Elementary+School

=Resources for Elementary School Teachers =

Below is a list of links to various tools and resources that may be helpful in implementing technology into classroom lessons. Please feel free to continue to add to the list as you come across your own that are tried-and-tested and that you feel may be useful to other teachers.

//General Resources//

 * [|RM Easiteach] - wiki with TONS of pre-made Easiteach activities/lessons for all grade levels and activities - click around!!
 * [|Spezify] : A Visual Search Engine - Better than Google for younger students
 * [|Grokker] - offers both map and cluster results
 * [|Kartoo] - visual search shows relationships
 * [|Quintura] - tag clouds suggest keywords and categories
 * [|Soople] - busts out Google's features
 * [|Jux2] - compare Google, Yahoo, and MSN with One Search
 * [|Digital Story Telling] - a wiki with a ist of how-to resources on using programs such as Audacity, Kidpix, Keynote, MovieMaker, VoiceThread, Photostory, etc. Check these out!

//Math Lessons[[image:images-6.jpeg width="70" height="76" align="right"]]//

 * [|Least Common Multiples] - Smartboard game for least common multiples
 * [|Khan Academy] - Video lessons of nearly any grade/level of mathematical concept

[[image:images-5.jpeg width="89" height="86" align="right"]]//Science//

 * [|Planets for Kids] - Good planet site for younger students
 * [|NASA] - Bring NASA into your classroom
 * [|Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears] - online magazine for K-5 educators integrating science, complete with podcasts and lots of graphics
 * [|Khan Academy] - Video lessons of many scientific concepts

//Reading//

 * [|Skype an Author] - Students ever bored with reading or stories? Skype a book's author into your classroom to talk with your students directly. This blog is a place where you can find authors who will do just that. We successfully did this last year in 9th grade where students had the opportunity to interact with an author via the bigscreen whiteboard... very cool!
 * [|Clusty] - clustered search with vocabulary and category supports

//Social Studies//

 * [|ePals] - FANTASTIC site for younger students to explore rich media AND connect with students in other classrooms and other parts of the world. Kid-friendly and very digitally safe.

//Differentiating for Multiple Needs/Intelligences//

 * [|Natural Reader] - free text-to-speech software program which converts any written text to speech (Word, pdf, websites, emails)
 * [|Click,Speak] - a free Firefox extension that reads the Internet and highlights phrases and sentences as it reads
 * [|Talklets]- make any website talk, embed in your website, blog or wiki
 * [|iSpeech] - converts web pages to audio.
 * [|Kartoo] - visual search shows relationships

//Other Cool Stuff - Just for Fun//
[|Snowflakes] - Kids can cut their own snowflakes on the computer -- Very COOL!