Science Net Links

K-12 science resource that is Free. You can find teaching tools, interactive activities and hands-on activities. Lessons are written for teachers for students' learning.

http://sciencenetlinks.com/lessons/

Meograph........Interactive Writing....Storytelling

Meograph.......4-Dimensional Storytelling

Meograph helps create interactive stories. You can combine maps, timeline, links and multimedia to tell stories in “context of where and when”. Easy for students to be creative and create projects.  It is Free.

http://www.meograph.com/education 

An earlier post revisted:
Meograph is like Google Lit Trips that I discussed in my April 10, 2011 post.  This site plots out a 3 dimensional journey that a novel takes. Each plot also includes podcasts and screen shots of locations. You can contribute to the mashup of literature. This site is regularly updated.

Curriki

http://www.curriki.org/  Curriki is a free site where teachers can share lessons and resources with everyone;  It is from K-12 open learning resources. The resources can be browsed by subjects.

Game Goo.....Literacy

Language Learning games.
http://www.earobics.com/gamegoo/gooeyhome.html

Smartboard...............Assessment for kids

I always try to differentiate my lessons. I created a lesson on the money unit for math for my special education students. I used Smart notebook to create this interactive activity. This would be a normal day in our classroom but what made this different is that I took that notebook lesson and uploaded it onto each of my student’s computer. They completed this interactive activity individually and saved it so that I can go back and check it. This was their math assessment.

It was different, they had fun and I was able to assess their learning.

Word It Out....Word randomizer

Just like Wordle an online tool that allows you to randomly arrange words, you will like Word It Out. www.worditout.com

Grammarly....Literacy

An online tool that checks for grammar, spelling, word choice, and it also helps to "avoid plagiarism by checking your texts against over 2 billion documents".
Good for both teachers and students.
http://www.grammarly.com/?q=grammar&gclid=CJboteHq1LMCFetDMgodIWgAsg

Zondle

Zondle is a free website where students use games to support learning. Teachers can choose or create a topic that children can play......teacher-controlled restricted view for students.

What is Zondle?

A youtube video on how to get started with Zondle:

Grammar Ninja.....Literacy

I'm always posting math games.... now here is one on grammar.

http://www.kwarp.com/portfolio/grammarninja.html

All Books Free

This website is devoted to giving away free novels  provided by the authors.  You will find children's books, short story collections, and poetry books.
http://www.allbooksfree.com/

PBS Kids....Raising Readers

This site focuses on building reading skills.  Children practice basic reading skills through online games and activities.  Children, with adult assistance, sign up for free or teachers can sign up.  In the QA section it states: 'Teachers can add as many students as they want to their accounts. They can even organize their students into “classes” to help keep things organized."
http://pbskids.org/island/ 

http://pbskids.org/read/ has other game choices
PBS is an american site however it has many resources that canadians can use.  As for the learning reading sections.......our alphabets are the same:)

Shakespeare

Canadian Adaptations of Shakespeare Project is an online resource on everything about Shakespeare.
http://www.canadianshakespeares.ca/rjfolio.cfm

PBS Teachers

PBS Teachers provide resources and learning.  Along from lesson ideas this site provides on-demand videos, and interactive games and simulations.

http://www.pbs.org/teachers

Sumdog

Sumdog is a free math website. Teachers can sign up in order to create individual student logins.
Sumdog is self paced learning aimed for ages 6-14 with 10 levels of difficulty.  They need to answer math questions to progress to the next stage.  Teachers can set the challenges for their students.  Students can play individually or they can play with other users around the world. 
http://www.sumdog.com/en/Introduction/

Thanks Anna.

Free Rice.......Online Educational Game....Social Justice

I was searching for an interactive literacy site for my students.  I stumbled upon Freerice. This site is owned by and supports the United Nations World Food Programme. Their goal is to provide education for free and to end world hunger by providing free rice.  The object of the games are for every right answer you get they will donate 10 grains of rice through the World Food Programme to help end hunger.
Subjects included are:
Humanities, English, Math, Chemistry, Language Learning, Geography and Sciences.
I mentioned this site to my daughter and she began playing the games to see how much rice she can have donated. This site keeps a daily total on how much rice has been donated.  What an amazing idea!!!!!!!
http://freerice.com/#/english-vocabulary/1477

Vocabulary Spelling City

I needed some resource help for my new class, ESL and Special Ed.  One evening I Googled words and phrases that had to do with Language arts and I got many hits that involved this topic.  I saved many links in order to review them when I had time. This is one of the links that I saved.  This site is a vocabulary and spelling builder.
http://www.spellingcity.com/

Game Quarium

Game and activities, Videos, eBooks, Printables, Teacher Resources and cross curricular subjects.

http://www.gamequarium.org/
This site is full of ideas just like my earlier post on Children’s Learning Network Site.

Science News For Kids

This site covers news on a wide range of Science topics. 

http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/

Games

http://mrnussbaum.com/gamescode/
Math games for computers, iPad or iPhone.

http://mrnussbaum.com/mr-n-mobile-2/ Mobile games

http://mrnussbaum.com/ 
You can select other subject areas however, this site is based on US content. You can probably find something relevant to what you are looking for.

Math....Money

Making Change Games....american
http://mrnussbaum.com/cashd/ 
http://mrnussbaum.com/lunchlady/

http://alexandria-es10.lausd.k12.ca.us/Staff_Pages/Henry_Anker/Mr_Anker_Tests_New/Math/Money/Rounding_Money/Rounding_Dollars_Set_01.swf
Rounding to the nearest dollar….american money.

Crash Course Videos...History...Biology

The author John Green created a series of 42 videos called World History by Crash  Course.  They teach you the History of the world.   There is also another author,  Hank Green by Crash Course that has a series of 40 videos that teach you Biology. 

These Crash Course Videos are found on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9 

My Privacy My Choice My Life

The purpose of this site is to help children learn how technology affects their private life.  There are lesson ideas and suggestions. You can download the PDF versions and use the lessons and worksheets. 

This site helps everyone understand Social Networking Sites.  There is a Graphic Novel, Social Smarts: Privacy, The Internet and You,  which I was able to download into each student's computer where they read it and then in groups answered questions and critically analyzed the scenarios that were given to them.  I was able to incorporate this lesson with the lessons and interactive games from the website I mentioned earlier, Media Smarts.

http://www.youthprivacy.ca/en/teachers.html

Media Smarts......formerly Media Awareness

In my January 13, 2011 post I mention the site Media Awareness.  I will repeat what I wrote:

A site where students can become better informed about using the Internet.  They learn about stereotypes, hate, violence and information privacy through interactive play. Browse the website and see how these educational resources can enhance lessons. I used Privacy Playground and Cybersense and Nonesense on this site with my class and I found that the games provided my students the skill to evaluate information. The students were able to critically analyze how negative decisions affect them.

This site is now called Media Smarts http://mediasmarts.ca/

I also used the Privacy section so that we can discover the affects of not being careful with our personal information when interacting with other people whether it is online or using some other smart product.

Watch Know Learn........Educational Videos

Free educational videos from elementary to secondary schools from ages 1-18.
These videos are reviewed, approved and organized into appropriate categories of subjects. 
http://www.watchknowlearn.org/About.aspx