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Grade 6-8 9-12 Brief Description Students view photographs of migrant families during the Great Depression, try to interpret the photos to answer questions about the subject's life, and then write a cinquain poem based on their interpretations. Objectives Students willGain understanding of the personal struggles faced during the Great Depression Learn to interpret information from a visual medium (photograph) and express that knowledge in written form (poem).

Great site to go when you have questions with AutoCAD. Great tutorials to explore and learn.

This RSS feed has some great articles, ideas, tips, and links to websites to teaching ELL and ESL students. This RSS feed also has great lessons, activities, ideas, and information that could be used to teach all students.

Tammy gives great tips each week on something technological that is good to try or use in the classroom. This is a great resource.

AppCrayon is a great app to help interactively motivate students to write. Could be great for 3-4 year olds

Great lessons for Columbus day!!!

Great for Columbus Day

I found humor and great resources in this website written by a now-retired educational technologist.

guide to educational technology

This is a great resource from an organized site.

Considers students as consumers. Usies their decriptions of a great teacher.

Viewing students as consumers -- and consumers with strong ideas about how their instructors should treat them as learners and individuals -- can help good teachers become great teachers in the eyes of the people who matter most, according to a new book. Included: Tips for building relationships with students.

quick help for math ..Great!

Great ideas for woodturning projects, how-to-instructional videos

This is a unique site for a nontraditional home construction. Great for research on different building techniques in different countries for an architecture class.

Great hands on learning about strength and structure, hands-on learning

Education World has links to news stories for teachers to share and discuss with students. News stories are based on their timelines and interest to students. I feel this would be a great website to implement in the classroom and use to teach students how to five the five w's (who, what, where, when, why) when reading a news article.

This is a great website to use for teaching students about Lewis and Clark and engaging them in lesson plans and activities related to Lewis and Clark and their Journey West. Another website teachers can use for lesson plans and activities for teaching about Lewis and Clark is: http://www.pbs.org/lewisandclark/class/idx_les.html

Great real world examples to use in math.

Great math ideas for parents to do at home with their children.

Great story...made me smile!!

A great resource for creating, modifying or "stealing" rubric for just about any subject. I have used this for a number of year. You can create and save rubrics to the site and share them.

Great Activities to use with an interactive whiteboard such as a SMART Board.

Great for new teachers!