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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."

Provides games and activities for students to develop their knowledge of foreign languages. Hello World has games and activities in nine languages including Spanish, French, and Mandarin Chinese. Not all of the games and activities are free, but enough of them are free to warrant listing as a good place for free learning activities.

This site has a variety of icebreaker activities for free. There are also some additional activities that can be purchased, but there are a number of them free.

Neat site with a number of free icebreaker activities. Very helpful for those who run large professional development activities.

Each activity-creation tool helps students develop historical thinking skills and gets them thinking like historians. Choose one of the tools below to begin. Then find and insert primary sources and customize the activity to fit your unique students.

What is it like to work as a paleontologist? In Activity 1, students listen to or read an interview with paleontologist Paul Sereno, a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, to learn about his passion for science and his discovery of SuperCroc in sub-Saharan Africa. In Activity 2, students join a dig with paleontologist Mike Everhart to learn what happens when a scientist in the field suddenly discovers fossil remains. In the Closing Activity, students create a story or conduct an interview and present or record their work for an imaginary radio program.

The K-6 Literacy Learning Activity Types provides a list of activity types along with the examples of technology that could be used for that activity type.

Mathwire.com is designed to provide activities and appropriate worksheets for teachers to use in their classrooms. All activities and worksheets support the constructivist approach to learning mathematics and the NCTM Standards.

This activity is a scaffolded process of working users through the understanding of fractions beginning with how to divide up an item through the creation of fractions. Would be a good IWB activity.

"Looking for Quality Election Education Material? Check out our Free OLE Election 2012 Activity Pack that's filled with lessons, videos, activities and all you need for teaching the 2012 election."

"This K-6 program is designed to promote science literacy in elementary schools through free hands-on science activities and supporting videos. Access fun activities and enter to win a school-wide science assembly! "

"The Secret Millionaires Club Learn & Earn promotion teaches financial literacy and entrepreneurship with print and digital materials offering activities to do in the classroom, at home and in other venues and settings where students and families learn. It was developed to extend the lessons of the Secret Millionaires Club webisodes and prime time specials created by A Squared Entertainment, into classrooms and homes across the country. Sponsored by CreditReport.com, part of the Experian family of brands, a robust array of materials has been developed for distribution to schools, youth organizations, and families. All in-school activities are developed by educational partner, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and are aligned to national core math standards to ensure maximum integration and implementation. "

"Read for My Summer highlights a special book for you and your child to read online from the We Give Books library every week, along with fun activities and reading tips to make each book come to life, including custom activities from Read Write Think. This free 10-week program helps parents, schools and libraries offer children an exciting online reading experience, while helping to share books with public libraries in the US."

"The Geometer's Sketchpad is used in classrooms at all levels of the mathematics curriculum. This page gathers information about field-tested classroom activities (including teacher notes, student worksheets, and/or Sketchpad documents), all ready for immediate classroom use. "

A sizable collection of Flash games and activities organized by subject. Good stuff on Internet safety, too.

A sizable collection of Flash games and activities organized by subject. Good stuff on Internet safety, too.

This is a really KOOL site. Check out the "activity" portion of the subject areas. This is from Britain but wonderful. I liked the Chemistry "Atoms Metals Rocks and Fuels" > activity!

Simulation activity

Simulation activity

Strategies for using performance as a learning activity in English, with links to specific content-related activities. 

Awesome site for Math

Math, science, world language, and geography test activities for students and teachers of all grade levels. Quizzes and tests can be browsed by topics, need a free account to create.

"At Google, we support the education of families on how to stay safe online. That's why we've teamed up with online safety organization iKeepSafe to develop curriculum that educators can use in the classroom to teach what it means to be a responsible online citizen. The curriculum is designed to be interactive, discussion filled and allow students to learn through hands-on and scenario activities. On this site you'll find a resource booklet for both educators and students that can be downloaded in PDF form, presentations to accompany the lesson and animated videos to help frame the conversation. "

"Google teamed up with online safety organization iKeepSafe to develop curriculum that educators can use in the classroom to teach what it means to be a responsible online citizen. The curriculum is designed to be interactive, discussion filled and allow students to learn through hands-on and scenario activities. On this site you'll find a resource booklet for both educators and students that can be downloaded in PDF form, presentations to accompany the lesson and animated videos to help frame the conversation."

Create free educational games, activites and diagrams. Host them on a blog, or website for free. Customizable flash templages

Create free educational games, quizzes, activities and diagrams in seconds! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge!

Site looks very interesting. I like the variety of activities available including diagrams.