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Word Games - east of the web
Grades
2 to 12
tag(s): puzzles (203)
In the Classroom
This website is "interactive whiteboard ready." Students will love these mind stretching challenges and teachers will love the easy-to-use format of the activities. Put a game up on the whiteboard as students are taking their seats to focus attention and minds on WORDS before you start class. ESL teachers may find these games will help students practice language skills more readily. If you don't have time to utilize this challenge in class, provide the link in your class's newsletter or on your teacher web page.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Inventing Modern America: Invention Connection - The Lemelson - MIT Program
Grades
4 to 10tag(s): evolution (102), industrial revolution (26), inventors and inventions (92)
In the Classroom
Use this wonderful resource during your inventions/inventors units. This activity helps students to understand the connections between numerous inventions and forces then to think about unusual commonalities between unlike objects. This invention activity is perfect for an interactive whiteboard. You may want to have a separate window open to "look up" some of the more esoteric inventions that show up, since they may not be familiar to you and your students.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Science Zone - Mandy Barrow
Grades
K to 8tag(s): electricity (92), forces (45), human body (132), light (51), planets (128), plants (174), sound (105), water (134), water cycle (32)
In the Classroom
Get an interactive whiteboard ready - and utilize these free interactive (and educational) activities to simplify the complexities of various scientific concepts.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Maths Zone - Woodlands Junior School
Grades
2 to 6tag(s): angles (87), charts and graphs (198), decimals (125), fractions (228), mean (26), median (23), mode (16), money (185), percent (82), probability (141), time (141)
In the Classroom
Use an interactive whiteboard to introduce your class to this site's activities. Then differentiate your math lessons by allowing students to work independently on the math skills they are currently acquiring. Even if you have only a single classroom computer, you can provide practice and challenge at all levels. This is also a wonderful site to share as a link from your teacher home page or in your classroom newsletter.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Interactive Maths Games and Activities - Woodlands Junior School
Grades
K to 8tag(s): homophones (15), logic (248), numbers (197), spelling (168)
In the Classroom
This website literally provides activities on nearly all elementary subjects. The logic and mind stretcher activities are appropriate for elementary gifted students and middle school students. Get your entire class involved and use an Interactive Whiteboard!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Math Presentations - Jefferson County Schools
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): addition (227), air (148), division (161), logic (248), multiplication (211), subtraction (187), vision (79)
In the Classroom
Try these ready-to-go PowerPoint presentations on an interactive whiteboard or projector in your classroom. Some may also be well-suited for individual students to run on a single classroom computer for remediation or review. There are games, resources and a lot of information. The site includes a disclaimer asking to be notified if users find any unauthorized, copyrighted material. TeachersFirst recommends that you NOT download copies but instead use them online, just in case.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Substitute Survival: Tools You Can Use - Education World
Grades
K to 12tag(s): substitutes (18)
In the Classroom
Substitutes - don't go into the trenches empty handed, print out this useful survival guide (or make it a TeachersFirst Favorite so you can find it anytime) and be prepared for the unexpected!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Welcome - A Packet for Substitute Teachers - Robert Jackson
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
This website provides easy, ready-to-go activities! There are activities for every grade level (from kindergarten to high school). This is a priceless resource for any substitute teacher.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Countdown Investigations - Woodlands Junior School
Grades
3 to 8tag(s): addition (227), division (161), multiplication (211), spelling (168), subtraction (187), vision (79)
In the Classroom
This site is ideal for an interactive whiteboard. Divide the class into teams for a competition, doing one activity each day to start your class. The tournament could go on for months.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Math Starter of the Day - Transum Software
Grades
4 to 8tag(s): addition (227), decimals (125), division (161), fractions (228), money (185), multiplication (211), subtraction (187), vision (79)
In the Classroom
Use an interactive whiteboard or projector to share this website to start your math class. The activities are sure to clear the cobwebs in your students' minds. There is something for everyone.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Family Math Balloon Ride - Lawrence Hall of Science
Grades
1 to 6tag(s): addition (227), logic (248), subtraction (187)
In the Classroom
Use an interactive whiteboard to challenge your student to this fun logic activity as a warm up to math class, especially when studying even/odd numbers. Your students will develop a new kind of number sense and improved strategy skills as they try to win.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Logic and Reasoning Games - Math Playground
Grades
K to 12tag(s): gifted (88), logic (248), problem solving (294), puzzles (203), substitutes (18)
In the Classroom
Use one of these on an interactive whiteboard as a brain warm-up at the beginning of class or as student enter the room. If you have a difficult group in a study hall, this site could keep them busy in a positive way. Substitutes will also love it! Include this link in your class's newsletter, classroom computer, or teacher web page for extra challenges and enrichment. Teachers of gifted can challenge their students to write "how to" directions for how to solve these puzzles, once they have figured them out!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Lateral Puzzles - WebRing
Grades
3 to 12Not sure what a Lateral Puzzle is? Read the FAQ section!
tag(s): gifted (88), puzzles (203), thinking skills (16)
In the Classroom
Challenge your class with a "lateral puzzle of the day". This site would be perfect for your gifted students or to get everyone thinking at the start of class. Be sure to include the link on your web page! For an extra challenge when students have mastered the puzzles, ask them to analyze how they work and write some of their own.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Crazy Counting Machine - Crick Web
Grades
2 to 6tag(s): addition (227), division (161), multiplication (211), subtraction (187), vision (79)
In the Classroom
Fire up the interactive whiteboard and make this mindstretching activity a class challenge. Make this game availabel all year to develop better number sense and strategy skills. It is a must as a link from your teacher web page, as well. If you play the game "24," this would be another way to practice the same skills.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Pyramid Numbers - Crick Web
Grades
3 to 5In the Classroom
Try this one on interactive whiteboard and make this activity a group experience. Make sure you mark it in Favorites on your classroom computer and make it available on your teacher web site for those who get addicted.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Kids Psych Games - Magination Press
Grades
1 to 6Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Math Contest - Ole' Miss
Grades
3 to 12In the Classroom
Include this link on your teacher web page or start class with it each week on a projector, giving extra credit to those whose names appear on the web page by the weekend!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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What's Wrong With These Pictures? - NIEHS Kids
Grades
K to 1In the Classroom
INclude this as a link for children to try at home or use it on an interactive whiteboard with your children. It would also make a good center activity.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Girls Go Tech - Girl Scouts of the United States of America
Grades
3 to 6In the Classroom
The themes provided at this website could easily be incorporated into science (codes and hypothesis testing as part of scientific method, the brain as part of human body systems), music or general mind stretching activities. Use an interactive whiteboard to introduce your students to left brain versus right brain, cryptic coding or even creating digital music. This site is sure to excite your students!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Laura Ingalls Wilder - Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society
Grades
K to 6tag(s): authors (120)
In the Classroom
Use an interactive whiteboard or projector to introduce your students to the lovely Laura Ingalls Wilder. After introducing the site, ask students to read the blog in pairs or small groups. If you are beginning the process of integrating technology, have students create their own blogs sharing their learning and understanding using Loose Leaves, reviewed here. This blog creator requires no registration. If you are teaching younger students and looking for an easy way to integrate technology and check for understanding, challenge your students to create a blog using EasyBlog, reviewed here. Take this a step further with older students and ask them to use their blog entries to create an interactive timeline of Laura's life using Knightlab's multimedia timeline creator, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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