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"These self-paced classroom activities are designed to enhance the literacy skills of struggling readers in grades 5-8. Each uses videos, interactive activities, note-taking, reading, and writing to present students with an engaging science or history topic. Each activity addresses a range of specific literacy strategies. All 15 activities promote monitoring comprehension, synthesizing, asking questions, developing vocabulary, connecting prior knowledge to new learning, and developing a topic in writing."

"The U Games is a Multiplayer Video Game Tournament where students use math skills to compete for scholarships and prizes." Grades 3 - 8.

"Math Snacks are short animations and mini-games designed to help learners "get it". Each snack presents a mathematical concept, particularly those addressed in grades 6, 7 and 8. Ideal for use in a classroom or on your own, they can even be placed on mobile devices for "homework". The accompanying print materials can assist learners in applying their conceptual understanding to math problems."

"What might future explorers of the solar system see? Find out by taking an interactive tour through the eyes of Hugo Award-winning artist Ron Miller. "

Online programs for students in grades 8 and higher for video game programing and 3D Animation.

8 links to lessons, web interactives, simulations software, virtual labs

A web app that allows kids to create own music and then embed it in class blog. It is way too simple! They have 8 instruments to choose from; they combine them, change the tempo etc. Then ...simple: share through blog!

This site provides a collection of free online and printable language arts activities and merials for grades K-8.

Use this site to access more than 2000 resources. Search to find Smithsonian educational resources aligned to national, common core, or state standards in Art & Design, Science & Technology, History & Culture, Language Arts! I tried Texas for Art in grades 8 and was thrilled with the resources in the Smithsonian to support the Texas Standards! A must use resource!

Free education broswer for your iPad for flash-enabled K-12 content. View Starfall, Discovery, and more!

Enroll your students in the math contest from Dec. 5 - 15, 2012!

Mind Leap makes sure that parents and educators know which apps are educational and which aren't, which keep kids engaged and which bore them to tears. And, we encourage developers to build great stuff that turns kids on to learning.

"This lesson will encourage students to examine the trade-offs involved in our \nuse of energy, a topic they will likely revisit throughout their lives. \n\nThis lesson is built around an interactive called \nPower Up!\n in \nwhich students choose how to power a city. They will have to choose between \nvarious energy sources, taking into account the trade-offs between cost and the \nenvironmental impact of each choice. Discussions before and after the game will \nexamine the various options and what students may want to take into account when \nmaking their decisions."

"To engage students in making design decisions that affect the transfer of energy \nbetween a building and the outside environment. To help students identify and \nconsider the types of decisions involved in improving a building's energy \nprofile. To analyze the green roof option in economic and community terms."

Terminix has launched an educational website with insect lessons. The website is built around the character Harry, a praying mantis who guides visitors through resources for teachers and students. The educator center provides teachers with curriculum guides and lesson plans, created by entomologists at Audubon Insectarium and Terminix, that correlate with National Science Teacher Association standards.

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"The Professor Garfield Foundation learning portal is a fun interactive online environment where children can safely explore, learn and creatively express themselves. "