I found this sire useful in the development of my mini unit in Teaching Social Studies. This site shares ways to stay outdoors and incorporate nature into lessons.
This is a great place to get ideas for lessons for all grade level and subjects. I've used this site many of times while I was student teaching. Great resouces. Some stuff does cost money but there are lots of free lessons and ideas that teachers have posted.
I used this for one of my lessons for another class that I'm in and I really liked the different ideas and lessons that they used to teach about Helen Keller's Life.
In her work with UCLA's Graduate School of Education, Rebecca Alber assists teachers and schools in meeting students' academic needs through best practices. Alber also instructs online teacher-education courses for Stanford University. I made a good number of blunders my first year teaching that still make me cringe. I learned though...
Teaching spelling and vocabulary is easy with VocabularySpellingCity! Students can study and learn their word lists using vocabulary and spelling learning activities and games. Students can take final or practice spelling and vocabulary tests right on this engaging site. Premium games and automated student record keeping are available to Premium Members.
Social studies. I would say a website for upper elementary. An extention to your teaching for students. Can be integrated through literacy as maybe a project for Cafe work.....
Providing educators and students access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction.
This website has great lesson plans for teaching reading and writing for grades K-12 and strategy guides for teachers.
Similar to edhelper resource that was recently posted (Sorry David) for a second time. Includes a variety of worksheet generators, lesson plans, rubrics, assessments, etc. Certainly worth bookmarking for future reference!
The Partnership for Reading offers information about the effective teaching of reading for children, adolescents, and adults, based on the evidence from quality research. The Partnership invites you to explore this site for information on reaseach, principles about reading instruction suggested by the research, and products for parents, teachers, administrators and policy-makers. Thank you Beth Caraccio for her presentation about reading web sites.
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.