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Quick, easy and effective elementary teacher resources. Teaching tools, materials, podcasts, lesson plans, literacy centers, curriculum and many many more.

You've got to check this one out, especially if you are or plan to be an elementary school librarian. This librarian, Keisa Williams, has such great ideas. She even talks about some of the professional development she has done with the staff. Awesome!

This is the website of the elementary school where my kids go to school. They are always playing with new and creative ways to get the kids interested in what they are learning about. The fourth grade classes do podcasts after different lessons to emphasize what they have learned as well as work on their reading fluency skills.

Blog designed for elementary and middle school aged students. It is free, simple and teacher maintains the control over the blog. Parents can be invited to read the blog.

Good for Elementary/primary grades and technology. Nicely organized and has a nice How-To section for things like video and podcasts.

This site from Scholastic is the jumping off point for 20 different educational blogs. You'll hear from elementary, middle, special ed, student and various other educators. Many of the blogs give you other educational blogs to visit.

PowerPoints that are already created on just about any area you can think of including library skills. This is a link to the library one, but the home page has PowerPoints for every subject area. (Parts of a Book, Dewey Decimal System, More - Free Presentations in PowerPoint format, Free Interactives for Kids)

Great site! I use this at least twice per week. Power Point presentations, web links, games and activities for nearly every topic in every subject being taught. The work has already been done for you!

Huge collection of free, already made, Power Points in a variety of different subjects and topics.

This site has excellent online activities, instructional aids, and games for younger elementary kids. I personally love the 2-digit with regrouping activities.

From the Apple Learning Interchange website. It showcases podcasts created by "Apple Distinguished Educators". There is a contents bar on the right side with topics such as Staff Development, Student Instruction, Elementary, Middle, High School, or Higher Education.

What a WONDERFUL tool for beginning LMS! I can't wait to dig into this site and use it as a get started in my own library!