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Interactive whiteboards are a great way for teachers to engage classrooms in learning. While many teachers are spending hours a day creating their own activities for their interactive whiteboards, there are tons of free sources to help teachers learn about and use IWBs with students.

"Interactive Practice Template Use this interactive template to create works-cited-list entries in MLA style. "

"This is a round-up of the ways that you can add interactive elements to your videos."

"Pear Deck makes it easy to plan and build interactive lessons directly from your Google Drive that promote active learning in the classroom. As students interact with the lesson, real-time data provides instructors the feedback they need to adapt teaching on-the-fly." Currently in limited beta testing, but you can sign up and be part of the first test groups trying this out.

"Create interactive experiences Timelinely empowers people to go beyond just video. Highlight interesting parts of a video on a timeline with interactive comments, pictures, links, maps, other videos, and more."

Founded in 2002 by Nobel Laureate Carl Wieman, the PhET Interactive Simulations project at the University of Colorado Boulder creates free interactive math and science simulations. PhET sims are based on extensive education research and engage students through an intuitive, game-like environment where students learn through exploration and discovery.

"Turn online videos into interactive learning experiences that engage students and deepen understanding. This is similar to EdPuzzle but has some other features that EdPuzzle does not have."

Welcome to WorldPopulationHistory.org, an interactive site that lets you explore the peopling of our planet from multiple perspectives - historical, environmental, social and political. It is about the 2,000-year journey of human civilization and the possible paths ahead to the middle of this century.

"Telling great stories has never been so simple. So easy that it seems like magic. Fast and Simple You don't need to have programming or design skills. Hundreds of available templates. Incredible Results: Shine bright with spectacular designs and achieve the Wow effect you're looking for. Effective: Interactive visual experiences that improve communication. Full of life: Animated and interactive creations integrated with the richness of the Internet. Know your impact: Monitor how your creations are being used in real time. The power of information. Versatile: All your communication needs in a single tool."

"The Trading Card tool gives students an alternative way to demonstrate their literacy knowledge and skill when writing about popular culture texts or real world examples. This interactive allows students to create their own trading card about a real or fictional person, place, object, event, or abstract concept."

"One more educational use for Google Drawings is to create an interactive multimedia poster. This is very much like creating a Thinglink. Let's call it a Googlink."

Bloom's Digital Taxonomy wheel & knowledge dimension interactive tool for providing activities & knowledges.

Webslides takes your Diigo bookmarks and turns them into an interactive slideshow.

Our belief is that technology should empower teachers. Each student has unique learning needs and teachers don't have the tools to personalize their lessons to those needs. The eduCanon platform is a tool for teachers to build lessons with interactive timed questions and engaging video content. Already, we've been amazed by the creative and inspirational uses of eduCanon by teachers--for flipped and blended learning environments.

"Fun, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena from the PhET™ project at the University of Colorado."

"Prepare your students through real world experiences. Challenges that bring context, relevance & inquiry to classroom learning. Real-world, inquiry-based lessons to engage, excite & challenge students. For K-12 Math & Science. Live & interactive. Real time student responses make teaching, class facilitation and differentiation easier."

"This often overlooked app is quite possibly the most powerful Google app you've never used! This simple tool can help you annotate over content or create graphic organizers, posters, mind maps, flow charts, infographics, interactive personalized lessons and even memes! Students can use it to demonstrate their understanding, collaborate with others and showcase their creativity. Click on any of the tabs above to start learning about all this tool has to offer."

"Create rich images with music, video, sound, text and more. Share and discover deeper stories through images."

StatSilk offers a range of web-based and desktop software to cater to diverse mapping and visualization needs. The website has a common purpose: to make data analysis easy, efficient and enjoyable.