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This website has 52 different blogs that are interesting to follow. They have so many different bloggers, some are principals and some are teachers. It is interesting to see all the different perspectives they have.

Internet for classroom website lays all the grades out. It is easily understood. All you have to do is click on the grade you are teaching to and then a ton of different things about science for that grade will come up. There are different units or topics you can chose from such as weather. When you chose weather it will bring up a ton of links that have to do with weather. These links include things like storms, clouds, games, and test.

This website has games for kids and resources for teachers. I could use this website to look for ideas for lesson plans.

This is a site with resources for the teacher. It tells you how you can teach your students why staying healthy is important to function every day. This site would be a good resource for me to use to show my students how staying healthy helps them in school.

This website is nice because along with telling you places you can use for collaboration, it also shows the steps of how to use the sites. This is nice because sometimes that can be the reason why people are scared to use sites they are not familiar with.

This is a tool for teachers to work together with their colleagues to better themselves. If we are going to teach collaboration, we need to know about it ourselves.

Mind Maps lists different kinds of collaborative tools to use in the classroom and goes into brief detail of what it is. It's up to you which one you want to use!

I chose this website, because it was easy to navigate, and it was also divided up by sections. This website was full of resources, so it will be a good way to get the information I need to start teaching and build a good relationship with people in the community and other teachers.

I chose this because my brother was given this site from his math tutor. As a teacher, I would be able to use this site not only for, say, basic arithmetic or algebra, but virtually any lesson I was teaching.

I chose this website because it is a great way to teach students about muscles. Students match the muscles. Great for a high school PE class.

This is a game I played and school and loved it. It teaches kids about math and running a business. This could be played in a high school Money Management classroom or a math class.

This offers math games for students. As a teacher, I can use it to teach kids that math is fun.

This website offers a lot of cool technology lessons for teachers that were also created by teachers. Since they were created by teachers, it is very likely that they have been tested and work pretty well. This would be a great place to look for lesson plan ideas.

This is a website for teachers to develop lesson plans, standards for curriculum, and more information for teachers to include for students.

This is a website you can get ideas from different teachers who are willing to share their lessons/ideas online. Could be great if you need a quick plan b lesson at the last minute.

This math website has a lot of tools for your students, games, just about any section that you would be teaching in your class.

10 Team-Building Games That Promote Collaborative Critical Thinking I chose this site for the critical thinking exercise. I could use these activities in classes to promote critical thinking and teamwork. They are activities to fill a few minutes to get kids moving if they are getting tired or bogged down.

Good way to see other teachers lesson plans and share some of your own. I would use this is I ever needed ideas or wanted to share some of mine.

KidsHealth in the Classroom offers educators free health-related lesson plans for all grades and subject areas. Each Teacher's Guide includes discussion questions, activities, and reproducible handouts and quizzes - all aligned to national health education standards.

This offers a lot of options for health and physical education on this site. It even had a lesson on dental care. Students need to know how to take care of their bodies and overall health I think I would be able to use this site to teach students about taking care of themselves. It would give me ideas that I may not even think of on my own.

Pinterest is a new favorite of many teachers. There are lots of ideas available to make learning fun. I would use some of the hands on ideas in this sight.

Funbrain is another site similar to Cool Math. It has a wide array of games that students can play. These games are in arcade style for the most part, which I think students probably really like. Another cool part of this website is that there is a "For Teachers" section. It has tools that make it easy for teachers to find a game that relates to what they're teaching. It also helps you find activities based on different standards and grade levels. Funbrain also provides flashcards that they allow you to print for free so you can use them in your class.

Sharemylesson is "by teachers, for teachers". It has lesson plans for early elementary, late elementary, middle school, and high school. It also has modified lesson plans for students with various special needs. It has a community tab that answers teacher questions, provides information on Common Core, and also has a general forum in which teachers talk and share their ideas and frustrations. There are over 300,000 teaching resources on this site alone.

Newsela is so helpful in general, but especially helpful to teachers that teach social studies or even a kind of current events class. At first the site seems like a simple news article site. It has a bunch of articles on current events or new discoveries. What's unique about it, though, is that you can get the same article in different ways based on lexicon. You can choose the lexicon level and based on that, the article is written at different levels. For gifted/talented students, they can be given a higher lexicon level version of the article. For students with special needs,