14 Educational Resources for Earth Day 2014

Earth Day 2014 is coming up next week. As I've done in the past, I've compiled a list of resources for teaching about Earth Day and ...

Poetry Projects With Haiku Deck

April is poetry month. Haiku Deck has published a list of twelve ideas for using Haiku Deck in poetry lessons . While I wasn't crazy abo...

How Light Bulbs Work and Activities for Learning About Electricity

Minute Physics recently releases a short video that features an explanation of how modern light bulbs work and how light bulb design has ch...

The 2014 Google Science Fair Is Open - Project Ideas for Students

The 2014 Google Science Fair is now open. This annual event asks thirteen to eighteen year old students to carry out a test or experiment o...

Lesson Resources for Presidents' Day

This coming Monday is Presidents' Day in the United States. Here are some Presidents' Day related resources for students in elementa...

26 Videos About the Science of the Winter Olympics

The Winter Olympics presents a great opportunity to work some science lessons into your students' interest in a current event. The Natio...

#MyZeitgeist 2013 - PBS News Hour Competition for Teens

PBS News Hour and Meograph are hosting a year-in-review competition for teenage students. The contest asks students to create their 2013 Ze...

By Request - Life on Minimum Wage - An Economics Lesson

Over the last few weeks I have received a lot requests to share the Google Document for my economics lesson  Life on Minimum Wage . The purp...

Create, Organize, and Share Lessons In Alchemy SmartBinder

Alchemy SmartBinder is a free service for creating, organizing, and sharing lessons. With an Alchemy SmartBinder account teachers can creat...

DOGO News - Create and Share Lessons About the News

Last month I shared five good places for kids to learn about the news . This evening I learned about another good place for students to lear...

Dispatch - Combine and Share Resources from Evernote, Dropbox, and Google Drive

Wouldn't it be great if you could pull together and organize in one place your files and notes from Google Drive, Evernote, Dropbox, and...

Get Creative Commons Savvy With These Activities

Yesterday, I shared the EFF's lesson plans for teaching copyright. After using those plans you may want to move your students on to unde...

Core of Education Vodcast Episode #3

Yesterday, Rod Berger and I sat down to record our third installment of the Core of Education vodcast. In this episode we talk about where ...

ePals Common Core Implementation Center

Many of you probably know of ePals, a global classroom community for collaborating on projects with others worldwide. ePals recently launche...

Google Search and Common Core Standards

I had the privilege to spend today in the Rockingham County, North Carolina public school district. The purpose of my trip was to lead some ...

Creating Awesome Assessments - Free Webinar

Disclosure: Mastery Connect is an advertiser on Free Technology for Teachers. Next week on September 18 at 6pm Mountain Time Mastery Connect...

eBook Browse - Search, Download, and Share eBooks

Through a recent blog post by Angela Maiers I discovered a nice service for finding and sharing ebooks. The service is called ebook browse ...

The Food Price Rollercoaster

The Food Price Rollercoaster is a new infographic produced by the World Food Programme to illustrate fluctuations in food prices over the l...

Here's a Good Digital Story Project

Silvia Tolisano who wrote the great Skype section of The Super Book of Web Tools for Educators recently had a great post on her blog that ...

Looking for Lesson Materials? Try OER Commons

Earlier this week I mentioned on Twitter that I had introduced a couple of my colleagues to the Open Educational Resources Commons . They to...