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The award-winning Random House Children's Books Web site, kids@random, offers an array of materials and activities free of charge for children, teens, parents, and educators. The innovative teachers@random Web site features many teaching tools and classroom activities, including title-specific teachers' guides developed by leading educators, biographies of authors and illustrators, and podcasts. The Magic Tree House, Junie B. Jones, and Andrew Lost online classroom clubs provide innovative curriculum tie-ins and interdisciplinary connections for teachers during the school year. Random House is also the proud host of the award-winning www.seussville.com, Dr. Seuss's home on the Internet.

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.

"SMART Teacher is our termly newsletter available free to all education professionals working with SMART products. If you would like to register to receive SMART Teacher in printed form please fill in the form on the right."

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.

"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"

"Integrate Wolfram|Alpha into all of the subject areas, from spelling and language to geography, science, and math. In this video, see examples of how a 4th grade teacher utilizes Wolfram|Alpha and describes the advantages that teacher and students get from incorporating it into lesson plans."

"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."

Kids love to learn. PBS KIDS Raising Readers is a national literacy campaign, and part of the Ready To Learn initiative, focused on building reading skills at home, at school, in child care, and in the community. Funded by a Ready To Learn grant from the United States Department of Education, the Ready To Learn initiative is developing engaging PBS KIDS Raising Readers television programs, exciting games, playful Web sites, and easy-to-use learning resources for kids, parents, caregivers, and teachers-all with the goal of helping children ages 2 to 8 get ready to read.

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"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. "

"MyKidsBank artificial banks are used to assist in the education of personal money management. Each artificial online bank operates similar to a real online bank through a web browser on the internet. The person who signs up for a virtual bank has full control and becomes the banker. Classroom teachers use the service to assist in their classroom economy."

Easy to read: TTJunior.com offers easy-to-read news stories for 2nd Graders, 3rd Graders and advanced 1st Graders, as well as remediation and ESL for all grades. Easy to write: Students can post blog comments that teachers review before publication. Click below to sign up. It's fast, easy and free!

Really Cool Math Websites! Cool Algebra Sites! Cool Geometry Sites! Even Cool Discrete Math, Trigonometry and Calculus Sites! Cool Math Puzzles and Cool Math Brain Teasers Sites! Cool Math Web Quest Sites! Cool Math Humor! Cool Elementary, Middle School, and High School Math Teacher Resources!

Children's Book Podcast - Children's book reviews and interviews with authors, illustrators, editors, publishers, teachers, librarians and more.

ABCya! is a leader in free & exciting computer activities for elementary students to learn on the web. All educational computer games and activities were created or approved by certified teachers!

Follow Me Project has been created to let you share your adventures with the world via Web 2.0 technology. The Follow Me Project is open to everyone: teachers, students, families or organizations. In an effort to foster collaboration amongst unique groups of people, Follow Me Project supports the creation of stuffed animals that travel the globe to bring people together through the use of Web 2.0 tools. Just follow the easy directions below and let your project travel! Once your project is up and running, feel free to complete the application process for posting your project on the Follow Me Project website for worldwide exposure.

"Welcome to Activity Village, where parents, teachers and children will find coloring pages, kids crafts, home school resources, puzzles, printables, jigsaws, sudoku for kids and much, much more ... Now over 5000 pages of activities for kids!"

"Each year, Bonnie Plants distributes free cabbage plants to third graders across the country to foster an interest in gardening and the environment. Cabbages are delivered to students whose teachers have signed up to participate. "

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