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Art Idea Sites
Crayola The Crayola website is full of tips and projects for parents, kids, and teachers.
Preschool Express The Preschool Express site is full of great ideas for art, music, games, and holidays.  I especially like the collection of patterns!
Kinder Art This site is full of wonderful art projects categorized by grade level and project type.
Bullying Prevention Sites
Stop Bullying Now! This website includes great information for kids, parents, and teachers.  The site also includes great "webisodes" to watch and discuss!
Classroom Management Sites
Discipline Help Discipline Help offers suggestions for over one hundred discipline problems.
Early Childhood Sites
Dr. Jean Dr. Jean's site is one that you must visit!  It is packed with free downloads to use in your classroom!
Mrs. Meacham's Classroom Snapshots Another great site with information. ideas, and downloads for all subject areas.
Alphabet-Soup Alphabet-Soup is full of teaching materials for young children (K-2).  
Hubbard's Cupboard This site is full of early childhood resources that can be used in Pre-School, Kindergarten, and First Grade.
Jan Brett's Personalized Interactive Award Generator Jan Brett has numerous options for generating quick awards.  Includes options like shoe tying, zipping clothes, and loosing a tooth.
KinderKorner KinderKorner provides a variety of resources for primary level teachers. Most ideas can be adapted for intermediate level teachers.
The Virtual Vine Another great early childhood resource.
Educational Information Sites
Beth Newingham's Third Grade (Teacher Resources) This site is full of ideas and resources in a variety of subject areas.

Dr. Arlys Peterson

From the University of Sioux Falls, this site has numerous links to WebQuests, teacher tools, and other educational information.
Laura Candler's Teaching
Resources
This site is one teacher's personal file cabinet full of teaching ideas.
Sites for Teachers This is an all inclusive list of websites for teachers.
Staff Development  for Educators The teacher resources link contains numerous resources, classroom strategies, and activities.
Handwriting Sites
Amazing Handwriting Worksheet Maker This site helps you create handwriting practice pages for traditional or modern manuscript and cursive.
Handwriting for Kids This site helps you create handwriting practice pages for manuscript and cursive.  It also has printable practice sheets for math and other curriculum areas.
Language Arts Sites
Carl's Corner

This site has a huge variety of ideas from phonics to centers.

Spelling City
Children's Authors and Illustrators This site is full of links for a variety of author's and illustrators. 
First School Years Check this site for free printables, worksheets, and resources for students in the primary grades.
Giggle Poetry This site includes poems for students to read and rate, examples on how to write different types of poems, and information about poets.
Linda Jancola's Site for 6+1 Traits This site offers great lesson ideas for using the 6+1 Traits in your classroom. It also offers easy rubrics to use with the program.
Literature Web Sites from Mountain City Elementary School This site offers a listing of web sites dedicated to trade book reading units. 
Miss Larson's Personal Library Inventory My personal library inventory includes themes and guided reading levels.
Mountain City Elementary--Reading Units Find links to reading units for a number of popular children's literature.
NWREL The NWREL (6+1 Traits) site includes many lesson plans for any grade level.  They are organized by the writing traits and grade level.
Reading Lady Check out this site for information on Four Blocks Literacy and Guided Reading tips, strategies, and ideas.
SD DOE 6+1 Traits This site contains links to 6+1 Writing Traits lesson plans sorted by grade.  It also includes practice links and kid-friendly rubrics.
Tampa Reads--Phonics Desk Worksheets This site has multiple worksheets to use with your phonics instruction.
Teaching Heart This site is includes links to reader's theater, reading ideas, webquests, free activity sheets, classroom ideas and more!
Speakaboos Speakaboos reads favorite childhood stories with your child! Many favorites have been adapted through celebrity readings, new illustrations, and original music.
WriteDesign WriteDesign includes numerous graphic organizers to use with literature and other reading assignments.
Math/Science Sites

Illuminations by Marcopolo

Illuminations has 521 math lesson plans available for all grade levels and matched to NCTM standards.
Math Fact Cafe This site includes games, flashcards, and math worksheets.
NRICH The NRICH site contains useful resources to support math content knowledge and problem-solving/thinking skills.
Project Interactivate This site includes interactive activities and links for math and science.
Mathwire Mathwire is a site of standards-based math activities for all grades.  You can search ideas by topic or month/theme (such as 100th Day!).
Using Native American Legends to Teach Mathematics This site includes Native American legends retold by students.  Each problem is accompanied by a variety of CGI type math problems for students to solve.
Multi-Subject Sites
Game Templates by Dr. Jeff Ertzberger This is an awesome website with downloadable game files....word, excel, and PowerPoint.  You must have PowerPoint, Word, or Excel programs with copyright 2002 or newer. 
TLS Books TlSbooks.com offers variety of free printable worksheets for home and school use.
Classtools.net Classtools.net allows teachers to create free games, activities and diagrams for their classrooms!
ABC Teach ABC Teach offers thousands of free printables in a variety of areas.
A to Z Teacher Stuff This site provides lesson ideas, theme related material, printables, tips, and more.
Can Teach This website offers a variety of elementary resources including lesson plans, songs, and poems.
edHelper This site was created by teachers and has worksheets, lesson activities, classroom helpers and monthly themes in math, science, language arts and social studies.
Education World A searchable database of lesson plans and ideas.
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators offers numerous links to curriculum and professional development sites.
Kid's Page Archive This site has a variety of free printables in multiple categories.  It also includes great kindergarten skill sheets!
KidZone KidZone contains free activity worksheets and lessons for math, phonics, science, and geography.
School Express School Express has a variety of free and member-only printables for all subjects.
Teacher Vision Teacher Vision is full of lesson plan ideas, teaching tools, and much, much more. 
The Resource Room The Resource Room offers many tools and strategies for "interesting learners" in both reading and math.
Weekly Reader Weekly Reader's Teacher pages are a great resource to extend your Weekly Reader student issue.  Make sure to check out the issue links and reproducibles.
Sites With Free Teacher Tools
Teacher Files This site is a great source of free resources for teachers.  Resources include ideas, clipart, activities, and lesson plans.
4Teachers This site contains awesome teaching tools such as rubric makers and checklists.
Discovery School Teacher Find PuzzleMaker and a link to Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators as well as many other teaching tools here.
Edutopia Online Edutopia contains articles on innovative classrooms, assessments, and professional development.
Kathy Schrock's Icing on the Cake:  Online Tools for Classroom Use This site is a great list of online tools for both teachers and students.
Scholastic Book Wizard This is a great site for finding information on reading levels and teachable skills for a large selection of literature.
Teacher Tools This site contains great ideas for lessons, bulletin boards, games, notes home, and other useful items.
Teach Net This site contains lesson plans as well as awesome teaching tools to download!