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America's Story from America's Library from Teaching with the Library of Congress

This is a great resource for fifth grade ideas.

"Look directly below this blog post to see my blog roll consisting of fifth-grade focused blogs - all in one place! The list below will update several times a day, so please check back regularly to see all the newest teaching ideas just for you! "

Getting started with teaching tips and step-by-step guides for popular teacher tasks is easy and free. Use these teacher guides to learn ways to inspire your students and to better use new tools and technologies in class.

"The Secret Millionaires Club Learn & Earn promotion teaches financial literacy and entrepreneurship with print and digital materials offering activities to do in the classroom, at home and in other venues and settings where students and families learn. It was developed to extend the lessons of the Secret Millionaires Club webisodes and prime time specials created by A Squared Entertainment, into classrooms and homes across the country. Sponsored by CreditReport.com, part of the Experian family of brands, a robust array of materials has been developed for distribution to schools, youth organizations, and families. All in-school activities are developed by educational partner, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and are aligned to national core math standards to ensure maximum integration and implementation. "

"We'll be exploring the new Common Core State Standards, and how teaching with The Times can address them, through a series of blog posts."

"a group of researchers in MIT's Education Arcade are trying to harness the power of MMO games to teach high school students to think like scientists and mathematicians. Their game, The Radix Endeavor, is designed to be an educational game, and capitalizes on the interactions students can have as a way to build their knowledge and skills. Radix, as it's known, is aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards for biology, focusing on topics like genetics, evolution, ecology and human body systems. In math, the game is aligned to the Common Core and has particular focuses on algebra, probability and statistics, as well as geometry. The researchers worked with Filament Games and are funded by the Gates Foundation for the three-year project."

"Spirit of Innovation Challenge provides an opportunity for teams of students to create commercially viable products or services to address issues of global sustainability for the benefit of humanity.This annual competition is free and available to students, ages 13-18, from around the world. The Spirit of Innovation Challenge offers teachers, parents and afterschool coordinators a relevant and dynamic way to teach science, technology, engineering and math. Along the way, world-renowned scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs are available as virtual mentors. This is the competition where Geek is Chic™ "

Kodu lets kids create games on the PC and XBox via a simple visual programming language. Kodu can be used to teach creativity, problem solving, storytelling, as well as programming. Anyone can use Kodu to make a game, young children as well as adults with no design or programming skills.

created to provide elementary school educators a venue for discussing issues and strategies that are specific to teaching in the elementary school context

Check out the left hand column - Teaching Resources. Worksheets, Printable Quizzes, and Graphic Organizers by grade level. Grades K - 6.

The LoTi implementation model offers a systems approach to improved student achievement using 21st Century teaching. The model is comprised of four stages ~ Assess, Plan, Implement, Sustain

This goes along with Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division at http://www.dhmo.org to teach appropriate resources on the internet.

This goes along with Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus at http://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ to teach appropriate resources on the internet.

Here is a list of educational games that can be used to teach kids during the school year or over the summer break. An interesting and eclectic list of games from a wide variety of sources.

"Here's a list of blogging criteria that you could use in your rubric. Keep in mind that you will need to describe it in a way that is appropriate for the level you are teaching, ie. write sophisticated descriptions for high school students or write very simple descriptions for primary students."