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Brightstorm Videos

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:27:00 GMT

Brightstorm has more than 2500 math and science videos to explain concepts in biology, chemistry, physics, algebra, geometry, precalculus and calculus. You can easily drill down to through the subject area. The math and science videos are free. Other resources on the website are available for a monthly fee.

Primary Languages

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:04:00 GMT

Learn basic words and phrases in French, Spanish and Mandarin while you play games. The foreign language vocabulary includes sounds, numbers, calendar, greetings and introductions, school, food and drink, activities, seasons, animals and weather. There are also videos and songs, but these are viewable only in the United Kingdom.

Mooseclumps

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:46:00 GMT

Quirky children's poetry, updated weekly, and available for free as a flash-based ebook.

MAKE Me Genius

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:48:00 GMT

It contains animated videos for Environment Study (Science) for Kids. All school subjects are completely covered. It also has a PPT section ,from where hundreds of PPts can be downloaded as well as an Interesting Facts sections.Safe for kids can be a great tool for teachers parents. It

JogLab

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:09:00 GMT

Create an acrostic poem, backronym or mnemonic. Fast, free and fun.

Science Toy Maker

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:39:00 GMT

This teacher-created site invites kids of all ages to use science to create toys. There are many video tutorials to guide you through a project using common household materials and no equipment more complicated than what you would find in your kitchen. Build a robot voice box, snake charmer's duck

Geometry Bridge

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:44:00 GMT

Help build a bridge so a bus load of kids can get to the festival. To do so, you'll have to use your skills using types of angles, types of triangles, and calculate their angles and sides. This activity is targeted to 5th and 6th grade students.

CourseCracker

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 17:16:00 GMT

CourseCracker.com provides a free unique service for sparking academic interest and enhancing student-teacher, student-student, and parent-teacher communication via a private page that features a bulletin board (email notifications), discussion board, document storage, calendar, video/photo galleries more. In addition, CourseCracker.com also features a School Blog, Groups, and a Teachers' Lounge.
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Yolink Education Research Tool

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:55:00 GMT

Download this tool to help students conduct more effective research on the web. Yolink can find pertinent keywords inside webpages, links, documents and ebooks. Use this tool to share research information with Google Docs and create citations via integration with EasyBib.

Kids Computer Lab

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:08:00 GMT

Kids Computer Lab helps kids become confident users of technology and digital media by providing interactive lessons on computer skills, research skills, wikis, podcasting, typing, and cyber awareness. These skills are aligned with ISTE guidelines and are designed to integrate technology and curriculum.

Mock Trial Blah Blah Blah

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 05:44:00 GMT

Mock Trial Blah Blah Blah is a site to help high school kids prepare for mock trial competitions and learn about the U.S. trial system. Topics include prosecutor’s opening, defense opening, prosecutor closings, defense closing, leading questions, cross exams for lawyers and witnesses, general tips for witnesses, and dealing with

ROBOTC

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:58:00 GMT

ROBOTC is the premiere C-based robotics programming language for educational robotics and competitions. It has an easy-to-use development environment. From this site, you can purchase and download the software, as well as participate in forums, download how-to guides, and lesson plans. There are sample programs to demonstrate autonomous and

BlueJ

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:41:00 GMT

BlueJ provides an easy-to-use teaching environment for the Java language to help teach beginning Java programmers. It uses visualisation and interaction techniques to create a highly interactive environment that encourages experimentation and exploration. BlueJ is based on the Blue system developed in Australia at the University of Sydney and Monash

21st Century Schools

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:14:00 GMT

21st Century Schools offers project-based learning curriculum and professional development that emphasizes interdisciplinary, real-world, relevant learning. Their site has several free sample projects and many theme ideas. Professional development and full curriculum offerings are fee-based.

Teacher Support Force

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:50:00 GMT

At Teacher Support Force you will find brain-appropriate techniques and strategies for teaching math and reading in the classroom. Ms. Jones provides suggestions for creating a helpful learning environment, memorization strategies, learn-to-read techniques, and math stratgies. She provides music, games and emphasizes the importance of play in learning.

Tagxedo

Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:34:00 GMT

Tagxedo is a kind of word cloud with a wide variety of images, and the option to use your own images to create shapes. You can copy your own text, draw text from a web link, Twitter or newsfeed. Customize color, font, theme and orientation. There's much more available here.

FreeThesaurus

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:41:00 GMT

This website is about dictionaries and thesaurus. It uses WordNet and Moby Dictionaries. There is visual thesaurus and popularity index, showing how popular is selected word.

The website is still in development, new feautures are coming.

School Family

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:16:00 GMT

SchoolFamily.com provides information about ways parents can help their kids of all ages get the most out of the school year. These include expert articles about communicating with teachers, back to school tips, dealing with problem situations, extracurricular activities, and understanding the grading system with advice on how to help

Sokikom

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 20:29:00 GMT

This award-winning social-learning based math game is designed for kids in grades 1-6. In this self-paced learning system, students learn basic math skills addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions and decimals. Free registration by a parent or teacher is required, who then registers and monitors the progress of each of

Inspire My Kids

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 21:05:00 GMT

InspireMyKids.com is a place where people can find inspiring, age-appropriate, real-life stories, videos and projects to share with the children and teens in their lives to help motivate them to take positive actions and become the best people they can be. There are lots of examples of community service project