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Techmatris is a powerful tool to find educational and assistive technology products for students with disabilities.

Free subscription to articles on a variety of topics such as health & medicine, mind & brain, technology, space, human origins, living world, environment, physics & math. There are also videos, photos and podcasts

Students can explore Anne's house in a super cool 3D interactive environment. The Secret Annex gives students an authentic feel for the place where Anne wrote her diary while listening to stories of everyone who lived in the hiding place.

Twurdy shows the readability level of the page along with a color coded system to help users determine how easy the page will be to understand.

The features on this Web site enable educational communities to: * Browse primary sources that teachers have used with students. * Teach primary source-based learning experiences from the Teaching Materials Collection. * Design learning experiences using MyPortfolio. * Share discoveries with others through field-testing and publishing. * Use our professional development programs to uncover the breadth and depth of LOC.gov resources. * Learn through primary source-based online activities and samples of student projects. * Create digital documentaries using University of Virginia's Primary Access or make a handout for students.

For beginning meassurement with a ruler or scale

The 60second Recap™ aims to break this cycle of canonical irrelevance. We want to help teens (yes, teens of all ages!) engage with literature. We want to help them see it not as some chore to be endured, but as -- dare we say it? -- the gift of a lifetime. How? Through the language of our time -- the language of video. Video that's focused, engaging, informative ... and short enough to hold just about anyone's attention.

Learn literature's finest in fun 60-second videos

Summaries of literary works in 60 seconds or less.

Lots of stuff to take a look at!

A beautiful collection of digital children's books for primary students in kindergarten through second grade. Each story includes charming illustrations, animation and professional narration with music and sound effects.

"In October, 1868, Laura Jernegan, a 6 year old girl from Edgartown, Massachusetts set out on a three year whaling voyage with her father, mother, brother and the ship's crew to the whaling grounds of the Pacific Ocean. This website, produced by the Martha's Vineyard Museum, tells the story of Laura Jernegan and the journal she kept on her voyage. It also tells the adventurous history of whaling. "

This interactive journal was written by a 6-year-old and allows you to see her handwriting as well as use a "magic lens" to read it clearly in type. Would work great on the Smartboard. Super primary source that is primary grade appropriate! Lessons included on teachinghistory.org site.

New Tools for Kids to Create a Book List of Favorites and For Classes or Friends to Share a Book List!

NCTE's definition of 21st Century Literacies

Blog: What Pottermore Points Us Towards http://bit.ly/lfjHrY #leadertalk

This folkloresite, suitable for grades K-6, contains retellings of American folktales, Native American myths and legends, tall tales, weather folklore and ghost stories from each and every one of the 50 United States. It also includes lesson plans and teacher resources.

"Book Trailers for K-12"

Offers teachers and students a glossary of terms, handouts, interactive exercises, and slide show presentations. There are eighteen slide show presentations available for free download from Grammar Bytes. Each slide show is accompanied by a handout for students to complete as they view each presentation.