Free flash Games for language, grammar, vocabulary, and phonics practice. Kids can use this site to practice at home and even do homework assignments on.
Google Earth is a great resource to have in the classroom. It is the new map. It is interactive and would be very useful for students doing projects, researching different landmarks as well as different countries. It gives a glimpse at what the landscape looks like and can be zoomed in or out. However, it needs to be downloaded to be accessed.
I have used this site before, as have many of us have. Weebly is a great way for teachers to inform students and parents about their classroom. They can put a list of assignments, important dates, as well as a list of rules, consequences, and resources for students and parents to use. They can include links as well as a place where parents can connect and ask questions.
Teachertube is a Youtube for teachers. This site has filtered videos, audios, photos, and documents that teachers can use in their classroom and feel comfortable that they are appropriate for the classroom. You simply search the topic and specify what type of resource you are looking for, and teachertube finds what you need.
This site shows a number of different resources that teachers and even students can use. It shows sites that show different activities/projects to get creative thinking going. It also shows sites where students and teachers can use other resources to create things such as newsletters and even projects. One that I like is smore!
Math: I think will be an amazingly helpful resource I use in my future classroom. It provides sample math problems which are grade appropriate. All you have to do is click on the grade level you are teaching and it gives you a list of different math concepts that level should be focusing on. For example, when you click on 4th grade it gives you place values, coordinate graphs, adding and subtracting fractions, and so on. I think this is a great website for any teacher creating math lesson plans.
This is a great resource for math teachers, it can be used for several years because the levels vary from Pre-K up to precalculus. It also has a tab with the common core standards with activites that fit those.
This site is good for math students that need extra help. This site has many different grade levels and different topics for that level and subtopics so it can help narrow down what you really need help on.
This is a health resource that you do have to pay for. It has lots of lesson plans though that are very useful in Health education. They even give you sample ones to look at without actually purchasing it.
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 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 is a website that I actually use regularly, and is a collaboration website for teachers to use so they may find different instructional strategies from all around the nation.
This is a great website for teachers to communicate with one another. You are able to look at the common core standards. There is also a resource where you can look at lesson plans for any grade. I think this website is something that teachers should really take advantage of because there are a lot of things they can learn just from other teachers.
This website is very helpful. It provides lessons and activity ideas for all types of subjects and grade levels. I would use this to help plan for activities or ideas for what I want to cover for a specific unit. I can see how it would be helpful now, while still in school for assignments.
This website is a resource for getting lesson ideas and cards for phonics instruction. It has printable worksheets and cards. I will use this when I teach phonics to my students.
This is a great resource for special education teachers. It talks about how to set up the classroom, communicate with teachers, deal with behavior issues and much more. I will use this website to help me as I become a special education teacher.
This website is great to get ideas from other teachers. It is full of teacher resources, lesson ideas, themes, and printables. I will use this website to get ideas for units in my classroom.
This site includes a variety of science project ideas that could be implemented into a lesson as a form of assessment. The projects are sorted by standard and by subject, so it is extremely easy to browse.
This would be a good place to generate ideas for a science fair or class projects. It offers resources for students, teachers, and parents which is nice.
This website is a good source for teachers planning a themed unit. It has many integrated math activities based on certain themes. There are many great worksheets as well.
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 website is definitely for the 21st Century skills classroom. It has many videos- more for teachers resource. I can use this website to explore and get ideas on many hard to find topics- like teaching email etiquette to exploring copyright wrongs.
This website seems to have every language arts skills practice available, from reading a passage with a quiz, to identifying parts of a quiz. It also has a ton of printable resources. I am interested in teaching 4th grade so I would use the extensive information for 4th grade language arts since it's also common core aligned.