EDIT 7500 @ UGA

The National Center for Educational Statistics created this site to help students and parents learn about school systems, plan for college, play math games, take math quizzes, participate in probability and graphing exercises, and much more. The "Create a Graph" feature comes in handy when teaching bar graphs, pie graphs, and line graphs in lower elementary.

This website, supported by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, provides curricular support to educators, students, and families. The site is loaded with supplemental activities, diagrams, maps, stories, etc. You do not need to be in possession of a certain textbook in order to gain access to the site.

This is an english website for elementary school students it contains, ideas for writing, grammar blast, and also what I really like about it is it has a list of many different types of graphic organizers and pdfs the you could print out to use with your class.

Students experience life as a water droplet as they play this online game. You can also go back into the NASA website to find information on the Hydrologic Cycle. There students can learn about the five processes: condensation, precipitation, infiltration, runoff, and evapotranspiration.

Research Implications for preparing teachers to teach with technology.

Collection of math activities for all content areas

Southern California's San Fernando Education Technology Team focuses on learning by doing and speaks to students' fascination with technology and all things digital. Students use multimedia tools to create a variety of projects.

New educational tools help students with a range of learning disabilities excel.

This is the International Reading Association's (IRA) 2001 position statement on this issue of technology integration. The article, entitled "Integrating Literacy and Technology in the Curriculum," stresses the need to become proficient in the new literacies of information and communication technology (ICT). A PDF version is available for download.

Education World Techtorials, instructions weekly on how to use different technology aspects in the classroom

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."

This site helps teachers and students get the most out of the National Park Service, particularly in the planning of Field Trips. It could work with multiple subject matters.

Students will create brochures that will entice reader to travel to the other planets in our galaxy.

Online resources for project-based learning lesson plans.

Video podcasts suggesting ways for teachers to teach Math concepts. Similar to Common Craft technique of using whiteboard. It might be interesting to have students create their own video podcasts to explain a concept for their classmates. [At times confusing as to who their audience is supposed to be.]