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An eight-part professional development workshop on Teaching Geography for teachers from Annenberg Learner.  This is a self-guided interactive workshop perfect for new teachers of geography.  There are model lessons here complete with resources, video narratives, and more.  A wealth of FREE resources.

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

Excellent diagram of moon phases. Simple to understand. Very kid freindly. The website is also filled with pictures, lessons, videos, etc. Great resource.

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This rich (and free) resource provides examples for most of the CCSS math standards to include lessons, example problems, and more. via Best content in Diigo In Education | Diigo - Groups https://groups.diigo.com/group/diigoineducation

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.

Convert cluttered web pages into easy to read, intuitively formatted text. This is excellent as a productivity tool or as a means for using online text in lessons and activities.

Collection of interactive math tools and lessons organized by math domain and grade level. These "virtual manipulatives" can be used on interactive whiteboards, ipads, or computers as part of classroom instruction.

Project-based learning is becoming increasingly popular as teachers look for a way to make lessons stick in the minds of their students. This is a nice list of some of the best resources on the internet for PBL. From TeachThought

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.

"The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection is often the first place I go to when looking for old maps to use in a social studies lesson. The collection contains more than 100,000 historical maps documenting places throughout the world. " via Feedly Collections of Historical Maps and Ideas for Using Them In Your Classroom via Free Technology for Teachers http://www.freetech4teachers.com/

Visit the wiki site for Mrs. Carnazzo's class. She is an award winning 2nd grade teacher whose students use ipads to complete some really interesting projects. Take a look at the lessons and activities she features as well as the student work.

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...

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.

A math teacher demonstrates how he and his students use the web tool, pad let, to collaborate on and assess math tasks in a lesson. Padlet is a free tool that allows users to upload notes , images, and more to a common online bulletin board or workspace.

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This article is proposing that the students watch video lectures (prepared by the teacher or elsewhere) at home and come to school to work. This would keep students more actively engaged during class. This method would also provide more one-on-one time with the teacher as opposed to using all of the class time listening to the teacher.