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Misc. Resources	Photo, Art, music and video resources	Math Resources
Language Arts	Smartboard	Science
Kidspiration	Test practice web sites	Comic Life

Misc. Resources

Classroom Resources	Lots of links on a lot of subjects all in one place by Center School District in Missouri
Cartoon Creator	Students create a cartoon with the graphics provided
Thinkfinity	Collaboration between Verizon and several other major groups to provide lessons, interactive applications, and many other resources.
Wordle	Create a word picture made out of words that are important to you. Would be good to use for creating a word picture for a web site, blog, or class wiki. Not sure if you can save as a jpeg or if you can just copy the html code.
PBS Kids video Clips	100 video clips in the Curious George section of PBS Kids - showing kids in action working on many of the same things we do here. GREAT!
Objective Builder	Having trouble writing the objectives for a lesson? This online tool is a real help when you need the language for writing those formal objectives. make sure to use the tutorial first.
Web 2.0	Interested in Web 2.0 "stuff"? Then here's a starting place.
Presentations ETC	Get that presentation looking better by using these resources
teachers' domain	Lot's of video clips here - You do need to register

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Photo, Art and Video Resources

Animoto	Create videos with your pictures - lots of possibilities here!
Picnik	Online photo editing - simple to use - good effects to use
Picnik tutorial	My video tutorial for Picnik (using Jing)
Dumpr	Create lots of neat effects with your photos right online.
ArtEdventures	Activities, artist studies, interactives, lessons, and more
Befunky	More effects for photos
Art junction	a starting point for ideas and resources
Royalty Free Music.com	an award winning library of stock music for all your multimedia projects- you'll need the username and password
iPhoto Slideshow	Alice's handout for creating a slideshow in iPhoto
iMovie	Alice's handout for getting started in iMovie
iMovie - Music	Alice's handout for adding music and voice over
Voice Thread	Online application for sharing images, voice, video, etc.

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Math Resources

Harvey's Homepage	Lots of math Notebook files
Math Live	Higher level - lessons, "videos" looks good
Math Interactives	Higher level skills - videos, games and more
Mathwire	A wonderful source for standards based ideas and activities - great source for supporting our focus in math
Math Toolkit	Interactive tools - perfect for the Smartboard
Maths Dictionary	Animated interactive dictionary of over 600 math terms
Johnnie's Math Page	One of the best collections of activities and interactives out there
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives	Manipulatives and activities to support math
Interactive math tools	Lots and lots interactive tools at all levels - (Crickweb)
Tools for Teaching	Scroll down to tools for teaching - lots and lots!
"Videos" and "toolkits"	Some good online "video" type lessons - higher level
Math Zone	A UK site with lots of links to resources
Interactive 3-D shapes	The best thing here are the 3-D shapes you can rotate to see all the vertices, faces and edges.
Geometry Tools	Interactive geometry tools- some good ones for symmetry
Animations	animated slide shows to demonstrate concepts
Set Daily Puzzle	set game updated daily

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Language Arts Resources

***Into the Book ***	Writing Fun - Text Organizers
Book List Ideas	***Harper Collins ***
Teach with Picture Books - Blog	***TeachingBooks.net***
Planet Esme - Blog	Jen Robinson's Book Page - Blog
Getting Kids Reading - Blog	***Just One More BooK*** - Podcasts
Launching Young Readers - Reading Rockets	Picture Book of the Day - Blog
The Reading Lady - Reader's theater	Online Rhyming dictionary
Google Lit Trips	Magnetic Poetry
Dakota Co. Library	For Tumblebooks - Click on Children then Tumblebooks
DigiTales

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Smartboard Resources

Files for download	*Elementary SMART lessons
*Lessons and Templates	*Lessons at Scholastic
*On the Smart website	*Smart Board templates
*Harvey's Home Page math lessons	*Elementary Smartboard Lessons
*Smart Exchange

Smart Board Resources	a page created by So. Washington County, MN
Smartboard in the Classroom	lots and lots and lots and lots and lots
Smart Board	Still more
Teachers Love SMART Boards	SMART Board blog - lots of good stuff - ever changing
The Whiteboard blog	Another blog with many resources, ideas, information
Talking Smartboards	another blog with many resources
Interactive Whiteboards in the Classroom	A lot of links and resources here to explore - I think from the Florida education department
Smartboard Resources	More links to explore from Center School District, Missouri
Internet4Classrooms	More links

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Science Resources

Digital library for Earth System Education	Supported by the National Science Foundation-looks like a lot here but I haven't explored well
Exploratorium	Looks like a great site!
Iowa State Entomology Image Gallery	Photographs and some movies of creepy crawly insects

Kidspiration Resources

Kidspiration lessons	From the inspiration site and ready to download
Inspired Learning	A community where educators share files they've made - Register in order to download or share

Test Practice web sites

Math/reading/science	Math
Math	Math - easier
Many math topics - immediate feedback	Many math topics
Math - 15 different choices	Math-immediate feedback
Testing from Houghton Mifflin
Practice Reading tests

Comic Life

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