While trying to find the directions for making an earthquake cake, I came across Spatulatta: Cooking 4 Kids Online.  You can find all kinds of ideas there.  There are 350 step-by-step videos, stories from remote reporters, a blog and food-related craft projects.  It’s great!  Even adults would like these party penguins made with dried dates, [...]

I just learned about this really cool site, Movieclips (currently in beta mode, which means they may still be tweaking things) where you can search for clips of movies, based on movies, actors, actions, moods, characters, themes, settings, or props.  Browse, watch, search, and share clips of movies! This would be great for [...]

Wouldn’t it be great if students could go on field trips around the world to learn about wildlife conservation for animal reports, social studies, science, and just for fun? Well, now teachers and students can with Field Trip Earth, a resource for “teachers, students, and proponents of wildlife conservation.”  The site focuses on field-based wildlife [...]

Everyone’s pressed for time, and teachers more than anyone.  Which is why I love finding sites that include resources that are easy to create instantly, especially around holiday time when you might want to have extra fillers.  Check out the site Tools for Educators, where they have free word search creators, printable dice, a board [...]

While I don’t have the experience of my mom and can only dream of one day owning a basement of my own filled to the brim with cool teaching supplies like her, I have some teaching experience and am currently in grad school for library science and really excited about teaching and learning.  A little [...]

We had great fun one Christmas writing our Christmas card in comics book form. Writing comics is a creative way for students to learn to write dialog.  You can reinforce everyday dialogs for ESOL and foreign language students by having them write conversations for comics characters.  MakeBeliefsComix gives students the tools to create simple comics.  It [...]

SHMOOP is still a Beta test (meaning it hasn’t been fully tested and is still being developed), but if what I’ve seen is part of the package, it’s definitely going to be a hit.  Their mission is to make learning and writing more fun and relevant for students in the digital age.  Who can argue [...]

I can’t believe I just discovered TeacherTube.  It is a video sharing website based on YouTube, but started by a teacher for other teachers.  Teachers can share videos, documents, audio and photos.  It has a good search engine so you can focus in on your own subject.  The only downside is that there is a [...]

The American Library Association has great resources on their website.  You can read the “Booklist Review of the Day” or read about the “Digital Library of the Week.”  You can learn about designated library weeks, for example October 18-24 is Teen Read Week and also the Fourth Annual National Friends of Library Week. Do you [...]

The website SoftSchools has numerous online games for math, language arts, science, social studies, Spanish and French.  There are games for students in Pre-K through Middle School.  I suggest testing the games before using them because some are more boring than others and the graphics differ greatly from one to the next.  Most of the [...]