TIE Online Class: Web Lit for Educators

I have to place standards in my lesson plans each week. This is a nice bookmark to refer to compare state and national standards.

It was exciting to find this site. I use so many visuals like venns and concept maps, comparison charts, and other great ideas.

Standards based links and our grade level "Skillbuilders" to help students practice, either at home or in the classroom, what they have been taught. Several large collections of links for PreK-12 teachers, students and parents.

ABCya.com is the leader in free educational kids computer games and activities for elementary students to learn on the web. All children's educational computer activities were created or approved by certified school teachers. All educational games are free and are modeled from primary grade lessons and enhanced to provide an interactive way for children to learn.

A fun website for elementary students---just click on your grade level to begin. I use the kindergarten level for my 4 & 5 year olds.

"Sheppard offers everything from early math to pre-algebra. The lessons include interactive activities to practice concepts. Students can shoot fruit, pop balloons, and even play math man (the math version of pac man!). Fractions, place value, money, and basic operations are some of the areas that are covered.

Sheppardsoftware has a bunch of fun online games for students. I was looking for math games and found this site but they do have games for all grades for many different subjects.

EducationWorld wants to help you turn your students into the best readers possible. To do that, we have compiled the "Reading Room" a huge list of articles and activities designed to help you teach reading. We start with research-based concepts, ready-to-use tools, and extensions for learning provided by our own "Reading Coach."

Arts & Humanities --Language Arts --Dance, Music --Visual Arts Educational Technology Physical Education --Exercise/Movement Students will enjoy this lesson that exercises their bodies as well as their creativity. alpha-bod, alphabet, human alphabet, movement, creativity, imagination Arrange students into groups. (Four might be an ideal-sized group for this activity.)

Are you teaching the true Thanksgiving story or is the version you're passing on to your students a blend of fact and myth? Ready to set the record straight? "I propose that there may be a good deal that many of us do not know about our Thanksgiving holiday and also about the 'First Thanksgiving' story," says Chuck Larsen in the introduction to Teaching About Thanksgiving.

Order our Launching Young Readers PBS series Reading Rockets offers a wealth of reading strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help young children learn how to read and read better. Our reading resources assist parents, teachers, and other educators in helping struggling readers build fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills.

Here are folktales, fairy tales, tall tales, myths, legends, magical tales, and sacred stories, plus original fables, humor, fantasy, and historical fiction-all from award-winning author Aaron Shepard. Most of the stories have been published in top children's magazines like Cricket and Australia's School Magazine, while some are from Aaron's picture books and early readers.

The Reading Corner, a place for students (Grades 3-8) to find good books to read. Reviews of children's books.

This looks like a great website to help with each subject I teach. Math, Science, Social Studies, Music and Art websites to help with teaching these subjects. Something fun for the kids to reinforce what I am already teaching them.

Wonderful blog with resources for online activities.   She has the blog organized by subject....loaded!

An eclectic collection of ideas/resources for teachers on a wide variety of sources.

Resources for teachers

Great source to interact with other teachers and find resources.

Has thousands of free lesson plans with reputable sources and information about any subject.

Math games that help students learn various math concepts

I have never presented a webquest. This one looks interesting. Frustrating - not all links work.

students could use this as a study guide.