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Problem-Attic - EducAide Software
Grades
6 to 12
tag(s): assessment (40), test prep (72)
In the Classroom
Save this site as an excellent practice for end of year testing, state tests, and national tests. Use Problem-Attic to personalize learning for students. Share this tool on your class website for students to use both in and out of the classroom to prepare for state testing. Challenge your students to create (and print) practice tests for other students. Coaches for academic competitions can use this site for team practice. Teachers of gifted can use it for students to practice for out-of-level testing used to screen students for special gifted opportunities.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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CurrClick - Staley Krause
Grades
1 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): ebooks (23)
In the Classroom
Bookmark this site for use throughout the year for materials to use with any unit. Check back often, as new titles may be added! Display documents on your projector or interactive whiteboard to teach almost any language arts skills: highlighting parts of speech, subject/predicate, etc. Teacher notetaking or working with informational texts using these free texts. Be sure to use the FREE search to avoid paid texts. This would be a good site to share with students on your class website, blog, or wiki.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Discover! Simulations - Houghton Mifflin Science
Grades
K to 6tag(s): animals (197), earth (196), ecosystems (67), energy (150), environment (266), forces (19), life cycles (18), matter (39), motion (37), oceans (112), space (152), weather (158)
In the Classroom
Use this resource to reinforce concepts learned in class or as an introduction to a unit of study. Find topics relevant to your grade level and topics being taught in science. Provide vocabulary words for students to identify, define, and learn through the Interactive. Pose questions that extend learning to prior or new situations and concepts. Use the concepts in the Interactives to develop research projects.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Ustream - Brad Hunstable and Gyula Feher
Grades
4 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): animal homes (19), animals (197), fashion (9), news (148), sports (65), video (113), webcams (6)
In the Classroom
This site would be a great addition to any science, social studies, or world cultures class. Select specific web cams and create shortcuts on your classroom computers. Students can "see what's happening" in a certain place as you learn about animals or events. Use animal webcams for students to observe animal behavior and keep a "lab journal" of what they see. Share the videos on your interactive whiteboard or projector. Create your own live stream for parents to view student presentations, classroom visitors, or other events. Since video connections can sometimes be tricky, we suggest pretesting before planning any major events! Create a live stream to share classroom lessons with homebound students (within school policies). For a great example of a live streaming project and detailed directions on how to do it, see this visit to a school garden.Edge Features:
Parent permission advised before posting student work created using this tool
Includes Interaction w general public/ public galleries with unmoderated content
Includes social features, such as "friends," comments, ratings by others
Requires registration/log-in (WITH email)
Premium version (not free) includes additional features or storage
Products can be embedded
Products can be shared by URL
Multiple users can collaborate on the same project
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Szoter - szoter.com
Grades
K to 12tag(s): digital storytelling (66), images (161)
In the Classroom
Capture a screenshot of websites or software and annotate with directions for student use. Have students label and identify objects in an image. Label parts of a plant, continents, landforms, etc. Practice new words in a different language by asking students to label and identify objects in that language. Create a storyboard using several annotated images as a story starter. Art students can annotate images to point out design elements or annotate images of their own work to talk about the creative decisions they made. Share annotated Szoter images on your class website or blog to tell about a field trip or class event.Edge Features:
Parent permission advised before posting student work created using this tool
Includes Interaction w general public/ public galleries with unmoderated content
Products can be embedded
Products can be shared by URL
Multiple users can collaborate on the same project
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Educator Resource Center Smart Board Lessons - Teq Educator Resource Center
Grades
K to 12tag(s): 1800s (30), 1900s (16), angles (62), animal homes (19), area (40), civil war (113), communities (24), counting (100), decimals (95), equations (98), food chains (11), fractions (172), graphic organizers (35), habitats (59), hebrew (11), holidays (117), integers (35), iwb (27), life cycles (18), maps (194), mean (16), measurement (121), median (18), native americans (48), percent (58), place value (43), planets (96), plants (86), polynomials (19), pythagorean theorem (18), religions (38), rock cycle (7), rocks (35), STEM (27), transformations (11), volume (28), womens suffrage (10), world war 1 (28), world war 2 (127)
In the Classroom
Bookmark this site to use as a resource for interactive whiteboard lessons and activities. Search for topics for your subject/grade level. View the STEM category to find activities for your class. Share activities on your interactive whiteboard, having students operate the board. Some activities would also be appropriate for individual computers.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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K8Science - Baylor College of Medicine Center for Educational Outreach
Grades
K to 8tag(s): birds (40), body systems (42), diseases (52), dna (62), earth (196), engineering (69), forces (19), inquiry (30), motion (37), plants (86), rockets (10), scientific method (39)
In the Classroom
Find great activities, information, and resources invaluable in the classroom setting. Share the video clips or online activities on your projector or interactive whiteboard. With the correct information and exciting activities already created, teachers can concentrate on successfully using the information to develop student inquiry and increase the skills for investigating. Be sure to check out the recent additions to find what is new on the site. There are also links to featured lessons and resources along the side.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Plan It Green - National Geographic Society
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): coal (12), energy (150), environment (266), fossil fuels (12), solar energy (24)
In the Classroom
Use this activity to show how certain buildings can change aspects of happiness, health, and other factors. Brainstorm ways to improve aspects of a city prior to playing the game. Groups of students can even collaborate on a specific city. Students can report on various ways they improved their city including starting with smaller homes, green houses, or by improving large, older homes. Enter screenshots and specific information about the game play on a wiki or other site and research various communities that have achieved those changes. To take a screenshot simply Shift+ Command +4 on a Mac (saves to your Downloads) or Prtscrn key and PASTE on Windows. Propose similar changes in your own community at the end of the play and research. This would be an ideal activity leading up to Earth Day or during an environmental unit. Teachers of gifted could build an entire long term unit around it.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Energy Kids - US Energy Information Administration
Grades
K to 8tag(s): conservation (115), energy (150), natural resources (31)
In the Classroom
Share the resources found here on your projector or interactive whiteboard. Use this site as part of your wiki on energy, renewable resources, and conservation. Add to a center to improve reading skills as well as new literacies in technology. Find excellent information to include for your Prezi, Powerpoint, or Live Binders on energy. Enhance your ESL/ELL students understanding of your energy unit using the visuals and reinforcement of basic concepts.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Awesome Stories - AwesomeStories
Grades
4 to 12tag(s): art history (38), artists (47), biographies (31), black history (41), civil rights (77), civil war (113), cross cultural understanding (63), disasters (30), earthquakes (37), easter (18), inventors and inventions (93), korea (14), lincoln (75), mars (37), movies (49), natural disasters (13), presidents (87), primary sources (62), resources (92), south africa (6), vocabulary (289), weather (158), womens suffrage (10)
In the Classroom
Use this rich site to support your social studies, history, science, language arts classroom and many others! There is a lot here to explore and many diverse topics. Use the Visual Vocabulary Builder to introduce your students to new vocabulary in a different way. Middle and high schoolers could use the movies to teach about character development and themes. The site includes several lesson plans that help you teach with current movies. Have your students use the site to find historical images to use in presentations. (Be sure to check the licensing on any image you use and cite it properly.) Project the video clips using an interactive whiteboard or projector to introduce students to a unit of study. Challenge small groups of students to explore one of the topics presented at this site and share their "story" with the rest of the class. Have students create an annotated image including text boxes and related links using a tool such as Thinglink, reviewed here. Many texts on this site are also useful examples of informational texts for practice of Common Core standards.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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SMART Technology Sites - Arlys Peterson
Grades
K to 8tag(s): alphabet (76), audio books (22), grammar (197), human body (68), iwb (27), manipulatives (40), maps (194), money (154), order of operations (19), poetry (193), preK (164), probability (85), problem solving (150), resources (92), rounding (20), states (150)
In the Classroom
These lessons are great for the new SMART Board user or the seasoned pro. Stop and think before you start about how to use them in a student centered lesson, trying some of the lesson formats that help you avoid being "Vanna." View the lessons as is or use them to help you create your own lesson. Use the training videos to help your teaching peers and new SMART Board users learn how to use the SMART Board. Many of these tools could be used on any brand of Interactive Whiteboard.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Brain Genie - CK12 Foundation
Grades
1 to 12tag(s): angles (62), area (40), cells (74), decimals (95), ecology (124), equations (98), evolution (96), fractions (172), genetics (77), logic (185), molecules (31), money (154), operations (84), patterns (66), percent (58), perimeter (22), photosynthesis (17), place value (43), probability (85), problem solving (150), ratios (38), respiration (14), sequencing (29), STEM (27), volume (28)
In the Classroom
Find great ideas for using this tool in the classroom with this video. Be sure to include this link with your resources for students to find alternate explanations to topics for better understanding. Assign various topics as a review in addition to lecture and other classroom activities. Assign a specific topic (not already learned in class) for cooperative groups to view. Have students create a word cloud of the important terms they learn from this site/activity using a tool such as Wordle (reviewed here), Tagxedo (reviewed here), or WordItOut (reviewed here).Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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From Cave Paintings to the Internet - Jeremy Norman and Co., Inc.
Grades
9 to 12tag(s): 1600s (7), 1700s (9), 1800s (30), 1900s (16), animals (197), art history (38), caves (6), genealogy (6), genetics (77), geologic time (7), geology (64), maps (194), sculpture (19)
In the Classroom
Use this tool to research the history of writing, communication, and technology through the ages. Connect each of these discoveries with other events including political, religious, or social changes also occurring at the time. Assign cooperative learning groups different areas of this website to explore. Challenge students to use a mapping tool such as Mapskip (reviewed here) to create a map of their own (with audio stories and pictures included)!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Good: How to Achieve Harmony - Road to Harmony
Grades
8 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): conservation (115), energy (150), environment (266), STEM (27)
In the Classroom
Help your students gain a more comprehensive look at our global society. Emphasizing the concept that each part of the system affects all the other parts, Good: How to Achieve Harmony digs into a comprehensive look at interrelated elements. Compare this site to the systems of the human body, the factory approach, educational systems, cultures, or societies. Use this site as an example for a Prezzi or PowerPoint on any unit with systems. Use as a reference for information to start a research project. Offer this site to gifted or highly able students as a Socratic seminar in any of the topics explored. Have students create wikis to combine in a group project. In your language arts class, students discover the ways to explore point of view and background information. Offer areas for debate from the information provided. Use the format to study another time frame in history or a historic event that influences many countries, areas, and people. Investigate pollution and look at the areas affected using this site as a guide. Challenge your students to open their minds to view life from a global perspective.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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For Girls In Science - Loreal
Grades
4 to 12tag(s): engineering (69), STEM (27), women (88)
In the Classroom
Use this site when researching science careers and scientists to be sure to give women their turn and to inspire another generation of female scientists. Share the video clips on your projector or interactive whiteboard. Use this site during Women's history month. Challenge your students to learn more about present-day famous women in STEM careers and create their own interactive books. Have students use Page Flip-Flap (reviewed here) to turn their Word documents, PDFs, and images into an online book, There is even a page-turning effect!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Picture History - Picture History LLC
Grades
4 to 12tag(s): 1800s (30), 1900s (16), architecture (51), business (45), digital storytelling (66), images (161), life cycles (18), lincoln (75), medicine (40), politics (71), transportation (29)
In the Classroom
Bookmark and save this site to share during classroom lessons on your projector or interactive whiteboard. Share with students as a place to explore to "get the picture" of various events in American History. Use the opportunity to explain why some sites charge for image downloads as a business venture and that taking them, even with a watermark, would be like "stealing." Have students send an e-card of an image to the entire class, written as a participant in the historic event. Use a whole-class email account to send and receive them.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Crash Course - John and Hank Green
Grades
6 to 12Tip: to watch or share a video without the ads and clutter, use a tool such as ViewPure, reviewed here to watch the video ad-free!
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tag(s): animals (197), bacteria (23), bill of rights (20), body systems (42), chinese (45), constitution (64), declaration of independence (9), evolution (96), genetics (77), greeks (22), literature (210), meiosis (13), mitosis (10), nutrition (116), religions (38), rome (22), romeo and juliet (6), russia (24), shakespeare (136), water cycle (26)
In the Classroom
Use as a way to introduce new topics or subjects to establish background knowledge. Share these videos on your projector or interactive whiteboard to provide an introduction (or review) on various topics. Use as an alternate way to help motivate your tech savvy students. Use as an example for a group project with the students planning, writing, and producing an informational video in the subject you are studying. Challenge cooperative learning groups to create videos and share them on a site such as TeacherTube reviewed here. Be sure to point out the steps followed in teaching and learning in the videos. Independent learners and gifted students will love the opportunity to learn on their own using these videos. Instead of "games" for times when student finish work early, why not share the link to this YouTube channel and encourage them to keep a blog about what they discover.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Meteorite size - CARTOD8
Grades
3 to 12In the Classroom
This site is ideal for your interactive whiteboard or projector. It could also be used on individual laptops or at a learning center. Allow time for students to brainstorm what the bubbles represent on the map. Give a few moments then to have them identify by looking at specific bubbles. Discuss whether certain areas of the map have found or seen more or larger meteorites and why that might be. Research what other objects can strike Earth and compare composition and origin in the Universe. Consider expanding your discussion to include folklore, religion, and other aspects of daily life that may have been "impacted" by meteorite impacts or sightings. Discuss various ways that living things could be protected from possible future impacts.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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It's Okay To Be Smart - Joe Hanson
Grades
6 to 12tag(s): animals (197), behavior (33), earth (196), evolution (96), landforms (36), moon (56), polar (16), space (152)
In the Classroom
Use this blog for students to find interesting information to learn from and report to others in the class (like Science current events.) Consider creating a blog for students to share information that they research and write about for understanding. Collect students' How, Why, and What questions for further research themselves and reporting to others. Or have students create their own science blogs using Instablogg ( here). This site allows you to create "quick and easy" blogs to be used one time only. A unique URL is provided, and this site is as easy as using a basic Word program!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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SySTEM Alert - Pitsco Education
Grades
6 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): inventors and inventions (93), scientific method (39), scientists (39), STEM (27)
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Use these newsletters to show students how their lives are connected to STEM achievements. Students can read and comment on specific articles or careers. Use a variety of these PDF's when researching various STEM careers or highlighting inventions and discoveries. Students can create a traditional or multimedia report on the information learned.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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