This is an excellent page with activities

that put you in the shoes of a child with learning

disabilities….check it out and forward it to other teachers!

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/misunderstoodminds/intro.html

How to create a behavior contract:

http://k6educators.about.com/cs/classroommanageme3/a/createcontract.htm

Free classroom clipart, photographs, etc.

www.classroomclipart.com/

Answers.com the blue-ribbon site educators and students rely on for reference, all free of charge.

Free Tools                     http://www.answers.com/main/product_info.jsp

1-Click Answers             http://www.answers.com/main/download_answers_win.jsp

Teacher Toolkit             http://www.teachers.answers.com/

Free Poster Center         http://www.teachers.answers.com/main/posters.jsp

Research Right              http://www.teachers.answers.com/main/research_center.jsp

Teacher Newsletter        http://www.teachers.answers.com/main/highlights_email_signup.jsp

Mission Possible Movie   http://www.teachers.answers.com/main/mp.jsp

Of course, there’s also the great content available on the Answers.com site, too. 

Including over 100 reliable, brand-name reference titles, Answers.com gives you 

authoritative and instant access to biographies, geographical data, health topics, 

scientific theories, or information on any of the other 4 million topics.

Graphic organizers in Spanish:

www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/spanish/

Free, online fonts for all grade levels with templates for various uses.

http://www.zaner-bloser.com/fresh/handwriting-zbfontsonline.html

Go to this site if you would like to create a FREE wikispace:

Check out http://www.wikispaces.com/help+Teachers for some teacher tips.

If you want to create more K-12 education spaces, you can use this link:

http://www.wikispaces.com/t/x/teachers100K  and they will automatically be created as K-12 spaces. 

If you have any questions, please contact help@wikispaces.com.

The U.S. Department of Education has launched a new Web site to provide teachers, 

administrators and other educators with recommendations on effective teaching practices and examples 

of possible ways to implement those practices to help promote excellence in American education and improve student 

achievement. The first in the series focuses on English language learners. The new "Doing What Works" 

site, http://dww.ed.gov/index.cfm offers a user-friendly interface to quickly locate teaching practices that 

have been found effective by the department's research arm, the Institute of Education Sciences, and similar organizations.

Great web-site for homework or reteaching.  Everything is sectioned by the language arts skill and it's all in Spanish! 

The grade levels are from kinder-3rd grade.  I know the bilingual teachers will love it. http://www.ed.gov/pubs/vinculo/table2.html

Teach With Technology

(Enseñe con tecnología)

4Teachers.org works to help you integrate technology into your classroom by offering online tools and resources.
This site helps teachers locate and create ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars.
There are also tools for student use.  Some items are FREE some have a minimal subscription fee. All resources are also available in SPANISH!!

http://www.4teachers.org/?PHPSESSID=04ef9113d6e20b4be9d7a28bd0734cff

Teacher Portfolio Dividers  http://www.abcteach.com/directory/portfolios/teacher_portfolio_dividers/

Alphabet activities for lower grades:

http://www.abcteach.com/directory/basics/abc_activities/

Amazing Incredible Handwriting Worksheet Maker

 

Make custom handwriting worksheets at the click of a button !
Select a handwriting style below and watch the magic unfold !
Free from your friends at TampaReads.com

http://www.handwritingworksheets.com/

http://www.childrensbooksforever.com/

Classroom Management Tips and Beginning of the Year Ideas

http://www.fvsd.ab.ca/stm/classroom_management_tips_and_be.htm

This link is a resource for teachers K-12 who wish to find quality ready-made units and lessons for all subjects, or

who wish to develop their own units. This page emphasizes engaged learning models such as WebQuests, Research

Modules and Project-Based Learning, but links include other forms of lessons and tutorials.  Included also are sites to

help you build your own units as well as some examples of sources to help students do research.

http://www.coollessons.org/coolunits.htm#UNITS

Crayola Creativity Central  activities of all kinds

http://www.crayola.com/

Education Oasis is a not-for-profit, non-commercial site of

free teaching resources created by teachers, for teachers.

http://www.educationoasis.com/index.htm

The clipart is great especially the customizable wordart for themed projects and bulletin boards.

 http://www.teacherfiles.com/index.html

GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS

http://www.teacherprintables.net/free-printable-organizers.html

http://www.mathematicshelpcentral.com/graph_paper.htm

Discovery.com website for creating word and math puzzles online and for printing.

http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/

Teaching resources of all kinds with Webquest and image library online.  Really nice for research assignments. 

http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/home.jsp

Learning activities and printables of all kinds.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/themes/

http://www.teacherplace.org/research.html

If you are looking for educational materials, you may wish to visit the

website of the Gateway to Educational Materials, a portal sponsored by the

U.S. Department of Education. This portal is designed to provide educators

with quick and easy access to thousands of educational resources found on

various federal, state, university, nonprofit, and commercial Internet sites.

For more information, please visit:
http://thegateway.org

www.marcopolo-education.org/

A comprehensive online literacy resource for seven K-12 academic subjects.

http://www.thinkfinity.org/home.aspx

http://www.readwritethink.org/index.asp

www.discovery.com

http://www.kids.gov/

Teachers, we've created this site to help you and your students get the most out of the WRITE!
Foundations and Models for Proficiency Series. Links for online writing activities, printable graphic organizers, writing prompts, and other helpful resources.

An Interactive Media Channel  where Books, Crafts, Podcasts, Online Video,
and Web Resources Intersect

http://www.thebestkidsbooksite.com/songs-for-kids.cfm

MegaMaps     Free  Map your World

Print maps large or small; 1 page to almost 7 feet across; PC or Mac. 

Free online software - no downloading or installation.

http://www.yourchildlearns.com/megamaps.htm

Website with all kinds of goodies for back to school.

http://www.fvsd.ab.ca/stm/welcome%20back%20to%20school%20page.htm

A premier source of classroom tested, Internet-based economic lesson materials for
11.0pt;font-family:Verdana">K-12 teachers and their students http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/

EDSITEment contains a variety of links to other websites and references to resources
available through government, nonprofit, and commercial entities.

http://edsitement.neh.gov/

Online math activities for all grades.

http://illuminations.nctm.org/Lessons.aspx

Activities and lesson resources for science for all grade levels.

http://sciencenetlinks.com/tool_index.cfm

Geography lesson ideas and resources for all grade levels.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/matrix.html

ARTSEDGE — the National Arts and Education Network — supports the placement

of the arts at the center of the curriculum and advocates creative use of technology

to enhance the K-12 educational experience. ARTSEDGE empowers educators to teach in,

through, and about the arts by providing the tools to develop interdisciplinary curricula that

fully integrate the arts with other academic subjects. ARTSEDGE offers free, standards-based

teaching materials for use in and out of the classroom, as well as professional development

resources, student materials, and guidelines for arts-based instruction and assessment.

http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/teach/les.cfm

Smithsonian  National Museum of American History

The National Museum of American History collects, preserves and displays American heritage in the areas of

social, political, cultural, scientific and military history. Documenting the American experience from

Colonial times to the present, the museum looks at growth and change in the United States.

Smithsonian site for kids  http://americanhistory.si.edu/kids/index.cfm

Smithsonian site for educators:  http://americanhistory.si.edu/educators/index.cfm

A website with all kinds of simple examples of poetry with printable worksheets. 

Some of the quizzes are available online.

http://englishseven.com/onlinepoetry/index.html

This is technology oriented for math with lots of online activities for teachers and students.  

http://www.utdanacenter.org/mathtoolkit/instruction/index.php

Same as above for science.

http://www.utdanacenter.org/sciencetoolkit/instruction/snapshots/index.php

For kids, includes activities, games, etc.

http://pbskids.org/go/

The Math Wheel, Math Jeopardy, and Math Millionaire are game formatted TAKS reviews!  

There is online TAKS practice, and you can also complete mock test preps.  There are four

versions and you can do them online, or print them out at http://www.mathslice.com/mathmocktest.php . 

There are also printable worksheets for PreK-6^th Grade on every math objective! 

Also, don’t forget to check out the Fun Slices.  They are specific objectives in a FUN presentation!  Enjoy!  

http://www.mathslice.com/index.html

Pasadena ISD has purchased a district license to Brainpop, Brainpop Jr. and Brainpop Espanol.

During school hours (7-5:30 weekdays) teachers and students can access the brainpop resources

at http://www.brainpop.com using username = pasadenaisd, password = pasadenaisd.

Both username and password is (maesmythepisd)  http://www.atomiclearning.com/

PreK and K activities and crafts http://www.first-school.ws/INDEX.HTM

This website contains weblinks to Spanish language resources for all grades.

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/espanol/#elem

Great web-site for homework or reteaching.  Everything is sectioned by
the language arts skill and it's all in Spanish!  The grade levels are
from kinder-3rd grade.  I know the bilingual teachers will love it. 
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/vinculo/table2.html

Spanish language flashcards for everything and anything FREE

http://www.spanishspanish.com/

Spanish activities  http://www.abcteach.com/directory/languages/spanish/

Learning activities and printables of all kinds in Spanish.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/themes/

Visual Word Web Dictionary:  Great resource for Bilingual/ESL, writing, reading, etc.  

Here’s a really cool website and great classroom resource:  

http://www.visuwords.com/