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Art:21 website from PBS

Excellent online science classroom website.

Great resource for building and enriching vocabulary with online tools.

This website provides challenges where students have to replicate specific 2D images on a 3D platform. For the spatially challenged, such as myself, this is not as simple of a task as it first seems! I particularly love this site because it easily lends itself to small-group collaboration, trial and error discussions and problem solving -- all skills for our 21st century learners. Put it on the SMART Board, and work through together as a class, or make the SMART Board a 'center' with this one Geometry activity for one group of 3-5 students to tackle, while other small groups work on additional geometry challenges around the room (traditional pen and paper Math problems, building 3D models, etc.)

60 Second Recap is a website that hosts video overviews of many classic book titles. Each title has a selection of 60 second videos explaining different parts of each book. 60 Second Recap now has an iPhone app. The app itself is free to download and comes with three book overviews (30 videos in all) preloaded on it. Additional book overviews cost $.99.

Here are 10 websites that have collected hundreds of textbooks and are providing them for free, giving every child an equal opportunity to lean!

List of websites dealing with cyber safety.

Mission US is an interactive adventure game designed to improve the understanding of American history by students in grades 5 through 8. The first game in a planned series, Mission 1: "For Crown or Colony?" explores the reasons for Revolution through the eyes of both Loyalists and Patriots in 1770 Boston.  This website provides information and materials to support the use of Mission 1 in your classroom. Download all the teacher materials as a DOC or PDF.

The purpose of zeroBio is to provide students with resources for their science courses. These resources come in the form of worksheets, quizzes, games, animations, and more. While zeroBio is primarily intended for students at Central Secondary School, I hope this website will be helpful to anybody interested in high school science.

HistoGrafica is a community-driven website with high aims - making a large amount of historical pictures easily accessible in one place on the web. Everyone can share and describe their old pictures on HistoGrafica and help expand this free archive. Together, we can create the biggest, freely available archive of geo- and timetagged historical pictures in the world.

The History Commons contains summaries of 15,454 events, which are published on the website in the format of dynamic timelines. These timelines can be filtered by investigative project, topic, or entity (e.g., a person, organization, or corporation). You can even generate a "scalable context" timeline for any event in the History Commons database simply by clicking the date of the timeline entry. You can search for events by using the search box at the top right-hand corner, or by browsing through the list of projects.\n\n

Classtools.net allows you to create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge!

Flashy maths is a new website which is home to my maths games. You are free to download and use the games as much as you want, at home, at school or in front of a class on an interactive whiteboard!

This website was created to aid educators in finding valuable resources and information on new ways to integrate leading-edge technology into your school.  Additionally, this site focuses on a very important area in education: STEM content areas.  Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics are key components of our educational infrastructure.