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This website lays out the framework for completing Project Based Learning projects. Teachers are assisted through identifying learning, constructing assessments, designing activities, designing the process, and planning for management. The site provides a lot of direction for integrating technology in the classroom.

design models to consider when teaching technology

This multiplication game, designed by Big Brainz, is an addictive way to get your students to learn their multiplcation facts. This is a real first person game that takes students through many levels of learning. Students don't want to stop playing this game and don't even realize how much they're learning.

Google SketchUp is software that you can use to create, share and present 3D models. Whether you want to design a new deck for your house, build models for Google Earth, or teach geometry to your fifth-graders, you can use SketchUp to see your ideas in 3D. And when you're done, you can export an image, make a movie or print out a view of what you made.

From the website: "This 2008 ethnographic study for Consumer Reports WebWatch reveals that very young children are using online games and Web sites to play and learn, yet many of the games and sites are designed to manipulate children for the sake of commerce and promote the idea of commercialism. The online games observed in the study were found to vary widely in terms of quality, educational value, and their developmental match with children's abilities."

From the website: Vanishing Georgia comprises nearly 18,000 photographs. Ranging from daguerreotypes to Kodachrome prints, the images span over 100 years of Georgia history. The broad subject matter of these photographs, shot by both amateurs and professionals, includes, but is not limited to, family and business life, street scenes and architecture, agriculture, school and civic activities, important individuals and events in Georgia history, and landscapes. The wide variety of the collected visual images results from efforts by archivists from the Georgia Division of Archives and History who sought, between 1975 and 1996, to preserve Georgia's endangered historical photographs. Designed primarily for preservation, the project located, selected, and copied historically significant photographs held by individuals who wanted to share their pieces of the past with future generations.The Georgia Archives joins with the Digital Library of Georgia to present the Vanishing Georgia images as a digital resource. Support for the project is provided by a Library Services and Technology Act grant administered through Georgia HomePLACE.

Designed to give teachers an opportunity to educate high school students with the most current and up-to-date information on the insurance industry, Curriculum in a Box allows you to teach from the module that best fits your classroom schedule - 30, 60 or 120 minutes of insurance curriculum.

I had to teach fairy tales last year and this would have been a great lesson/unit that I could have used it goes week by what to do with your students. The students are writing their own fairy tales based on stories they have read and designing their own multimedia presentations through powerpoint and other technologies. Great lesson!

This ISTE designed and inspired site offers help with K-12 professional development and school reform. The bookcase on the left side conatins a lot of good information, including curriculum and student stuff links that lead to resources in math, languages arts, the sciences, soical studies, and more.

Students play with a simulator/game that teaches them the concepts of motion, forces, electricity, magnetism, and light. This site was designed by the Science Museum of London.

This site is a collection of sites designed just for kids. These educational games cover anything from weather to geology to where food comes from. It is run by the University of Illinois Extension.

This site features many interactive learning and design tools for teachers and lots of ideas and examples for integrating technology. 4Teachers features professional development, educational video games, success stories, and a videos channel. It also has links to a "Family of Tools" including QuizStar, RubiStar, Academic Skill Builders, PersuadeStar, Equity, TrackStar, Assign-A-Day, Casa Notes, PBL Checklists, Teacher Tacklebox, Web Poster Wizard, NoteStar, Think Tank, and KidsVid. There are also assessment resources available.

This BBCi site features all sorts of nifty interactive modules designed to help people learn more about the workings of the human body and mind. Some great Flash work here...

Educators employ project learning to explore science and history together. Curriculum is designed to meet ISTE standards.

This article talks about tips in integrating technology according to NETS-S/ISTE standards and how some projects went about achieving a high level of technology integration.

This is the construction paper artist I was talking about

I'm actually not sure what to call this, but I will throw it into the "tool" pile. It's just too neat not to share. With this flash program, users can create Jackson Pollock-style "splatter paintings" by moving the mouse around.