"Ask Kids is a search engine designed exclusively for young people ages 6 to 12. It's a free, safe, fun way for kids and their parents to quickly and easily research school topics like science, math, geography, language arts, and history in a search environment that's safer and more age-appropriate than traditional, adult search engines."

I love this website. The interactive programs it offers range from Kindergarten through twelfth grade. It even has a section for lessons specific to the Promethean Board. I have used it with kindergarten and third graders teaching content skills and technology skills. I hope you will find it useful in your classroom. If you would like to see a model lesson or would like to team teach a lesson, I would love to come and help!!

Select from videos, images, and more to use in the classroom!

This site offers leveled computer tasks for students to complete ranging in skills from parts of the computer to typing. This is a great place to begin when you are searching for lessons to cover the NETS. If you would like me to model a lesson please let me know!

This site is one of the best I have seen as far as having a wide range of resources. It has everything from powerpoint games, to unit lessons, and even tutorials. I will add this to the COLT web site.

Would you like to know more about... How Can I Become Part of this ReadWriteWeb Revolution? The Google Gamut: Everything you need to get started We Like Our Blogging Buddies: The Write Stuff with Blogging Mentors Games in Education Monsters Bloom in Our Wiki You can learn about these topics and much more using the recorded sessions of the K-12 online conference. All sessions are recorded and available for viewing at your convenience.

Traditional and modern fables Illustrated and retold by art students at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Know your basic letters and sounds, now what? Well it's off to words and further phonics areas such as Vowel Phonemes and Consonant Clusters. Here you can find great online interactive games and activities for each of these areas along with printable activities for further reinforcement. How many of the High Frequency Words do your students already know? There is also a Gallery section with student submitted writings and suggestions for getting your students' work posted. Maybe your students will enjoy this site so much that they will even access it from home.

Bembo's Zoo takes the letters of the alphabet and they magically become animals. It is neat and could be incorporated into the letter of week, review, etc.

Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 6,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read offline, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes. K-8

This site provides an on-line streaming video program featuring Screen Actors Guild members reading children's books aloud.

This site uses Google Earth files to guide students through a few of their favorite literature selections. This would be a great whole group activity as you read with students.

"An interactive website where reading, writing and drawing intersects with math and music. Inkless Tales is about showing kids if you try, you probably can. This "Imagination Engine" is all about sparking your creativity through playing, learning, reading and writing!" This site has a great poetry section where students can submit work. It is really neat if you can get past the music on the homepage :)

Free animated online workbooks for the development of reading and math skills, Grades K-8. You can also print out free worksheets

This site was developed by graduate students of the University of South Carolina and later sold to Disney. It is a great site to begin teaching students the basics of computer programming, movie making, writing scripts, cartooning, and much more!

Trivia games and word scrambles based on children’s books and movies. Visit the Trivia and Games section. Grades K-5

Choose from classical or current authors and learn more about them at this website

Here students can create acrostic poems, fractured fairy tales, create postcards, create words using beginning and ending sounds, and even create their own books. If you don’t think your students are ready to try these on their own, make it an interactive whole group lesson! If you would like me to teach a model lesson email me and we can set up a date and time!

A collection of 7 reading passages with comprehension questions and answer key.

This site features... A Reading website for emerging readers. Free reading games, ideal for interactive whiteboards. Online guided reading stories and teaching resources with lesson plans

Having taught in the upper elementary grades I often take for granted the fact that (most of) my students came to my class already knowing sight words. I can only imagine the patience and practice it must take to teach a child words like it, is, and the. After all, there are no pictures to aid in teaching these words, yet try finding a book that doesn't use them! If you would like to download a free game that uses sight words for Pre-Primer, Primer, First Grade, Second Grade and Third Grade then this weeks tech tip is for you!

This is a great FREE website for teachers and students. You can enter vocabulary/spelling words here for students to use to test themselves, play games, and practice. As the teacher you can register to use this site and create lists for your students. Then, students can go to the site, without logging in, and find your list.

Choose from a collection of stimulating story settings to help get your story started.

Online interactive reading resources that cover: Analyzing Text, Audio and Text, Proofreading, Reading Comprehension Advanced, Reading Comprehension Beginner, Reading Comprehension Intermediate, Short Stories, Vocabulary

Interactive practice and estimation games sorted by grade level and math topic.

Abbott and Costello are trying to figure out a math problem. This is probably best used in upper elementary classrooms, but if you are in a primary classroom and there is a video you would like me to turn in to a lesson, let me know. I am happy to create for you! The quality of the video is not the best, but the lesson it teaches is GREAT!

Interactive math activities for students with games, calculators, etc.

Interactive math activities for students with games, calculators, etc.

Create bar, line, area, or pie graphs online! You submit the data and the website does the rest! Grades 2-8

A variety of math activites that include arithmetic, geometry, algebra, calculus fractals, and probability. Grades 2-12

Interactive activities include arithmetic, geometry, algebra, calculus, probability and more. Grades 1-12

Interactive, animated math glossary for Grades 1-8.

Holiday Hoopla is a collection of holiday activities such as sorting, categorizing, etc.

This game is geared toward younger students, it is great for reinforcing patterns, logical thinking, etc.

This site has interactive Java programs ranging from time, money, base ten blocks and even Cuisenaire Rods. These would be great to use as a whole group activity or a center activity. Some of the programs give students immediate feedback.

Math Glossary provides illustrated and animated definitions and explanations for math terms to help students with homework.

This is a great site for interactive math resources. Pay special attention to the interactive hundreds chart, is can easily be adapted for any grade level!!

This flip chart helps teach place value and is geared toward older grades.

This site contains online videos on topics ranging from basic math operations to finding a job. Though this is geared more toward 3, 4, and 5th grade, this could be used with any grade level. These videos are free and can be embedded into other web sites!

The Twelve Days of Christmas asks children to calculate how much money it would take to buy all of the items to make their true love happy this Christmas.

Interactive practice to help students visualize fractions.

Interactive flash and shockwave games to practice basic math facts. Also provides fraction practice.

BBC Science Clips- I used this often in my room to reinforce concepts. This allows for students to experiment without having to set it up in the classroom.

Classify This- This site asks students to classify animals that have a backbone, are arachnids, and much more!

I created this when I taught fifth grade. Please feel free to use this and make any changes necessary.

Energy Flows- Students put objects in order to make energy flow.

I created this when I taught fifth grade. Please feel free to use this and make any changes necessary. R Kelsey

I created this when I taught fifth grade. Please feel free to use this and make any changes necessary. R Kelsey

Science Splat- This is a leveled game of general knowledge science questions.

I created this when I taught fifth grade. Please feel free to use this and make any changes necessary. R Kelsey

This web site allows you to enter a location, see the forecast for the next week, view nearby webcams, view a map and satellite image of the area and overlay a radar, clouds, and temperatures for your location.

I created this when I taught fifth grade. Please feel free to use this and make any changes necessary. R Kelsey

Wild Weather Adventure- Explore earth and its weather.

If you would like help with this please let me know! This can often be a difficult task!

This is a template to create your own Jeopardy review game in ACTIVsoftware. This was created by Matt Barfield who has done some training within the district. This would be great to use during your PASS review time or as an end of the year activity. If you would like some help organizing a game in your classroom please let me know, I am always available to teach a lesson. I used Jeopardy in my classroom many times as a review strategy!! I would love to see this used with the ACTIVotes or ACTIVexpressions! If you would like to try this, we can set it up together!!

Here you will find a flip chart on How To Save Resources from Promethean Planet to your Resource Library. If you would like some help doing this let me know and we can set up an appointment.

This is the flipchart Kathryn Vaughn shared with us when she came in January of 2009 for professional development. If you would like to build a flipchart implementing any of these ideas please let me know.