Links

Links to Helpful Websites - work great with interactive whiteboard, minis, or in the lab

This list is always growing check back often


 * General**
 * [|Kathy Schrock's guide for educators] - a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.
 * [|The Super Book of Web Tools for Educators -] Using technology in the k12 classroom
 * [|Discovery Education]- Streaming videos for all subject areas and grade levels - email me for your buildings passcode **(COMING SOON)**
 * [|Teacher Tube] & [|School Tube] - Like YouTube but not blocked
 * [|Interactive Internet Resources] - Tons of interactive sites for interactive whiteboards broken down by subject area
 * [|Teacher LED] - Interactive Whiteboard resources for teachers
 * [|Thinkfinity] - Free lesson plans and a whole section of interactive lessons
 * [|Jeopardy] - Jeopardy template for whiteboards
 * [|Power Point Games] - Templates for many different review games in Power Point
 * [|Henry Anker Tests] - Free website for quick assessments. Students can choose each level. All subjects covered
 * [|Virtual Field Trips] - List of virtual field trips
 * [|Copyright Free and Public Domain Media Sources] -Numerous websites where you can find copyright free images to use
 * [|ISTI] - You can find the standards here that you should be holding yourself and students to when it comes to technology
 * [|Donors Choose] - An online charity that makes it easy to help students in need through school donations
 * [|Prezi] - Online presentation software that allows you and your students to make amazing and interesting presentations. (Educators get a free upgraded account)
 * [|PBSkids.org] - Interactive whiteboard games for educators. Language Arts, Math, Arts, Social Studies


 * Math**
 * [|National Library of Virtual Manipulatives] - Online interactive manipulatives
 * [|Multiplication.com] - Math games
 * [|Math Games] - More math games
 * [|Interactive 1-100 chart]
 * [|Money: US Coins] - Large images of the fronts and backs of coins and links to money related websites with games, info, and activities
 * [|Illuminations] - Math resources lesson plans

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 * ELA**
 * [|Starfall] - A free website to teach chidren to read with phonics. For pre-k - 1st
 * [|Wordle] - Make word clouds
 * [|Instant Poetry Forms] - Forms for students / class to easily create poetry
 * [|Literacy Games]
 * [|Google Lit Trips] - Virtual field trips aligned to popular books
 * [|Book Adventure] - Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 6,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read offline, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes. K-8
 * [|AudioOwl.com] - Recordings of public domain children's stories. Free Audio Books
 * [|International Children's Digital Library] - Online multilingual books and resources


 * Science**
 * [|NASA] - Links to materials sorted by grade level
 * [|Science Net Links] - Science lessons and tools for K-12
 * [|FossWeb] - Research-based science curriculum developed at UC Berkeley. Grades K-8
 * [|World Wide Telescope] - From Microsoft, will turn your whiteboard/computer into a virtual universe
 * [|Interactive Periodic Table] - Interactive periodic table with dynamic layouts
 * [|Explore Mars: Gale Crater] - the landing site for the next Mars rover. Explore the area with this 3D viewer
 * [|Explore Mars: Spirits Journey] - Follow the Spirit rover's journey on mars in 3D
 * [|Forces of Nature] - An interactive National Geographic site about tornadoes, hurricanes, volcanoes, and earthquakes
 * [|Human Digestion Animation] - Shows a variety of foods travelling through digestive system and what happens at each stage


 * Social Studies**
 * [|Google Earth] - Lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean
 * [|GeoNet] - A challenging geography game for grades 4+
 * [|Whitehouse] - Tour the Whitehouse, take quizzes, watch videos
 * [|US Map] - Interactive US map
 * [|Us Map Practice] - How well do you know the US?
 * [|Preceden] - lets your students make amazing timelines online. (try for free, full membership requires one time $29 fee.)
 * [|American Memory from the Library of Congress] - Includes primary source material relating to American culture and history; includes educator's section on how to use the resources
 * [|Ad*Access] - images of over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955
 * [|Best of History Web Sites] - a well-chosen, well-arranged, and rated list of annotated links to history Web sites of all eras
 * [|Biography] - Database of over 15,000 famous people
 * [|Biography Maker] - a well presented, engaging way of teaching students the way to write a biography report
 * [|Castles on the Web] - site which links the castle resources on the internet including history and photographs
 * [|Middle Ages] - covers all aspects of life in the middle ages
 * [|Time Maps] - an online, interactive, world history timeline
 * [|Time Capsule] - enter a date and find out about the music, movies, and other items about that day
 * [|Social Studies for Kids] - Full of current events and resources to support the teaching and learning of social studies


 * Music**
 * [|Using a Musical Sketch Pad] **-** Create songs using visual cues
 * [|The New York Philharmonic] - Allows students to play a matching game that plays various instruments
 * [|Play Music] - Students get to listen to instruments and play interactive games
 * Art**
 * [|Crayola Kids] - Coloring pages, games, lesson plans
 * [|Albrightknox Art Museum] - Interactive web site for students studying art with a museum tour