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 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
Using Web 2.0 technology (wikis) to support the integration of Web 2.0 into teaching and professional development. Click on your favorite Web 2.0 technology - or even better, one that you don't know much about - on the left side of the page to find out more information about that technology, and how to use it in the classroom.
The Monster Project encourages the development of reading and writing skills while integrating technology into the classroom. Using monsters as a vehicle, students exchange written descriptions via this wiki, and then recreate their partner's monster without ever looking at the "real thing". During the project, students create, discuss, describe, interpret, analyze, organize and assess their monsters as well as the monsters of their peers.
In your Classroom
Encourage student-centered learning. Even young students can build web pages, embed images & video, and post documents.
For your Library
Provide access to information sources, book lists, and links to good articles. Have the resources stored for future use.
Throughout your District
Host and share information between students, faculty and staff. Encourage staff development and shared resources across schools.
Here's a great site, hosted by Discovery Education, that summarizes and provides links to many of the Web 2.0 tools we discussed and/or used in the Summer Institute. Just click on the various categories (e.g., Presentation Tools, Video Tools, etc.) to see listings/links of those types of tools.
CIESE sponsors and designs interdisciplinary projects that teachers throughout the world can use to enhance their curriculum through compelling use of the Internet. We focus on projects that utilize real time data available from the Internet, and collaborative projects that utilize the Internet's potential to reach peers and experts around the world.
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.
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.
A collection of online interactive manipulatives, organized in grade bands (PreK-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12) and aligned to national math standards. Provided by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM).
Welcome to BiologyInMotion! Here you will find animations, interactive activities, and cartoons designed to make learning biology a richer, more engaging experience. New additions include interactive tutorials, quizzes, and other activities, in addition to updated versions of the many biology cartoons currently gathering dust in my portfolio.
Based on the Big6 approach to information problem-solving, this interactive game teaches younger students how to find, use, apply, and evaluation information.
The Big6 is a proven approach to information problem-solving. It helps you succeed in school and life. Use the Big6 to find, use, apply, and evaluate information for specific needs and tasks.
Graphs and charts are great because they communicate information visually. For this reason, graphs are often used in newspapers, magazines and businesses around the world.
Coolmath was designed for the frustrated, the confused,the bored students of the world who hate math. Coolmath was designed for the students who just need to get throughthis stuff so they can reach their other academic goals. Coolmath was designed for the math geeks of the worldwho love math and want more, more, more!