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Guest post from Karen Schwietzer about the top 10 educational sites for kids.

Collection of FREE Presentations and Games in PowerPoint format for K-12 Teachers and Students

over 1600 created PowerPoint presentations for education

Randomly selects students from class list to see "who goes next".

Great activties to use with spelling list.

This is a huge favorite site at my school. One grade level can create the "lists" and then share it with others. The kids can play games, practice, and take grade spelling tests via this free site. Two thumbs up!

Take PDFs and embed or link to a website. Great for student made books.

Dreezle is an online drawing program that you can either print of screen shot the work of your students. Allows different tools for painting.

The Kids' Science Challenge is a national (United States) contest for students in grades three through six. The challenge asks students to innovate and build upon on our current conceptions of how things work. There are three areas of innovation in this year's contest; reducing waste, developing meals to be eaten on Mars, and developing a toy or game that demonstrates an animal's intelligence. The contest is open until February 29, 2012. Applications for EducationTo help students start thinking about the topics in The Kids' Science Challenge, the challenge website has a series of games and videos for students. For teachers, The Kids' Science Challenge offers a page of lesson plans and hands-on activities designed to help students develop ideas related to the contest's three challenge topics.

a game designed for K and 1 students to practice early literacy and phonemic awareness skills. Students drag letters into a sequence to make the word featured on the screen. There are two levels, beginner and advanced. With the beginner level, students have less choices and with the advanced level students have the entire alphabet from which to choose.