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 * Instructions:**
 * 1) Scan the list of resources listed in the Key Information for Topic 5-C. Review the general links and then discipline links that are appropriate to you or that you find interesting.
 * 2) Bookmark the resources that you find valuable.
 * 3) Find two examples of lesson applications or educational resources that you found most helpful.
 * 4) Post these examples in the **table below**.


 * **Student name** || **Grade or Discipline** || **Links (include two)** || **Notes or Comments - Why did you find this useful?** ||
 * Ginny || School Counselor/ Grad class facilitator || @http://www.kellybear.com/TeacherTips.html

@http://www.schoolcounselor.com/ || Resource information for teachers and School Counselors to help them assist students.

School Counselor site for lesson plans, resources, technology tips, and a newsletter. || Grade 4 || [|Math lesson]
 * Shannon M. || Elementary

[|Spelling City] || This is a good link from Illuminations that has a lesson that wouls be a great resource for any math lesson. This particular one focuses on the area of creating nets for 3-D shapes!

I know this isn't a site from the key information, but I wanted to share it because it is one that I use with my students and I find it to be very useful. This is a great website to use for practicing spelling and vocabulary words. It has good activities in order to practice the definitions of words as well as spelling them and using them in sentences. ||
 * Chrissy Kirk || Upper Elementary || [|Multiple of 5's Domino Game]

[|Fractions] || The Domino Game is a great lesson for upper elementary. The students have the challenge of playing dominos and creating multiples of 5 in order to score points.

The Fractions lesson teaches students how to create equivlanet fractions. There is even an online fraction set that lets students create the two fractions and try to find one in between. This will be a great asset to the visual learners who struggle with the concept of fractions ||
 * Phil B. || Middle School Social Studies || [|Interactive Online Social Studies Activities]

[|American Civil War]

[|YouTube] || This is great link for online enrichment activities for American History. This site could be used for research, review, and application of new learning in an interactive, engaging way for our students.

Great lessons, resources, and activities for the American Civil War. Some really nice cross-curricular materials integrating reading, writing, and social studies.

As a social studies teacher, I find YouTube very helpful and useful in finding educational short video clips, especially from longer History Channel series or actual movies. ||
 * Shirley L. || High School Librarian/District Chair || []

[] || This resource is wonderful because it has general resources and resources that are also arranged by subject matter. This site corresponds to public broadcast television stations. This site has a lot of information that relates to English curriculums and resources for teaching various aspects of English from the English Language Learners to Shakespeare. || Social Studies || [|Fed Stats]
 * Mary Louise H || High School

[|Digital History] || The Fed Stats site is a great site for government classes or sociology research. You can search each state for demographic data. In addition you can locate national imformation by selecting a particular agency.

Digital History is a research site that has interactive maps, readings and additional research tools such as biographies. A great site for students and teachers. ||
 * Mary Hoffman || High School Algebra and Geometry || [|Algebra Balance Scales]

[|Adjustable Spinner] || The Algebra Balance Scales is and interactive activity for Alebra I. Students can explore and practice solving linear equations using a balance. This is from the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives site.

The Adjustable Spinner is an interactive tool that can be used for Algebra and Geometry. This is a great tool to use for probability lessons. This is from the Illuminations site. ||
 * Jennifer Collicott || High School Algebra || [|Virtual Manipulatives] || I found several ideas that I plan to add to my classroom immediately!

The first activity is the using the Line Plotter in Algebra grades 9 - 12. Students practice plotting a given point and then use the slope to plot the next point. Great practice for students learning how to graph using slope.

The second is the Fifteen Puzzle activity. I have several students who love to work with logic puzzles. These type of puzzles make use of analytical thinking and can really both challenge and engage some students. || Grade 2 || FunBrain
 * Rachel Speelman || Elementary
 * Rachel Speelman || Elementary

PBS Teachers || My students use FunBrain to practice educational skills in a fun, engaging way. Students play video games that enhance classroom lessons. The best part is that students love the games they play in school so much, that they choose to play them at home, as well.

PBS Teachers allows teachers to search for lessons based on grade level and content. The lessons include games, videos, and technology resources. || Science || []
 * Gloria Herlihy || Middle School

[] || This is a great activity on pan balancing with different shapes. You have to use multiple shapes to balance the pans and figure out their weights. I think it would be great for teaching problem solving as well as a great introductory activity for balancing chemical equations

This is a fun activity on pulling books with rubber bands without snapping yourself. It can be used to introduce concepts of inertia and friction. It's another great problem solving activity as students work in groups to figure out a good method. I will definitely use this in my classroom!! Always exciting to find new fun stuff. ||
 * Joe S. || First year college, Diesel/Heavy equipment technical program || []

[] || This link from YouTube describes the basic components of an air brake system and how the system works. It uses actual video footage as well as animation to demonstrate the operation of air-brakes.

The second link is also a link from YouTube. This short clip has a great animation on how a starter motor works. This would be a great help in our Basic Electricity course for technical students ||
 * Erica Blass || Pre-Kindergarten || [|PBS Kids]

[|Illuminations Concentration] || I have loved PBS Kids for years! They have many great games. Especially appropriate for my students are the Between the Lions games. We currently are playing Blending Bowl, ABCD Watermelon, and Arty's Smarty Doors. The teachers site has lots of resources for blending the games and video clips into lessons. It's truly a great site and has something for all elementary classes.

I found this math concentration game. I particuarly like it because the students are not able to match two of the exact same thing. For example: in the shapes variety, the students would match one visual shape and one verbally spoken shape name; in the numbers variety, the students would match the number of dots, the written numeral, or the written word. ||
 * Molly D. || Middle/High School Math || Nation Library of Virtual Manipulatives

NCTM website || I liked the Manipulatives, hands on activites are great for visual learners. I found adding up the integers circle game and adding fractions to be particularly good. My students have difficult understanding both these concepts. It would be great to let the students play the game first and try to come up with the "rules" themselves, it would be discovery learning.

I like the NCTM site because it ties in the standards with the activies. We are required to say what standard we are working on every day in our class, this helps make it easier. I really enjoy the tangarm puzzles during a geometry lesson. The students would enjoy the challenge too! I could also tell them that if they enjoy it there is an application on most phones and ipods that uses tangrams. ||  ||

Smith || Middle School || __ PBS Teachers __
 * Theodore

__ Fun Brain __ || PBS Teachers has been very helpful to me throughout my teaching career. It provides teachers with useful materials that can be used in the classroom. If I am teaching about a sport and need students to see the proper way a sport is played, PBS Teachers provides students with helpful tutorials. I enjoy the fact it provides information on students that will broaden their knowledge in the academics and the arts. It focuses on educating a well rounded person. Teachers can use the videos in class if they hook up the computer to an LCD projector. PBS Teachers provides teachers with effective lesson plans and great activities that will enhance any learning environment.

My students LOVE to use Fun Brain!!! It reinforces skills taught in the classroom in a fun and creative way that students enjoy to use. Although I teach physical education, I still reinforce academic strategies in my class. For example, math baseball uses math strategies and physical education strategies all in one. Fun brain is one of the websites my students are approved to visit online. It provides educational games filled through an engaging. experience. ||
 * Stacy Kusko || Kindergarten || [|Illuminations-Let's Count to 10]

[|Brain Pop- Tally Charts and Bar Graphs] || The website is PERFECT for use in combination with our existing math program. Right now we are working on reading, counting and writing the numbers 1-20. This link provides me with great ideas such as different number poems to use when teaching formation as well as many printables that can be used as well. I've always enjoyed using Brain Pop when I taught in 2nd grade (it was also free at the time). I did check out some of the free videos and found this one on Charts and Tally Graphs for my kindergarteners. It has fun graphics and explains the topic perfectly! I'm so glad I found this website again. :) ||
 * Chi-Chi Onuoha || Elementary || discoveryeducation

[|Roy the Zebra] || This website is excellent to use for video streaming in any content areas, games, etc. In addition, my district uses discovery education as our developer of our benchmark assessments. Based on skills that are addressed, teachers gain access to additional resources that are on the assessment. Roy the Zebra website is great for emerging readers. There are interactive stories, games and worksheets that can help teachers use during guided reading. ||