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This site identifies each of the multiple intelligence and lists web tools and sites that connect to that intelligence.

Neat site that identifies tools and sites for each of the multiple intelligences

"The Center for Safe and Rsponsible Internet Use has developed a new framewsork for addressing these issues under the overall concept of Cyber Savvy Schools." This site has some good materials and teaching resources for teaching cyber safety. I noticed that there are resources all the way to Kindergarten and more coming.

This site has a variety ofmaterials to teach about cyber safety.

Schoo Tube is a great way for teachers and studetns to watch videos, upload videos, create a Free channel, enter contests, and receive the video of the day.

I have used this site to upload videos created by teachers and students. I haven't seen anything inappropriate on it. I know it is monitored because I believe the video had to be previewed before it was released onto the site.

Are you interested in using games in your classroom but just cant find ones that match your curriculum? Have you tried to create video or board games for your classroom only to be overwhelmed by the amount of time and effort required just to produce them? If you answered yes to these questions, this web site is for you. This site contains downloadable games, game templates, and utilities that teachers and trainers can use to enhance any lesson

Neat site. I have never seen this before. Hope it's something new for many of you.

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.

this site is a free online listing of grants available for K-12 schools and teachers. Grant Wrangler can be especially helpful as school technology budgets tighten. Grants can be searched by keyword or by deadline. The news bulletins are updated daily and contain direct links to applications that are available online. Teachers and administrators can also subscribe to Grant Wrangler's daily e-mail blast, which lists up-to-date grant opportunities.

Splashup looks like photoshop and is agreat way to edit photos and manipulate layers and effects. It allows you to share with picasa, flickr, facebook

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This link takes teachers, parents and students to a variety of resources related to literacy. You have to click on a topic of interest and then a list of topics will appear and you select one.

Online professional development, TV programming and multimedia web content, lesson plan ideas, and ways to connect with other educators are all things featured on the PBS teachers page. The website also features news and webinars for teachers to view.

Shedd Aquarium in Chicago has a great collection of interactive learning activities. The activities are categorized according to grade level and vary in format. Some of the interactive activities are like video games (Squish the Fish for 1st graders) while others are more like virtual scavenger hunts (Conservation Investigation). The games and virtual scavenger hunts could easily take students an hour or longer to complete and the students would learn something new throughout the activity. In addition to the interactive activities, Shedd Aquarium provides a host of great Marine Science lesson plans for grades K-12.

XP Math is a good place to find math games, math videos, math worksheets, and math e-books. The games section of XP Math offers games for basic arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and probability. Create an account on XP Math and you can keep track of your scores.

The National Center for Education Statistics hosts a collection of games and tools for students. Dare to Compare is a quiz section of Kids' Zone where students can test their knowledge of civics, economics, history, geography, mathematics, and science. After taking each quiz the students are shown the correct answers. Dare to Compare also allows students to see the national and international average rate of correct answers.

Another good website for learning and practicing language basics is Literacy Center.net. Literacy Center offers games for learning and practicing French, Spanish, German, and English. The Literacy Center is a 501c non-profit with a contract from the US Department of Education.

Owned by Disney Craft Finder is an interactive Web site ofering elementary school kids the chance to select mateials from a list, in which Craft Finder them puts together and suggests ideas for more thena 900 great art projects. To find more seasonal and other crafts projects, click on Arts & Crafts.

coloring.com is an interactive coloring book with more than 100 pictures for primary school pupils. Kids can color pictures online from a variety of categories and email their pictures to family and friends.

Templates for teachers provides lots of free teacher resources that can be printed. Many of the templates are modifiable and/or printable. There are 100's grids, graphic organizers, hall passes, flash cards, thank you notes, ABC flash cards, handwriting practice forms, DOLCH flash cards for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade, plus muchmore.

Interesting site. Saw that there were lots of already created free resources listed.

This site has tons of Christmas activities for kids to do at home or school. There are printable games and activities such as word puzzles, math sheets, coloring, mazes, cards, and bookmarks.

Looks like a fun site for teachers and parents.

"GoAnimate state-of-art animation tools are perfect to complement your teaching and get your students to put learning into practice." "Our Lesson Gallery is a growing database of eductional materials created by educators around the world. A great place to share your practices and experiences.

Go animate provides tools for teachers.

Free Quiz creating tool. Users can create, store and print worksheets, studysheets, exams and quizzes online.

This site lists a colelction of mainly science and health-related virtual field trips and online labs.

Take your children on a efieldtrip or check out this site to learn more about virtual fieldtrips. Free