CK-12 Free lessons and videos

CK-12 is a website that offers free textbooks, video, and activities.  They can be used in your lessons.  CK-12 can be customized and shared in Google Classroom for easier use.  Site is American but some lessons can be used in our classrooms.

Prodigy.....Online math game

Prodigy is a free online math game that features engaging activities.  It has content that is curriculum-aligned. It also features real time reporting with formative and summative assessments.  Teachers can use their accounts to create student accounts.
https://www.prodigygame.com/Canada

Google Docs, Google Drive

Five years ago I was introduced to Google Docs.  Just recently I was re-introduced to it and I was impressed at the upgrades made since.  It is offered by Google which is found within Google Drive.  Google Docs offers:  Document, Presentation, Spreadsheet, Forms and Drawing.
Google Docs allows users to create documents online while collaborating in real-time with multiple users. Each person you give permission to can edit or view document. There is a chat box that would allow you to communicate with other collaborators.  A history of work is saved.  You can have access anywhere and store files safely.  Just sign in with a gmail account to Google Drive and begin.

Thanks Mario for reminding me of Google docs.

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.

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:

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.

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.

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.

ESL

http://www.kidseslgames.com/index.html

http://www.kidseslgames.com/printable%20games/Board%20Games/boardgames.html

Science for kids

A lot to do on this site:  experiments, free games, science fair projects, fun quizzes, interesting facts, amazing videos, worksheets and more!  For grades k-9


 http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/technology.html

Literactive -- Primary Interactive-- and more

Many educators incorporate some kind of technology to engage student learning. With web 2 it is impossible not to find something on the internet that cannot be used to help support a teacher lesson or to engage students with an interactive activity. I decided to search for 'interactive literacy games' and I came across many great sites. You just need the time to peruse all of them. I did look at some and I found the following to be worth a visit.
Language Instructions

http://www.literactive.com

http://www.roythezebra.com

Language Arts, Math Science and more

http://www.primaryinteractive.co.uk/english.htm/

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/

Structures

Great interactive activity to demonstrate forces, load, materials and shape.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/lab/loads.html

Gizmos....Interactive Activities

 Interactive online simulations for grades 3-12.  
 www.explorelearning.com

Comic books - - - Kidjutsu Webcomics

Kidjutsu is another site to introduce reluctant readers to in order to get them to read. Kidjutsu is a directory where kids can find and read comics online for free. These comics are from Webcomic and manga creators. http://www.kidjutsu.com/browse/rating/13

Wordle

I will be posting some of my students works, for this year, on how we have been using wordle. I found this powerpoint that shows some ways that I have used Wordle in the past. In previous posts, last school year, you will see some of their works.

Wordle In The Classroom

View more presentations from Hellen Harvey

Math

A place to practice math skills for grades K-8.

http://ca.ixl.com/

Link to Learning

I have been using this site for several years. This site links you to websites that support the Ontario Curriculum. There are web based student learning and interactive activities available in all curriculum areas. There is a section for Elementary and Secondary grades. There is also a Just for Teachers area that a teacher can link to teacher lesson plans and teaching ideas, technology integration, assessment and evaluation and on-line learning.

Prezi

On my March 26, 2011 post I talked about Prezi. I went back into that post and embedded a sample of how this on line tool works.

Multiplication

These are games to help with Math skills. There are activities, flash cards and games. Multiplayer games are also available.  http://www.multiplication.com/games