I like this site because I am attempting to learn the common core standards and this site does a good job of showing me how to relate standards to activities.
This article was excerpted from Easy Ways to Reach & Teach English Language Learners by Valerie Schiffer Danoff. These strategies are part good thinking and part best practices. They work for ELLs and EO students because they activate prior knowledge, encourage students to work together, and provide sensible foundations for teaching and learning in a classroom setting.
This website is great! It has lots of teacher development workshops, conferences, courses that you can take for free or take for a fee for CEU's.
My favorite thing about this website though is the resources it has available for the teacher, for every grade for just about every subject.
This site is a great tool for anybody looking for activities to help teach particular topics. It's divided up by grade, then by subject. I find this particularly useful for those who are extremely interactive.
These Social Studies lyrics are available from a variety of albums. Use songs to teach American geography, government, history, patriotism, and culture. American Geography Songs The 50 States and Capitals Song- Tim Pacific Directions to Nowhere (How to Read a Map)- Joan Maute, Ed.D. Gonna Name Our States- Music with Mar.
Wow, this site has so many fun ideas!! I'd love to use these in a classroom. I can even remember some from my elementary school and middle school days. I think it makes teaching and learning these "facts" more fun for everyone.