Each month Marjan Glavac, professional speaker, teacher and author of The Busy Educator's Guide To The World Wide Web 2ND EDITION (Foreword by Dr. Harry Wong author of The First Days Of School) presents The Busy Educator's Monthly Five -- five websites for educators that are easy to read, simple to use and worthwhile to know. Sign up for his monthly free Busy Educator's Newsletter at: http://www.glavac.com

Here are five sites for teachers of grades 7-8:

MiddleSchool
http://www.middleschool.com

Great resource sections here for teachers and administrators. The Student Behavior Lab provides very comprehensive research, information, programs, and interventions to help you deal with behavior and help make your school a productive learning environment. Well written and useful articles for administrators on dealing with low staff morale and job satisfaction and how to turn it around. There are also links to subject resources and to other middle school resources.

MiddleWeb
http://www.middleweb.com

Everything you wanted to know about Middle School and more is here on this award winning website. Catch up on the news about middle grades, student and teacher successes, standard based reform. Find curriculum resources including teaching strategies. Read about middle schools that are raising student achievement. If you teach Middle School, this is the place to go.

Midlink Magazine
http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~MidLink

National Technology Teacher of the Year Caroline McCullen, has developed MidLink Magazine to support educators all over the world as they inspire their students ages 8-18 to write and publish their work.

Since 1994, MidLink Magazine, known as "the Digital Magazine for Kids, by Kids," has been an award-winning online magazine or "zine". The mission of MidLink Magazine is to highlight exemplary work from the most creative classrooms around the globe.

Millard Central Middle School
http://www.esu3.org/web/mcms.html

The Millard Central Middle School in Omaha, Nebraska, USA website provides students and teachers easy access to high quality, safe resources appropriate to Middle School curriculum. Special features include search tools, curriculum links, current events resources, and curriculum pathfinders, which are designed to supplement specific units of study. Many of the school web pages have been developed by students.

Multimedia Applications on a Shoe-String Budget
http://library.thinkquest.org/50001

Here is a well thought out, well planned and well designed site to show Middle School teachers with limited resources how to teach multimedia applications and technology skills to Middle School students while also integrating these tools into classroom curricula. The resources here are great. There are sections on Technology Lesson Plan Format, Steps for Integrating Multimedia into Classroom Instruction, Units to Teach Technology Skills, Units to Reinforce Technology and Core Content Skills, Lesson Plans/Units by Curriculum Areas and Teacher Resources. If you’re teaching technology skills, this is for you.

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Gazette Articles by Marjan Glavac:

• Marilyn Western's Technology Tips For Classroom Teachers, Interactive Activities For French/Spanish/German/Welsh Teachers And Learners, Deafblind Info: Minnesota's Deafblindness Resource, Thinkport (Teachers And Parents), and The Los Angeles County Museum Of Art "Collections Online" (June 09)
• College Prep Physics, Ap Physics B, The Art Window (Gr. 4-12), World History And Geography (Gr. 9-12), and The Thoreau Reader (Teachers) (May 09)
• Iloveschools.Com, Real English Online, Classroom Displays And Bulletin Boards K-8, Pbs Parents: Struggling To Learn (Parents And Teachers), Reach Every Child (K-12) (Apr. 09)
• Ultrabug Cliposcope, World Myths & Legends In Art Minneapolis Institute Of Arts, The Tree: A Graphic Organizer For Expository Paragraphs And Summaries, Trading Around The World, and Where In The World And What In The World Is Money? (Mar. 09)
• The Artist's Toolkit: Visual Elements And Principles, The Fin, Fur And Feather Bureau Of Investigation, Calliope, Muse Of Eloquence, Teachers Without Borders, Shedd Educational Adventures (Sea) John G. Shedd Aquarium (Feb. 09)
• Brainsarefun, Ariel's Homepage, Scott L. Waldman's Technology Workshop, Learn To Write...Free Tracing Paper, Marie's Free Spelling Course (Jan. 09)
• Make hand washing fun & effectiveness; Native American arts exhibit online; The Teacher List; English for Spanish speakers; Test your brain with an online police artist drawing device (Dec. 08)
• Literacy Volunteer Connection, Computer Science & Business Education Site, How Stuff Works, Postcards From America, Monetary Mania Social Studies Web Adventure (Nov. 08)
• www Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources, Biomedia, Schoolweb.se, Anacleta's Spanish & World Language/Culture Links, Behind The Name (Oct. 08)
• Addressing learning difficulties; Teacher resource; All things Science; Games and writing skills help; Secondary level English lesson plans (Sept. 08)
• Speaking Of Speech.Com, Flying Turtle Science And Technology Exploring, and more (Aug. 08)
• Human Space Flight, Genetic Science Learning Center, and more (July 08)
• web-based Ghost Towns, games, topical tutorials, and more (May 08)
• Writing, Genealogy, Soil, and more (April 08)
• Miscellaneous Sites (Mar. 08)
• Art Sites (Feb. 08)
• Miscellaneous Sites (Jan. 08)
• Back to School Sites (Aug. 03)
• Language Arts Sites Part 3 (July 03)
• Language Arts Sites Part 2 (June 03)
• Language Arts Sites Part 1 (May 03)
• English As a Second Language (ESL) Sites (Apr. 03)
• Art Sites (Mar. 03)
• College and University Sites (Feb. 03)
• Sites for School Principals and High School Teachers (Jan. 03)
• Sites For Grades 7 to 8 (Dec. 02)
• Sites For Grades 4 to 8 (Nov. 02)
• Primary Sites Grades Pre-K to 3 (Oct. 02)
• Primary Sites Grades Pre-K to 3 (Sept. 02)
• Back to School (Aug. 02)
• Sites For Beginning Teachers Part 2 (Jult 02)
• Sites For Beginning Teachers Part 1 (June 02)
• Theme Sites Part 2 (May 02)
• Theme Sites Part 1 (Apr. 02)
• Lesson Planning Sites Part 6 (Mar. 02)
• Lesson Planning Sites Part 5 (Feb. 02)
• Lesson Planning Sites Part 4 (Jan. 02)
• Lesson Planning Sites Part 3 (Dec. 01)
• Five For Lesson Planning (pt 2) (Nov. 01)
• Five For Lesson Planning (Sept. 01)