Purposeful Learning Technologies

National Library's collection of old newspapers that have been scanned. There are over 5 million pages scanned in going back to 1803.

Here is a list of 20 interactive whiteboard resources and activities guaranteed to stimulate learning:

Great website for learning about writing letters. Goes through requirements of both Personal letters, and Business letters. Lets you print/save the document as a final product. 

Poplet is a great tool for creating collaborating mindmapping. It is similar to wallwisher/stixy, but with more of an emphasis on linked ideas. There is also a great app for the iPad which allows collaboration. 

Online mind mapping and note taking. Great for revision and summary activities.

Some interactive sites that you can use to teach about plants, the life cycle, and photosynthesis

Some excellent puzzle/quiz creation tools - all suitable for the SMARTBoard!

Some excellent science resources for the interactive whiteboard

 Solar System Scope (SSS) is a 3D real-time look at celestial positions with planets and constellations in the night sky.  Students can adjust planet and moon settings, star and constellation settings, earth observatory settings and time settings.  View the solar system from a heliocentric, geocentric or panoramic view.

Healthline BodyMaps is an handy tool which provides a set of searchable body maps. It includes colored, interactive maps of everything from the pancreas to the digestive system to the body as a whole.

Science on the Simpsons contains a collection of short clips from the Simpsons TV Show. The clips would make great lesson starter clips to introduce topics such as Natural Selection, Newtons Third Law and Angular Momentum.

Free e-books! Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published

Great notebook for roll call ideas..... very suited to K- 2

A great article promoting the use of Twitter in the classroom, and some of the possibilities. Written by an Ex-Principal who was very anti-social media...well worth a read!

A great website which teaches kids how to Animate using paper and/or technology

Great little application for your computers. You can use it to make stop-motion movies. Video tutorial on website. 

This is a neat website that lets students track missions as they are happening with the satellites that are collecting information about the Earth from space.  Students can learn about the earth by choosing a mission to follow, zoom in and out of the globe, view satellite paths, view city and location labels on the map, replace the sun with an "artificial light" and see the view from Earth's surface.  As students click on the satellite, they will be able to view and discover more information about the mission.  Students can choose to view the 3D Earth in real-time or speed up/slow down the Earth with a time control.

Interactive, Historical Weather Charts.