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For those Early Childhood and/or preschool teachers, Baby Smash is a free "keyboard banger" game for very young kids (ages 1-3 years). It disables all system keys such as ctrl-esc, alt-tab and the Windows key, so that the kids do not exit the program accidentally or harm the computer. When the child hits the keys, colored shapes and letters will appear on the screen. The names of the shapes and colors will be read out loud, as well as the names of the letters. Babysmash for Windows (created by Scott Hanselman) is a copy of the Alpha Baby software for Macintosh. It requires the .NET framework version 3.5 to be installed.

Tutorials and applets for all calculus lessons-related rates=good

MIT website for calc activities

This is really hard to describe, but with Amazon's Mechanical Turk, you can get workers (really bored workers?) from around the world to complete menial tasks for you, some of them research oriented, for very little money. It's pretty bizarre, but I've seen people do academic work on there.

A new tool being developed by the folks at Mozilla that allows for easy website creation.

A lesson integrating language arts and technology in the classroom. Older students are split up into groups and they are to create photo stories and newsletters for a younger classroom. This lessons says kindergarten, but depending on your grade level you could use a first or second grade class too. The sort of act as reporters and pick out photos and classroom stories to put into a layout program for that class.

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!

Great lesson using creativity in a multimedia slide show using Kid Pix- this is a language arts lesson that contains elements of nouns, verbs, sequencing..etc. This lesson is great because it goes into what the students need to know before beginning the lesson and what the teacher needs to perpare into for everything to run smoothly.

This lesson hits around the 3-4th grade level. It is a fun activity that helps teach division through reading the book, When the Doorbell Rang to the class. The students get to have cookies and milk which anytime you use food in a lesson I have learned in motivating! They also will used kid pix for integration of technology after the story practicing creating problems for other students in the class to solve.

A webquest for third or fourth graders "The case of the missing trunks." The students work in groups to discover voyage information the famous explorers including Jacques Cartier and Christopher Columbus

This website shows rectangular multiplication. I would have been and would be a great resource for teaching the lattice method since my students had so much trouble remembering this last year.

This is a webquest where students will work together to write and research ancient Mali. This pertains to a social studies unit that I had to teach last year and would come in handy in the future. Students are working on their research skills.

Great resource for biographies for students to look up famous people when doing a report.

Very cute ways to asses students on the different stages of the butterfly. The students read about the butterfly stages on the website and then create a step by step kid pix of the stages themselves. Would love to use for science!

This website would be great to use for the animal habitat projects that we did last year in fourth grade. It also has lots of information just on animals where you could use to do animal research for a project.

This website contains many games and other missions where students have to become astronauts and explorers discovery comets and going on a galaxy hunt are just two of the activities. Great for a "station" in computer time for science.

Play Space Place Trivia and test your knowledge of Space Place topics. Great for follow up on assessment of a space unit or before assessment so student can see what they know so far about space.

Great website where student can explore space, the universe, and scientist. Student can also go on a guided virtual tour of the universe which would be great for visual learning.

integrating english, math, science, and technology into a lesson where students ranging from ages 5-10 could explore one letter of the alphabet through books the computer and make an entire page of objects and things pertaining to that letter. This would work on research skills and also could use programs like kid pix for pictures.