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This website of the Southern Poverty Law Center offers articles, lessons, and classroom activity ideas as well as teacher professional development resources to teach tolerance. It has well developed resources to address issues regarding bullying (including through technology) and teaching diverse students in our schools.

A helpful resource for early literacy instruction. This site has downloadable PDF instructions for Student Center Activities that involve phonics, phonemic awareness, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Created by the Florida Center for Reading Research.

This Civic Education portion of the website of the Washington State Legislature provides information about teacher training about the legislative process, information about Capitol tours, and lesson plans and activities for students to learn about the State and the legislative process.

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

This website is a great resource for science lesson plans, including web-based research and interactive activities.

This site contains seemingly endless lesson plans that rely on websites for research or other interactive activities.

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 site is a collection of all the activities and ideas one teacher has collected over the past five years, available for your use. This site is totally free to use, and I'll keep it that way. I have various amazon.com ads throughout the site for items, but it's not about making money. I had pictures of the items there anyhow, and this will take you directly to a page where you can buy it. I've also created an on-line store where you can find thousands of used classroom materials for up to 90% off retail-all banner ads will take you directly to Sprout Classrooms for browsing!! All PDFs were either created by me or obtained through teacher magazines, sites that allow free downloads for teachers and classrooms, or admired teacher whose ideas are given full credit. I have tried to prevent the problem of 'dead links' by pasting website information in word documents for perusal with the link at the top. This way if the original site is ever taken down, we have preserved the information for all-time.

Xpeditions is home to the U.S. National Geography Standards-and to thousands of ideas, tools, and interactive adventures that bring them to life. You'll enjoy the detailed maps made for printing and copying, a complete listing of geography standards, as well as lesson plans and an interactive learning museum called the Xpedition Hall.

Referred to us by Tony, this site helps teachers and parents search for appropriate reading level, grade level, and interest level books. The student activities and lesson plans on this site are a bonus!

This is a super resource for your students! The Maths Dictionary for Kids by Jenny Eather is an animated, interactive online math dictionary for students which explains over 600 common mathematical terms and math words in simple language. The dictionary contains examples, activities, practice and calculators for anything from abacus to magic square to zero. You won't be sorry you checked this out!

Early Literacy instruction and phonemic awareness activities and games for students. Probably most usefull for K-2 grade.

This link is taking you to the Math section, but on the left side is a complete listing of teaching ideas for other subjects. Note, these are NOT fleshed out lesson plans, these are ideas for lessons, games, and activities. Each idea is leveled for grade(s).

Dynamic Paper is part of the Illuminations-NCTM site. This cool tool is described as "Need a pentagonal pyramid that's six inches tall? Or a number line that goes from ‑18 to 32 by 5's? Or a set of pattern blocks where all shapes have one-inch sides? You can create all those things and more with the Dynamic Paper tool. Place the images you want, then export it as a PDF activity sheet for your students or as a JPEG image for use in other applications or on the web."

Author Kelley O'Rourke offers specific lesson plans for the implementation of theatre games to augment curriculum at the elementary level. Her objectives and lessons are well delineated and age appropriate, and are designed for teachers with little or no previous drama experience. The activities are very clearly presented.