Karisa has been combing the web for the best sites to help you with your planning and teaching. Check out these gems at your neighborhood library’s computer!

This site includes on-line interactive graphic organizers and a simulation of a office.  Great for learning activities related to employment.  http://www.workingsimulations.com/ 

"The Bridging the Gap curriculum guides offer practitioners the tools to integrate information technology into many of the reading, writing, and computer requirements of today's workplace. Having a comprehensive computer-integrated curriculum gives both the practitioner and the learner the skills needed in the 21st Century workplace. The guides have been developed with flexibility and adaptability in mind. Every classroom and every group of learners is unique with a range of interests, abilities, and needs. These guides should be adapted to meet these needs." http://www.nald.ca/CLR/Btg/comp/compmain/compindex.htm

Nearly 100 interactive educational games for children in grades K-6.  Match your learning objectives to the games.  http://www.lethsd.ab.ca/mmh/games/top100.htm

From one of my favorite ESL teachers, Heide Spruck Wrigley.  Includes learning activities such as having students create a map or timeline and having students write, edit and perform a live skit in English about a problem.   http://www.bordercivics.org/pages/tools.htm

"The Story Starter helps you get ideas for stories. That's the easy part! The hard part is actually creating your story. The Story Starter gives you a sentence such as, "The cunning detective carved a turkey in the Pentagon for the FBI." In order to write a story you need five parts: the problem, characters, setting, twists and an ending."  http://www.thestorystarter.com/