Kideos is the premier destination for kids to safely watch videos online. Each video on Kideos has been screened by our Video Advisory Council before it makes it onto our site. Our goal is to empower parents to feel comfortable allowing their child to spend time on Kideos, while also making sure children have a thoroughly entertaining experience. Kideos was created by Earlier Media, a company dedicated to providing a trustworthy destination for children of all ages to learn, watch videos and play games online. http://www.kideos.com
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Some School Games, has an ever growing collection of online educational kids games that promote problem solving and logical thinking skills. Some of the favorite Kids Games include: Bloxorz, Snorks Long Division, Civiballs Christmas, Red Remover, Grow Games, Bloons Tower Defense 4, other Kids Tower Defense Games, Kids Problem Solving Games and many more. We hope you have fun playing Some School Games that are not blocked at school and feel free to let us know about any games you would like to see on the website. SomeSchoolGames.com – A Fun Place for Kids to Learn.
Online Kids Games
This resource came from a reply by a teacher in the UK, John McLear on an earlier post I make this morning, A Complete List of Online Math Resources
“Our collection of games are selected to help teach the primary Maths curriculum. Games are classified into year groups and we display the most popular games at the top, as rated by our users.” http://primarygamesarena.com/maths.
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Looks to be a pretty good site with lots of resources. Check it out.
Whether you are confused by multiplication, need extra practice with geometry proofs, or find yourself struggling to understand logarithms, you are sure to find a website from the following list that fits your math needs.
Guide to Online Schools has scoured the Internet in order to compile a comprehensive collection of resources for all math subjects, from the basics to calculus.
http://hoodamath.com/
Why Math Games?
Hooda Math believes in math learning through play. Mr. Edlavitch credits board and card games for his early enjoyment of mathematics. Hooda Math believes free online math games can do the same for students today.
Teachers
Hooda Math can be used in a number of ways. Our online math games can be used for computer lab activities with/without our free math worksheets. Our math games can also be used with your interactive whiteboards, check out our SMARTboard Games page. Middle and Highschool students can do Math Movie projects with xtranormal.com and submit them to us for publication. A classroom teacher favorite is our free online math tool, Math Timed Tests that emails individual reports back to teachers and students.
free tips, tools & resources for teaching healthy habits
Right here you’ll find fun lesson plans and activities to educate kids on healthy habits. Also access helpful tips and resources for teachers and parents on how to wipe out germs at school and home.
Sign up for the seasonal newsletter to receive special offers, new classroom resources and expert tips. Developed by teachers for teachers, these rich lessons and activities meet educational standards. They feature fun classroom characters and themes, and use the latest classroom technologies to get students excited about joining The Clean Club. Check out the in-depth materials that help teach kids about germs, hygiene & more.
There are K-2 and 3-5 versions of four lesson plans; The Case of Invisible Invaders, Follow Those Germs, The Usual Suspects, and Science Fair Investigation. For 3-5 only there is How Clean is the Scene? And for K-2 only there is Removing the Evidence. The lesson plans are published as PDFs with handouts for students. The lesson plans are designed to get students out of their seats and actively engaged in problem solving.
Being money smart goes by many names Some people call it financial literacy, personal finance or money management – but at the end of the day, it’s all about making the most of your money.
Are you ready to write a check? What’s the starting salary of your dream job? Can you make a sample budget? What is the stock market? What are the best ways to shop and share? Are credit cards safe or scary? You can find answers right here, right now!
Themint.org is packed with fun activities, games, challenges, quizzes and tests for kids and teens, tips for parents, and entertaining programs and lesson plans for teachers and students. Get started at The Mint.
What is Planet Orange? It’s an exciting new planet in the deepest reaches of outer space that helps kids, from 1st to 6th grade, learn about earning, spending, saving and investing.
At ING DIRECT, we think the key to a sound financial future is starting early. We know that finance isn’t exactly the most exciting topic for kids. So, we’ve developed this website to provide fun and engaging activities while kids embark on a mission to discover the importance of money.
Through their travels on Planet Orange, they will tackle topics from the value of money, to setting a budget, to building savings goals for the future. Amy and Cedric will serve as their tour guides as they rocket across all four continents—Mandarin Mountains, Tangy Town, Navel City and Orangeopolis.
Rich Kid Smart Kid (RKSK) is the youth initiative of The Rich Dad Company – seeking to increase the financial literacy of the next generation of future entrepreneurs. By utilizing games as a means to teach challenging subjects like finance, business and investing, we are training a fresh, new group of business owners and creative thinkers who will become their community’s leaders.
The Rich Dad mission is one of education and empowerment. Knowledge is power. The Rich Dad Company is committed to improving the awareness of and opportunities for improved financial literacy for adults and children around the world.
How to save and reach your savings goal can be learnt by playing a round of My Savings Quest. The character you play has to learn how to save money by budgeting and spending within the money earned from a choice of jobs, and savings. The game teaches you simply how to save for the things you want while paying for the things you need.
KidsBank.com™ is a tutorial website brought to you by Sovereign Bank that explains the fundamentals of money and banking to children. In our travels throughout the World Wide Web, we discovered a lack of quality information about this very important topic. KidsBank.com™ was developed to provide parents with an informative and fun place to bring their children for answers to money-related questions.
Good savings habits begin at an early age. By explaining the importance and procedures of savings and banking, KidsBank.com™ will de-mystify the process of banking for children and give them the confidence they need to spend and save their money wisely. As a parent you will feel more confident in your child’s knowledge of banking and their ability to handle their own money. Concepts have been described in language that will appeal to younger children. Older children will enjoy the historical facts and more detailed explanations also provided.
he United States Mint H.I.P. Pocket Change™ Web site has seven areas: Games, Toons, Coins and Medals, Coin News, Collectors Club, Mint History, and About this Site. You get to them by clicking on the coin icons lined up on the left side of each page.You can use the Kids Guide to see lots of the site’s features at once, and find out what each one is like. You can also get to the features through the site map, but here is a brief description of what each section has to offer:
- Games. Here you’ll find activities ranging from simple coloring pages to challenging puzzles. Put real coins together, make up your own, play games of skill or words or just plain fun.
- Toons. You can join the Pals as they learn about coins from other countries and how coins are made, plus download screensavers and travel in the Time Machine.”
- Coins and Medals. This section has tons of information about everyday coins, special coins, medals, and the coin-making process. This is where to find out about current and past coin series like the 50 State Quarters® Program.
- Coin News. This section is dedicated to all that is newsworthy in the world of coins. There’s a quarterly newsletter, a coin story each month, and lots more!
- Collectors Club. Feel stumped about the mysteries of coin collecting? Inspector Collector is just the badger to lead you to the solutions! There’s a special section for boy scouts, too.
- Mint History. Explore the United States Mint through its history, especially the buildings where the business of coinage goes on still. Tantalizing trivia too!
- About This Site. Lots of good background information here, as well as how to use the site. Find out where H.I.P. Pocket Change came from, where it can take you, and how you can get there.
Lumosity trains your brain with 30 targeted brain games and exercises. The specialized brain training web application comes in both free and paid subscription versions. The library of games relate to speed, memory, attention, flexibility, and problem solving. The full suite of games is open to subscribers only, though those with a free account can play quite a few games across the board.
The games are well designed: the Birdwatching game works on your visual processing skills and concentration. Lumosity also has multiple courses designed by experts that bolster weak areas like weak memory, problem solving, math skills, and also brain related medical conditions like ADHD and TBI. Don’t forget to take their free Brain Grade test.
Sharp Brains is actually a blog that keeps tabs on the brain fitness and cognitive health industry. So expect to find a lot of articles on brain health and the use of digital tools to enhance our mental muscles. The site also tries to raise social awareness on the importance of regularly exercising our mental faculties. One way is through the site’s newsletter. But if you are itching to put your brain through the paces head straight to the Teasers section. The large lineup of links to brain games, puzzles, and illusions could keep you occupied for some time.
Braingle is a community driven website that says it has the largest collection of brain teasers, riddles, logic problems, quizzes and mind puzzles on the web. 20,000 of them is a large number. Being a part of the community helps as enthusiastic members constantly keep the site updated with the freshest picks of games. As a free member, you can also subscribe to the daily teaser. Check out the Mentalrobics section for some cool brain workouts and articles on topics like stress management and memory.
At Smart-Kit, you get to cross train your brain on a variety of puzzles and games. All games are meant to be kid safe and designed to stimulate free thinking and problem solving. Some games like the Memory Match Game are easy while you might have to scratch your head when it comes to playing Take Something Literally. The Lateral Thinking games (which comes under the category marked – More) deserve a special mention here.
The founder of this brain training site (Erin Matlock) is a Mensa candidate. But what’s more interesting about the site is that it’s part of a larger bouquet of web services that includes a community website and a TV channel. But if you want to stay on in this site, then the range of interactive brain games should keep you engrossed. For instance, noticing a drop in my concentration powers, I took the Stroop Test Flash game. It’s a simple game where you have to match the text color with the color of the ball. But this simple game also tells you if your focus starts to flag.
There is a video about how Angry Birds came about, really interesting, check it out, The Valentine’s edition it set to be released on Feb. 14.
I am not much into games, but I must admit I do kinda like Angry Birds. good time filler when I am “waiting.”
What’s on the Web
Language Arts
1.) WordNet:
WordNet® is a large lexical database of English. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept. Synsets are interlinked by means of conceptual-semantic and lexical relations. The resulting network of meaningfully related words and concepts can be navigated with the browser. WordNet is also freely and publicly available for download. WordNet’s structure makes it a useful tool for computational linguistics and natural language processing.
2.) NounProject The Noun Project collects, organizes and adds to the highly recognizable symbols that form the world’s visual language, so we may share them in a fun and meaningful way. The symbols on this site are and always will remain free. We believe symbols can not be effectively shared with the world if they are not free. Everyone likes simplicity. We want you to be able to come to our site and effortlessly find and obtain what you are looking for. Simple as that.
3.) The English Room: 30 Days of Poetry is a collection of lessons and student activities creating a great unit on Poetry. A great resource for English teachers.
You can write poetry! Students just like you in middle and high schools have used these lessons for several years. They have had poems published in national anthologies and several were invited to read the works they created from these lessons at the 1997 Great Basin Book Festival in Reno, Nevada.
The Day number is your link to the lessons. Each lesson gives you a format to follow and student examples. In many cases your teacher will direct you to write more than one poem in a lesson. This gives you an opportunity to use the form and, most often, create an even better poem in doing so.
4.) Biblio Bouts The idea is to create a competition between students to find the best possible resources through research. Play the BiblioBouts online game to learn the process of finding high quality information while you complete your assignments. At the end of the game, you will have a high quality bibliography or list of research sources you can use for your assignment. You can continue to use these research skills in the rest of your college coursework.
Mathematics
1.) Archimy is a service for drawing graphs of all types of functions. With Archimy, you will draw the graph of any function and form. There is a text-box to input the fuction. The graphs can be both 2D and 3D. You can define a graph by specifying the formula for the coordinates x,y,z.
- The syntax does not differentiate between commands written with lowercase and uppercase letters.
- You can type commands in one line using “;” as a delimiter
- Use the “#” character for comments
2.) XtraMath is an option for learning basic mathematics. The site is designed to help students, teachers, and parents. There are six videos on the front page that will help you learn how to utilize the service. XtraMath is completely free.
Science
1.) The Surfing Scientist
The Surfing Scientist is really Ruben Meerman. Ruben takes liquid nitrogen, balloons and the laws of physics and does science shows for kids at schools in NSW and QLD (and hopefully soon in other states). He has an arsenal of science tricks up his sleave – check out the tricks and the lesson plans for teachers.
2.) Are you interested in weather? Check out NOAA. They have a great Education Resources section for helping teach about earth and weather. Worth checking out.
3.) MEDtropolis a site for studying the human body, virtually. In English and Spanish. Four sections: The Human Brain, Skeleton, Human Heart, and Digestive Track.
4.) eSkeletons provides an interactive environment in which to examine and learn about skeletal anatomy. The purpose of this site is to enable you to view the bones of both human and non-human primates and to gather information about them from our osteology database.
5.) I have written ab out it before, but it warrants mentioning again. The Google Global Science Fair where students and teachers can get involved in sharing science experiments and other projects.
Social Studies
1.) Howard Zinn was a popular historian who also wrote the book “A People’s History of the United States
2.) Not Even Past Not Even Past provides dynamic, accessible, short articles on every field of History. Founded in 2010 and developed by the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin, Not Even Past speaks to everyone interested in the past and in the ways the past lives on in the present.
3.) Primary Access is a suite of free online tools that allows students and teachers to use primary source documents to complete meaningful and compelling learning activities with digital movies, storyboards, rebus stories and other online tools.
4.) TED Talks for Social Studies Teachers. An amazing slidshow with resources from TedTalks that would be usfule to a Social Studies teacher.
5.) Our Changing World is a interactive site for showcasing various data for every country around the world. The physical aspect of all the countries change as the data changes.
A few more
1.) Top Documentary Films good site for finding films in all curriculum areas. All the films are free and available online.
2.) Education Podcast from Podcast.com Education podcasts from universities, colleges, students, teachers — everyone who uses podcasting to learn and to teach others. We’re all life-long learners, aren’t we? Even some of the littlest ones in k-12 schools are podcasting. Be transported back to your elementary days…if only this technology were available then.
3.) There are tons of ways to make games, but with the new computer on Jeopardy, this might prove useful. Custom Flash Jeopardy Maker allows you to create a Flash based version of a Jeopardy game which is great for review.
Thanks to Michael Zimmer for sharing these resources at In Pursuit of Technology Happiness.
With certain languages Google Translate is appallingly bad. Ever tried to translate from Arabic into English? You’ll be hard pressed to ever understand what the English translation says let alone the Arabic original. I can imagine that the case is the same for quite a few other languages.
That said, there are some languages, such as French, where the translation is much more accurate. The translations can’t necessarily be trusted as being perfect, and often with languages where dialect or formal speech is an issue, Google Translate usually tends to get it wrong. The Google service still does come in pretty handy when translating emails, forum messages or even entire websites. But that’s not all that Google Translate is good for. You can push the limits of this tiny Google service and you’d be surprised at what you can get in return.
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I have shared Spelling City before, but it just got better. http://www.spellingcity.com/
Vocabulary and SpellingCity.com has:
- Over 42,000 spelling words with customizable sentences and definitions
- A REAL person who says each word and sentence
- Free home pages for teachers and parents to save lists
- Teacher training videos to show teachers and parents how to use Vocabulary and SpellingCity.com
- Customizable sentences and definitions for words with multiple meanings (e.g., a scale for weighing, to scale a mountain, the scale on a map)
- Free printable handwriting worksheets for handwriting practice with your saved lists
- Free teaching resources with lists and lesson plans for teaching high frequency words, compound words, sound-alike words (their, there, they’re), contractions, possessives, and more. There are also lists for learning state capitals.
- Fifteen games to play online or to print: Spelling, Word Meaning, Vocabulary, Alphabetical Order, Parts of Speech
- A free forum and newsletters with more vocabulary and spelling resources
With each word list, students can choose one of four options:
- Spelling Test repeats each spelling word with a live voice and uses it in a sentence.
- Vocab Test gives a definition for each word, along with a choice of six possible words.
- Teach Me spells and displays the word in ways that stimulate memory for visual and verbal learners.
- Play a Game uses your word list in educational games that teach spelling, word meaning, vocabulary, and alphabetical order.
After taking an online spelling or vocabulary test, students can print out a report, retake the entire test, or get tested only on the spelling words they got wrong the first time.
Teachers: try our new Vocabulary and Spelling City Parents’ Letter, available as a PDF for you to print and send home with your students’ spelling word lists. It is also available in Spanish.
If you are a Premium Member, we have a specific Premium Member Parent Letter.
Vocabulary and SpellingCity also offers a Premium Membership for teachers and parents who want more. Premium Membership features:
- Automatic test grading and student gradebook
- Complete activity tracking of all student activities
- Access to the Premium Games for your lists: SpeedySpeller and LetterFall
Want help paying for a Vocabulary and SpellingCity Premium Membership? Vocabulary and SpellingCity has become an authorized vendor for Adopt-A-Classroom.org. It’s worth checking out.
Vocabulary and SpellingCity is the sole source provider of premium membership for type service.
Help make spelling time a fun time! Vocabulary and SpellingCity.com wants to make our spelling website an invaluable part of every child’s spelling and vocabulary education. To help us keep improving our vocabulary and spelling games:
- Link to Vocabulary and SpellingCity from your school website, homeschool blog, or list of online learning resources.
- Tell your colleagues and friends, write a review for a teachers group, or forward our newsletter.
- Participate in the Vocabulary and SpellingCity forum. Share lists that you’ve posted, discuss your experiences on using the site, and make suggestions for new features or spelling games.
- Become a fan on Facebook, and follow us on Twitter.
Vocabulary and SpellingCity.com shares technology with a vocabulary website. Vocabulary and SpellingCity is grateful to Time4Learning.com (homeschooling curriculum, afterschool online study) and Time4Writing.com (teaching writing) for their support. Vocabulary and SpellingCity recommends the following keyboarding games.
A games list pulled together by Dr. Ruben Puentedura.
Ruben R. Puentedura’s Weblog Ongoing thoughts on education and technology
“Educational gaming continues to make headway, with recent news items focusing on the creation of a public school centered around it, the discussion of its role in civics education, and how it can be used as a way of improving STEM education. My own podcast series, Game and Learn, was designed to provide educators at all levels with a self-contained introduction to the core knowledge needed to use educational gaming effectively. That said, one aspect of educational gaming still frequently goes unaddressed: the fact that many educators lack personal experience with actual gameplay.”
Check out the complete story and see the list, CLICK HERE
“If you have found your way to this site looking for technology tools for teaching that are quick and easy to download, learn, and start using in your classroom, you have come to the right place. If you came hoping they would be free, then this is your lucky day! In the site, you will find a variety of review games, classroom management software, and other miscellaneous tools for educators. This site would not be possible without the support and feedback of our users. If something works well, please let us know. If it doesn’t let us know what can be fixed. And if you have ideas, please share! Have fun!”
- Classroom Jeopardy
- Speed Math Quiz Maker
- Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
- Board Game
- Seating Chart
- Group Maker
- Random Name Generator
- Split Flap Counter
- USA Population Counter
- Global Head Count
- Hang Man
- Flash Lottery
- Random Fact Desk
- Classroom Update
- Live Visitor Meeter
Angry Birds fans, rejoice, new Holiday version. 
Season’s Greedings consists of 25 daily surprises for fans of Angry Birds to enjoy while counting down the days until Christmas. Included in the game is also the 45-level Halloween special edition, now packaged as a separate episode called Trick Or Treat.
Angry Birds Seasons costs $0.99 to download for the iPhone or iPod touch, and Angry Birds Seasons HD $1.99 for the iPad. Customers who already purchased Angry Birds Halloween or Angry Birds Halloween HD will receive Angry Birds Seasons and Angry Birds Seasons HD respectively via App Store update.
High School Math is a great resource from Jefferson County Tennessee school district. It has links to tons of resources broken down by subject matter. It is specifically for high school teachers.
Calcoolate is the “Coolest Online Calculator” – Give it a try
ACT Question of the Day - Excellent site for ACT type math problem and uses Flash it plays out how to solve the problem. Great to start a class period.
Math in Movies is a great site from Harvard University. This is a collection of movie clips in which Mathematics appears. To see the movies larger, or to see it on the iphone/ipad or to include a clip into a presentation, chose the quicktime ipod version. These are the files with .m4v extension. Great for those down days!!
Iknowthat.com – High energy, engaging games in math, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, The Arts, and thinking games all to be found here either by subject or grade level.
Into the Book – a reading comprehension resource for K-4 students and teachers. We focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing. Your class can watch our engaging 15-minute videos, and try the online interactive activities.
Behind the Lesson provides teachers with information and teaching resources for each strategy. Watch our 10-minute professional development videos, and explore the Web site for lesson plans, video and audio clips, downloads, and more.
Math Baseball – FunBrain.com, an award-winning interactive learning and “edutainment Web site” links K-8 children, parents, and teachers together with its fun math baseball game that you can play by yourself or with friends. It gives you a choice of math problems and the level you want to practice. Click on the Games icon for other games available through their site, some going up to grade 12, age seventeen.
Hippocampus.com – At this incredible site, you can find ready-made presentations and lessons for the your high school course or create your own mini-site for your students.
CELLS alive! – High resolution electron microscopy and slick animations demonstrate the mechanics of HIV infection, allergy and mite interactions, how antibodies are made, bacterial motility, ulcer-causing bacteria, how lymphocytes kill infected cells, etc. Video clips require QuickTime or AVI.
Two wiki’s with very well organized and extensive lists of interactive websites.
I hate to admit it, but I have not read any of the Harry Potters books or been to the movies. it is on on my to-do list, but hasn’t happened yet.
A colleague of mine went to the midnight opening show of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 — which hits theaters last weekend. WOW!!!
This is a YouTube-style “Choose Your Own Adventure” story using the characters from Harry Potter and mixing in 8-bit graphics and sound.
Created by The Station, with animation and music by Doc Octoroc (the animator and composer behind both the Twilight and 8-bit Dr. Horrible games), Harry Potter and the Summer School Spectre offers up an amusing blend of humor and interactivity perfect for the Harry Potter lover in us all.
By Ben Bonaccio
With Thanksgiving right around the bend, it only seemed fitting to select a cornucopia of seasonal apps to share. Whether you’re planning the perfect dinner party or just looking forward to riding out a tryptophan-induced food coma on the couch, check out these five Thanksgiving themed apps.
5. Madden NFL 11:
Though the Bengals and Jets will take the field Thanksgiving evening, you can set up your own pre-game skirmish with this great app from EA. If you’re a fan of the Madden franchise on home consoles and have never experienced it on iOS, you owe it to yourself to give this app a try. With great graphics optimized around the iPhone 4’s Retina display, the game looks great. Even more fun, however, are the play mechanics. Taking full advantage of Apple’s multi-touch technology, players can manage both offense and defense with simple gestures. $4.99
4. In the Kitchen:
This official app from Food Network places thousands of recipes from the network’s stars at your fingertips. Featuring chefs such as Guy Fieri, Paula Deen, Alton Brown, Bobby Flay, and several more, the app provides quick access to recipes in a well designed interface. Currently, the app includes a Thanksgiving 2010 section which is full of great recipes for the upcoming holiday. The app also includes a helpful shopping list and a handful of useful kitchen tools. $1.99
3. Mixologist: Drink Recipes:
Entertain your guests in style this Thanksgiving with this useful drink recipes app. With nearly 8,000 recipes, it sports one of the largest catalogs in the App Store. The interface is well organized, and it is fairly easy to find the drink you’re looking for. The Liquor Cabinet feature is especially useful. By entering all the liquor and mixer types you have on hand, the app will present you with a range of possible cocktails. $0.99
2. Big Buck Hunter Pro:
The popular arcade/bar game rears its antlers on iOS. Though the game centers around deer, for an additional $1.99, users can download the “Moose Adventure” which includes a turkey hunting mini game. If you plan to acquire your own turkey this holiday, this game provides some great training… ok, not really. $0.99
1. TV Guide Mobile:
Whether it’s tuning into the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade or catching the big game, this app provides an accurate and up-to-date listing of your local cable channels. Upon launching the app for the first time simply input your zip code and select the appropriate service. You can your save favorite shows, and even set a customized channel list. FREE
One of my students, Jessica Moravec, shared this cool Math and Science interactive site with me.
“You can find over 200 Jams on topics like The Universe , listen to songs about Landforms , and test yourself on concepts like Range .”
Check it out: http://studyjams.scholastic.com
