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Google Docs
Free online word processor, spreadsheet and presentation tool. Documents can be shared with others - students can work collabratively in real-time on the same document.
Discovery Education
Search for lesson plans, create puzzles, find clipart and more...
Change Agency: advocating a better educa...
Created by Stephanie Sandifer, an educator with a background in visual art and design. Currently employed at a Houston-area high school in an administrative position focused on school improvement. Personal interest areas include: school culture and ...
Salem Witch Museum
The Salem Witch Museum presents the Salem Witch Trials of 1692, one of the most important and tragic events in American history.
Wordbuilder
An excellent spelling, vocabulary, and phonics site created by Houghton Mifflin. Designed as an online game, students are told a word, in the context of a sentence, and then have to spell it. There are literally hundreds of opportunities to play. Activ ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art - Explore and...
The MMA has a section for students that features a long list of online applications where students can learn about color, famous artists and more.
Grammar Bytes
Grammar Bytes! Grammar Instruction with attitude. Includes detailed terms, interactive exercises, handouts to use with students, and more!
The Visual Dictionary
In the Visual Dictionary words are defined as pictures - it can be used for leaning the exact names of objects. This site is different from a traditional dictionary or from an encyclopedia because the images replace the words.
Photostory
Free software for Windows from Microsoft that allows students to easily create multi-media slideshows. Users can easily import digital photos and add effects, music and narration.
Teachers on Target
Teachersontarget.com provides dozens of FREE professional development activities and ideas. The activities are designed to encourage the sharing of best practices between professional teachers.
Kerpoof
Kerpoof provides free online multimedia software that allows students to create create original artwork, animated movies, and stories online. Check out the teacher page for ideas on how to use this tool in the classroom.
Biology in Motion
Provides biology animations and interactive activities, available for free on the internet. Includes activities on intestinal gas, enzyme characteristics, receptor and signal as "lock and key", biology terms, evolution, ATP and energy storage, fat dige ...
American Field Guide
Provides various lessons plans (including background, content standards, activities and assessment) developed by high-school teachers. Printable pdf versions of the lessons are available. Each lesson uses top-notch supporting video clips included on t ...
Can I Have a Word?
Gives teachers new ideas and resources to inspire creative writing in the classroom. The site has four projects, The Elements, The Human Body, The Odyssey, and Changing Voices. Each project includes three sections: Listen (students can listen to poems f ...
English as a Second Language Resources b...
English as a Second Language by Rong-Chang Li is a starting point for ESL learners who want to learn English using the Internet. It is a comprehensive and well organized ESL Web directory.
Satellite Tracking (NASA)
Teachers and students can track real satellites and other objects in space!
The Guide to Grammar and Writing
The Guide to Grammar and Writing provides help with sentences, paragraphs, essays and research papers. The site contains scores of digital handouts on grammar and English usage, over 170 computer-graded quizzes, downloadable PowerPoint presentations for ...
Visual Math Learning
The Visual Math Learning website has free math lessons featuring an interactive on-line tutorial for teaching elementary mathematics and basic arithmetic for grades K-12 at the pre-algebra level. It is an instructional aid for parents, teachers, and educa ...
Nutrition Explorations
Sponsored by the National Dairy Council this sites has lesson plans on nutrition, interactive activities for students to learn about nutrition, tips for implementing school wellness programs, information on the food pyramid (MyPyramid - including an inter ...
Bartleby's Reference Sources
Bartleby.com publishes thousands of free online classics of reference, verse, fiction and nonfiction. Examples of titles available include Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, Roget' ...