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What It Is: A collection of different tools that you can use in your classroom.

What It Is: an awesome website that lets you build a Jeopardy game board without the use of Power Point! All that you have to do to start is enter a password so that others can’t edit your game. Then it is as simple as titling it, typing in categories and then entering questions and answers. How To Use It: Create a review game for any subject area

What It Is: excellent resource for finding teaching and learning resources from federal agencies. Resources are broken down in to subjects arts and music, health and physical education, history and social studies, language arts, math, and science. Subjects are further broken down in to sub categories making it simple to find exactly what you are looking for quickly. How To Use It: Use FREE to find quality online resource for any subject that you are teaching. Some of the linked websites are specifically for teachers and some are activities and sites for students.FREE

 Math Playground: Action-packed site for practicing math skills  Thinking Blocks: Engaging, interactive math tool developed by classroom teachers to help students learn how to solve multistep word problems  Math TV: Each math problems comes with step by step video solution, follow up problems, an online calculator, and sketch pad.

 100s of Math simulations that can be used on the SMART Board with the whole group or with individual students for review  Also has Science and Social Studies simulation

 Easily create a bibliography for just about any type of source

 A virtual bookshelf with podcasts and vidcasts of books and booktalks.

 a website where children can listen to celebrities reading fables, nursery rhymes, fairy tales, lullabies, and more.  Speakaboos provides story guides, worksheets, and art projects that teachers can use the classroom.

books_and_authors What It Is: This is a great place for students to discover new books that they may enjoy, or to connect over books that they have already read. Most of the books featured in The Stacks have an accompanying website where students can read what other students thought about the book, play related games, and take quizzes. The Stacks How To Use It: Allow your students to use The Stacks to find new reading material, and to interact with other students about the books they are reading. Many of the activities would make nice extensions to your curriculum.The Stacks

What It Is: Students learn about different kinds of poetry by selecting from Haiku, Limerick, Cinquain, or Free Verse. The Poetry Idea Machine takes students through the steps of making each type of poetry. Poetry Idea Machine How To Use It: After students learn about the poetry, they have a chance to create their own poem with the Poetry Idea Machine interactive. In my classroom, I use the Poetry Idea Machine with the whole class using the interactive whiteboard or projector. I invite students up to create their own poems as we talk through the process.Poetry Idea MachinePoetry Idea Machine

What It Is: Weboword is a fantastic visual vocabulary site that offers students illustrations that help students understand vocabulary.Weboword How To Use It:

 A variety of online activities based around science concepts

 Learn about any –ology you can think of

 What It Is: This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box.   How To Use It: Museum box provides the tools for you to do just this. It allows you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. You can display anything from a text file to a movie.

ge-collection/#/explore/  What It Is: There are more than 11 million images that chronicle the world from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st century.   How To Use It: Use these images to help you tell the story of our world as you teach students about history, science, wild life, and world culture. These images will help to connect your students with learning in ways that a textbook can’t. Use the Image Collection for creative writing prompts. Allow your students to choose an image from the collection to tell a story about.Image Collection

 What It Is: Liberty Kids teaches about Colonial life in America through a variety of educational activities. Students can explore the animated “Now and Then” segments which compare and contrast various lifestyles, cultural, technological, and health issues from the Revolutionary War period and life in the 21st century.Liberty Kids   How To Use It: This site bring history to a kid level and helps them understand history as it relates to them. Students get a great view of what life was like during the Revolutionary War as well as learn about key events, people, and places of the Colonial period. Use the play scripts to connect your students to the lesser known voices during the Revolutionary War. Let them explore the site individually on classroom computers or explore as a class with an interactive whiteboard or with a projector. The animated video clips and Revolution Archive can be used with the whole class but the games are best for students to play individually on their own computer. After students have a good understanding of Colonial Life, they can create and print out a newspaper cover that they create.

What it is: Animated Atlas: The Growth of a Nation is an animated video that teaches students about American expansion. The video allows for interaction as it plays. Students can click on any state to learn more about when and how it became a state. Animated Atlas: The Growth of a Nation How To Use It: This interactive is a good one for helping students to visualize the expansion of the United States from the original 13 colonies. The site is packed full of information with the ability to learn more about a time period, state, or territory

What It Is: A free software download. The software contains two parts, the first is an atlas with interactive maps and details for each country including the capital, flag, land and water borders, length of the coasts, the population, official languages, internet and country code, currency, international organization membership, and more. The second part of the software is a game offering more than 100,000 geography questions about worldwide geography. The game lets players give an answer or choose to answer with clues or multiple choice. How To Use It: The game included is a great way to increase student geography knowledge. Play the game as a class during geography or any time you have a few extra minutes. Keep a running score going throughout the year that can be added to easily.

s/flash/default.asp  What It Is: Front pages of newspapers from around the US are displayed on a map. Scroll over the map and the front page of the newspaper pops up.   How To Use It:

What it is: Kids in the House is a great website for kids to learn about Congress, how laws are made, about the Clerk, and the history of the House of Representatives. This interactive site includes great links, definitions, explanations, and games.Kids in the House

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