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Terminix has launched an educational website with insect lessons. The website is built around the character Harry, a praying mantis who guides visitors through resources for teachers and students. The educator center provides teachers with curriculum guides and lesson plans, created by entomologists at Audubon Insectarium and Terminix, that correlate with National Science Teacher Association standards.

Free and looks interesting

This blog lists 77 eductional game resources.

Shmoop, a publisher of digital educational resources, has added pre-algebra to its list of free learning guides. The online Pre-Algebra Learning guides contain hundreds of topics with succinct explanations, diagrams, interactive examples, practice problems, and real-world applications. Pre algebra is Shmoop's first foray beyond its core humanities offerings. At the home page click on the pre algebra tab

Some free materials.

Edhelper.com is a great collection of educational resources in all subjects. This is a paid service for a low cost that can be purchased in teacher packs of five as well.

Teacher's Domain offers free digital media from public TV broadcasters for educational use. Users can search for materials via individual state standards, Common c ore State Standards, or national standards from different organizations. Website users can create onlin eprofiles in order to share the resources they have learned for a particular lesson with others.

Owl and Mouse Educational Software offers nine, free, interactive maps for students. The maps cover every continent except Antarctica.

Wolfram/Alpha is to be the first web-based tool that can find answers to all systematic knowledge in the world. For educators, this "computational iknowledge engine" can find objective and fact-based answers for a variety of subject areas. Type in "Newton's Law," for example, and the formula for force is explained. Enter in an equation for a line, and the site plots the line on a graph. Ask "What is the GDP of the United States and Canada?" and a chart depicts a side-byside comparison of the nations' economic data.

A place to ask questions and get help. Looks like there is a lot of sharing of information and ideas for English teachers on this site.

This site provides over 42,000 spelling words and ten learning games. Great way for kids to practice their own spelling words.

Great site to help students with spelling.

Conceptua Math has some free tools available for users. While there is a subscription with conceptua math, the free things look interesting and worth checking out.

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Site with songs for kids. "The Best in Children's Music." Free Christmas Song Book, Song Pages, Free Printable Lyric Sheets, Free Printable Sheet Music, Free Printable Activity Sheets, and ReadingLessons.com. The KIDiddles team has develope a free reading program for early reading. The program is made up of easy to follow step-by-step lessons to help teachers, homeschoolers and parents to teach early reading using synthetic phonics. Check it out now.

Note the feature about the readinglessons.com.

Create word pictures.

Free clipart by Phillip Mafrtin.

This will be helpful for use with Open Office next year as Open Office has limited free clipart.

This is really cool. What a great way to get guys interested in financial issues. In order to successfully win the game students must answer different levels of financial questions.

I played it and it was fun plus you had to really think about the possible answers for the financial questions.