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"Are you looking for practical ways to improve student achievement? Strengthen teaching and learning processes with research-based instructional strategies combined with effective technology use. Twelve core strategies link to 30 classroom examples that show how to apply key research, using technology to engage learners and improve achievement. "

Show Me Great Lessons - Interactive Instructional Activities Using an Elmo Document Camera

We designed these applets for NCTM's Illuminations website to help improve the teaching and learning of mathematics. They work great on your interactive whiteboard for whole class instruction. Give them a try!

"...focuses on some of the lesser-used Google tools options like publishing an online quiz using Google Docs. In all there are 33 pages containing 21 ideas and how to instructions for creating Google Maps placemarks, directions creating and publishing a quiz with Google Docs forms, directions for embedding books into your blog, and visual aids for accessing other Google tools."

Six-step process in the instruction of vocabulary (Building Academic Vocabulary) plus vocabulary lists, games, and more.

Scientific Inquiry is what drives the science community as a way of developing children's use of their scientific skills. It doesn't mean just hands on; it means doing activities and presenting content in a way that promotes critical thinking skills.

FREE online community that provides educators with the resources for preparing for new courses and projects, or instructions on the skills needed to teach with Adobe software. Educators can share lesson plans, class projects, technical tutorials, background materials and other resources and get feedback and recognition from the community.

Inside Mathematics is a professional resource for educators that features classroom examples of innovative teaching methods and insights into student learning, tools for mathematics instruction that teachers can use immediately, and video tours of the ideas and materials on the website. Inside Mathematics will be aligning its tools and examples to the Common Core.

Teaching with Documents is designed to help teachers and students make sense of the vast amount of source material available over the Internet, and effectively bring these resources to their work as historians. It provides easy access to analytic tools, instructional strategies, and links to source material and sample assessments.

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.

Vocabulary refers to the words we must know to communicate effectively. In school terms, it can be described as oral vocabulary or reading vocabulary. This section provides information about effective vocabulary instruction, the relationship between vocabulary and comprehension, and practical ways that parents can introduce new, exciting words to their children.

"...several common mistakes that should be avoided when using blogs in instruction."

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

Lessonwriter creates lesson plans and instructional materials for teaching English language skills from any reading passage. * Copy & paste any text you choose into LessonWriter. * LessonWriter analyzes text for vocabulary, grammar and usage, pronunciation, and word roots and stems. * Then, LessonWriter writes a lesson plan and a lesson that teaches the skills you chose in the context of the passage - automatically.

Great ideas in educational categories for technology integration.

"THE Place For Educational Games! Our research-based and standards-aligned free educational math games and language arts games will engage, motivate, and help teach students. Click a button below to play our free multi-player and single-player games! In the future we'll add features enabling you to save records, tailor content for differentiated instruction, and pinpoint student problem areas."

"Arcademic Skill Builders are free research-based and standards-aligned educational games! Engage and motivate students with our multiplayer and single-player games."

Finding images on the web and documenting them.