Classroom+Resources

Here are a couple sites with cool videos, lessons, assessments, worksheets, etc. It costs money, but through the grapevine I got usernames and passwords for accounts...Feel free to go hog wild!
 * __Lesson/Video Lesson Supplements__**

www.brainpop.com Username: berendo Password: school

www.discoveryeducation.com Username: nphillips23 Password: global23

-Ben Hartley

__**Donation Websites:**__ [|PENCIL] - people donate items and post them on this website. You may have to pick them up yourself though.

[|DonorsChoose] - you make a profile, request items for a school project, and people donate money toward the project.
 * for math and science high school teachers, DonorsChoose currently has two sponsors (the Korein and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations) who will cover half of a project. If you write a project that matches their criteria, your entire project could be funded by just these two organizations. I have already had 2 projects funded this way. A nice loophole, but I'm not sure how long it will last. - Brian

Classwish.org-a nonprofit site where parents, teachers and communities easily unite to provide the classroom resources our children need.

[|Overview: Classroom Response System]
 * __Classroom Response Systems:__**

__Turning Technologies__ - I did a bunch of research on "classroom clickers" before settling on this particular brand. There are other good brands available, but Turning Technologies has good relatively inexpensive systems that integrate extremely well with PowerPoint and allow advanced settings and control like creating team competitions, breaking down responses by demographics (such as those that were "pro" vs. "con" on some beginning of class issue survey), creating questions in which students indicate a correct order of something via multiple presses, and a lot more. If you have questions about this system or clickers in general you can email me at ksinusas@gmail.com. These could be a good item to write a grant for.

Here's links to Turning Technologies response system and clickers: [|Response Systems] [|Student Clickers]

__**On-line Gradebooks:**__ Engrade [|Teacherease]

Another is: [|MyGradebook]

[|KeepVid]
 * To Download YouTube Videos:**

Resources for classroom teachers on PBS: []

Free resources for teachers from the federal government: [|http://free.ed.gov]