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CLASSROOMMANAGEMENT

SCIENCE

HISTORY LANGUAGE ARTS

Smart Notebook™

VIDEOS

Great Internet Resources!

MATH

MUSIC

Urban Legends Reference Page Check the validity of forwarded e-mail messages.

http://www.snopes.com/

Museum of Hoaxeshttp://www.museumofhoaxes.com/tests/hoaxphototest.htmlThe Dialectizerhttp://www.rinkworks.com/dialect/

Funology http://www.funology.com/

Inter-Face Dominiquehttp://www.alterfin.com/dominique/

Drawtoy Vs. Byokalhttp://www.zefrank.com/dtoy_vs_byokal/

Kaleidoscope Painterhttp://www.permadi.com/java/spaint/spaint.html

Make-a-Flakehttp://snowflakes.lookandfeel.com/

Sand Arthttp://lovethosekids.com/playgrnd/sandart.htm

BrainTwistershttp://www.teachersfirst.com/twister/select.htm

ChristmasReindeer Games (interactive game with sound) Santa's Signing Reindeer(Interactive with music) Santa's Signing Reindeer 2 (Interactive with music) Holiday Snow Globe (Interactive with music)

STRING FUNhttp://qlam.com/

Kaleidoscope http://www.permadi.com/java/spaint/spaint.html

Spirograph http://www.wordsmith.org/~anu/java/spirograph.html

Collage Makerhttp://www.nga.gov/kids/zone/collagemachine.htm

Design A Roller Coasterhttp://www.learner.org/interactives/parkphysics/coaster/

Figure Thishttp://www.figurethis.org/Pumpkin Carvinghttp://www.theoworlds.com/halloween/

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/timages/page/pumpkin_sim.html

Rubik’s Cubehttp://www.rubiks.com/

I Spyhttp://www.scholastic.com/ispy/

Just For Fun!

Classroom ManagementHarmony Hallow (Cool Timer, Hat Sorter, Cool sites and more!)Harmony Hollow (Cool Timer and The Hat-Windows only)

Create your own soothing background noise!http://www.soundsleeping.com/ Great site for quick tunes from every era, every style and every moodhttp://www.musicovery.com/index3.php?ct=us

Home of Rubistar, NoteStar, Classroom Architect and more. ALTEC- Advanced Learning Technologies in Education Consortia (Formerly HPRTEC)

Synectics

MO-VIP Missouri Virtual Instruction Program free online courses through registered districts or paid courses for individuals.

Hippo CampusHippo Campus MO-VIP's free resources for grades 6-12. Click login (upper right corner). To view Missouri's course, at the bottom of the screen type mymvip under "If you want to visit someone else's myHippo page, you can look them up here.".

Cool Sites for Teachers

Filamentality

Game Show PowerPoint Templates

Create beautiful word clouds for any subject!http://www.wordle.net/

Free online bookmarking services Backfliphttp://www.backflip.comiKeepBookmarkshttp://www.ikeepbookmarks.com

PortaPortalhttp://www.portaportal.com

LOVE These GAMES!!!!!!http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/

Great multi-purpose site - certificates and chartshttp://www.suelebeau.com/freetools.htm

Management – Documentation letters http://www.teachertools.org/forms_dynam.asp

Printableshttp://alenkasprintables.com/news.shtmlhttp://

Convert between languagesbabelfish.yahoo.com/Great, Quick ways to create graphs!http://www.nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx

Look here for a variety of already made templates http://www.vickiblackwell.com/ppttemplates.html

Science

Making Science Fun by Steve Spanglerhttp://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiments

Simple Machineshttp://www.fi.edu/qa97/spotlight3/spotlight3.html

Virtual Caveshttp://www.goodearthgraphics.com/virtcave/

WIREDhttp://www.wired.com/

NASAhttp://www.nasa.gov/

Center for Disease ControlFind out the latest info on H-1N1http://www.cdc.gov

BBC Science - The Human Bodyhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/

USDA Center for Nutritionhttp://www.usda.gov/cnpp/

James Reserve Wildlife Observatoryhttp://www.jamesreserve.edu/webcamsphp.lasso

Weatherhttp://www.noaa.gov/

Picture of the day! http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

The Science Channel find links to the Discovery Channel, TLC, Discovery Health the Military Channel , Animal Planet and much more!http://science.discovery.com/ Science Fair Central

Science Fair Centralget help from The Discovery Channel.http://school.discovery.com/sciencefaircentral

The Yuckiest Site on the Internethttp://www.yucky.com

Eureka Alert!Great up to the minute information in all areas of science! http://www.eurekalert.org/

Amazing Space Online Explorationshttp://amazing-space.stsci.edu/resources/explorations

Operation Ruby Throat: The Hummingbird Project http://www.rubythroat.org/

Schoolhouse Science Rock

BrainPOP Science (requires subscription)http://www.brainpop.com/science/

BrainPop Health (some free videos)http://www.brainpop.com/health/seeall/

Life Science Connection: The Human Body Adventurehttp://vilenski.org/science/humanbody/

Language ArtsCyberGuides- supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature. http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/SCORE/cyberguide.html

http://www.wordsmith.org/words/today.htmlhttp://www.wordcentral.com/

Great reading activities for all ages http://www.rif.org/

Independent Reading Rubrichttp://www.middleweb.com/ReadWrkshp/RWdownld/IndReadRubric.pdf

FunBrain's Spell Check-Choose the incorrect spelling out of four word choices; easy and difficult levelshttp://funbrain.com/spell/index.html

Houghton Mifflin Englishhttp://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/

BrainPop Movies for EnglishOnly some movies are free.http://www.brainpop.com/english/seeall/

RhymeZoneType in a word to find its rhymes, synonyms, definitions, and more.http://www.rhymezone.com/

Power Proofreading http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/proofread/proof.htm

Visual Thesaurushttp://thesaurus.plumbdesign.com/index.jsp

Lyrics to the songs from the 1970s grammar cartoons. Listen to the songs tooSchool House Grammar RockSchool House Rock Videos on Grammar (YouTube)The Tale of Mr. Morton (subject) Conjunction Junction Interjections! Rufus Xaphier Sasparilla (pronouns) Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Adverbs Here

Social Studies

This day in history!http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do

Tour Missouri's Govenor's Mansionhttp://missourimansion.org/tour/manmap.html

Lewis & Clark Resourceshttp://www.more.net/programs/internet2/projects/

Go West Across America with Lewis & Clark http://www.nationalgeographic.com/west/main.html

Finding Missouri Video Seriesfor students and teachers in Missouri's elementary and secondary schools, was funded by DESE and the Historical Preservation Section of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.http://www.emints.org/resources/moheritage/index.shtml

Math

The MegaPenny ProjectUses stacks of pennies to help visualizing huge numbers.http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/default.asp

Flashcards, games, homework helper and worksheets.http://www.aplusmath.com/

Curious and Useful MathFind all kinds of tricks with numbers.http://www.curiousmath.com/

AAAMath (K-8)basic math skills, interactive practice, and challenge games.http://www.aaamath.com/

NCTM IlluminationsInternet-Based Math Lesson Planshttp://illuminations.nctm.org/

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Mathematics by Utah State Universityhttp://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/index.html

(1st -Grad School)Interactivate is Java-based courseware for exploration in math and science http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/

The Data Place (K-6)A place where students all over the world collect and work with real-world data.http://www.eduplace.com/dataplace/

Brain Teasers (3-8)Each Wednesday evening a new Brain Teaser for each grade range is posted. Solutions are posted a week later.http://www.eduplace.com/math/brain/index.html

Create a Graphhttp://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/Graphing/

Schoolhouse Multiplication RockLyrics to the songs from the 1970's multiplication cartoons.

The Math Pagehttp://www.themathpage.com/index.html

Math Dictionary for Kidshttp://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jeather/maths/dictionary.html

Galileo Educational Network Math Puzzles (1-12)http://www.galileo.org/math/puzzles.html

Smart Notebook™( And smart tech )

Smart Tech Websitehttp://www.smarttech.com

Variety of SmartBoard ideashttp://eduscapes.com/sessions/smartboard/

Smart tech website for smart notebookhttp://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-US/Ed+Resource/Lesson+activities/Notebook+activities/

Multiple Smart Board websites with downloadable activitieshttp://its.leesummit.k12.mo.us/smartboard.htm#Lessons_and_Templates

Great SmartBoard Templateshttp://www1.center.k12.mo.us/EDTECH/SB/templates.htm

SMART Exchange http://exchange.smarttech.com/

Smart Notebook Resources. ACCE Interactive Whiteboard Resources. http://cardiffschools.net/%7Eroelmann/whiteboard/smart2.html

McLain, C. SMART Board Templates. Center School District. Kansas City, Missouri. http://www1.center.k12.mo.us/edtech/SB/templates.htm#high

Videos

You Tubehttp://www.youtube.com

Teacher TubeGreat resource for lessons, demos and student works engineered for teachers http://www.teachertube.com

Common Craft by Lee LefeverSimple, humorous explanations – some free (check out on youtube.com)http://www.commoncraft.com

Simple TruthsGreat inspirational movies! Check out 101o

http://www.simpletruths.com

Music

http://www.mustcreate.org/teacher/teach0_0.shtml

http://www.childrensmusicworkshop.com/ http://www.menc.org/   http://www.pitt.edu/~poole/eledMusic.html  http://musicmoz.org/Education/Resources/

 http://www.kids-space.org/HPT/index.html