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All of the best K-5 online, interactive, educational games and simulations in one place!

Home page for Apple iPad apps, textbooks, etc.

A comprehensive list of apps that are being used with and by people diagnosed with autism, Down syndrome and other special needs

Designed to encourage people with autism to recognizes and express their emotions through its fun and easy to use interface.

iPad apps organized by Bloom's Taxonomy

Provides two people sitting opposite one another with separate web browser windows so each person can enjoy surfing the Internet

covers all the basic facts that elementary and middle school kids need to learn, about how Rocks & Minerals are formed, rock cyc

Math equation solver; costs $2.99

Pictoral database of common gems and minerals, with high-resolution images. Several hundred minerals are included, covering many

view the history of a particular location by taking historical photos and pinning them to Google Maps

Costs $0.99; the quintessential writing machine for your iPad and iPhone. iA Writer makes sure that your thoughts go into the te

Enjoy playing a large variety of musical instruments, each instrument fine tuned and carefully designed to provide a fun & uniqu

Pages is both a streamlined word processor and an easy-to-use page layout tool.

interactively zoom into a human hand and explore environments with scientifically-accurate 3D content. Discover some of the bas

A powerful, high quality, graphic calculator; enter and/or edit equations and visualize them in mathematical notation

Quick reference guide for rock hounds to identify and learn about the rocks, gems, and minerals that they are looking to collect

easy access to engaging science and engineering images and video from around the globe and a news feed featuring breaking news f

Whiteboard app...Share a great idea... Explain a tricky concept... Help kids with their homework

Turn your iPad into your personal interactive whiteboard!

Great app for special education & ESL

Create multiple card sets and fill them with flash cards. Quiz yourself with one or all of your card sets from wherever you are,

Tracing Pad is the drag-and-draw game that shows the user how to write letters and numbers in an easy and fun way.

Removes ads from YouTube vides

With a library of over 2,700 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and 238 practice exerci

View a YouTube video without the ads

Free educational videos--organized

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Outstanding site from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

Here is a site with loads of writing lessons. You don’t have to register to use the site.

The Art of Telling Digital Stories

If you find yourself confused about what "PARTS OF SPEECH" means, this packet will help to make the English/grammer term clearer

Vocabulary building while helping to end world hunger

55 sets of writing prompts that you can download, customize, and print for free. Choose from exercises in creative writing, sugg

Free audiobooks

For 40 years, Masterpiece has been known for high-quality adaptations of classics, mysteries, and contemporary literature. Brows

Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories you make to share, read, and print.Read them like books, play them like games, and se

A PDF book from Thinkfinity

Free on-line books!

Create pop-up books

Year long writing scope & sequence based on Common Core

An interactive mathematical problem solving game series

Telling time game

A wiki of math resources approved by Cindy Evans to replace Cool Math

Resources for teaching math

This is a collection of movie clips in which Mathematics appears.

interactive math tools

A channel dedicated to sharing wonderful, amazing, and sometimes surprising, characteristics of numbers. Perfect for using as a

This is a useful sport themed maths resource about measuring and estimating decimals, scales, and place value

A list from Go Ed

Free videos of life in the Arctic

Design is everywhere. We are surrounded by it but often don't think about why things are the way they are. Discover Design is an

Travel the stars with Google Sky. With Google Sky you can view the position of plants, explore constellations, and even watch t

free PBS documentaries

Take a virtual tour

A website containing links to videos associated with specific elements of the periodic table... and the links are arranged as fo

Science NetLinks is the place to find quality science and engineering resources for the classroom, including lesson plans, inter

This self-paced, self-guided tour allows viewers to take a detailed virtual tour of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural

Take a LIVE webcam adventure through the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.

from Finding Dulcinea

Lesson plan ideas from Thinkfinity

Virtual tour

Includes primary sources

primary sources from the National Archives

Lesson plans & student resources from the National Endowment for the Humanities

A former Japanese Internment Camp; this site is devoted to information concerning Executive Order 9066

view the history of a particular location by taking historical photos and pinning them to Google Maps

Travel floor-by-floor as you take an interactive tour of the White House. View official White House photos of room as well as b

from the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum

Time Charts of Cartography: Includes a comprehensive index of maps from ancient times to the present, with links to images.

Take a virtual tour with panoramic views

Library of Congress--sets arranged by topic

The Redistricting Game allows players to experience the realities of one of the most important (yet least understood) aspects of

Chronicles the development of our nation’s public education system from the late 1770s to the 21st century

Panoramic views of theColosseum in Rome, The Great Wall in China, Petra in Jordan, The Taj Mahal in India, Machu Picchu in Peru

Panoramic views of theColosseum in Rome, The Great Wall in China, Petra in Jordan, The Taj Mahal in India, Machu Picchu in Peru

Tennessee History for Kids helps students learn and teachers teach history, civics and geography.

Scholastic

from National Geographic

Explore, Visualize, and Publish Geographic Information

A free online Talking Dictionary of English Pronunciation