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This link goes to a variety of interactive web sites for a variety of content areas.

The world's largest kids art museum.

"Welcome to Soundzabound™ - the ONLY royalty free music library which meets all the licensing and technology requirements needed for education! Soundzabound Music Library offers a wide variety of music, audio themes and sound effects for grades K -12 and universities that ensures your copyright safety. Perfect for podcasts, PowerPoint™, videos, news shows, video yearbooks, digital storytelling, presentations, TV broadcasts, web design and more!"

Article about a Massachusettes teen who hanged herself due to ongoing bullying.

Teaching our children about internet safety and anti-bullying is critical. This is a sad story for all involved.

With the advent of the World Wide Web and the huge amount of information that is contained there, students need to be able to critically evaluate a Web page for authenticity, applicability, authorship, bias, and usability. The ability to critically evaluate information is an important skill in this information age.

Here is a link to Kathy Schrocks page Guide for Educators.

Six step process in the instruction of vocabulary (building academic vocabulary).

This site is broken down by grade level (right side) and there are a number of games lists (left side).

The Purple Teapot is a blog created by retired teacher and technology integrator, Sue Shaffer. Sue provides weekly prompts for students to respond to. This blog is geared toward kids. She loves comments from the students.

I know Sue Shaffer. She is a retired teacher and technology integrator from Central York. Sue has started this blog to encourage students to continue to write. Check it out. Maybe you could have your students respond to some of the prompts that Sue has created. Students can access this from home or school.