General Web Resources

• ABC Teach

  This is the place for kids, parents, student teachers, and teachers. Free Printables: 5000+ free printable pages and worksheets.

• Teachers First-SOS with plans!

  Change and curriculum starts in the classroom with the community of learners. This website is for teachers who may want new ideas for lessons.

• Free government stuff for teachers! Federal Resources for Educational Excel

  RESOURCES in arts, history, language arts, & science. FREE— the website that makes teaching resources from federal agencies easier to find.

• United Streaming Videos on Demand

  Unitedstreaming is a digital video-on-demand service brought to you by Discovery Education. Find out what 43,000 schools and over 20,000,000 students and teachers already know—Unitedstreaming works!

• Kid's Pages

  his Link provides excellent worksheets for class grades K-5.

• ED Index

  An extensive set of Web Resources for teachers and students, including indexed links to several thousand websites useful in K-12 education. Check this one out! It is just great!

• Lesson Planet

  Over 30,000 lesson plans for many subjects and most age groups

• I Love that Teaching Idea!

  Gives ideas about a wide range of teaching subjects.

• Funderstanding

  This site offers great explanations, examples, and suggestions for understanding learning theories. It is written in a very understandable style.

• Great Educational Links

  Links on every subject, level, and interest you may ever need! Go here first if you are looking for new sources!

• SuperKids Educational Tools

  Create word searches and scrambles using your own list of words. Also makes basic math worksheets to suit your needs.

• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators

  Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.

• Enchanted Learning

  This site has an amazing number of resources for all subjects. Lesson plans, hands-on activities, etc. K-6 mostly, but you can find simple maps and science diagrams for any group that may need extra help. It’s my favorite site!

• Education World

  Wonderful lesson plans and great ideas for teachers.

• Harry Wong's Website

  Great ideas from Harry Wong on classroom management and classroom procedures.

• MindWare

  This is a store. It has many things helpful for educators. This is my favorite source for school items.

• Rubistar

  This is a free website where you can create quality rubrics with minimal effort.

• Block Posters

  You can use this site to create any size wall posters from any size images. It is totally free to use the huge image is sent to you in a pdf file.

• Busy Teacher's Cafe

  This site has great worksheets. It gives you step by step instructions for creating your own class website if you choose to do that. It also has a link for penpals. Great writing incentive for students.

• About education

  This site is full of helpful information and links for all topics (like classroom management and academic subjects). Everything from animals to biology to the Great Wall of China is here!

• Kidz zone

  This website has free templates for greeting cards, and post cards. There are lesson plans, printable worksheets and thematic units in different subjects.

• Discovery School

  This is a neat web-site that will delight both the teacher and students alike. There are links such as brain booster (personal favorite)and homework helper that will make the world wink and think. Discovery school is very cool even in terms of how standards rule, navigational tool, and visuals. Also has links to other sights that may be out of sight-alright!

• 1 2 3 Certificates

  FREE printable certificates, recognition awards, and blank certificates for teachers to use for all occasions! GREAT!

• PowerPoints for Teachers

  Great PowerPoint slide shows for teachers (and created by teacherds) to use in instruction. Powerpoints cover every subject in grades K-6.

• Teachnology

  We provide free and easy to use resources for teachers dedicated to improving the education of today’s generation of students.

• Prongo

  The site allows you to create interactive quizzes on the lesson you are teaching.

• Discovery for kids and teachers

  Great site for homework helpers, lesson plans, games, clip art, teaching, curriculum tools and so much more!

• Rick Morris

  Great ideas and resources here for new teachers as well as good tools for organizing yourself and your students.

• In2Edu

  Rated one of the best educational resource sites on the web. Includes thematic units, banners and certificates, mind mapping ideas, 5000 educational links and much more! Impressive site! Lots of free downloads.

• Teacher Tools

  Teacher Tools offers bulletin board ideas, curriculum sites, games and puzzles, forms and letters, freebies, lesson plans, software, and help for substitutes.

• Tools for Educators

  This is a one stop website for teachers they have so much to offer an array of things like assignment sheets, calenders, certificates, coloring pages, printouts, crossword puzzles, and other fun activities. They also have links to other websites that are useful to teachers.

• Teacher Corner

  Lots of resources, including printable worksheets and lesson plans. My favorite thing about this website is that things are broken down into seasons and even months, so you can find things like daily writing prompts that relate to the time of the year.

• New Teacher Resource Site

  This is just for new teachers! You can even upload your own information on the website. There are FAQs for new teachers as well as all kinds of resources to help you get through the transition from being taught to teaching

• Smithsonian Education

  This site offers resources, lesson plans, etc. for all subjects from art to history to science and technology. Great find!

• Teacher Vision

  TeacherVision® is dedicated to helping teachers save time. Find 20,000 pages of classroom-ready lesson plans, printables, and resources.

• Scholastic

  A great place to view lesson plans, booklists, and educational products for children grades Pre-K to 12. Classroom materials include online activities for kids, printables, teacher resources and a place to develop your very own classroom website.

• Mailbox

  THE MAILBOX delivers grade-specific ideas and activities to help their students. By far my favorite website because of the amount of resources available for printing, using, changing, adapting, and creating from just a simple idea.

• A to Z Teacher Stuff

  A to Z Teacher Stuff is a teacher-created site designed to help teachers find online resources more quickly and easily. Find lesson plans, thematic units, teacher tips, discussion forums for teachers, downloadable teaching materials & eBooks, printable worksheets and blacklines, emergent reader books, themes, and more.

• The Online Teacher Resource

  “e have over 150,000 reviews of sites that teachers can use as resources. Below is our teacher resource directory. If you are looking for teacher worksheets, downloads, games, rubrics, or any of our other teacher tools, you can access them from the menu located at the top throughout our site.”

• Supporting the emotional needs of the Gifted

  Focuses on the emotional needs of gifted children and adults. According to the website, “SENG is dedicated to fostering environments in which gifted adults and children, in all their diversity, udnerstand and accept themselves and are understood, valued, nurtured, and supported by their families, schools, workplaces and communities.”

• National Association for Gifted Children

  This is the website for the National Association for Gifted Children. Lots of good information as well as links to other good sites for techers and parents.

• Noggins.com

  Great site for preschoolers. Can be used all day, every day.

• Scholastic News

  This is a catalog of children’s books that the students and teachers can order from as well as resources and they often have great deals and teacher books. You can also accumulate points and get free items!

• Really Good Stuff

  This has teaching supplies and books for affordable prices.

• Switch Zoo

  This is such a fun website for kids to find information about animals and the ability to mix animals body parts and to make their own.

• Thinkfinity.com

  FREE lesson plans and educational resources. Great site!

• Classroom Clipart

  Free source of educational clips and pictures by topic!

• A Packet for Substitute Teachers!

  This is a great site that will give subs lots of ideas for getting through the day if the lesson plans run out—or are missing!

• "Famous Failures"

  This is a terrific YouTube clip on famous people in history who failed many times before succeeding. Very motivational!

• 10 Great Motivational Quotes

  Be inspired by these great quotes!

• Whole Brain Teachers of America

  WHAT A FABULOUS RESOURCE! Here’s what it says: “At the root of Whole Brain Teaching is a large amount of highly structured, educational tomfoolery. Students learn the most when they are having fun. Whole Brain Teaching classrooms are full of task-focused laughter. Humor and games are used to increase the number of times students repeat core information and practice basic skills. Our classes are highly disciplined and tightly organized because students have more fun following our rules, than ignoring them.”

• Elementary Education Resources

  Elementary school is an important part of a child’s life. It’s when they learn many basics skills, including how to speak properly, how to read and write, and how to work with numbers. They learn how to play sports and draw and play instruments. In elementary school, kids get their start, which is why it’s so important for them to get the best level of education. Here are some resources to help teachers and parents of elementary kids.

• Donors Choose

  DonorsChoose.org is an online charity that makes it easy for anyone to help students in need.
  Here’s how it works: public school teachers from every corner of America post classroom project requests on DonorsChoose.org. Requests range from pencils for a poetry writing unit, to violins for a school recital, to microscope slides for a biology class.

  Then, you can browse project requests and give any amount to the one that inspires you. Once a project reaches its funding goal, we deliver the materials to the school.