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The Teacher's Desk is a tool that has lesson plans, and writing tasks that would be useful for integrating writing into Math or other content areas. It focuses on 5th and 6th grade - and is language arts oriented, though I would explore this website for ideas on how to integrate writing into my class.

Throughout this website there are various articles, videos, slide shows, expert interviews, blog entries, and other resources to highlight success stories in K-12 education. Core concepts include integrated studies, project learning, technology integration, teacher development, social and emotional learning, and assessment. Teachers can use this site in order to understand the concepts used in teaching.

Education World®. The Educator's Best Friend. The surfing is over. Here you will find the best education links and original content the Net has to offer. Lots of content: lesson planssing, technology integration, school issues, professional development, and more.

This is a great site for teachers. It provides numerous activities, lessons, recent and archival educational articles, time saving templates, and much more.

Resources, resources, resources. From Lesson Planning to Technology Integration, Administrator's Desk to Professional Development. Like many education sites, they cover all bases in the education profession but what I appreciated was the sense of humor they allowed in some of there articles.

Use music to provide an alternative way to teach basic math skills

This is a math website that contains many math resourses and websites. It contains websites for math projects and specific math pedagogy. It would be a great site for teachers becuase it contains lesson plans as well as writing guidelines for math.

This site has a compilation of resources. There are resources (such as project conceptualization and information gathering) and interactive activities for students. And lesson development and discipline integration for teachers.

Looking for a nice way to review, but don't have much time to develop an integrated lesson. Well let's play Jeopardy. There are pre-made games for all grade levels and most subject matter. Site created by a Kentucky school presents games as well as instructions on how to create your own Jeopardy game.

Interactive pricing guide. You can also buy or sell things here. It would be helpful when learning about budgeting money. Percents, and sales tax could be integrated easily. A good place to collect data.

HotChalk (www.hotchalk.com), is a free online learning management system (LMS) designed specifically for K-12 educators. HotChalk helps teachers easily and quickly develop customized lesson plans and assignments, locate and integrate curriculum materials, and manage assignments and grading.

ThinkQuest is a protected, online learning platform that enables teachers to integrate learning projects into their classroom curriculum and students to develop critical 21st century skills. It includes a project environment where teachers and students engage in collaborative learning; a competition space where students participate in website development contests; and the award-winning ThinkQuest library, a learning resource visited by millions.

ThinkQuest is a protected, online learning platform that enables teachers to integrate learning projects into their classroom curriculum and students to develop critical 21st century skills. It includes a project environment where teachers and students engage in collaborative learning; a competition space where students participate in website development contests; and the award-winning ThinkQuest library, a learning resource visited by millions.

Curriki, the online education community, is building the first website to offer free, open-source instructional materials for K-12. We have thousands of free worksheets, lesson plans, exams, project ideas and activities for English language arts, math, science, social studies, technology integration and other subjects. All of our educational material is contributed by teachers and partners and is free and open source.

This website helps integrate technology into the classroom. Teachers can specify what subject they're teaching and what unit of that subject they are involved in. This website gives many examples for teachers so they can have more technology in their lessons.

A unique approach to math education that integrates popular movies, music, sports and more. Enjoy free math help with fractions, algebra, and geometry.

You can calculate nutritional value of different foods. Gather information here that the students will be interested in as well as the teacher. You can integrate teaching about health and nutrition while learning different ways to represent data.

Lesson plans with technology integration

This website features games for students. This game asks students to identify the points of view for a given figure from different views in the room. This is a great way for students to integrate technology and math.

The NTeQ Lesson Plan Builder provides a step-by-step tool for creating lesson plans for computer integration. You can use this site to create your own lesson plans or just modify somebody else's.

The Busy Teachers' Website K-12 offers specific lesson plans and projects for many subjects as well as opportunities for classes to participate in ongoing "interactive web projects".

Gives specific nutritional information favorite fast food restaurants...real data your students will be interested in

When you go to a restaurant, do you know the nutritional content of what you're ordering? Fatburgr gives you weight watchers points plus nutritional information from your favorite restaurants. You can search Fatburgr for menu items via their restaurant or category.When you go to a restaurant, do you know the nutritional content of what you're ordering? Fatburgr gives you weight watchers points plus nutritional information from your favorite restaurants. You can search Fatburgr for menu items via their restaurant or category.

Fatburgr gives you nutritional information from your favorite restaurants. A math instructor could easily use this information in a project dealing with nutrition, especially since March is national health month throughout schools, to appeal to the students. Students could gather data after attending the specific restaurant and then put their information into graphical form.