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This is the computer resource specifically for 1st graders. Students are directed to this site and then roam the activities they like the best or the ones I feel they need the most practice on. The Everyday Math website has games specific for each grade level.

I stumbled upon this site by chance and just love it! It has links to dozens of sites that provide practice in many different areas of reading, writing/grammar, math, science and social studies. I could easily incorporate many of the reading and writing/grammar links, especially the phonics, sight words, and spelling sites into my "word work" literacy station.

This is a wonderful site for students to use with multimedia presentations. It offers royalty-free music that can legally be used by our students for public presentation. The music is actually of high-quality and is abundant. This site further lends itself to the discussion of what can legally be used.

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.

I like this website because although it doesn't specifically offer Family and Consumer Ed. curriculum lesson plans; I am excited to try "Architects in Action" This lesson will not only help build my Careers Unit but also be a catlyst for adding cross-curricular activities in Family and Consumer Ed.

We used United Streaming at a previous school district I worked at. There were some great video resources. It was pretty expensive, but well used. I do however think that there are so many free sites out there that we can find some great information and videos to enhance our curriculums as well.

Good source to find video to use as an advanced organizer. I wish I had used this last Monday to show students video of Sonoran Wildlife before we read a selection set in the desert.

This site allows students to design a bridge based on various distances. students get to choose ideal bridge design for most economical results. students are judge on solving the problem for the least amount of money.

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.

Photo Course is a great resource for photography. It covers many subjects and has interactive images and examples for beggining photography units. shows good examples and helps with understanding how a camera works before the student uses the camera.

This site hosts contests for users in various catagories. We utilize the photoshop contests to challenge the students on new creative projects. The site has many different catagories so it allows students many choices and options so they can choose something they are interested in. I mostly utilize this with independant study students; have them choose a catagory and it has a deadline to submit final work, and then i evaluate based on the tools and techniques they utilized.

This site has materials useful for learning about genetics, traits, and cells, and microscopes.  There are materials at elementary, middle, and high school levels.

Edhelper.com has a lot of very good literature units for almost any popular novel that is studied in school. Earlier in the year in reading my students read The City of Ember and I was able to find the literature unit on Edhelper. Within the unit you can customize pretty much everything from vocabulary lists to crossword puzzles to even quizzes. You can also choose how much or how little you want to include in the unit. I find that these worksheets make nice comprehension reviews for students. One downfall to Edhelper is that you do need a membership but I do find that it is worth it.

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.

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.

This site was created by GE to teach students about the science, technology, math, and history of light. This would work very well in our science unit about heat and light. There are areas that students can read about light, hands on activities, and experiments. For my second graders, many of the readings would need to be done together, but there are also some interactive timelines and animations that students could check out on their own. The hands on activities and experiments would also be fun to bring in to the classroom, and are probably what I would use the most. The only downfall of this site is that the link to the "school lighting challenge" is currently not working. I'd be interested in checking this out if it gets up and running.

nice site to reference from, we cover light in media when we introduce cameras, so its nice to have some visuals as well

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A great word puzzle activity page. There are hundreds of rebus puzzles on this site. Students can check to see if they have gotten the correct answer simply by using a pulldown bar. It can helps students use word and picture clues to enhance critical thinking.

This a great site that allows users to create multimedia presentations that include pictures, text, and music.

This is a pretty cool website. It is a nice change from using Microsoft Office all the time. Different is good.

A plethora of images to be added to presentations or documents--free and legal!

This is a nice way to get a picture or image suitable for a specific topic and not have to worry about copyright infringement.

Greg, I will use this to make my rubrics kid friendly!

A great place to go for affordable books.

I've used this site before and was very pleased with the speed of shipping!

A great alternative to Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Borders.