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Cybersmart Detectives is an innovative online game that teaches children key internet safety messages in a safe environment. Children work online in real time liaising with community professionals to solve an internet-themed problem. The activity is based in the school environment, and brings together a number of agencies with an interest in promoting online safety for young people, including State and Federal Police, internet industry representatives and child welfare advocates.

If you use the Notebook software and a SMART Board you have to check this out! This is awesome! Tables, introduced in Notebook 10, have proven to be a great tool for teachers to create simple activities.  Recently TeqSmart discovered a new way to  use

PictureSET is a collection of downloadable visual supports that can be used by students for both receptive and expressive communication in the classroom, at home, and in the community. This searchable database allows you to find a wide range of useful visual supports for different curriculum areas, activities, and events. PictureSET resources are created and updated by dedicated professionals working with students in British Columbia.

Your file organizer is the hub of all your Acrobat.com activities - the place where you store and share files, create PDFs, launch your online office applications, and keep everything together - all through an elegant user interface that is remarkably easy to use. And because everything is online, you can access it from anywhere, anytime. Built on the Adobe® Flash® Platform, Acrobat.com operates inside a web browser. There's no installation required, so getting started is easy - and free.

"Classtools.net allows you to create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge!"

Brain training games are a great way to promote higher level thinking skills in students, but finding the right activities to practice these skills can be difficult. Here are 5 of the best.

"This classroom guide is intended to inspire and expand your thinking about effective assessment for project-based learning. The tips are organized to follow the arc of a project. First comes planning, then the launch into active learning, and then a culminating presentation. Reflection is the final stage. Download this today and get started! "

Curriki, the online education community, is building the first website to offer free, open-source instructional materials for K-12. We have thousands of free worksheets, lesson plans, exams, project ideas and activities for English language arts, math, science, social studies, technology integration and other subjects. All of our educational material is contributed by teachers and partners and is free and open source.

Our innovative math skills development programs are research based, and really work. Best of all, like everything on the KidsKnowIt Network, they are 100% FREE. Use the free math games and math activities to review, and keep your math wits sharp, or use one of our math foundations programs to develop the basic brain skills that are required to succeed with math.

TOOLS Sploder Make your own educational games online. Remember the Milk Manage activities and tasks. Dabbleboard A virtual white board to create, collaborate and share presentations, homework assignments or study sessions.

Teaching Grammar - Past Perfect and More

VocabularySpellingCity is a fun way to learn spelling and vocabulary words by playing engaging learning games using any word list. The most popular activities are Spelling TestMe, HangMouse, and our vocabulary games, available to Premium Members. The most popular word lists are Sound Alikes, Compound Words, Hunger Games and SAT Words. This is a free app!

"For the first time, researchers power an implantable electronic device using an electrical potential - a natural battery - deep in the inner ear."

"All of D-Lab's classes assess the needs of people in less-privileged communities around the world, examining innovations in technology, education or communications that might address those needs. The classes then seek ways to spread word of these solutions - and in some cases, to spur the creation of organizations to help disseminate them. Specific projects have focused on improved wheelchairs and prosthetics; water and sanitation systems; and recycling waste to produce useful products, including charcoal fuel made from agricultural waste."

iCivics is a web-based education project designed to teach students civics and inspire them to be active participants in our democracy. iCivics is the vision of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who is concerned that students are not getting the information and tools they need for civic participation, and that civics teachers need better materials and support.

The online role-playing games on iCivics are free, teacher-friendly, and effective

Helpful resource for science fair projects. Includes steps to get started as well as parent resources.