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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.

This is a Washington state level site listing contacts at the state level regarding finding jobs, and also links to the National Center for Education Statistics.

A site devoted to food allergies can be a valuable resource for a classroom teacher. You should expect to encounter students with severe allergies under your care. This site gives reliable information and advice to keep students safe. It is much better to be prepared and never need to respond than be caught off guard. Anaphylactic reactions sometimes occur within a few minutes of exposure and require immediate treatment. The site covers a variety of food allergies

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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.

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."

An extensive listing of lesson plans on a myriad of topics. Sorted by year they were created for some reason, and not sortable, but a nice collection of lessons plans.

Teaching science? This site describes the software applications Vernier creates to help teachers and students "see" what is really happening with gravity, parabolas, progressions, etc.

In one of our classes we watched a video of the amazing Mrs. Toliver teaching math. This site has more information about her and the ways she found to make school great every day she taught.

Great site (thanks Robin!) for asking your students to explore graphs populated with real world data. Amazing number of categories to explore and compare with each other to find correlations. Even more amazing is the "PLAY" button that shows your chosen relationships as they have changed over time.

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.