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Smithsonian Education The Smithsonian Institute provides lesson plans, publications, and other instructional resources in the subject areas of Art, Science, History, and Language Arts.

Enchanted Learning has lots of diagrams, charts, picture dictionary, art and craft ideas and language conversions. Check out what they have and I'm sure you will find the donation will worth to get the print friendly pages.

Welcome to PreK-12 at UW-Madison! The Wisconsin Idea, which is a commitment to share the University's resources with people throughout the state and beyond, inspired the creation of this online directory. You will find here more than 250 UW-Madison resources for PreK-12 educators, parents and students.

School Family Night ideas in creating a fun and easy way to bring families into school for a night of fun.

Teaching Sites

abcteach.com Everything from french flash cards to worksheets to help youngsters improve spelling

apples4theteacher.com Coloring pages to classroom activities for everything from holidays to history

edhelper.com Some great resources. I you like what you find, they also have a paid subscription

educationworld.com Lesson plans and more.

eduref.org The Educator's Reference Desk builds on over a quarter century of experience providing high-quality resources and services to the education community

learningpage.com For resources and information on Free Printable Worksheets for Kids and My Learning Plan

lessonplanspage.com Welcome to HotChalk's™ LessonPlansPage.com! We now have over 4,000 free lesson plans!

mes-english.com Free resources for teachers of young learners. All of the resources are designed to be versatile and useful in many K-6 classrooms. I have free flashcards, worksheets and handouts to match, free phonics cards, free ESL games, an international project exchange library, printable certificates, printable stickers and activities all ready for printing.

pbs.org/teachers Enhance your curriculum by using the online and offline lessons featuring familiar television characters

schoolexpress.com SchoolExpress has a variety of educational materials. They have lots of FREE items.. Teachers, homeschooling families, parents, children, and grandparents use our site.

teachnet.com Share lesson plans or view examples by other teachers. Includes more fun like games and printable flash cards

Free educational worksheets for early childhood through fifth grade.

Yahoo Kids Learn links for reference and other fun and homework help

Computer Education

elearning center has free guest sessions for training on blogs, wikis and twitter

Math

My Math World help 4-8 students with many of the common hurdles that they face during the study of math

Middle School Teacher Portal for Math and Science teachers

Multiplication sheets you can print and practice at home

Graphing calculator free on-line.

Math facts, time tables and games and more

Citizen Science

Cornell Lab of Ornithology Citizen Science Central: The aim of the Gateway is to catalog projects involving public participants in real-world research, in order to foster connections for sharing ideas and resources.

Celebrate Urban Birbs: Identify and record data for 16 common urban birds using the free kit provided.

Project Budburst: Record the times of phenological stages such as first leaf, first flower, and first ripe fruit for trees and other plants.

Project FeederWatch: Count birds at your feeder during the winter

Wisconsin NatureMapping: Map Wisconsin's wildlife by entering observations of mamels, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and even worms

NestWatch: Find wild bird nests near your home, and observe them as they are built, hatch and fledge.

Outreach Programs

Tour the UW-Madison Biotechnology Center. 608-246-8735

Schedule a hands-on DNA Science Workshop at the Biotechnology Center 608-265-4457 or at your location of part of their 'On the Road' program 608-265-2420.

Organize a Science Exploration Day - for school, club or organization.

Science Alliance for Outreach is the campus wide part of the BioTrek portal for distance learners.

Wisconsin Idea Science Center to welcome people every day to come experience science as exploring the unknown.

Money Matters

Great WI Credit Union

Thrive by 5

Asset Builders of America, Inc. _ Mostly Milwaukee area

Computer Problems

Karl Patzer has a link to where to get mostly free things to clean up your computer and make it more productive.