The Dirt on Dirt - An Earth Day Lesson for Pre-K through First Grade Students

Tomorrow is Earth Day. Last week I shared 14 Earth Day-related resources . That list is comprised of resources for middle school and high sc...

Teach Students About Architecture and Building With This Free Guide from the Smithsonian

The Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage has some neat resources for teachers and students. One of the resources that I...

Internet Domain Names and the role of ICANN - A C-SPAN Lesson

C-SPAN Classroom is one of the must-bookmark sites that I frequently recommend to social studies teachers in the United States. One of the ...

Lesson Plans for Teaching Computational Thinking

Google offers  dozens of lessons for exploring computational thinking through the use of Python programming. Now if you're wondering, ...

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...

Designs for Democracy - Explore U.S. History Through Drawings

Designs for Democracy  is an online exhibit created by the  National Archives and Records Administration . The exhibit features drawings, sk...

By Request - 5 Resources for Teaching About the Forces of Nature

I'm starting to get caught up on a backlog of requests that have come through on the Free Technology for Teachers Facebook page . If I h...

Developing Literacy Skills Through Comics & Graphic Novels

Over the last few months I've shared an ebook about digital storytelling with comics and a list of tools for digital storytelling with ...

Search Science Buddies for Science Fair Project Ideas

Science Buddies  is a good site for teachers and students to browse for ideas for science projects. For teachers there are  free lesson plan...

Find Science Lesson Plans, Videos, and Animations on BioInteractive

HHMI's BioInteractive is a good place for science teachers to search for science lesson plans, videos, animations, and slideshows to us...

Winter Olympics Lesson Plans from Pearson OLE

The 2014 Winter Olympics officially kick-off tomorrow with the opening ceremonies. Some qualifying events actually started today. If you...

The Science of American Football

The Super Bowl is just a few days away. Take advantage of your students' interest in the big game and introduce some math and science co...

NRICH - An Excellent Source of Math Lesson Activities

At the end of yesterday's post of ten resources for high school and middle school math teachers I asked for suggestions for additional ...

By Request - Ten Helpful Resources for Middle School and High School Math Teachers

Recently, on the Free Technology for Teachers Facebook page someone asked for suggestions for math resources for grades 7-12. That covers a...

More Than 500 Political Cartoons and 100+ Political Cartoon Lesson Plans

For the next few days I'm taking some time off to relax, play with my dogs, and ski with friends. Rather than leave the blog dormant for...

The Miller Center's Presidential Classroom is a Must-bookmark for U.S. History Teachers

The Miller Center's Presidential Classroom website is a fantastic resource for teachers and students of U.S. History. On the site stude...

All About Explorers - Challenge Your Students' Historical Thinking

All About Explorers is a site that Russel Tarr tipped me off to this morning. The site, developed by Gerald Aungst and Lauren Zucker, was ...

#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...

Five Good Resources for Personal Finance Lessons

Yesterday, I shared a nice collection of personal finance lesson activities called Money As You Grow . Reviewing Money As You Grow prompted ...

Economics Lessons for Students of All Ages

A couple of weeks ago David Andrade posted a short list of financial literacy resources for students. Money As You Grow is one of the item...