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A collection of interactive review lessons. Some give immediate feedback and scores. Great for the ActivBoard.

This set of activities is like an old-fashioned Spelling Bee. Contestants -- that's you! -- in grades 1-8 will listen to three stories, one at a time, and then spell words from each story. Students in high school will listen to separate sentences and then spell the words from each sentence. If you get stumped, you can click to hear a word again, as many times as you need to. If you're in grade three or higher, you can ask for a definition too. Since words often make more sense when they are attached to an idea, all the words in the story or sentences are in context. Review the words, hear the audio, and SPELL the missing words. Make sure to check your SPELLING carefully, since your results will be calculated at the end.

This Edutopia article discusses using virtual field trips in the classroom and gives links to Web resources related to virtual field trips.

Create a personal Cartouche

Use animals as 'non-standard' units to weigh others.   'We're going to weigh the duck! What shall we use to weigh with?' 'How many hedgehogs do you think we will need to balance the scales? Count with me.' 'I've put on 2, how many more do you think are needed? Come and count on some more to see if we are right.' 'Whoops, I've put too many on. How many shall I take off?'

A versatile counting situation. Add, subtract and compare sets. 'I'm going to put some of these creatures in the sea. Can you count them as I put them in?' 'There are 2 lobsters already. How many will there be if I put 2 more in?' 'What happens if I go really quickly, can you keep up? Now there are lots of them, can you help organise them to make it easier to count?'

A versatile teaching tool! You can teach lots of different number concepts using it. "I've hidden some numbers. Can you work out what they are by looking at the ones that are left? Do you think the numbers are going up in steps of 1, 2 or 5?" "I've made a number pattern. It goes like this ...0,3,6,9. How high can you get carrying this pattern on? Let's check your answers on the number square!"

A versatile teaching tool! You can teach lots of different number concepts using it. 'I'm making some number cards. Say the number as I make each one. Who wants to click this triangle and count the spots to make sure we are right?' 'Look at the numbers I've made ...8, 3, 12, 20. Which of those numbers is largest? Which number is smallest? Who wants to put the numbers in order? Are you going to start with the smallest or the largest?'

Games about emotions and meeting other people

Kids can use this tool to create a printable "social network profile" for a literary character, or themselves, and so forth. Great project tool!

But...as with all the ReadWriteThink activities, there's no ability to save. Has to be done all in one sitting and then printed. I tried to use pdfmyurl to make a pdf, but it only gives the initial url.

Psychologists at Harvard, the University of Virginia and the University of Washington created "Project Implicit" to develop Hidden Bias Tests - called Implicit Association Tests, or IATs, in the academic world - to measure unconscious bias. Take a test at Project Implicit's website and see what may be lingering in your psyche

From its humble beginnings as an elementary teacher's classroom website, on through the present, the KidsKnowIt Network has always had one goal, and that is to make learning free. Founded in 1998 in order to provide student's with a fun and educational way to spend their free time, a teacher's classroom project has grown into a worldwide platform attracting several million visitors every single month. Every website developed is pain stakingly researched for accuracy, and appropriateness. This process begins with the planning and development of materials, activities, and articles by parents and educators, and ends with the final editing and approval of experts in the field being explored. Please come along with us, and enjoy exploring our universe.

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The Cognition Laboratory is a part of the Human-Automation Integration Research Branch at NASA Ames Research Center. We conduct research which involves modeling the human operator in human-machine systems and experiments on normal human perceptual and cognitive processes. Current modeling efforts focus on the task of the human operator in Air Traffic Control. Experiments range from basic to applied. All experiments are administered via computer, with participants watching the monitor and answering by using the keyboard or mouse. Examples of experiments include attentional control, dual-tasking, and the detection of conflicts in an Air Traffic Control display.

Looks like some interesting activities within this site.

Keynote slides from Joyce Valenza

"Link primary sources to locations on a map to practice spatial thinking and understand the impact of geographic factors in history."

Colleen Lewis, a doctoral student in Education at Berkeley, has created a series of 22 fun worksheets that teach kids how to program with Scratch. The worksheet questions are put in such a way as to make students think and explore on their own. The material is presented in a kid-friendly manner--colorful and rich with Scratch images and labeled diagrams.

Download a printable version of the Wheel

A nice printable wheel showing the kinds of question verbs and activities for each level