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Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. Scratch is developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab

TeAch-nology - The Art and Science of Teaching with Technology® - represents a vision of teaching in a world driven by technology. Our mission to provide services designed to support educators' in effectively incorporating technology in teaching and learning.

In this student interactive, from the ReadWriteThink site (Thinkfinity partner site for Language Arts), students explore comparison and contrast. The interactive includes an overview, definitions, examples, tips on organizing a paper, links to graphic organizers, suggested transition vocabulary, and a checklist.

This is an approach that uses art to develop critical thinking, communication and visual literacy skills kids can transfer to other subject areas.

Classy site for combinations of word play and graphic arts.

There doesn't seem to be an index or TOC page for this Harcourt site, but if you replace the two numbers in the URL (e.g., replace the 4s with 2s), you'll get appropriate content for the grade level you're interested in.

For your summertime entertainment, but also to encourage your thinking on the role of creativity in our classrooms. Can tools such as Animoto, Aviary, BigHugeLabs, xtranormal, etc., be justified as a means to master what will be on the test, while also fostering creativity?