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ABC ya! is a great website to incorporate technology in your classroom. This website includes fun games and enrichment activities for Elementary schools Kindergarten through fifth grade. After a student has completed their assignment, they can log on to this site and do grade based activities that are fun and educational. All of these games are free to play.

ABCya.com is the leader in free educational kids computer games and activities for elementary students to learn on the web. All children's educational computer activities were created or approved by certified school teachers. All educational games are free and are modeled from primary grade lessons and enhanced to provide an interactive way for children to learn.

ABCYa.com is an interactive children's website, loaded with fun games and activities to help children learn and practice reading, math, grammar, spelling, history, geography and more. This site is free and there are tons of games to choose from, and you choose the grade level to play them at. At the end of each game the easy to read results give you a clear understanding of how you did in the game and where you need more practice at. I will be introducing this site to my own children, and will incorporate it into my classroom for my students as well. I highly recommend this site.

This site offers hands on learning for all subjects, I only bookmarked the reading page because that is what I want to teach.

Mimio is a company that makes interactive technologies for the classroom. The interactive whiteboard is similar to a smartboard except it just attaches to the teachers exisiting whiteboard magnetically. Students or teachers can use the pens to write on the board and control the computer screen by using the whiteboard. Mimio also makes a reading tutorial called MimioSprout. This helps children from kindergarten to second grade with reading. This website meets standard 6.1 because it allows students to use interactive technology in the classroom. It also allows students to further their education while playing games and doing activities on Mimio Sprout. The white board would allow teachers to use technology in a positive way to have students interact during a lesson instead of just listening to the teacher. With the interactive white board, students can get up and interact with the teacher and their peers.

Do you want a fun way to mold a student's brain with through some fundamental creative games? These games deal with basics of poetry,sentence structure, and reading skills for grades k-2. If you ever had some extra time at the end of class or during an "inside recess day," these would be something the students would enjoy. My standard for this website is standard 6.1. The point of this standard is to to bring interactive technologies and hands on experiences into the classroom.This website is a good example for the standard 6.1 for primary reading and english teachers.

This electronic source for American literature, funded by the Library of Congress, allows students to explore multiple facets of American literature. One link leads to an exploration of Edgar Allan Poe's Baltimore, while another looks to examine how the history of Salem influenced Nathaniel Hawthorne's writings. By presenting students with this tool, they will be better equipped to understand the writers' backgrounds and read deeper into their works.

Educational Resources at the National Gallery of Art

The National Gallery of art website is a great technological resource for both teachers and students. There is a link to the exhibit of the week which focuses on a new artist or series of artists. Another useful tool is the artist database which makes it easier to look up any artist quickly and also have an accurate biography and list of works. There is also a fun section for kids to use where they can get ideas for art projects, read the online children's magazine for artists, and use a number of free software to create their own original art work.

Play free online Science games for kids with our huge collection of learning games. Play educational reading games like Brilliant Brushers, Ozone, Germ Hunter, and Space Station.

Jumpstart is a great site for teachers of any grade level. You can choose the grade level you are teaching and then find activities, games, worksheets, and more for your students. It has activities for many different subjects reading, English, science, math, and art. This would be a great source for gather ideas for activities, getting supplemental worksheets, or to give the students a safe place to play fun games!

Has links to digital story telling, power point templates, and interactive games.

This website offers teachers, parents and students resources for use in the classroom and at home. Resources include lesson plans, strategy guides, activities and more. 6.4 Candidate use technology in their own learning process and to change their current educational practice. I believe this website met the 6.4 standard because it educates teachers on innovative ways to set up lessons and activities in the classroom. This website also offers teachers educational websites which show them how to incorporate technology into their lessons.

The complete visual arts resource for art educators, parents, students, and homeschoolers. View art lessons, read art news, view resources and jobs.

an excellent resource for children learning to read.

This Website has free games for elementary school children; it has the mostly math games, but also has some language arts and geography games. The student's can either play by themselves or play against other people on the site.

This is a website that has a free download of a software called Natural Readers. It is a program that allows text to be read aloud in a natural voice.

This link is for an excellent, free database for teachers to search or find literature appropriate to their students at different levels of the DRA (Developmental Reading Assessment). You can search for a specific book, or use the database to configure an appropriate list for your grade and DRA level. The website as a whole offers many other great features for educators as well, such as lesson plans and science projects. The database in itself however is a fun place to start when working with your own personal classroom library to the extent that you can be linked to Amazon to purchase a copy if you so wish.

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