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Teachers can create an account for school. Provides practice and quizzes. I also like SpellingTube which has videos created by students (UK accent) to reinforce spelling.

Word Tamer is an interactive flash-based website where you "tame words and train stories" The site helps students create and develop new writing possibilities. All the ideas can be saved and printed off to be developed off-line. You can even print off certificates! The site contains different sections such as Wild Words, Prowl Through Plot, Capture a Character, Snare a Setting and Grapple With Genre. Each task is simple to get into and fun for children to play. Word Tamer is created by children's author Judy Waite and is born out of the creative writing workshops she delivers in schools.

Link Up is a web app that helps kids link words to categories. Each game requires two categories with six linked words each. Once you have created a game you can save it to access at a later time or to share with others. Students use Link Up by dragging links between categories and words. The game is easy to customize and create on the fly. It would be a great site to use with an interactive whiteboard.

Planet Kodu was originally created to support a twenty eight school pilot of Kodu in Victoria, Australia. The pilot was jointly sponsored by ideasLAB, Knowledge Bank Next Generation and Microsoft. As the pilot ended on December 11th 2009, Planet Kodu will be opened up to the world shortly.

Major cities world wide. Create your own customized guide.  Download as PDF. Great for social studies

Lots of interesting interactive quizzes and games for music. Instead of bookmarking the entire site for students, bookmark the just the activties that you want to use. Create your own categories (keywords) or use the ones on this page. You may want to use the grade level as a top level category for easy sorting. Example: grade 5 instruments

Writing tool for creating stories with a medieval them. Images are from the Bayeaux Tapestry. Stories can be emailed or stored in gallery. Also possible to capture pages and paste into powerpoint to print as a book.

Create a different types of graphs online then print, download, or email results. Best to demonstrate to students first as there a number of options.

PHOTO OP (Shockwave, 7 MB) is a two-part interactive activity that introduces you to digital photography and digital photo editing. Use the virtual camera to create snapshots and explore lighting, focus, shutter speed, and compositional effects. After you have taken some photos, transform your pictures into something completely different. This Art Zone interactive is suitable for all ages. You can take simple snapshots or create complex artistic compositions by layering, applying filters, and experimenting with various special effects, lighting, and blends. If your Internet connection is slow, allow the program to load fully, then come back to play. Scroll down for some hints about how to use PHOTO OP.

This could be a good site for research on Egyptian Civilization and King Tut. It is from the Canadian Museum of Civilizations. Might be useful for creating a webquest

This video gives a great overview of one of the best, full-featured online image editors. It is also terrific creative tool for teachers and students to create drawings or edit images for any class. Click on the sumo wrestler on the home page: http://www.sumopaint.com/web/#/home/ There is a community gallery which has high quality art created by users. However, teachers should be careful of viewing with the class--just in case! It would be better to

Learn2Type for Schools is a FREE service for teachers and educators to monitor their student performance. Individual student accounts can be created, these accounts will be linked to your Teacher Console, allowing you to monitor each student's performance from a central location. View the Teacher Console tutorial video to see how easy it is to use Learn2Type for Schools

Learning Clip is an online project to create resources for teaching primary maths. During the initial development phase of the project all the clips have been freely available to anyone interested in teaching and learning mathematics. From the 16th January 2010 some of the resources will only be available by subscription. The rest will continue to be free to registered users click here to register

My Culture Quest is an interactive adventure around the world. Students need to collect artifacts from several different countries and create an exhibition at the museum to complete the game. Students score the highest points by collecting items with a similar theme (conflict, religion, or celebrations) from various countries. Teachers can preview all of the images (artifacts) used in the game and print game cards to supplement the online activity.

Set 2 variables (viscosity and gas) and see what type of volcano is created. Start eruption to see the results

Create personalized bookmarks using your photos. Upload photos then print directly to printer or print as a PDF to print later. No software to install

Labeling and multiple choice games. Simple to use.

use sounds of nature to create a soundtrack for podcast

Personalize books in a variety of ways or create your own book.