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Literacy/Reading

Tumble Books - E-Books for E-Kids
After clciking the above link, click the Blue Tumble Books - E-Books for E-Kids box
FREE Rice!
Play a vocabulary game and feed the less fortunate when you win!
Houghton Mifflin Education Place
Are you interested in our reading book? Look here for information.
Chris Van Allsburg's Site
The site for the author of The Stranger
GameGoo by Earobics
Reading games for all ages
Giggle Poetry
A fun link with loads of goofy poetry for kids, and even adults
Enchanted Learning
Produces children's educational web sites which are designed to capture the imagination
Online bibliography maker
Starfall
A great early elementary learning site!
SpellTube
A FREE site where teachers can make a spelling list and students can practice their skills.
KidsSpell
A great site where you can make a custom word list and play spelling games with that list.
ABCya
Sheppard Software
Learning games that cover all sorts of subjects
Book Adventure
Reading Lady.com
ICT Literacy Games
Spelling Bee
Spot and Spell
Spell the floating objects.
Sheppard Software Language Arts Games
Many great Language Arts Games
ABC Match
ReadWriteThink Interactive Games
Picture Match
Word Wizard
It's like Hangman or Wheel of Fortune.
The Khan Academy

Math

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
Every manipulative you could ever imagine in virtual form.
The Pearson Successnet
This site is an amazing portal to the entire Pearson math series, including the entire math book online. upsdfouth student
eTools by Scott Foresman
Username and Password are: hereford
Challenging Math Questions
Try this list of very challenging math questions. TRY THEM, before you get the hints or the answers.
Mathslice
Another neat math game site
Math for Everyone
A fun site filled with math games.
How much money was that?
A calculator where you enter the price back then, and it tells you what the present price would be.
Create a Graph
Great Basic Facts Practice
That Quiz - Basic Facts Practice
Teachers can create a class and track progress FREE!
Multiplication.com - FUN games
Count Us In
Math Concept Games/Lessons
A great analog clock
XPMath
Great lessons/games for teachers and students
Math Playground
Great Lesson Resource!
Maths Zone
ICT Math Games
Tumbletown Mathletics
Math Olympics!
Tumbleweed's Math Maze
Sheppard Software Math Games
An incredible collection of math enrichment games.
The Trade Game
A huge list of NCTM Math activities
Fun4thebrain Addition Games
Fun4thebrain Subtraction Games
Fun4thebrain Multiplication Games
Fun4thebrain Division Games
The Khan Academy
Xtra Math
The best for tracking math facts practice
IXL
Math practice sorted by grade level

Science

Learning Science
This site is owned and maintained by a teacher. There are hundreds of high quality links to any scientific subject.
FOSS Science Website
A link to the Foss Science website where you can explore and try many different and exciting science concepts.
The EPA Kids Site
Your Gross and Cool Body
Weird information about your body
Interactive Simulations
The Khan Academy

Games

TVO Kids
A Canadian website filled with great games
Funschool
Lots of educational games
Funbrain
A great site to practice your facts and have fun while learning.
A magic website?
Can you figure out how it works?
Bunny Hopping on Bells
Change the tiles to spread across the board
Picross
QuizHub
A review and enrichment site, great on SMARTBoards.
Scholastic Learning Arcade
Learn your ABC's on Funschool.com
KinderWeb
Learning Planet K
Learning Planet
TVO Kids Kindergarten
PBS Kids
ABC Ya
Where technology meets education
Switcheroo Zoo
PBS Kids PLAY!
Sheppard Software
Learning games that cover all sorts of subjects
Up to Ten
Games for children up to ten
Lite Brite
Music Machine
Scholastic Computer Lab Favorites
A great collection of 15-30 minute one-session activities to teach Language Arts, Math, Social Studies, Science, and Spanish.
Cool Math Games
Not really MATH games

Keyboarding Games

Keyboard Zoo
Keyboard Climber
Super Hyper Spider Typer
Cup Stacking-Typing
Dance Mat Typing
A typing course taught by a British goat.
Type Rocket!
Keyboard Climber 2
Much more challenging than the first one!
KeyMan, Pop the Bubbles, and KeyBricks
Play Pac-Man, Pop the Bubbles, or Tetris with your keyboard
Tons of fun typing games!
Even more awesome typing games!
Alpha Munchies
Space Invaders
Stop the aliens from getting too close!
Learn the Keys
Do you know where all the keys on the keyboard belong?
Typing of the Ghost
Stop ghosts in this scary typing game
Alpha Attack
Use your keyboarding skills to stop the attack!
Star Wars Tiep Fighter
Wow this is hard!
Keyboard Chase (airplanes)
an online race against other typists
Typing Race (cars)
Type Rocket JR

Winter and Christmas Games

Holiday Games

SMART Technologies

1001 SMART Ideas

Official SMART Links

SMART's Main page
All SMART related software downloads
SMART Educator Resources
SMART Training Center (Tutorials, etc.)
SMART Lessons
SMART's Educator's Site
SMART Notebook Express
a web based SMART Notebook!

SMART Lessons

SMART Teacher/School Resources

SMART Resources from Lee's Summit, MO
Reedy Technologies
K-5 Classroom internet resources
Teachers Love Smartboards, the website
ETC K-12 Resources
Sorted by grade and subject
Royal Oaks Elementary Student Links

SMART Games/Interactive Activities

Gameshow Templates
Dabbleboard
QuizHub
Jigsaw Planet
Make any picture into an interactive jigsaw
Interactive Whiteboard games by PBS Kids
Birmingham Grid for Learning - Resources
Quia Web - Find or Create amazing games and quizzes

SMART Response (formerly Senteo)

Search Engines/Browsers/Teacher Content Resources

Yahoo Kids
Ask Kids
Kido'z
A kid-safe internet browser
Thinkfinity
FREE, high quality educational resources for everyone
Research for Alaskan animals
Pics4Learning
a safe site to find pictures
Historic Images
pictures throughout history
A Library of Congress Photo Archive
Harcourt School Publishers Webpage Listings
Online resources for all the books they publish
I huge list of internet resources
sorted by subject and grade
Free Discover Education Clipart
Pics 4 Learning - a safe collection of pictures
Internet 4 Classrooms

First Grade Research

Titanic Links

http://www.abratis.de/start.html
A cool picture
Encyclopedia Titanica
Many neat lists of people, etc.
RMS Titanic, Inc.
The company that hosts the exhibit
Jim's Titanic website
Awesome Titanic facts and figures
International Ice Patrol
Check out the Photo Gallery and Junior Ice Picks on the left
Cool Antarctica.com
Amazing iceberg facts and photos

Web 2.0 Tools

Go to Web 2.0
THE list of Web 2.0 applications
Web 2.0 Guru Wiki
A fabulous Wiki on Web 2.0 tools
Tigertown Web 2.0 Wiki
Why reinvent the wheel? A huge wiki filled with Web 2.0 resources and links.
DabbleBoard
Create your own online virtual Whiteboard and collaborate with others.
Animoto
Create incredible picture videos set to music
WikiSpaces
Create your own wiki to share or collaborate with others.
Scratch
Program your own video games!
Blabberize
You can make any picture talk and move it's mouth with Blabberize.
Voki
Create an animated version of yourself.
Dumpr
An amazing site where you can edit and change your photos.
I Know That!
Glogster
MyStudiYo - Create great looking quizzes for you wiki or website
Edu 2.0 - Blogs, Wikis, lesson planners, etc.
Puzzlemaker
Hereford Elementary Wikis
This space is still under construction!
QR Code Creator

Internet Safety

ikeepsafe.org
A nice resource for parents.
NetSmartzKids
An internet safety website for kids filled with great songs and info.
NetSmartz.org
A great internet safety resource for parnets
McGruff the Crime Dog
Help take a bite out of crime!
NS Teens
An internet safety website for teens
Cyber Five
Five rules to follow on the internet.

FREE software downloads

Audacity
A full featured audio program
Microsoft PhotoStory 3
Turn your photos into movies with music, text, and motion
Jing Project
Capture video or images from your desktop for FREE
Free Sound Effects
Libre Office
A complete office suite (like Word, Powerpoint, etc), for FREE!

Fun

Interesting Stuff

Animoto
Make awesome videos out of your digital pictures
Wichita Public Schools Educational Tools Technology Resources Page
Beautiful Landscapes
Christmas MIDI Music
Mediaconverter.org
Save streaming media to your computer
Cooltext
Create cool text for use in web pages, etc.