For students, teachers, these 340+ games and websites are organized by topic - history, government, geography, states, explorers, cultures, world organizations and religions. There are project ideas, activities for kids, lessons for teachers and information to help kids with research.
Free Online Screen Sharing
If you are working on a group project on the computer, you can screen share your documents, presentations, and files in real-time instead of sending files back and forth constantly.
For big projects, instead of doing a poster board or presentation, teachers can opt for their students to create blogs with this tool. Weebly is a simple and easy blogging site and with Weebly for education, teachers can quickly create accounts for all their students.
Weebly becomes more than just a blogging site with Weebly for education; teachers can accept homework and keep parents up to date on their child's work.
Flame Painter is a unique free online paint program. It is good for inside the classroom because it has the capabilities to make graphics used in projects and other assignments.
A program used to play games, make games, and view other people's projects. The program is you basically programming what you want something to do. You can make anything you want.
Capitol Words is an interesting way to see what your Congressmen are talking about in Washington. The site records which topics are being discussed most frequently and by which party or congressman. Users can search topics to see recent speeches and actions related to the topic. Users may also look directly at what an individual senator or representative has discussed the most in Congress records. This tool is very thorough in its presentation of the topics you search, even presenting it's frequency in Congress over the last 10+ years. This tool can be useful for your SS fair project, in your Civics class, or just to keep you up-to-date with Congress!
Use this tool to take clips or videos of your computer screen. Great for making tutorials or projects involving technology. Make your video of the screen-shots and recordings using the free tool and then export it to the location of your choice.
The site provides varied information and help for students in grades from Kindergarten to 12th grade. Many of the resources they provide are useful for projects or classes that are typically required in certain grade levels.
The official home page of the Apache OpenOffice project, home of OpenOffice Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw and Base. Basically OpenOffice is an open source that can create, read, and save general format documents and presentations. Because of the general style of OpenOffice, it works with most computers and can also be read in most languages.
The Periodic Table of Comic Books is a scientific tool that puts a different twist on learning about the elements on the periodic table. Having comics helps to get students interested and excited about learning about the elements on the periodic table. Students can use this tool to help them think of creative ways to learn and understand the elements on the periodic table.