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,” A great book and new Howard Zinn has created  The Zinn Education Project. It is dedicated to providing resources to educators.

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.