WEB SITES FOR PRIMARY AND MIDDLE GRADES

Thanksgiving WEB sites — These sites include video and audio content along with source text materials. They work well for students in grades 3 and above. If you have any trouble getting to these sites, please let me know.

http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/

http://www.plimoth.org/education/olc/index_js2.html

http://www.histarch.uiuc.edu/plymouth/index.html

http://www.pilgrimhall.org/museum.htm

http://www.plimoth.org/kids/talk.php

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mosmd/index.htm

http://memory.loc.gov/learn/community/cc_earlyamerica_kit.php

http://www.history.com/minisites/thanksgiving

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec99/thanksgiving_11-25.html

http://www.nmai.si.edu/education/files/thanksgiving_poster.pdf

http://www.mayflowerfamilies.com/Mayflower%20Ship/mayflower_ii_schematic.htm

http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/History/girls.php

http://www.bostonchildrensmuseum.org/educators/wampanoag/index.htm

Online Music Sites for Kids:

http://www.classicalarchives.com/midi.html

http://www.creatingmusic.com/

http://www.kids-space.org/HPT/

http://datadragon.com/education/reading/

http://www.lawrencehallofscience.org/shockwave/jar.html

http://datadragon.com/education/instruments/

http://datadragon.com/education/genres/

http://www.playmusic.org/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/teletubbies/games/

http://www.fromthetop.com/

http://www.jazzkids.com/

http://www.sfskids.org/templates/splash.asp

http://www.nyphilkids.org/main.phtml?

http://www.sprocketworks.com/topics/default.asp?topic=2

http://www.marthabeesmusic.com/sitesforkids.html

http://www.toonstunes.com/?gclid=CM3uwNzolaACFQtx5QodUUzkgA

http://resources.kaboose.com/games/music.html

http://www.kidsknowit.com/

http://www.makingmusicfun.net/htm/mmf_music_library_meet_the_composer_index.htm

http://www.bsomusic.org/bsokids/

http://www.dsokids.com/

MUSIC WEBSITES CONTINUED

http://freekidsmusic.com/

http://www.kidskonnect.com/subject-index/38-music/372-composers.html

http://www.classicsforkids.com/games/

http://ababasoft.com/music/drums01.htm

http://ababasoft.com/music/piano.html

http://ababasoft.com/music/music.html

http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/musicmixer/musicmixer1.html

http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/art_and_music_games.html

http://www.thekidzpage.com/learninggames/online_games/musicmatch/MusicMatch-Game.html

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

http://www.cosmeo.com/bysubject.cfm?art

http://www.sphinxkids.org/

http://www.pbs.org/teachers/connect/resources/3512/preview/?contactID=159110403&gwkey=FLYV1W8XHX Learn Math with Jazz. Great Interactive Lesson Plan, Can work into a shared lesson with the school’s music teacher.

MORE Education Sites:

http://scratch.mit.edu/

http://www.writingwizard.longcountdown.com/handwriting_practice_worksheet_maker.html

http://bighugelabs.com/

http://www.surveymonkey.com/

http://www.kitzkikz.com/flashcards/

http://www.pixton.com/

http://www.kwiksurveys.com/

http://www.crosswordpuzzlegames.com/

http://www.fakemagazinecover.com/

http://www.puzzle-maker.com/CW/

http://www.quiz-creator.com/blog/2009/09/free-online-quiz-creator-tools-create-online-quizzes/

http://www.ambrosine.com/resource.html online game creation tools

http://poster.4teachers.org/

http://www.flashcardmachine.com/

http://comics.com/speed_bump/

http://www.armoredpenguin.com/crossword/

http://www.playcrafter.com/

http://www.educationalpress.org/

http://www.noodletools.com/ education based apps

http://www.suelebeau.com/freetools.htm education based tools

http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/

http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/

http://www.sploder.com/ online game creator

New Online Tools for Students:

http://www.meograph.com/ Multi-Media Story tool

http://www.dipity.com/ time line tool

http://www.myhistro.com/ story map and timelines

http://xtimeline.com/index.aspx time line creation tool

http://timeglider.com/ time line creator

http://www.timetoast.com/ time line creator

http://timeline.verite.co/#about time line creator multi-media tool

http://www.tiki-toki.com/ time line creator

http://www.ourstory.com/ time line creator multi-media

http://www.capzles.com/ multi-media time line creator

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/timeline/

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2011/06/qwiki-multimedia-alternative-to.html

http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2013/02/the-basics-of-blended-learning.html

New WEB tools for students

http://www.citebite.com/ paste text get citation

http://darkcopy.com/ interesting distraction free writing tool

http://www.skloog.com/ visual bookmarking

http://www.symbaloo.com/ visual bookmarking

http://etherpad.org/ collaborative writing tool

Keyboarding Resources:

http://webinstituteforteachers.org/~gammakeys/Lesson/Lesson1.htm

http://www.keyboardingonline.com/

http://www.ehow.com/how_4697704_learn-computer-keyboard-acronym-game.html

http://circle.adventist.org/browse/?browse_node=68

47 alternatives to You Tube

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/09/47-alternatives-to-using-youtube-in.html

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/11/computer-science-101-free-open-course.html Free Stanford University Course

http://www.microsoft.com/security/resources/videos.aspx Internet Safety Video

Great Storybook App for Tablets

iStoryBooks is a free iPad, iPhone, and Android app that offers two dozen free digital storybooks for kids ages two through eight. Most of the stories in the app are adaptations of classic children’s tales like The Ugly Duckling. The story that I went through after installing the app on my Motorola Photon(my favorite of the three Android phones I’ve owned) is The Story of Thanksgiving. The app gives you the option to read each story or to read along with each story while listening to the narrator.

You can find the iOS version of iStorybooks here.
Get the app from the Android Market.
And now you can get iStoryBooks on Kindle Fire

Applications for Education
If you have or teach children under eight, iStoryBooks could be a great app to install on your iPad or Android-powered tablets. Children can practice reading and recognizing words by going through the stories with the narration turned on. Or you can turn the narration off and read the stories with your child or student.

http://www.mobygratis.com/film-music.html

Vizlingo is an interesting little service for creating and sending short video messages. Here’s what it does; you type in a short phrase like “hello world” and Vizlingo will generate a list of short video clips that can be used to demonstrate each word. You can select which clips you want to use then send your video message to your friends via email, social networks, or YouTube.

Applications for Education
Vizlingo might be a fun little way for students to practice recognizing some vocabulary context clues. Not all of the video clips I went through on Vizlingo really matched the words I had typed so I had to sort through to find appropriate clips to match my words. Got Brainy is a service that does a similar sort of activity with images instead of video clips.

http://www.tenmarks.com/tmother/teacher-index Free

http://www.masteryconnect.com/ common core assessment

New WEB tools

Social bookmarking with Mind http://pearltrees.com

http://video.sciencemag.org/SciOriginals

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.vlobe.smartappcloud.android.parentalcontrol

http://www.thewildclassroom.com/

http://vimeo.com/user697789/videos 91 Simple Science Videos

http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2011/11/9-tools-students-can-use-to-create.html

http://www.literature-map.com/

http://www.citethisforme.com/

http://blog.ted.com/2011/11/10/a-map-of-the-brain-allan-jones/