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Cool Timer 1.5 to download, and don't forget about the Cliplet timers (minutes and seconds) in SMART Ideas ||
 * ==**Social Studies** == ||
 * Earthcam || Check out places on earth in "real time". Great for writing projects, changes over time, animal observation, etc. (Elem, Mid, High) ||
 * Geography || Download interactive geography US maps and world maps. (Elem, MS) ||
 * Build a Prairie || Restore a prairie using biology, ecology and climatology. (Elem, MS) ||
 * Early American History || Short films of noteworthy famous moments in early American history. (Elem, Mid, High) ||
 * US state location || You choose to place state on map with or without state outlines. A third option is placing the name of the state in the correct location. (Elem) ||
 * American Centuries || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Explore American history through these collections and activities. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">(Elem, Mid, High) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ben's Guide for Government || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Information and activities about US government specifically tailored for educators and students. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">(Elem, Mid, High) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Timeline || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Create a timeline - you won't be able to save it, but you can print it. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">(Elem, Mid, High) ||
 * ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Math sites** == ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Whiteboard Tools || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Free, downloadable application perfectly suited for whiteboard use in the classroom. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Algebasics || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Audio and video explanations of algebra topics (upper elem, MS, HS) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Shodor Interactivate || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Interactive Java-based courseware for exploration in science and mathematics (Elem, MS, HS) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Illuminations || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">library of 90 online activities that help math come alive in the classroom or at home (Elem, MS, HS) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Math videos  || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Videos answering math questions. (Elem, MS) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Interactive Games || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Games for facts, multiples, painting fractions, etc. (Elem) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Numberline || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Develop your own numberline from ones to decimals (Elem, MS, HS) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Interactive Math || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A variety of topics - all interactive! (Elem) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Everyday Math || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A site developed for Everyday Math lessons - both for practice and teaching. (Elem) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Virtual Manipulatives || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">A must with the SMART Board! Interactive, virtual manipulatives from preK - 12. (Elem, Mid, High) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">More interactive java manipulatives || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">Base 10 blocks, pattern blocks, algebra tiles, Pythagorean Theorem, and figuring the value of pi. (Elem, Mid, High) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Illustrated lessons || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Illustrated math lessons including place value, weight/capacity, symmetry, among others. (Elem) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Magnetic Math || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rearrange symbols and numbers into number sentences - varying levels of difficulty. (Elem) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Magnetic Place Value || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A board with expanded notation numbers and symbols for place value. (Elem) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Math Glossary || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">An animated, interactive dictionary for students with over 500 math terms. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">(Elem, MS) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Math Activities || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Area, number lines, fractions, two more, sorting, among many others. (Elem) ||
 * ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Science == ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yuckiest Site on the Internet || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Educational science entertainment about yucky things. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ExploreLearning || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Interactive math and science simulations. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Stellarium || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Open source planetarium software to showing a realistic sky in 3D. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Blobz Electric Circuits || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Making circuits work, conductors/insulators, switches and diagrams (Elem, MS) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Planet 10 || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">An interactive space site - build or interact with the planets. (Elem, MS?) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ed Heads || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Compound and Simple machines (Elem) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Interactive science || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A variety of topics - all interactive! (Elem) ||
 * Virtual Body || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Take your class on a virtual field trip of the Human Body. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">(Elem, MS) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Switch Zoo || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Great for adaptation discussion as you change head, body and tail of animals. (Elem) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Simple and Complex machines || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lab experiments with wedge and lever, ramp and pulley, and wheel and axle. (Elem) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Human anatomy || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Click on the hot spots for an explanation of systems, organs, muscles, etc. (Site has popup ads - don't install anything offered!) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">(Elem, Mid, High) ||
 * ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Communication Arts** == ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">K-3 SMART Board sites || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A wide variety of sites and activities for the SMART Board (Elem) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Site word practice || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Use drop down menus to match site words with pictures. (Elem) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Building Language for Literacy || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Three interactive games - rhyming words, beginning sounds, naming objects belonging in certain places (ex. home) (Elem) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reading Workshop || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Phonics, vocab, comprehension and other activities (Elem) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Little Fingers Games || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Variety of Pre-K through 3rd grade interactive activities (Elem) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">English primary activities || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wide variety of interactive English activities. (Elem) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Roy the Zebra || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Interactive reading games, guided reading activities with other literacy activities (Elem) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Graphic Organizers || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">.pdf graphic organizer files, good for capturing! (Elem, MS) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Animal Talk? || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Encourage your kids to do some writing! (Elem) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kids's Poetry || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Magnetic poetry kits (Elem, Mid) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Interactive Literacy || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A variety of topics - all interactive! (Elem) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ReadWriteThink || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A collection of online interactive tools (such as Venns, plot maps, and timelines) supporting literacy in K-12 classrooms. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">(Elem, Mid, High) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bembo's Zoo || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A fun site with letters changing to animals - very primary but fun! (Elem) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Magnetic spelling || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Click and drag "magnetic" letters to practice spelling and word families. (Elem) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Magnetic Rhymes || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Click and drag words to form sentences and rhymes. (Elem) ||
 * English activities || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Some spelling, characterization, journaling activities. (Elem) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Visual Thesaurus || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A visual thesaurus where words are conceptually connected. (Be aware of "explicit" words - be sure to try it **before** showing your students!) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">(Elem, Mid, High) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Starfall || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reading activities for the emergent through more advanced reader. (Elem) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Instead of "said" || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Visual ideas for words to use instead of said. (Elem, MS) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Don't use Said || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Another option to said site, but this also highlights spoken word, then inserts punctuation! (Elem, MS) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Power Proofreading || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Proofreading topics including spelling, punctuation, format, etc. (Elem, MS) ||
 * ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Other topics == ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Color Factory || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Activities around mixing and sorting colors ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Interactive subjects || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A variety of subjects - all interactive (elem) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Virtual keyboard || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Has ability to change instrument sounds. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">(Elem, Mid, High) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Premade PowerPoints || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Download a premade PowerPoint ready for classroom use - math, science, social studies, art, language arts. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">(Elem, Mid, High) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Artist's Toolkit  || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Explore line, color, shape, balance among others. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">(Elem, MS) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Play Music || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Orchestra sections and activities. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica;">(Elem, MS) ||
 * ==<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Classroom Tools == ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Classroom Timers || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">An online timer, or
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">MAP resources || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">MAP resources for everyone. ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Game templates || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Templates for teacher or student generated review games such as Hangman, Jeopardy, Millionaire, among others.  ||