This site has ready and useable lesson plans of limitless variety ready and avaiable for free for classroom use. Many are linked to standards and have assessment built in. Some need to be reworked to the type of lesson plans our cohort is used to creating. For sure a great website for lesson ideas. All content areas are included in this full library of lesson plans and acitivities.

This website is compiled by public librarians and has links to resources and information of almost limitless variety that have all been checked and approved as "Information you can trust." This could be a research tool appropriate for classroom use depending on the age and ability of your students.

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.

A website with competitvely priced new and used books for sale. All proceeds go to support literacy effort across the globe. Monies also support libraries. This is a completely transparent company that is dedicated to building a literate world culture.

A vehicle for information evaluation that helps students determine information relevancy,appropriateness, detail, currency, authority, and bias. It contains a rubric for information evaluation that allows students to determine the usefulness and reliabilty of a resource.

This video collection is a tutorial on how to use Smart Board Technolgy. It begins with the basics and moves through the advanced features in later tutorials. Not all tuturials have been posted at this time as it is posted to periodically as it is just now being compiled. These tutorials will help teachers use SmartBoard Technology when it is available in their classrooms. Many district classrooms have this technology available at a price tag of nearly $20,000 each I think we should try to use it whenever it will enhance the learnign experience. We will not be trained to use this technology by the district so it isu to you to learn how to use it. These videos make this possible at no cost. There are also workshops periodically in your district put on by the distributors of the SmartBoards. These are few toall community members and the times and locations are posted on district websites.

Discussion of the contributions of schooling and the broader community in the education of the members of a democratic society. A forum for sharing experiences of some teachers, professors, and administrators as they developed their commitment to helping all children learn to be effective members of a democratic society.

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.

This booklist compiles the best non-fiction books of 2010. Most of the books are appropriate for late elementary and above reading ability. Compiled by school librarians it is a great resource that can be used with public school students without needing to be revised or edited for appropriate content. A good useable booklist compiled by educators. Excellent.

This is a link to a booklist of award winning non-fiction books. The books on this list have received an Award for Excellence by the Young Adult Library Servoces Association or YALSA. The books are appropriate for late elementary and above reading ability.