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This website has 10 games you can use with your students on earthday. Since it was recently Earthday, I decided this would be an appropriate topic. I think it is important that young students use computers and play games occasionally, especially when it is helping them learn about something as important as our earth, and their computer skills.

video lectures on many many topics

Produces orchestrated video pieces from your photos, video clips, and music

I like this website because it has educational games for kids to play. I think its important for children to know how to use computers, and learning through an online game can be a fun effective way to do this.

Great website for designing rubrics. Makes it so easy.

This site is a tool to generate free graph paper of a variety of sizes and styles. Perfect for when you need graph paper, but your supply closet is empty (as it will be, come June, or May, or even April.

This is a great website, with lots and lots of links to fantastic educational websites all around the world wide web. You click on a topic, and it provides a list of websites that have information about that topic.

Interactive, online tool in which students can create webs for a variety of reasons such as brainstorming, essay writing, reading comprehension, etc. I just used it to create a 'To-Do' list, can be utilized effectively for a variety of things.

Same website as listed prior to, but a different page link. I've heard a few people were having some trouble, just another example and explanation of the UbD template. Similar to the ones listed in the text and workbook, but thought the more resources available, the better!

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!

This is a website that allows you to create worksheets for students. There are a variety of styles (word finds, learn-to-read books, puzzles, etc). It is primarily designed for younger students (K to 8 or so), but can be used for any grade. I use it to create sponge activities that reinforce the content of the lesson plan.

This is a great site for educators! There's a whole section on puzzle making, lesson plans, unit ideas, themes, worksheets, and more! Definitely check it out!

This is the website I first used when I learned about UbD a couple years ago, as I was a bit confused after class. It does a great job of explaining things in layman's terms, and even non-educational lingo for other majors. Great to utilize when explaining, identifying, or attempting to identify UbD.

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.

I use this as a lead-in to procedural writing. It is a 'trick' test - if you follow the directions, you don't actually do anything. Students are marked down (the grade doesn't count) for everything that appears on their paper beyond the month. I use it to illustrate the importance of: following directions by carefully reading all the information; and how to look at procedure.

This is a fabulous, in-depth, yet student-accessible primer on grammar. I know, it was created by Canadians, but that's okay. I sometimes use their resources when discussing parts of speech and word interactions in class. Our students are increasingly digital; it helps to speak their language. 

This website has a small but interesting list of ways to begin questions, categorized by which level of Bloom's taxonomy you are looking to work in. This link takes you immediately to the question starters, but the entire website is worth perusing if you have a moment.

This website has many many pages of interactive activities and lessons. Students can study story elements, idioms, pronunciations, reading, spelling, play games, all sorts of things. When you have a day with a CoW, or a day in a lab, you can have the students pick a lesson from a list, or you can print out a page and use it as a sponge activity.

Given that we are starting to use Google Docs, this slide show should give you some great ideas.

Although, your school or district must set up the service for you, it is free, simply needs an inquiry from an official. I was able to register through my methods district (Pembroke Academy) and believe it's a great tool for teachers to utilize. I can demo the software in class if time, and Bill allows.

This is a link to two solid documents: Assessment techniques in P.E. and P.E. Curriculum Guidelines.