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ADHD
 30 Minute Personalized ADHD Consultations To Solve Every Learning and Behavior ChallengeJ. Collins Meek, Ph.D. is Neurological Learning Specialist who will quickly help you resolve ADHD challenges like poor behavior at home or in school, boredom issues, grades, homework struggles and more. Doc Meek has 30 years of experience in ADHD, teaching, learning, school administration.Take the FREE ADHD quiz on his site. Then Stephanie: use our little gold star next to the contact info with a space between that and the explanation above.
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Algebra
| Demystify the learning of algebra! Provide your students with a fun and exciting introduction to algebra! |
Alphabet
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Alphabet Anatomy teaches full understanding of the alphabet, that is, the four interconnected components: Letter shape knowledge; Letter name knowledge; Letter sound knowledge; Letter writing ability. |
Arts & Crafts
Looking for kick off the new school year with a blast of creativity, color, and fun? Check out the Kids Craft Blog! You’ll find fantastic craft ideas of all shapes and sizes which will engage your students right from the start. Included in our wide variety of craft ideas for all different seasons, we have a large selection of crafts which are particularly fitting for the Back-To-School season. Good luck with the upcoming school year! |
J. Paul Getty Museum
Mrs. Brown’s Art Class
Best Learning Environment
| The learning environment affects your teaching, student learning, behavior, attention and more. As a teacher, principal or school administrator you can turn to The School Matters Blog for best practices, conversation with your peers and the specifics on how to create optimal learning environments simultaneously! Here you’ll find thought provoking blog posts (in both written and video form) on trending topics which face modern day educators. Included are unique and interesting takes on issues such as bullying, STEM education, the role of technology in the classroom, and much more. |
School Matters Blog Bullying
Stop bullying now with these helpful tips from America’s leading expert on bullying, Dr. Kathy Seifert. She will show you how to prevent it from happening and how to deal with it if it is already happening. |
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To raise awareness and support families and children who are being impacted by bully-related issues in their school or community. |
Clip Art and Fonts
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Add a smile to your projects with DJ Inkers! Whether you’re creating for school, home, church, office… or just for fun, you’ll LOVE our adorable products. We’ve got thousands of the cutest clip art images, award-winning designer fonts, school supplies & decorations, printable activities & crafts, weekly freebies & MORE! Visit our website today to see why we’ve been a leader in classroom smiles for over 20 years. |
College and Finish College
I CAN Finish College” is the source for everything they don’t tell you about college. Learn how to overcome any obstacle to finishing college and get a FREE email consultation from Dr. Marcia Cantarella. |
Computer and Keyboarding
Home & Learn
Speed Typing Online
Computer Lab Learning
Mr. Nussbaum
Computer Supplies
| Ink4Less supplies quality ink and toner products exclusively online, offering discount prices on printer ink cartridges, laser toner cartridges, laser printer drums, copier toner and solid inks. Ink4Less carries more than 5,000 compatible, remanufactured and genuine name brand (OEM) replacement cartridges for over 26,000 inkjet printer, laser printer, copier and fax models. Shop www.ink4less.com today for all major brands including Brother, Canon, Dell, Epson, HP, Konica-Minolta, Lexmark, Okidata, Ricoh, Sharp, Samsung, Xerox and more. |
Ink4Less
Create a Book Online
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A free and easy to use online or iPad app (bookPress) for teachers and students to create beautiful custom class books, yearbooks and learning books. With pre-loaded templates and art work, everyone can make a professional look book in minutes without being a designer. Check it out now! |
Critical Thinking Books and Software
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120+ Award Winners – Grades PreK–12+ Save 10%! Recommended by Learning® Magazine and Sylvan® Learning, the award-winning products from The Critical Thinking Co.™ Teach critical thinking, reading, writing, math, science and history. Make your child a better problem-solver today! Use Coupon Code: How2Learn to receive 10% off any size order at The Critical Thinking Co. . Plus, sign up for our catalog and monthly newsletter and receive $32 in free products. Just click on the banner above. |
Drivers Education
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DriversEd.com is the drivers ed authority! Our courses are fast, fun, and fully approved. We pack our lessons with high-quality videos and interactive 3-D case studies which make learning easy and enjoyable. Best of all, you can sign up online and take the course from any internet connected device. That way you can learn to drive safely on your own time, no matter how hectic your schedule is. You’re just one click away from freedom… Sign up today! |
Early Education
| Do you know that learning is both a behavior and a set of skills? Prepare young minds for school. Teach them the learning skills of attention, concentration, listening, reasoning & remembering using the EFSAP program. Perfect for proactive parents, nannies, tutors, and teachers — EFSAP is designed to build the underlying skills necessary for academic success. Please ensure your children will be capable of the tasks required of them when they enter the academic world. Ages 3-5+. |
EFSAP Early Learning At Home
Educational Blogs
Educational Adventures at Homeschool.com
Educational Gaming
| SimplyFun builds smarter kids and stronger families through the power of play! With over 100 award-winning learning games aligned to common core national standards, there is truly something to meet your school or family needs. We also provide help in modifying our games to focus on specific skills or to be accessible to learning challenged students. As a family of moms, dads and educators, our Playologist’s enjoy everyday discounts on all their purchases and can choose to build more substantial businesses as Playologist entrepreneurs. For us, PLAY is the answer! |
SimplyFunArcademics
Fun English Games
Brain POP
Education Resources
| Educents is the best daily deal site featuring the top educational products (online software, curriculum, e-books, tutorials for all subjects, learning materials and toys…) at 30-90% off! |
Education
Schoolplus
English Language and Language Arts
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A leading educational website (and free to use), Vocabulary Spelling City offers a fun and easy way to practice vocabulary, spelling and writing. Parents can create and share spelling lists or use those already provided. Students benefit from hearing over 45,000 words and 60,000 definitions used in 26 learning games. Annual Premium Memberships are available for $29.99 (up to 5 kids) and include an ad-free learning environment, premium games, automated grading & record keeping and more. Get details. |
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Hands-On English: Teacher-written handbook that makes grammar visual by using functional symbols to represent parts of speech. Also includes usage, capitalization, punctuation, spelling, vocabulary, reading, writing, and studying. Easy-to-find, easy-to-understand information helps students complete schoolwork efficiently and effectively, and nurtures their independence and confidence. Companion products available. For home or school. Grades 4–adult, including English language learners. Free resources include tips for success in school, for improving kids’ reading, and for teaching writing.
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A fun an enchanting English learning journey awaits children as they navigate through the Mingoville City & Virtual World – a universe of non-stop activities with hundreds of exercises, puzzles and games in spelling, oral, comprehension, listening and reading features like a sing-along machine and voice recording exercises. In order for children to progress and upgrade their avatars they will have to complete an education game or exercise. Children learn best when learning is fun! |
Free Rice
English Grammar 101
Financial Literacy
YoungBiz USA is known as a world leader in business, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy education for children, teenagers, and young adults. The mission of YoungBiz USA is to empower youth/young adults with financial, business, and entrepreneurial skills through innovative education and real-world experience. YoungBiz USA provides financial literacy and entrepreneurship curriculum to all public, private, charter schools and the homeschool community. While also providing year round programs, camps and workshops for youths and educators. |
YoungBiz
Fitness
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Family Time Fitness – Fitness 4 Homeschool – Don’t know what to do for Physical Education? Fitness 4 Homeschool is the answer! 260 planned lessons for the whole family. Laugh, spend quality time together, develop core motor skills, increase energy, and increase learning capabilities. Visit our website for more info and use this 15% OFF (FTF15101) coupon! |
PE Central
Foreign Language
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Language Lizard offers award-winning dual language (bilingual) children’s books in over 40 languages, as well as multilingual posters and teacher resources. Children’s picture books are offered in English with Arabic, Chinese, German, Greek, French, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese and many other languages. Language Lizard also offers support to educators and parents working with language learners through its complimentary multicultural lesson plans, newsletter and blog. |
Free Online Textbooks
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CK-12 Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving learning for all students by providing free and open access to educational materials. CK-12’s current offerings include the FlexBook Platform® for customizing multi-modal STEM content, FlexMath for Algebra I, BrainGenie for practicing math and science, and INeedAPencil for SAT preparation. |
Geography
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Looking for an Easy and Effective way for your students to learn history and geography at the same time? Look no further… In an effort to rid the world of geographaphobia, we are pleased to offer our very popular ebook titled A Child’s Geography: Ancient Greece – retail value $6.95 – free of charge. We hope that you will grab your kids by the hand and set out to enjoy your learning moments together. |
National Geographic Education
National Geographic Kids
Handwriting
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Barchowsky Fluent Handwriting is internationally acclaimed. Engaging, pre-writing activities develop efficient pencil hold and good, letter-related movements. Easy-to-form characters then move seamlessly from basic to cursive italic. The goal is to develop highly legible writing that moves at age-appropriate speed. The cognitive advantages of writing by hand are well established. Teach this method whose letter strokes conform to natural hand movements. Legibility will be sustained throughout the academic years and into adulthood. |
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Schoolhouse fonts allow teachers, parents and homeschoolers to create their own custom handwriting instruction worksheets. The worksheets can include the names of the school, the student and their teacher and content from other subjects. Our fonts supplement the most popular methods used to teach handwriting in U.S. schools: Zaner-Bloser® and D’Nealian®. Each of our two font families include up to 22 different variations – using arrows, dot and lines in combination with print, cursive and connected cursive. |
Health & Safety Education
| Health World Inc, (HW) is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and promoting a comprehensive curriculum for health and safety education. Health World (HW) e-Learning programs, student assignments, classroom activities and lesson plans may be accessed by schools throughout the United States, thus providing comprehensive health and safety resources for PreK through 12th grade. Health World’s programs focus on education that empowers students to be active participants towards a healthier future. |
History
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This Week in History: Brilliant, inspiring rabbit trails for home and classroom This Week in History is a daily resource that takes your home school from frustration to inspiration! With a subscription to This Week in History, each day’s content is a correlated adventure in math, science, language skills, geography, current events, the arts and so on. For only $.33 per day you can propel yourself along the path of Leadership Education, and inspire your students to do the same! Whatever you want to learn, whatever there is to teach, it starts with history! Check out our reviews! With a subscription to This Week in History, each day’s resources are an adventure in math, science, language skills, geography, current events, the arts and so on – all tied to events in history. For just $9.99 per month, you have the world of learning available to help you lead and inspire your students to explore, learn and excel! |
Homeschooling
| Homeschool.com, the #1 homeschooling community, has plenty of information to help you teach your child at home. With printables, curriculum reviews, homeschooling resources and a forum to interact with other parents, you’ll find everything you need to help you decide whether homeschooling is the right option for you. |
Homeschool Share
Internet Safety
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KidsEmail.org is a safe e-mail service for children. We provide tools for parents to help keep their kids safe while using e-mail. Several options are available to keep them safe. You can choose to get a copy of incoming and outgoing messages that your children send. We also have filters to remove images, bad words and spam. We offer a 30 day no obligation trial. Parents and children love KidsEmail, we hope you do too! |
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MyKidsBrowser was built with a different concept in mind. Instead of giving children access to everything on the Internet and attempting to filter out what a program thinks is bad, we only give them access to websites that are known to be clean. Your children will not have access to any questionable content. If there is a website that you would like to add the your child’s ‘white list’, you may do so and the program will evaluate the website you added and let you know if there are risks to giving your child access to it. |
Leadership Education
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The Official Site of Thomas Jefferson Education Every person has inner genius. Thomas Jefferson Education consists of helping each student discover, develop and polish her genius. This is the essence and very definition of great education. TJEd.org provides loads of free resources, including the popular email service, “The Weekly Mentor,” to help parents and teachers apply the 7 Keys of Great Teaching and the 4 Phases of Learning — so your kids will love to learn, and you will inspire them and bring them face-to-face with greatness. |
Learning Disabilities
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Understanding LD & Dyslexia — Learn: what dyslexia is, about the types of learning disabilities, the causes of learning disabilities, if students grow out of these learning problems, and how to identify a learning disability or dyslexia. PLUS free 30 minute consultation. Download your FREE copy today. |
Learning Personalities
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How do the kids in your life learn best? There are 8 types of learners. Knowing which types your kids are can help them excel and develop confidence in their learning and study strengths. Not sure what type your kids are? |
Learning Styles
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HowToLearn.com is the # 1 learning site online with a clearinghouse of information on how to learn and solving learning and reading problems. Take the FREE Learning Styles Quiz, and find Instant Learning® tips, resources and with faster learning strategies in all subject areas. |
Math
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IXL makes math practice feel like play! IXL is the Web’s #1 math review site, covering 2,500+ skills for K-12. We transcend the traditional approach to math practice by presenting problems in a fun, visually-stimulating format that students love. As students practice, teachers and parents can stay up-to-date on their progress, trouble spots, standards readiness, and more with our detailed reports. Try some of our free practice problems today! |
Geo Gebra
Hooda Math
Learning Keys
More Than Math
Multiplication.com
National Library Of Virtual Manipulatives
Real World Math
Music
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Theory Time Theory Time® music curriculums are exceptional, proven resources for music students! Theory Time’s K-12 and Medallion Workbook Series are ideal for independent study. Each ‘textbook within a workbook’ offers step-by-step sequential drill and review. Free online Ear Training videos, Vocabulary Drill and Tests complement each workbook. Free video podcasts offer insight into important concepts. Various games drill intervals, rhythm, terms, symbols, staff and key signatures. Visit us online to see Theory Time’s®’ many unique and creative products! |
Online Dictionaries and Reference
infoplease
Visuwords
Online Educational Curriculum
 Any Time is the Right Time for Time4Learning! Because membership includes a full year’s worth of curriculum, you can start & stop whenever you like and use it based on your family’s unique needs! Enjoy 24/7 access to three grade levels worth of materials in each subject, parent tools, teaching resources and more– all provided within an automated online system that grades lessons and keeps reports. Get details |
Online Learning
Kahn Academy
Printables
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Free Printable Online offers a wide range of different fun and free printables, from worksheets and lesson plans, to coloring pages, cards, invitations, worksheets and much more. Fully customize your printables for free today! |
Activity Village
School Express
Reading
 Reading Kingdom is a groundbreaking, research-based online reading & writing program for students in K-3. It is the only program available that uses the patented 6-SIM “Six Skill Integrated Method” developed by Dr. Marion Blank from Columbia University, who is one of the world’s leading experts on literacy and language development. Reading Kingdom is adaptive, students can use it on their own, it works as a curriculum or for intervention, and it’s incredibly effective. |
| Reading Kingdom is a groundbreaking, research-based online reading & writing program for students in K-3. It is the only program available that uses the patented 6-SIM “Six Skill Integrated Method” developed by Dr. Marion Blank from Columbia University, who is one of the world’s leading experts on literacy and language development. Reading Kingdom is adaptive, students can use it on their own, it works as a curriculum or for intervention, and it’s incredibly effective. |
Into The Book
Librivox
Oxford Owl
Reading is Fundamental
Read Kiddo Read
Reading Rockets
Storyline Online
Textbook Media Press
Science
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Specializing in Apologia-based live-feed, online recorded, DVD, flash drive, and e-Notebook science courses. According to Dr. Jay L. Wile, “This program is run by the most gifted teacher with whom I have ever worked.” Each course provides 32 video lessons and over 500 web site links to extended course information. |
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Edheads.org provides free STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) games for K-12 students and teachers. Edheads’ games put students in the role of a practicing STEM professional and connect classroom curricula to real world situations. Our mission as a non-profit is to create unique, educational Web experiences designed to make hard-to-teach concepts understandable and to connect classroom curriculum to the real world. All projects are provided to teachers, students, and the general public free of charge. |
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The Science4Us curriculum is a complete, standards-based, core science curriculum that delivers digital science experiences to early elementary students. Science4Us also includes training for parents, embedded and on-demand, that provides all the pieces they’ll need to confidently and effectively lead science discussions. Automated student reports, easy-to-follow lesson plans and suggestions for hands-on investigations are also included. With no contracts and the ability to cancel anytime, you’ll love Science4Us.com almost as much as your children will! |
All Science Fair Projects
Earth Rangers
Exploratorium
Genetic Science Learning Center
How Stuff Works
How To Smile
NOVA Science Now
Popular Science
Science-Class.net
Special Education Assistance
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Oftentimes students lag behind year after year when missing the skills of academic learning. Many of our clients are smart, capable, and motivated – yet they cannot show their level of intelligence at school. This leads to social issues, poor self-esteem, and a miserable school career. We Can Help! Meadowbrook Educational Services travels worldwide bringing hope & help to struggling students and their families. Visit us online. |
SEN Teacher
Speed Reading
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America’s # 1 Speed Reading Expert and course creator, Abby Marks Beale, teaches speed reading to busy professionals, educators and students. |
Spirituality For Kids
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Spirituality For Kids helps children tap into their inner strengths and see that the power to overcome any challenge lies within them. By helping kids understand the benefits of human dignity, tolerance, connecting to self, community, and the world, they are better equipped to become conscious leaders in their homes, schools and communities. The free online program aims to develop a sense of purpose in children, and encourages them to reflect on their actions, see challenges as opportunities, develop self-worth, and desire to make a difference in the world. |
Study Skills
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Have you ever asked yourself “How do I motivate my child?” or “How can I help my child get organized?” After answering these questions so many times we finally combined our answers into one free guide, Six Steps to Conquer the Chaos: How to Organize and Motivate Students for Success! |
Success For Teens
A steady, stable, solid light house to draw students and young adults (from middle school to career) to many resources, classes, encouragement, love, hugs and coaching for success in school and career.
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Test Preparation
| A learning platform that helps students study for any exam on any device – computers (web), iPhone, iPad, and Android. |
Writing
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Time4Writing offers 8 week courses taught online by certified teachers. Students get one-on-one instruction and personalized feedback in a student-paced environment. From the basics of grammar to writing an essay for the SAT, the courses are designed to help students master the art of writing at all levels. Courses start daily, so students can enroll any time and begin right away. Get details. Like us on Facebook Follow us on YouTube |
Kids Learn To Blog
Storybird
Author Pat Wyman is America’s Most Trusted Learning Expert, college professor, best selling author of Spelling Made Easy: Learn Your Words in Half the Time; Amazing Grades: 101 Best Ways To Improve Your Grades Faster, CEO and founder of HowToLearn.com. Each year, she and her team reviews each and every website and are proud this year to bring you the Top 101 Best Back To School Websites 2013.
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