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online extreme mapping. Add content, customize with notes, measure, and present it in full screen mode. Use different basemaps as a starting point. Great for IWB

Literactive is the leading provider of reading material for pre-school, kindergarten and grade 1 students available online. The program is comprised of carefully levelled guided readers, comprehensive phonic activities and a wealth of supplemental reading material which gradually develop a child's reading skills in a sequential and enjoyable manner. Developed and approved by teachers and parents across the United States, Literactive is the acknowledged leader in early learning online. All the material is available for free from this site but you need to register.

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!

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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

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.

Use your photos in these online templates. Print to your color computer or print as a PDF (select cutePDF in printer box). Save as a file for printing later.

ACCESSIBLE literacy, math, and typing activities

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.

Great tool for math & measurement. Free for personal use with limitations. we have HomeBuilder installed on the new computers.

4 animated and narrated fables from Tom Lynch. Includes the Tortoise and the Hare, A lesson for Foolish Crow, the Lion and the Mouse, and the Fox and His Shadow. Young students can use this independently.

Teachers' Domain is an online library of more than 1,000 free media resources from the best in public television You will need to register but it is well worth it. You can save resources in folders, some media can be downloaded.

ReadWriteThink offers a collection of online Student Materials to support literacy learning in the K-12 classroom. These interactive tools can be used to supplement a variety of lessons and provide an opportunity for students to use technology while developing their literacy skills. Click on the name of each interactive for a brief description of the tool and a list of the ReadWriteThink lessons that use the tool. From there you'll also be able to directly access the tool and use it in your classroom. GREAT website!

Links directly to activities for grades, 4, 5, 6 from a variety of websites

AmphibiaWeb is an online system that provides access to information on amphibian declines, conservation, natural history, and taxonomy.

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.

Online museum for student artwork. Large collection from around the world.

The Oreo Project is starting in September and supports the Data and Analysis strand. These are simple projects that are not time consuming. You need to join this site to partipate and sign up for projects separately.

Lots of free resources from Microsoft for Office