Week 5 - Teacher Resources

We are incredibly lucky to be learning in a time when so many resources are available to us. I asked several of the teachers at my school what some of their favorite resources and sites were and received a variety responses. The top responses I got were:

Edutopia
Teachers Pay Teachers
Common Core

For students, some of their favorite websites were:
Woot Math
MyOn
ABCya!

What are your favorite teacher resources?

I love to find lessons on Teach Engineering. These STEM lessons, when planned at the right times, can support a variety of subjects. Edutopia has great resources for all areas of teaching and Teachers Pay Teachers has activities to support pretty much any lesson you are going to teach and often they are free. Finally, I use the Common Core Standards website to ensure that all of my lessons are following the required standards for fifth grade.

 What are your favorite student resources?

Woot Math is a great resource to reinforce math lessons. You can have students work on lessons based on material that has already been taught to review material or reinforce current material. This also allows you some time to devote to student who may need extra help. MyOn is a great resource to get kids reading and introduce books that they may otherwise not have access to. I allow them use time to read or log on to MyOn when they complete their literacy work before we transition to the next activity. Students also have the option to log on to this resource at home and over the breaks.