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This website has rich informational resources and well as lesson plans and other resources specifically designed for teachers to use in their classrooms.

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.

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

This extensive document collection can be used as the take-off point for lessons in almost any discipline. The site provides great teacher resources for teaching with primary source documents, including lesson plans.

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.

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 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.

This website page offers a great idea: the inclusion of "prop" bag in the classroom to serve improvisation and theatre games. The suggestions for the bag are very resourceful and suggest all sorts of applications for creativity. This is a really good resource!

This website has unlimited resources for just about anything you could want related to science. There are ideas for science fair projects, science experiment ideas, answers to science questions, links to careers in science, and links for students, parents, and educators. This site is fun and informative.

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.

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!

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.