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This rather large (112 pages) .pdf is a unit on cells that also serves as a very good introduction to the microscope.  It compares well to similar AIMS units.

The whole Cells Alive site looks pretty good, if you teach about cells.  This section has interactive cell models that allow students to practice and review identifying organelles and other cell structures.

great resource for teachers and students for how things work for just about every topic/subject. all information is up-to date and many photos are included.

Free photo editing, the students love it. You can subscribe and have more options.

It's pretty cool how much this site has to offer for free! You can really make pictures look amazing!

This is way easier to use than Microsoft Paint! That program is a pain to do anything in. This program makes everything seem pretty easy.

This is a website that allows you to add up to six events to a timeline, which can be a great way for students to organize and make sense of materials, especially in a book with a confusing plot.

This site really makes it quick and easy to create a timeline with both dates and descriptions. I plan to utilize this site for reviewing a few social studies units. As we are studying the Constitution, I have students record in their notes a list of major events in chronological order. They might actually enjoy creating a timeline using this site and printing out the results.

This timeline seems pretty simple and easy to use. I think that I could use it in my new Music Appreciation class that I'm teaching next year. It would really help students with remembering composers/artists dates.

This is a great website where you can download audiobooks to a computer. They then can be transferred to an MP3 player for listening. I have done this for sections of books that we have read in class. All you need is a public library card

How neat! I could use this in my class listening center. It'd be especially helpful for my struggling readers. Thanks for sharing!

A great resource similar to Amazon for reading book reviews and downloading the digital version of good books.

This is a free resource for students and staff that allows them to input the bibliographic information from the resources they have used and it will create the citation for them. Users are able to choose MLA or APA styles, which will help both our students here and adults who may be taking graduate level courses.

I am personally looking forward to using this site for research papers. Thank you for sharing!

I agree with Sarah...very glad to know about this as we gear up for next year!

This site has many great graphic organizers to use with students to help organize information.

I like that the site specifies which skills are being targeted and grade level appropriateness for each worksheet and graphic organizer.

Playmusic.org was developed by the League of American Orchestras and allows students to meet and hear living musicians and composers and play numerous exciting games that build musical skills! My students love (and get addicted) to playing the ear training percussion memory game!

Help students find music and easily find information about each song and artist.

ITunes are also very compatible with the Smartmusic software that our school uses (unlike our PC's).

This site has many ideas for teachers teaching anything with music. It has lesson ideas, charts, and fun activities for students to do while learning about music.

I like that this site regularly features different composers. I also found some valuable info. on this site (rhyming dictionary) that I will use in my upcoming composition unit!

TED is a nonprofit website intended to "spread knowledge and information from the world's most inspired thinkers." TED contains information on a wide variety or topics. Particularly valuable are video presentations from experts in so many areas.

"Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world!" Ted.com features thousands of short videos of people talking about topics such as technology, entertainment, business, science, global issues, etc. The videos are organized in several ways such as by newest release, date filmed, most comments in a week, most persuasive, funny, and much more! You can also participate in live question/answer discussions with some of the speakers and join ongoing blog conversations with people around the world on important topics related to the videos. I just showed my students a talk by a famous composer who directed a virtual choir and they were very inspired!

Splash Notes is software designed for outlining and organizing projects, tasks, meetings, and ideas. It has the capability to turn outlines into checklists and attach drawings and notes to outlines. It also has a custom UI to allow non-stop entry of new bullet pts. into outline. The software does cost $9.95 but has a free trial download and a 60 day money back guarantee.

Great article about Essential Questions. Author also includes links to other "essential question" resources. I appreciate these technologies that support cues, questions, and advanced organizers which assist me with gathering and organizing students' responses into useful information quickly

NoteStar works a lot like Google docs in that studetns are able to collect and organize their notes, but has an added feature of preparing the students bibliography page for them.

I do like the added feature of this site to help create the bibliography. No matter how many times you go over bibliographies, they are always a pain for students. This helps alleviate some of that pain.

Glogster is a way for students to make interactive posters. Creating a Glog is a great nonlinguistic representation of information for students. Music, video, photos and text can all be added to the Glogs. Finding a song, video or photo to represent the information in the students' Glog, is a great way to help the students better understand the topic and teach their peers about the topic as well. Students can view others' Glogs in their classes and make comments on them. Teachers can also set up the glogs so that students can collaborate on them as well.

My favorite part of this site is the ability for students to give feedback to each other. I think that building collaborative learning groups with students is a very good thing. Plus, students do think that it's pretty cool.

You can do an advanced search on Google images to find public domain and creative commons that students are free to share and reuse.

I'm actually making a very conscious effort to make sure that our students do understand that not everything on the internet is "free" to be used as they see fit. This can be a very solid tool.

10 million downloadable images available by subscription.

Great resource for students to find images to help enhance their work.

Clip art is great for my 6th graders because it is easy for them to search in the different categories as opposed to searching Google images.

This is a website that offers differentiated spelling lists for students. What is really cool about the website is that it has different skill activities that are very nonlinguistic and helps students make connections and applications with the spelling words.

This does have a lot of good activities. It took me a while to figure that a lot of the bold words were links.

Moodle is a wonderful tool for teachers to give students the experience of working in an on-line classroom environment, since they will most likely be taking some classes in that format in the future. Moodle is a great way to get links out to students, have them work through some topics and then have them take a quiz within Moodle. Students really enjoy the imediate results of taking a quiz in Moodle. It takes a bit on the teacher's end to get things set up, but is well worth it when it comes to assessment.

I have yet to use Moodle, but I know that it is a great way for students to have conversations and comment on assignments. I'm sure that it's a great tool, and I'd love to use it in the future. The one question I have about using it is, what do you do with the students who don't have internet access at home? I didn't know that you could take quizzes in Moodle as well! I wonder how much set up it takes in terms of time on the teacher's end?

I also like the you can imbed videos in moodle. This a great way to show a video clip and then have students discuss the video online.