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.

A new site for educators, TeacherTube, takes the sharing, production, and community-building aspects of YouTube and offers an educator's version. According to TeacherTube's founders, "We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners."

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!

Robin introduced us to this online library of datafiles and stories that illustrate the use of basic statistics methods. It is easiest to search stories by topic, access the relevant datafile, and then copy and paste the data into a statistics program.

The Education hub at BrightHub.com offers informational articles and quality discussions about the many facets of the educational process, including the technology and policies affecting today's schools and universities. Technology is a hot topic on this site, bringing learning out of the classroom. I particularly appreciate the lessons on helping students study, take notes, and get organized so they can succeed in school. The classroom management conversations are great, too!

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.

Totally Teacher is a free service, dedicated to teacher "hook-ups" - ranging from exclusive teacher discounts, advice and more. Some of the discounts I found most exciting were listed at Barnes and Noble, FedEx, Apple store, AT&T, plus trips and hotel discounts.

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.

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!

Here you'll find a list of 50 ways to make more eco-conscious choices in your classroom. Many of the suggestions given are quite simple but make a real difference toward saving our planet.

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.