21st Century Computer Resources

• Simulations

• Mathematics

  • Geoboard - From "Cut the Knot"

  • Pythagorean Puzzle - From NOVA

  • Analog Clock (K-2)

  • Create a Graph

   

• Language Arts

  • Walk in the Forest 

  •   Line Break Explorer

  • Persuasion Map

  • Mystery Cube

  • Compare and Contrast Guide

  • Star Fall

   

• Science - From NOVA

  • Destroy the Castle - From NOVA

  • What Causes the Tides - From NOVA

  • Time Traveler - From NOVA

  • Galileo's Experiments- From NOVA

  • Fire a Torpedo - From NOVA

  • How Cells Divide - From NOVA

  • Journey into DNA - From NOVA

  • Atomic Structure by Jefferson Lab

  • My Pyramid

  • Simple Machines

  • Making Vaccines

  • Grapher

  • Analog Clock (K-2)

  • Simple Machines

  • Habitat Adventure

  • Biology Animations and Video from Howard Hughes Medical Institute

    • Bio Interactive – Click and Learn

    • Bio Interactive - Animations

    • Bio Interactive – Video Clips

    • Bio Interactive – Virtual Labs

    • Howard Hughes Medical Institute Online Catalog – DVD’S - teaching materials – Lesson Books all free to educators

  • Field Guides to Animals and Plants

  • EdHeads 

    • Virtual Knee Surgery

    • Weather

    • Simple Machines

  • Animated "Natural Disasters

    • Hurricanes

    • Earthquakes

    • Tornadoes

    • Tsunami

    • Volcanoes  

   

• Social Studies

  • Be a Demographer - From NOVA

  • Disease Detective - From NOVA

  • Habitat Adventure

  • Ancient Greece from BBC

  • Anicent Romans from BBC

  • Archiving Early America

  • Bens' Guide to Government

  • First Gov for Kids

  • National Geographic - Xpeditions

  • Timeline Maker

  • US History from PBS

   

• The Arts

  • ArtsAlive Games

  • Thumb Piano Tunes

  • Collage Machine

  • Invention Play

• Maps
  • 42explore: Maps
    • Atlapedia
    • Maps and Geography from National Geographic
    • Mapquest
    • Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection - current & historical
  • Historical maps
•  References
  • Visual Thesaurus
  •  Interactive Websites
    • BBC Schools
    • BBC Science Clips
    • Place the State
    • SMARTboard Portaportal
• Arts
  • BBC Radio - Making Tracks (Shockwave sound manipulatives)
  • Kid's music games
  • Create a Graph
  • Teacher Tap: Magnet Poetry, Stories, & Mad Libs
  • ReadWriteThink Materials
  • Look-Listen-Learn Materials from ArtsEdge
• Animation
  • Animated Atlas - Traces the growth of the United States
  • Cell Alive
  • How Stuff Works - Animation
  • BrainPop
• Multimedia Seeds: Video Clips
• Ad Gallery from Office of National Drug Control Policy
• Chemistry-based Movies
• C-Span
• Early American Videos
• Holocaust Movie Clips
• Meet the Writers from Barnes and Noble
• Video Zoo from Animal Planet
• WHRO United Streaming
• Reading Rainbow Student Book Reviews
• Amazing Bats
• 42explore: Bats
• Young Writer's and Illustrator's Contest

 Visuals: Photos, Drawings, Maps

• Ideas
  • It's No Laughing Matter: Analyzing Political Cartoons from Library of Congress
• Add digital photos to your assignments.
  • US Government Graphics and Photos from First Gov
  • Historical Maps from Perry-Castaneda Library

Other "Useful Materials

• Interactive Resources
  http://www.interactive-resources.co.uk/
  For evaluation only (Evaluation watermark)
• Learning Grids
  http://www.learninggrids.com/us/
  For purchase only
• Royal Kingston
  http://www.lgfl.net/lgfl/...
  Powerpoint presentations, spreadsheets, etc. to download and use (Notebooks, PowerPoint, Word documents).
   
• Templates from Missouri
  http://schoolweb.missouri.edu/morganr2.k12.mo.us/resources/templates.htm
  Kidspiration, Inspiration, and Notebook templates.
• Templates for Smartboard from Sullivan Public Schools
  http://www.eagles.k12.mo.us/sullivan/karen/pd4ets/templates.htm
  Download templates for Smartboard
• Game Templates - http://www.leesummit.k12.mo.us/its/game_templates.htm
• Inspiration - http://www.leesummit.k12.mo.us/its/inspiration.htm
• Kidspiration - http://www.leesummit.k12.mo.us/its/kidspiration.htm
• PowerPoint - http://www.leesummit.k12.mo.us/its/powerpoint.htm

Videos - Free to educators  - Useful for making lessons more interesting

• Cosmeo - Listed by grade level

• My Learning Tube - Listed by subject area

• Free Educational Videos - Not downloadable but are available at no charge.

• National Geographic Video - Listed by topic

• PBS Nova - Great videos listed by topic

• Edutopia - Great videos from George Lucas

• Best Online Documentaries

• TeacherTube

• VideoJug-Elementary ED

• ScienceHack

• PBS Frontline

• History Channel Videos

• Annenberg Media - Great videos must join site (free and worth it)

• Teachers TV Videos

• Discovery Clips

• Animal Planet Videos

• Archiving America

Interactive Resources

Pre-K Activities

Third to Fifth Activities

Six to Eighth Activities

Ninth to Twelfth Activities