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General teacher tools
A to Z Teacher
This site has a host of resources. Find lesson plans, thematic units, teacher tips, discussion forums for teachers, downloadable teaching materials & eBooks, printable worksheets and blacklines, emergent reader books, themes, and more.
Marco Polo 
Very good site from the US. You have to signup for some things(for free) but has high quality resources and sites linked from here.
BBC Primary resources (ages 4 to 11)
A host of excellent quality interactive educational activities and printable sheets
Topmarks
Another UK site where you can browse for resources by subject or use their built in search facility.
Houghton Mifflin Educators Place
This website of the text book publisher has a number of useful free resources such as this list of themes with accompanying lesson ideas and printable resources.
abc Teach
A huge library of materials for teachers. Many things are free but you will need to subscribe to get access to the full library.
Curriculum Resource Materials
More good links made by a school in the USA.
Education World
A very large site made up of a huge number of resources for teachers including this page with a huge list of printable templates and teacher tools.
SEN Teacher
While this site may have been set up for special needs children, this is a fantastic site for getting great printable resources for a huge range of purposes.
Learning Planet
A number of online games and activities as well as printable worksheets. You may need to subscribe to get some of the content.
Woodlands Junior School
This site is consistently listed in the top ten of educational sites in the UK and with the number of great resources on here, you can see why!
ICT Teachers
This is a site with resources for both teachers and students. There are useful links to other sites as well as downloadable resources that teachers have made themselves. Students can use the basic but still useful resources to help consolidate their understanding.
Fiery Ideas - Freebies
A range of online and downloadable (for PC) resources to use in the classroom.
Teachr.co.uk
This site takes the feeds of many other teaching websites and organises them into categories such as teaching liinks and resources using pageflake. Quite a cool concept.
New Zealand specific teacher tools
Assessment Resource Banks
A host of ready made activities for use in assessment in the NZ curriculum. You need to register.
DigiStore
Linked to from TKI, this is a repository of digital learning objects designed for New Zealand schools as well as digital materials from museums and other places. You will need a username and password which schools in NZ can apply for at no charge.
Learning Media Online Activities
Excellent quality learning activities (some available in Maori)
NZ Maths
Excellent lesson plans and resources. The learning objects (your NZ school will need to have registered) are excellent for teaching strategy (in line with the numeracy contract).
TKI
A large bank of resources designed for NZ teachers. Use the Digistore link to access the high quality learning objects. Your school needs to register to be able to use Digistore (this is free).
English Online, Social Studies Online and ESOL Online
Follow the links to find great lesson plans with all the resources needed linked to for you.
NEMP Project
Tasks designed for testing NZ children during NEMP are then made available on this website for use in classrooms.
Subscription resource sites
Edhelper
An incredibly large bank of resources. You need to subscribe to access some of them.
Enchanted learning
Also an incredibly large bank of resources. You need to subscribe to access some of them.
BrainPop
A slightly pricey but EXCELLENT site with fantastic resources across all main curriculum areas. They have a 'movie' that teaches each concept with follow-up activities and printable resources. There are some free topics to give you an idea.
