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Use this interactive tool to create free-from graphic organizers.

Interactive English Games and Activities

Collection of interactive and mostly self-guided lessons on a variety of topics, including Amusement Park Physics, Elements of a Story, The Periodic Table, and The Middle Ages.

WeatherSpark is a new type of weather website, with interactive weather graphs that allow you to pan and zoom through the entire history of any weather station on earth. Get multiple forecasts for the current location, overlaid on records and averages to put it all in context.

Check out free online thinking tools/graphic organizers. Also explore the Online Interactive Resources. These are text heavy/dependent resources so consider how you can make them accessible to all learners. For example, use word prediction support, recreate them in a tool such as Inspiration that allows learners to add ideas in pictures, words and recordings. Or recreate the graphic organizer in another format such as an interactive whiteboard application - build in supports for success.

Interactive dictionary of math and science terms. The creator is based in Australia, so some of the terms are spelled differently (e.g. "litre" for "liter").

Great definitions and interactive explanations for all things math.

Exploratree is a free web resource where you can access a library of ready-made interactive thinking guides, print them, edit them or make your own. You can share them and work on them in groups too.

This site offers a growing bank of imaginative, highly visual teaching-aids for science developed for use with interactive whiteboards in year 11-18 Schools.

Interactive, online learning for key stage 2 from The University of Manchester.

Learning Clip is an online resource for teaching primary maths. There are hundreds of interactive activities, video clips and worksheets covering a huge range of mathematical topics, concepts and methods. Registration is free and registered users can access a great selection of free resources, and for the first time, from January 2011, we are offering online resources adapted for Promethean Activexpression and Activote learner response systems.

Discover how shapes come together to form a picture. Investigate tangram puzzles in this interactive activity. Click on the "Activity Link" to play a tangram game.

Interactive games for all subject areas - grades 3-6.

Allows a student to create a story-map for writing stories.

"Science Writer is an interactive, web-based instructional learning tool designed to help students in writing a complete science report; it supports students throughout the process of writing a science report. Research has revealed several effective instructional practices in improving the written language performance of students, and Science Writer has been designed to provide these: * A breakdown of the report writing process into manageable components * Scaffolds for each step of the writing process * An organizational structure for report writing * Sentence starters to help initiate the writing"

"The Bugscope project provides free interactive access to a scanning electron microscope (SEM) so that students anywhere in the world can explore the microscopic world of insects. This educational outreach program from the Beckman Institute's Imaging Technology Group at the University of Illinois supports K-16 classrooms worldwide. "

"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. As young people create and share Scratch projects, they learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively."

"Wiffiti publishes real time messages to screens in thousands of locations from jumbotrons to jukeboxes, bars to bowling alleys and cafes to colleges. You can interact with Wiffiti from your mobile phone or the web."

Cyberkidz is an educational platform for boys and girls in the age of 4 till 12 years. By playing the educational games, children will practice subjects they learn in elementary school (Preschool, Kindergarten, Grades 1-5).

An interactive multimedia environment to support understanding and composition in American History.

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.