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Students and educators may explore and experience unique space and aeronautics content. This site is great for science project ideas for K-12.

This is Apple's Education website. Apple details all of their products available for use in the classroom. The site also discusses how their products could be utilized in the classroom. There is also a link at the bottom for more information on how Apple products can be utilized to positively impact learning for special needs students.

Although this websites title is Family Education, it a great place to find creative and fun ideas for classroom activities and parties.

Great educational resource for teachers. * Ability to create easy and fun word searches in minutes.

A teacher resource site that provides information for each subject and has educational games for students to play.

Great website to create a classroom blog.

This blog can be used for educational blogging. It can be used to facilitate discussions, replace paper newsletter, help students start blogging, create publication in school and to post podcasts and documents.

The website's introduction is pretty funny to watch. Here you can upload any picture and select the mouth, add audio and then watch the picture talk. At first I was not so sure of the educational benefit and thought that it was just for entertainment. However, if a student is doing a report on a president they could take an image of that president and make him "talk" as an introduction. I think that this could be a creative educational tool after all.

Skype in the classroom is a free directory for educators who want to use Skype to bring education to life in their classrooms. Join today to share resources, chat with teachers and even pair classes.

According to the authors, "this guide was written especially for educators, who want to teach 21st century skills, such as collaborating, communicating, and connecting, through digital storytelling." I haven't read it yet, but it looks like it is interesting and I look forward to reading it. The book costs $8.50, but can be downloaded for free.

Great online resource: "Fact Monster is a free reference site for students, teachers, and parents. Get homework help and find facts on thousands of subjects, including sports, entertainment, geography, history, biography, education, and health."

"This website is maintained for educators interested in the effective use of technology in the classroom."

Apply for grants, sign up for training and other professional development, and find links to other resources relevant to teaching in WA State.

This is a site of user generated, unofficial world records. It provides a fantastic context, complete with images, for teaching grammar points such as comparatives and superlatives. Because it wasn't designed for educational purposes, content to be used in class should be evaluated for appropriateness before hand.

This site offers free teaching resources and lesson plans from the federal government.

A subscription based educational video tool covering all elementary content areas. In the words of my eight year old son . . . Gaaaaaaames!!!!! With a high level of engagement and deep content he doesn't realize he is actually learning.

Educational, interactive movies covering many subjects for students in K-8. They include games and quizzes. Each movie has a list of the key concepts it covers. The movies I previewed were animated and narrated by a choppy sounding voice like it was computer generated. Free.