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Interactive way for students to practice a variety of geography and math exercises.

I tried this out and really liked the math practice. I can have my students practice their addition and subtraction facts easily. In addition to that they can select how many digits to add or subtract and if they will be required to carry or borrow when doing so. I also really liked the Little Farmer money practice. This is a major concept we work on in second grade, so this site would be perfect!

Thank you for sharing this, Greg. I appreciate how the different activities are leveled. I will plan to use this to help my students practice long division, a skill that they are all over the place on in terms of abilities.

This sites boasts of 50 different educational games on its site. It also recommends trying a new one everyday. The games do actually cover a wide variety of topics: comparing decimals, making sentences, and confusing words to name a few. I played the Making Sentences game, which can be played by students of all ages to reinforce the essential elements of a sentence. I did get all 10 correct if anyone feels up to the challenge:)

The BBC Skillswise website is very well organized and has a wide variety of games, activities, and worksheets especially for mathematics and language arts. They have a Quick Read section where you can download the first few chapters of "bite-sized" books by best-sellling authors. Students can also practice their scanning skills through many formats from online activities to worksheets. One game called "Who Killed Angela Spelling" is a fun way for students to test their ability to scan text for specific information. This might be a good activity prior to doing research. The site also offer a wealth of resources for students to practice pretty much any area of mathematics.

This is a really neat website. I am always looking for games that my students can practice on and review new concepts, skills and strategies. In looking through the games I was impressed by how challenging some of them were. A lot of the games that I have found on previous sites are pretty easy but these are challenging. I tried playing the Apostrophes game, Beat the Clock on fast speed and I couldn't beat the clock!

This site provides content mainly for younger children in preschool or early elementary. The site says they are "infant games," but I'm not sure too many children under one that could do any of these activities. At the homepage, you have two choices. Access either numeracy for math related practice or literacy for reading and word practice. The site also provides additional links for student practice. In addition, there are some printable resources. One drawback to this site is that it contains a great deal of advertising which is maybe why it has some pretty good content for free.

This website has many collections of flashcards ranging from basic sight words, Spanish vocabulary to studying to be a CNA. With this resource teachers and students can make virtual flashcards. Parent volunteers could easily monitor student practice of basic sight words and record words that need more practice. Teachers would no longer need to search for baggies of flash cards. Parents could practice with students at home.

With Smartmusic software, I can create and send customized assignments to my students' home computer. Students play or sing exercises into a microphone and receive instant feedback on note and rhythm reading accuracy! Because it is a lot like Guitar Hero, kids find it extremely fun and are motivated to practice and improve! The software also allows students to record and listen to themselves. I can track students' progress, grade assignments and compile portfolios of student work with the software.

A reading website for students. The best part is, students don't realize they are reading. They are too busy having fun!

A website designed to promote reading using phonics for prekindergarten to second grade. Students can practice skills through the use of songs, stories and videos.

This site offers free interactive reading activities that I've found very useful for kindergarten and beginning ELL students. The activities are formatted as games to engage the students, and they include sound features to encourage understanding of phonics and phonemic awareness. Beginning with ABCs and moving on to reading stories, this site lets students have fun while improving basic reading skills.

Dictionary. com is the largest and most trusted free, online dictionary. The site features a dictionary resource, thesaurus, flashcards, crosswords, and word games for homework practice and has an easy- to-use translator feature. When you look up a word, it not only gives you the definition but also an audio pronounciation, related searches, synonyms, nearby words, and information regarding the word's origin and history. As I approach my songwriting unit, I'm excited to have my students use this feature to find descriptive words as they write lyrics.

The games on this site will help students build their multiplication skills, and they will have a blast as they learn. Give the Diaper Derby game a try!

I have to say, I really enjoyed the Diaper Derby :) What I liked about this site is it gives the teacher ideas of ways to teach the multiplication facts as well as games for students to practice their facts. You can also customize many things to practice certain levels of facts. I also noticed that the site has ideas for additional games you can play with the entire class or small groups!

I've actually been looking for a website like this to help my 8 year old learn her math facts in a fun way. This is perfect! So many different options, too, which is great. Thanks Sarah!

This is a cool website that will allow you to convert a file into another type of file. It has the capability to convert audio, video, image, document, ebook, archive or hash files into anything else! The audio file conversion tool could be particularly helpful in band. Many students like to download music on iTunes, but then can only play those songs on iTunes. Students could convert the file and then play it on any other type of music player. This would allow the music to be portable if they don't have an ipod. Students would be able to hear their music and practice their parts mentally from anywhere!

this loooks like a very useful site, with all the new audio and video formats out there, this would be nice to be able to utilize the various files without purchasing software that has a short shelf life

This is a great website for kindergarten through fourth grade. Students use "magnetic" tiles to create sentences, stories or poems. Depending on what type of project the student chooses, he/she either drags words or phrases to the storyboard. This website also gives students practice on clicking and dragging with the mouse

A fun site. . . I can see using this with my students to find their sight words and to create simple sentences!

I think it's a very fun site. I would like to have my 7th grade students write a poem about on-line safety... I think we will be utilizing this site. Thanks Laurie!

My student have really been struggling with making change. A huge advantage of this site is that students can first select the difficulty level. Most of my second graders would be using the Medium difficulty level, which uses amounts less than $5. However, I love that I can easily differentiate for my struggling students by having them select the easy level (amounts less that $1), and my advance students by having them select the hard level (amounts less than $100). They even have a Super Brain (big spender) option! This site would be great practice for all of my students and would be a good addition to our math centers activities.

Thank you for sharing this. I currently have a student who still struggles with making change, and she could use this site when working with her mentor. I like how it is leveled so she can start with easier amounts and then progress.

I stumbled upon this site by chance and just love it! It has links to dozens of sites that provide practice in many different areas of reading, writing/grammar, math, science and social studies. I could easily incorporate many of the reading and writing/grammar links, especially the phonics, sight words, and spelling sites into my "word work" literacy station.

This is a large site having sections on DNA, genetics, heredity, and cells.  There are interactives, paper and pencil activities, animations, and much more.

This site has some excellent resources for high school biology students. There are tutorials for several areas to reinforce classroom teaching. Students can practice on their own making DNA molecules and transcribing and transating DNA and RNA strands, creating their own karyotypes, and more. The interactive features on the site are great nonlinguistic tools for students who are struggling or need practice with biology basics.

This resource offers math practice in a game format. Ratio Blaster Game is just what my fourth grade students need after completing their fraction and decimal unit. Advantage: students enjoy game formats. Disadvantages: some games lack error correction formats and students are exposed to lots of adds in margins of the window.

This website offers many manipulatives to help students understand, practice and review math concepts. I particularly like the fraction manipulatives. Some of my students have difficulty perceiving fractions and I believe this will be an excellent tool for exploration, practice and review.

The idea behind this website is very interesting to me, and after playing with it a bit, I did find some of the manipulatives useful. However, many of them I found to be quite cumbersome. I was really excicited about the base ten blocks manipulatives for helping my students add and subtract, and once I figured it out, it was great. However, I had to read the help directions to get to that point. If I was able to spend the time showing my students how to use these, I think it'd be a wonderful tool. However, I was hoping I'd be able to simply direct my students and their parents to this site so they could use it for help at home. I'm afraid that many of the parents would not take the time to read the help area to figure it out, and I know my students wouldn't (or wouldn't understand them if they did). So while I was initially impressed with the idea of this site, I might search for something a bit more user friendly.

This website offers math practice with fractions, money, geometric shapes, algebra, order of operations and a variety of other topics. Students can access flashcards and simply practice doing many types of math. There are some pretty nice games as well.

Using Quia, you can create your own or use other teacher's activities to provide students extra practice and extended learning time! There are activities in all subjects and levels and you can browse by category, activity type, or most popular activities. I found numerous Java games that were created to reinforce music skills. For example, my students could use the site to study for our upcoming terms, signs, and symbols quiz. There were free, online flashcards, matching, concentration, and word search games that reviewed all the terms I've been teaching. You can share all activities you create with other teachers and you can copy and modify other teacher's activities and contact them if you have a question. If you create a quiz in Quia, it will automatically grade it for you and track student's test scores throughout the year. You can also track how long a student spends on Quia activities. The site offers online surveys, activities in 100 languages and a calendar feature for communicating deadlines and assignments to students and parents.

This site has pretty much anything you could want to help students practice or review content. I checked out the math, biology, and art sections and found literally all kinds of interactive games, flashcards, and quizzes on a variety of topics. The site is very easy to use and find the topic you need; the search function allows you to search by category or textbook. If you make an account, you are able to create your own activities and quizzes and also view your students' results for the activities they have completed. I will definitely come back here.

This site has been created by the 2 Sisters, Gail Boushey and Joan Moser. They are responsible for the literacy approaches of The Daily 5 and The Cafe. The site has a wealth of free information, including videos, to help teachers implement the Daily 5 and Cafe techniques in their classroom. The Sisters also have a free e-mail tip of the week that you may sign up for. For even more information, teachers may subscribe to the site. The site does not provide activities for students to complete online, however, the Daily 5 and Cafe are designed to help students practice, review, and apply their knowledge of literacy skills in the classroom through the use of centers, small group work, and one-on-one teacher conferencing.

Laura, Thanks for reminding me about this site. I've been struggling with conferencing in a meaningful way with students, and also with assessment. There are some resources here I haven't seen. Are you doing CAFE?

This is a really cool website for students and/or adult s who are either an ESL student, studying English as a foreign language or who just want to brush up on their English. This website offers everything from games to pronunciation to slang and idioms. This site can also be used in the classroom to help students studying specific components of English such as figurative language. Students can practice what they have learned by taking the quizzes or play a word game. While searching through this website I actually learned a few new things! This website really does have everything!

A great web site to help students learn musical theory.

This site rocks! I can't believe I've never known about it! There were great programs and activities for teaching and practicing intervals which was the unit I just finished with my students.