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Discovery School is a site that has many features worth exploring. It has lesson plans, but it even allows you to create tests like this one I created for a beginning library lesson. You must become a member (it's free). Once you are a member you can create puzzles, quizzes, lesson plans and many other features may be useful as well!
Hot Chalk has 2500 plus teacher contributed lesson plans and more and is searchable and FREE
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The Teacher Tap is a free, professional development resource that helps educators address common technology integration questions by providing practical, online resources and activities.
Teaching with technology! (4Teachers.org)Like Discovery school has many useful features like creating quizzes and puzzles. Rubistar allows you to create and save rubrics - just one of the features of this diverse website.
Copyright friendly pics and so much more await you here! Search a database of pictures to be
Looking for a Graphic Organizer? Well, here they are along with other printable educational forms.
Thinkfinity is another great site with many resources!

Big6 Information Literacy site

Click below for entry to MNPS Porta Portal by topic or click on www.portaportal.com

By Subject Area
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Guidance	mnpsguidance
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Social Studies	mnpssocstudies
Technology	mnpstechintegration
Health/PE	mnpshealth
Webquests	mnpswebquests
Inspiration & Kidspiration	mnpsinspiration
Essential Literature Resources
Kindergarten ---------------------------------------------mnpsK
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What is Media Literacy? Media literacy is basically being aware when someone is selling you a bill of goods! We learned this using advertising and newspapers/T.V. ads when we were growing up. Such messages are more insidious on the web.

Don't buy it!
Safe Kids
Three Little Cyberpigs - is fun for kids and teaches basic net safety.

Reading Resources

This earlyreading.info website was developed by the Regional Educational Laboratory (REL) at Pacific Resources for Education and Learning (PREL) to help meet President Bush's challenge to have all children read at grade level by third grade! An amazing site that lets you specify the level, type of resource and skill and then provides you support.
The International Reading Association is a great resource for all things reading.
The National Council of Teachers of English has a lesson FABULOUS lesson plan bank.
Reading Planet is a Dept. of Education Website designed to encourage students to read. The Writer's Block section allows students to add to a story during a month long collaborative effort and read it at the end of the month!
Reading Rockets is another Dept. of Education site dedicated to younger readers!
Try the SpellingBee site!

Tutorials

Learn to keyboard with this simply program -- and it is FREE
Try Discovery Schools teacher tools!
Tutorials on every major program in use in schools. This is the most complete site for tutorials on various programs I have found.
Internet Tourbus is the oldest online tutorial for learning to navigate the web. delivered in short lessons over a period of months it is a great way to learn the net.
Want to build your own webpage? Here are some cool sites to help you

Math & Science Resources

Math Book ResourcesGo to this site and login as followsKindergarten--username is nashvillekt password is mnpsmath1st-4th grade follow the same pattern --- nashville1t and all passwords are mnpsmath

National Library of virtual manipulatives
Math tools and games - a lot of great resources to explore
Teach R Kids Math is a site just for pre-K through 3rd grade. It has wonderful printable things, as well as interactive activities for students.
Math Dictionary helps kids picture and manipulate online to learn math concepts
Aplus Math- Here are fabulous printable resources. You tell the program you grade level and what you want to create AND it makes a printable worksheet for you! You need flash cards? Tell the computer what you want the student to learn and viola! YOU have a printable set of flashcards!
Rainforest Math is out of Great Britain. Easy to use and find activities and games to reinforce what you teach!
Johnnie Math - a site where you can find activities (games) for most of the concepts you are teaching!
Eisenhower National Clearinghouse provides both lesson plans and resources but also gives you the 12 best math and science sites each month. This is a huge site which incluedes opportunities for professional development.

Great Games that teach!

Ed Helper might be a site we would subscribe to...there are more like this one out there -- but take a look it is not very expensive and we can experiment this year...

Lesson Plan Sites

ReadWriteThink is NCTE website giving you comprehensive plans and activities for your grade level!
Kathy Schrock's Guide - one of the oldest and best websites for teachers!
ERIC is the Educational Resource Information Clearinghouse. It is a source for current research and information on any topic of educational interest.
Get ideas for interactive sites and lessons here!
Blue Webn is an excellent site filled with lesson plans.
Gateway to Educational materials is the U.S. Department's meta search engine for high quality lesson plans, curriculum units, and other educational resources.Use Primary Sources (you'll be hearing a lot about this soon in standards) from the American Memory. Learn about using
PRIMARY SOURCES! Library of congress Website's Learning Page!
#1 visited educators site abcteach integrated theme units and lots of printable resources!
Created by the Peace Corp this site lets students explore cultural differences, geography and issues!
LessonplanZ is a searchable database of over ten thousand lesson plans and printable worksheets.
The National Council of Teachers of English has a lesson plan bank
Houghton-Mifflin's site is full of great K-8 teacher resources! Printable items and answer sheets.
American Memory from the Library of Congress has resources utilizing primary sources. It is designed for kids and well worth a visit
.Education World's site contains wonderful lesson plans, coloring pages and a variety of helpful teacher aides.Social Science Resoures