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Instructify Free Online Resources
This site lists free resources for teachers to stock their toolboxes with classroom ideas and methods of instruction.
http://instructify.com/about/
Salmon Khan’s online portal
A video library covering a large selection of K-12 topics for your students.
http://www.khanacademy.org/
Teaching Channel
Teaching Channel is a free video showcase -- on the Internet and TV -- of inspiring and effective teaching practices in America's schools.
https://www.teachingchannel.org/
PBS LearningMedia™
PBS LearningMedia™ offers easy instant access to thousands of classroom-ready, digital resources including videos perfect for the Interactive Whiteboard.
http://ecb.pbslearningmedia.org/
TeachersFirst
TeachersFirst is a free collection of lessons, units, and web resources.
http://www.teachersfirst.com/index.cfm
Almost a Third Grader

Welcome to your site built exclusively for you. Your 2nd grade teachers want you to succeed in 3rd grade and hit the ground running on your first day of school. We have created this site to help you do just tha.

Check out this website that was created by Megan Zachman, Second grade teacher at Middleton Elementary School

http://www.almostathirdgrader.com/about-our-site.html

You can read the wonderful story behind this website on page 15 of the Winter Volume 1 issue of Teaching Today MN.

Using Old Maps as Tools to Explore Our World
By closely examining these unique historical documents, students learn to see maps as more than just tools for locating places.
http://teachinghistory.org/teaching-materials/teaching-guides/24070
C-SPAN Classroom
C-SPAN Classroom is a free primary source for social studies teachers. They seek to enhance the teaching of social studies through C-SPAN’s primary source programming and websites.
http://www.c-spanclassroom.org/
Wide Angle
These resources will enrich the study of Global History by using contemporary examples as jumping-off points to engage students with historical themes that were as relevant in the past as they are today.
http://www.teachersdomain.org/special/wa/
The Geographic Advantage
The Geographic Advantage focuses on geographic investigations for students in support of the 11 research questions identified in the National Academy of Sciences' 2010 report, Understanding the Changing Planet.
http://geographicadvantage.aag.org
iCivics Resources
iCivics (formerly Our Courts) is a web-based education project designed to teach students civics and inspire them to be active participants in our democracy.
http://www.icivics.org/

Safe and Supportive Schools
http://dpi.wi.gov/sspw/s3.html
VetoViolence
Veto Violence has been developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to provide access to training and tools that focus on the primary prevention of violence.
http://www.vetoviolence.org/
Youth Physical Activity Guidelines Toolkit
The CDC and several partner organizations have developed the Youth Physical Activity Guidelines Toolkit, which highlights strategies that schools, families, and communities can use to support youth physical activity.
http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/physicalactivity/guidelines.htm
The Nutrition Source
The Nutrition Source aims to provide timely, evidence-based information on diet and nutrition for clinicians, allied health professionals, and the public.
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/

The International Children's Digital Library
The International Children's Digital Library is an amazing open-access resource with hundreds of digital books in dozens of different languages.
http://en.childrenslibrary.org/
Quizlet
Quizlet allows you or your students to develop flash cards for your course with or without pictures and a text-to-speech feature.
http://quizlet.com/
Kindersay
Kindersay is a free online video website designed to help preschool and English as Second Language (ESL) children learn English words.
http://kindersay.com/
ReadWorks
This free site supplies educators with information about teaching reading comprehension to students of all ages.
http://www.readworks.org/
Plot Diagram
This mapping of plot structure allows readers and writers to visualize the key features of stories.
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/plot-diagram-30040.html
TRAILS
TRAILS is a knowledge assessment with multiple-choice questions targeting a variety of information literacy skills based on 3rd, 6th, 9th, and 12th grade standards.
http://www.trails-9.org/
Toontastic
This free app walks users through creating a puppet show using a story arc. At the end your animations and voice recording are played back in a cartoon.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/toontastic/id404693282?mt=8

JA Titan
Set in the year 2035, JA Titan creates a world in which players are CEOs of their own companies.
http://oldtitan.ja.org/home.php
How the Stock Market Works
This website was created to help you understand how stock trading works with this game.
http://www.howthemarketworks.com/
Jump$tart
Jump$tart is a national coalition of organizations dedicated to improving the financial literacy of pre-kindergarten through college-age youth by providing advocacy, research, standards and educational resources.
http://www.jumpstart.org/
Banzai
Merge classroom learning with real-world experience as students learn to make wise spending decisions.
http://www.teachbanzai.com/

The American Heart Association - Gardens
The American Heart Association is engaging students in fun, educational, hands-on investigations of nutritious fruits and vegetables in and out of the garden.
http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Getting
Healthy/HealthierKids/TeachingGardens/
Teaching-Gardens-Curriculum_UCM_
436630_SubHomePage.jsp
How to teach... superheroes
The Guardian Teacher Network's resources demonstrate the many ways in which superheroes can be used in teaching. http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/teacher-blog/2013/mar/25/superheroes-teaching-resources-schools