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Lingro provides an on-line environment that allows anyone learning a language to quickly look up and learn the vocabulary most important to them. You place a web address within this site and all the words on that web page will become clickable.

This site would be really helpful for those students who are struggling readers and often don't know the meanings of words they are reading.

Blendspace by tes provided these 15 tips to motivate and engage students in a blendspace environment. It's free and it seems easy to create a blendspace.

The Virtual History Museum is a history-learning environment designed to promote the historical understanding. The Virtual History Museum (VHM) enables a teacher or student, who serves as a curator, to develop an exhibit about a historical topic. Exhibits include activities that help viewers investigate the exhibit and then communicate to others the results.

Thanks to Miguel Guhlin's post of this resource 4/6/2009 The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed (i.e., reflective), authentic, and collaborative (Jonassen, Howland, Moore,

The National Academy of the Sciences has launched this new website that gives an overview of the U.S. energy system. It covers 4 main topics: energy uses, sources of energy, the cost of energy (in terms of the environment, national security, and sustainability), and energy efficiency. The site has easy to navigate content and links to source material, and it includes n energy quiz, a glossary, and a source library. The site's producers are also developing curriculum-based materials for high school and middle school classrooms. Two special features--Our Energy System and Understasnding Efficiency--are designed to actively engage visitors and enhance their understanding of energy, including what it is, h ow we use it, and ways to conserve it.

Looks like a good resource related to the topic of energy

"To engage students in making design decisions that affect the transfer of energy between a building and the outside environment. To help students identify and consider the types of decisions involved in improving a building's energy profile. To analyze the green roof option in economic and community terms."

Thinkfinity resource

Lovely provides a hot-linked list organized into live journeys, "interactive environments," travelogues, e-museums, building and place tours, map-based visits, and read-along visits.

Here is a collection of virtual field trip sites.

Their passionate concern about climate change and love for the natural environment, and a grant from the National Science Foundation to Paul, created the opportunity to capture, in the form of "Video Storytelling," the voices of the Arctic, and the scientists who study it.

A good way to get students blogging in a safe, secure environment.

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Free subscription to articles on a variety of topics such as health & medicine, mind & brain, technology, space, human origins, living world, environment, physics & math. There are also videos, photos and podcasts

This is the destination for digital literacy resources and collaboration. Use it to share and enhance the tools necessary to learn computer and Internet skills needed in today's global work environment.

Sophia is a first of its kind online social teaching and learnign platform that provides free academic content to educators. in beta testing since March, 2011, the site lets educators supplement their teaching methods with Web 2.0 tools to craete public or private learning environments

Free resource

Ecokids the award-winning environmental education site from Earth Day Canada

Fun Science games This site allows the user to filter by experiments, comics, games and videos

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 it looks like this site has lots of information about a variety of science related topics.

"The objective of this site is to provide teachers with source materials, lesson plans and classroom activities for all grades K-12. This site is designed to help busy teachers use their time efficiently. The indexed websites are not organized by grades as each website listed may have several resources for different ages. If you want to discover how to become a teacher you can check our career guide."

Are you a tired teacher then here's the site for you.

"Science News for Kids is a web site devoted to science news for children of ages 9 to 14. Our goal is to offer timely items of interest to kids, accompanied by suggestions for hands-on activities, books, articles, Web resources, and other useful materials. Our emphasis is on making the Web site appealing by offering kids opportunities to comment on and grade the subject matter, get ideas for science projects, and try out mathematical puzzles. At the same time, we offer teachers creative ways of using science news in their classrooms."

This site covers a variety of content areas. There are interactive games as well as IWB activities.

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