Gynzy.com Free embeddable interactive content for the classroom There are lots of really nice embeddable educational interactives that you can embed onto your teacher web pages.
Gynzy.com Free embeddable interactive content for the classroom. There are lots of really nice embeddable educational interactives that you can embed onto your teacher web pages.
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.
This is a cool site to checkout and bookmark the tools that you may be able to use at some point. Timelines are great in that they provide a way for students to organize their thinking about a particular topic. Check out some of the timeline tools outlined in this link.
Teacher Toolbox is an interactive math and reading resource for K-5th grade. There are interactive math applets, math games, free flash cards, interactie whiteboard lessons, reading games stories for kids, professional development resources as well as printables.
"The Graphic Map is designed to assist teachers and students in reading and writing activities. The organizer focuses on charting the high and low points related to a particular item or group of items, such as chapters in a book, amounts of money spent, events during a day, month, year, or life, or scenes in a play. The Graphic Map creates a graphic representation of these high and low points that displays related images and descriptions. The interactive can be used as a prewriting activity, as students map ideas for an autobiography; as a postreading activity, as students map the significance of events in a story; and as a reflection and assessment activity, as students map the high and low points of their inquiry process."
this site, maintained by RobinL. Simmons, provides grammar explanations and numerous interactive exercises handouts for teachers and students in grades 6-12.
This poem generator makes you an instant poet. Pick a type of poem, place your words into the form, and you imediately become a success. The site, suitable for grades 5-12, consists of 60 kinds of writing activities in an interactive frame format including cinuain, haiku, limerick, septet, and other forms. Poems can then be exported into Word for revision and editing.
ArtQuiz is an interactive site presents a short quiz to test your knowledge of 23 famous artists and their painting. It includes information about their lives and examples of their work.
Art Safari allows kids to explore paintings and sculptures from the Museum of Modern Art accompanied by a series of questions where they are encouraged to write about what they observe. They can also submit their own artwork.