Differentiating our classrooms and providing choice is always a challenge. This website offers basic templates to get started with in creating menu and choice boards (tic-tac-toe boards). It is from another district but has some useful links. I like to see what resources other discticts are using.

For those of you not in Muscogee County, their website http://secondaryinstruction.com/ is one of my favs and offers many useful resources.

I think that a good, relavent brain teaser can be a good closing to a lesson or segway into a lesson. I like this website because I think it can be useful for several subjects.

http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/games/riddles/index.htm This is another fun brain teaser website that the kids liked because it is real friendly on the smartboard.

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Not just for keeping up with celeberties anymore. Ever gotten stuck in a lesson plan quandary or rut? Technology has given us yet another way to interact and bounce ideas off of other professionals out there. Tweet your ideas or questions and ususally get dozens of responses from other teachers.