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Solpass activities are intended to supplement, not replace, solid classroom instruction by providing review of the specific concepts and information that the students are likely to encounter on the SOL end-of-year test. By making test preparation easy and convenient, we hope to encourage excellent classroom instruction, which need not be sacrificed for narrowly focused "teaching to the test".

Interactive Learning Sites for Education

Teachers.Net features free History lesson plans. History printables, History worksheets, and more. Free teaching materials and educational resources for History teachers.

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KidsPost features world, science, cultural, and other kinds of news in articles for kids.

Welcome to Museum Box, This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary?

Welcome to Museum Box, This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary?

NCSS has selected a collection of classroom activities, teaching ideas, and articles from Social Education, Middle Level Learning, and Social Studies and the Young Learner. Browse the collection, or search by historical period and grade level using the search function below. (Collections on other disciplines are under development.)

NCSS has selected a collection of classroom activities, teaching ideas, and articles from Social Education, Middle Level Learning, and Social Studies and the Young Learner. Browse the collection, or search by historical period and grade level using the search function below. (Collections on other disciplines are under development.)

Many social studies resources for teachers and students. Teachers can obtain worksheets, interactive libraries, web schooling, lesson plan ideas and much more.

The TCI Approach. Although these are correlated with Social Studies, they can be used across the curriculum

Instructional strategies for teaching reading. Broken down by areas of reading - print awareness, phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing. Also shows when the strategy should take place - before, during, or after reading

A list of instructional strategies organized different ways (type, alphabetically). Includes a description and outside links for some.

I love this list of strategies because it was built from a collection of resources and they are described in thorough detail.

They list more teaching strategies geared towards middle school age group of English Language Learners and disabilities. I feel they could be adjusted for the elementary level as well.

Discusses the importance of pedagogy in schools and explains how children are not hamburgers and schools are not factories!

Provides sample pedagogical strategies used in math methods. These strategies could be used across many grade levels

What is Pedagogy? Pedagogy is the art (and science) of teaching. Effective teachers use an array of teaching strategies because there is no single, universal approach that suits all situations. Different strategies used in different combinations with different groupings of students will improve learning outcomes.

This site list 150 teaching methods and includes a pdf document of the teaching method and some information about them.

Concrete-Representational-Abstract Sequence of Instruction Continuous Monitoring/Charting of Student Performance Dynamic Assessment for Mathematics Explicit Teacher Modeling Instructional Games Planned Discovery Activities Self-Correcting Materials Scaffolding Instruction Structured Cooperative Learning Groups Structured Language Experiences Structured Peer Tutoring Teach Concepts/Skills Within Authentic Context Teach Using Big Math Ideas Teaching Metacognitive Strategies