ELA Links

http://www.edgalaxy.com/literacy/

http://www.anenglishteacher.net/LessonPlans/MostDangerousGamelessonplan.htm

5-day plan for teaching “The Most Dangerous Game” to 9^th graders

http://www.scoop.it/t/creating-newspapers-in-the-classroom

http://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/

http://www.etsy.com/listing/79506162/chaucers-the-canterbury-tales-middle?ref=cat3_gallery_13

This would be a great project for English classes

http://busyteacher.org/11342-how-to-teach-english-punctuation-sustem.html

This is from a college professor who is combatting punctuation "myths" kids pick up in school. It's a nice article. I like the how the "commas go where you breath" myth is debunked.

http://secondarysolutionsblog.com/2012/03/attacking-the-common-core-standards-informational-texts-part-one/

Ideas, tips, and tools for the middle and high school English Language Arts teacher

http://www.buzzfeed.com/donnad/phrases-we-owe-to-shakespeare

Things we say today that we owe to Shakespeare

Math Links

http://www.edgalaxy.com/numeracy/

http://www.khanacademy.org/

With over 3,300 videos on everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and hundreds of skills to practice, Khan Academy is on a mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/educators/

Using Wolfram|Alpha in the Classroom

Wolfram|Alpha is a free online computational knowledge engine that generates answers to questions in real time by doing computations on its own vast internal knowledge base. Our long-term goal is to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable and accessible to everyone. This can be valuable to educators in many ways.

All-School Links and Ideas

Great idea for those bothersome cords!

http://www.superteachertools.com/jeopardy/ - Jeopardy generator that can be used with SmartBoard or projected from a computer.

http://www.classroomjr.com/3-creative-ways-teachers-can-use-pinterest/

Using Pinterest in the classroom

http://www.edgalaxy.com/teaching-ideas/

Mind Map

http://www.nicksenger.com/csc/101-essential-resources-for-catholic-educators

10 Essential Resources for Catholic Educators

http://www.ateacherstreasure.com/p/freebies.html

Freebies for Teachers

http://www.catholiceducation.org/

Catholic Education Resource Center

Use Wordle for class list and then frame to display

BEGINNING OF THE YEAR PROJECT! Give each member a puzzle piece to decorate... keeping the edges intact so it can be re-assembled. Use for a lesson in tolerance... how each individual piece is beautiful on its own. But what a masterpiece you get when you put them all together! Cute for decorating and getting to know you! – Great for House

http://www.giftcardgranny.com/blog/the-complete-list-of-66-teacher-discounts/

Complete List of Teacher Discounts

http://getbuttonedup.com/2009/12/30/tool-free-printable-goal-list-form/

Printable Goal List

http://edudemic.com/2011/12/15-flipped-classrooms/

Facebook Bulletin Board

http://www.upcyclededucation.com/2012/03/textbook-quote-activity-guest.html

Text Quote Activity – Great for Every Classroom

http://www.watchknowlearn.org/

Free Educational Videos for the Classroom

https://www.teachingchannel.org/

Watch teachers at work in their classrooms

http://teaching.uncc.edu/articles-books/best-practice-articles/goals-objectives/writing-objectives-using-blooms-taxonomy

Writing objectives using Blooms Taxonomy

Have one person sit on a chair in front of a white board while the others wrote a positive phrase about them. Take a picture to give to each person. A very creative and positive group activity!!

make magnets with teacher info for parents on back-to-school night

http://allthingscommoncore.com/

Developing an Understanding of the Common Core Standards

http://evernote.com/