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"This book is available for download with iBooks on your Mac or iPad, and with iTunes on your computer. Multi-touch books can be read with iBooks on your Mac or iPad. Books with interactive features may work best on an iPad. iBooks on your Mac requires OS X 10.9 or later. Description The iBooks Author Starter Kit is a beginners guide to creating Multi-Touch books for teaching and learning. It walks a user through a set of step-by-step activities, and provides all of the materials - an iBooks Author template, color palette, copy decks, images, videos, keynote presentation, and more - needed to create an interactive book titled "The World of Living Gardens". "

There are multiple tools that can be accessed. The Interactive Fruit Machine is best used with the sound turned off. Teachers can save class lists to be used over and over The Time can count down from seconds to one hour.

Interactive way to call on students. You can click the floppy disk icon to save the list as a .htm file in downloads. It can be renamed and clicked on to open the site with the student list intact.

Interactive Fruit Machine from Classtools.net

Scratch is a free programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations.

Scratch is a free programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations.

Create free interactive timelines.

Interactive whiteboard lesson with PreK child finding their name and greeting a friend.

From Edmodo Learner Course: "Need something to jump start your Edmodo experience?  From getting started to running the classroom, these interactive grade-level guides provide all the resources you need to enhance your classroom with Edmodo.  You will be sure to find plenty of helpful page and printable hand-outs to fit your grade level and needs!"

An online thesaurus and dictionary of over 145,000 words that you explore using an interactive map. It's a tool for people who think visually. The most fun you've ever had with words. The Visual Thesaurus was built using Thinkmap, a data visualization technology.

Free right now - Learn who invented what in this interactive quiz game.

The Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words. Its innovative display encourages exploration and learning. You'll understand language in a powerful new way.

This is interesting. It looks like it is a fairly inexpensive subscription service, but you can get a free 14 day trial.

Parents need to know that Discovery Kids is an educational site that encourages discovering all the world has to offer. Articles cover topics about natural disasters, growing up, machines, continents, space, and much more. An activities page provides interactive ideas for recipes, making crafts, designing clothes, and experimenting with science. Games are age appropriate, challenging, and educational, and the online puzzles are fun and entertaining. I introduced my 3rd - 8th graders to this website with the provision that if they found it boring, they could go to BrainPop. Not a peep out of anyone for the full 40 minutes. They loved it!

Edheads is a non-profit organization, which creates unique, educational web experiences that are free to teachers, students and parents. Through interactive activities students in grades 2-12 can learn about science, math and careers.

Developed for use in middle and high school classrooms, Mission US engages students in the study of transformational moments in American history. Each mission consists of an interactive game and a set of curriculum materials that are aligned to National Standards and feature document-based activities.

Our 5th graders absolutely love this website! The teacher is using the lesson plans and activities and everyone is very happy!

Website with many teacher resources and student interactive materials

"Our unique curriculums stimulate unforgettable 1-to-1 interactions between US students and their Global Partner students - interactions that teach STEAM and design thinking through collaborative, real-life problem solving on an international scale."

Hear the world like never before. Nature soundscapes and wildlife sounds from all over the planet.

The movie geek and tech nerd squealed with joy with this info.

I'm bookmarking a NY Times article about it too. Geeky fun!

Personalized Printed Cards Delivered At Your Desk, Instantly! There's just something about a paper greeting card that never loses its charm for some of us. We like to hold the greeting in our hands, feel the crisp paper, run our fingers over the words and pictures- as if we were trying to absorb the essence of the message.

Ann spoke with me about this. It really sounds like an easy option to use with students.

Countdown timer from Classtools.net.