Spelling City This site offers students a place to learn and practice their spelling words.
	Tools for Reading, Writing, and Thinking  This site provides tools "to help students engage in rigorous thinking, organize complex ideas, and scaffold their interactions with texts."  Tons of wonderful graphic organizers organized in a way that is easy for teachers to find the right tool.
	Key Pal Exchange Help  Our own Patti Weeg has a fantastic site with millions of resources.  This particular link will provide you with all the information you need to have a successful key pal exchange.  (We used to call them pen pals back in the day, but since there are no pens involved anymore . . . the name has changed to be more appropriate.)
	Kim's Korner is a wonderful resource for teachers looking for ideas for teaching writing.
	RhymeZone is a cool site that allows users to type in their word and get a list of rhyming words.  A great tool for teachers and students!  Quizzes, quotations, puzzles, and games are also features of this site.
	Education Oasis provides ideas, tips, and techniques as well as lesson plans, graphic organizers, and assessment tools.

	Fraction Pizza Party
	Fractions Students look at a divided circle and name the fraction of the circle that is shaded.
	Pattern Blocks  This site is so much fun!  Virtual pattern blocks that students can move and manipulate!  You could use it with the whole class with an LCD projector, and then take them to the lab to work!
	Illuminations This site has a virtual scale that allows users to balance equations!  Lesson ideas and standards are included.
	Links Learning is a cool site with short videos on math concepts and reading!
	Cut the Knot is a gigantic site of tons of interactive math activities.  Take a look!
	CoolMath4Kids  is a wonderful site that includes many innovative and motivating mathematic games including Lemonade Stand.  The Lemonade Stand is a game that teaches economics skills to learners of all ages.  Players have to run a lemonade stand taking into account weather, consumer satisfaction, and supply and demand.  Players get to choose how much to charge for their lemonade, how much to spend on inventory, and make other business decisions.  Good luck running your lemonade stand!
	Our own Carla Hurchalla and Patti Weeg have provided an excellent resource for templates to use to teach mathematics concepts using Excel.  This is a must see site for anyone who is looking to use technology to teach mathematics!
	Looking for a great interactive web site to have your students manipulate tangrams with?  Well, look no further!  Here it is.  The Principals and Standards for School Mathematics site enables students to work with virtual tangrams!
	Teach R Kids is a site that provides math activities.  Some of the activities utilize the computer to practice basic skills.  Others are teacher directed activities.

 

	I know we have all heard of You Tube.  We can debate the merits versus the drawbacks of You Tube and lament over the fact that it is a blocked site.  While we wait for it to be unblocked, we can utilize Teacher Tube!  Teacher Tube is a valuable resource for teachers with millions of videos on a wide range of subjects.
	Here is a serious site for the educator looking for a place to share valuable information with other educators.  What a great place!  It is called the Education Forum.  It is well organized and easy to navigate.  If you are looking for a place to collaborate with other educators, this is it!
	Ask 500 people is a site that polls random people who happen to be on-line.  What a valuable resource for gathering data with your students.
	Game Templates This site is a fantastic resource  for teachers who are looking for an engaging and exciting way to review and practice information learned in class.

American Sign Language

 

Want to integrate kinesthetic movement with your students?  How about American Sign Language!  It is fun, easy, and educational!  Use it for spelling or vocabulary reinforcement.

Social Studies

 

	At America's Story children can meet amazing Americans, jump back in time, and explore the states all while learning about American history!
	Apples for the Teacher provides valuable activities to assist students in learning about various cultures.
	Students use Word and Power Point to create totem poles in this lesson plan from the Microsoft Office lesson plan site.

Science

 

	Take a look at this site that allows you to discover the body.  There is an interactive quiz that lets you put the body parts (organs, skeleton) in place.
	Looking for the "hook" to make that lesson sink in or make it over the top fun.  Check out this site.  You just might find that game to make a concept sink in and make them remember it!  Quiz Hub

Reading

 

	D.E.A.R. This site is full of wonderful ideas for incorporating D.E.A.R. into your classrooms successfully.
	I almost skipped over this site, but it is really cool for a pre-k teacher teaching phonics!  A must see site sound and coordinating printables and it is all free!  Check out Starfall.com!
	The BBC's Starship site provides many math and English games that are educational and fun.
	Newsround is another BBC site that provides news articles and follow up activities that can be used in the classroom.
	Dr. Bond has a page that he updates regularly with lists of excellent children's literature.

Lesson Plans

 

	Baltimore County Public Schools has a wonderful site that allows users to search by grade level and subject for lessons that integrate technology.  The lessons include the appropriate vsc objective as well as the technology objectives that each lesson meets.
	At Education World teachers can find many lesson plans integrating technology for a variety of grade levels.  Teachers can also submit their own lesson plans to be posted on the site.
	The About site provides lesson plans for utilizing Desktop Publishing in your lessons.
	Eduhound is a great site for educators of all grades.  Here educators can search the site using key words or search by category.  Resources are provided for a wide variety of subjects related to instruction.
	Enchanted Learning is a great site for elementary ideas.  It is well organized and easy to navigate!
	Discovery School is a wonderful searchable site that provides information for educators from lesson plans to clip art to t.v. resources
	A great site for teachers of 5th and 6th grades is Teacher's Desk.  It provides lesson ideas for Reading, Writing, Spelling, and English.
	Bnet provides information about lesson plans utilizing the computer.  It is organizes the content by software and topic.  Tutorials are provided to help you along.