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1Glitter Text: Free sparkly words!

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2Animated GIFS: GIFGIFs lets you easily link and share animated GIFs on MySpace, eBay, Orkut, HI5, Facebook, Friendster, Tumblr,

GIFGIFs lets you easily link and share animated GIFs on MySpace, eBay, Orkut, HI5, Facebook, Friendster, Tumblr...

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3Readability:

This is a free service in which you can insert text to determine the readability level through five different formulas.

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4Intervention Central

Intervention Central provides teachers, schools and districts with free resources to help struggling learners and implement Response to Intervention and attain the Common Core State Standards.

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5POWTOON: Create Animated Videos and Presentations

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6VideoNotes :

Allows students to view YouTube, Coursera, Khan Academy, Udacity, edX, and Vimeo videos and take notes as they watch. The notes are automatically synchronized with a position in the film, allowing them to jump back to that film position later. The video/notes file automatically saves to Google Drive and can then be shared for viewing or collaborative notetaking. Other features include playing the video at faster or slower speeds, inserting snapshots from the film in the notes, and incorporating more than one video into a note file.

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7American Association of School Libraries Best Websites of 2014:

The 2014 Best Websites for Teaching & Learning foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration. They are free, Web-based sites that are user friendly and encourage a community of learners to explore and discover.

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8Media History Digital Library :

The Media History Digital Library is a collection of resources providing online access to the history of movies, broadcasting, and sound recording. The Magazine Collections currently have over 800,000 scanned pages with more pages being added frequently. Users may read material online, download the PDF, or visit the Internet Archive page to find cataloging information and additional download options. For students and history fans alike, this amazing resource will provide a glimpse into the early years of movies, radio and television broadcasting http://mediahistoryproject.org/

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9The Why Files :

The Why Files was created at the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the auspices of National Institute for Science Education with support from the National Science Foundation. It is currently funded through the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Each week, we bring you a new story on the science behind the news.

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10The Digital Public Library of America :

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is an online collection of millions of photographs, maps, sounds, manuscripts, books, and more accessible anytime, anywhere, for anyone. DPLA materials come from museums, archives, and libraries across the United States, and provides primary source examples of our American Heritage and human history. With DPLA, users can explore resources by topic, map, format, timeline, or exhibition. With a free account, items can be saved to lists and shared with others. Grades 6-12.

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11Science Buddies :

The Teacher's Guide to Science Projects was developed to provide teachers with everything they need to assign, manage, and evaluate a science project program in the classroom, including lots of tips to make a science project a fun educational experience. While this guide was designed for teachers who have never assigned a science project, it also offers a variety of tools and tips that seasoned teachers will find useful.

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12Pro-Con :

Our mission: Promoting critical thinking, education, and informed citizenship by presenting controversial issues in a straightforward, nonpartisan, primarily pro-con format.

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13Stanford History Education Group :

Reading like a historian, Historian thinking matters, US and World History lessons.

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14Middle web :

MiddleWeb is all about the middle grades — with a sharp focus on teaching and learning in grades 4-8. Join us, learn about our 5 streams of content, and find out how to get involved.

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1550 Favorite Websites for the Middle Grades :

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16NewsELA :

Newsela is free for students to explore a world of nonfiction and test their comprehension. Updated daily with real-world news from major publications, students can participate in conversation about the most urgent topics of our time, all while becoming stronger readers.

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17NY Times Learning Network :

The NYT Learning Network offers teachers, students and parents stories ripped from the headlines of the New York Times and turned into standards-aligned lesson plans written by educators. The weekday features touch upon current events, vocabulary, math, literacy, science, history and more. All 13 years of the Network's content is searchable.And it’s all free, including hundreds of NYT stories directly accessed through Learning Network links. The blog-driven site also features guest commentary by educators, contests for students, and regular posts on themes like "This Day in History."

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18The Library of Congress :

The Library of Congress (LOC) is said to have at least one of everything. LOC has collected many resources for teachers on one page: lesson plans available by Common Core and state standards, PD opportunities, guides for using primary resources, and links to other LOC resources. For example, under Additional Resources, both the Center for the Book and the National Book Festival offer pages for teachers, teens, and children. Throughout the LOC, E/LA and social sciences resources dominate, but the arts and science are also represented. Online resources, including slides, video, and full text articles, are bountiful. At the Library of Congress homepage you'll find a link to US government and legislative resources arranged for educators and students.

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19PBS Learning Media :

Already 30% of American teachers access thousands of resources through PBS LearningMedia. The site, developed by PBS in partnership with Boston’s WGBH, offers free access by registration to K-12 educators and their students. The digital resources – videos, photos, audio clips, lesson plans and more – are aligned to Common Core and national standards. Searching is sharpened through filters for content area, grade, media and more. Professional development resources are also available. Among several collections is Inspiring Middle School Literacy: The Walmart Middle School Literacy Initiative which offers 40 online self-paced lessons in several subjects for grades 5-8. Also accessible through PBS LearningMedia is PBS NewsHour Extra with lessons based on the daily news. A custom fee-based upgrade is available to schools and districts.

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20Smithsonian :

Talk about "venerable." Building on its collection of books and artifacts (over 140 million) gathered over more than 160 years, the Smithsonian Institution offers a website for educators, students and parents. Teachers can search for Smithsonian educational resources that are aligned to Common Core or state standards by state, grade, and content area. The Smithsonian resources include lesson plans for most content areas. To save time and see if the topic you’re interested in is included, look over the subject list at the Resource Library. Elsewhere at the site, find world-wide geography resources and browse videos as well as recent findings at Smithsonian Science. Search the Smithsonian Encyclopedia for activities and games. Find invention and innovation materials at the Lemelson Center’s education resources page. In addition to the resource-packed children’s section, students will likely find lots to explore in Smithsonian Magazine. Free Technology for Teachers blogger Richard Byrne suggests even more Smithsonian sites in this June 2012 post.

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21Thinkfinity :

The Verizon Foundation’s Thinkfinity domain brings together several government and association sites so that visitors can search multiple resource databases at once. Partners include the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics’ Illuminations, the National Center for Family Literacy’s Wonderopolis, and many others across the curriculum. Visit the resources page to get an overview of the participating organizations and begin searches. To search for lesson ideas, filter a topic by individual grade or select a state standard and find lessons which include it, also by grade. Through its Community Hub, Thinkfinity provides a home for blogging and topical discussion threads. And in the Places area, you'll find a variety of educator interest groups, some open and others private. Access to Thinkfinity is free, with registration for some parts of the site. For tips on getting started, visit the Help Center.

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22Scholastic :

Literacy and learning have been the focus of Scholastic, Inc. for over 90 years, although the multi-billion-dollar company may be best known today as the publisher of The Hunger Games and the Harry Potter series. Scholastic continues to provide free resources reaching across content areas. A good place to begin: the dedicated Teachers Site (there's also one for parents, kids, and administrators, among others).Teachers can search for grade-specific lesson plans and extension activities, or visit the site's video section to access professional development materials, view book trailers and talks, and take their students on virtual field trips. Scholastic has also assembled a team of K-12 classroom teachers to blog at Top Teaching, where they write about classroom practice, subject-area matters, technology, classroom management, and more.

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23ReadWriteThink :

Sure to become a Common Core hangout, this rich collaboration between the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE, chartered 1911).

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24 Kids.gov :

Let's get out the organizational chart. Kids.gov is a branch of USA.gov, administered by an arm of the US General Services Administration (gsa.gov!). Promoted as "a safe place to learn and play," Kids.gov recommends resources for grades K-5, grades 6-8, and teacher/parent. Teachers will find lesson plans and activities as well as fuller lists of resources. Kids.gov draws on the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress for history links and is particularly strong in science, pulling together child-friendly segments of NASA, National Geographic, and more. The government section links to the National Archives and state government sites as well as the Government Printing Office Ben’s Guide to U.S. Government (that’s Ben Franklin, of course.) Kids. gov reaches beyond government sites to supply math, art and music resources and has lots about money, online safety, fitness, and nutrition. You can sign up for a weekly Kids.gov newsletter, too. Based on her belief that “Our democracy.

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25iCivics :

Based on her belief that “Our democracy depends upon an educated and engaged citizenry,” in 2009, retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor launched the iCivics program to counter the perceived lag in Americans’ understanding of civics. The free online resources, created by O’Connor and the iCivics staff, target middle grades students with engaging games, and teachers with standards-aligned resources including highly interactive curriculum units, lesson plans and web quests. Students can compare democracy to other forms of government as well as learn the structure of the US federal, state and local governments. Other topics cover federal budgeting, civil rights, citizenship and persuasive writing. In addition, iCivics links to a long list of online teacher resources such as C-SPAN Classroom and Landmark Cases.

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26History Channel :

History.com is packed with freely accessible essays and videos reaching back to pre-history (and to an era before the cable channel became quite so interested in pawn shops and collectibles). At the education page, History Classroom, teachers can access free study guides that relate to the channel’s programs. History Classroom also includes links to education resources at the Biography Channel. History. com’s content needs to be previewed for age-appropriate material. And keep an eye on the ads. History Channel maintains an active shopping space selling program recordings and related items.

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27World Fact Book :

Who better than a spy agency to profile the nations of the world? The CIA World Factbook offers data about most every country on Earth, and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency updates sections of the Factbook weekly. Used by employees of the US government, the publicly available online version of the Factbook (we have to assume there's a top secret one) can also help upper middle grades students locate wide-ranging demographics, history, governance information, maps and photos for nearly two hundred countries. The FAQ page explains why some Factbook information differs from what countries report about themselves.

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28EDSITEment! :

It may be a victim of overly clever naming, but EDSITEment! is “the best of the humanities on the web” according to its sponsors, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Verizon Foundation. From the homepage, access EDSITEment!’s curated websites, lesson plans, interactives and multi-media resources, often searchable by grade. Topics stretch across American history and culture and reach into ancient civilizations and humanities around the world. Search the daily Calendar by subject or event for links to related resources. Access NEH Connections for NEH resources, many from PBS and NPR, as well as articles from Humanities Magazine such as “The Civil War to a Seventh Grader” about a series of middle school video projects. Though sections of the Reference Shelf, including Maps and Images, are under construction as of Summer 2013, students and teachers can access a literary glossary and a collection of Spanish language websites.

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29Arts Edge :

Washington DC's Kennedy Center has created ArtsEdge to showcase its online collection of education resources about the performing and visual arts. Teachers will find detailed multimedia lesson plans (with a grades 5-8 search band), inquiries into arts pedagogy, and arts national and state standards. Visitors can also search ArtsEdge by theme, ranging from Ancient Greece to Life Cycles to Poetry & Literature to Outer Space. The new Families portal (at home & at school) is also worth a visit. You can also jump to the main Kennedy Center site and search more than a decade of Millennium Stage video performances featuring eclectic artists and even a sprinkling of school bands.

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30NASA :

It’s hard not to rocket right into NASA’s website, what with so many intriguing pathways to explore just on the homepage.

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31National Geographic :

It’s hard not to rocket right into NASA’s website, what with so many intriguing pathways to explore just on the homepage. With just a little restraint, middle grades teachers can click on their own 5-8 page and find options to involve themselves in a wide range of topics and media. Fourth grade educators may also want to click here. Younger students can launch themselves into the NASA Kids’ Club while tweens and young teens head over to a section that's a bit more grown up. Women@NASA have developed the Women & Girls Initiative to introduce girls to NASA women in STEM professions and to let girls experience STEM-related activities. ALSO: Aspire to Inspire spotlights women leaders, and NASA G.I.R.L.S. invites grade 5-8 girls and boys to be part of the future through its virtual mentoring program, Change the World through STEM, if they are willing to commit to a 5-week experience and have access to the internet and a virtual chat program.

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32Eyejot on the Desktop

Eyejot is the first comprehensive, client-free, online video messaging platform ideal for both personal and business communications. Eyejot offers everyone the ability to create and receive video messages in a self-contained, spam-free environment. With nothing to install, you can start using Eyejot immediately with any browser, on any platform. It even features built-in support for iTunes™ (and iPods™), mobile devices and social networks. Joining Eyejot takes just moments and there are three account levels to choose from: free, PRO and PRO Plus. The best way to learn what Eyejot can do and how well it works is to try it yourself.

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33SAS Curriculum Pathways:

A free resource which offers online content and resources for grades 6 and above including ELA, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies and Spanish.

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34Kelly Gallagher Articles of the Week

This is a teacher-created resource of informational text articles so that ELA teachers can include more highly-engaging, informational text articles in their lessons. This site is a must see!!

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35Voki :

Voki is a FREE service that lets you create customized speaking characters.

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36Teaching Tolerance

A place for educators to find thought-provoking news, conversation and support for those who care about diversity, equal opportunity and respect for differences in schools.

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37Middle School Public Debate Program

This page archives past and active debate topics, and includes links to resources on the World Wide Web for successful and challenging middle school debate topics. This page contains research links to information about various topics then provides the students and teachers with informational texts about each side of the debate topic.

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38Think Like a Scientist

A blog dedicated to exploring the nature of science.

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39Tween Tribune

This site contains news articles for teens about current events that are of high interest.

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40Discovery Channel

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41The Reading and Writing Project

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42Ted Talks

A site filled with a selection of videos on various topics presented by amazing speakers.

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43Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg offers over 42,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online

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44Teaching Kids News

Timely, relevant news articles for kids, educators in the classroom and parents at home.

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45Time for Kids

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46DogoNews

Fodder for young minds.

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47Great Websites for Kids

A collection of websites sponsored by the ASSOCIATION FOR LIBRARY SERVICE TO CHILDREN a division of the American Library Association.

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48Kahoot it :

Kahoot! is a classroom response system which creates an engaging learning space, through a game-based digital pedagogy.

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49Coh-Metrix

Coh-Metrix is a system for computing computational cohesion and coherence metrics for written and spoken texts. Coh-Metrix allows readers, writers, educators, and researchers to instantly guage the difficulty of written text for the target audience. Free online versions of Coh-Metrix are available for trial purposes.

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50Schmoop

This is a resource for educators and includes learning guides on a host of subjects including literature, poetry, Shakespeare, mythology, biographies and literary criticism. It also offers step-by-step writing guides for various writing purposes.

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51Tellagami

Tellagami is an app that lets you create and share a quick animated Gami video.

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52Vocaroo

The premiere voice recording service.

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53Literacy website by teacher leader, Kelly Philbeck

Kelly Philbeck is a wonderful teacher who we met at SREB! She is a wonderful resource. Check out her website.

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54The Literature Network

The Literature Network offers searchable online literature for the student, educator, or enthusiast. To find the work you're looking for start by looking through the author index. We currently have over 3500 full books and over 4400 short stories and poems by over 260 authors. Our quotations database has over 8500 quotes, and our quiz system features over 340 quizzes.