Various Subjects

Jeopardy Labs -It is the easiest Jeopardy game template I’ve ever used. It is not a Power Point – it can be edited on the Internet, and the site will generate a URL that you can link to so students can play. You can even designate the number of teams playing and keep score. There is a separate URL for editing the site whenever you need to. Perfect for using with Moodle! You can use it with a full class or allow students to play independently. There is no registration required – you create your own password for access. (Source: Paula Montrie)


Edmodo - a tool similar to Twitter built specifically for Education and allows micro-blogging. Could be used for mini-journaling or updating about progress in a group project. We plan to use this for the 8th grade History Documentary project and will post any feedback in the comments section of this site.

Free Play Music - a website that provides a wealth of music to be downloaded and used in school related projects. Artists are adding music to this site all the time and the indexing is excellent. (Source: Paula Montrie)

Corbis - has a collection of more than 100 million images and a footage library, great for projects and presentation. (Source: Paula Montrie)

Art & Music

Sketchfu - This is a website where you can create your own online drawings, it also will then show you a movie of you creating your drawing. They have a gallery of drawing created on Sketchfu and you can see them being created. This would be a great way to show the process of drawing or give students a place to start (you can draw over existing images in the gallery - if they allow it).

Web Exhibits - An interactive, online museum of science, humanities, and culture. Whether you’re looking for a quick answer to a specific question or want to delve deeply into a topic. There are virtual experiments, and hands-on activities that prompt you to think, to formulate questions, and to explore topics from a variety of angles. (Source: Web Exhibits: About)

Early Music Chicago - This site provides links to sites with information and music from the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods. This might be useful for the Music History project or the Composer's unit.

Essentials of Music - A website with basic information about composers and eras in classical music. This site includes an extensive glossary of music terms. (Source: Kathy Schrock)

Social Studies

Life Magazine - Google has scanned and made available full versions of life magazine from 1936 - 1972.

Life Photo Archive - Google Image search that searches Life magazine photos and includes photographer information for citation. Time & Life Photo Archive also available.


EyeWitness to History - Your ringside seat to history - from the Ancient World to the present. History through the eyes of those who lived it. Presentations of first-hand accounts of pivotal events in history; includes photographs, pictures, sound files, additional resources, and bibliographic citations (Source: About Us page)

World Climate - This site gathers in one place a worldwide range of climate data in an easy-to-use form. Climate data are historical weather averages, showing what the weather was typically like each month, averaged over a range of years. The site contains over 85,000 records. (Source: World Climate: About)

This Day In History - This site allows you to find out important (and not-so-important) things that happened any date of the year. There are often video and photo files to accompany the event. (Source: Kathy Schrock)

Science

Sid the Science Kid (PBS) - The Jim Henson Company's first series for PBS KIDS that features a practical in-school science curriculum, uses music and humor to celebrate children's natural curiosity about science in everyday life. The energetic and inquisitive Sid starts each episode with a new question ("Why are my shoes shrinking?" "Why do bananas get mushy?") and embarks on a fun-filled day of finding answers with the help of family and friends. (Probably most appropriate for 6th grade).

Teach.Genetics - Here you'll find a wealth of resources and information aimed at helping educators bring genetics, bioscience and health alive in the classroom. A companion to the popular Learn.Genetics website, Teach.Genetics offers additional tools and resources to support your curriculum, all free of charge. Since this is a beta version, remember to keep checking back periodically and see what we're adding (Source: Learn.Genetics website).

English

Glypho - This site is a collaborative, peer-edited fiction writing site. Users may submit an original idea for a plot or add to one of the stories already submitted. Students can create new characters, plot twists, or entire chapters. (Source: Web 2.0, Solomon & Schrum)

Grammar Gorillas - This is a fun interactive sites for teachers to take their students to, to polish up on their grammar skills. Great site for re-teaching at the Middle School level.

Nancy Keane's Booktalker - A good site for starting book talks. I checked the title list and they have a few books from our Middle School reading list: Stargirl, To Kill a Mockingbird, Whirligig, and many from the Black Eyed Susan and Banned Book units.

Poetry Teachers - Fun poetry activities for your students,including poetry race, rhyme time riddles, and more. This site has a lot of poetry resources as well as contests that our students might be interested in.

Math

National Library of Visual Manipulatives - This is a great website for Math teachers and provides a library of uniquely interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials, mostly in the form of Java applets, for mathematics instruction. (Source: NLVM: About)

Wolfram MathWorld - the web's most extensive mathematical resource, provided as a free service to the world's mathematics and internet communities as part of a commitment to education and educational outreach by Wolfram Research, makers of Mathematica. (Source: MathWorld: About)


Math Goodies - Site full of interactive lessons, puzzles and worksheets are self-paced learning modules ideal for students of all ages and abilities. (Source: Math Goodies: About Us)

Foreign Language

Lingt Language - Web-based software developed by MIT seniors Frank and Chris Varenhorst to allow foreign language teachers to create assignments that all students can work on at once. (Source: Ann Porcella)

Audacity - Free software download that allows students to easily record, edit and save tracks. Useful for speaking practice.

My Language Exchange - This site allows you to talk to those who are also learning another language. For example, an English speaker who is learning French will do a language exchange with a French speaker who is learning English. There are many ways to practice in a language exchange. You can choose your native language, the language you are studying and the age of the person you want to exchange with.

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