INTERACTIVES FOR ALL

Student interactive

Plot diagram

http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/plot-diagram-30040.html

Story map

http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/story-30008.html

poetry and song

Grades 7 – 10 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson

Engineering the Perfect Poem by Using the Vocabulary of STEM

Students research engineering careers and create poetry to understand the vocabulary of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics).

Grades 6 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson

Making History Come Alive Through Poetry and Song

Students compare the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald with the song, “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” then create their own poetry about a historical event.

COMIC CREATOR

http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/comic-creator-30021.html

Classroom Resources|Grades 3 – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
Compare & Contrast Map
The Compare & Contrast Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to organize and outline their ideas for different kinds of comparison essays.
Classroom Resources|Grades 3 – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
Comparison and Contrast Guide
The Comparison and Contrast Guide outlines the characteristics of the genre and provides direct instruction on the methods of organizing, gathering ideas, and writing comparison and contrast essays.
Classroom Resources|Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
Crossword Puzzles
This tool allows students to complete crossword puzzles on a variety of grade-appropriate topics, and also create and print their own crossword puzzles.
Classroom Resources|Grades 3 – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
Cube Creator
The interactive Cube Creator helps students identify and summarize key elements. It can be used as a prewriting or postreading activity.
Classroom Resources|Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Writing Poetry
Diamante Poems
This online tool enables students to learn about and write diamante poems.
Classroom Resources|Grades 6 – 12 | Student Interactive | Inquiry & Analysis
Drama Map
Students analyzing a play can map out the key elements of character, setting, conflict, and resolution for a variety purposes. This interactive is aimed at secondary students.
Classroom Resources|Grades 3 – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing
Essay Map
The Essay Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to organize and outline their ideas for an informational, definitional, or descriptive essay.
Classroom Resources|Grades 3 – 5 | Student Interactive | Learning About Language
Eye on Idioms
The activity includes a series of exercises, in which students view the literal representations of idioms and then examine the metaphorical meanings of the idioms.

Classroom Resources|Grades 3 – 12 | Student Interactive | Writing & Publishing Prose

Flip Book

The Flip Book is designed to allow users to type and illustrate tabbed flip books up to ten pages long. Students and teachers can use the flip book for taking notes while reading, making picture books, collecting facts, or creating question and answer booklets.

 Classroom Resources|Grades 3 – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing

Graphic Map

The Graphic Map assists teachers and students in reading and writing activities by charting the high and low points related to a particular item or group of items, such as events during a day or chapters in a book.

 Classroom Resources|Grades 6 – 12 | Student Interactive | Inquiry & Analysis

Hero’s Journey

Students can use this tool to learn about the elements of the hero's journey, analyze a text that follows the hero's journey pattern, or start creating a hero story of their own.

Classroom Resources|Grades 3 – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing

Persuasion Map

The Persuasion Map is an interactive graphic organizer that enables students to map out their arguments for a persuasive essay or debate.

Classroom Resources|Grades K – 8 | Student Interactive | Writing & Publishing Prose

Postcard Creator

The Postcard Creator helps students learn to identify all the typical parts of a postcard, and then generate their own postcard messages by typing information into letter templates. After printing their texts, students can illustrate the front of their postcards in a variety of ways, including drawing, collage, and stickers.

 Classroom Resources|Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Writing & Publishing Prose

Printing Press

The interactive Printing Press is designed to assist students in creating newspapers, brochures, and flyers.

 Classroom Resources|Grades 3 – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing

ReadWriteThink Notetaker

Useful for a wide variety of reading and writing activities, this outlining tool allows students to organize up to five levels of information.

 Classroom Resources|Grades 3 – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing

ReadWriteThink Webbing Tool

The Webbing Tool provides a free-form graphic organizer for activities that ask students to pursue hypertextual thinking and writing.

 Classroom Resources|Grades 9 – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing

Resume Generator

This tool guides students through the creation of a resume that can be saved and edited. Written and audio tips provide extra support.

Classroom Resources|Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing

Timeline

Students can generate descriptive timelines that can be plotted with their choice of units of measure (date, time, event, entry, or other).

 Classroom Resources|Grades 3 – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing

Trading Card Creator

This tool provides a fun and useful way to explore a variety of topics such as a character in a book, a person or place from history, or even a physical object. An excellent tool to for summarizing or as a prewriting exercise for original stories.

 Classroom Resources|Grades K – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing

Venn Diagram, 2 Circles

This interactive tool allows students to create Venn Diagrams that contain two overlapping circles, enabling them to organize their information logically.

 Classroom Resources|Grades 6 – 12 | Student Interactive | Organizing & Summarizing

Venn Diagram, 3 Circles

This interactive tool allows students to create Venn Diagrams that contain three overlapping circles, enabling them to organize their information logically.

Panwapa

http://www.panwapa.com

(which in the Tshiluba language means "here on this earth") aims to foster a foundation for global citizenship and community in children around the world. Through this Site, Sesame Workshop aims to extend their mission to use educational media to help children reach their highest potential, celebrate cultural diversity, and build global understanding. Visit Panwapa, it's both educational and fun!

Geosense

http://www.geosense.net

Test your knowledge of world geography by playing Geosense, alone or with a partner. Grades 7+

iCivic-a web-based education project designed to teach students civics and about our democracy. iCivics is the vision of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. There are teaching games on this site.

Latitude and Longitudehttp://www.wcrl.ars.usda.gov/cec/java/lat-long.htm

Enter two global coordinates and receive the crow's flight distance between the two or examine the

distance between many large cities on the planet. Grades 5+

Don't Gross Out the World Cute - International Dining Etiquette Quiz

Mr. Nussbaum Social Studies Games, maps, history

Museum Box provides tools to build a description of an event, person or historical event by placing items in a virtual box.

Google Earth

Seterra

CommonCents! Interactive economics by grade level

Growth of A Nation

http://www.animatedatlas.com/movie.html

Explore the animated timeline that traces the growth of the United States at the animated atlas. Grades 3+

Fact Monster Atlas, encyclopedia, current events, daily facts and more

Ref Desk A collection of references: encyclopedias, newspapers, language translators and more

Net Detectives Interactive role playing

Kids NewsRoom This week's news written just for kids.

dMarie Time Capsule Plug in a date & find out what music, books, famous people were 'happening'

Place the State

BuzzTracker Shows relationship between news stories. Great for current events!

Sim City FREE online Classic version.

City Creator For the younger kids

History MysteryFrom Scholastic Gr 4-9

Flags of the World

Lemonade StandGreat way to apply economics

Bayeux Tapestry Activities World History: Complete the tapestry, build a Norman ship, etc

Archiving Early America

http://earlyamerica.com/series.html

This site contains movies based on the 'Famous Moments' series which highlight a true story of historical significance, providing 'students' of early America with a better understanding of the people, places and events of this important era. Grades 3-8

Edison Motion Pictureshttp://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edmvhm.html

*Alphabetical Listing http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edmvalpha.html

A collection of 341 Edison films, including 127 titles made from 1891 to1918. For best results, right-click and save file to computer. Grades 2-12

Take theWorldwide Table Manners Flash Quizand find out how much you know about customs around the world. Grades 2-8

Wicked

http://www.tki.org.nz/r/wick_ed/science/what_on_earth.php

Interactive shockwave quizzes on topics of geology.

Geocaching Got a GPS unit? This site will help YOU be the search engine, then tryPodCacher,a weekly podcast all about geocaching.

FactFinder Kids' Corner:

http://factfinder.census.gov/home/en/kids/kids.html

A super site for kids to learn U. S. census information. Includes an interactive map students can click on to learn information about each state. Also includes online quizzes. Grades 2-5

National Geographic's "Xpeditions":

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/hall/index.html

Check out this interactive "museum" that will take on geography journeys. Come in and visit an archeological dig or climb a mountain. This site includes lesson plans, games, maps, activities and more. Grades 5-8

Virtual Tourist

http://www.virtualtourist.com/vt/

At this site there is an interactive world map and you'll be instantly transported to a large collection of online sites located in the continent, country, city, or town or your choice. Grades 6-12

Time Capsule

http://www.dmarie.com/timecap

There are many time capsule sites available on the web and this is just one that students can use. At this site you can type in a specific date and see the highlights including music, politics, TV, movies, prices of goods, etc. Grades 3-8

Kid Port

· Grade 6 Games http://www.kidport.com/Grade6/SocialStudies/SocStudiesIndex.htm

· Grade 7 Games http://www.kidport.com/Grade7/SocialStudies/SocStudiesIndex.htm

· Grade 8 Games http://www.kidport.com/Grade8/SocialStudies/SocStudiesIndex.htm

Enchanted Learning

http://www.EnchantedLearning.com/Home.html

This is a fun educational site for audiences as young as preschool. Some of the areas covered: science, language arts and geography. (Not all pages are interactive.) Grades PreK-3

Gameaquarium

http://www.gamequarium.com

A collection of language arts, math, science, and social studies. Grades PreK-6

Fun Brain

http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/getskill.cgi?A4=1

This site contains a variety of edu-taining activities covering areas of math, language arts, social studies, and science. Grades K-6

Digital History

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu

+++++++++This site provides interactive timelines, essays, visual histories, and a reference room with speeches, music, images, maps, and more from various periods of American history. Ask a professional historian questions, play games, or watch a flash movie. Grades 3-12

Consumer Kids

http://www.consumerkids.govt.nz/english/index.html

Economics for the 8-10 year old.

GeoSpy Geography game from National Geographic

Puzzled States US puzzle from Scholastic

The Road to Revolution- 1763 from PBS

SavingsQuest- Savings & budget game for kids

World Magazine

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/world/index.html

This e-zine from National Geographic provides articles, online games, brainteasers, plus lots of other

surprises. Grades 3+

The Seven Wonders of the World

http://www.cleveleys.co.uk/wonders/sevenwondersoftheworld.htm

Take a virtual tour of the seven wonders of the world and and learn about The Temple of Artemis, The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, The Great Pyramid, The Lighthouse of Alexandria plus three others.

Maps

World Atlas.com Plug in a date & find out what music, books, famous people were 'happening'

Google Earth Free download of satellite images and local facts.

Google Earth in the Classroom Tutorial & Tips

Earth Contest Free way for encourage students to USE Google Earth!

Google Earth Touring How to create a Google Earth tour.

Google Moon NASA images and Google maps

Google Mars NASA images and Google maps let you visit Mars

NASA World Wind Free PC download enables zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth

Map Machine National Geographic

InfoNation Lets you compare countries

NationMaster and StateMasterlet's you compare statistics for countries and states

Maps provides outlines of states, countries, & continents

How Far Is It? Measure destinations of two locations to find the mileage & latitude and longitude

Maps Outlines of states, countries, & continents

Gmaps Pedometer Track your walks

Map Maker Make your own map from National Atlas

Earth Album Google Earth and flickr shares photos around the world

Google Earth file: Extent of sea ice downloads directly to Google Earth

Global Temperature Trends for Google EarthDownload this set of .kmz files to get data on temperature trends

US Map practice How well do you know the US?

I Know That Social Studies Games

http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=L2_SocialStudies

Social Studies Basic Skills and Gameshttp://classroom.jc-schools.net/basic/socst.html

John Adams

His father was a Braintree, Mass., farmer and shoemaker. Although Adams was able to attend college, his two younger brothers did not, and became farmers.

In 1770, Adams defended the ...read this biography