Reedy Technologies "Helping Teachers Integrate Technology"

Google Earth Lesson Plans- Do you want to incorporate Google Earth into your classroom and don't know where to start? Check out this website filled with lessons in various subject areas and formats.

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is making primary source documents and educational resources from all eras of American history available for free online. The web site receives more than 1 million visits per year, and offers a variety of free online resources to improve the study of American history. Features available on the web site include podcasts of historians discussing their work, lesson plans on major topics in American history, a searchable database of more than 60,000 primary source documents from the Gilder Lehrman Collection, featured documents with printable images and transcripts for classroom use, and online exhibitions. (from E-School News online)

Web 2.0 Tools
Read the Words- upload text to be read or type it in, choose one of fifteen readers, and listen to the reading online, download to your ipod or save to your computer, or turn your reading into a podcast
Del.icio.us- social bookmarking website (share and view yours and other's bookmarks)
Skrbl- draw, text, scribble, and share and online collaborative whiteboard
Convert Tube- converts online videos to a variety of formats to download to your computer (converts UTube and Teacher Tube vidoes as well)
CamStudio-able to record all screen and audio actions on your computer to create streaming flash videos

Technospud Projects- Are you interested in doing some collaborative class projects? This site contains various online projects for various grade levels to do with your students. All projects require registration to participate and provide you with a project timeline and materials needed to do the project. All classes receive a certificate of participation upon completion of the project

Class Tools- create your own free educational games, activities and diagrams to be hosted on your website, blog or intranet

Geosense- test your knowledge of geography; compete against others or do a stand alone game; the game gives you an location and you have to find it on the map; once the area is selected, it lets you know the exact location and how far off you were from that exact location

SMART Exchange- a community of teachers, administrators and SMART experts sharing ideas, expertise, and lessons using SMART products. There are so many wonderful ideas in these forums to use immediately in your classroom.

Interactive Math Dictionary- this outstanding site allows visitors to choose a math term and see the definition in an interactive manner (wonderful for the visual learner)

Ambleside Primary Numeracy (elementary)- many wonderful activities on this site including the function machine, graph maker, and what's my angle

Yenka- 700 classroom resources (interactive animations and graphics) for students 14-16 years old in math and physics

Nrich Maths- Mathematic problems, games, and articles with a different focus each month

Primary Source Learning- Funded by the Library of Congress with Primary Sources Program, this site features a collection of teaching materials, a database of online activities, samples of student projects, and primary sources teachers have used with students.

Exploratorium Ice Stories: In a series of live webcasts held in celebration of the International Polar Year (2007-2008), educators at the Exploratorium in San Francisco will be talking throughout the month with scientists at McMurdo Station near the South Pole about the many research projects they're conducting. For instance, this season three giant helium balloons will launch near McMurdo Station, collecting data about cosmic rays--very high-energy particles that zip through the galaxy at nearly the speed of light. If conditions permit, Exploratorium educators will be talking with the balloon scientists from their ice facility at Williams Field, where the giant balloons are inflated and launched and their flights are tracked. The museum is holding live webcasts on this and other topics Jan. 4, 11, 12, 18,and 25, and educators also can explore its archive of previous South Pole webcasts, which feature research on penguins, ice cores taken from miles beneath the earth's surface, and construction of a new10-meter telescope at the South Pole.

Open Vault- a new web site launched by Boston-based public television station WGBH. The site features video clips and interviews from WGBH programming created between 1968 and 1993, including clips of Muhammad Ali discussing his refusal to fight in Vietnam, African American students arriving at school during Boston's court-ordered desegregation, and Robert McNamara reading from a letter sent by Nikita Khrushchev to President Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Open Vault includes more than 500 streaming video clips and more than 1,000 interview transcripts in all. Users can search by keyword or browse by topic (arts, business, education, humanities, Massachusetts, science and technology, and social science) and can view data alphabetically by person and by series. In addition, resource management tools allow educators to annotate and tag records, create topical lists, and send information to students for further study or classroom discussion.

Reading is Fundamental has launched a free educational site to help parents develop the language skills of infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. RIF's Leading to Reading is an interactive online resource featuring stories, games, music and other engaging activities for adults to experience together with young children.

You Innovate: A new website aimed at getting middle school students excited about science, technology, engineering, and math. Sponsored by Scholastic and the National Governors Association, the site includes interactive games and brain teasers.

Biology in Motion- Here you will find animations, interactive activities, and cartoons designed to make learning biology a richer, more engaging experience

WorldAtlas.com- Provides facts, flags, and maps including every continent, country, dependency, island, major city, ocean, province, state, and territory
Map Machine- maps, photos, facts, and more
Education Place: Outline Maps- world maps that can be printed and copied for classroom use
National Atlas- contains an online map maker, printable maps, free geographical data and more
USGS Learning Web: What Do Maps Show?- activities for teachers to teach the concept of reading maps

Annenburg Learner Interactives- "Interactives" provides educators and students with strategies, content, and activities that can enhance and improve students' skills in a variety of curricular areas (grades 6-12)

Library Spot- A collection of reference resources available online as well as a directory of public, academic, and special libraries worldwide.
RefDesk- Refdesk is a free and family-friendly web site that indexes and reviews quality, credible, and current web-based resources.
Internet Public Library Reference- Here's the place to go for all your general reference needs! There are links to dictionaries, encyclopedias, almanacs, and other sites for homework help or just looking things up.

Letters About Literature- The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, in partnership with Target Stores and in cooperation with affiliate state centers for the book, invites readers in grades 4 through 12 to enter Letters About Literature, a national reading-writing contest. To enter, readers write a personal letter to an author, living or dead, from any genre-- fiction or nonfiction, contemporary or classic, explaining how that author's work changed the student's way of thinking about the world or themselves. There are three competition levels: Level I for children in grades 4 through 6; Level II for grades 7 and 8, and Level III, grades 9 - 12. Winners, announced in the spring of each year, receive cash awards at the national and state levels. The contest ends December 14th.

Ball State Electronic Field Trips- Participate in live electronic field trips with your class, sponsored and paid for by the Best Buy Children's Foundation. Some of the field trips this year include the National Park Foundation, Aquatic Adventures, and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.

Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic Rocks- Grades 6-12
This site is an addition to your earth science class, especially if you have an interactive whiteboard. When you are using the interactive page (page 2), be sure to click on the blinking object. By clicking on this object, you will be taken to another window with a more detailed view of the specific topic. When you return to the main interactive page, look again for the blinking object.

Nature: Crime Scene Creatures- Grades 6-12
Teach scientific inquiry, biology, and chemistry with a CSI twist. Did you know that bugs and other small creatures are now being used to help forensic scientists solve murders and other mysteries? This website takes you behind the scenes to see exactly how biologists from around the world are using maggots, ants, and other animals to solve various crimes. These creatures help scientists to determine the time of death, track a killer's path, and even zero in on a specific suspect. Features of this website include an interactive (determining the time of death), video clips, interviews with real scientists in the field, and much more.

Wild Weather Adventure: Grades 3-6
This interactive website is a virtual weather and geography board game. You can choose 1-4 players, the difficulty level, a name for your "weather ship", the color of your ship, and other personalized features. Students spin a wheel and then move their ship a certain number of spaces. Then, they are asked a question related to the weather (there are different levels of difficulty). Geography skills are also tested in this game; the virtual "gameboard" is a world map. Geography facts and questions are provided throughout the game.

Free Reading- an open resource center and community for early literacy teachers; contains free reading resources, lesson plans and a 40-week intervention program

Week of October 15

Alphabet Interactive- Click on each letter and students will see pictures associated with that letter. In addition, the sentences showing the letter can also be read to students.

Gapminder is an interactive site designed to present world demographic information in a highly visual way. Using either a world map, or a chart with "bubbles" sized according to each country's population, users can track 30 years of change in a wide variety of economic and social indicators (for example, population size, percentage of GNP dedicated to military spending, proportion of girls in school, infant mortality). Math teachers can use the site to demonstrate data analysis skills with meaningful data.

Hot Chalk- community software hosted online which included curriculum management, automated assignment distribution, lesson plan development, and standards based resources shared by teachers. Sign up for free and have access to NBC News Videos Archive on Demand for one semester.

Teachers' Domain- A website from PBS in Boston, contains resources aligned to state and national standards- downloadable, sharable, remixable video segments, interactive activities, and lesson plans in earth science, engineering, life science, and physical science disciplines.
Poetry Out Loud- Hear British poets read their own poems including Alfred Lord Tennyson's 1890 reading of "The Charge of the Light Brigade".

History Wiz- Check out the multimedia site with information and exhibits on a variety of world history topics. Featured in MacWorld as one of the best history sites on the web.
HyperHistory- Recommended by the History Channel, this website covers famous people, historical events, political development, empires, and scientific change.
Discovery Education World History Lesson Plans- History lesson plan library for grades K-12

Try the pilot version of SMART' Technologies Lesson Activity Toolkit to create professional looking lessons in SMART Notebook. Once downloaded, open Notebook software to find the toolkit in the gallery.