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Interactive resources that go along with the FOSS kits. leveled and lots of good ideas for teaching science.

This is a free interactive whiteboard that can be shared with others. It provides a platform to share creative thinking processes as they develop. Someone can share something like mathematical procedures or diagram concept explanations with other peers or instructors.

This is a great website for health information and interactive games about nutrition and the food pyramid.

K- 5 grade interactive internet activites. This site is targeting Math, Literacy, Social Studies, and Science it has internet games but also resources to help in those areas.

Interactive math games

This would be a great way to have an in-class field trip. There are so many interesting, interactive tools that can be used to engage students. There are several drawings and entries from their journals.

Educational, interactive movies covering many subjects for students in K-8. They include games and quizzes. Each movie has a list of the key concepts it covers. The movies I previewed were animated and narrated by a choppy sounding voice like it was computer generated. Free.

Fun way to summarize readings or present projects.

Great website for virtual manipulatives to use in math instruction on white boards. Grades 3-5.

I have no idea why this site is called Shodor, but it's a non-profit with a mission of improving math and science education through the effective use of computation science technologies. The "Interactivate" portion of the site makes available interactive online activities for grades 3-12.

This activity pack through PBS teach has many ways for students to investigate some ideas surrounding the American Revolution. It is good, but not as comprehensive as I had hoped.

Graphic organizers to help you brainstorm, organize, and visualize ideas. In PDF format and Teaching Notes with lessons and tips included.

Use Voki to create avatars for you and your students. Also has a list of lesson plans in which your students will interact with their avatars.

Everything geography: physical and cultural. Find videos and article here to share with your class. Also has an interactive kids site safe for them to explore.

Here is a variety of Google Gadgets that offer a great amount of potential in motivating students to interact with one another using text. For example, using the ConceptDraw MindWave gadget, students can collaborate creating visual representations of new and expanding understandings. The can share video comments with one another using the WaveTube gadget. There is even a Magnetic Fridge Poetry gadget, in which students can create poetry by moving the individual words around themselves.

Wordle http://www.wordle.net/ Wordle is an interactive tool for generating "word clouds" from text - it allows you to analyze the text in surprising ways. Adjusting the fonts in color shape size and style informs surprising vocabulary results.

This is an eight-part documentary about the history of The West going back to 28,000 BC. This series was created for public television. It is filled with photographs of the landscape, interviews with its people. It includes lesson plans and quizzes. I especially liked the interactive time-line.