Teaching Resources
Random Links
Tech Lab Resources
5 Best SAM Labs Inventions Short Video
SAMLab Project Ideas with directions for students
ELA Resources
Cause & Effect In Fiction Practice
Quotation Marks: LL.4 Formatting quotations and dialogue
Theme/Central Idea/Message: C.2 Compare passages for tone
Mood/Tone: C.2 Compare passages for tone
Alice Keeler Teacher Tech (this is the site I used to create my Reading & Writing Journal)
Book Trailers
Out of the Dust - butterfly background
Close to Famous - Joan Bauer
Hoot - Carl Hiaasen
Guardians of Ga'Hoole - Kathryn Lasky
Social Studies Resources
Teaching Hard History: Southern Poverty Law Center
Freedom On The Move: primary sources for teaching essential learnings about history of slavery in U.S.
Oh Freedom! song - The Golden Gospel Singers 3 min.
Freedom Over Me, Ashley Bryan - Book Talk
13 Colonies
The History of Colonial America - EXCELLENT
13 Colonies - Clever, good information, skip shout-outs at the end
Jamestown - mentions Pochahontas