ELA
Citation Machine: A handy fill-in-the-blanks aide to create citations according to Modern Language Association (MLA) or American Psychological Association (APA) standards.
EasyBib: Like CitationMachine but different, this citation creation engine is very Chrome-friendly. You have a choice between asking the site to find a specific citation or use the "manual" button to build one from the information you have on hand.
Newsela: Hand-picked daily news items rewritten in a variety of lexiles that allow the student to choose the reading level with which they're comfortable.
Project Gutenberg: More than 46,000 ebooks available free online, many downloadable to mobile devices, including canon classics Beowulf, Pride and Prejudice, The Metamorphosis and more.
Project Gutenberg Audio: A more refined selection of human-voiced and computer-generated works including many curriculum-appropriate titles, such as Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio; DeFoe's Robinson Crusoe; several offerings from Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and many more.
General
Free Tech for Teachers: A blog written by Richard Byrne, a contributor to School Library Journal and Teacher Librarian, and a Google-certified teacher. Lots of fun, useful stuff.
Kathy Schrock's Guide: Without doubt, the motherlode pedagogy-specific technology. Scroll past the greeting on the top half of the page, pack a snack and be prepared to leave a trail of breadcrumbs to find your way back.
PBS Learning Center: Choose lesson plans and support material by academic discipline and age, K-12.
Science
Centers for Disease Control Public Information: See a thorough explanation of a variety of diseases and related conditions from abdominal aortic aneurysm to zoonotic hookworm. Yum.
DNA Learning Center: From the Huntington, LI-based institute, this site offers teacher and student-friendly sites that demonstrate the importance of science in everyday living. Not just for geeks, there are also applications to social studies (check out "Weed to Wonder," the history of maize) to philosophy ("Where do I come from?").
Feinstein Medical Marvels: An exceptional research program with a generous outreach effort that we like because its local and, did we mention, its very good.
PubMed Central: More than 3.2 million articles on all aspects of healthcare and research, some free full-text.
World Health Organization Health Topics: What's being done on a global scale.
Social Studies
Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media: Published out of George Mason University under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Center provides background material on a wide berth of historical subjects through digital resources, tools and strategies.
Citation Machine: A handy fill-in-the-blanks aide to create citations according to Modern Language Association (MLA) or American Psychological Association (APA) standards.
EasyBib: Like CitationMachine but different, this citation creation engine is very Chrome-friendly. You have a choice between asking the site to find a specific citation or use the "manual" button to build one from the information you have on hand.
Newsela: Hand-picked daily news items rewritten in a variety of lexiles that allow the student to choose the reading level with which they're comfortable.
Project Gutenberg: More than 46,000 ebooks available free online, many downloadable to mobile devices, including canon classics Beowulf, Pride and Prejudice, The Metamorphosis and more.
Project Gutenberg Audio: A more refined selection of human-voiced and computer-generated works including many curriculum-appropriate titles, such as Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio; DeFoe's Robinson Crusoe; several offerings from Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and many more.
General
Free Tech for Teachers: A blog written by Richard Byrne, a contributor to School Library Journal and Teacher Librarian, and a Google-certified teacher. Lots of fun, useful stuff.
Kathy Schrock's Guide: Without doubt, the motherlode pedagogy-specific technology. Scroll past the greeting on the top half of the page, pack a snack and be prepared to leave a trail of breadcrumbs to find your way back.
PBS Learning Center: Choose lesson plans and support material by academic discipline and age, K-12.
Science
Centers for Disease Control Public Information: See a thorough explanation of a variety of diseases and related conditions from abdominal aortic aneurysm to zoonotic hookworm. Yum.
DNA Learning Center: From the Huntington, LI-based institute, this site offers teacher and student-friendly sites that demonstrate the importance of science in everyday living. Not just for geeks, there are also applications to social studies (check out "Weed to Wonder," the history of maize) to philosophy ("Where do I come from?").
Feinstein Medical Marvels: An exceptional research program with a generous outreach effort that we like because its local and, did we mention, its very good.
PubMed Central: More than 3.2 million articles on all aspects of healthcare and research, some free full-text.
World Health Organization Health Topics: What's being done on a global scale.
Social Studies
Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media: Published out of George Mason University under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Center provides background material on a wide berth of historical subjects through digital resources, tools and strategies.