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This is a site that can be used to make your own comic books. At the bottom right hand corner there is a link that if for schools, stating, Learning with Comics. This could be a great way to work with elementary readers to create their own interesting storyboards.

Create surveys for your students to take. Surveys could be adminstered to see students opinions or thoughts. They could also be adminstered as an assessment tool after completing a unit. This tool is free and very easy to use.

Our administration uses this all the time. It is quick and easy. You can create all types of information. It is easy to compile results also.

This seems like a neat site that could have all kinds of uses.

This is a list of tools to use in the classroom. It has several links.

This may have shown up for other's. It was posted on the Web 2.0 group.

I really like the website Model Bank--lots of examples of good writing--great for when you don't have time to create an example for the students.

list of sites to use in K-12 classrooms

This is a really easy tool that Teachers can use to keep track of the homework they assigned. You can type in the different subjects that you teach. Click on the date and enter the assignments and their due date! Parents can access the Teacher's calendar by typing in the Teachers ID. This is a great way for parents to keep up-to-date with their child's assignments!

Created by the National Gallery of Art, this interactive site allows students of all ages to create online art using many different styles and mediums.

Crawford the Cat uses videos and interactive games to promote positive values and social skills in a fun way for younger elementary students.

Edheads is an interactive website that helps students learn using educational games and activities. Geared for upper elementary students, students can perform a virtual knee surgery or hip replacement, design a cell phone, or work an automobile crash scene and more.

Sumans, Inc. developed animated tutorials for secondary students in numerous scientific disciplines. Examples of animation include mitosis for Biology, moon phases for astronomy, and the Greenhouse Effect for environmental science and many more.

An interactive Rube Goldberg Invention game in which students have to build a creative contraption that serves lunch.

This site is a kid-safe search engine that is powered by google. It combines the google safe search with their own restricted elements. It also allows teachers to remove sites if desired. Great for elementary research projects.

ToonDoo allows you to create your own comic strip with speech bubbles. You can also upload your own picture and be the character in a comic strip. This could be used for story telling, a culminating activity for a research project, or creating a book trailer.

Kid friendly on line tool for creating graphs of all kinds. It includes a tutorial, tools, graphing, and various ways to understand graphing in a kid friendly format

This site allows you to easily create Bar, Line, Area, Pie, and XY graphs. When completed the graphs can then either be printed or saved. This site would work much better than excel for many simple student graphs, because of the complexities that excel sometimes leads to.

When I found this website I was so excited! This website makes creating a graph SUPER easy! Whether you teach Math or Science, this is a great website to use for graphing. The students are still responsible to collecting the data and knowing where to put the information. All they have to do is choose the type of graph they want, type in the data, and then the graph is created!

This site allows teachers, students, or others to create presentations that can include multiple websites, photos, ect. The Flowgram also allows you to narrate throught your project to assist students or give them more information. This would be a great tool for assisting students in research project or a great tool for students to use when giving a presentation.

This site allows the user to enter a vocabulary list and create flashcards, take tests and much more over the words. User can share the words with others via the internet. Retesting is possible. This would be great for students to use to help study vocabulary and learn new words.

This site offers many set of "flashcards" and allows you to create you own. It then creates games for you to play to learn your vocabulary.

This website allows both teachers and students to create virtual flashcards using classroom concepts. Students can also use the flashcards to study by playing games and taking quizzes.