Tech+Thursdays+-+Content+Specific+Free+Resources

** Content Specific Free Resources ** **All Content areas: **

1. [|http://smithsonianeducation.org/educators/index.html__]  This site from the Smithsonian has a search feature to look for activities & lessons based on content area.

2. [] This site has a way to search for lesson plans and interactive resources for students. All content areas are covered.

3. [|http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/__]  Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.

4. []great resources for all content areas. See your school library media specialist for your school's login and password.

5. [|http://www.proquestk12.com/default.shtml__]  See your school library media specialist (librarian) This site includes: CultureGrams which links students to facts, figures, and cultural information for about 200+ countries, including the United States, and Canada.

6. @http://gws.ala.org/Great sites for kids put together by the American Library Association!

7. @http://www.ala.org/aasl/guidelinesandstandards/bestlist/bestwebsitestop25
 * Best Websites for Teaching and Learning, American Association of School Librarians (AASL)**

8. @http://www.ala.org/aasl/guidelinesandstandards/bestlist/bestwebsiteslandmark
 * Landmark Websites for Teaching and Learning, AASL**

9. []  Great online presentation tool!

10. [] Create videos using digital images, video clips, and music all for free.

11. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Create interactive posters with images and video clips.

12. []<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Create slide shows using images, music, & video clips.

13. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Photostory: included on the new student tablets through Windows 7. This software allows you to make slide shows with images, text, and music.

14.<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> MovieMaker: included on the new student tablets through Windows 7. This software allows you to make movies using your own video clips and images.

15. @http://www.wallwisher.com/ **Wall Wisher:**An online notice board maker.

16. @http://pinterest.com/ **Pinterest:** Pinterest is an electronic bulletin board where users can “pin” images from around the web (use for lesson plans, sharing ideas, organization, & student use).

17. @http://edte.ch/blog/2008/08/23/10-google-forms-for-the-classroom/ **Google Forms:**Collect information by creating a form in google docs.

18. http://edte.ch/blog/2008/08/23/10-google-forms-for-the-classroom/#.TrxgI1TphDw.twitter **80 ways to use Google Forms in the classroom.**

19. @http://www.google.com/moderator/ **Google Moderator:** A tool that allows users to submit and vote on questions for talks, presentations and events.

20. @http://www.freefoto.com/index.jsp **Free Foto:** //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: small;">FreeFoto //.com is the largest collections of free photographs for non-commercial use on the Internet.

21. @http://www.curriculum21.com/clearinghouse/ **Curriculum 21:** This clearinghouse hosts websites that have been used by teachers and are shared through content areas. These sites are reviewed and shared by teachers.

22. @http://www.buildyourwildself.com/ **A great first day activity!** This site provided by the New York Zoos and Aquarium allows students to be creative and build themselves, including a background.

23. @http://www.phillipmartin.info/clipart/homepage.htm **Free Clipart!** Check out this site to add graphics to your presentations and SMARTBoard lessons.

24. @http://www.teq.com/resources **Great SMARTBoard lessons!** Go to the Educators Resource Center and search by unit or grade level.

25. @http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/ **Free Clipart for student or teacher use!**

26.@http://www.smartboardlounge.com/index.htm **More SMARTBoard lessons!** Easy to download and ready to use.

27. @http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/tools/ **Great Teacher tools & tutorials:** Divided by unit, content area, & grade level

28. @http://www.mrnussbaum.com/circumcode.htm **Mr.Nussbaum:** Numerous sites for a variety of content areas in one place.

29. @http://virginia.pbslearningmedia.org/ **PBS: Learning Media:** Easy access to free resources, lesson plans, and activities!

30. @http://cybraryman.com/0_general1.htm **Cybraryman**: Great links for all content areas.

31. @http://www.helloslide.com/ **Give your slideshows a voice!** Type text into each of your powerpoint slides instead of recording it!

32. @http://www.instagrok.com/ **A new way to learn!** Type a concept into Instagrok and receive numerous visual tools. Videos, images, a journal feature are just some of the tools that can take learning to a new level.

33. @http://www.sweetsearch.com/ **Sweet Search: A search engine for students.** This site pulls together websites that have been reviewed by teachers, experts, & librarians. This is a great search engine to share with your classes.

34. @http://www.goorulearning.org **Gooru Learning!** A search engine for students that pulls together videos, research, and other tools on any topic that student may be researching.

====<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. []<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> The goals of this site are the creation, collection, evaluation, and dissemination of java-based courseware for middle school mathematics explorations. ====
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008000; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Math: **

2. []<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> A great website put together by the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics that has challenges indexed by mathematical concepts.

3. []<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Another site put together by NCTM with lessons and online resources for educators.

4. @http://www.edheads.org/ **EdHeads:**Edheads provides free, educational online games focused on science, math, and critical thinking.

5. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 27px;">@http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/category_g_3_t_2.html **National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Math:** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #111111; font-family: Helvetica,sans-serif;">Grades 6-8 Algebra manipulatives. .

6. http://www.math.harvard.edu/~knill/mathmovies/index.html **Math in Movies:** This is a collection of movie clips where mathematics appears.

7. @http://harveyshomepage.com/Harveys_Homepage/Welcome.html **Awesome page with Math SMARTBoard activities!** All of the activities can be downloaded and used. Variety of activities with different units of study geared towards K-8!

8. @http://www.educationindex.com/math/ **Great math sites!**

9. @http://www.mathplayground.com/index.html This site has games, puzzles, & videos divided by concepts and units.

10. http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/misc/calcu.html **Calculus links**

11. @http://archives.math.utk.edu/visual.calculus/ **Visual calculus:** A collection of modules to be used in teaching Calculus.

12.@http://www.keycurriculum.com/products/sketchpad **The Geometer Video:** Use Geometer's Sketchpad to teach geometry.

13. @http://www.nvcc.edu/home/tstreilein/constructions/ Practice drawing geometric shapes.

14. http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/Geom/ Geometry Online activities

15. @http://mathforum.org/dynamic/sketchpad.weblinks.html Geometer's Sketchpad Resources

16. http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/pres/gk12-2.html Middle School math

====<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. []<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Field Trip Earth is the global resource for teachers, students, and proponents of wildlife conservation. The Wild Experience is an exciting multimedia presentation designed especially for Field Trip Earth visitors. The Wild Experience takes us on a tour of the conservation research projects highlighted on FTE.We'll meet new people, see remote and fascinating places, and interact with wildlife both familiar and exotic—it's an opportunity to work as wildlife researchers ourselves! ====
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008000; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Science: **

2. []<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> A great site with lessons, videos, and multimedia opportunities.

3. @http://www.solarsystemscope.com/ **Solar System scope:** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Watch and Play model of //<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Solar System // Planets and Constellations moving over the Night Sky.

4. @http://www.gapminder.org/for-teachers/ **GapMinder:** Gapminder is used in classrooms around the world to build a fact-based world view.

5. @http://www.webelements.com/ **Interactive Periodic Table**

6. @http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/atom/ **PBS Atom Builder activity**

7. @http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Elementsgames.htm **Periodic Table Games**

8. http://www.periodicvideos.com/# **The Periodic Table of Videos**

9. @http://engineeringinteract.org/interact.htm **Engineering Interaction games**

10. @http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/states_of_matter/index.html **States of Matter activity**

11. @http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/mixture/mixture.html **Mixtures lab**

12. @http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/hotplate/index.html **Melting & Boiling activity**

13. @http://www.miamisci.org/af/sln/ **The Atoms Family-**Ideas for lab activities

14. @http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/ms/science.htm **Science Tutorials**--all grade levels and units of study

15. @http://littleshop.physics.colostate.edu/totry.html **Little Shop of Physics**

16. @http://www.funderstanding.com/slg/coaster/ **Roller coaster Simulator**

17. @http://www.teach-nology.com/cgi-bin/labrubric.cgi **Lab Report Grading Rubric example**

18. @http://www.harcourtschool.com/menus/science/up_close6.html **Science Up Close!** Interactive links to many topics

19. @http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/15.cfm?s=15&p=249,index **Interactive science activities for K-5**

20. @http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/15.cfm?s=15&p=247,index **Interactive science activities for secondary**

21. @http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/tools/science.html **More Science websites and tutorials**

22. @http://marsrover.nasa.gov/classroom/ **Mars Rover NASA classroom**: Activities & Lessons

====<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. []<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest. There are now nearly 700 maps. ====
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008000; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Social Studies/History: **

2. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">[] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> This site is produced by the National Archives and has many primary sources starting from the American Revolution through present day. This site also has activities that teachers can create from student use.

3. []<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box.

4. []<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Live Binders is a free resource that allows you to organize links, presentations, & pdfs all in one location. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> An example for reading: http://www.livebinders.com/play/play_or_edit?id=225482

5. []<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The Library of Congress has a variety of resources through pictures, primary sources, audio recordings, maps, manuscripts. Two of their best collections are the American Memory collection and the Prints and Photographs.

6. []<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History** has a large collection of primary sources, online exhibitions, and multimedia presentations that are all available for educational use.

7. @http://newspapermap.com/ **Newspaper Map**: Find and translate 10,000+ newspapers

8. @http://historyexplorer.americanhistory.si.edu/lessons/ **Smithsonian History Explorer:** Search lessons, activities, artifacts, and multimedia for all grade levels from the Smithsonian collection.

9. @http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/tools/socstudies.html **Social Studies websites, activities, and tutorials**

10. @http://www.geosense.net/ **Test your Geography Knowledge**: Sign up for an account and play alone or against other players.

11. @http://www.icivics.org/ **A great way to teach government and citizenship:** This site has excellent games and teaching materials.

12. @http://www.mrnussbaum.com/historycode.htm **Mr.Nussbaum History links:** Divided up by unit!

====<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. []<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **Google Lit Trips** are free downloadable files that mark the journeys of characters from famous literature on the surface of Google Earth. At each location along the journey there are placemarks with pop-up windows containing a variety of resources including relevant media, thought provoking discussion starters, and links to supplementary information about “real world” references made in that particular portion of the story. ====
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008000; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Language Arts: **

2. []<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **World Book Online!** When using this site outside of CCS schools you will need a login and password that your school library media specialist can give you.

3. []<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **Access Jefferson-Madison Regional Library’s databases.** You will need to have a JMRL library card to access these databases. If students don't have a library card, your school library media specialist can help them get one!

4. CCS subscribes to many great databases too. Many of these can be accessed within school buildings without a password or library card.

5. @http://www.visuwords.com/ **VisuWords:**Online graphical dictionary

6. @http://www.famousinboxes.com/ **Famous Inboxes:** If only famous people from long ago had an email account. They do now!

7.@https://www.jottit.com/<span class="wiki_link_ext"> **Jottit:**Use this collaborative writing tool to create a webpage for your class. Watch this screencast for a brief demo on how this works. http://flash.screeniac.com/jottit-dg/jottit-dg.html?TB_iframe=true&height=590&width=105

8. http://flocabulary.com<span class="wiki_link_ext"> **Flocabulary:**This site puts content into fun, creative hip hop videos and songs. Sign up for a free trial to check it out.

9. @http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/interact-LA.htm **Interactive Language Arts sites**

10. http://home.cogeco.ca/~rayser3/litera1.htm Out of Ray's Head **Literature lessons for Grades 9-12**

11. http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/tools/english-hs.html#Interactive **Grades 6-12 interactive resources**

12. @http://www.jmrl.org/pr-kids.htm Tumblebooks read aloud e-books ranging from storybooks to classics, fiction and non-fiction.


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008000; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Enriching Arts/Physical Education: **

1. http://www.hickorytech.net/~cshirk/k-12music/ Valuable resources for music educators and students of all areas and educational levels.

2. @http://www.childrensmusicworkshop.com/links/links1.html Music Education Onlineprovides a wealth of online information - including links to hundreds ofsheet musictitles and music education resources. @http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/tools/music.html **Interactive sites for Music**

3. @http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/tools/physed.html **Interactive sites for Physical Education**

4. [] **Fuel Up to Play 60**encourages youth to eat healthy and move more — and studies suggest that well-nourished, physically active kids can be better students. You can engage students and adults in your school to make a real difference in the healthy eating habits and physical activity opportunities for everyone in your school.

5. @http://gws.ala.org/category/arts
 * Great Websites for Kids/ The Arts**

6. @http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/tools/art.html **Art websites**

7. @http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/tools/drama.html **Drama websites**

** Language Learners: **
1. @http://gws.ala.org/category/literature-amp-languages/language-learning
 * Great Websites for Kids/ Language Learning**

2. @http://gws.ala.org/category/literature-amp-languages/lugares-en-espanol-para-ninos
 * Great Websites for Kids/ Lugares en espanol para ninos**

3. @http://eslpoint.com/ ESLpoint provides lesson plans for teachers and activities and practice quizzes for students.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">iPad Apps by Content Area:
====<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">1. @http://moodle.ccs.k12.va.us/course/view.php?id=1009 A moodle page with a variety of resources for iPad use. Enrollment key: ipad====