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Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 6,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read offline, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes.

Great site for money instructors. Only negative is that you might need to be a member to see actually lesson plans but still gives great information.

Athens & Sparta

A great site to get details about disabilities you may need to accommodate in your class. Good resource for checking on legal questions surrounding Special Education, also.

This site is a great resource for educators- lesson plans, print outs, ideas for learning activities...

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.

This handout gives activities and strategies for general differentiation.

Another summary of UbD-required reading. Written by Jay McTigue.

Lesson Plans and Ideas

Great site to create lesson plans for PE teachers and get new ideas for different units.

Great site for lesson plan ideas for P.E

Great tool and site for health & physical education teachers, parents and students.

These are Bill Carozza's Google Doc resources on Diigo.

This is a discussion on The Dianne Rehm Show about how to evaluate teachers. It is very relevant to all of us. There are several guests on the show including an administrator from Washington D.C., where they have pay incentives based on effectiveness.

Really helpful when considering enduring understandings! This is actually from the UbD book.

This site includes many interactive reading games for children to help them build on such skills as phonological and phonemic awareness, phonics, sight words, vocabulary, etc.

This website provides a collection of ideas and resources for hands-on learning

We have been talking a lot about responsive classroom so thought I would post the website. My teacher uses it all the time. Check it out!

This is the official website of the Responsive Classroom program, a unique approach to elementary teaching.

The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.

This site provides access to many printable (and time saving) worksheets for teachers (grades K-8).