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Ever want to search for lessons or methods for interactive whiteboards by state standards ? We've got you covered!

This is a great website for digital storytelling. Students can create their own digital stories, animations, pictures and more. Students will need a sign in, and as a teacher you can create class accounts.

A creative website where students can make artwork, an animated movie, cards, and a drawing. Students can also vote on movies, stories, and drawings that other people have made.

This website has over 100 interactive games for students to play on topics such as animals, geography, science, math, and language arts.

Tons of free educational games for all different elementary levels, including pre-k. Covers all subject areas. Has great graphics

Hundreds of links to free math games for kids of all ages.

This website is a great tool for learning the states and the respective capitals. Additionally, the site allows the student to "hoover" over each of the states to obtain further information about the state such as population, date of statehood, state bird, etc.

The Smithsonian website is an educational that provides links and activities for both educators and students. This site provides educational content for educators which they can easily access and use within their classrooms. It provides videos, interactive games and additional links for students to navigate their way through in order to gain a greater understanding of history and art. It is a great site that can truly help enhance to overall content of one's lesson.

Starfall.com opened in September of 2002 as a free public service to teach children to read with phonics. Our systematic phonics approach, in conjunction with phonemic awareness practice, is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, special education, homeschool, and English language development (ELD, ELL, ESL).

This is a great site for children ages 2-8. It teaches pre-reading as well as reading skills up to 2nd grade. Includes games, animated stories, songs, and writing activities. I use it daily!

Starfall is a free website that teaches children how to read through phonics. It has practice games on phonemic awaresness. The program is great for grades K-2, second language learners and special education.

Free Mimio Lessons

Great web-site for teaching time!

Great web-site for teaching weather! Includes games, experiments, and weather safety.

Cybersafety and copyright information for kids!

This website has a good assortment of online games for many subject areas. There is also a section of pre-school read alouds to explore. Be careful! As this website is a free site, there are some ads along the sides and top of the pages.

This site has educational games for kids grades Pre-K to 8th grade.

A fun interactive site that develops reading and language skills for younger students. The web site can be accessed at school or home. It features letter recognition, building sentences, synonyms and antonyms, and more. The skills are broken down into beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels.

Lots of good Civics information and games for students.

This online interactive game is geared toward second graders in the hopes of introducing and reinforcing economic concepts. Students begin by creating their bakery and selling items. They soon begin to realize that to sell an item they need the materials to make it. To get the materials, they need money to purchase them. The game is highly engaging, however, a several discussions on the economic concepts are needed before students begin to grasp them concretely.

This website has some great information for parents and teachers on how to teach children how to spend and save wisely. The website also features several games and other interactive sections for students to explore and learn more about money. This is a good website to allow children to explore as a center activity or as a whole class.

Great iPad App to scaffold digital storytelling projects- great for younger students!

HighScope provides clear guidelines for teachers focusing on three areas: adult-child interaction; planning the learning environment: space and materials; and the daily routine.