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This is cool site that has a lot of games over different subjects. The games are created by teachers to help students learn the subject. The levels range from pre-k to 6th grade. it could be useful for teachers to have the students play around a learn while they are doing it.

This site offers a variety of game broken down by subject, grade, language, and genre. This is a great tool that I could use in the classroom for different areas but just using one site and I can get great ideas for lessons for the activity work and group work.

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,

Kids.gov: The U.S. Government's Official Web Portal for Kids... Aside from the extensive amount other grade level appropriate subjects and topics, this website has great science resources for teachers and students. There are many videos that break down subject matter, like how orbits work or what fossils tell about time. I would use it ideas on different science experiments and definitely for the videos, since sometimes you never know what you are getting with YouTube.

HowStuffWorks explains thousands of topics, from engines to lock-picking to ESP, with video and illustrations so you can learn how everything works. The name of this website says it all really- children are so curious and this website provides a video or article on pretty much any question a child has. I would definitely use this for further information on a topic, I might even have some students explore this website in order to "teach" a different topic on how something works.

This site provides different PLN resources that students and teachers can use outside the classroom. The site also explains how to create your own PLN.

I stumbled upon this site and think it's very helpful for teachers. It explains the difference between the PLN of a traditionally networked teacher versus the PLN of a Web 2.0 connected teacher. This goes to show that a Web 2.0 networked teacher has access to many more resources than a traditionally networked teacher. This website has a ton of suggestions on using instructional technology. It also gives suggestions and tools to create and then maintain a PLN as a teacher.

a. I chose this website because it displays different tools. b. I could use this in my classroom to help work on collaboration skills.

This is website for teachers of multiple different grades, and has many different lesson plans which are aimed towards science education

This website has simple facts about each state. This also has current events. This website has K-5, 6-8, teachers, and parents. I chose this website because this would be easy for the students to use when they need current events. I would have the students use it to find current events that they would understand.

a. I chose this one because it helps give you information about different areas b. I could use this as a resource when kids do projects about a state.

Science: I chose this resource because it offers a lot of different topics that might be studied throughout the course of the year along with activities and lessons that can be used with those topics. I could browse through the activities based on my lesson plans and incorporate some of these activities to engage my students.

Education Games: I chose this resource because I liked how it provided games for all ages in many different subjects. I could allow students to get on this site if they finish their work early.

PE/Health: I chose this resource because it gives many different lesson plan ideas that can be used in the everyday classroom. The lesson plans I reviewed were straightforward and easy to modify to use in content-based lessons.

In this website I found may things that could be useful in a social studies class. On the main page it gives you a few categories to choose from such as general sites, Current events, and government. Within each category it gives you many different links to other website that may include power points on a topic, videos, lesson plans and much more.

a. I chose this because it would be good for a variety of students. b. I could use this by having students try different games for each activity.

Taking the sixth activity, I can have students interview a mathematical historical figure: research and ask a couple simple questions.

This website gives many different social studies activities you can do with students. I can incorporate theses activities into my classroom to make social studies topics a little more interesting.

Great site for giving multiple levels of math to your students. Teachers can give different levels to different students to keep them advancing forward.

This website is full lessons for grades K-5 that include topics like water cycle, states of matter, weather, and the butterfly life cycle. I like the weather activity where you act out different weather characteristics.

This website gives different lesson for how to incorporate learning the 50 states and exercise. I think map games are really fun and are easy to put together to help students learn states, capitals, and their location.

This website gives different videos and lesson on how to connect math and PE. The lessons are for grades K-5. There is a lesson using dice and exercises which is a very common way PE teachers incorporate math into their lessons.

I choose this site because it gives you ideas of different Experiments that you can do in your classroom. This site can be used in my future classroom by conducting interesting science experiments that are Elementary student friendly.

I chose this app because there are many different types of games for different subjects. I will use this app for free time.

This website is full of games for every subject! It is specific for K-6 and is a very easy site to navigate. I would maybe suggest this as something to do on a students free time.