Websites+&+Apps

PBS Kids- []
 * I would use PBS kids in my classroom as a fun, alternative way for learning.

Highlights Kids- []
 * Highlight kids is a great site for younger grades. There are games and jokes for them, but also good educational information. For example, there is spotlight on history, science, etc. depending on the day and what specific holidays are around the corner.

Starfall- []
 * Starfall is a great learning tool for the end of the day. It is full of games on its site for children to play and use their brain even when they do not know they are. This is a great site for your younger grade level, elementary school children.

Brainpop- http://www.brainpop.com/
 * Brainpop is a great tool to use when introducing new topics or units to your class. The students love the videos. Brainpop also has games you can play with your students to have interaction with technology and your students all at once. They even have resources for the teacher to use. This is an excellent teaching tool site.

Fun Brain- http://www.funbrain.com/
 * Fun brain is a clean, user friendly game site for students to use when they have finished with their work. K-5 students can use this site for games.

http://classroom.4teachers.org
 * This is a great web tool for virtually setting up your classroom floor plan. This is a great tool in letting you see how much space you have for certain things in your classroom.

scholastic- http://www.scholastic.com/home
 * Scholastic is a fantastic resource for teachers to use. There is a plethora of ideas, books, lessons, activities, procedures, decor, etc. at your fingertips on scholastic. This is a must use website for teachers everywhere.

Teachers Pay Teachers- http://www.teacherspayteachers.com
 * This is an excellent website for finding lesson plan ideas to keep teachers from reinventing the wheel. The great part is that if you come up with an awesome idea you can sell your own idea to other teachers, too. This is a great website to spend hours on getting ideas for good lessons from.

Pinterest- http://www.pinterest.com
 * This website is great for a multitude of things, but certainly has many things usable for teachers and their classrooms. There are pictures, links to websites, education boards, etc. all on this one website. It takes you to a whole world of teaching.

Busy Teacher- http://www.busyteacher.org
 * The name itself gives away the usefulness of this website for teachers. There are great ideas and plans on this website that are very user friendly.

Youtube- http://www.youtube.com
 * Youtube has great videos for just you as the teacher as well as usable videos for lessons in your classroom. Teachers just need to make sure to pre watch all videos from youtube before playing them in the classroom.

Teacher Channel- http://teachingchannel.org
 * This has great videos to motivate teachers. There are also teacher profiles on this website. I like using this website for incite into the teaching strategies and personalities of other teachers to see what I might want to imitate in my own teaching.

Schooltube- http://www.schooltube.com/
 * This is a great website to use for upper grades. This website can be used by your students to turn in assignments that they might have made a video for instead of the paper method. The teacher can go in and create a classroom or school and have their students upload videos so that only the teacher can see the video. It is great for alternate assignments.

Blog by K-1 grade teacher- http://k1teachingbesties.blogspot.com/p/katies-kindergarten-classroom.html
 * I like this blog because it is not solely for one grade, but has ideas for both kindergarten and first grade classrooms.

Dr. Seuss website- http://www.obseussed.com/
 * This is a blog all about Dr. Seuss themed ideas for the classroom, lesson plans, procedures, etc. You name it and it is Seussified! I think this teacher's idea of keeping Dr. Seuss alive in her classroom is great.

Teaching With Simplicity- http://www.teachingwithsimplicity.com
 * This is a great source for ideas in keeping your lessons and classroom simple. I can see myself using some of their ideas, but maybe not all of them in the future.

Education World- http://www.educationworld.com
 * Education world is a great resource for teachers. There is even a tab just for teachers. There is also a lesson plan tab. This is a great website for an extra resource in figuring out a lesson.

Blog Lovin'- http://www.bloglovin.com/frame?post=1458731125&group=0&frame_type=b&blog=3770934&link=aHR0cDovL3d3dy50ZWFjaGluZ3N1cGVycG93ZXIuY29tLzIwMTMvMDgvY2xhc3Nyb29tLWNvbW11bml0eS1idWlsZGluZy5odG1s&frame=1&click=0&user=0
 * This is a great 3rd grade teacher's blog and has fantastic ideas. Her blog is definitely a usable resource when setting up your own classroom.

http://www.edutopia.org/
 * This is an informative site for teachers. There are different educational headlines off to the side. There are also tabs on how to use technology in your classroom. I like that this site is definitely a 21st century site for 21st century teachers.

http://allstudentscanshine.blogspot.com
 * This blog is written by a 1st grade teacher, which is the grade I personally love teaching myself. I found her blog to be an amazing source of classroom ideas for this grade level. Some of her ideas can even be used in Kindergarten and even Second grade.

http://www.mpmschoolsupplies.com/
 * This is a great site for purchasing teacher supplies for your classroom. There are even specific supplies depending on the type of classroom you teach in.

Set Game- http://www.setgame.com/
 * This is a great site for 5th grade and middle grades. There is a daily brain puzzle for them to solve and you can even use it for friendly competition because the puzzle times you to see how long it takes to solve. Great idea to get them engaged before diving into math.

http://glitzyinfirstgrade.blogspot.com/
 * I like this blog because I want to teach first grade myself. She has great ideas and allows you to see into her own classroom. I really like some of the lessons she has posted on her page.

http://www.teachingstrategies.com/
 * Teaching strategies is a great website to help teachers come up with ideas for their classroom. There are ideas for assessment, ways of teaching the common core, connections to your students' families, and even professional development. This is a great tool in helping work on a teacher's professionalism.

http://www.k-5mathteachingresources.com/classroom-environment.html
 * This website had great physical environment ideas for math classrooms K-5. This article on this site even includes the proper and most useful manipulatives that are grade level specific. It was a great article to read about how to physically set up a positive math class environment in elementary teaching.

https://www.teachervision.com/
 * Teacher vision is a great website for lesson plans and printables to use in the classroom. It is organized by grades, subjects, themes, etc. I would definitely use this sight for printables and even classroom management ideas.

http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/
 * This is a great website for lesson plan ideas as well. I like how this website has the lesson plans organized under tabs depending on the theme. The way it is organized makes it easier to possibly find the type of lesson plan you are looking for.

http://thefabulousfirstgrade-sarah.blogspot.com/
 * This blog is incredible if you are planning to teach a first grade classroom. She has outstanding ideas and lessons to be used in the first grade classroom. She even posts her weekly lesson plans for you to follow if you are just at a loss of knowing what to plan. Her page is easy to navigate as well. I really enjoyed surfing through her blog and seeing what insight she had for fellow teachers.

http://www.peaceloveandfirstgrade.com/
 * This is another great first grade teacher blog. She has great ideas, pictures, lesson plans, etc. I like that she shares what works and what does not work with you.

http://www.ilovethatteachingidea.com
 * This is a great site with tons of ideas for teaching. I like how it is broken down by subject and category to make it easier to find what you are searching for.

http://thecreativechalkboard.blogspot.com/2012/08/classroom-tour-pictures-galore.html
 * I love this blog! The pictures of her classroom are exactly like I image my future classroom being decorated similar to. Her ideas and thought process are extremely similar to my own. Therefore, I love getting ideas from her to hopefully one day use in my own classroom.