MathCats

MathCats offers math story problems, online activities, math writing topics, math explorations, and much more. Students love MathCats' magic chalkboard as it reveals answers to math problems. Check out this award-winning site and find just the right MathCats activity for your elementary or middle school students.

MathCats

The Journey North

Take a good look at The Journey North website today to start planning for a memorable collaborative learning experience for your K-12 students. Standards-based lesson plans and activities help you guide your students to make local observations and share them with other students in classrooms around the world.

The Journey North

Pics4Learning

Pics4Learning is a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students. The images have been donated and cover a wide variety of topics. You can browse for images using the index, or type in a keyword to search for the kind of image you want. This is a terrific source for your classroom.

Pics4Learning

Time For Kids and Hurricanes

Take time to explore the Time for Kids website. You will find current events materials, supplemental reading passages, independent or small group work resources, vocabulary building opportunities, interactive materials for your students, and more at Time for Kids. Familiarize your students with the Homework Help section.

Help your students learn more about Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita:
Time for Kids Special Reports on Hurricane Katrina

Time for Kids-Hurricane Katrina

Brain Pop Movie on Hurricanes
The science of hurricanes explained with a follow-up online quiz.

BrainPop Hurricane movie

Time for Kids Resources for everyday:
Today's News at Time for Kids offers news stories with highlighted key vocabulary terms. Definitions pop-up when the cursor hovers over the word.

Time for Kids Today's News

Magazine Archives for K-6
Click on the Archives button for your grade level

Time for Kids Magazine Archives

Time For Kids Games and online activities

Time for Kids Games and Trivia Challenges

Time for Kids Homework Help

Time for Kids Homework Help

The Getty Museum

After a recent visit to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, I found that there are some very interesting lesson plans on their website. Search for K-12 lesson plans by grade level, and by subject, including the visual arts, history, math, science, and language arts.

The Getty Museum-Education

Here are just two lesson plans that caught my attention:

My Getty Vacation Travel Log
If your are unable to take your class on a fieldtrip to the Getty, take your K-5 students on an imaginary trip instead. There are six nice activities ready to be used.

My Getty Vacation Travel Log

Going to the Promised Land
Use a Primary Sources lesson plan for grades 6-12 called "Going to the Promised Land" to help students understand the Dust Bowl Migration. The Getty resources are organized for you in the lesson plan.

Going to the Promised Land

Hunt the Factmonster at Education World

Education World and FactMonster have worked together to provide weekly printable hunt activities that can be used as a computer center activity or independent work for individual students. The monthly theme-based activities are geared to Primary Grades 2-4 or Intermediate Grades 4-8.

Hunt the FactMonster

Education World offers good articles, lesson plans, professional development, and information for administrators.

Education World

FactMonster was launched by Information Please. Bookmark this reference on your classroom computers.

FactMonster

4teachers.org

Thanks to a grant, you have access to wonderful online tools at 4teachers.org. Create rubrics, online web pages called web worksheets, online quizzes, tracks and more. Be sure to take a little time to look through these free online tools.

4teachers

Here is an example of a Web Quest posted using Web Worksheet Wizard. The rubric for the Web Quest was created using Rubistar, another online tool offered at the 4teachers website.

Working Dog Web Quest

Internet4Classrooms

You will find a wealth of helpful resources at Internet4Teachers.

Look at Grade Level Skills Index for Grades K-8

Grade Level Skills

K-12 Links by Subject and Resource

K-12 Links

Great Online Practice Modules for Word, PowerPoint, Inspiration, and more

Practice Modules

Assessment Resources for K-12

Assessment Resources

Read, Write, Think

Read, Write, Think is a great place to find standards-based lesson plans, quality links, and interactive student materials. This is really one of the best language arts resources you will find.

Try out some of the Read, Write, Think interactive student materials.

Student Materials

Browse or Search for lesson plans

Lesson Plan Index

Web Resources Gallery

Web Resources

IRA/NCTE Standards for the English Language Arts

Standards

Getting Started

There are many wonderful resources on the web for teachers and students. I am going to share some of the resources I recommend. Not every resource will be right for every teacher or every student, but you will certainly find something here that you can use.