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"Where technology does have a positive impact is when it actively engages students, when it's used as a communication tool, when it's used for things like simulations or games that enable students to actively manipulate the environment."

Ever wondered what happens when you send an email? How does an email travel from your computer to your friend's smartphone across the country or around the world? Take a journey with Gmail and find out. In this short video you will follow an email on its journey to see what happens once you send a message. Along the way, you will learn about some of Google's efforts to minimize its impact on the environment.

Teach Reading While Preserving the Environment I Save a Tree is offering $80,000,000.00 worth of free interactive books and Virtual Library software to all public schools in the United States. The Virtual Library 2.0 software and interactive books can be installed on a district server, and all students and teachers within the district can access the interactive books. I Save a Tree iBooks can be viewed on Windows and Macintosh computers as well as on smartphones that include Adobe Flash. School districts interested in taking advantage of this offer should send an email to customerservice@isaveatree.com.

 a collection of six examples of science based Google Maps. The collection includes examples of use in environmental science and geology lessons. One of my former colleagues also used Google Maps in geology lessons. 

Lots of links for grades k-12 on interactive web2.0 sites for science and math.  Great list of resources.