Interactive websites engage students by providing information and resources along with practice, simulations, and other learning activities. They can be highly interactive, content-rich simulations such as the Frog Guts simulation and the Leonardo's Workshop games. Or, traditional drill and practice like Funbrain or book quizzes like Book Adventure.Find links to many interactive resources
Picturing Modern America (PMA) contains interactive exercises designed to:
* Deepen students' understanding of common topics in the study of modern America 1880-1920
* Build students' skills in analyzing primary sources, especially visual sources
* Generate questions that students can pursue by searching in American Memory and other sources.
Above all, we hope that you use PMA to encourage your students to actively read, question and discuss the photographs and other documents that give us fragmentary evidence of American life at the turn of the last century.
Welcome to the Digital Classroom, the National Archives' gateway for resources about primary sources, activities and training for educators and students.
Record screen & audio activity on your computer & create industry-standard AVI video files using its built-in SWF Producer to turn AVIs into bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs). Make your own online or software tutorial, like navigating Edlin
Fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena from the Physics Education Technology project at the University of Colorado. Teacher ideas and activities are also available.
Teampedia is a collaborative encyclopedia of free team building activities, free icebreakers, teamwork resources, and tools for teams that anyone can edit!
An offshoot of the global-awareness social networking site TakingITGlobal, where teachers can get their students involved in issues that affect the environment, and other contemporary topics. The site features an activities database, discussion boards, thematic classrooms, and other tools, and teachers control the environment. It's currently being used in more than 700 classrooms in 39 countries. Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard Canada are corporate sponsors, and more than 10 educational foundations also support the site.
Environmental, scientific, & biological information. Covers current environmental news & concerns. Includes the Learning Web classroom activities & lessons, and a detailed selection of Fact Sheets.
Find a watershed using the online form. Once you have found your watershed, you will be able to find citizen based groups that are active in your watershed.