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The Save-Ums are a group of six anthropomorphic characters of various designs, who help various creatures when they run into difficulty. A typical episode begins with a call on the "adventure screen" (essentially a videophone) from an inhabitant of the world in which the Save-Ums live. The caller describes the difficulty that needs to be solved, and then selected Save-Ums travel to the scene of the problem. If you have Discovery Streaming in your district, the Save-ums episodes may be included in your subscription! The Save-Ums then assist in solving the problem. Each episode ends with the problem being solved and the Save-Ums returning to their headquarters ("Save-Um Central").

Free site. Spelling Bee is given by grade level - 1st to 7th. 90 seconds to spell each work. Instant results and rankings!

The Absolutely Free And Totally Fun Way To Improve Your Spelling. Practice Spelling Words. KidsSpell helps to dramatically improve your students ability to learn and retain spelling words. OVER 6,600 WORDS TO PRACTICE WITH!

This is a 6th grade class project about the 50 states. Each student in the class has been assigned a state to research. After collecting information about the states they will each post the information about a state on that state's wiki page.

Powerpoint presentations for elementary math activities.

Educators are being challenged to use Lego kits' contents to develop a hands-on activity for their students. This can range from a simple build to a more advanced mathematical problem. You're the creator, so let your imagination lead you!

The Super3 is a simplified version of the Big6. Based on the original six steps, the Super3 uses Plan-Do-Review, three main steps, to help very young children think about what they need to do in an assignment, how they'll do the work, and finally to reflect on their work. The Super3 is a practical method to integrate information literacy standards into a primary school teaching environment.

The Kids' Science Challenge is a nationwide competition that encourages students to submit experiments and problems for a group to solve. Using podcasts, virtual communities, after school activities, and online games, the Kids' Science Challenge is designed to inspire third to sixth graders to discover the fun of science. Deadline: January 31, 2009.

The idea of SIMPLE SCIENCE is to have informative music video presentations for use in the primary school classroom.

The Screen Actors Guild Foundation is proud to bring you Storyline Online, an on-line streaming video program featuring SAG members reading childrens books aloud. Each book includes accompanying activities and lesson ideas.

Today, with digital networks and social media, this pattern is changing. Stories now are open-ended, branching, hyperlinked, cross-media, participatory, exploratory, and unpredictable. And they are told in new ways: Web 2.0 storytelling picks up these new types of stories and runs with them, accelerating the pace of creation and participation while revealing new directions for narratives to flow.

Help your students children classify ideas and communicate more effectively. Use graphic organizers to structure writing projects, to help in problem solving, decision making, studying, planning research and brainstorming.

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.

Looking for a way to get your students more engaged? Mixbook is proud to present Mixbook for Educators, a program that allows educators even easier access to the most powerful suite of digital storytelling tools on the web. Check out the stories below to hear how Mixbook can help YOU.

A great site if your are thinking about starting writer's workshop.