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This site is really interesting because it is a blogging website that is maintained through a high school teacher and her students. There is also a contact email if teachers were interested in getting permission to allow their students to blog about anything biology related. This would be a great way to incorporate technology into the classroom while allowing students to learn from videos, podcasts, and articles created by other students from around the United States.

This is a free site teachers and students can use to make blogs. This is a good way for students to keep journals and to check a teacher's blog for help or advice or a calendar.

Students will be using edublogs in order to keep a daily or weekly blog (depending on computer accessibiliy)to make progress in writing expression and personal opinion. I will use my own edublog as an example for students.

This page is taken from a 'Teaching Math' blog. The specific entry is an idea that teachers could use to integrate a project into their unit that includes graphing linear equations. The students drew an animal with only straight lines and then had to determine the appropriate equation that matched up with the line drawn. 

This would be a good resource to introduce to your AP students or to students that are thinking about taking AP classes. This website has many resources for students including videos and blogs by students that have enrolled and completed AP courses in high school that explain what it takes to be successful in an AP class and on the AP exam. There is also links that help a student understand how AP courses in high school can help with college and what college majors and careers can AP courses help the student with. There is a link for practice questions for all AP courses, including multiple choice and free response, at the bottom of the page. 

It has a at least four sites on all the following tabs. Reference Encyclopedias Tutorials Cliff Notes Text Books Notetaking Collaboration Tools File Storage Social Networds Jobseeking Online Office Instant Messaging Gaming Blogging

This site has tons of Common Core lessons and some of them are not just for one subject.

A teacher's blog that describes lots of tricks she uses in her classses

This is the homepage of the NSTA, which has great links to other organizations, shows upcoming conferences for science teachers, contains interactive blogs, and a bank of lesson plans and activities for teachers to share.

This is a list of seven events which brought the world close to nuclear war during the cold war. This can be used to show students how dangerous the war was and how tensions between the powers were so high that war could occur at any moment.

In the "Educational Resources" section of the National Women's History Museum web site, teachers will find quizzes, timelines, and famous quotes relating to women's history, as well as guidelines for teaching classes in women's history from the elementary to high school levels.

The following is a simple lesson plan for middle school and high school history, but it can also serve as a lesson idea teaching individuality and creativity, too. You can use the video and discussion questions for a quick ten-minute character lesson, or you can stretch the lesson into a more in-depth education of modern-day historical heroes which could last for several days.

Just as the title describes it is 100 sites teachers can use for anything from general education sites to specific concentrations. It even has some TED talks that are related to education

100 ways to use Social media in the classroom! It will help you meet technology standards AND keep student's interests!

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