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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 a general site that discusses bulling with a whole section on cyber bullying. Much of the data is presented in stats which can be helpful when working to prevent bullying.

The internetsafetygame http://www.att.com/gen/general?pid=1391 is from the AT and T website. It's a game with a villain and a hero. The player is the hero trying to catch the villain doing bad things online in 8 different ways. It's very child friendly.

An internet safety website obviously intended for elementary age children to learn the basics about internet safety. You follow "Captain Broadband" around to 8 different sites answering questions about internet safety. When you answer all questions correctly, you can print off a certificate that must make elementary children feel good about themselves.

Kids Health is a general site that covers many topics about kids, but it does dedicate four pages for parents to read about internet safety. Topics covered: Internet safety laws, online protection tools, getting Involved in kids' online activities, basic rules, chat room caution, and warning signs.

An article on internet safety for kids, parents, and teens. The article discusses online protection tools, rules, and warnings for internet use.

This website is a good resource for kids and parents to learn about online safety tips. This site also provides general tips for teens such as study tips, managing stress and staying healthy. There is also information on parenting teens and approaching difficult issues with kids.

This website has great information about cells in general, but also has information about microorganisms, plants, vertebrates, invertebrates, and animal systems. There are also quizzes available, and links to other topics such as astronomy, physics, chemistry, and earth science. The site is also easy to navigate with well described buttons to various pages.

A web site from the History Channel where students can use an interactive tool to get information about some of the aspects of our universe, see actual and computer generated images, and see in detail some of the components of our universe.

This site is amazing. It has so many tools it's crazy. The best part is that almost all of them are free. Some of the website builders come with a fee. However, for the most part all the tools are at your use for free. Some links require a login/password, but it still cost nothing. One stop shop for all your teaching needs!

This site provides teachers with free online tools such as quiz and worksheet generators. It also offers tips on building classroom websites and provides a place for students to turn in assignments online.

This website allows you to take elements from three different flags and combine them into something new. Have the students research the flags and the symbolism that they contain. Then they will have the opportunity to explain the significance of those flags as their own symbols.

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.

Timeline generator that lets you visualize pictures, text and sound. Great for the history classroom.