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Study Ladder is a great resource. There are content categories and within each category there are hundreds and hundreds of activities. Within in content areas activities may also be broken down into grade level. It's Free. Lots of learning activities to choose from. There is an ESL section under the English category.

Family games offers an online fantasy-adventure novel, randomly generated haiku poems and stories (reload for a new versions) and other interactive features for grades 5-12.

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.

Students will like the Webbing Tool as it will help them outline their ideas in such appealing graphic representations. They can use it to analyze the reading passages they have in the curriculum. They can also use it as a prewriting task to brainstorm all the ideas and notes they want to include in their writing.

Upgrade the typical book report with a digital spin! Integrate reading, writing, and 21st century literacy skills into an interactive and engaging project. Participating teachers will be helping students meet the demands of the Common Core, which include requirements for students to present ideas with "multimedia components (e.g., graphics, sound) and visual displays in presentations when appropriate to enhance the development of main ideas or themes."

Create free educational games, quizzes, activities and diagrams in seconds! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge!

Lots of free tools. I liked the diagram templates.

"This lesson will encourage students to examine the trade-offs involved in our use of energy, a topic they will likely revisit throughout their lives. This lesson is built around an interactive called Power Up! in which students choose how to power a city. They will have to choose between various energy sources, taking into account the trade-offs between cost and the environmental impact of each choice. Discussions before and after the game will examine the various options and what students may want to take into account when making their decisions."

Thinkfinity resource

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

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Encyclopedia of the Earth an electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environmetns, and their interaction with society. It is a free, fully searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other's work. The articles are written in non-technical language and are useful to students, educators, scholars, and professionals, as well as to the general public.

At a quick glance this site appears to have a lot of information about a variety of science related topics.

"The ancient tradition of storytelling meets the digital age. When students create a movie or interactive slideshow to tell their story, learning becomes personal. With digital storytelling, students can: Improve their writing. Show creativity. Have a voice. Digital storytelling projects lend themselves well to portfolio assessment"

Resource for teachers about digital storytelling.

This site provides a variety of math applets.

Here are some interactive for math.

folds into 3 D shapes

3D math manipulatives

Elements of a Story. Uses the story Cinterella to teach students about the elements of a story.

Great site to teach elements of a story.

Thinking about numbers using frames of 5 can be a helpful way to learn basic number facts. The four games that can be played with this applet help to develop counting and addition skills. Instructions Choose one of the four games that can be played with this applet: How Many: Identify how many items or empty squares there are. Build: Drag a certain number of items to the frame. Fill: Determine how many items are needed to fill the remaining squares. Add: Drag items to complete addition problems. Choosing Play All from the Games menu will randomize which of the four games is played.

Another free resource from Thinkfinity. Math interactive.

"Over 5 million people are learning a language with our award-winning, interactive courses. Practice with native speakers from around the world!"

Allows teachers to turn basic cell phones into classroom performance clickers at no charge. Studetns can send poll responses and ideas achieved through bdrainstorming directly to an interactive webpage. An example of the use may be that when the students walk into class the teacher has a question on the IWB that students will need to respond to as their activating strategy for the lesson.

This site includes free presentations in PowerPoint format and free interactive activities for kids.

This link has some interactive games on it related to a number of problem solving and critical thinking activities.

You can see how the planets rotate, you can see the constellations, it is a great visual for teaching astronomy and for teaching about the planets and solar system.

The British Council's Learn English website offers 69 interactive activities for learning the rules of grammar. The activities are not listed by grade level so you will have to preview them to determine which activities are best suited for your students.