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This has great resources that I can use in my elementary art classes.

Discover an endless library of free books, picture books, & poetry or use simple tools to create books in minutes. Storybird is a creative community where readers & writers celebrate storytelling. You can set up classrooms and manage what your students are doing by creating assignments. You can make a classroom library where they make their own stories and can be read by other students. On checkout days my students have a hard time sitting there and reading, I don't mind because I know they have to do things like this in class all day long! I let them go on their storybird account if they would like, they can read what their classmates have wrote or they can make a new story.

Graphic Orgainzers to create a story map for prewriting or postwriting. Interactive for grades 2-5 They include character, setting, conflict and resolution. Flash required.

Share with 1st & 2nd Grade teachers: Read Shel Silverstein's sick aloud, summarize poem, count words in summary, then summarize poem again using 1 word, explaining choice.

Share with 1st & 2nd Grade teachers: Read Shel Silverstein's sick aloud, summarize poem, count words in summary, then summarize poem again using 1 word, explaining choice.

Stories for Students from past issues of "Beyond Penguins & Polar Bears" to print and use with students in K-1, 2-3, 4-5 in text only, illustrated book, and electronic book formats

Stories for Students from past issues of "Beyond Penguins & Polar Bears" to print and use with students in K-1, 2-3, 4-5 in text only, illustrated book, and electronic book formats

Stories for Students from past issues of "Beyond Penguins & Polar Bears" to print and use with students in K-1, 2-3, 4-5 in text only, illustrated book, and electronic book formats. Share with 2nd grade teachers for use with their Antarctica/polar animals unit!!!

Awesome collection of tools, organized into categories for easy use: Organization & Collaboration, Search Engines & Directories, Google, Templates & Lesson Plans, Research & Reference, Games, Reading & Writing, Math & Science, Arts, History & Social Studies, Online Libraries, Activities.  Share with staff for use in classrooms

This would be great for students who have an interest in these topics. I am thinking students in smaller school district that don't have electives in these areas. I would share this with high school teachers and maybe even school counselors so they can direct students to learning in their subject area. I want to take the craft course. : - )

PowToon4everySchool Welcome To The Intersection of Technology and Creativity for Teachers & Students There's nothing more engaging than seeing your teacher walk into class as a cartoon. So, to start off the school year let's make your students' jaws drop with our custom designed "Teacher Introduction" template! Or even better, why not cartoonify yourself into a "mini me". All you need is a picture of yourself and a great sense of humor. As an added treat, you can flip your classroom and have each of your students create their very own video greetings, which will really ignite their creativity, and set an exciting tone for the school year! To get started you simply have to claim your FREE classroom account, which includes 1 teacher account + 60 student accounts. We're giving away $10 Million worth of these accounts to ignite creativity all over the world, so don't miss your chance to claim yours!

This resources has educational material in small modules. There are free textbooks that are licensed under creative commons.

Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 - November 8, 1978) was an American illustrator and painter of the 20th-century. His works are famous. Great to discuss his paintings but to discuss details and historical moment. Then, can you tell the story just from the picture

This would be a great video to share with staff who are considering online learning for their classroom.

There are additional videos in this series that talk about how to choose software, how to created customized software, and resources that are available.

Learn programming with a multiplayer live coding strategy game for beginners. Learn Python or JavaScript as you defeat ogres, solve mazes, and level up. Open source HTML5 game!

Tynker makes it fun and easy to learn computer programming. Get started today with Tynker's easy-to-learn, visual programming course designed for young learners in 4th through 8th grades.