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"Mathsframe has more than 170 free interactive maths games. All resources are designed, by an experienced KS2 teacher, to help children to visualise numbers, patterns and numerical relationships and to develop their mathematical thinking. New games are added most weeks." Some of these seem more appropriate for elementary school, but there are definitely some that could serve as quick review for our 6th-8th graders. You could have students use these games for several minutes individually in the class, or have students use a Promethean board/slate to interact with the game in front of the class and discuss their reasoning for the answers they select. This could be a great informal feedback tool that would take very little prep time.

A Variety of Interactive Maps from the New York Times on various topics.

Online, interactive, standards-based science curriculum www.science4us.com

What kind image interactions have value in history (or anywhere else for that matter)?

"Press the play button below to watch the war unfold over time. Drag the scrubber or click on the months and years to change the date range. Roll over the circles for more information on each battle. Casualties are defined as killed, wounded, missing and captured." Cool visualization of all Civil War battles. A couple questions that couple be useful when students view this timeline: - Using the available data, explain the Union strategy during the war - Using the available data, explain the Confederate strategy during the war. - Using the available data, explain what event/series of events represents the turning point of the war.

I wonder what kind of interactive images we might make as ITRTs as part of history content.

This article makes me rethink my current profession entirely. I wonder how much I can charge people to help them reset their passwords... In all seriousness, I think this is the wrong article? :)

Weird. That pulled from another tab. Should have been Lincoln post. The pencil thing would make for an interesting math problem.

This seems like a decent interactive for an introduction to atoms/elements/period table. Have the students click through several atoms in order and then discuss: - What do you notice? - What do you wonder? - Predict what the next atom (or the atom 17 clicks away) will look like. Explain your response.

"We're following the Civil War, chapter by chapter. Click on the boxes below for installments in our series, view videos and photo galleries, find a Civil War battlefield, and much more. " Washington Post series that focuses on the Civil War. Contains a variety of primary documents, videos, and interactives.

"Set up your own private area for creating and playing interactive stories and text-based games. Find out more"

We can create interactive web pages that allow students to play different games with words.

Kagan Structures are instructional strategies designed to promote cooperation and communication in the classroom, boost students' confidence and retain their interest in classroom interaction. The Structures work in all teaching contexts-regardless of subject, age group, and number of students in class.

Kagan Structures are instructional strategies designed to promote cooperation and communication in the classroom, boost students' confidence and retain their interest in classroom interaction. The Structures work in all teaching contexts-regardless of subject, age group, and number of students in class.

I've never been a huge baseball fan, but I do like data. This interactive display shows the total expenditure of every Major League Baseball team (from 1998 out until a few years in the future). Clicking on a team in the top chart will break that expenditure down per player and show what each player makes per year. Just looking at this chart for a few minutes, I've come up with the following questions that could be used in a math class for a problem solving lesson. Some of these questions would also require the students to locate some additional data as well. * Is there a correlation between team expenditure and winning the Championship/making the playoffs/number of wins in a season? * What percent of a team's total expenses do "star players" take up? * Are star player's "worth it" for a baseball team? * How have team expenses changed over the past 15 years? * Are baseball players being paid more today than in the past or are their salaries just keeping up with inflation? * How much do today's baseball stars make in comparison to the stars of the late 90's and early 00's? Is this difference warranted? I'm sure there are plenty of better questions here that I'm missing.

"Here you will find one of the greatest historical atlases: Charles O. Paullin and John K. Wright's Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, first published in 1932. This digital edition reproduces all of the atlas's nearly 700 maps. Many of these beautiful maps are enhanced here in ways impossible in print, animated to show change over time or made clickable to view the underlying data-remarkable maps produced eight decades ago with the functionality of the twenty-first century." Large Database of Interactive historical maps

various subjects, tutorials, interactives, algebra, writing, history, economics

There are very interesting things here. h/t Dan Meyer

There are very interesting things here. h/t Dan Meyer

I want to do something like this that students/teachers can provision with their own content/relationships.

Video describing word game similar to kick me. Students have analogies. One word is removed from the analogy and placed on student's back with tape. Students have to find the missing word in teh analogy.