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This is a Google index for educators. It has links to tools, links to many other sites and is a very good site for tutorials on other Google items that educators can use in their classrooms. Great stuff on Google Earth.

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 website to get NASA into your classroom. Complete education lesson plans in pdf format. Also, links to request educators from NASA to come to your school in virtual form such as Skype or in person for a conference. Best of all completely free!

Barrier -free Education is a web site dedicated to the quality education to students with disabilities. It is a work in progress with little information to offer. I like the premise because I am a new teacher that imagines my attempts at differentiation with disabled students end in failure or worse boredom. Because it is funded by an NSF grant, I look forward to returning to the site to see progress on this topic.

website with educational videos to teach certain educational topics.

Virtual Field Trips is a website that takes teachers and students on field trips via the internet. Categories are Career Technical, Fine Arts, Foreign Language, Health and PE, Language Arts, Math, Library media, Professional Development, Science, Social Studies, Technology and Other. As I searched around it looked like several of the field trips use our Sea Monkey as their web site composer of choice. Uen.org is the URL. At the bottom of the page we can click on "contact us" which takes us to a page where we can put in our contact information so they can get back to us. There is an 800 number to call. The website is based in Utah. Uen stands for Utah Education Network partnered with Utah State Office of Education and Higher Ed Utah, which is in Salt Lake City.

) Paulhami.edublogs.org is a blog site run by Paul Hamilton from the public schools in Vancouver, B.C. He is their assistive(?) technology consultant. He writes about free websites for educators. One that I got stuck on was watch know.org which had something for every discipline. Of course, there were lots of comments from fellow educators who can also add to his list of helpful websites. The latest revision looked like June 20, 2010.

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.

An education oasis for lessons that can be applied in the classroom for all students

This website seems to have a wealth of various links and lesson plans available to include multicultural education in all disciplines and grades.

Primary educational science resource.

The Smithsonian website provides much more than just multicultural education for many grade levels

Very professional and organized website containing lesson plans and state standards information. Browse and search capabilities by keyword. A wealth of information.

Free (for basic) and easy to use creator of wiki pages. Teachers can sign up for no usage limits and no advertising for free providing it will be used for educational purposes (normally %50 a year). Teacher can create their own wiki page for a class or students can create their own wiki pages for an assignment/class, etc.

BitStrips is a website so that students can create comic strips. The user has the option of creating the characters, backgrounds, and text. Make sure to use the public version. If you try to use the educational version, it isn't free. All students need is an email address to begin. It's great because they can email you the comic strip.

This website is for math educators of all age levels. I like the math lesson plans that are available. The lesson plans are hands-on and will keep the students engaged. There are also several choices for fun games that students can play to review daily lessons.

Has resources for parents & educators. Games, videos, and downloadable books in their kids area. Most iKeepSafe resources are available for free download.

Great site. Loaded with videos, information for kids, as well as parents and educators. The kids section has games, downloads and other resources. I also liked the faith resources section. This could be used in schools with a religious background.

The site contains a parent resource center- hot topics, videos and tutorials (social networking, cyberbullying, etc..) family fun lessons that parents can conduct with their children, D.A.R.E. activity lessons. There is also games, wallpapers, screensavers, videos for online safety and a site for educators.

i-SAFE is a non-profit foundation whose mission is to educate and empower youth to make their Internet experiences safe and responsible. Site has information and resources for parents, educators, law enforcement, community leaders, and students.

This is site where you create web like maps with others. The site look really amazing however I have not been able to spend more time on it yet to really see the true value yet. There is a section for educators that lowers the fees. There is also a free option where they strip down the functionality.