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
   
   
   
   
   

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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
   
   
   
   

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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

Comic Life Templates Sample author projects
Comic Life Samples How to and ideas
Comic Life examples Links, Tips, and tutorials


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