Virtual Fieldtrips

Just found this site with virtual fieldtrips for many, many places. Students can travel around the world right from your classroom! Check it out by clicking on the title of this post!

Office Depot Star Teacher Appreciation

Star Teacher Appreciation Week and Breakfast coming soon to an Office Depot close to you! Click on the title of this post to find out when. Enjoy free Breakfast and free giveaways on the Saturday of your store's event week. You'll get a free tote, samples of Office Depot products and a coupon book with offers throughout the year. During the week long event, you'll receive 20% off qualifying in-store purchases. Not a Star Teacher?? Sign up right away because you'll need a card to participate! Just click on the title and find the sign up link right under the 20% off ad.

Live Binder on Immigration

I've put together some resources for my unit on immigration. Using a Live Binder is a great way to organize interactives, sites, lesson plans, etc. If you haven't used Live Binders check it out here. It's easy to use and they have plenty of tutorials and are quick to respond if you need help. So...back to my Immigration Live Binder...well, it's a work in progress but so far it has more than enough to target the few Content Standards and Objectives for 6th grade. Check it out by clicking the link below or the title of this post.

Immigration Resources

PBS Learning Media

I recently signed up for an account from PBS Learning Media and I wondered why I needed one more ed site! Now I know. I have found amazing lessons to support reading comprehension skills and I've already added them to my lesson plans and my 6th Grade site. Pigs as Pets is a great lesson to review main ideasand analyzing information. The lesson plan includes worksheets, rubrics, transcripts and a great video. Everything is lined out and easy to follow.

To find PBS Learning Media just click on the title of this post and sign up for an account. Start browsing the 14,000+ resources, favorite the ones you like and tag them for use later. Trust me, this is a great site so check it out right now!!

Yellowstone National Park

If you can't get to Yellowstone this summer, make sure you check out all the on-line opportunties. Take a virtual field trip by clicking here. You have a choice of 17 free electronic trips. Visit the Old Faithful Visitor Center by clicking here. You'll start with a flyover of the park finally landing near Old Faithful. You can click here to go to a listing of on-line resources from National Parks. Find videos and photos by clicking here. A series of short, 4 to 22 minute, videos are included along with links to webcams, slide shows and field trips. Click here to view the new Old Faithful streaming webcam. You can also find lots of photos to use in the classroom by clicking here. In fact the photo I used of Barronette Peak was from the 13,000+ collection. The main site which can be accessed by clicking on the title of the post has all the links I mentioned plus more...much more. It's almost as good as being there, but not quite!

Simple K12 Webinar

Click on the title to head to a free webinar from Simple K12. You will be introduced to 5 webtools.

My Fake Wall
Wetoku
Wordle
BibMe
StoryBird
And an extra one...Popplet

Great PD sitting right in my living room and it's free! Thanks SimpleK12!

PBS Learning Media

Here's a new site from PBS...new today! PBS has collected over 14,000 resources and have organized them based on subject area. You can search their resources, tag them and add them to your favorites for use later in the classroom. Check it out by clicking on the title of this post.