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A study on the similarities and differences between heterosexual, two parent households and different- and same-sex two parent families. An article to help teachers learn about these subjects more extensively to better understand their students' situations.

This website gives examples of the various things that parents want out of a classroom website. It also provides more examples of classroom websites for a guideline of how successful ones operate. This is beneficial to this lesson because it is important to remember that parents are active components of the classroom and they deserve to be kept in the loop and involved in the day-to-day activities of the class. This website provides ideas and evidence to promote a classroom community involving all parties.

This website is a free video generator that will allow teachers to add pictures from their class to the website and create an engaging slide show of her students. We feel that parents will love this feature of her website and will give them insight of what happens in their child's classroom.

Educators and students are quickly becoming more comfortable with classroom technology, allowing them to shift from thinking about the technical side of integrating a new tool to focusing on how it improves learning. While the sheer number of education apps is still overwhelming, increasingly teachers have found what works for them and are sticking to them.

You know the hardest thing about teaching with project-based learning? Explaining it to someone. It seems to me that whenever I asked someone the definition of PBL, the description was always so complicated that my eyes would begin to glaze over immediately.

Great web page that the NEA has put together with links to tutorials to show students on how to safely use the internet.

Reading Rockets is a reliable, applicable resource for teachers to use in their classroom and lesson planning. We have found that this website also contains valuable information pertaining to the many benefits of parents being involved and a part of the classroom community. It shows the positive effect a relationship and communication with a teacher has on the parents, the student, and the teacher. This website will add a lot of important information to our lesson and the people we are trying to reach.

See Edutopia's core strategies in action with our Five Keys video series. Take a deeper look at each strategy as we share the nuts and bolts of program implementation, give voice to examples from schools around the country, and illuminate the research behind the practices.

Teaching with iPads in the classroom and children learning from iPads in the classroom.

Many educators are intrigued by the use of educational technology in their classrooms and with their students. They want to move past the productivity stage to the point of truly enhancing their own teaching and their students' learning through educational tools.

Here's a brief article about three additional PLN sites for teachers (one of the four is Twitter). Teaching Channel allows teachers to watch other teachers in the classroom and to share their own lessons; Digital Is is a professional development site purposed with fostering teachers' tech literacy.

This resource provides students with an interactive animated game that allows them to create a character based on themselves. Through a series of questions and explanations, this game prompts the student to question if their actions are those of a responsible digital citizen.

This is a fun video that gives an example of various catapults that exists and they can be in all different sizes and can be a really dun activity to be involved with.

This website gives 7 benefits and reasoning to technology integration in education. They are technology makes teaching easier, technology helps us track student's progress, educational technology is good for the environment, students enjoy learning with technology, technology makes distance learning more accessible, students and teachers can access information at any time, and technology makes collaboration more effective.

This is another source that discuss the benefits of integrating technology in the classroom. The reason I chose to use this site is because it says one benefit to integrating technology is that students now love learning because of it. This benefit is one of my favorites and is why I chose this source.

"Gizoms" are hundreds of online simulations with lesson materials and supporting research-based strategies to build deep conceptual understanding in math and science. This can be used for all grades, and is awesome because it is very interactive and can simulate experiments you can't physically carry out in a classroom setting