Here’s an apple for your child’s teachers, compliments of Thinkfinity.org.

The link above takes you to just one of more than 55,000 lesson plans, professional development and student materials on Thinkfinity.org – the cornerstone of the Verizon Foundation's education, literacy and technology initiatives.

Thinkfinity.org is a Web site designed to provide teachers with innovative tools they can use to help their students successfully meet the global challenges of the 21st century.

And here’s the best part: It’s FREE, which means teachers can get top-quality, trusted lesson plans and student materials, all at no charge.

You will be doing your children’s teachers an enormous favor by introducing them to Thinkfinity.org.

So the next time your kids head to their classes, try to join them and meet with one or more of their teachers. Here’s a few things you can pass on to them if they haven’t heard about Thinkfinity.org

• It’s free.
• Teachers can trust the content. If it’s on Thinkfinity.org, teachers can be confident it’s accurate because the content was created by experts from the leading educational organizations in the United States.
• All they need is Internet access. They don’t need to download or install any new software on their computers to access any of the materials offered on Thinkfinity.org.
• It’s available any time, anywhere. Because Thinkfinity.org is web-based, teachers can easily access the lesson plans and materials from home or school.

More Information to Share

Thinkfinity.org isn’t new.

To date, Thinkfinity.org’s professional-development program has trained more than 235,000 teachers across the country in more than 19,000 public and private schools, and its Web site hosts more than 2.9 million user sessions a month.

In 2006 – and again this year – Edutopia, a leading magazine for educators, voted the Thinkfinity.org site as “the best site to download free lessons and materials.” Scholastic, the world's largest publisher of children's books, has named Thinkfinity.org as the best nonprofit Web site for teachers.

The resources available to teachers include lesson plans, student materials and interactive multimedia content in eight academic disciplines – Arts, Economics, Humanities, Mathematics, Reading and Language Arts, Science, Geography and History – with content provided by or reviewed by the following leading resources:

• American Association for the Advancement of Science;
• International Reading Association & National Council of Teachers of English;
• The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts;
• National Council on Economic Education;
• National Council of Teachers of Mathematics;
• National Endowment for the Humanities;
• National Geographic Society
• Smithsonian – National Museum of American History (a new partner)
• National Center for Family Literacy
• ProLiteracy Worldwide

Check it out … pass it on … and help your children and their teachers succeed in the coming school year.

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• Modem included
• Locked-in price for life with 2-year agreement

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