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What should curriculum really be based on? This is a great site when creating a curriculum. It explains how curriculum is not based on what sounds good or what works best for the teacher but involvement with the students. Letting the be heard. since they are the individuals who are required to learn it. Check it out!

The CAST Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Lesson Builder provides educators with models and tools to create and adapt lessons that increase access and participation in the general education curriculum for all students.

LDC is a national-wide community of educators that are able to create and share lesson plans and innovative, literacy-rich ideas in the classroom. This is a very user friendly website; there are many samples of lesson plans that may give educators a general idea of how to go about constructing their own unique lesson plan. Even better? This can all be done at the comfort of your own home/office.

This webpage offers a great deal of help in writing skills to elementary students. It offers graphic organizers, bright ideas for writing, parts of speech, grammar practice, and more. It even models writing by generating wacky tales using words provided by students.

Games Quizzes and tutorials

Games Quizzes and tutorials

There's a fantastic place way up in Vancouver, Canada called Science World. And we heard a rumor that they had the thickest, bounciest bubbles around. So we asked them how they did it. Here are their recipes for bubbles that not only blow up nice and big, but do tricks and experiments! This activity would go with the standard: K.1.1. Use all senses as appropriate to observe, sort and describe objects according to their composition and physical properties, such as size, color and shape. Explain these choices to others and generate questions about the objects.