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Milam Social Studies Teachers- These lesson plans for teaching geography may be a perfect complement to your Mississippi Social Studies standards in 6th grade.  There are some excellent examples here.

TED Education is the education site for the TED organization. TED has short videos showcasing some of the most interesting and inspiring thinkers, innovators, scientists, and artists on the web. In this case, James Watson, one of the discoverers of DNA explains the circumstances of his discovery. TED Education lessons provide lesson plans to help students think and write critically about the media, an important skill in CCSS.

Google provides a variety of lesson plans and webinars aimed at helping you and your students become better searchers and evaluators of online resources.

In order to prepare students to be college and career ready in the 21st century, we must help them become adept and critical users of online research tools. Google offers excellent resources here to help meet this goal.

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Take a virtual field trip to art museums around the world. Get "up close and personal" with works of art. High-resolution images allow users to zoom in to see individual brush strokes. Rich information is included. An education section includes lesson plans and ideas for how to use the site in the classroom.

Love this! This is one of my favorites. Perfect for the interactive whiteboard.

These lessons help to prepare students to be more effective and efficient users of search engines such as google. These ideas go well beyond boolean logic. via Best content in Diigo In Education | Diigo - Groups https://groups.diigo.com/group/diigoineducation

This is an excellent collection of short videos demonstrating real classrooms with real teachers and real students.   There are currently 157 clips in the Common Core topic across all grades and subject areas.  There are great teaching ideas here. The videos of lessons also often include the materials for the lesson such as lesson plans, handouts, slides, etc.

A good source for Lessons created by teachers.

Close Reading Common Core-aligned lesson sets with explanatory annotations; grade levels k-12

Thanks Mr Turner! What a great resource. I hope you don't mind, but I added a few tags to your post to help make it searchable.

Natchez Trace Parkway info can be accessed here. Resource for lesson plans, field trip, traveling trunks, and the teacher guide. Presented in "Engaging Students in THEIR National Park" Flex Day.

Edudemic provides an excellent annotated list of some of the best video sites, organized into categories like Lesson planning, teacher education, subject areas, etc. Take a look. There are many good ones here that I hadn't seen before. Are there other sites you would add to the list? via Best content in educators | Diigo - Groups https://groups.diigo.com/group/educators

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Readworks.org is a reputable source of excellent lesson plans and reading passages focused on teaching reading comprehension.  This fall, they are developing over 1000 new CCSS aligned and Lexile-leveled non-fiction and literary passages and question sets.  This free resource will be an excellent supplement for teachers.

Great article especially for those just beginning to incorporate Google Drive

Agreed! Thanks Dorie. Also, with Google Docs integration in Haiku, students can "turn in" google docs to a Haiku assignment. All of the sharing is then handled automatically, and you, as the teacher, can launch, comment, and annotate the students work from within Haiku. This makes it very convenient! Likewise, if you add a google doc to a content block in Haiku, it will automatically be shared with the students in that Haiku class. When you add it, you may choose whether to grant viewing, commenting, or editing permissions on the doc to the students in the class. Then students can launch that document directly from your Haiku class. Google Docs + Haiku makes managing assignments in Google Docs/Drive much easier.

One other thought: Bypassing Haiku for a minute, I have also read about teachers using a google form to "collect" assignments in Google Drive. Students "turn in" their assignments by completing a short form with their name and a title and description of the assignment. Then they paste the document url into the form. That way, the teacher has a spreadsheet with each student's name and a direct link to their assignment. So, the teacher can go line by line through the spreadsheet and grade and annotate each student's assignment. I thought this was a clever solution.

Federal agencies and organizations of all stripes collect, create, and publish educational resources that may be used in U.S. classrooms by teachers and students. In most cases, these resources are exempt from US copyright law. This site catalogs these resources by type, subject and more.

This is a free, easy to navigate resource for Mathematics at all grade levels.

If you're a faithful reader, you know that I have some concerns with the Common Core State Standards. At the moment, however, I am tasked to teach an Algebra course that is aligned to those standards, so I'm trying to make it the best experience p...

resources for individuals with special needs.  The site specializes in resources for students with autism-spectrum disorders.