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TeachersFirst is a rich collection of lessons, units, and web resources designed to save teachers time by delivering just what they need in a practical, user-friendly, and ad-free format.

This website offers help for teachers as well as lesson plans and supplies.

TeachersFirst is a rich collection of lessons, units, and web resources designed to save teachers time by delivering just what they need in a practical, user-friendly, and ad-free format. We offer our own professional and classroom-ready content along with thousands of reviewed web resources, including practical ideas for classroom use and safe classroom use of Web 2.0. Busy teachers, parents, and students can find resources using our subject/grade level search, keyword search, or extensive menus.

You can create floorplans or room plans with furniture. Teachers could use this website for an activity applying scale or surface area. It even give you the measurements of the furniture with imperial or metric measurements. Who knows, it may save a spouse from moving around furniture until it looks "right"!

This online room planner helps you arrange any space by visually planning out the specifics. You input the exact dimensions of your room, and furniture and other objects are available to scale to better help see the possible arrangements of the classroom. This is extremely helpful for a teacher because it will save time by not having to rearrange the classroom a number of times.

This web site is indispensable for graduate education students at UNCC. Highly recommended.

LEARN NC provides a wide selection of lesson plans and teaching strategies for all grade levels.

Learn NC (North Carolina) gives you K-12 lesson plans and teaching strategies, classroom text text and multimedia, and online courses for teachers and students.

Classroom resources such as lesson plans, clip art, puzzle maker.

Discovery Education provides classroom and home resources by subject to help improve student achievement.

Powered by the number 1 non-fiction media brand in the world, Discovery Education transforms classrooms and inspires teachers with engaging content and services that measure and improve student achievement.

Great practice for teachers in classroom management. Probably best for a second year teacher because some of the ideas might be too much for the first year of survival teaching

Thinkwave in trying to advance the way teachers manage classroom information, and to engage parents and students in the education process, by making it easy to share classroom information online, such as grades.

Most articles regarding girls in the mathematics classroom; a few on the subject of guys in the mathematics classroom.

This website allows you to enter words and then make some larger and different colors. This would be a neat tool to make posters for the classroom.

Wordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. This would be a good way of working with vocabulary words, word walls, or having students recognize prominent words in a text.

Since most administrators require us to have a word wall in the classroom. Wordle will allow us to play with the words by creating word clouds.

This site has a huge compilation of resources. Be prepared to spend some time in discovery. Sites range from lesson plans to blogs to educational issues. Site "includes hundreds of articles and links about curriculum, teaching strategies, teacher professional development, parent involvement, classroom assessment, and much more."

MiddleWeb provides a wealth of resources for schools, districts, educators, parents, and public school advocates working to raise achievement for all students in the middle grades. This site includes hundreds of articles and links about curriculum, teaching strategies, teacher professional development, parent involvement, classroom assessment, and much more.

This site offers templates for use in the classroom, as well as student activities and planning resources.

Hands-On, Real World Math and Science Lessons To Your Classroom

Good article about a CMS middle school principal and an innovative program including the use of same sex classrooms, among other things.

Good article about a CMS middle school principal and an innovative program including the use of same sex classrooms, among other things.

Watch full university lectures at Lectr.com - for free. You can also watch knowledge based videos on lots of other school subjects.

Watch educational videos in your classroom with this site. This is useful in your classroom and can supplement sites like discovery education, brainpop, etc..

Watch full university lectures about various topics. Great for supplemental material about topics covered in class.

DiscoverySchool offers teacher resources and powerful tools for creating unique classroom materials.

The NCSCOS will provide you with the curriculum for your specific grade level and content area. Your classroom instruction should coincide with the NCSCOS.

A way to search through other presentations that someone might have completed that could be used in your own classroom.

Teachers can set up a meeting space similar to a wiki where they can send notes, files assignments and links to their students and other teachers.

Edmodo - Microsharing in the Classroom Edmodo provides a way for teachers and students to share notes, links, and files. Teachers can send alerts, events and assignments to students.

If you are a math teacher and you have not heard of Marcy Cook then something is wrong. She is a very famous person who has developed a lot of creative ways to use mathematical concepts in the classroom.

Free stock market game to learn how the stock market works using real time stock data from Wall street beginners to real pro and educators to bring Wall street to classrooms.

99Polls offers a simple approach to making Web Polls, which you can post nearly anywhere on the Web. 99Polls.com poll-creation tool requires no knowledge of HTML or coding, and once made, the poll can be posted on blogs, Web sites, and social-networking profiles such as: MySpace, Facebook, Bebo, Xanga and more...

Online free web polls generator, let your visitors vote. Easy to setup, customize and use. Great to use for students outside of the classroom since its accessible to anyone on the web.