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This is a huge collection of online tools that both you and your students can use. It categorizes the tools for you so you can search easier. All in all, a great tool for classroom use!

A web site with a multitude of science tools separated by appropriate grades. There are too many tools to describe, but they cover all the areas of science, and all have huge potential in the classroom.

I would use this tool in my math classes for all kinds of calculations. Students can use calculators, learn probability, and calculate interest. While the website would be helpful for students, it would also be very helpful (and fit perfectly) with the math curriculum.

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.

"New teacher survival central" contains a section called Tech Tools for Teachers, new teacher blogs, classroom tools, curriculum resources, and tutorials, training and development. A new teacher could spend a lot of time here, looking for help with a specific area or just perusing everything that is available.

Hundreds of resources and references for use in the classroom. All tools are categorized by use.

Here is a great tool for chemistry it allows chem students to check their homework at home and know they got it right, before class

Click and drag videos or portions of videos from YouTube to mash them together. Could be a useful tool for putting together clips when not the whole video is needed.

This site was loaded with stuff for all levels Pre K - 12. The site featured tabs at the top of the page as well as the side for easy clicking. With tools focusing on Assessments, Tech Tutorials, K-12 Links and Daily Dose of the Web, there were a ton of references and tools for all teachers. You can also sign up for their newsletter on this site. The most appealing thing to me was the simple nature of the site, very easy to navigate. There were some ads, however, they were very toned down and easy to avoid if you wanted. Provided by Google, they were not obnoxious.

Excellent hands-on tool to put formulas and layout of a spread sheet for Excel versions 2003 to 2010. Helpful when covering in high school personal finance.

Lots of infromation about all diffrent types of music. Lot of links to help you find tons of diffrent tool to be used in the classroom.

This site has online math tools for several different types of calculators and converters.

This virtual tool helps beginning geologist identify a number of minerals, igneous rock, metamorphic rock and sedimentary rock.

University of Iowa has a great section on phonetics (you may also select English or German) which includes animated graphics that show what your mouth should be doing for each sound. Also has short video of a native speaker pronouncing each letter of the alphabet and using it in words. Excellent tool for foreign language teachers.

Triptico offers many different activities for reading, math, science, and classroom management. Everything is free. The tools on this site are particularly useful with an interactive white board.

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.

This tool will help you think about objectives in terms of Bloom's Taxonomy.

Interesting alternative to LiveBinders. Knotebook allows you to pull in content from all over the web into an online sort of customized website that contains only the information you want. Could be a useful tool worth exploring.

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.

An interactive tool that shows the immense scale of the universe, both big and small. You drag a bar a the bottom. Go all the way to the left and it shows the smallest things known to man. Begin going right and it shows objects getting larger all the way up to the predicted size of the whole universe.