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Music sites offer kids information about composers, conductors, and musical instruments, while providing them with opportunities to see, hear, play, and compose their own music. Included: Nearly three-dozen tuneful sites.

Practical site for elementary music research.

Music sites offer kids information about composers, conductors, and musical instruments, while providing them with opportunities to see, hear, play, and compose their own music.

Sheep and wolves is a fun and easy game for elementary physical education. Very limited amount of equipment is needed and it keeps students moving! Sheep & wolves can be played inside or outside.

Back before there were televisions and computers, there was radio. Families of the 1930s and 1940s would gather around the radio and listen to their favorite programs such as Little Orphan Annie, Amos and Andy, The Guiding Light, and The Shadow.

Math games that help students learn various math concepts

All kinds of uses for QR codes in Education.

Listen to interactive children's stories, play with on-line activities, print out take-home activities, reading list and more.

Ask some principals to identify the most difficult part of their day, and it will be recess, a time when fights and visits to the nurse's office skyrocket. But before you decide to eliminate this important opportunity for physical activity, consider the causes of the chaos.

It can be heartbreaking if your child doesn't get invited to a classmate's birthday party, isn't chosen for the lead role in the play, or sits alone at recess. Though it's not easy being left out, how you help them deal with it can make all the difference in the world.

The students will employ higher-order thinking skills, design, critical thinking, collaboration, and feedback through the creation of on-line gaming platforms with the website sploder (www.sploder.com). Students will design a multi-leveled game of their own.

In this week's Voice of Experience essay, Max Fischer shares his experiences using moral dilemmas to bring classroom lessons to life. Discussions of dilemmas tied to his curriculum challenge students to think critically and teach many other skills. Included: Join the discussion -- share your favorite role-play or simulation activity.

The greatest moments in history are born from tough choices and difficult decisions. Using dilemma activities in teaching history or civics puts the students "in the moment" of history. The lesson can be altered to fit any age group and subject matter, and allows the class to learn appropriate tone in discussion/debate.

"Sheppard offers everything from early math to pre-algebra. The lessons include interactive activities to practice concepts. Students can shoot fruit, pop balloons, and even play math man (the math version of pac man!). Fractions, place value, money, and basic operations are some of the areas that are covered.

Sheppardsoftware has a bunch of fun online games for students. I was looking for math games and found this site but they do have games for all grades for many different subjects.

This site is a fantastic learning tool for my Pre-K class. Students learn valuable reading skills as they 'play'!