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Write a character sketch about somebody you know well. Objectives Students will use a graphic organizer to help them discuss a model character sketch and organize/write one of their own. write an interesting sketch that includes the proper elements of a character sketch.

A blogspot for students, parents and early childhood educators. It offers links to websites along with ideas for activities for kindergarten.

RSS Feed - A Kindergarten Blog. On this blog some new content that I found was this voice recorder that you can use to put stories or other things on blogs or internet, It is called Vocaroo. She used it as a story of a leprechaun coming into the classroom. I thought this was cute!

This site has some really fun ideas for science. Most of them are elementary or Middle School but you can always modify things and make them appropriate for High School

You Tube site for schools

This article asks the question "Whether it best to have outdated books or no books?" They come to the conclusion that no books is the better option. They also look at books versus technology. They look at funding options that might work for every school.

New York Life worked with four high schools throughout the country of which one of them was in Minnesota. They created media centers that helped build true centers for teaching and learning. They also provided a toolkit to help you develop your own media center for learning.

This site has a little of everything that elementary teachers can use. Resources for classes, classroom management suggestions, links to other sites and strategies for teaching subjects.

This RSS feed site recommends a place called Watchknow to get free videos to use in a classroom. The best part is they are ranked by educators so you are less likely to get a dud and/or waste your time.

Introducing Librarians' Internet Index Librarians' Internet Index (LII) is a publicly-funded website serving the world You can search and browse the website for the best of the Web. There are over 20,000 entries, maintained by librarians and organized into 14 main topics and nearly 300 related topics.

This would be a fun site to go to when there is extra class time to fill. It can also help students in their study on nouns, adjectives, and verbs. The end result is a silly story that you made up!

Enter the world of Science Bob to try lots of home experiments, watch experiment videos, and get science fair ideas. I found this through my Resources for Teacher's blog. A neat site to help with teaching science. There are questions kids ask that Bob answers, such as how are Pop Rocks candies made. It will also take you to other science websites to learn about other topics such as volcanoes.

I love the scholastic website, especially for elementary teaching. It offers so many great ideas, activities, and worksheets for nearly everything I teach! Some things are free, while others are subscribed to/paid for. And you can't forget the Book Clubs!

This is an article about how to use Moodle in your school. This two part article shares 1) district use tips and 2) practical tips for enhancing Moodle for K-12 district use. Sounds very interesting if you can get everyone to use it.

I use this as an opener to explain how stories were told in the days gone by and to expose my students to a successful role model of their kind.

A great blog with lots of ideas. Kodaly based. For all of you music educators out there!

This blog site has a link that will take you to great games to help reinforce learning.