best sites for elementary teachers and students online, plus a few tools to help you keep everything together.

All about setting up a ning account. Includes comments about ning for under 13yro students.

"Sumdog's math games are always free to play, either at home or at school. They cover 100 numeracy topics, split into 10 levels. Most are multiplayer, so you can play against thousands of students worldwide. Because the games are so engaging, students can finally enjoy developing their mental math skills."

"This interactive activity helps students to learn the five parts of a friendly letter. By following this step by step guide, students can create a letter and then print it. Kids can focus on the content while the letter maker takes care of formatting.

"The defenders of leveled reading and the champions of complex texts may share more common ground than they realize, however. Both agree that to become fluent readers, students must read a lot on their own-and such independent reading calls for not-too-easy, not-too-hard selections that look a lot like leveled reading. Meanwhile, both sides also concur that students should be asked to wrestle at times with more challenging texts-but in the classroom, where teachers are available to offer help and head off discouragement."

Students are still questioning why Pluto is no longer a planet. This article puts it into perspective for students to understand.

"Our high-definition cameras give you and your students a wonderfully unique glimpse into the real lives of birds. This nesting season, we encourage you to join the excitement and tune in during one of the most dynamic times of birds' lives. These five activities will help you engage students in science learning through the bird cams!"

Math websites and games organized by grade level and strand for elementary students.