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[| Scholastics - Book Wizard] The new website enables teachers, librarians, and parents to search a database of over 50,000 books to find the right match for every child, according to reading level, interest, subject, and genre. Teachers and librarians can also download free lesson plans related to specific books and purchase many titles at teacher discounted prices through Scholastic.com’s Teacher Store. The BookAlike feature helps educators find book recommendations based on a title that their students already know and enjoy. They can also search for titles that are at, above, or below the original book’s reading level. [|February] Possible activities/lessons for the Month of February [|Currikki] OUR MISSION AT CURRIKI To eliminate the education divide OUR GOAL Every student and educator will have access to quality learning resources aligned to frameworks that support learning within the US and support the UN Millennium Goals globally At Curriki, you can: Develop, publish, and access open source curricula. Access free, high-quality lesson plans and courses. Contribute your best content for teaching and learning. Create new learning resources. Revise or give feedback on the learning materials shared by others. [|Hotchalk] HotChalk is a community for K-12 teachers, students and parents that includes an easy-to-use learning management system, a rich library of teacher-contributed lesson plans, premium digital content like NBC News video, and professional development for teachers in a Web-based environment – available through any Internet browser. [|Vital] VITAL is a comprehensive online strategy to support and promote student achievement by offering video clips and standards-aligned activities for classroom use. Using VITAL you can: find fun, video-based activities for the classroom that support individual student needs; easily align classroom instruction with New York state standards; learn best practices for incorporating media in your classroom.