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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.

Although Zefty functions like a bank account, there's no real money involved. Parents set up each child and specify how much allowance they get and how often. It's their money, you as a parent are simply holding it for them - so the mom and dad are the bank.

This page converts currency. When working with conversion problems what better thing to convert than money. It could be a great site if you wanted to make an interdisciplinary project involving traveling.

This site provides book reviews for students from elementary and middle grade students. Students are also the reviewers, providing authenticity for other students. There is also school involvement from all over the world and class or student home pages can be created. Students can "read books, engage in book talks, discuss the elements of a book review, read and discuss reviews, write group reviews to practice writing summaries opinions and recommendations, work on their own reviews read their reviews for feedback from their peers, and publish their reviews."

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.

Great resource for lesson plans and activities involving modeling

This website can be used to figure out conversions with the online calculator. There are some interesting calculators that could be used with different types of problems involving science. This page also has math tricks for age and days of the year. It could be used in something as simple as a last minute note to keep the students guessing until the next day!

"The Factor Game engages students in a friendly contest in which winning strategies involve distinguishing between numbers with many factors and numbers with few factors. Students are then guided through an analysis of game strategies and introduced to the definitions of prime and composite numbers." Excellent

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.

Great for not only the kids but also parents and educators. Includes different options for learning so that children can do what they enjoy. It is a great way to keep the parents involved as well. It displays the range of ages for which each game is appropriate for. A simple way to make math fun.

A fun and free online courseware for kids.

A global non-profit organization dedicated to fun and free learning on the internet for kids 5-12 with courses in math, science, reading, health and computers.