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Engineering Interact is a new and exciting free educational resource for primary school children aged 9 to 11. The resource provides fully interactive, engaging game environments and high-quality learning material tailored to the National Curriculum. Information about real world applications and cutting edge research motivates children and introduces them to the exciting subject of engineering. This resource has been created by the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering, with a grant from the HEFCE Aspirations Fund and the University of Cambridge Active Community fund.

Excellent Harcout interactive has students drag pics onto a food web showing the food chain. Three webs: meadow, arctic, pond Suitable for elementary and middle school.

Interactive version of Romeo and Juliet online.

Shidonni is an innovative startup, developing the next generation of creative 'virtual' worlds for kids. Shidonni is providing a safe environment where kids and their parents can create imaginary worlds and animals, play games and interact with friends. Shidonni is based on unique proprietary patented algorithms and using Microsoft Silverlight.

Lots of ideas on how to use interactive white boards.

Interactive Whiteboard Resources for Teachers. A variety of free, easy to use IWB resources, for teaching a variety of subjects. New resources added weekly. These are great resources, mainly in math but there are a few language arts and one geography resource.

Searchable site of thousands of quality teaching resources, interactive resources, homework, exam and revision help. Useful for teachers, pupils and parents." Recommended by Paul Hamilton March 2009 post.

Interactive celebration of Apollo moon mission. Awesome multimedia.

Great interactive weather simulations.

Crazy Good website of K-5 Interactive learning Sites for the Classroom I learned about from Jane Rondow. Many subject areas.

Great example of online course about UDL that is also UDL designed--provides options for participants to interact with the content.

Has excellent resources for younger and older students. Includes downloadable .pdfs colouring books on Geologists and Mining, great list of links. The items in the interactive geologist backpack game are a little too small.

Outstanding interactive online book describes many aspects of the forest and plants and animals that live there. Additional forest facts can be accessed that explore the topics even further. The list of resources is also excellent. Suitable for upper intermediate.

Nice website with interactives explaining how Canada became a country and how government works.

Review of online (and downloadable) award-winning interactive tutorial for electrical circuits from Teachers Love SMARTBoards.

Excellent Resource for classroom science programs. Includes videos, interactives, and a section where students can email their questions about science to scientists!

Great discussion about the value of IWBs

Pinky Dinky Doo harnesses the power of television, print, and interactive media to promote reading and imaginative storytelling. To achieve this, Pinky invites children to participate in funny and fantastic stories, games, and songs that support critical early literacy skills.

This is an amazing tool for students or teachers to create interactive guided presentations by combining web pages, photos, Power Point and more with your voice, notes and highlights. Viewers can control the pages, scroll, click on links, view videos and more.

A blog about interactive whiteboards and how they can be used effectively in education. Also discussion of other technology that impacts on education. There are some very simple activities described, such as the plenary circle, and also some very cool guru tricks.