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=Useful Websites=

http://www.k12station.com/ [|www.crayola.com] (This website has really great lesson plans for hands-on learning. Most lesson plans are for K-3.

[|www.investigations.scottforesman.com] -I learned about this website through the workshop last week. Lesson plans are already done for you. There are pacing guides that you can follow, along with rubrics, assessment checklists, activity sheets, and math games to use with our investigations kits.

[|http://alex.state.al.us] - You can choose lesson plans that correlate with the Alabama Course of study. Definitely one of my favorite sites. Some of the lesson plans come with already completed rubrics and graphic organizers.

[|www.nea.org] - Lesson plans on any subject for any grade level.

[|www.scholastic.com] -This website is not just for book orders! You can find great resources on this site. There are lesson plans, printable graphic organizers, short movies/biographies, etc.

[|www.canteach.ca] -Kindergarten teachers will love this site! It is full of lesson plans for the little ones. They have a song or a poem for just about anything you can think of. They also have printable help sheets for your students.

[|http://help4teachers.com]

Creating your own lesson plans-Here is a site that have printable/editable templates. http://www.busyteacherscafe.com/wspages/forms.htm- This is a template for a lesson plan that is really simple.

http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/- This is one of my favorite sites of all! Great graohic organizers, lesson plans, blank lesson plan templates, activities and so much more! I make my monthly calendar from this website. Mrs. Waldrop also figured out how to do her calendar on here too. It makes everything so much easier.

[|www.awesomestories.com] Articles relating to a myriad of educational topics

[|www.Edutopia.org] Innovative teaching strategies for K-12 schools

**Interactive educational game sites:**
[|www.starfall.com]- This website is for K-1, maybe lower level secon graders. This site has mostly games about letters and sounds and some simple reading skills.

[|www.funbrain.com]- I guess everyone probably knows about this site, but this is a wonderful site for math games, as well as, reading games. My kids in fourth grade last year absolutely loved this website.

http://resources.kaboose.com/games/read2.html- great games for all ages. Many games help children recognize mispelled words and spell them correctly.

http://pbskids.org/lions/games/-

http://www.eduplace.com/kids/rdg.jsp- This site goes along with your reading text books, but it has games to incorporate the vocabulary and also comprehension skills. You have to click on the state and then grade level to select the right text book, but then the games are explained to the students. Try it for yourself! They are really fun.