Project SMART - Summer Institute 2009Using Technology as a Literacy Tool in the ClassroomInteractive Resources Handout

This handout contains a description of web sites that teachers in all content areas can use within their core curriculum to help make learning more interactive and engaging for their students. Some of the websites are content area specific, while others are interdisciplinary.

English Language Arts Web Sites Site Description Grade Level

http://www.roythezebra.com/ The Roy the Zebra site is home to a package of interactive games, stories and resources that have been developed to help emerging readers learn to read.

Elementary

http://www.bemboszoo.com Bembo’s Zoo will help young students learn the alphabet by using different animal sounds and turning the letters of the alphabet into different animals whose names begin with that letter.

Elementary

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy.html

Woodland Junior School provides learners with interactive material to help improve their literacy skills

Elementary

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http://pbskids.org/lions/index.html PBS Kids offers stories, videos clips, games, music, activities, and a teacher’s tool kit to help students become better readers.

Elementary

http://www.storyplace.org Story Place, an interactive web site, provides children with the virtual experience of going to the library and participating in the same types of activities the library offers.

Elementary

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/Interactive.aspx?cat=46

Top Marks offers an assortment of teaching resources for whiteboards to help students develop their literacy skills.

Elementary thruHigh School

http://kids.nationalgeographic.com

Kids National Geographic offers an assortment of stories, videos, games, and activities to help student become better readers while learning about animals, different places and people.

Elementary thru Middle School

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http://www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/index.jsp

Education Place offers graphic organizers that will help your students classify ideas, structure writing projects, help in problem solving, decision making, studying, planning research and brainstorming, and communicate more effectively.

Elementary thru High School

http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/index.asp

Read Write Think offers a collection of online interactive tools (such as Venn diagrams, plot maps, and timelines) to help support literacy learning in the K-12 classroom.

Elementary thru High School

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/index.jsp

The Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words. Its innovative display encourages exploration and learning.

Elementary thru High School

Mathematicshttp://resources.oswego.org/games Interactive Games offers an

assortment of interactive games to help support the learning of mathematical problem solving skills.

Elementary

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http://www1.center.k12.mo.us/edtech/everydaymath.htm

Everyday Math offers a list of resources to help students use math to make connections to their everyday lives and develop critical thinking and problem solving skills.

Elementary

http://www.linkslearning.org/Kids/1_Math/1_Introduction/index.html

Links Learning: Math is interactive sites that will help students learn how mathematics uses numbers and number systems instead of the alphabet to explain patterns and relationships by using symbols and world to explain the world around us.

Elementary

http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivitySearch.aspx

Illuminations offers 90 online activities that help math come alive in the classroom or at home.

Elementary thru High School

http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com/

Math Dictionary for Kids is an animated, interactive dictionary for students, which explains over 600 common mathematical terms in simple language.

Elementary thru Middle School

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http://www.algebasics.com/home.html

Algebasics offers audio and video explanations of algebra topics to help students learn how to solve algebraic problems.

Upper Elementary thru High School

http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/

Interactivate offers on-line courseware for exploration in mathematics and science that is comprised of activities, lessons, and discussions based on K-12 mathematics and science curricula.

Elementary thru High School

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives is a web-based virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials, mostly in the form of Java applets, that use manipulatives, physical objects that help students visualize relationships and applications.

Elementary thru High School

http://www.explorelearning.com/ Gizmos! Is an on-line interactive media that offers simulations that power inquiry and understanding in the K-12 mathematics and science curricula.

Elementary thru High School

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http://regentsprep.org/ The Regents Prep Center is an interactive site that offers general review/formal sheet, multiple choice questions, term glossary, and study tips to help students prepare for the New York State Regents exams in Mathematics.

High School

Sciencehttp://www.edheads.org/ Edheads helps students learn

through educational games and activities designed to meet state and national standards.

Elementary

http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope to help students learn about our solar system and planets.

Elementary thru High School

http://www.andythelwell.com/blobz/ The Blobz Guide to Electric Circuits is an interactive web site to help students learn about electric circuits and how they function.

Elementary thru Middle School

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http://www.medtropolis.com/VBody.asp

Virtual Body is an interactive site designed to help students learn about the different components of the human body and how they functions.

Elementary thru High School

http://www.cellsalive.com/ Cells A Live is an interactive site that helps students learn about cell biology, microbiology, immunology, and microscopy by using videos, games, quizzes, and a term glossary.

Middle School thru High School

http://educatus.com/main/samples/default.asp?lid=801486&scid=8014860000

Educatus consists of educational lessons on Animal Anatomy and Dissection in a virtual based format that provides detail examples of frog, rat, and insect dissection for those students who are squeamish about doing the real thing.

High School

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/tutorials/index.html

Science, Optics & You is a multimedia approach of Science that incorporates interactive computer based instruction, text, manipulatives and classroom and individualized activities for a variety of learning experiences.

Middle School thru High School

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http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/intro/index.html

Virtual microscope is an interactive site that introduces students to the world of the microscope and the subjects you can study using a microscope.

Middle School thru High School

http://education.jlab.org/itselemental/index.html

It’s Elemental is an interactive periodic table of that will help students learn about the different elements and how they interact.

Middle School thru High School

http://www.walter-fendt.de/ph14e/ Java Applets on Physics is an interactive site that incorporates interactive computer based instruction, text, manipulatives and classroom and individualized activities for a variety of learning experiences in physics.

High School

http://regentsprep.org/ The Regents Prep Center is an interactive site that offers general review/formal sheet, multiple choice questions, term glossary, and study tips to help students prepare for the New York State Regents exams in Earth Science, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics.

High School

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Social Studieshttp://www.earthcam.com/ Earth Cam allows you to check

places on the earth in real time. It is a great source for doing research projects, cultural observations, and learning about geography.

Elementary thru High School

http://www.yourchildlearns.com/online-interactive-maps.htm

Owl & Mouse offers a variety of interactive maps to help student about geography, exploration, migration, and cultures from around the world.

Elementary thru High School

http://www.bellmuseum.org/distancelearning/prairie/build/

Build a Prairie is an interactive site that challenges students to restore a prairie while learning about biology, ecology and climatology and their impact on different environments.

Elementary thru Middle School

http://www.earlyamerica.com/ Archiving Early America, you will discover a wealth of resources — a unique array of primary source material from 18th Century America. Scenes and portraits from original newspapers, maps, and writings that will help students become familiar with working with primary sources.

Elementary thru High School

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http://www.polarhusky.com/ Go North delivers standards-aligned curricula to build academic excellence and improve geographic, natural and social science literacy for all students by using advanced interactive telecommunications and technology.

Elementary thru High School

http://www.ltspaces.com/geothentic/ GEOThentic provides a learner-centered online learning environment that engages the student in solving authentic problems by merging theory into practice while assisting teachers to teach geography successfully within their classrooms.

Elementary thru High School

http://www.peopleshistory.us/ Voices of a People’s History of the United States brings to life the extraordinary history of ordinary people who built the movements that made the United States what it is today. By using videos to give public expressions to rebels, dissenters, and visionaries from past and present, Voices seeks to educate a new generation working for social justice.

Elementary thru High School

http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html

Hyper History is an expanding scientific project presenting 3,000 years of world history with an interactive combination of synchronoptic lifelines, timelines, and maps to help engage students studying world history.

Elementary thru High School

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http://its.leesummit.k12.mo.us/socialstudies.htm#Cultures

Lee’s Summit Technology Integration web site offers an assortment of interactive web links covering a variety of social studies topics that teachers can choice from to help supplement their curriculum objectives.

Elementary thru High School

http://regentsprep.org/ The Regents Prep Center is an interactive site that offers general review/formal sheet, multiple choice questions, term glossary, and study tips to help students prepare for the New York State Regents exams in Global History and American History. .

High School

Inclusive/Special Educationhttp://www.brainpop.com/ Brain POP creates animated,

curriculum-based content that supports educators and engages students. Ideal for both group and one-on-one settings, to introducing a new lesson or topic, to illustrating complex subject matter, to reviewing before a test. Content is aligned to state standards and easily searchable with our online State Standards Tool.

Elementary thru Middle School

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http://www.inspiration.com/Kidspiration

Kidspiration develops thinking, literacy and numeracy skills using proven visual learning principles. In reading and writing, Kidspiration strengthens word recognition, vocabulary, comprehension and written expression. With new visual math tools, students build reasoning and problem solving skills.

Elementary

http://www.inspiration.com/Inspiration

Inspiration is the essential visual thinking and learning tool students rely on to plan, research and complete projects successfully. With the integrated Diagram and Outline Views, learners create graphic organizers and expand topics into writing. This powerful combination encourages learning in multiple modes. As a result, students gain and retain a better understanding of concepts and demonstrate knowledge, improving their performance across the curriculum.

Elementary thru High School

http://www.drbillsplace.org/ Dr. Bill’s Place website contains four major sections. There are selected websites for the major categories of problems. There are narrated powerpoint presentations for information on exceptional conditions. You will find a Resource Manual that covers many of the typical problems a teacher or parent can face with a child. And there is a video section containing information on children with problems in school, and there are interviews with leading Belizean educators and other professionals.

Elementary thru High School

Technology Resources

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http://www.angellearning.com/ Schools throughout the country are using Angel to enrich teaching and learning, manage the classroom, teach 21st Century skills, extend the school curriculum, and facilitate professional development.

http://www.facebook.com/ Face book is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them.

http://www.flickr.com Flickr is an on-line photo management and sharing application that enables you to upload your picture, maps, graphs, and power point presentation so our students have access to them anytime of the day.

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http://mindstorms.lego.com Lego Mindstorm is a robotics building system that incorporates versatile Lego Technic elements, state of the art sensors and servo motors, easy to drag and drop programs that bring your creations to life.

http://tarheelreader.org Tar Heel Reader is a collection of free, easy to read, and accessible books on a wide range of topics. Each book can be speech enabled and accessed using multiple interfaces (i.e. switches, alternative keyboards, touch screens, and dedicated AAC devices). The books may be downloaded as slide shows in PowerPoint, Impress, or Flash format.

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=search_playlists&search_query=The+Role+of+Technology+in+Education&uni=1

YouTube provides an assortment of videos centered on the topic of “The Role of Technology in Education” .

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http://www.skype.com/ Skype is software that enables the world’s conversations. Millions of individuals and businesses use Skype to make free video and voice calls, send instant messages and share files with other Skype users.

http://secondlife.com/ Second Life is a virtual environment that enables new modes of learning on a global stage.

http://twitter.com/ Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?

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