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Lots of lesson ideas for language arts, including web-based activities.

This website is a great resource for science lesson plans, including web-based research and interactive activities.

This site contains seemingly endless lesson plans that rely on websites for research or other interactive activities.

An anotated list of helpful websites and tools for educators.

Create your own interactive stories, music, games, and art. My teacher had 5th grade students create interactive stories based on their research papers on Explorers. It was a great way for them to incorporate the facts they had learned into a technology display.

Prezi is a tool that allows you to create movable presentations. You can sign up for an account with your edu email address and create accounts for your students. This particular site is a list of some educational prezis that you can view and use in your own classroom. Consider using prezi instead of powerpoint.

This website is a great interactive and visual representation of the Human Development Index. Each country can be clicked on and information about that country's life expectancy, gross domestic product, and net primary enrollment rate will be displayed. Other information will also be given such as the country's population, and size. Another neat feature of the website is the ability to compare two countries in a head to head face off. The site will graph the information provided from both countries so easy comparisons can be made. Free maps and lesson plans can be found here: http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/worldmap/cida/teachers.asp?language=EN&Resolution=1024×768

Celestia is the most powerful and easy to use 3D space simulation programs - and it's free! There are so many possibilities for using this in the classroom. Celestia is like a Google Earth for outer space. You can travel around the planets, moons, asteroids, and entire galaxy as well as zooming in on celestial bodies and orbiting them.