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This is a website that offers differentiated spelling lists for students. What is really cool about the website is that it has different skill activities that are very nonlinguistic and helps students make connections and applications with the spelling words.

This does have a lot of good activities. It took me a while to figure that a lot of the bold words were links.

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.

Glogster is a way for students to make interactive posters. Creating a Glog is a great nonlinguistic representation of information for students. Music, video, photos and text can all be added to the Glogs. Finding a song, video or photo to represent the information in the students' Glog, is a great way to help the students better understand the topic and teach their peers about the topic as well. Students can view others' Glogs in their classes and make comments on them. Teachers can also set up the glogs so that students can collaborate on them as well.

My favorite part of this site is the ability for students to give feedback to each other. I think that building collaborative learning groups with students is a very good thing. Plus, students do think that it's pretty cool.

This Nat Geo site has a variety of custom overlays for maps.  Has applications for science, social studies, and more.

This is a great place to set up a website for classroom or personal use. Many teachers are now moving toward websites on blogspot. You are able to do so many things on these blogs such as: post pictures, play music, follow others, post documents, etc. These blogs are incredible. I usually get lured into one, then another and another most days/nights and before I know it...an hour has passed. Why not set your blog up today?

Science and Math interactive learning activities (Gizmos) for student learning.

I've used these in the past. I agree that they're good. Do we still have a license?

@ Bill: We do still have some licenses. I've used Gizmos this year. I would ask Christine about getting your kids on (?).

You can do an advanced search on Google images to find public domain and creative commons that students are free to share and reuse.

I'm actually making a very conscious effort to make sure that our students do understand that not everything on the internet is "free" to be used as they see fit. This can be a very solid tool.

TED is a nonprofit website intended to "spread knowledge and information from the world's most inspired thinkers." TED contains information on a wide variety or topics. Particularly valuable are video presentations from experts in so many areas.

"Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world!" Ted.com features thousands of short videos of people talking about topics such as technology, entertainment, business, science, global issues, etc. The videos are organized in several ways such as by newest release, date filmed, most comments in a week, most persuasive, funny, and much more! You can also participate in live question/answer discussions with some of the speakers and join ongoing blog conversations with people around the world on important topics related to the videos. I just showed my students a talk by a famous composer who directed a virtual choir and they were very inspired!

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.

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Many interactive games in many subject areas. For example, students can practice located the fifty states on an interactive United States map.

This website has different games that students can play to help solidify concepts, skills and strategies.

This is a website where teachers can share Boardmaker activities. Boardmaker is a software program used by many special education teachers to enhance communication. It provides 4.500 picture communication symbols that can be used to create schedules, communication boards, calendars, bingo games, worksheets and more.

Many special education teachers in the district use Boardmaker software to make picture schedules, social stories, flashcards, etc. This website allows parents and educators a 30 day free trial. If you like what you see, talk to a special educator in your building.

10 million downloadable images available by subscription.

Great resource for students to find images to help enhance their work.

Clip art is great for my 6th graders because it is easy for them to search in the different categories as opposed to searching Google images.

StumbleUpon, while blocked by our schools servers, might be helpful for teachers at home. After you create a free account, you can build your "profile". Your profile tells the website what you are interested in. There are numerous topics to check. After you have entered your interests, you click the "stumbleupon" button and the website will take you to a random web page that it things will interest you. You can either "like" or "dislike" each page that it takes you too, and the web site will learn more what you like. This site could be particularly helpful in finding activities for your students that you couldn't find by searching on Google. I just found out about this site from a friend, and so far I've found some pretty cool resources that I don't think I would have found otherwise.

Wow, I just signed up... that is very cool. I think middle school and high school students would really like it. It would be very fun to use at school with the kids, but by only having control of topics and not knowing what you're going to get for content, we need to be cafeful. I really like it and can see spending hours in there.

I submitted it for review. We'll see what happens.

This idea is a real hoot.  A battery pack, a few LED's, and two kinds of home made play dough.  Little kids can build electronic circuits!

I tried the simple version of this game and I though it was so fun. One of the reasons I sometimes don't like simulations is that they can be too easy for students to manipulate and "win" without actually learning what is happening. With this game, you need to understand vocabulary (or learn as you go, so it could be good practice as well) to figure out what you are doing, and actually use your brain to change your outcomes. Thumbs up from me.

A great place to teach and learn about not only time lines but also to find out "great people" in history who share the same birthday as you. You can also find out peers, aka people who were born in the same year as you around the same month.

This is a fun and easy to use activity, especially for younger kids not completely familiar with timelines. And Sarah, I also find the age thing useful- I had a group of fourth graders this morning who didn't have a clue what Jurassic Park was (seriously, are we old?):)

A fun site to use with students! I liked finding out who my famous "peers" are that share my birhtday &/or birth year. The peers that share my birth year are Neve Campbell and Monica Lewinsky, what does that say about me? :)

This site was created by GE to teach students about the science, technology, math, and history of light. This would work very well in our science unit about heat and light. There are areas that students can read about light, hands on activities, and experiments. For my second graders, many of the readings would need to be done together, but there are also some interactive timelines and animations that students could check out on their own. The hands on activities and experiments would also be fun to bring in to the classroom, and are probably what I would use the most. The only downfall of this site is that the link to the "school lighting challenge" is currently not working. I'd be interested in checking this out if it gets up and running.

nice site to reference from, we cover light in media when we introduce cameras, so its nice to have some visuals as well