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Coding is the new literacy! With ScratchJr, young children (ages 5-7) can program their own interactive stories and games. In the process, they learn to solve problems, design projects, and express themselves creatively on the computer.

Instructional software games for elementary students

Listings, descriptions and reviews of free educational software and websites for school or home use. Categories include reading, science, math, typing, social studies, programming etc.

This is a search engine for kids that makes researching much easier. In addition to finding answers for questions, the students can play games, find images, and learn facts about movies.

Kid friendly search engine. There are fun things on the website for the kids to visit as well. These include music, games, movies, sports, and ecards. Easy for students to use.

Project K-Nect is designed to create a supplemental resource for secondary at-risk students to focus on increasing their math skills through a common and popular technology - mobile smartphones.

In North Carolina, about 100 ninth-grade students in four schools in North Carolina have been issued smartphones for use in their math classes. They use the phones to network among themselves on problems, receive instruction from teachers, play math-improving games, or watch an animation showing the problem being solved.

Through a grant from a smartphone maker, students were given devices that would allow them to contact other students and tutors about math problems when not at school. It also gave them access to materials for class that they otherwise would not have had away from school. While this wouldn't be applicable in all schools, the social networking aspect of the program helped students better manage their personal learning experience.

This is an awesome site for elementary reading teachers and students. There are online activities for phonics, phonemes, vocabulary, site words, comprehension, book talks, and author sites to name a few. There are also games students can play while learning basic reading skills.

Type in student names to generate a competitive bracket for your whole class.

A site that contains interactive games for learning about topics including the human body and nutrition and exercise.

A game based learning app to teach students about world geography.

A free game based learning quiz style app that teaches students the continents and oceans.

Mission US is a multimedia project that immerses players in U.S. history content through free interactive games. Mission 1: “For Crown or Colony?” puts players in the shoes of Nat Wheeler, a printer’s apprentice in 1770 Boston. They encounter both Patriots and Loyalists, and when rising tensions result in the Boston Massacre, they must choose where their loyalties lie.

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I really like this article. Gives so many examples of free collaboration/sharing tools in the classroom. I appreciated the use of not only social media sites, but so many interactive sites that include collaboration tools - Even game-based learning ideas. Thanks for sharing! Matt

I have to try more of these tools out. It's great that this resource is found and can help our learners stay connected and that we have these kinds of resources to allow them to digitally create and collaborate on projects, and ideas.

What a fabulous find! I will definitely be taking a closer look at some of these! Nice job finding this incredible resource.

Digital citizenship for elementary students through game-based learning.

A collection of videos and activities to practice digital citizenship for elementary and middle school students.