Recommended+Resources

=__ Kaleena Kessling __= __**SPENT: **__ ===** Play Spent is a great internet site for a simulation of real-life challenges including economic challenges. Spent gives students the opportunity to make various choices about life. They must get a job and then make it through a month of living while making many financial decisions about what to spend money on and what not to spend it on. It provides a great learning experience without the actual consequences many people experience on a daily basis in real life. I would categorize this site as a simulation. **===
 * www.playspent.org **

__**Pete's PowerPoint Station: **__ __**Wordle: **__
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 * This is a great site for teachers who do not know where they want to begin with a lesson or teachers who are looking for pre-made and easy to change PowerPoints. Pete's PowerPoint Station consists of thousands of pre-made PowerPoints for every grade-level and content area (from Science to P.E.). These files are easy to download, and once they are downloaded an educator can change them any way he/she chooses. I would categorize this site as a planning site for teachers. **
 * @http://www.wordle.net/**
 * Wordle is a fun easy to use site for introducing new vocabulary and also great for finding the main idea in a story or nonfiction text. Wordle takes text entered in by the user and creates fun "word clouds" based upon that text. This program will increase the size of words that are used m****ore than once in the text, which shows the students the main idea by looking for repeating words. It would also be a fun and different method of introducing new vocabulary lists for a unit rather than having the students copy them from the board or book. I would categorize this site as a planning or graphic organizing site.**

__**Megormi Wikispace:**__ __**4kids.org:**__
 * http://megormi.wikispaces.com/**
 * This site is a compilation of great websites for teachers. Meg Ormiston is a technology guru that was hired to speak to the technology committee in my district. I learned a lot of great sites and** **programs from this site. If you click on the "camps" on the side bar of this site they will bring you to many pages that are great for teachers. Many of the sites discussed in last Monday's class are on these camp sites.** **I would categorize this site as planning.**
 * @http://www.4kids.org/games/**
 * This is a great site for interactive and educational games that are great for a Smart board or any other interactive whiteboard software. The majority of games are centered in the Math and Language Arts curriculum; however, they are fun games that all students enjoy playing, and they learn a****t the same time. My students' favorite is Word Frog. The frog gives the student a word, then the student must tap on the fly that has either the antonym, synonym, or homonym for that word. This can be changed at the start of each game.** **I would categorize this site as drill and practice.**

= __Rachel Dunbar__ = [|www.Quia.com] [|Quia] Quia is a great internet site to help reinforce and review already taught material. The students can choose to play games or take quizzes to review material. There are a variety of games that are already created to link to your account or you have the opportunity of making your own games. [|Safari Montage]
 * Quia **
 * Safari Montage **

[|www.edhelper.com] [|edHelper]
 * Ed Helper **



Ed Helper is a great tool to you in any subject area. The website is very user friendly. You are able to get some things free from the website, but you are required to pay a registration fee to use full services. I have found a variety of excellent graphic organizers on this site that you are able to print without the membership. [] [|Kims Korner For Teacher Talk]
 * Kim’s Corner for Teacher Talk **



This is a new site I have found to be helpful in teaching in general. However, it does have a lot of specifics on Language Arts. It has examples of lessons and resources too. It has a lot of resources for beginning teachers as far as classroom management, creating rules, setting up a grade book, and much more.

__**STEVE HILGER**__ [] [|mathblaster] Math Blaster is a wonderful drill-and-practice site for students to enjoy. There are many games to choose featuring different ability levels. They have a free membership that includes limited access. Category-DRILL AND PRACTICE
 * //Math Blaster//**

[] [|techtrekers] This webpage has many resources listed. Many of the topics are math related and I really enjoy the pictures that represent different numbers such as a billion. This page has links to math simulations and also problem solving sites. Category- SIMULATIONS AND PROBLEM SOLVING
 * //Math Simulations//**

[] [|cool math] Cool math has many beautiful colors that help to make the page stand out. There are many drill and practice games that have all the bells and whistles to keep a child’s attention, and also a math dictionary that helps to define all key terms a student ay run into. Category- DRILL AND PRACTICE
 * //Cool Math//**

[] [|visualmathlearning] This site provides a different slide show for numerous types of math topics. There are also exercises for the students to try, as well as games and puzzles for them to solve. Category- DRILL AND PRACTICE
 * //Visual Math Learning//**

= __**Nick Anello**__ =

[|Dropbox]

 * ===The site allows the teacher to store up to 2 gigabytes of information in an online flash drive format. No longer do you need to keep track of flash drives as dropbox follows you to any computer with an internet connection. Also apps are available for smart phones.===
 * ===Good for all teachers because it is an organizational helper===

[|Wolfram Alpha]

 * ===The website is a search engine that's search results are all computational.===
 * ===Math teachers can use this site for solving complex problems (including calculus) with step by step instructions===
 * ===Social Science teachers can use this site for showing students charts and graphs as well as economics examples (GDP, macroeconomic indicators, microeconomic problems)===

[|Best History Sites]

 * ===The site is set up as an annotated bibliography of hundreds of websites dedicated to history===
 * ===Topics are broken down by era and topic===

[|GoAnimate!]

 * ===Teachers will enjoy using this easy to use website that allows students, or teachers, to create simple online skits with dialogues===
 * ===Use this website for project building and for students to apply learned content===
 * ===Good for all teachers who are looking to increase students' digital literacy and for project based assessments===

__ **Jennifer Mellske** __

[|Countdown Math]: Using QuickTime to develop math skills.

This site has many tutorial videos on a variety of math topics. It also has a practice worksheet that goes along with each video. This site helps reinforce or reteach math topics to those that need it. Category: drill and practice.

[|Texas instruments] Calculator Activities This site let's you search for activities that help you use assistive calculator technology in your classroom. They have activities that you can show how to use math in real life. There are collections of calculator activities that have to do with a variety of subjects and technology. Teachers can download student sheets, teacher sheets and any needed programs straight to this site. Ti and CBS were in partnership to develop the series and everyday math activities around the show Numb3ers. Category: Assistive Technology.

[|NCTM Illuminations]

This site has a plethora of hands on manipulatives for use for both teachers and students. Teachers can use this site in class as replacement or supplement to their lessons. Students can use this site at home to practice and continue their understanding of math concepts taught in class. Category: Assistive Technology

[|Kuta Software]



This site has many Pre-made worksheets. Teachers can use these worksheets for drill and practice or a springboard to differentiate instruction. Category: drill and practice /Assistive technology

Sandy Graziano

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 * The Smart Exchange is a library of interactive SmartBoard lessons and manipulatives. They are available for every subject and age level. This site is also a place where teachers can exchange great tips and ideas. Notebook pages can be viewed or downloaded and personalized.
 * Category: Planning**

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 * TheNational Library of Virtual Manipulatives provides interactive tools that can facilitate hands on learning. Tools in the categories of Numbers and Operations, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement, and Data and Probability are available for grades Pre-K through 12.
 * Category: Assistive Technology**

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Arlanda Suett [] This video is a unique drill and practice it helps children learn their vowels while they are familiar singing with the all time familiar theme to batman. The song is by: Shari Sloane from the album, "School is Cool" and the video is by: Mr. Harry Kindergarten.
 * Arcademic Skill Builders is a site that provides online educational games. There are fun math, language arts, typing, and grammar games with colorful graphics. Some game options offer independent and interactive practice features.
 * Category:** **Drill and Practice**

[] This is one of the most popular songs ever from PBS's eight-time-Emmy-winning literacy education series, "Between the Lions." "When Two Vowels Go Walking" presents the well-known rule about long vowel sounds in peppy, pop fashion, with lyrics by Sarah Durkee, music by Christopher Cerf, and a nice vocal turn from Paul Jacobs (with Sarah Durkee helping out). Check it out! [] This website has Vocabulary word lists, flashcards and PowerPoint presentations, as well as a special sight words story using all 220 of the Dolch words. In addition, the Dolch sight words list has the most common words and there are 95 additional nouns in the children’s reading books, in alphabetical order. Dolch words or sight words can provide an excellent foundation for reading at an early age and for children who have difficulty retaining or identifying words by sight.

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Literacy Zone

This is an interactive website for on-line stories and books that can be read on-line. It has other resources such as punctuations, Math Zone, and Science Zone.

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Primary Grades

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">This a website for primary grades first and second. The site is a teacher and student friendly website whereas teachers can get lesson plans, there are practice and drill vocabulary, homework, spelling city.com, etc; The site also has a social studies page with science and social studies power points. There is a wonderful page for parents to do different inexpensive things with their children on the weekend.

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 * Discovery Education has a wealth of information available to the public on its home page. There are Parent resources, including homework help and motivation station. There are student directed work samples and practice problems. There are also many teacher resources available free of charge.
 * Category: Assistive Technology**

__ Alicia Hughey __
[] Category: Planning
 * This website is a great starting point for conducting research in the classroom. The site is child-based; therefore, the content is appropriate and contains the latest information on a variety of topics.



[] Category: Drill & Practice
 * This is a great website for young children because it has many great games for kids. The characters on the games are from the programs offered on channel 11. Children love the content, the games are very appropriate, and skills based. A teachers dream for skills based learning.
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[] Category: Drill & Practice Enchanted learning is a website for teachers, parents, and children that are theme based. This website is great for research on specific topics; it has worksheets and activities, and has some games and assessments. Some things on the site are free, but subscriptions are offered in order to take advantage of the full site.

[] Category: Planning & Drill & Practice This website is hosted by a computer guru who has compiled a list of her favorite websites, lesson plans, and anything regarding technology in one place. The site is a great resource for bringing technology into the classroom without spending a lot of money, since everything is free.