|
|
Social Studies
| Elementary |
 |
100 Milestone
Documents: One hundred important documents from American
history are featured in this site, along with specialized tools for
enhancing the study of them. Tip: Search the
Teacher Sourcebook and lesson plans for social studies ideas.
* Web-based |
 |
Afterschool Training
Toolkit is designed to give afterschool program directors
and instructors the resources they need to build fun, innovative,
and academically enriching activities that not only engage
students, but also extend their knowledge in new ways and increase
academic achievement.
*On-line resources |
 |
ALTEC: Empower
learners of all types and ages. Find instructional Web-based
technology for students, professional development opportunities,
program support, and online assessment for
educators.
* Web-based |
 |
American Centuries:
Explore American history through these collections and
activities.
* Web-based |
 |
Annenberg Learner:
Videos, interactives, workshops, and distance learning are all
available on this site. Arts, Foreign Language, Mathematics,
Science, Social Studies, and Language Arts are all
represented.
* Web-based |
 |
Archiving Early
America: Short films of noteworthy famous moments in early
American history
* Web-based |
|
|
Birmingham Grid for
Learning: Wide variety of interactive English
activities.
* Web-based |
|
|
BrainPOP creates
animated, curriculum-based content that engages students, supports
educators, and bolsters achievement. Our award-winning online
educational resources include BrainPOP Jr. (K-3), BrainPOP,
BrainPOP Español, and BrainPOP ESL. Features free lesson plans,
video tutorials, professional development tools, graphic
organizers, & best practices.
* Web-based * Requires subscription and
membership |
 |
Build a Prairie:
Restore a prairie using biology, ecology and climatology.
* Web-based |
|
|
Dipity is a site that
allows your students to create and share interactive timelines
about any subject or topic. Dipity timelines implement the latest
in Web 2.0, combining multimedia & social media content with
timestamps, geolocation & real-time updates.
* Web-based * Save on-line * Customized by
user
* Cannot save to computer |
|
|
Discovery Education
has so much to offer teachers it will never fit in this annotation.
Lesson plans, videos, puzzlemakers, science fair ideas, contests,
grants, science help and more. There are so many resources for
educators, librarians, students, and schools to use.
* Web-based |
 |
Earthcam: Check out
places on earth in "real time." Great for writing projects, changes
over time, animal observation, etc.
* Web-based |
|
|
Edsitement! Check out
this site for great educational material -suggested Websites and
lesson plans - in literature/language arts, art/culture, social
studies/history and foreign language.
* Web-based |
|
|
Educatus: An
intriguing collection of educational lessons, currently consisting
of 12,000+ images represented in over 1,000 lessons.
* Web-based |
|
|
Eduweb: Students may
think they are just playing games, but learning is really what is
going on. Grounded in the idea of game-based learning, students
work through creative learning games and activities, all the while
learning in a fun and engaging environment.
* Web-based |
 |
Google Earth: Take a
trip around the world from your own computer. Google Earth lets
your class study the globe in a way that it never has before. Put
in your destination and Google Earth will take you there.
Tip: Feel like you're flying when you type in
destinations and Google Earth takes you there.
* Web-based |
|
|
Khanacademy: Over
2,100 videos and 100 self-paced exercises and assessments covering
everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history. It
includes complete custom self-paced learning tools; a dynamic
system for getting help; and a custom profile, points, and badges
to measure progress.
* Web-based |
|
|
Lee's Summit:
Templates for teacher or student generated review games such as
Hangman, Jeopardy, Millionaire, among others. Lesson Plans,
activities and more!
* Web-based |
|
|
Library of Congress
website has over 13 million digitized primary source items.
Teachers, students, parents, and the community can all find
something here. Tip: Visit the American Memory section of the site
to browse 100 separate collections arranged by topic.
* Web-based |
|
|
Merlot stands for
Multimedia Educational Research for Learning and Online Teaching.
This site offers classroom activities, lessons from peers in the
field of education, and much more.
* Web-based |
|
|
National Geographic
Kids: Encourage your kids to do some writing!
* Web-based |
|
|
National Library of Virtual
Manipulatives: A must with the SMART Board! Interactive,
virtual manipulatives from preK-12.
* Web-based |
 |
Owl & Mouse:
Download interactive geography US maps and world maps.
* Web-based |
 |
Place the State:
You choose to place state on map with or without state
outlines. A third options is placing the name of the state in the
correct location.
* Web-based |
|
|
PowerPoint
Collection: Download a premade PowerPoint ready for
classroom use - math, science, social studies, art, language
arts.
* Web-based * Download to computer |
 |
Professor Garfield:
Are you looking to engage kids in a safe online setting and provide
21st century learning opportunities? Professor Garfield provides an
environment where children can safely create, interact, read,
engage, and express themselves through a variety of innovative
online tools including an e-book reader and comics lab.
* Web-based |
|
|
Scholastic: Three
interactive games - rhyming words, beginning sounds, naming objects
belonging in certain places (ex. Home)
* Web-based |
|
|
Smithsonian: The
Smithsonian Education website offers sections for families,
students and educators. The section for Educators includes a
browsable lesson plan area (searchable by subject, keyword or grade
level) and IdeaLabs, student interactive tutorials that enhance the
use of the site.
* Download to computer |
|
|
SOS for Information
Literacy: Learn how to effectively incorporate information
literacy into your lesson plans. S.O.S. for Information Literacy is
a dynamic, collaborative web-based multimedia resource for
educators, K to 16. This site links lesson plans and teaching ideas
for information literacy through a comprehensive quality control
system to ensure that lessons are high caliber. Create an account
and build your own lessons or activities.
* Web-based |
|
Study Stack: Find
flashcards to study or create your own flashcards! Study flashcards
or use the other activities such as matching, crosswords, hangman,
scrambled word, or bug chase. Study flashcards anytime and anywhere
by printing your flashcards or by using them with applications on
your cell phone, PDA, or iPod.
* Web-based |
|
|
The National Archives' Digital
Classroom offers a multitude of resources for the use of
primary sources in the classroom. With access to copies of primary
documents from the holdings of the National Archives of the United
States, teachers can develop their own activities and lesson plans
that make historical periods come alive for their students or
choose from dozens of resources that have already been developed
and are featured here.
* Web-based |
|
|
Thinkfinity is the
place for you. This site offers thousands of lesson plans and
interactives that align to both state and national standards. They
have a consortium that includes partners National Geographic
Xpeditions, Smithsonian's History Explorer, Arts Edge and other
leaders in the education field.
* Web-based |
|
|
Topmarks: A variety
of topics - all interactive
* Web-based |
 |
U.S. Government:
Information and activities about US government specifically
tailored for educators and students.
* Web-based |
 |
Zamzar is a free
web-based application that downloads and converts videos from
Youtube, Google Video, Revver, PutFile, Grouper, Blip.tv,
TeacherTube, TinyPic, Myspace, Dailymotion, Metacafe,
Break.com, Apple Trailers, IFilm, GodTube, and SpikedHumor. With
Zamzar, enter URL or file name, choose the conversion type and
Zamzar will email you a link from which you may access or download
your file. |
Middle
Grades
|
|
100 Milestone
Documents: One hundred important documents from American
history are featured in this site, along with specialized tools for
enhancing the study of them. Tip: Search the
Teacher Sourcebook and lesson plans for social studies ideas.
* Web-based |
|
Afterschool Training
Toolkit is designed to give afterschool program directors
and instructors the resources they need to build fun, innovative,
and academically enriching activities that not only engage
students, but also extend their knowledge in new ways and increase
academic achievement.
*On-line resources |
|
ALTEC: Empower
learners of all types and ages. Find instructional Web-based
technology for students, professional development opportunities,
program support, and online assessment for
educators.
* Web-based |
|
American Centuries:
Explore American history through these collections and
activities.
* Web-based |
|
Annenberg Learner:
Videos, interactives, workshops, and distance learning are all
available on this site. Arts, Foreign Language, Mathematics,
Science, Social Studies, and Language Arts are all
represented.
* Web-based |
|
Archiving Early
America: Short films of noteworthy famous moments in early
American history
* Web-based |
|
|
Birmingham Grid for
Learning: Wide variety of interactive English
activities.
* Web-based |
|
|
BrainPOP creates
animated, curriculum-based content that engages students, supports
educators, and bolsters achievement. Our award-winning online
educational resources include BrainPOP Jr. (K-3), BrainPOP,
BrainPOP Español, and BrainPOP ESL. Features free lesson plans,
video tutorials, professional development tools, graphic
organizers, & best practices.
* Web-based * Requires subscription and
membership |
|
Build a Prairie:
Restore a prairie using biology, ecology and climatology.
* Web-based |
|
|
Dipity is a site that
allows your students to create and share interactive timelines
about any subject or topic. Dipity timelines implement the latest
in Web 2.0, combining multimedia & social media content with
timestamps, geolocation & real-time updates.
* Web-based * Save on-line * Customized by
user
* Cannot save to computer |
|
|
Discovery Education
has so much to offer teachers it will never fit in this annotation.
Lesson plans, videos, puzzlemakers, science fair ideas, contests,
grants, science help and more. There are so many resources for
educators, librarians, students, and schools to use.
* Web-based |
|
Earthcam: Check out
places on earth in "real time." Great for writing projects, changes
over time, animal observation, etc.
* Web-based |
|
|
Edsitement! Check out
this site for great educational material -suggested Websites and
lesson plans - in literature/language arts, art/culture, social
studies/history and foreign language.
* Web-based |
|
|
Educatus: An
intriguing collection of educational lessons, currently consisting
of 12,000+ images represented in over 1,000 lessons.
* Web-based |
|
|
Eduweb: Students may
think they are just playing games, but learning is really what is
going on. Grounded in the idea of game-based learning, students
work through creative learning games and activities, all the while
learning in a fun and engaging environment.
* Web-based |
|
Google Earth: Take a
trip around the world from your own computer. Google Earth lets
your class study the globe in a way that it never has before. Put
in your destination and Google Earth will take you there.
Tip: Feel like you're flying when you type in
destinations and Google Earth takes you there.
* Web-based |
|
|
Khanacademy: Over
2,100 videos and 100 self-paced exercises and assessments covering
everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history. It
includes complete custom self-paced learning tools; a dynamic
system for getting help; and a custom profile, points, and badges
to measure progress.
* Web-based |
|
|
Lee's Summit:
Templates for teacher or student generated review games such as
Hangman, Jeopardy, Millionaire, among others. Lesson Plans,
activities and more!
* Web-based |
|
|
Library of Congress
website has over 13 million digitized primary source items.
Teachers, students, parents, and the community can all find
something here. Tip: Visit the American Memory section of the site
to browse 100 separate collections arranged by topic.
* Web-based |
|
|
Merlot stands for
Multimedia Educational Research for Learning and Online Teaching.
This site offers classroom activities, lessons from peers in the
field of education, and much more.
* Web-based |
|
|
National Geographic
Kids: Encourage your kids to do some writing!
* Web-based |
|
|
National Library of Virtual
Manipulatives: A must with the SMART Board! Interactive,
virtual manipulatives from preK-12.
* Web-based |
 |
OurtimeLines: Create
timelines with various start and end dates for a listing of
world-wide events.
* Web-based |
|
Owl & Mouse:
Download interactive geography US maps and world maps.
* Web-based |
|
|
PowerPoint
Collection: Download a premade PowerPoint ready for
classroom use - math, science, social studies, art, language
arts.
* Web-based * Download to computer |
|
Professor Garfield:
Are you looking to engage kids in a safe online setting and provide
21st century learning opportunities? Professor Garfield provides an
environment where children can safely create, interact, read,
engage, and express themselves through a variety of innovative
online tools including an e-book reader and comics lab.
* Web-based |
|
|
Scholastic: Three
interactive games - rhyming words, beginning sounds, naming objects
belonging in certain places (ex. Home)
* Web-based |
|
|
Smithsonian: The
Smithsonian Education website offers sections for families,
students and educators. The section for Educators includes a
browsable lesson plan area (searchable by subject, keyword or grade
level) and IdeaLabs, student interactive tutorials that enhance the
use of the site.
* Download to computer |
|
|
SOS for Information
Literacy: Learn how to effectively incorporate information
literacy into your lesson plans. S.O.S. for Information Literacy is
a dynamic, collaborative web-based multimedia resource for
educators, K to 16. This site links lesson plans and teaching ideas
for information literacy through a comprehensive quality control
system to ensure that lessons are high caliber. Create an account
and build your own lessons or activities.
* Web-based |
|
Study Stack: Find
flashcards to study or create your own flashcards! Study flashcards
or use the other activities such as matching, crosswords, hangman,
scrambled word, or bug chase. Study flashcards anytime and anywhere
by printing your flashcards or by using them with applications on
your cell phone, PDA, or iPod.
* Web-based |
|
|
The National Archives' Digital
Classroom offers a multitude of resources for the use of
primary sources in the classroom. With access to copies of primary
documents from the holdings of the National Archives of the United
States, teachers can develop their own activities and lesson plans
that make historical periods come alive for their students or
choose from dozens of resources that have already been developed
and are featured here.
* Web-based |
|
|
Thinkfinity is the
place for you. This site offers thousands of lesson plans and
interactives that align to both state and national standards. They
have a consortium that includes partners National Geographic
Xpeditions, Smithsonian's History Explorer, Arts Edge and other
leaders in the education field.
* Web-based |
|
|
Topmarks: A variety
of topics - all interactive
* Web-based |
|
U.S. Government:
Information and activities about US government specifically
tailored for educators and students.
* Web-based |
 |
VoiceThread is a
collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents,
and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments
in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio
file, or video (via a webcam).
* Web-based * Save on-line |
Secondary
|
|
100 Milestone
Documents: One hundred important documents from American
history are featured in this site, along with specialized tools for
enhancing the study of them. Tip: Search the
Teacher Sourcebook and lesson plans for social studies ideas.
* Web-based |
|
Afterschool Training
Toolkit is designed to give afterschool program directors
and instructors the resources they need to build fun, innovative,
and academically enriching activities that not only engage
students, but also extend their knowledge in new ways and increase
academic achievement.
*On-line resources |
|
ALTEC: Empower
learners of all types and ages. Find instructional Web-based
technology for students, professional development opportunities,
program support, and online assessment for
educators.
* Web-based |
|
American Centuries:
Explore American history through these collections and
activities.
* Web-based |
|
Annenberg Learner:
Videos, interactives, workshops, and distance learning are all
available on this site. Arts, Foreign Language, Mathematics,
Science, Social Studies, and Language Arts are all
represented.
* Web-based |
|
Archiving Early
America: Short films of noteworthy famous moments in early
American history
* Web-based |
|
|
Birmingham Grid for
Learning: Wide variety of interactive English
activities.
* Web-based |
|
|
BrainPOP creates
animated, curriculum-based content that engages students, supports
educators, and bolsters achievement. Our award-winning online
educational resources include BrainPOP Jr. (K-3), BrainPOP,
BrainPOP Español, and BrainPOP ESL. Features free lesson plans,
video tutorials, professional development tools, graphic
organizers, & best practices.
* Web-based * Requires subscription and
membership |
|
|
Dipity is a site that
allows your students to create and share interactive timelines
about any subject or topic. Dipity timelines implement the latest
in Web 2.0, combining multimedia & social media content with
timestamps, geolocation & real-time updates.
* Web-based * Save on-line * Customized by
user
* Cannot save to computer |
|
|
Discovery Education
has so much to offer teachers it will never fit in this annotation.
Lesson plans, videos, puzzlemakers, science fair ideas, contests,
grants, science help and more. There are so many resources for
educators, librarians, students, and schools to use.
* Web-based |
|
Earthcam: Check out
places on earth in "real time." Great for writing projects, changes
over time, animal observation, etc.
* Web-based |
|
|
Edsitement! Check out
this site for great educational material -suggested Websites and
lesson plans - in literature/language arts, art/culture, social
studies/history and foreign language.
* Web-based |
|
|
Educatus: An
intriguing collection of educational lessons, currently consisting
of 12,000+ images represented in over 1,000 lessons.
* Web-based |
|
|
Eduweb: Students may
think they are just playing games, but learning is really what is
going on. Grounded in the idea of game-based learning, students
work through creative learning games and activities, all the while
learning in a fun and engaging environment.
* Web-based |
|
Google Earth: Take a
trip around the world from your own computer. Google Earth lets
your class study the globe in a way that it never has before. Put
in your destination and Google Earth will take you there.
Tip: Feel like you're flying when you type in
destinations and Google Earth takes you there.
* Web-based |
|
|
Khanacademy: Over
2,100 videos and 100 self-paced exercises and assessments covering
everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history. It
includes complete custom self-paced learning tools; a dynamic
system for getting help; and a custom profile, points, and badges
to measure progress.
* Web-based |
|
|
Lee's Summit:
Templates for teacher or student generated review games such as
Hangman, Jeopardy, Millionaire, among others. Lesson Plans,
activities and more!
* Web-based |
|
|
Library of Congress
website has over 13 million digitized primary source items.
Teachers, students, parents, and the community can all find
something here. Tip: Visit the American Memory section of the site
to browse 100 separate collections arranged by topic.
* Web-based |
|
|
Merlot stands for
Multimedia Educational Research for Learning and Online Teaching.
This site offers classroom activities, lessons from peers in the
field of education, and much more.
* Web-based |
|
|
National Geographic
Kids: Encourage your kids to do some writing!
* Web-based |
|
|
National Library of Virtual
Manipulatives: A must with the SMART Board! Interactive,
virtual manipulatives from preK-12.
* Web-based |
|
OurtimeLines: Create
timelines with various start and end dates for a listing of
world-wide events.
* Web-based |
|
|
PowerPoint
Collection: Download a premade PowerPoint ready for
classroom use - math, science, social studies, art, language
arts.
* Web-based * Download to computer |
|
Professor Garfield:
Are you looking to engage kids in a safe online setting and provide
21st century learning opportunities? Professor Garfield provides an
environment where children can safely create, interact, read,
engage, and express themselves through a variety of innovative
online tools including an e-book reader and comics lab.
* Web-based |
|
|
Scholastic: Three
interactive games - rhyming words, beginning sounds, naming objects
belonging in certain places (ex. Home)
* Web-based |
|
|
Smithsonian: The
Smithsonian Education website offers sections for families,
students and educators. The section for Educators includes a
browsable lesson plan area (searchable by subject, keyword or grade
level) and IdeaLabs, student interactive tutorials that enhance the
use of the site.
* Download to computer |
|
|
SOS for Information
Literacy: Learn how to effectively incorporate information
literacy into your lesson plans. S.O.S. for Information Literacy is
a dynamic, collaborative web-based multimedia resource for
educators, K to 16. This site links lesson plans and teaching ideas
for information literacy through a comprehensive quality control
system to ensure that lessons are high caliber. Create an account
and build your own lessons or activities.
* Web-based |
|
Study Stack: Find
flashcards to study or create your own flashcards! Study flashcards
or use the other activities such as matching, crosswords, hangman,
scrambled word, or bug chase. Study flashcards anytime and anywhere
by printing your flashcards or by using them with applications on
your cell phone, PDA, or iPod.
* Web-based |
|
|
The National Archives' Digital
Classroom offers a multitude of resources for the use of
primary sources in the classroom. With access to copies of primary
documents from the holdings of the National Archives of the United
States, teachers can develop their own activities and lesson plans
that make historical periods come alive for their students or
choose from dozens of resources that have already been developed
and are featured here.
* Web-based |
|
|
Thinkfinity is the
place for you. This site offers thousands of lesson plans and
interactives that align to both state and national standards. They
have a consortium that includes partners National Geographic
Xpeditions, Smithsonian's History Explorer, Arts Edge and other
leaders in the education field.
* Web-based |
|
|
Topmarks: A variety
of topics - all interactive
* Web-based |
|
U.S. Government:
Information and activities about US government specifically
tailored for educators and students.
* Web-based |
|
VoiceThread is a
collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents,
and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments
in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio
file, or video (via a webcam).
* Web-based * Save on-line |
|
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