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Book Trailer unit designed for eighth grade students containing three main lessons: Book Trailers 101, Storyboarding, and Creating a Book Trailer.

Interesting research on the effectiveness of blogging at the grade 3

TeachersFirst is a rich collection of lessons, units, and web resources designed to save teachers time by delivering just what they need in a practical, user-friendly, and ad-free format. We offer our own professional and classroom-ready content along with thousands of reviewed web resources, including practical ideas for classroom use and safe classroom use of Web 2.0. Busy teachers, parents, and students can find resources using our subject/grade level search, keyword search, or extensive menus

With a view of travel as an educational experience like no other, the project makes use of digital media to promote an understanding of different culture and customs to students worldwide. The site hosts virtual field trips to England, Jordan, and South Africa that include more than 160 fort films that correspond to the destinations. Each video explains more about the region's food, music, culture, and language. Since 2003, project explorer has counted more than a million visitors to the site from more than 40 different countries. Recently, it won a Parents' Choice Award for "Outstanding Web Programming." The site's developers qre not working to add a fourth field trip--this one to Malaysia--the Project Explorer has lesson for upper elementary, middle and high school. They plan to offer lesson specifically designed for the early grades.

LabWrite guides you through the entire laboratory experience, from before you walk into the lab to after you get back your graded report.

Online programs for students in grades 8 and higher for video game programing and 3D Animation.

MathPickle is a site for K-12 teachers. Here, you can get problems that engage a wide spectrum of student ability. Video by grade levels.

LearnZillion gives teachers, students, and parents free video lessons anytime, anywhere. Each lesson highlights a Common Core standard, starting with math in grades 3-9.

This section provides implementation resources, information, and advice specific to each grade level.

History links and lesson plans for grades 4, 5, 6.

KidBiz® provides the first Web-based, individualized reading and writing instruction solution for grades 2-5 that reaches every student at his or her Lexile™ level. Powered by a proprietary software engine that distributes assignments to the entire class, but tailors them according to each student's reading level, KidBiz enables teachers to customize content and monitor student growth with a simple click of the mouse. Importantly, KidBiz extends teachers' reach without increasing workloads or time demands. Perhaps most important of all, KidBiz is proven to accelerate reading comprehension, writing proficiency, vocabulary development and high-stakes test scores.

"The issues surrounding copyright have never been more visible. But the classroom presents its own copyright-related challenges, for students and teachers alike. How is an educator to know what the rules are? How do those rules apply in the classroom? And how can we make sure that students know the rules as well? To help educators answer these questions, the Copyright Alliance has established the Copyright Alliance Education Foundation. Working with Young Minds Inspired, the Foundation has developed a comprehensive program for teachers. Additionally, we have compiled a library of free curricula that helps teachers of all grades and subject areas incorporate copyright into existing lesson plans."

A collaborative effort to collect blogs for students of various grade levels.

A beautiful collection of digital children's books for primary students in kindergarten through second grade. Each story includes charming illustrations, animation and professional narration with music and sound effects.

This folkloresite, suitable for grades K-6, contains retellings of American folktales, Native American myths and legends, tall tales, weather folklore and ghost stories from each and every one of the 50 United States. It also includes lesson plans and teacher resources.

This site provides a collection of free online and printable language arts activities and merials for grades K-8.

Daily Grammar provides simple and clear lessons on the basics of English grammar for grades 5-12. Set up in modules of five examples and a follow-up quiz, the simiplicity of the approach and the explanations make this a great site for students to use on their own when they feel they need self-paced remediation or enrichment. Mr. Bill Johanson, the author of the material, is a former junior and high school English teacher, with 30 years experience in the classroom.

This site contains: practice to learn holistic writing assessment using ISTEP+ and Blackburn-Cramp authentic writing samples from grades K-12 in these genres: - descriptive - expository - narrative - persuasive access to writing resources and Indiana research on instruction

Great Source iwrite is a collection of writing resources and support for educators, students in grades 5-12, and parents. For Educators - Quick access to powerful writing lessons and assessments For Students - Step-by-step support for completing writing assignments For Parents - Tips for helping your child become a better writer, thinker, and learner

This poem generator makes you an instant poet. Pick a type of poem, place your words into the form, and you imediately become a success. The site, suitable for grades 5-12, consists of 60 kinds of writing activities in an interactive frame format including cinuain, haiku, limerick, septet, and other forms. Poems can then be exported into Word for revision and editing.