ReadWriteThink Student Interactives is a page that provides links to a variety of interactive resources designed to help students organize their thoughts and sharpen their literacy skills. The resources are organized according to category: Organizing & Summarizing, Inquiry & Analysis, Writing Poetry, Writing & Publishing Prose, and Learning about Language. Click on the “See All” […]
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Diagramly is an online diagram creator. It’s very easy to use — just click and drag the elements into the drawing area. Diagramly can also be used for creating mind maps and flow charts. What I like best about Diagramly is that it doesn’t require a signup or login. Also, you can save your file […]
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Learn Chemistry is a site developed by the Royal Academy of Chemistry to help students learn about chemistry. The site contains a variety of interactive activities, organized by topic, media type and age. Most of the activities I looked at were for middle or high school students.
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Build a Body is an interactive site designed to promote science education. On this site, the user chooses a body system, then build that system by dragging and dropping the various organs in their proper location. Clicking on the image of an organ on the right side of the page produces a description of the […]
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Healthline Human Body Maps is an interactive site which allows the user to explore the human body in 3D. The site allows you to view the various layers of the body, from the skin to the skeletal system. When you click on an organ, you get a zoomed in view of that organ. Clicking on […]
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Fuel the Brain is a site that offers free games and interactive activities for students in grades K-3. The games are currently all math-related, but they say that they plan to expand to include other subject areas.
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Academic Skill Builders is a site that offers a variety of arcade-style games designed to strengthen students’ academic skills. The games are designed for students in grades 1-6, and center around math, language arts, geography and typing. Some of the games are single-user games, but some are designed for more than one player to play […]
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CreativityGames.net is a site designed to promote creative thinking. The site provides weekly Creativity Games and Challenges, along with other resources that will hopefully open students’ minds to creative thinking. In a world in which there is such high emphasis placed on test scores, activities like the ones available on this website are more important […]
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Sheppard Software is a site that hosts hundreds of online games, quizzes, information and other activities for students from Pre-K through college, on a wide variety of topics. The activities are organized by subject, or you can use their search feature to search for an activity on a particular topic. The free site does contain […]
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Kubbu is a site that allows a teacher to create interactive quizzes, games and other activities. What’s nice about Kubbu is that you can enter up to 30 students into your free teacher Kubbu account without having to enter their personal information. Students can then login and use the activities you created. There are some […]
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