Welcome to my Portaportal!
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Use a keyboard to play music with different instruments
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Drag notes and rests to create a song
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Use an African thumb piano to create music!
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Create music using different instruments
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Classical Music Interactive Learning Games and Software
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Resources, Activities, and Games
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Drag notes to spell a word
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Resources, activities, and Games
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recomends music, artists, and concerts based on what you listen to
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Music, Literacy, and Numeracy Activities
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Music Games and activities
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Official kids Portal from the US Government for Music
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Royalty music for schools
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Photo Editing and Online Interactive Art
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Record your art in playback format
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Open Sources Drawing (Free but must be downloaded)
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Record doodling to play back
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Helps kids discover new ways to think about art
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An adventure in looking for children and adults
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A guide to art museums with websites designed to be entertaining and educational for students. Fun and games, art interpretation
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browse color palletes or create your own
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create abstract art with different kinds of painting tools
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Interactive art you can make online (brushster, college machiene, ect)
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transform your face into a painting
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paint like Jackson Pollock
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record a sketch with or without a voice
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learn about and hear from artists
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create a figure and write a story about it
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Google sketchup 3d design
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Lenawee Intermediate School District's media center - look for links to educational resources, educational technology, and dista
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free learning english program
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Create your own myth or legend. Record even your own voice
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the zooming canvas for presentations (http://www.activehistory.co.uk/Miscellaneous/free_stuff/worksheets/Prezi.pdf)
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Includes multimedia standards based reasources for the arts, language arts, mathematics, science and technology, social studies,
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Includes multimedia reasources for the arts, math, science, social studies, language arts, as well as thinking games
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Includes wonderful virtual manipulatives for all subjects and grade levels.
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Includes primary and secondary reasources, virtual manipluatives, and games grouped by subject level
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Edheads helps students learn through educational games and activities designed to meet state and national standards.
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Includes a collection of brain teasers, puzzles, riddles, games and optical illusions.
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A webquest offers an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the
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Includes wonderful portaportals such as computer teacher Stultz's portaportal (stultzvb)
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Students can post thoughts or responses on the wall
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Lets multiple users work on the same text at the same time
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Record a sketch with or without a voice
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Smarter Online Flashcards
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Wonderful Grammar, Speaking, Writing, and Listening ESL activities
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Primary resource with games and activities
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Web 2.0 Applications Index
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Interactive games and activities divided by grade, wonderful with SMARTboard
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Free educational interactive resources for primary grades
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TerraClues is the ultimate Google Maps scavenger hunt game!
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games, resources, and activities
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helping teachers and students reach the world
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A place for K-12 teachers to find other teachers
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downloadable or items for purchase (many for 99 cents)
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'Ideas to Inspire' is a collection of collaborative presentations, which offer a large number of ideas for engaging lesson activ
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The Teachers.Net Gazette features exciting education news, insightful commentary, clever teaching tips, engaging lesson plans, p
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Blooms pyramid using Web 2.0 apps
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create webquests
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California Technology Resources
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Wow! what an amazing classroom!!
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conversation starters, 21c learning, copyright, influence of media, history of technology, social networks, psa, cyberbulling, d
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Learning Objects and learning Activities
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can import directly into Smartboard for whole group work
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create your own virtual tours
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professional development resource for teachers and librarians
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The Magic of Learning through Technology
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Education. Technology. Productivity.
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ICT in the classroom
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ELL, ESL and more
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What works in public education
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The Teaching Palette is a blog authored by art educators for art educators.
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The purpose of this web blog is to showcase the lessons and artwork used with my middle school students. The information provide
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Help for writing grants
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Online charity where teachers request what they need
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Games, Drawing, Worksheets, Letters, Numbers, Reading and Comprehension
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reading, language arts, math, science, social studies, assessment
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Divided by content
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english, math, science
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50 learning activities 15-20 minutes each (la, math, science, social studies)
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students compete in eucational games against opponents around the world
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Student organizer and social notetaking tool where students can create a schedule, track their grades, manage a to do list, stor
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Students that use Gradefix create a study schedule used to best spreadout and prioritize homework throughout the week in hopes t
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Chalksite is a system built for teachers, students, and parents providing teachers with an easy to use central point where they
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Engrade is a free set of web-based tools for educators allowing them to manage their classes online while providing parents and
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An online note taking tool for students including a WYSIWYG note editor, assignment reminders, grade management, to do lists, an
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Haiku provides a system for teachers where they can create a public website for their classes, manage content, list assignments
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Academic organizer, class scheduler, and message board area for students.
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Backpack is an all around great organizer including note taking, file storage, to do lists, a calendar, and more.
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Evoca is excellent for recording podcasts, but it also seems to work for notes as well because when you record, it simply saves
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For podcasting as well, but as does Evoca, Odeo’s podcast recorder also works well and saves your recordings as podcasts which y
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Collaborate with your classmates to create a unified set of notes for your class.
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Notecentric is a new notetaking site designed to help university students have their notes wherever they are and easily share th
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e-portfolio
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student friendly e-portfolio
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Wiki spaces for educators
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Collaborative wiki spaces
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web polls
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web poll
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web poll
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create or use premade flashcards
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create and share flash cards
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create, modify, and share flashcards (allows images)
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online flashcards that record progress made and shows cards that provide difficulty
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use a cell phone to send notes and emails
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create picture charts
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Sync large files online and across computers
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Edit online documents
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Design Buttons
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Free private chat rooms
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send documents to home email when email is blocked
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Free Family Organizer
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Google and Twitter Combo Search
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Edmodo is a private communication platform built for teachers and students.
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twitter alternative for companies or groups
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search engine designed specifically for children
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search engine designed specifically for children
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search engine designed specifically for children
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online citation tool
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provides "collections" arranged by content and linked to websites
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wiki with major news sources
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Using the Best Directories and Search Engines
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listing of Web 20 apps
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This web site is an archive of the best Web 2.0 tools for teachers and students (plus a bit of extra fun stuff too).
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dress an otter and put words in his mouth
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create an easy webpage
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generate a timeline with images and video
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mind maping, comics, movies, video editing in one!
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capture screen shots OR videos
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digital camera lesson plans
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add voice to images
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inspired picture writing
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Blogs are being SAFELY used by classroom teachers around the world to help students develop and refine their abilities to write
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wiki including many resources and great classroom examples
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turns blogs into podcasts
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create comic strips using photos from flickr
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text to video
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image sharing
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online storytelling
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create, find, share podcasts
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real time, multi-user whiteboard
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Plan balanced diets
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how much sugar is in what you eat?
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create snow tracks for santa!
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Build tracks for a train
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Free Online Education Games to play at home
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Amazing Web 2.0, ski, dance, sketch, paint, drum
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Capture particles of light to make music
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Flash logic game
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Just pop the bubbles
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Jump the blobs to remove them from the table
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Word logic puzzles
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Unscramble Flickr images
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Turn words into secret messages
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Virtual Sand Castles
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create faces
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stack some cubes
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lesson plans, web reasources, and student activities
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Includes a wonderful kid friendly dictionary and thesaurus as well as a glossary maker, quiz builder, vocabulary, anagram solver
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hundreds of poems and poetry activities
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Tons of Language Arts activities and links grouped by grammar, spell it, read it, working with words, and letter fun
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Free leveled readers and interactive guided reading
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Generate Word Clouds
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language arts concepts from begining sound recognition to advanced parts of speach
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Mysteries to solve, scary stories, and magic tricks
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post comments to help with comprehension on any website
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Teaching K-8 students to visualize what they are reading and to create graphic symbols helps them develop as readers.
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Fractured fairy tales are traditional fairy tales with a twist – for example, telling the story of Jack and the Beanstalk from t
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includes links to many sequencing activities
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Flip-a-Chip is a novel approach to word study that promotes vocabulary development.
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Ghost stories and strange folktales of the American South, told by the region's most celebrated storytellers.
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similar to mad libs
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Learning to read activities and online books
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decodable books for beginning readers
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online storytelling
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Online books created by students for beginning readers
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Use this site to create, read, and share engaging digital books that build reading skills for students.
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free downloadable classic chapter books
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online readers with support built into reading
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Beginning books for all ages (can read or write books)
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online stories
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games, stories, video clips
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K and 1
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Reading website for emergent readers
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Authors & Illustrators on the Web
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Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters is an African Cinderella story. Students will become more familiar with the setting of this story b
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read along stories and songs
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easy readers
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free audio stories
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easy to read online stories
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Interactive Phonics Activities (by grade)
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Upload spelling lists to play games with, learn from, and quiz yourself!
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interactive spelling game
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Help a monkey shake coconuts out of the tree
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learn the alphabet while learning letters
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hear, read, and discover poems
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generates rhyming words
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children's song lyrics
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americans saying the poems they love
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"adopt" new words as you explore definitions
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Online visual dictionary, word clous
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create a story using selected words
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wonderful thesaurus
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visualize words in mapping and images
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online brainstorming
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digital mind maping with charts
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digital mind mapping using flow charts
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collabortive mind mapping
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collaborative mapping
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using text organizers to assist in writing for different purposes
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online mad libs
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web based time lining
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online writing prompts
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create your own comic strips
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place descriptions on all types of surfaces
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send a postcard and recieve one back from someone random in the world
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create posters with images, video, writing, and audio
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create animated comics with preset images or images of your own
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improve your writing with writing den
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create word webs to discover definitions
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Puzzles, suduko, jigsaws, and games
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Features original mathematics problem solving activites primarly for grades 3-5
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A place where students can practice all aspects of math, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, in a fun
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Math problems, games, logic puzzles, manipulatives, and videos
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counters, coins, cubes, number line, hundred chart
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Great with Smartboard
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Need usename for many activities but some are unlocked. Mostly catered to 11 year olds but some are lower level.
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Dictionary for math terms
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Math games, math videos, word problems, logi problems
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Calcoolate provides users with a simple calculator with advanced expression support, mathematic functions, and history for viewi
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web-based calculator
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How can you make a picture when blocks keep falling?
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many different math activities
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Wow -- reasources for every math topic
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links to math games by content
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Math resources and games tailored to students interests (upper elementary)
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Math activities divided by grade and content level
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Kickbox with an alien to solve math problems
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Pop balloons by solving addition problems
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Solve addition problems to race to the top of the pyramid
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Pop balloons by solving subtraction problems
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Color a Sea Picture by solving addition problems
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Arrange shapes to help with addition problems
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A program that assists those with fine motor problems to set out columnar arithmetic, without the need for a spreadsheet.
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Gail Lovely
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Try to eyeball geometric shapes as close as possible
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Flash information about angles and protractors
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Slide the money into the cup until you have found the correct amount
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How many coin combinations can you count?
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Can you fins the value of groups of coins?
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Determine the values of different coins and then decide which group has more!
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strudent banking tips from the Bank of America
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use skip counting or addition to find the total of equal groups
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Use multiplication and division fact families to fly a kite!
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interactive games
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Great resource that allows students to see the relationship between multiplication and addition
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games designed to help children understand basic number concepts
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Use blocks to make 2 digit numbers
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Trade candles to illustrate place value
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Use place value to make numbers
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Use place value to move penguins
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count base 10 blocks to 1000
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Numbers to 1000 written in different ways
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Two player game to tell time to the half hour
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Race against your best time to match analog and digital clocks to the half hour
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Race against your best time to match analog and digital clocks (15 minute intervals)
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Race against your best time to match analog and digital clocks (5 minute intervals)
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Telling Time with Time Travel
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manipulate virtual clock
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click view the clock to view a human clock
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Lesson plans and online activities and manipulatives
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Links to Interactive Math Tools and Activities for Students and Teachers from Kindergarten through Middle School.
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model math problems
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visualizer search tool
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scans news sources every hour to find the 100 most talked about things
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Wow! great archive of old website, great from researching recent historic events (elections, natural disasters)
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online alamanac, dictionary, encyclopedia, and homework help
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Web search for kids by librarians
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Discover the world with TIME for kids - homework helper and many other magazine features
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websites you can trust
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place library books in the correct order
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Supporting inquiry-based research projects, the Animal Inquiry interactive invites elementary students to explore animal facts a
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Includes stories, games, videos, and activities for students grades K-12
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Includes wonderful activities such as ones that focus on food, machienes and tools, sports, earth, space, the mind, society and
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Two minute long educational videos sparked by student "wonders"
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Looks at size compared to the universeq
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Photo Story of Alaska's Mount Redoubt Volcano
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Follow Planets as the Orbit around the sun
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Interactive Engineering for 9 - 11 year olds
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Uses wheels and rods to create contraptions to move a ball to a goal
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Harcourt -- mini video clips divided by grade level
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Interactive activities K-8
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online book
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science videos
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science news and podcasts for kids
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Building Bonanza, Energy Flows, ID-fit, and more…
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How many different ways can you help the ball reach its goal
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Offers information about oceanography, meteorology, resource conservation, and marine biology.
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Provides 165 lesson plans developed to bring entire classrooms "on board" for exploration and discovery.
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Students can participate in a virtual dinosaur discovery, follow milestones in dinosaur evolution, and see behind-the-scenes sli
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The Particle Adventure takes visitors on a tour of a world only seen through powerful microscopes — or in the case of dark matte
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write your dreams for the future, dress a lab technician, play in a wind tunnel
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Interactive periodic table with videos for each element
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Race to sort items into containers to be recycled
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Recycle items in the park to help the elephant
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Help Mychael collect trash and bring it to trah cans in this fast pace game
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Online Earth Day coloring!
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Discovery Education video about recycling with a holiday theme
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Eco friendly games, music, and stories
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Learn about the Environment, Air & Water, Garbage & Recycling, Games, etc.
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Explores the latest scientific information from the National Academy of Sciences.
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learn how to reduce your impact in your home
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Come explore the world of pests. Then you can use your knowledge to outwit the pests in your world.
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Is a geoscience community resource that supports teaching and learning about the Earth system.
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Interactive Website letting you know what to do in case of an earthquake
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create your own constelations
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Identify the living and nonliving things in the picture
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An introductory Student Web Lesson about basic needs, grouping, and habitats.
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Discovery Streaming video on animal classification
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Online graphic organizers to assist with animal research
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Describes the amazing abilities of animals
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Audio story about a fish surviving in a coral reef
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Students read riddles and guess the animal
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Sort animals and plants, sort animals by legs, sort animals by movement
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Sort the pictures into living and non-living things.
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Amazing animal facts, pictures, and activities
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Quick matching game that matches teeth with their owner. Click the magnifying glass to see close up pistures of the different te
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Online book about animal characteristics
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Discovery Education Video on insects (13 minutes)
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Discovery Edcation Video (16 minutes)
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Reptile gardens, information on types of reptiles
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Search for favorite animal characteristics
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create and animate your own critter
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On a journey through time, you’ll learn the ways of the mammoths and their modern day descendants, the elephants. Go back 200,00
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Provides lessons for learning about the Everglades ecosystem, bat habitats, bull trout, rock classification, eagles, invasive sp
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Is a place where teachers can find marine science education resources that are screened by science educators and research scient
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live webcams in African Safaris
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Make and play with animals
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Consists of web-based educational presentations for young children about space, which were developed at the Space Telescope Scie
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Provides answers and photos for 200 common questions about astronomy and objects in space.
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Is a collection of Astronomy 101 reviewed digital resources for teachers and students.
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Provides hundreds of hands-on astronomy explorations for Grades 2-6.
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search for and design a habitable planet
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Profiles women of NASA who achieved a variety of "women's firsts" — the first woman programmer, the first woman shuttle commande
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provides calculations to build a solar system of your own
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Virginia Standards of Learning practice tests
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Includes great SMARTboard lessons as well as wonderful links
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Search powered by SMART using a google search of only Notebook files
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Search the web by SOL or by SMART file
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Notebook program exchange powered by SMART
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Whiteboard resources, blog, forum, and training
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Smartboard lessons for Kindergarten
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Wow! Tons of Interactive activities for primary and secondary grades
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Students can generate descriptive timelines that can be plotted with their choice of units of measure (date, time, event, entry,
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The interactive Printing Press is designed to assist students in creating newspapers, brochures, flyers, and booklets. Teachers
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The Compare & Contrast Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to organize and outline their ideas for dif
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Bio-Cube is a useful summarizing tool that helps students identify and list key elements about a person whose biography or autob
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This site includes regularly updated online materials for teachers including lesson plans, student activities, and great website
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The National Archives is a gateway for resources about primary sources, activities and training for educators and students.
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Primary sources and digital pictures that illustrate more than 200 years of American history
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Maps and map games
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The Library of Congress -- lessons, activities, and primary sources
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The year is 1607. You are the captain of the Jamestown Colony in Virginia in this Flash-based historical simulation. Will your c
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This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing
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history resources and games for kids
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front page news around the world
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browser editing tool allowing people to remix the speeches and words of American history
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Americas past history tutorials
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animated flash games
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online civil war interactive tool
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Thematic Mapping Engine (TME) enables you to visualise global statistics on Google Earth. The primary data source is UNdata.
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play tetris with states
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National Geographic: Identify continents, countries, states and provinces
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Test our knowledge about the USA or the world
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drage the state names
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Build Planet Earth, Cities and Countries
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Very cool site. Find out how maps became flat. Can you find countries when the map is “upside down”?
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Flash Games to locate states and countries- Europe, Middle East, South America, Central America, Africa, Canada, Australia, Find
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Check how many states and their capitals you know
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create a flag
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learn about eating in other countries
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a breakdown of our earth
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Declaration, Bill of Rights, and Constitution
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These lessons are designed to give elementary students guided practice in working with primary and secondary source material.
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On this journey, you will assume the role of historical detective and search for clues to America's past in American Memory, th
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Analyzing Political Cartoons
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Interactive site showing the growth of the US
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The Standards of Learning for Virginia Public Schools describe the commonwealth's expectations for student learning and achieve
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Students are permitted to use formula sheets on the End-of-Course (EOC) Mathematics tests and a Periodic Table of Elements on t
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SOL K-12 technology integration resources grouped by grade level. Also features a technology web search of all division websites
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Includes songs for all subject levels as well as links to other music websites
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Organizes Video Channels of over 100 colleges and universities
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Clip Art
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Clip Art
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Clip Art
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Clip Art
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Clip Art
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360 panoramic images
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Video sharing
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Text to movies
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A place to make cool stuff with your photos
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Make a movie, card, drawing, doodle, story, picture
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Educational Videos
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Photo sharing
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Digital Storytelling
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Upload a image and add audio to blabberize
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create your own photostrip
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create digital scrapbooks
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download, upload video
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Image Editing
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tell stories with photos and slideshows
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image search tool
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photo editing
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flickr visualizer
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Download youtube video that can be viewed in school
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Creating a synth allows you to share the places and things you love using the cinematic quality of a movie, the control of a vid
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search for images
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view videos or upload new videos
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photo mosaic maker
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videos for early childhood
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On Jamendo artists allow anyone to download and share their music. It's free, legal and unlimited.
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great mysteries and online games