A fellow classmate showed me this blog and I wanted to be sure to have it. Since I am interested in teaching 4th grade, I think this website gives so many classroom activity ideas and because it's a blog, it has honest experience and personal accounts with lots of pictures. I am going to use this website for classroom ideas, from activities to classroom management.

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.

Powerful Learning Practice is the world leader in professional development for teachers through job embedded learning, instructor led online courses, unique digital books, and more. This website is great for professional developments and many other resources for the 21st Century skills classroom. I could see myself using this website for the digital books and other free professional developments. Not everything on the site is free. "

This is a ning site dedicated to the support of a Personal Learning Network for Educators. This website, after creating an account, allows you to network with other educators and has a wide collection of inspiring articles and helpful links. This would be a great website to swap ideas with other educators or read threads to keep up with helpful and relevant conversations.

This website is like twitter, but instead of having students enter with an email address, they enter with a school code. I think this is a great idea because it can be used to start understanding digital citizenship as they communicate with other students and teachers. I think there could be other uses too- like to keep in touch with students about important information.

"Complement classroom instruction and engage students in online activities, assignments and discussions that allow for deeper participation inside and outside the classroom". This website is a great platform for having another form of communication with students and families. I could see myself using this website as a tool to stay connected with parents where important links, documents and other information could be posted. Depending on the grade level, I could also use this to have students post their work to.

Lesson plans, unit plans, and classroom resources for your teaching needs. Browse or search 10,000+ free teacher resources for all grade levels and subjects. This website is another great website for lesson plans and activity ideas. As I was browsing, it provided specific lesson plan and unit titles and if there was a worksheet or activity associated with it, there was a link. Again, I would use this in the future for lesson plan ideas and even for current assignments.

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, like other educational game websites, has a whole array of games based on grade level. I really like how each game has the standards that it aligns with. Again, I would allow my students to play this to help strengthen certain content area skills. I might encourage parents to allow students to play at home.

This website has many games for all subjects. I could use this as a "reward". If I have computers in my classroom, they could spend some time on this website playing games, while learning and enhancing different subject skills.

This website has a compilation of little activities that you can do in your classroom to get your students up and moving. The website called it "brain breaks" and I would use it as that, to get my students heart rate up and blood flowing- especially after long periods of sitting and testing.

This website provides so many physical education activities with videos on how to set it up and then how to play it. I would use this to help provide me ideas for activities.

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.

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.

I think it can be somewhat difficult to relate social studies topics to current events, but it's something that will be important in order to make s.s topics more relatable. This site has so many current and relevant topics. I could use this site to help connect content or even just explore for myself to stay current on news.

America's history through America's art. This website is a great resource for lesson plans and ideas for activities! I would particularly use this for ideas about teaching the early times of the United States. It has great lesson plans and students resources- it breaks difficult topics down into easy to understand key events!

America's history through America's art.

This website offers interactive games to enhance math skills. Again, this website would be great to strengthen math skills for some of my students that need the help. I think this would really motivate my students, especially some of the boys because there were a lot of games that would piqué their interest (basketball, racing, skiing, etc).

This website has a list and practice work for every possible math skill for each specific grade. This isn't set up like a video game, more as a worksheet or a test. I would use this for possible homework or to for my higher students to work on.

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.

Providing educators and students access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction. This website has lesson plans and interactive tools to help teach different topics in language arts. I would use this website for the lesson plans (a couple already piqued my interest!) and I played around with some of the games and can see how it will help students strengthen their writing skills.