Websites+for+Educators

**Web Sites for Educators**
This is a catch all category for Web sites that have relevance to educators.

http://www.thinkfinity.com/ Free educational resources with lessons, interactives, worksheets, media, primary resources, reference materials, and assessments. All grade levels. **  http://www.commoncraft.com/ This website explains all the new technology in “plain English”
 * Thinkfinity for Educators**
 * Common Craft


 * Podcasting for educators**
 * http://recap.ltd.uk/podcasting/subjects.php
 * In this section of the podcast directory you can select subject-specific podcasts that have been published and freely available via the Internet. S.Cropper

o o [|PBSkids.org]    o __http://www.pbs.org/teachers/ __ o Wonderful site with many high interest characters from PBS shows has many teacher/parent resources including activities that reinforce literacy skills as well as other content areas.LS.
 * Unitedstreaming
 * http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm
 * This website has digital videos-on-demand and is an online teaching service to help improve students' retention and test scores. It is aligned to U.S. state standards.
 * BrainPOP
 * http://www.brainpop.com/
 * This website has short animated video clips in a variety of subject areas. After students watch the video, they take an interactive quiz.


 *  **Scholastic – The Stacks videos for kids**
 *  http://www.scholastic.com/kids/stacks/videos/
 *  Great site to visit authors and hear them read from their novels, get insight on characters, and hear/see trailers to new books that have just been released.


 * **Tools for Educators**
 * http://www.toolsforeducators.com/
 * Tools for Educators give teachers many free resources to use in their classroom. Games, puzzles, activities, certificates, worksheets can all be created and edited by the teacher to customize for their classroom.


 * Crayola
 * http://www.crayola.com/lesson-plans/
 * Crayola integrates art lesson plans with other curriculums. N.O'Brien


 * RUBRICS
 * http://www.rubristar.com
 * This site helps teachers to develop a rubric who do not necessarily have time to make one from scratch. K. Wood


 * **ABC Teach**
 * http://abcteach.com/
 * This site has all different kinds of links and resources for teachers. There is a lot that you can get for free, but apparently a little more information for members. K. Huber


 * **Enchanted Learning**
 * http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html
 * This site has a wealth of information about all kinds of subjects. You can search for just about anything and get information and worksheets on that subject. Unfortunately, you cannot do much without a membership (our school has one though). K. Huber
 * DISCOVERY
 * [|http://www.discovery.com>>]
 * Control Right Click to link to this page. This site offers so many cool things for the students to look at and explore. You can also find information based on different subjects. You can look into the human body, play games, and so much more! K. Wood

