1. www.gonoodle.

com
- This is a great website to give your students a brain break and get
them up and moving. This website has videos from dancing,
movement, stretching, kinesthetic learning, sports/exercise, calming,
and coordination. This is good for students who may not be able to sit
still for long periods of time as well as just young students because
most cannot sit still for long periods of time.
2. www.teachertube.com
- This is an awesome website for just about any type of curriculum. It
has different categories from math, science, reading, to fine arts,
special education, news and journalism and professional development.
You can upload things to a sharable link to let other people look at your
documents. There are also videos, groups, classrooms, collections, and
audios that are available as well for different categories.
3. www.wordsmyth.net
- This is a dictionary website that is easier for students to use in the
classroom or at home. There are different types of dictionaries that you
can chose to use, so if you have a classroom of younger children, you
can chose the childrens dictionaries. There is an option for word of the
day, which is something you can do as part of the morning message. I
think this website would be great for students when they are writing
research papers.
4. www.exchange.smarttech.com
- This website is where you can find where the standards are aligned
with any sources you might need in the specific state that you might
be teaching in. It also shows different training modules that you can
utilize to help with anything you might need help with. It has games
and interactive apps for you, as the teacher to utilize in the classroom
for management tools as well, which I found interesting.
5. www.scholastic.com/kids/stacks
- This is a great website for students to utilize for reading purposes. This
website can be utilized as an online reading station. There are games
and challenges that they can utilize to help them with comprehension
and other reading strategies. There are also videos and blogs for the
students to utilize if they want to learn more about different subject
areas. I think this is a great site if a student is more interested in a
specific subject like bats or whales, they can go on here and look into
them a little more.
6. www.crayola.com/lesson-plans
- This website was great for a teacher looking for lesson plans and
creative activities for their students. This website will help engage their
students in writing while reading a book or working with numbers or
science. I think it is important to think of this website as a tool because
there are a lot of different small activities you can do that you might
not think of and they have them there for free.
7. www.discoveryeducation.com
- This site doesnt just have science, but it also has reading, math, and
social studies. The curriculum is state centered, and recent to the

common core. There are video clips so its a great way to engage
students for a new unit or to help review. It also has lesson plans,
assignments, quizzes, etc.
8. www.kidblog.org
- The teacher can create a class blog for students to create a user name
and password. Its protected, so only the classroom can utilize it. You
can pose problems or questions on it and it is a great way for the
students to post their answers or ask questions for their peers as to
why they thought the way they thought or to cheer each other on. Its
a chance to send the students home with something that they might
enjoy doing while keeping them connected with their peers and
yourself as the teacher.
9. http://smithsonianeducation.org/
- This website was by far one of the coolest I found. It has a different
page for families, students, and educators. Each one went to a
different page explaining different topics that the students might be
able to explore at that time. There are games and activities for the
students to do as well as educational videos and idea labs for them to
discover more about the world around them. For the educators they
have different lesson plans that you can take back to your own
classroom as well as resources that align to the national, common
core, and/or state standards. I think its cool that websites are helping
align their resources to the standards because it helps educators
dictate what will help their students and what they might have to
change to help their students.
10.http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/
- This website also has the standards for common core and national. The
teacher/educator can also browse any subject by grade level to get
ideas, lesson plans, videos, etc. This website gives you the ability to
favorite, share, create quizzes, puzzles and build lessons to share with
the community online.