Don't miss the wealth of resources and Activities for ESL/EFL Students or the Interesting Things for ESL Students.  Want even more?  Try Games and Activities for ESL/SFL Classroom.

EduOle, Quizzes Plus lists printable quizzes that test Spanish skills from many different approaches.

Fire Prevention Lesson Plans for K-5  Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires:  Smokey the Bear's Educator resources.

• Smokey Bear Kids

• Survive Alive (with teacher's guide)

• Burn Talk (fire safety for teens)

• Fire Safety Coloring Book (Download)

• Firefighter Coloring Page

• Fire Safety Unit

• Science Process Skills-What Does Fire Need?

• Fire Safety Ideas to Spark Learning

• Fire Safety Coloring Book

• Fire Trucks are Cool

• The History of Fire Prevention Week

• Elmo's Fire Safety Game

Worksheets and Activities for Fire Safety

Beyond Christopher Columbus This year, observe Columbus Day by helping your students explore Web sites that put the controversial explorer's achievements into historical perspective. Included: Links to on-line lesson plans for teaching about Columbus across the grades!

Explore the Explorers On-Line This Education World site offers an armada of activities for all disciplines.

Christopher Columbus lesson plan ideas, activities and clip art for Columbus Day Activities.

Christopher Columbus This site offers a variety of Columbus Day activities,

Hurricane Season      

• Tree rings provide a 200 year history of hurricanes.

• Playtime for Kids: Hurricanes is a collection of site by NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) including the science of hurricanes, games, the naming of hurricanes to name a few.

• Weather Education  offers information for children, teens and young adults. Materials range from coloring books, puzzles and games, to lesson plans, brochures, satellite images, and career information for weather related fields, such as meteorology, hydrology and climatology.

• Weather

• Making a Weather Station is great site for elementary students.

Portals

Several educational portals provide tremendous printable and downloadable resources for classroom use: 

• Gale Schools offers an excellent portal to educational content.

• The Minnesota Historical Society provides an excellent Educator's Portal. Choose a theme, grade level, and/or skill.

•  About School shares online activities and printable worksheets for all age levels covering a range of subjects.

• The Learning Web  has creative project ideas, lesson plans, maps, and clipart in geology, biology, geography, and hydrology.

• The Teacher's Corner is a portal to lesson plans, lesson plans, thematic units, and teaching activities.

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Time for Kids offers teachers daily lessons to go with the latest news stories.

More Lesson Plans:

• Lesson Plans Page
• CORE Knowledge
• SMILE (Science Math Initiative for Learning Enhancement)
• LessonPlanZ
• Lesson Plan Search
• Discovery School
• Teachers Net
• National Geographic
• Sports Lesson Plans

Podcasting!  

• Amazing Podcasts from Apple is a must visit site for MAC users
• ActivTips are podcasts on Promethean Planet that give great tips for using the ActivBoard from Promethean.  These may be accessed via iTunes.
• iTunes U is a great source for free lectures (from universities), lessons, audiobooks and more,
• Gcast:  Make your Voice Heard
• Poducate Me - Practical solutions for podcasting in education.
• Step-by-step tutorial on how to create a podcast is found at About.com:Radio
• How to Podcast is a definitive step-by-step guide on how to podcast without breaking the bank.  This site is by Audacity and has links to many free tools

Grade Connect is a completely free online course management system for teachers to use.  Post homework and assignments, grades, announcements, and send progress reports and mass or single e-mails to the students in the class. The students have access to a personal calendar that reminds them of the upcoming deadlines.

The Futures Channel:  Connecting Learning to the Real World features online movies connecting science and math to the real world action.  This site also provides "Algebra in the Real World" and "Hands on Math".  TERRIFIC resources.

The Top 10 Milestone Documents in History as voted by the people.  The site links to the document and gives the history behind the document.

eTheme Resources Listed by Title is collection of teacher-created
resources offering one a wide varieties of web-oriented lessons.  You can search by title or by grade level.

Book Adventure  is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 7,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes. Book Adventure was created by and is maintained by Sylvan Learning.

Teacher Magazine’s EdWeek.org takes on education news from around the Web.

Green Teacher is a magazine by and for educators to enhance environmental and global education across the curriculum at all grade

Find a good set of annotated links to articles, resources for both teachers and students, on Plagiarism.

Looking for challenging method to teach vocabulary and reading skills?  Find quizzes and word activities that make words come alive at Vocabulary.

Discovery School Clipart has free clip art and It’s organized by curriculum for teachers and students. 

Teachers-Pet has free tools to make teaching and learning more fun.

Discover Schools has developed useful resources that will save teachers valuable time. Take advantage of the most powerful quiz-making tool online, Quiz Maker. Use Lesson Plan Maker to create and store your lesson plans for easy access.  Develop your own puzzles and worksheets at Puzzle Maker.

More assistance for substitutes can be found at A Packet for Substitute Teachers by Robert Jackson, a retired educator, who gives lots of tips, tricks, and practical activities for substitute teachers.

History:

• The Christopher Columbus Homepage
• Christopher Columbus is the history of the events of Columbus in Spanish
• The Age of Explorers is an interactive learning site for grades 3 -12.

English: 

• "A Haunting Moment" has reading comprehension worksheets and vocabulary worksheets for grade 10.
• 50 Awesome Resources for Online Writers
• Lit to Go:  A collection of mp3(Audiobook) stories and poems.  The collection is searchable by author, title, keyword or reading level.

Science:

• Get Oriented includes lesson plans for varying age levels on how we navigate.
• Genes to Cognition Online is about modern neuroscience focusing on cognitive disorders and processes.
• 400 Years of the Telescope is a PBS film providing a history of the telescope from the days of Galileo until the present.
• MAIS K-6 Science Inquiry, Investigation, and Design Technology  There are two components to this project: (1)The first is a group of lesson QuickPlans, that exemplify science and design technology lessons for elementary school use. (2) The second component is a list of Instruction Links
• Biomes of the World, Freshwater Ecosystems, and Saltwater Ecosystems is an organized and convenient Web site for habitat research.
• Simply Science contains material for Elementary School teachers and children around a number of themes including science teaching ideas, ideas and tutorials.
• Middle School Science is the place for lesson plans and links for the following science classes: Life Science, Physics, Chemistry, and Earth Science. Lab sheets are provided for a variety of hands on activities. .

MATH

• The Math Warehouse a web site dedicated to dynamic Math lessons, demonstrations and interactive activities.
• Figure This: Math Challenges for Families provides students, teachers, and parents with creative problems related to algebra, geometry, measurement, numbers, statistics, and probability. A Spanish language version is also available.
• Math Stories has math word problems for children (available in Spanish & aligned with state standards).
• At Multiplication.com teachers will find tips and resources designed to help all students learn the multiplication tables.  The site contains worksheets, games, activities, and strategies to make every student successful in this necessary task.
• Algebra Help provides a complete review of the basics of Algebra with lessons, calculators that show step-by-step solutions, and interactive worksheets.
• Whether you solve them at home or in the classroom, individually or as a group, you'll find our Math  Brain Teasers both entertaining and mentally challenging. Each Wednesday evening we will provide you with one new Brain Teaser at each of three grade ranges. Solutions will be posted on the following Wednesday
• Create custom graph paper at Class Brain.com.  This site has many more possibilities for the math classroom.

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The Teacher's Guide shares lesson plans, thematic units, book activities, teacher freebies, children's music, and much more.

Anything needed to teach English can be found at E. L. Easton English Online.

Latin Teachers will enjoy Latin Grammar with information on Latin nouns and verbs.

EduOle, Quizzes Plus lists printable quizzes that test Spanish skills from many different approaches.

Simply Science contains material for Elementary School teachers and children around a number of themes including science teaching ideas, ideas and tutorials.

Online learning and interactive games can be found at Syvum where you will find math, English, and educational fun activities.

Scholastic Teachers  contains links to current events, online activities and several ready to ready to use reproducibles.

Templates for games include:

• Game Boards
• Jefferson County Schools PowerPoint Collection

• Who wants to be a Winner

• Templates for homemade PowerPoint games

• PowerPoint Games

Dynamic Curriculum