Here are some websites I have been exploring. I would love your feedback, if you have used any of them??
1. The Vocabulary Grabber: http://www.visualthesaurus.com/vocabgrabber/
A subsidiary of the Visual Thesaurus (and free), this tool enables teachers to "dump" vocabulary words into a box and the website organizes the vocabulary words into subjects. It also allows students/teachers to click on the words for more information. As a content area teacher, you can take a section of text from your textbook and analyze it on this website. This might help you make connections to other subjects, so you can help students relate to your content.
2. Take our word for it: http://www.takeourword.com
An interesting blog, "Take our Word for It" - Loved the most recent entry which talked about words like:
Our recent journey into the name nitrogen turned up a lot of other chemical etymologies that got us looking at some other elements, and we must say that they range from the pedestrian to the bizarre. Take, for instance, the series of man-made elements with atomic weights from 113 to 118. Their names are ununtrium, ununquadium, ununpentium, ununhexium, ununseptium, ununoctium and are hybrids concocted from the Latin unus (“one”), various Greek numbers and the standard Latinate suffix -ium. These mind-numbingly unimaginative names therefore mean “one-one-three-ium,” “one-one-four-ium,” “one-one-five-ium,” etc.
3. Dictionary of Affixes: http://www.affixes.org/
This website started as a hard copy of a book by Michael Quinion, Ologies and Isms (2005). On this site, users can access lists of affixes organized alphabetically. One particularly interesting part of the website organizes affixes by themes (http://www.affixes.org/themes/index.html) which can guide users to specific content areas.
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