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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 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.

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.

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.

Celestia is the most powerful and easy to use 3D space simulation programs - and it's free! There are so many possibilities for using this in the classroom. Celestia is like a Google Earth for outer space. You can travel around the planets, moons, asteroids, and entire galaxy as well as zooming in on celestial bodies and orbiting them.

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

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

This website has helpful ideas/lessons for teaching the 6 Traits of writing: Organization, Ideas, Word Choice, Sentence Fluency, Voice, and Conventions. It is a collaborative site created by educators in Nevada.

An anotated list of helpful websites and tools for educators.

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.

Prezi is a tool that allows you to create movable presentations. You can sign up for an account with your edu email address and create accounts for your students. This particular site is a list of some educational prezis that you can view and use in your own classroom. Consider using prezi instead of powerpoint.

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

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.

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.

Thought provoking blog that constantly seeks to reflect, clarify and expand the idea of real life applications in lessons. I aspire to the high standards established by the teachers who contribute to the blog.

This is an awesome reference for multi cultural children's books. We all want to be inclusive and respectful of the cultures and races we encounter in our classroom. This blog site can provide a filter to sift through the enormous amount of material available and steer you to the best of children's literature. Emphasis is on the Eastern hemisphere.

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.

Tremendous resource for Washington State History. The site has creative lesson plans to offer teachers, curriculum enrichment materials and field trip information for the museum located in downtown Seattle.

National Geographic has put together an interactive site that manages to convey both the tone and a great deal of information about slavery and the Underground Railroad. Students can enter and make choices about which paths they wish to follow along the Railroad. The site is visually creative and engaging.