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__[]__ This site gives students practice with questions in eight categories (Humanities, English, Math, Science, Chemistry, Languages, Geography, and SAT Test Preparation). Each question they answer correctly donates 10 grains of rice to fight hunger through the World Food Programme. Andrew Smiley

[] Great site for all subject areas and you can search by grade level. Karen Bethel [] Check out Study Jams for videos on water cycle and states of matter Lots of other great activities. Karen Bethel [] Free sign up. Upload a picture and then tag parts of it with information that students click on to discover the information. Karen Bethel [] Specific site on discoveryeducation.com to view video on an Egg Farm There are a lot of other very interesting science items to choose from. Karen Bethel [] Great site for kindergarten! Videos, games and activities for all subject areas. Karen Bethel
 * [|www.starfall.com]** Literacy and math games for K-2. Meghan Chudina
 * [|www.thevirtualvine.com]** More ideas for kindergarten games and centers. Meghan Chudina
 * [|www.theschoolbell.com]** Another great site for kindergarten resources and center ideas for all subjects. Meghan Chudina
 * [|www.carlscorner.us.com]** Great reading activities for kindergarten and a great resource for emergent booklets. Meghan Chudina
 * [|www.havefunteaching.com]** Excellent site for centers and awesome alphabet letter, sight word, and math videos and songs! Meghan Chudina
 * [|www.drjean.org]** TONS of great resources ranging from monthly activities to classroom management tips for Pre-K and Kindergarten teachers. Meghan Chudina

[] Great math site. You can choose math topics by grade level. Bridgett Walker [] Great site for videos on any subject.It also has printables also. Bridgett Walker [] Great site for phonics and math practice.. I used thissite for center time and practice and drill at the end of the day. Bridgett Walker [] This site has cute videos, games, books and quizzes on nouns,verbs, pronouns,adjectives and much more.Bridgett Walker [] This site has story startesr, nursery rhymes, poems online, word games and much more. Bridgett Walker [|http://studyladder.com] This site has english,science,art, music, math and literacy kid games, worksheets and lessons. Bridgett Walker [] I like this website because it is a starting point that can lead you to specific sites to use with your classes. Ann Jones [] This website is helpful because it gives you different types of technology to use, and it provides explanations on how to implement the type of technology. Ann Jones [|www.sitesforteacher.com] I have found that this website can enable you to find almost anything you may need on your specific subject. Activities range from worksheets support websites from other teachers. Ann Jones __SoftSchools.com__ I especially like on site because you can take quizzes online. Ann Jones __jc-schools.net/tutorials/tools/english-hs.html__ This website is particularly useful for English teachers at a high school level. Ann Jones

[|buildyourselfwild.com] This website allows students to create animal versions of themselves, by changing various parts of their bodies to animal body parts. At the end, it summarizes what adaptations they would be best suited for based on the "animal them" they created. Michael D'Amico [] "Dance Mat Typing" Online, interactive keyboarding site for elementary students, with fun animal characters helping guide their practice. Michael D'Amico [] "Switch Zoo" Create your own animals, your own habitats, and play games based on matching the animals you create to the environment best suited for them. Plus More!! Michael D'Amico [] Create your own Picasso head! Great tool for adding Blooms "synthesizing" taxonomy when studying Pablo Picasso in Art class. Michael D'Amico [] "Blabberize!" Upload images, and make them talk! Great, creative report idea! Michael D'Amico [] "Animoto" Excellent online storyboarding/slideshow maker. Michael D'Amico

www.jeopardylabs.com - Create quick and easy online Jeopardy games. You can even link to your games on your website. -Angela Charboneau

[|www.poetrysoup.com]- Participate in a community of poets. No profanity or bashing of other poets is permitted. This is a good way to get students interested in writing and being creative- Richard Long.

www.scholastic.com-Create story starters by spinning to choose format, audio and drawings can be added. Also, this site has math daily starters and an interactive white board. This site has something for all ages and subjects.- Elaine Young

www.jc-schools.net - Create your own game board or use one already made. Games can be made with power point or download a template. If you're in need for question, you're given a site as a good source for questions.-Elaine Young

www.bbc.co.uk- Something for all grades, subjects and levels. There are elementary games that young children would enjoy. Math has written examples and videos, the examples are detailed with questions at the end of the explanations.- Elaine Young

www.bubblesnaps.com - Upload your pictures and add captions, in bubbles, and share with friends. This is another format for students to get engaged in creative writing.- Elaine Young

www.discovery.com/teachers/free6-8resources- This site has a virtual field trip, contests for students to enter, lesson plans, worksheets, brain boosters, just about everything. Elaine Young

[|www.myawardmaker.com] - create your own classroom awards--design and customize to fit your class. Barbara Dickinson

[|www.readwritethink.org] - interactive activities. Choose grade level, subject, and focus skill. Wide variety of activities to choose from. Barbara Dickinson [|www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/pronoun/quiz227.html] --I made up a pronouns quiz, but you can create any type of activity you need from the main websire of softschools.com Barbara Dickinson [] you can choose your grade level, subject, and skill to be taught. I played a game on the parts of speech. Barbara Dickinson [] I went to story starter and planned a lesson where the students spin a wheel to choose the main elements of a story that they create. Barbara Dickinson

[|www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/story/sbishtml] BBC-Storybear's Read Aloud A good website for storytelling, listening to stories read aloud, great .for comprehension questions and predicting outcomes Kathy Temple

[|www.hbschool.com/activity/busy] bees index html Busy Bees A great website for math word problems and critical thinking skills. Kathy Temple

[|www.iknowthat.com] A great website for math games such as counting to 12,what comes next,how many, counting by 5,s adding and subtracting. Kathy Temple

havefunteaching.com This site has useful games to reinforce alphabet recognition, alphabet flash cards, matching capital and lower case letters and identifing beginning sounds.Kathy Temple

ABCYa.com/kindergarten A good website for teaching alphabet recognition,alphabetical order,alphabet puzzles and connect the dots. Kathy Temple

[]. Educational based games. Kids can sign up using minimal information and compete with other kids from aorund the world in Math and Spellin- Richard Long.

[] Busuu is an online community for people who want to practice their language skills. Popular site features include an integrated video-chat-application, writing exercises that can be corrected by native speakers and it has an app available- Richard Long

[] Kids can practice math skills and compete with other kids from around the world, for K-5- Richard Long

[] Has a lot of neat learning games but I especially like the ones that test kids ability to be safe on social sites- Richard Long

http://www.typepad.com/ Typepad.com: Reminds me of a Pinterest kind of website. It is a blog/podcast/informative narratives/virtual scrapbooking/share your world with "strangers" etc. Alison Dolan

http://hubpages.com/topics/education-and-science/3398 Hubpages.com: This particular web address is devoted to education and science but you can find almost any subject you are looking for, pretty interesting. Alison Dolan

http://teacherbibi.blogspot.com/2010/04/10-useful-sites-for-teachind-kids.html Learning Fun: This website has __**10 websites**__ listed, especially for ESL kids. Alison Dolan

http://www.mathplayground.com/ Math Playground: Great website for teaching/reteaching/remediating/enrichment activities, K-6, Algebra, and Geometry. Alison Dolan

https://docs.google.com/document/d/13anHme2W3F7W3B_teLCrGS4YM4IBVNAm30T6mOySVlM/edit?pli=1#bookmark=id.bv4f8g19bkqn From the webiste http://ywp.nanowrimo.org/. This site has lesson plans and all kinds of ideas to get kids writing and many different prompts, from K-12. Very versatile! Alison Dolan

zoodles.com -Kindergarten games that help with attentiion/listening skills, matching, and many other k-level skills.Valerie Emerson

abcya.com - Fun games for grades k-5. I use this this quite a bit in my classroom for math skill reinforcement. Valerie Emerson

thesmilingteacher.com - Kindergarten sight words games, lists, and printable classroom games. Valerie Emerson

starfall.com - Teaches children to read with phonics. Includes both reading and math skills and presents it in a game/fun format that kids love. Valerie Emerson

kellyskindergarten.com - Provides many printable games to be used as teaching tools in the classroom. Sight words, matching, and counting money are skills included in some of the games. Valerie Emerson

[] - Great practice for testing vocab words. Katie Arrington

[] -ThinkQuest is an online learning platform that helps students develop important 21st century skills, including communication, critical thinking, and technology skills. Katie Arrington

[] - This site is great for creating QR codes. I like to add QR codes to worksheets. Katie Arrington

[] - This site allows students to create an interactive timeline. Katie Arrington

[] - This website is great for creating comic strips. Katie Arrington

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@http://infogr.am/ -- Create Interactive Infographics: This website is an easy to use online service that lets you create, share, discover infographics and online charts and graphs. Eric Roberts=====

@http://www.meegenius.com/ -- This is a really great site!!! Free "MeeGenius" give you and your students access to the MeeGenius library containing books and interactive stories that engage students imaginations, strengthen their reading skills and foster a love of reading. (There are many free books and others for sale ranging from $0.99 - $4.00 or so) Great addition to any reading department or library. Eric Roberts

@http://www.haikudeck.com/ -- Haiku Deck is a FREE iPad app, a new kind of presentation software to set your story free. (Has a rating of 12 years+) So it would be best with Middle & High School. Eric Roberts

@http://www.thinglink.com/learn -- Thinglink is free and really cool!!! Would be great for history, science, or social studies...it helps you or students (// if viewing or searching for already made -- use with caution...may have some with inappropriate images or links //) create an interactive image/picture. The image comes to life when you add links to music, video, pop-up text, other websites, etc... You can tell a story with these interactive images. Eric Roberts

www.khanacademy.org -- KhanAcademy is an online school or source of lessons featuring over 4000 videos and countless lessons in the subjects of math, science, economics, computer science, humanities, test prep, etc... Eric Roberts

[|www.tammyworcester.com] --Picturebook maker...great for story making. A student can imagine a story and put it to pictures. Great graphics and great for creative writing. Chris Neal

[|www.iknowthat.com] - Wide variety of subjects that students can learn for the first time or can use as a review. Probably better as a remediation tool. Chris Neal

[|www.tammyworcester.com] BBC Science Activites...Students watch clips from a wide variety of science subjects. Chris Neal

[|www.tammyworcester.com] BBC Science Clips. Animated game in which studests can manipulate objects and determine the outcome of the manipulated variable. Chris Neal

[|www.starfall.com] Starfall's Learn to read. Great process for teaching reading. Starts with the alphabet and in five programs has the student reading passages. Chris Neal

[|http://www.nutshellmath.com] This website has math resources for elementary, pre-algebra, Algebra I and II, Geometry, etc. Ex: There was a wonderful video on how to read both digital and analog clocks to determine time and it explains the expression of time in minutes. Other great videos are available. Catherine Cox

[] This website has math resources from Pre-Kindergarten through 8th Grade with exercises and skills. Catherine Cox

[] This website has a variety of teacher resources and activities, teacher ideas, and learning resources for home and school. I was fascinated with clicking the weather tab and finding out the weather in other countries. Catherine Cox

[|http://www.iknowthat.com] This website enhances content in core subjects. Choose a subject and a grade for fun activities. Catherine Cox

[|http://www.carrotsticks.com] This website focuses on math; it has online multiplayer games to improve math skills for grades 1 – 5. Catherine Cox

[] This website has guided reading and and interactive reading games for kids along with resources for teachers. Alisha LaPradd

[] This website focuses on math but also provides a few games for Language Arts and Science. To begin, just click on the grade level you are searching for. There are lots of math games for kids. Alisha LaPradd

[] This wesite focuses on K-2. There are nine options/games to choose from. Students can practice writing letters, make small words from big words, create their own flip book, make words, draw and describe a picture, splatter words onto a screen to create poems, create a story, match words and pictures, and practice using synonyms. This is a great website for students learning to write and practice writing. Alisha LaPradd

[] This website is awesome. It's great for little ones. I actually have the app installed on my phone for my 2 year old daughter and she loves it. It has so many educational games for her, or students to play, which are great for students, too! It also has some "just for fun" games as well. Alisha LaPradd

[] I love this website. It provides games and activities for all subjects. You just click on the subject you want and then choose from the topics listed. Your students can play games on the topic you choose. It even provides teacher tools! Alisha LaPradd

[] This website allows student to play different games in all different subjects. It will allow you to change level and speeds on the games to help with the students individual ability. It also has a place where the students can take online quizzes. For example, there is a place on there for students to take a quiz on time. The teacher can set it up so it does simple time, elapsed time, etc… There are different levels within the quiz. Level one is time to the hour. Level two is time to the ½ hour. (Ann Richerson)

[] Museum of Web Art- The student can explore this site and do a variety of different things. They can use a tool called the “Eraser” and practice making shapes or letter by filling in squares. The can also go to the “stories” option and read the stories along with the pictures. There are other fun games or things to do on this interactive site. (Ann Richerson)

[|http://www.moma.org/interactives/destination/#] Museum of Modern Art- This is a great website where kids can explore the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The students can click on different art work and learn a lot of interesting facts. They can learn about the artists and the piece of work. They can unscramble the art work and try to put it back together again. They can go to different art work using the arrows or even taking the escalator to the second floor. (Ann Richerson)

[] The “Ask Dr. Universe” website started in the 1990’s. It is a place where kids can go and ask questions about science. Some of the questions that are currently on there are “When I’m tired, where exactly am I tired?” Right now the website says that Dr. Universe is currently on a research expedition so I didn’t get a chance to try it myself. (Ann Richerson)

[] “The Old Farmer’s Almanac for Kids” is a fun website for kids to use to learn about the weather and different things on earth. There is a place where the kids can look at the calendar for the week and learn important things that happened in history on those days. They just have to scroll over the date. There is also a question of the day for the kids. There is another tab called “Sky Watch” where they kids can enter their location and see the sun rise and set for the day, the different sky events that are happening of that month and the different moon phases for the week. It looks pretty interesting. (Ann Richerson)

1. Educationworld.com – Excellent source of tools for teachers and administrators. This site includes technology resources, lesson plans, book reviews and app reviews.

2. Havefunteaching.com – Provides activities that are fun and educational. Resources include smartboard lessons, art activities, worksheets, songs, videos and common core activities.

3. Artisancam.org.uk – This site is an easily navigated picture book maker. The site provides a variety of pictures and the ability to type text.

4. BrainPopJr.com – Awesome educational videos related to state standards. Covers all subjects and provides quizzes to assess student learning.

5. IXL.com – Great site for math practice. Questions are organized by state standard, grade level and skill. The questions are presented in a multiple choice, game style format.

Anna M King

1. __makebeliefscomix.com/comix__-This website is so fun! It allows you to create comic strips for your students. This site provides the basic framework, as well as the ability to select from different characters and settings. Older elementary students could create their own comics to retell a story, while teachers of younger elementary students could create the comic to further illustrate the story. (Laura Workman)

2. __smilebox.com__- This site allows you to create slideshows, collages, online scrapbooks, etc. The first seven days are free (!) and you can afterwards pay for the month or year. This would be a great site to create collages of field trips, year in review, story retelling, etc. (Laura Workman)

3. __eduplace.com/graphicorganizer__- This site is an awesome site for teachers! It provides a vast assortment of graphic organizing tools. It is an incredible, but basic site. It's a great resource. (Laura Workman)

4. __www.murray.k12.ga.us__-go first to "technology" on the right hand side, then select "game resources" on the left hand side. This is an incredible site for finding games for students. There are game shows (that we all grew up with and that kiddos today are also familiar with), gameboard templates, no prep templates, time fillers, classroom timers, and more! You can go with what is already created, or adapt them to make them fit your needs. (Laura Workman)

5. __bighugelabs.com/badge.php__- This is kind of a different site. It allows you to create professional looking badges. Wouldn't it be cool to create badges for your little ones with their pictures on it? What about creating badges for story characters and letting the kids re-enact the play? If you are a preschool teacher, you could create "job badges" to put into the housekeeping area. The options are endless! (Laura Workman)

1.virginiatrekkers.com - great for VA Studies. Podcasts from various locations around Virginia and aligned with the SOLs. It includes historic battle locations, geographic regions, and other information. Each podcast is about 12 minutes long. (Christie Neal) 2.teachertube.com - same concept as youtube, but geared toward educational topics (Christie Neal) 3. rmtc.fsdb.k12.fl.us/content/interactivesites.html - an entire website of lists of interactive educational sites. (Christie Neal) 4. thevirtualpiano.com/# -students can play use the computer keys to play a virtual piano to more modern songs or create their own music. They can practice learning music notes (Christie Neal)

1. Science clips and interactive activites for K-2 (Jessica Cobb) [] 2. [|www.xtranormal.com/edu] (Jessica Cobb) digital storytelling for teachers with an option to have your students have making abilities 3. [] (Jessica Cobb) create talking avatars to give morning announcements or dialy homework assignments, etc. kids will love them. class accounts availble 4. interactive calendar for kindergarten and preschool smartboard. awesome (Jessica Cobb) [] 5. interactive math stories and character development, must chose english option (Jessica Cobb) [] 6. [|www.schooltube.com] (Jessica Cobb) educational videos by students adn teachers

[|http://www.kerpoof.com] - digital storytelling software (and more). Site allows you to: Make and share artwork; Make an animated movie (really! it's easy!); Earn Koins which you can trade for fun things in the Kerpoof Store; Make a printed card, t-shirt, or mug; or Tell a story. (Leigh Leslie)

[|http://www.voicethread.com] - create, upload, and share stories, conversations, processes, etc. (free memberships available) (Leigh Leslie)

[|Literacy Zone] - Interactive English games and activities (extensive list, free!) (Leigh Leslie)

[|http://www.abcmouse.com] - Preschool and Kindergarten. Full Online Curriculum for reading, math, and science. Free for public schools (Leigh Leslie)

[|tumblebooks.com] - amazing library of online read-alouds. requires a paid subscription; HOWEVER, if you log in through L[|ibrary of Virginia] and type tumblebooks into their search bar, you can access the entire library for FREE! (Leigh Leslie)

www.symbaloo.com Is a wonderful website for organizing all of the above links through tabs. "Mine" "Math" "Instruction" "Science" "Writing" etc. (Maureen Herbert)