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Teach-nology contains a wide array of teaching tools and information. This page is dedicated to multicultural ed and lists several links that may help you get started with adding multicultural elements to your curriculum.

This site is a great resource designed to assist teachers in teaching language arts. It provides a variety of resources from teaching comprehension, poetry to providing author studies. One of my favorite components of the site is the extensive selection of printable Readers Theatre. The author of the site even has a blog!

Webwisekids has resources for teaching Internet safety that are appropriate for middle school to high school age children. Online videos and lesson plans help make it easier to plan lessons to teach about Internet safety. The stories used do not sound contrived or artificial at all, and are definitely worth checking out. The ability to order games to reinforce the concepts taught through the lessons is an added bonus that might make this an attractive option for teaching about safety.

The site has a wide array of information from simulations that teachers/parents can conduct with students/children, a list of dangers on the web, true stories of children and child predators, and a list of ways to prevent online child victimization.

This site offers safety tips through videos and games. Real-life scenarios are presented to reinforce the basic tips being taught. The examples given are realistic, and can get otherwise naive students to be more aware of their activities on the internet. The online videos can be easily incorporated into any classroom at the start of the semester. This is a great resource for any child or teen.

Glogster is a free service that allows you to create a multimedia poster. Glogs can include images, audio, and video. Direct integration with SchoolTube makes video embedding easy. The education version of the site keeps students isolated from general user content. Students can use this as an alternative to reports, to give presentations, or to react to literature (among countless other uses).

A valuable teaching tool that integrates diverse core subjects including math, science, history, art, photography, music and more for individual learner portfolios, unique alternative assessments, and differentiated instructional activities.

This site was pretty cool, especially for Nebraska educators. This was the Official Nebraska Government Website for Teaching Materials. This site was mainly aimed towards History teachers, but it could probably be used by a variety of teachers. As a substitute at Boys Town, I would use it to educate students from other areas of the country about Nebraska. The downfall on this site is that it's very Nebraska centered. This might limit its usefulness to teachers from other states.

this website is an instructional delivery website that I use to teach my third grade students how to type.

This series of cartoons, activities, and games teaches kids about Internet safety, cyberbullying, determining if information is valid, and the different types of media available on the Internet. Professor Garfield is a blast from the past for me, but the content is presented in such a way that kids of any age should appreciate it. It appears that this site is geared more for elementary age kids.

This site provides access to many resources for teachers. A great place to find tips, terms, resources, and message boards for teachers.

This site is a great resource for practicing spelling, and assisting in building strategy and problem solving skills. It allows you to generate your own list of words. After generating your list of words you can choose, test me, teach me, or play games. The teach me link has an auditory component that says and spells the word, the game link gives a variety of strategy games to assist in learning the words.

A great website for students to use to learn to spell their weekly spelling words.

this is an interactive site that can teach students their multiplication facts in a fun and interactive way. This is interactive with the Promethean Board also

Common Sense Media has Common Sense Parent Media Education Program and Digital Citizenship Curriculum to give educators, administrators, and parents the tools and curricula they need to help teach students to become responsible digital citizens.

Great site with lots of information. Easy to navigate through, and colorful. I think kids would be attracted to using this site.

This is a very informative website written for kids to teach them about how to be safe on the internet.

Multiple diffrent tests and quizes for students. Also, lots of games to help students. Can be used to teach from 3rd grade all the way through 12th.

this site teaches about internet safety. It has videos, teacher's supplemental materials, and tabs for kids, parents, and law enforcement.

This is a fantastic site that not only lets kids know that they should be safe, but teaches them as well. There are resources for kids such as videos and links. There are also some great stories on the site too.

This website if good because it gives teachers a lot of good information about teaching different ethnicities. It also has good activities to do with students that I could do with my middle school homeroom.

You can find a detailed packet of information for teaching El Día de los Muertos on this website. There are ample activities for engaging all students in interactive, relevant discussions to celebrate multiculturalism.

This site offers resources to teachers looking to add multicultural tolerance into their lessons. Includes activities as well as professional development options.

Magazine articles, current events, videos, and teaching tolerance materials - most of them free - are available at this site.

Article from eSchoolNews telling about Internet safety and ways to teach it effectively to students.

This is a great way to teach about economics to students in about 5th grade and up. Lots of lesson plans and how to play the game. Awesome stuff for gifted kids!