Resources

Boom Writer
​http://www.boomwriter.com/
Creative writing platform teaches collaboration and helps develop writing skills. BoomWriter allows kids to co-author their own books. Teachers provide a "story start" which is essentially a first chapter, kids then write a follow-up chapter, submitting them for teacher approval. Meanwhile, other kids vote anonymously on approved chapters.
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BookPals
http://www.bookpals.net/storyline/
This site features Screen Actors Guild members reading children's books aloud through an online video streaming program.​
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Sesame Street Games
http://www.sesameworkshop.org/sesamestreet/?scrollerId=games
Read interactive stories from Sesame Street, hear your favorite theme songs, and play over 100 games.  Grades PreK-1
 
Kids Read
http://www.kidsreads.com/
Word scrambles and trivia games based on children’s books and movies. Visit the Trivia and Games section.  Grades K-5
 
Starfall
http://www.starfall.com
Starfall is a creative website designed to teach children to read. The interactive books available have sound – so turn your speakers on. Teachers may request free writing journals for classroom use that reinforce the sequential phonics lessons of each interactive book.  Grades Pre-K-1
 
Building Language for Literacy
http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/bll/
Online literacy skill activities.  This site appears to be a product advertisement but scroll down to click a character to enter the online practice activities of oral language, phonemic awareness, letter knowledge, or concepts of print. Grades K-3
 
Meet An Author
http://home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/authors.htm
Choose from classical or current authors and learn more about them at this website.  Grades 1-4
 
Story Starters
http://home.freeuk.net/elloughton13/setting.htm
Choose from a collection of stimulating story settings to help get your story started.  Grades 1-4

Virtual Manipulatives
http://nlvm.usu.edu/
Virtual pattern blocks, geoboards, base-ten blocks, and much more. Grades PreK-12
 
MathLive
http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/me5l/html/math5.html
Math Live, a fantastic site for upper elementary students, is full of cartoon math tutorials on subjects like fractions, multiplication, area and perimeter, tessellations, probability, and a variety of other topics. The glossary section is an amazing collection of math concepts animated for more solid understanding.
  
Harcourt Multimedia Math Glossary
http://www.harcourtschool.com/glossary/math2/index_temp.html
Animated, interactive math glossary for Grades 1-8.
 
AAA Math
http://www.aaamath.com
Interactive estimation and practice games sorted by grade level and math topic.  Grades K-8
 
Math Playground
http://www.mathplayground.com
Grades K-6
 
Create a Graph
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/graphing
Create area, bar, line or pie graphs online!  You submit the data and the website does the rest!  Grades 2-8
 
Interactive Math
http://www.cut-the-knot.org/Curriculum/index.shtml
A variety of math activities that include arithmetic, geometry, algebra, calculus  fractals, and probability.  Grades 2-12
 
 Interactive Math Activities
http://www.globalclassroom.org/authors/florida/math/interactive.html
Pattern Blocks, base ten, and integer activities.  Grades K-2
 
I Know That Math Games
http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=L2_Math

Animal Diversity
http://animaldiversity.org/
From the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, the Animal Diversity Web is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification and conservation biology. Students can browse the information on individual creatures from the Kingdom Animalia and find thousands of pictures on specific animals.
 
Ace on the Case:Secrets@sea
http://www.secretsatsea.org/
An interactive adventure that helps students learn about marine ecology.  Grades 4-7
 
Zoom:Kitchen Chemistry
http://pbskids.org/zoom/kitchenchemistry/
Visit the virtual kitchen to perform online experiments, solve a puzzle, and get a reward.  Grades 4-6
 
Catch the Science Bug 
http://www.sciencebug.org/index.html
The educational goals of Catch the Science Bug are to increase science literacy and raise environmental consciousness by adhering to national standards and guidelines for content, to use different teaching methods for engaging all types of learners, and to encourage life-long learning by featuring scientists who model this behavior.
 
Cool Science for Kids
http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience
Cool Science is a fun site that helps students appreciate science. Covers observation skills, plants, animal classifications and metamorphosis. Grades K-3
 
Cells Alive
http://www.cellsalive.com/
CELLS Alive! represents 30 years of capturing film and computer-enhanced images of living cells and organisms for education and medical research. The site has been available continuously and updated annually since May of 1994 by Jim Sullivan, and now hosts over four million visitors a year.

The Great Plant Escape
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/
Help Detective Leplant and his partners investigate plant mysteries including cases about soil, plant growth, seeds, and reproduction. Grades 4-5
  
Entomology Image Gallery
http://www.ent.iastate.edu/imagegallery/
View images and movies of beetles, ticks, lice, and lots of other creepy crawling insects!  Grades 3 and up
 
Popular Science
http://www.popsci.com
There are plenty of interesting things to read at Popular Science Magazine's web site. Articles on science, space, the Internet, computers, and more.  Grades 3+
 
The Astronomy Workshop
http://janus.astro.umd.edu/index.html
Students can view a multitude of Java programs that creates a solar system, view the moons and their orbits around their planets, and learn about astronomical distances.  Grades 3+
 
Galaxy Hunter
http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/resources/explorations/ghunter/
Statistically speaking, this cosmic photo shoot is out of this world!  Students construct and interpret frequency tables, demonstrate knowledge of simple random samples, define range, mean and median as they apply to statistics, and demonstrate knowledge of min/max plots.  Teacher Tips included.  Grades 10-12
 
Funology
http://www.funology.com
At Funology find fun facts, experiments, crafts, recipes, magic tricks, jokes, and a whole lot more.  Grades 2-5
 
Science Bob
https://sciencebob.com/
Science Bob is a fun, interactive site that has several different areas for kids to choose from. There are videos, experiments, science fair ideas and a research help link with many fantastic links to other sites.
 
Science Monster
http://www.sciencemonster.com
Created by the makers of CoolMath, this site entertains with information about our solar system.  Students can take a star tour, see how gravity and inertia work, and play a fun lunar landing game. Grades 2-5
  
The Physics Classroom
http://www.physicsclassroom.com/
An online physics tutorial written for high school physics students.  Grades 9-12

Digital History
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu
This site provides interactive timelines, essays, visual histories, and a reference room with speeches, music, images, maps, and more from various periods of American history. Ask a professional historian questions, play games, or watch a flash movie. Grades 3-12
 
National Geograpic's "Xpeditions"
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/hall/index.html
Check out this interactive "museum" that will take on geography journeys.  Come in and visit an archeological dig or climb a mountain. This site includes lesson plans, games, maps, activities and more.  Grades 5-8
 
World Magazine
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/world/index.html
This e-zine from National Geographic provides articles, online games, brainteasers, plus lots of other
surprises.  Grades 3+
 
 
I Know that, Social Studies Games
http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=L2_SocialStudies
 

Common Sense media
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/digital-citizenship
Digital literacy and citizenship classroom curriculum, plus free cyberbullying toolkit for teachers

Keyboarding Practice

Several resources for keyboarding practicing  

50 Education Technology Tools Every Teacher Should Know
https://globaldigitalcitizen.org/50-education-technology-tools-every-teacher-should-know-about
 
50 Fab Apps for Teachers

Websites for Smart or Other Interactive Boards

SMART Exchange


Miscellaneous Links

Free images Pexels
 

Microsoft Word 

Office 365