Try our Art Edventures! ArtEdventures are interactive games for teachers and students. In these fun and educational activities, you'll discover how great artists made their famous works-while learning tips and techniques for creating your own art!
Note: these activities are a great way to introduce students to different art concepts. Example: the Color Activity involves learning about the color wheel. Great interactives that would work well with a projector and/or mimio, smartboard, etc.
Great site for upper elementary. Learn about the instruments in an orchestra. Reading ability is needed for many of the activities. If sounds do not play automatically, click the "ear" icon. Check the "game lounge"
Designed for ages 9-11, these interactive investigations are perfect for differentiation. Investigations include Forces and Motion, Earth and Beyond, Electricity, Light, and Sound.
The activities in this site would be great for the IWB , to reinforce concepts. Creating a response sheet to match the online activity would be useful for assessment. There are several levels for each topic. It would be best to provide a link to the specific module to coincide with instruction.
Arcademic Skill Builders are research-based and standards-aligned educational games that offer an innovative approach to teaching basic academic skills. We incorporate features of arcade games and educational practices into fun online games that will engage, motivate, and teach your students. Single and multiplayer games. Multiplayer games might be fun displayed on the IWB.
In the future we'll add features enabling you to save records, tailor content for differentiated instruction, and pinpoint student problem areas!
Graph data sets in bar graphs. The color, thickness and scale of the graph are adjustable. You can input your own data, or you can use or alter pre-made data sets.
Fun way to encourage student writing in any subject. Using a photo of of almost anything, coupled with imagination, students can create and record a talking animation.
Information can be represented in many ways, and this applet allows the user to represent data about the states using colors. The state with the highest data value is darkest; other states are shaded proportionally. Investigate any of the data provided-or enter data of your own!
Great problem-solving "physics" game on the idea of "mousetrap" or Rube Goldberg. Students can start by trying to solve other player's puzzles and then build their own. This will be a favorite of 5th and 6th graders.
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.
Fabulous site from the National Gallery of Art. Creative, high quality art interactives which could be used a to introduce, reinforce, or extend learning on a particular concept. Check it out!