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Inspired picture writing

Great application for student created books that can be published

Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. An abstract, citation, playing time, and word count are given for each of the passages. Many of the passages also have a related reading strategy identified. Each reading passage can also be downloaded as a PDF and printed for use as a read-along or as supplemental reading material for your classroom.

Confusing Words is a collection of 3210 words that are troublesome to readers and writers. Words are grouped according to the way they are most often confused or misused.

Class2Class is a clearinghouse designed to facilitate student and class participation in Internet projects, including collaborative projects, data-collecting experiments, peer tutoring, and keypal exchanges designed to enhance the mathematics in your math, science and interdisciplinary curricula.

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ScreenTweet shares videos, pictures, screen shots, and images on Twitter

The Open Clipart Library (OCAL) is the Largest Collaboration Community that creates, shares and remixes clipart. All clipart is released to the public domain and may be used in any project for free and with no restrictions.

entertaining tweets as if from historical figures--caution!  not all are student appropriate!

Google Sketchup alternative - 3D sketches

Edheads is an online educational resource that provides free science and math games and activities that promote critical thinking. Choose from Simple Machines, Virtual Knee Surgery or Stem Cell Heart Repair, among others. All activities meet state and national standards.

3D design is a great motivational and instructional tool. It exercises both left-brain and right-brain skills, and appeals to students of all abilities. ModelMetricks books contain easy-to-follow projects based on the free Google SketchUp application, to show how to model anything in 3D.

This site has  a service for drawing the graphs of all kinds of functions . With Archimy, you will draw the graph of any function and form, just use your imagination.  The program must be downloaded and is free.

Our research-based and standards-aligned free educational math games and language arts games will engage, motivate, and help teach students. Click a button below to play our free multi-player and single-player games!

This site has interactive Mathematical graph and charting software for geometry and statistics

This site has an incredible chart builder for any type of data that can be typed or uploaded to this tool

This site is another great tool for creating Charts and graphs  On Onlinecharttool.com you can design and share your own graphs online and for free  We support a number of different chart types like: bar charts, pie charts, line charts, bubble charts and radar plots.

This site features free downloadable Math & Science software.

Math interactive tools for white boards

Interactive Science Simulations