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Top site for interactive learning about Egyptian mummies

addition, substraction, mutiplication, division, science, and english games

Click here to experience a virtual tour of an Ancient Egyptian Tomb. Find out more about being an archaeologist, but watch out for snakes and scorpions! This is one of many activities on the education & activities section of the National Museums Scotland website. http://www.nms.ac.uk/education__activities.aspx

Great site for reinforcement of math concepts. From LearnAlberta.ca

Pupils navigate their way around the two woods and use a camera to take photos of items of interest. Once they have taken each photograph a real image appears, together with more information about what they have seen. Once both woods have been visited, multiple choice questions test recall and understanding. The activity works well in an ICT suite for individual exploration and discovery or it can be used as a shared pupil experience using an interactive whiteboard - particularly helpful if the class includes non-readers. It is a great introduction to a real woodland visit.

Some short games for young learners K-3. Great for increasing prociency with a mouse/trackpad and clicking. Wide variety of games Teacher guidance is needed as there are no audio instructions and students will need to learn not to click on a sponsor's ad when they win! A few activties involve reading.

Interactive demo on using Microsoft Word 2007

You walk into a restaurant with a large group of friends. To accommodate you, the restaurant will push a bunch of tables together-but how many tables will be needed to ensure that everyone has a seat? This applet will let you explore that question. Has two modes: Exploration and Guess. Great to present whole class and then allow for individual group use.

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

Exploring the Secret Life of Trees is designed to help 3rd - 5th grade students gain an appreciation of trees, observe trees in their everyday lives, and develop an interest in discovering more about trees. It is intended for adults to work with children to explore the secret life of trees. THE LINK to the student version is at the bottom of the page, "Return to the Secret Life of Trees". The student version is animated and narrated and can be used with DI/UDL.

Jen's Oreo project

Math interactives for ages 7-11: find resources by math strand. Other subject areas available.

From the US Census website, agae appropriate data for each site. Great for data handling. Lots of additional resources for classrooms by gradelevel

Paste text into the text box. Select your options. Text is displayed visually by frequency (importance). Great for summarizing or emphasizing the main idea. Can be used in a variety of ways. Wordle is another popular visualizing tool.

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

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.

Very nice tool for collaborative writing. Lots of great examples. Take the tour to see how easy it is to use. http://storybird.com/tour/

Labeling and multiple choice games. Simple to use.

Teacher explains how she uses voicethread as a digital note card for research in K-2. Very good!

use sounds of nature to create a soundtrack for podcast