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Teacher Resources

This site give lessons, activities, interactive games.  This can be used for all subjects.  

http://www.thinkfinity.org/

 

On the bottom of the page on thinkfinity (once you click educator) is a banner of other sites partnered with thinkfinity.  Most supply lessons and activities and games. 

 

The partner sites are:

 

Arts Edge

http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/

 

Econ Edlink for Economics

http://www.econedlink.org/

 

Edsitement for Art, ELA, Languages, History and Social Studies

http://edsitement.neh.gov/

 

Illuminations for Math

http://illuminations.nctm.org/

 

Thinkfinity literacy network

http://literacynetwork.verizon.org/TLN/

 

Read*Write*Think for ELA

This site has a great activity for creating your on comic or graphic novel.

http://www.readwritethink.org/

 

Science Net Link for Science

http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/

 

Smithsonian for History and has resources for all other areas.  If you search body systems they have a great interactive for teaching body systems.

http://historyexplorer.americanhistory.si.edu/index.asp

 

National Geographic Expeditions for Social Studies and resoruces for other areas

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/

 

 

OTHER GOOD SITES  

The national Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Math

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html

 

I know that .com  for The arts, Language Arts, Math, science and Social Studies.  Good for K-6 and for resource classes and review also.  Great Games for kids. You have to register....free to register.

http://www.iknowthat.com/com

 

 

4teachers.org is a great site also.  It has games and online tools and resources.  Help to create and locate ready-to-use rubrics.....etc...

http://www.4teachers.org/

 

 

 

 

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