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Learn how to create student accounts tied to ONE google mail account owned by the teacher. Great for Elementary schools!

"Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, criss-cross, math puzzles, and more-using your own word lists."

"With the advent of the World Wide Web and the huge amount of information that is contained there, students need to be able to critically evaluate a Web page for authenticity, applicability, authorship, bias, and usability. The ability to critically evaluate information is an important skill in this information age. To help you get started with this process with your students, I have designed a series of evaluation surveys, one each at the elementary, middle, and secondary school levels. The elementary, middle, and secondary surveys have been re-designed and updated in February of 2009. The virtual tour, blog, podcast, and teacher site evaluations have been added since 2005 and updated in 2009."

"This year marks the tenth anniversary of September 11th, 2001. Discovery Education is committed to teaching today's students about the communities, the stories, and the resiliency represented by Americans most impacted by the tragic events of that day. Join us as we engage students the world over with curricular content, lesson plans, and webcasts presented in partnership with Tribute WTC Visitor Center."

Professional Development Make the most of Discovery Education content with these tools and resources.

Discovery Education Back to School Release 2009 - What's New - 9 page pdf - LOTS of good stuff!

An awesome collection of rubrics by Kathy Schrock at Discovery Education.

Now that we are using the Internet in the classroom to support instruction, it is important the area of assessment be addressed. One usable method for teachers is to provide a rubric for student use and for both formative and summative assessment purposes. Another is to provide some type of graphic organizer. Below you will find a collection of assessment rubrics and graphic organizers that may be helpful to you as you design your own. Let me know if you have one you would like to share! A book dealing with both the theoretical and practical design of rubrics is the ASCD publication, Assessing Student Outcomes: Performance Assessment Using the Dimensions of Learning Model.

Links to pages with resources for different languages (French, German, Arabic, Greek, Latin, Portuguese and Spanish)

Discovery Education STEM Academy Wiki website