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Smithsonian’s History Explorer is one of the newer additions to Thinkfinity. The site is developed by the National Museum of American History along with the Verizon Foundation, and offers free online resources for teaching and learning about American history. The resources include lesson plans, activities, online exhibitions, and more, along with suggestions for using primary […]
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Free Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) is a website created for teachers by the Department of Education. FREE contains over 1,500 K-12 resources related to the arts, language arts, math, physical education, science and social studies. All the resources come from dozens of federal agencies, including the Department of Education, The Department of Health and […]
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Succeeding with Science, as you can probably guess from the name, is a website that offers interactive activities and teacher resources related to teaching and learning about science. The site was created to help students develop enthusiasm towards science by offering attractive activities to help them understand science concepts. While Succeeding with Science doesn’t offer […]
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ABCya is a website of computer games and activities for students from Kindergarten through Fifth Grade. The thing I like best about ABCya is that the games and activities were developed by teachers, based on actual curriculum. The large selection of activities are related to spelling, reading, math, geography, science and technology, and are sorted […]
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Music Tech Teacher is a site created by a music technology teacher from Burmingham, Alabama. The site contains online lessons, quizzes and games designed to teach elementary music concepts. These activities can be used as part of classroom instruction, or students can use them independently at home for practice and reinforcement.
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If It Were My Home is an easy-to-use site that compares life in another country to life here. It also allows you to compare life in two different countries. To compare your life to life in another country, just click on the country name from the list provided on the home page. To compare […]
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Salman Khan: Let’s use video to reinvent education is a TED talk given by Salman Khan, the founder of Khan Academy. In his talk, Khan talks about “Flip” or “Reverse” teaching, in which teachers assign the video of a lesson for homework, then in class the next day answers questions about the video and allows […]
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The Learning Network is a site/blog sponsored by the New York Times. The Learning Network is a current site, updated every school day, that offers a wealth of high quality learning resources — lesson plans, student opinion questions, challenges, crossword puzzles, etc. — for teachers and students in grades 3-12. For example, a periodic math […]
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Grammolopis is a site that was created by a Language Arts teacher to help elementary students learn about the parts of speech. Grammaropolis uses cartoon characters to personify the different parts of speech through songs, videos, games, books and more. The site is easy to navigate and offers a fun way for students to learn […]
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The Awesome Highlighter is a simple online tool for highlighting text in web pages. To use The Awesome Highlighter, just paste or type the URL of the website you want to highlight into the URL field. Once you get to the site your mouse turns into a highlighter, which you then drag over the text […]
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