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This site from the National Endowment for the Humanities is a rich resource for materials and lesson plans in History and Social Studies, The Arts, Civics and Government , and Literature and Language Arts.

The Seattle Art Museum offers an extensive outreach program to King County schools, with traditional museum field trips, along with art workshops, classroom presentations, and a multitude of classroom materials for teachers to borrow and use in their classrooms. Of particular interest are the "suitcases" of various art and resource materials, which cover a wide variety of topics and can be checked out by teachers.

This excellently maintained blog has tons of great art ideas for teachers. Each project is tagged or labeled. The labels also include famous artists, grade bands, holidays, and specific art tools or medium. If you need to find a lesson idea in a flash - this is the place to come

Lots of lesson ideas for language arts, including web-based activities.

Teachers' Domain is a free digital media service for educational use from public broadcasting and its partners. You'll find thousands of media resources, support materials, and tools for classroom lessons, individualized learning programs, and teacher professional learning communities.

BrainPOP is one of my favorite website for engaging students and supporting educators. The authors have created animated, curriculum-based content Flash-based movies, quizzes, experiments, timelines, activity pages, and much more covering hundreds of topics within Math, Science, Social Studies, English, Technology, Arts & Music, and Health. All of the content is aligned with state standards. BrainPOP is accessible entirely online; there's no software to install or download. You can use BrainPOP's resources with PCs, Macs, projectors, or interactive whiteboards. Check out the BrainPOP for educators' site full of useful teachers' resources: Lesson plans, academic standards, curriculum calendar, blogging and so much more! FYI, there's also a free BrainPOP app for your iTouch or iPhone.

This website developed by Matt Buchanan focuses on concrete applications of drama/acting in an educational context. Among many items, Mr. Buchanan offers lesson plans, plays for specific grade levels, and some good insights into grading criteria in an arts curriculum. He suggests that students select specific areas they wish to improve upon when working in the arts, and then be evaluated based on their progress in self selected areas. Mr. Buchanan's professional background is in set and lighting design.

This interactive writing site by Jenny Eather explains the types of text commonly written in schools with printable organizers and examples showing text structures, grammatical features and publishing ideas. It includes Word downloads to templates for helping students write reports, essays, e-mails, invitations, news articles, poetry, and more.

Create your own interactive stories, music, games, and art. My teacher had 5th grade students create interactive stories based on their research papers on Explorers. It was a great way for them to incorporate the facts they had learned into a technology display.

See the Script Library for a complete list of Readers Theater options created by Rosalind Flynn.

This website has links to many teacher resources. It has practical, teacher-created ideas and resources that you can use in your classroom immediately. Including lesson plans, ideas on how to hold classroom meetings, art lessons, holiday celebration ideas, and much more.