Lesson Plans & Common Core

Here's an interesting new tool for teachers to use to plan lessons: Achieve the Core. It makes sure teachers are aligning each lesson with a Common Core State Standard. Seems to be a very helpful tool.

Lesson Ideas for iPad Apps

Richard Byrne's blog, Free Technology for Teachers, released an extremely helpful post for teachers looking to incorporate iPads into their classrooms. We plan on purchasing a class set of iPads for our building and were looking for resources such as these. How do you use iPads in your classroom?

9/11 Lessons

Today is an extremely difficult and tragic day in American history.  It's hard to believe many of our students weren't even alive on this day 13 years ago, and I'm willing to bet almost all of them have little memory of the event.  Edudemic posted lesson plans and resources to teach students about September 11.