Interactive Online Learning |
*These websites should be previewed for content, quality, and relevance prior to using in your curriculum. Most are not intended for higher level technology integration.*
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| Reading & Language Arts | |
| K-2 | |
Interactive Online Reading |
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| Adventures of Amelia the Pigeon | This story brought to you by NASA complete with teacher's guides for K-2 and 3-4 (Behind the Scenes). Audio available. |
| Bookpals: Storyline Online | Popular children's stories read by actors in the Screen Actor's Guild. Great for modeling fluency and articulation! |
| Bookpop | Follow along as Stephen Cosgrove reads children's stories. |
| PreK-1st Grade interactive online reading activities. | |
| RIF Reading Planet | Read a-long stories and songs. (some Spanish) |
| Rosetta Project | Read online library of illustrated books. Download option available. (no audio) |
| Starfall | Interactive online reading pages for beginning readers. |
| Utah Education Network | A variety of interactive online stories and activities for Language Arts and other subject areas. K-2 |
Skill Builders |
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| Academic Skill Builders | Word Frog, Word Invasion, Word Viper: Synonymns, Antonyms, Nounds, Verbs, Adverbs. Interactive learning games with printable results. |
| Alphabet Action | LearningPlanet alphabet recognition. |
| Antonymns | Matching Game |
| AOL Kids | Reading and writing activities |
| Building Language for Literacy | Scholastic site for rhyming, classification and letter identification. |
| Compacts for Reading | Printable compacts to send home for reading skills practice: Grades K-3 |
| Enchanted Learning Spanish | Printable learning activities for the Spanish language learner. |
| Feltboard | Rhyming word matching game. Listen to word and choose correct picture for word. Break word down into individual sounds. Caution: Skip the matching game and choose Click her to begin. |
| Grammar Blast | Grammar Practice for Grades 2-5. |
| iKnowThat | Word Search, Word Match, Word Builder, Alien Word Mine, Punctuation Paintball. Primary and Intermediate activities. Caution: Be careful of Banner Ads! |
| Literacty Center Education Network | Letter identification, shapes, writing, words, numbers, colors, and keyboard activities. |
| Little Fingers | Reading and Math games for primary students. Most of the activities are for PreK-2 but there are some for students up to 4th Grade. |
| Make A Word | Beginning sounds |
| Paw Park Alphabet Bears | Alphabetical Order |
| PowerPoint Presentations | A variety of PowerPoint Presentations to download and use for review. |
| Pronoun Clubhouse | Build a clubhouse by selecting the correct pronoun for each sentence. |
| Roy: The Tale of a Singing Zebra | Interactive games, stories, and resources for emergent readers. |
| Spanish Language Activities | Basic reading skills for numbers, color words, and common words. |
| Woodlands Literacy Zone | A collection of online stories and reading activities. Many stories from the UK. |
| Word Play | Click on a word and watch it play! |
| Words and Pictures | Practice vowel sounds and patterns. This site comes from the BBC so be aware of the British accent. |
| The Writing Fix For Kids | Interactive writing prompts for 1st Grade - 3rd Grade students. |
| 3-5 | |
Interactive Online Reading |
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| Adventures of Amelia the Pigeon | This story brought to you by NASA complete with teacher's guides for K-2 and 3-4 (Behind the Scenes). Audio available. |
| Amazing Adventure Series | Choose Adventures from the menu. Read along; June the Prune or choose poetry. Audio available. |
| Bookpop | Follow along as Stephen Cosgrove reads children's stories. |
| Kids Love 2 Learn | Language Arts interactive online stories and poems for grades 3-6. Choose the drop-down menus at the top for more stories and skills including novel studies, writing skills, and listening and speaking activities. |
| Rosetta Project | Read online library of illustrated books. Download option available. (no audio) |
Skill Builders |
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| Academic Skill Builders | Word Frog, Word Invasion, Word Viper: Synonymns, Antonyms, Nounds, Verbs, Adverbs. Interactive learning games with printable results. |
| Acrostic Poem Tool | Brainstorm words, generate and print an acrostic poem. |
| Antonyms | Help Suanky find pairs of words with opposite meanings. |
| Compacts for Reading | Printable compacts to send home for reading skills practice: Grades K-3 |
| Fake Out! | Students can try to guess the correct definition of each word or submit a creative one to stump others. |
| Grammar Blast | Grammar Practice for Grades 2-5. |
| iKnowThat | Word Search, Word Match, Word Builder, Alien Word Mine, Punctuation Paintball. Primary and Intermediate activities. Caution: Be careful of Banner Ads! |
| Life on the Pronoun Reef | Click on the correct pronoun to move through the reef. |
| Making Predictions | Read through an online story. The first time through it, you will only see a few pictures from the book. There won't be any words. Think about what you believe will happen in this story based on the title and the pictures that appear. Record your prediction on your Prediction Guide Sheet. |
| Monster Truck Verb Safari | Choose a singluar or plural verb to finish the sentence. |
| Plural Play | Be the first
to fill a row, column or diagonal, like TIC-TAC-TOE. You must get three in a row to win. |
| PowerPoint Presentations | A variety of PowerPoint Presentations to download and use for review. |
| Power Proofreading | Students become proofreading technicians as they correct errors in scripts, memos, and other writings at the HME-TV station. |
| Sentence Clubhouse | Decide if the sentence is a statement, a question, a command, or an exclamation. |
| Sentence Sort | Practice for compound, complex, and simple sentences |
| Subject/Verb Mixup | Create sentences interactively by choosing proper subjects and verbs. |
| Synonyms | Help Suanky find pairs of words with similar meanings. |
| Wacky Web Tales | This interactive game has students completing cloze stories with designated parts of speech. |
| The Writing Fix | WritingFix is purposely organized around the 6 traits of writing. WritingFix has interactive lessons for building stronger writing skills in writers of any age |
| Utah Education Network | A variety of interactive online stories and activities for Language Arts and other subject areas. 3-6 |
| Mathematics | |
| K-2 | |
| Multimedia Math Glossary | Choose grade level and view an illustrated definition with audio. |
| Count Along to 100 | Interactive hundreds chart. |
| Jungle Counting | Interactive counting game. |
| Owl's Addition and Subtraction | Missing addend. Addtion and subtraction |
| Interactive Math Tools | Virtual manipulatives
related to the NCTM standards for grades 3 - 5. |
| A+ Math | Flashcards, worksheets, games, homework help |
| Math Investigations | Student Math Websites K-5. |
| Math Playground | A variety of math activities for all ages. |
| 3-5 | |
| Multimedia Math Glossary | Choose grade level and view an illustrated definition with audio. |
| King's List of Online Math Activities |
Hundreds of Math sites and teacher resources. |
| Interactive Math Tools | Virtual manipulatives
related to the NCTM standards for grades 3 - 5. |
| SBG | Real world activities which coincide with the math curriculum. |
| Pick A Number | Have the computer read your mind! |
| Multiplication.com | Practice basic facts through interactive math games |
| Fraction Action | This website is designed for second grade students to learn about fractions. (By: Julie) |
| Multiflyer Game | A game for
anyone who is trying to learn or 'brush up on' their multiplication.
As the pilot of a space ship far in the future, you must save the
solar system from gravitational anomalies while learning and memorizing
the multiplication tables. |
| The Piggy Bank | Kids learn
facts about money and practice counting money by playing Money Games!
Use the Calculator for checking your answers and if you have a money
question, Ask Mr. Money! (By: Melanie) |
| The Marvelous Multiplication Adventure | The adventure that follows will help you develop an understanding of what multiplication is all about. Help students understand arrays. (By: Doug) |
| 6-8 | |
| Multimedia Math Glossary | 6th Grade illustrated definitions with audio. |
| AAA Math | AAA Math features a comprehensive set of interactive arithmetic lessons. Unlimited practice is available on each topic which allows thorough mastery of the concepts. A wide range of lessons (Kindergarten through Eighth grade level) enables learning or review to occur at each individual's current level. |
| General Coordinates Game | Tutorial and interactive site to practice adding coordinates to a graph. |
| Grade 6 Interactive Math Lessons | Decimals, fractions, ratios, percents, integers, factors, geometry, problem solving. This site is extensive and contains many more math topics suitable for middle school. Click on Lessons once you enter the site. |
| Graph Mole | Tutorial and interactive practice in varying levels of difficulty. Response time varies at more difficult levels. |
| Illuminations | 90 interactive online learning sites for Grades K-12. Searchable database. |
| Learning Wave | LearningWave Online: Number Theory, Integers, Decimals, Fractions, Percent, Probability, Algebra, Geometry |
| Middle School Math Matrices | The California Technology Assistance Project (CTAP) -Math Resources for Grades 6-8 |
| Science | |
| Animals | Facts and interactive quizzes covering animals throughout the world |
| Creature Features | National Geographic Kids: Interesting and unusual animal facts, videos, and audio. |
| Elements and Periodic Table | Various interactive levels of learning about chemical elements and the periodic table |
| Fear of Physics | Explore virtually all aspects of physics with this kid-friendly, interactive site. |
| Fossweb K-2 | Insects, Animals, Wood & Paper, Pebbles & Sand, Fabric, Trees, Balance & Motion, New Plants, Air & Weather, Solids & Liquids |
| Fossweb 3-5 | Magnetism & Electricity, Models & Designs, Human Body, Levers & Pulleys, Food & Nutrition, Earth Materials, Water, Mixtures & solutions, Measurement, Physics of Sound, Solar Energy, Landforms, Structures of Life, Variables, Ideas & Inventions, Environments |
| Fossweb Middle School | Human Brain & Senses, Populations & Ecosystems, Force & Motion, Planetary Science, Electronics, Earth History, Diversity of Life, Weather & Water, Chemical Interactions |
| Geo Mysteries | Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Rocks, fossils, and minerals are featured in these mysteries. |
| Matter Matters | Three matter modules to introduce young children to the concept of matter. Matter Module 1 explores the properties of matter. Matter Module 2 explores the states of matter. Matter Module 3 explores how matter changes. |
| Monsters of the Deep | Explore the ocean. |
| NASA Interactive | Several virtual and interactive displays of the solar system |
| National Geographic Kids Magazine | Features different people, animals, and places each month with facts, games, activities, and related links. |
American Museum of Natural History's interactive activities on archeology, astronomy, biodiversity, earth, Einstein, genetics, marine biology, and paleontology. |
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| Planet Earth | Select dates and the earth will rotate to show length days and nights. Source: Santa Barbara City College |
| Savage Seas | Create an ocean wave and determine its height based on wind speed, fetch, and duration. |
| Secret Worlds: The Universe Within |
View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. |
| Solar System Trading Cards | Choose a trading card that represents a planet from our Solar System. If you answer the question right, you get to collect it. Students will learn interesting facts about the planets. They can keep track of their learning by collecting the trading cards. |
| Space Walk | Take a virtual walk on a space shuttle |
| Surfing the Solar System: A Treasure Hunt Game and Puzzle | In this game, part of the "Race to the Planets" group of activities, players are given clues in words and pictures to worlds or features in the solar system. The first letters of the answers then spell out what is likely to be one of the most popular tourist attractions when travel among the planets becomes routine. |
| Virtual Astronaut | This site allows you to explore the International Space Station as if you were there! Move around using the space bar and mouse! Have fun! |
| Water Cycle | Virtual representation of the water cycle |
| Social Studies | |
| 360 Degree Views of World Cities | Several cities throughout the world are highlighted on this site. Take a virtual reality 360 degree tour to learn more about the cities. Very interactive! |
| A Day in the Life History Game | Imagine what it would be like to live in another time, in another place, as some other person. African-American Boy, Frontier Girl, Native American Boy, Irish Immigrant Boy, Upper Class Girl |
| America's Story | Library of Congress: Amazing Americans, See, Hear and Sing, Jump Back in Time, Explore the States, America at Play |
| Ben's Guide to the U.S. Government | Ben’s Guide to U.S. Government for Kids is the educational component of GPO Access, the Government Printing Office’s (GPO) free online service of official Government information from all three branches of the U.S. Government. Activities for Grades K-12 |
| Boundaries of the United States | Animation of the history of U.S. Borders |
| Capitals, States, & Landscapes | Interactive Maps which display scores and time. |
| Christopher Columbus | This site was designed for 3rd Graders to explore the life of Christopher Columbus. (By: Francisco) |
| Civil War | Students will have an overall understanding of specific people, places, issues, and events during the Civil War period using research and writing skills. |
| Diversity in America | This interactive website provides educators and students many opportunities to investigate how people in other countries live and share customs and traditions. This, in turn, should help students to appreciate the great diversity in America. |
| GeoNet | GeoNet is a challenging online game based on the six essential elements from the National Geography Standards. |
| Immigration | Stories, interactive tour of Ellis Island, charts and graphs |
| Lewis and Clark | Go West Across America: An adventure for young students. Make decisions along the way to reach your destination. |
| Liberty's Kids | Read about events in History, guess the Mystery Guest of the day, and become a reporter for historical events. |
| Liberty: Chronicle of the Revolution | Newspaper Chronicles let you experience first-hand the excitement and uncertainty of the American Revolution as it happened. Click on a city to read about the riveting historical headlines that shaped the war and America. |
| Outline Maps | Need a blank map in a hurry? Here's your resource! Printable outline maps of the United States, continents, and world |
| Panoramic Views of the World | Interactive map with panoramic views of several world cities |
| The PBS Kids Democracy Project | This site provides students the opportunity to explore a day in the life of a president, learn the history of voting and how government affects them. |
| Presidential Timeline | Explore the lives and administrations of twelve Presidents of the United States. This interactive timeline, created by UT staff is simply amazing! |
| Road Trip Across Texas | Join Austin as he introduces you to thirteen cities and towns that make Texas what it is today. On the individual city pages, there are mileage signs, a journal entry, a factbox, an image gallery and additional information resources. For a fun activity, join him in a Texas artifact scavenger hunt. |
| Stately Facts | Internet Public Library (IPL) site which allows user to click on each state and gather facts. |
| Test Your Geography Knowledge | Students take interactive quizzes to test their geography knowledge. |
| Texas Landforms | Information about landforms in Texas |
| Time Capsule | Select specific headlines, birthdays, songs, TV shows, toys, and books for a selected date. Edit the information and add your own information to the final page! Print a page that includes all the information you've chosen, plus typical consumer prices, Academy Award winners, and current leaders of the nation. |
| Time Magazine for Kids | News and current events for Grades K-6 |
| The Traveler IQ Challenge | See how close you can get as you test your knowledge of geography with world cities. |
| Ulysses S. Grant | American Experience: photos, interviews, multimedia |
| The Underground Railroad | National Geographic: Virtual fieldtrip on the underground railroad. |
| UT-Austin Outline Map Site | Political, weather, historical maps from the United States and around the world. |
| Whitehouse for Kids | Kid-friendly view of the White House. Games, activities, research information |
| Virtual Field Trips | |
| Tramline Field Trips | Also known as field-guides.com This is a wonderful site with many virtual field trips for science topics. It also has some social studies and language arts field trips. |
| Virtual Field Trip Links | Visit the Washington National Zoo and see live cameras of the animals. See the White House! Learn about endangered sea turtles. This site lists many excellent virtual field trips! |
| Virtual Field Trips | This site contains links for a variety of online field trips in major content areas. It also teaches you how to make your own virtual field trip. |
| Field Trips from A-Z | Field Trip Archive |
| Virtual Tours | National Geographic: Oceans, Rainforests, Ecosystems, etc. Explore a variety of virtual worlds. |
| Music | |
| Creating Music | Creatingmusic.com is a children's online creative music environment for children of all ages. It's a place for kids to compose music, play with musical performance, music games and music puzzles. |
| Dallas Symphony Orchestra | Activities for kids and instructional ideas for teachers. |
| Dot Mixer | Interactive site for kids to create sounds and music |
| Enchanted Learning Music | Musical Instruments, music theory print outs, sheet music print outs, biographies and more! |
| Jazz Kids | Jazz it up. Repeat the beat, learn jazz history and improvise on your own at this rockin' site. Source: PBS |
| Music Room | Songs across the curriculum. |
| New York Philharmonic | Composers, compositions, games, instruments |
| Play Music | This site teaches children about the instruments of the orchestra. It includes pictures, descriptions, audio examples, games, "meet the artist", and links to other music sites. This Site was built by: The American Symphony Orchestra League. |
| San Francisco Symphony | Explore and investigate musical instruments and make music with the composerizer. |
| Teaching with the Arts | Art, Music, Drama |
| Art | |
| ArtEdventures | ArtEdventures are interactive online games for teachers and students. In these fun and educational activities, you'll discover how great artists made their famous works—while learning tips and techniques for creating your own art! Check out the Art of Crime Detection! |
| Carmine's Introduction to Line and Shape | Let Carmine Chameleon take you on an adventure to learn all about lines and shapes in art. |
| Carmine's Introduction to Portraits | Create a portrait online after looking at some of history's greatest portraits. |
| Drawing in One Point Perspective | Step-by-step instructions for basic one-point are presented on this site. |
| Drawing in Two Point Perspective | Two Point Perspective is a much more useful drawing system than the more simple One Point Perspective. Objects drawn in two point perspective have a more natural look. |
| Kaleidoscope Painter | Virtual Kaleidoscope: Copy and paste into MS Paint or another application. |
| Kerpoof | Kerpoof is all about having fun, discovering things, and being creative. Create a picture, make a movie, write a story, or make an avatar. Use the Super Doodle to design a new drawing or add to famous artist drawings such as Van Gogh's "Starry Night". |
| Perspective Drawing | See how the great artists worked with perspective. |
| Teaching with the Arts | Art, Music, Drama |
| Physical Education | |
| Dole 5 a Day | This site is packed with fun activities, all designed to get kids to eat more fruits and vegetables and be more physically active. |
| Kid's Health | KidsHealth is the largest and most visited site on the Web providing doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through adolescence. KidsHealth has separate areas for kids, teens, and parents - each with its own design, age-appropriate content, and tone. |
| My Pyramid | This site contains materials were designed specifically for children aged 6 to 11. Find games, posters, tips, coloring pages, and classroom materials to assist understanind of the food pyramid. |
| McGruff.org | I'm McGruff the Crime Dog - world famous for my advice on how to stop crime before it happens, and for my great sense of humor. But seriously, my job is to help people, especially kids, learn how to be safe and make their neighborhood safer. |
| Olympics | Official website for the Olympics |
| Sports Illustrated for Kids | SIKIDS.COM is the online counterpart to Sports Illustrated For Kids magazine. |
| Gifted and Talented | |
| Brain Food | Give your mind a work out on our devious collection of puzzles. There are hundreds, ranging from word games to logic problems to riddles. Some are tricky. Some require innovation. All require thinking power. |
| Human Brain Cloud | Human Brain Cloud - a massively multiplayer word association "game" or experiment ... or something. The idea is that given a word, a player types in the first thing that comes to mind and the results are combined into a giant network. The cloud started with just one word, "volcano". All other words were submitted by visitors to this site. |
| The Set Game | Daily online puzzles. Challenging! |
| One Computer Classroom Resources | |
| One Computer Classroom PowerPoint Presentation | View this presentation for tips and tricks for effectively integrating technology and managing your classroom. Links to additional resources are provided in the PowerPoint presentation. |
| Creating Your Own Jeopardy PowerPoint Game | Learn to modify the Jeopardy template with these directions.  |
| Surviving and Thriving in the Technology Classroom | This PowerPoint suggests techniques for classroom management and implementation of technology integration in the classroom. |
| The One Computer Classroom Science and Social Studies Hotlist | Science and Social Studies resources including virtual fieldtrips, scavenger hunts, webquests, teaching tools, one computer classroom strategies, daily science resources, simulations, daily social studies resources, primary source documents, world history sites, Texas history sites, and PowerPoint backgrounds and templates. |
| Interactive PowerPoint Learning Games | This document provides directions for creating interactive PowerPoint learning activities. It also contains several links to sites with PowerPoint presentations ready to use in your classroom. Gifted and Talented resources also included. (Presented July 2007) |
| PowerPoint Jeopardy Template | Right-click and "Save Target as..." to download the Jeopardy PowerPoint template. The content in this sample is Endangered Species. Individual slides contain directions for modifying template. |
| PowerPoint Jeopardy TAKS Science 5th Grade | This ready-made template will provide practice for 5th Grade Science TAKS objectives. Right-click and "Save Target as..." to download. |
| Who Wants to Be a Millionaire Template | Right-click and "Save Target as..." to download the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire PowerPoint template. The content in this sample contains 4th Grade Writing objectives. Individual slides contain directions for modifying template. |
| Managing Technology | Intel's site for managing technology in the classroom. |
| Pete's PowerPoint Station | Hundreds of free powerpoint presentations for all subject areas. Games and templates also available. |
| Think Tac Toe | |
| Think Tac Toe Instructions | Students score a think tac toe by choosing one activity from each row. This allows for differentiated instruction using flexiblity and choice. Many researchers agree that student choice plays a pivotal role in motivating pupils to put more into their assignments and to take responsibility. The Think-Tac-Toe strategy allows students to choose tasks that better align with their learning styles and interests and makes them accountable for revisiting important literacy skills. It is attractive because of its game-like quality. To implement the Think-Tac-Toe strategy, the teacher decides on a specific skill or concept to review, and creates nine tasks that practice that skill or concept. The students are allowed to choose three of the tasks to complete. http://www.reading.org/publications/journals/rt/v59/i7/abstracts/RT-59-7-Samblis.html |
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Reading/Language Arts |
The Crucible (9-12) Macbeth (9-12) Pygmalian (9-12) Storywriting (3rd Grade) Romeo and Juliet (9-12) |
Math |
Geometric Shapes (1st Grade) Math (2nd Grade) Math (9-12) Word Problems (4th Grade) |
Science |
Animal Habitats (3rd Grade) Chemistry (9-12) Dinosaurs (2nd Grade) Oceans (2nd Grade) Sound (4th Grade) |
Social Studies |
Underground Railroad/The Drinking Gourd (3rd Grade) |
Fine Arts |
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