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"Discussion Questions, Writing Assignments, and Student Activities for Character Education and Life Skills. "

Website that shows how to form lower case letters with animation. Great for teaching handwriting.

A nice site where you can type and it writes in cursive or manuscript.. allows you to create practice worksheets for students or items that can easily be captured to use on the IWB.

Here are the 100 most beautiful words in English. How do we know? Dr. Goodword (Dr. Robert Beard, known as Dr. Language at yourDictionary.com for five years) has been defining words for 30 years. Since the year 2000, he has been writing a daily word sent our as the Word of the Day at yourDictionary and as the Good Word at alphaDictionary.

Help your students children classify ideas and communicate more effectively. Use graphic organizers to structure writing projects, to help in problem solving, decision making, studying, planning research and brainstorming. Select a Graphic Organizer from the following list of links.

Got a research paper or thesis to write? Want to research using the Internet? Good luck. There's a lot of junk out there - outdated pages, broken links, and inaccurate information. Using Google or the Wikipedia may lead you to some results, but you can rarely be sure of accuracy. And what's more, you'll only be searching a fraction of all of the resources available to you.

You can create your own stories with the historic tale construction kit. With rich text and many categorized pictures, you are able to design and direct them beautifully. You can create as many frames as you want. It is like writing your very own comic strip. You can send it as an ecard or submit it to the gallery.

Our collection of Google Earth tours grows by the day, with many contributors adding theirs. All the sights of the world are now at your fingertips right here! * Rate each tour - let everyone know which ones are hot and which are not! * Check out the Hints and Tips page for ideas about creating amazing tours. * If you have improvements or corrections for a tour, you can follow the Upload new version link on each tour page to send your updated one to us! * Two write-ups about GoogleTouring, on hegnar.no and Frankwatching.

MathCast is an equation editor, an application that allows you to input mathematical equations. These equations can be used in written documents, webpages, and even databases. They could be rendered graphically to the screen, to picture files, or to MathML - today�s leading standard language for describing mathematics. MathCast can be used freely by anyone: students can create equation sheets to help them in their studies, educators can write handouts or study guides, webmasters can add mathematics to their website, and the list goes on and on.

A great site for self-contained trips, complete with worksheets, interactive-flash "visits", and the opportunity to chat or write questions to a real expert.

zWebquest is a web-based software for creating WebQuests in a short time. When you use zWebquest, you will not need any of writing HTML code or using any web editor software. zWebquest creates all the necessary files and puts them on the server automatically. Hosting is FREE!

"Want the quick and dirty on Web 2.0 tools? Do you need help getting started with the Read/Write Web? The 5 answers these questions and features five main ideas educators should know about a variety of technology integration tools, focusing particularly on Web 2.0 resources."

"A Year 1 teacher uses animals to help children to become aware of stages in the story-writing process."

Free printable worksheets for teachers Remember that moment when you thought 'Oh gosh, the lesson is in 5 minutes, what am I gonna do?' Well, we're here to help! Welcome to BusyTeacher.org - the right place to find lesson materials when you need them! We all know that sometimes even the best teachers have moments when they need a quick warmer or a nice short fun activity to match the lesson plan. If you're a teacher (and we know you are!), you've been there. 'BusyTeacher' is a website that helps you find something for your lesson quickly and easily. 'BusyTeacher' is a place where teachers share their worksheets with colleagues for free - just to make the world a better place! Our collection of free printable worksheets has been carefully sorted into the following categories for your convenience: Grammar, Vocabulary, Speaking, Reading, Listening, Writing, Pronunciation, and Teaching Ideas.

" This collection of ready-to-use graphic organizers will help children classify ideas and communicate more effectively. All of our free, printable graphic organizers are designed to facilitate understanding of key concepts by allowing students to visually identify key points and ideas. By using graphic organizers across all subject areas, you will be empowering your students to master subject-matter faster and more efficiently. We have graphic organizers for reading, science, writing, math, and for general use. You'll also find blank printable templates like graph paper, dot arrays, and other useful tools. "

"Can the technology often derided as the favored tool of lowbrow cyber rogues actually be used to improve student writing? Educators are beginning to demonstrate it can."

"Zunal WebQuest Maker is a web-based software for creating WebQuests in a short time without writing any HTML codes. "

There are a variety of different kindergarten activities to do mixed throughout these worksheets. Learning and fun are the key ingredients to a successful worksheet. The free activities are all original and unique to this website. Choose from over forty categories of kindergarten printables. Kids and students will enjoy the worksheets for days. The math section includes addition, subtraction, counting, fraction, place value, graphs, measurement, pattern words, and numbers activities. The English section includes reading, alphabet, writing, phonics, vocabulary, sight words, opposites, rhyming words, and spelling activities. The general learning section includes science, Spanish, social studies, dinosaur, health, zoo, language, butterfly, and coloring activities. The last section is our holiday group. This includes Easter, Christmas, summer, winter, spring, fall, Thanksgiving, and Halloween activities.

"Here are 5 reasons why we are making student blogging and portfolio development a high priority." Great blog post highlighting the reasons why you would do eportfolios with students.