Solve the Mystery!

The Adjective Detective is a fun way for your students to learn more about the different types of adjectives. From superlative adjectives to comparative adjectives, this site has it all! The site is very interactive, with lessons, games and quizzes from the Children University of Manchester site.

Create Your Own Story Book Online

StoryJumper is a site that gives parents, kids, and authors a fun set of intuitive tools for writing and illustrating kids stories.

It's easy -- just click on the "create" button and choose the type of story you want to make. From their, you'll be taken into our StoryCreator tool and on your way. Click away -- there's nothing you can break here! You can also watch a short video that demonstrates how the tools work.

StoryJumper is a great way for teachers to jump start Creative Writing lesson plans:

Promote writing & literacy
Rich, colorful art library
Flexible platformsto
It's free

A Maths Dictionary For kids!

http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com/ 

Thanks to Lauren Grossberg for writing about this math site.

A Maths Dictionary for Kids, an online resource for math terms and visual aides, has been updated for the 2010 year. Started by an Australian K-6 teacher, it now includes more terms, definitions, and visual aids than it has previously had. This site is great because it provides straightforward and understandable definitions of the sometimes complicated math terms. Along with over 400 definitions there is a small diagram or some sort of interactive activity or game to help students visually see the term's definition. Just like any other dictionary, all the math terms are arranged alphabetically.

 A Maths Dictionary for Kids is a great resource to help students when they are working on homework assignments, individual in-class assignments or larger group projects. The visual clues that go along with each definition are helpful for students who find it more difficult to visualize the actual meaning of a math term.

Artists Readers

Thanks to Educational Software Blog fos sharing this site.

Storyline Online is an online, streaming video program that features members of the Screen Actors Guild reading award-winning children's books. You can choose from dozens of stories that range in topic and theme. Each book includes accompanying activities and lesson ideas.

Have Fun With History!

American History Teachers, homeschoolers, and history buffs now have an online resource full of American History streaming videos, activities, links and resources - because history is fun!

This website can make your American History class even more fun. It has history videos, activities, subjects and more.

A Valentines Interactive Book

This interactive book about valentines can help students learn about valentines day. Students can actually play puzzles, match words, watch videos in the book.

Teachers can use their ebeam or interactive whiteboards to make the class more fun.

More Resoureces:

The Best Sites To Learn About Valentine’s Day

Go Paperless

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Little Kids and Professional Development in the 21 st Century

Little Kids, Big possibilities

Presenter: Kelly Hines

Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page

Presentation Title: Little Kids, Big Possibilities

Presentation Description: Learn about the what’s, how’s and why’s of using web 2.0 tools and social networking with elementary age students to enhance learning and student engagement.

Self-driven and Classroom-based: Professional Development in the 21st Century

Presenter: Konrad Glogowski

Link to presenter’s K12Online Ning Profile page

Presentation Title: Self-driven and Classroom-based: Professional Development in the 21st Century

Presentation Description: Based on Guy Claxton’s statement that “schools should become communities of practice where … the ‘elders’ of the community are themselves exemplary learners” (Claxton, 2002), this presentation explores the importance of Classroom-Based Teacher Development and Reflective Practice as essential professional development practices for the 21st century. It suggests that if students today are to benefit from schools where they can acquire the learning dispositions that will allow them to build and transform future societies and address global challenges, teacher professional development must be reconfigured to allow teachers to focus on examining and learning from their own professional contexts. The 21st century demands that teachers investigate their practices on a regular basis, learn to design new approaches, and quickly and effectively respond to the demands of the ever-changing knowledge society. Classrooms must therefore become sites of inquiry where teachers engage in practice that is perpetually experimental.

Learning with Technology and Learning Today

Resources shared by the Educational Software Blog from the Learning Today Website.

Free Phonics Lesson

Have fun with phonics as you travel through space aboard the Navigator! This interactive tutorial introduces students to consonant digraphs ph, th, sh and ch. Through the use of interactive game-like activities, colorful graphics, and supportive audio feedback, elementary students are encouraged to explore how "two letters can make a different sound when they come together"!

Free Pan Balance



Looking for a fun way to introduce students to the concept of equivalence? Try our free pan balance applet that we developed in conjunction with the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). It is freely available on their Illuminations website. The pan balance applet can be used with students in PreK (with some guidance of course!) all the way up through 8th grade to investigate relationships among the weights of various objects and explore the concept of equivalence.

Resources about Cause and Effect





Fun K-5 Algebra Lessons

Our latest lessons are designed to help algebraic thinking come alive for elementary students. Through interactive activities using musical penguins, colorful blocks, bouncing balls, and in-out machines, students in grades K-5 are introduced to key concepts such as patterns, relationships, functions, equations and inequalities.

Lessons are fast-paced and game-like and include specific feedback. Students who struggle are shown detailed explanations, including rich animations and audio, in a fun, non-threatening way.

Educational and Shared on Diigo

This is a collection of web 2.0 tools that have been put together by Jasper Isaksson, a Swedish teacher who created this map of tools to share with educators.



Quick links to resources to mathematics teachers.



Is a website with Thousands of Free Worksheets, Printables, Coloring Pages, Flash Cards, Songs for Kids, Educational Videos, Fun Activities, Thematic Units, Teacher Tools, and Lesson Plans for Teachers!



This is a list of top ten websites young learners can use. The list was created by Gail Lovely

The Encyclopedia of Educational Technology (EET) is a collection of short multimedia articles on a variety of topics related to the fields of instructional design and education and training. Created by the San Diego State University which owns all information copyrights.



The Virtual Courseware Project produces interactive, online simulations for the life science laboratory or for earth science field studies. The activities are designed to enhance an existing curriculum and include online assessments. They can be used by students ranging from middle school, high school, or college classrooms.

Best Sites to Learn About Thanksgiving

Larry Ferlazzo's Best Sites about Thanksgiving!

The First Thanksgiving

Thanks to ILearn Technology Blog for sharing this great resource.

Scholastic has amazing resources for teachers and students to work with. But for students to learn about the First Thanksgiving they have this interactive which takes you on a voyage on the May Flower, the Daily Life and the Thanksgiving Feast. To complete your whole Thanksgiving Unit you can access the lesson plans, activities and books.

Games For the Classroom

Game Classroom is a one-stop web destination for accessing high-quality educational games, and homework help for K-6 students. Game Classroom offers math games, homework help, worksheets and more. It is a great site for kids, parents and teachers.

Math Learning Fun

Educational software company DreamBox Learning is offering free digital math resources for kindergarten through second-grade teachers to use in their classrooms. These “DreamBox Teacher Tools” include a variety of lessons using virtual manipulatives, ideas for incorporating these lessons into the elementary curriculum, and resources to support teacher’s professional development as they use the online toolkit. The virtual manipulatives are web-based tools that help students more easily grasp math concepts in visual terms, and research shows they are effective, DreamBox says. -eschool News, Site of the Week-

Children's E-Book Libraries Collections

This is a collection of e-book libraries for children.

Learn from ilearn

This resources were shared by the ILearn Technology Blog.

Learn Direct

This UK website allows you to create and modified your own story book. You can customize each of story pages. Once you finish you can read it online, saved it as a PDF or printed out.

BBC World War II For Elementary

This is a great site to explore with your class to learn more about World War II. Students will learn about the world at war, evacuations, wartime homes, food and shopping, the war time efforts, children at war, air raids, daily life, growing up during wartime, and the end of the war. Each section has easy-to-understand information and pictures. Students can also be a historical detective with a World War II time capsule game. The teacher section has an amazing collection of related worksheets, activities, and links that can be used with the site. -Kelly Tenkely-

Math Nook



Is a website with many math flash games for students to play and practice their math skills.

Inkless Tales

Inkless Tales, is an entertaining and educational website for Kids to write and listen to stories, poems, podcast, play games etc. This website was created by Elizabeth Williams Bushey.

Great Science Field Trips

Shared by web20classroom on twitter!

Field Trip Earth is the global resource for teachers, students, and proponents of wildlife conservation.

Picture Book Maker

Shared by Larry Ferlazzo.

With Picture Book Maker, you can easily create a…picture book (including text). It can be saved online or printed out. It’s super-easy to use, plus no registration is required. The url of your creation can be posted on a student/teacher blog or website.

See a screen capture of my own picture book!

The Best Websites For Learning About Halloween

Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo for this incredible list of resources.