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Animated Science, Health, Technology, Math, Social Studies, Arts & Music and English movies, quizzes, activity pages and school homework help for K-12 kids, aligned with state standards

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A series of videos regarding civil rights in education produced by PBS!

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

This summary written by Jay McTigue is required reading.

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...

This is a different perspective and something that another country is doing, Singapore.

This is a great website to see what other teachers are using in their classes. Mainly activities! (You have to make an account but it is definitely worth it, and search "education" and you will find tons of great stuff!)

This social networking site could be used by educators much the same as Diigo. The one real difference is that Pinterest is a visual space (akin to a pin board) where you can get a sense of the content at a glance and dig deeper based on what you see.

The dos and don'ts of dealing with classroom confrontations. Banishing partiality takes conscious effort every day, but treating some students differently than others, whether subtly or overtly, can impact everyone in the class. Find tips for avoiding teacher's pets and favoritism. This excerpt from an NEA Report on GLBT issues provides 6 practical tips for classroom educators.

This is a great program for getting students up and moving in class to get minds flowing.

General Weather Lesson Plans, Activities, and Ideas The Weather Dude Find information about weather-related topics. Research weather safety, weather folklore, songs and weather, and more. Weather Maps Students learn basic information about weather and the different types of weather maps used. Build Your Own Weather Station Students learn how to build their own weather station to record data.

Weather Lessons Athena, Earth and Space Science for K-12 Athena, Earth and Space Science for K-12 categorizes weather lessons by grade level so it's a quick place to stop for instructional materials. Grab the really neat KidPix Five-Day Forecast template. You can find it under the lesson "Observing the Weather Today" (K-4).

Site of Enduring Understandings and Essential Questions for the field of social studies.

Testimonials on a variety of topics from experts. They for the most part are extremely thought provoking. It covers opinions of topics ranging from "Just War Theory" to Cognitive innovations.

These are a ton of one page activities from Bill Nye the Science Guy's website that really provide accurate visuals as a foundation for elementary school students. I actually remember doing a few in my second grade class.

I am currently covering the development of American industry in my methods course and these are some really helpful links providing more detailed information about specific important people and events.

School house rock is one of those shows that I watched as a kid that made certain things really interesting to me. In a middle school social studies class I feel like these lyrics along with the videos which can be found online can be a great introduction to a unit.

Great site for lesson plan ideas for P.E

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

This is the official site to download the Common Core State Standards