Language Arts
- Alphabetical Adventure - Jump over the
keys in alphabetical order to help Molly play a tune. (Medium, Hard, Really
Hard) New!
2012 - Authors and Illustrators From the Children's Literature Web
Guide, information about children's - Character Scrapbook Use this reader's
response activity to analyze the characters in any book. Print and collect your
scrapbook pages. - Character Trading
Cards Students use character trading cards to examine
characters in a story. - Comic Creator Interactive site that
allows students to compose their own comic strips for a variety of contexts
(prewriting, pre- and postreading activities, response to literature, and so
on). - Just for Kids Who Love Books
This site has lots of great reads and other cool stuff. Check it out! - Myths and Fables An impressive collection of more than 650 classic fables
and their morals, presented in table format for easy browsing. Other
features include the new Fairy Tale collection, beautiful illustrations,
Real Audio narration, and a Search Engine. - Newbery
Medal The award presented by
the ALA to the author of "the most distinguished contribution to American
literature for children." Includes information about current wininng
title and honor books as well as lists of previous winners. - Robo-Bee - Click the bee and drag it to
the word that best fits the sentencece
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Content Standard
WRITING
Students
use the writing process and use appropriate strategies to write a variety of
expressive and expository pieces.
- Arcademic Skill Builders
Choose Language Arts for games about Antonyms,
Synonyms, Vowels, Spelling, Parts of Speech, Verb tense and more. - Book Cover Guide Students can use the
tool to review the parts of a book cover before analyzing how book covers work
or creating their own book covers. - CD/DVD Cover Creator Allows users to
type and illustrate CD and DVD covers and related booklets for liner notes and
other information. - Character Scrapbook Use this reader's
response activity to analyze the characters in any book. Print and collect your
scrapbook pages. - Clean Up Your Grammar! - Help recycle
trash and clean up the beach by taking the words that wash up on shore and
dragging them to the correct garbage can. The words are either nouns or verbs.
Be sure to put the words in the correct trash can because if you make a mistake
the beach will become dirty with litter. Two levels to choose from. New! 2012 - Comic Creator Interactive site that
allows students to compose their own comic strips for a variety of contexts
(prewriting, pre- and postreading activities, response to literature, and so
on). - Compare and Contrast
Map This interactive graphic organizer helps students
develop an outline for one of three types of comparison essays: whole-to-whole,
similarities-to-differences, or point-to-point. - Different Types of Poem for Kids Here
are some different types of poems to try in your classroom. This site has great
definitions and examples of poetry for kids. - Extreme Sentence Surgeons Your paragraph
surgery skills will be needed as critically injured paragraphs enter your
emergency room. New!
2012 - Furious Frogs - Multi-player game
practicing synonyms, antonyms or homonyms. Select which one you want to practice
and then join a game. New!
2012 - Fractured Fairy Tales
Students turn familiar fairy tales upside down and
inside out—and to have fun. - Giggle Poetry Giggle Poetry, approaches poetry with a sense of humor.
Poems from Bruce Lansky and other poets are archived for students to
enjoy reading or to use as examples. Included are fill-in-the-blank
poems, poetry contests, favorite poems, school poems, and more. - Grammar Ninja - Beginner Ninja has nouns
and verbs. Skilled Ninja has nouns, verbs, pronouns, articles, adjectives, and
adverbs - Instant Poetry Forms Choose your form of
poetry then add words to make your own poem. - Letter Generator tool is designed to
help students learn to identify all the essential parts of a business or
friendly letter, and then generate letters by typing information into letter
templates. - The Magic Key Fun, simple, literacy
activities - Magnetic Poetry
Board In this interactive tool from
ReadWriteThink, students can move “magnetic” words to create original
poems. - Make
Beliefs Comix Online Educational Comic Generator for
Kids - Noun Dunk From Harcourt School
Publishers - PicLits.com creative writing website
that generates words to match the picture. Excellent resource for focusing on
using more descriptive words. You do not need an account to use. - Plot
Diagram Interactive organizational tool to map the
events in a story. This mapping of plot structure allows readers and writers to
visualize the key features of stories. - Poems: Acrostic In this online tool,
students can learn about and write acrostic poems. - Poems: Diamante In this online tool,
students can learn about and write diamante poems. - Poems: Letter Letter poems are a
particularly apt medium for exploring a defining characteristic of poetry—line
breaks. - Poetry
Forms Chose your poetry form. Then just add words to
make the poem your own. - Profile Publisher draft online social
networking profiles, yearbook profiles, and newspaper or magazine profiles for
themselves, other real people (including historical figures), or fictional
characters. - Punctuation Campground From Harcourt
School Publishers - Sentence
Power Is the group of words a sentence? If so, is it a
simple sentence or a compound sentence? - Scholastic Story
Starter First generate a creative story starter, pick a
format, and print your story!!. - Shel Silverstein: The Official Site for
Kids Visit for the games (such as
Finish Shel's Poems), the terrific printables (a coloring book, a bookmark, and
two Poetry Kits) and to watch animated video clips from Silverstein's poems and
books (some performed by Silverstein himself.) - Spelling Activity You're Trapped! Choose
the correctly spelt words to escape from the tower and help the Midnight Bride
find a husband - Story
Map The Story Map interactive is designed to assist
students in prewriting and postreading activities by focusing on the key
elements of character, setting, conflict, and resolution. - Timeline Creating timelines with this
tool becomes an engaging activity for students as they choose from five
different units of measure (date, time, event, entry, or other) and add specific
descriptions of each entry. - 6 Traits of
Writing
OWL (Online Writing Lab) for Elementary Students - Types
of Poems for Kids A list of nineteen
poetic forms for elementary students - Wacky Web Tales
Choose one of the tales to create your own funny story. - Word Confusion - From FunBrain. Click
on the correct word to complete the sentence. New! 2012 - Word Frogs - Use your space bar to eat
the homonyms, synonyms and antonyms and your arrow keys to position the frog's
mouth. - Word Tamer Creative writing help.
Interactive flash-based website where you “tame words and train stories”. IWB
friendly - Writing with Writers: Poetry
Scholastic offers this poetry resource for grades 1–8. There
are tips from authors of children’s poetry, a teacher’s guide, step-by-step
workshops, and more.
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Content Standard
SPEAKING AND LISTENING
Students use listening and speaking skills
for a variety of purposes and audiences.
- Kerpoof
Use the Kerpoof Picture Maker to allow students to create a
picture to write a story about or create Kerpoof scenes for students to use as
the basis to write a letter about. Use the Kerpoof Movie Maker
to allow students to write and produce their own eMovie. (Free Registration
Required) - Storybird Someone starts a Storybird by writing a few words or grabbing a few images. Then the other person takes a turn, adding more words and pictures. In as little as one or two turns they can finish and share a Storybird. They can do it sitting side-by-side or across the country from each other. Web 2.0, Free registration required.
MAth Links
- A+
Math Play exciting games like Matho and Hidden
Picture (+ -x /) Also has great flashcards - Adding Money Game Your kids can practice
solving word problems about adding money by playing this interesting game. The
game has a virtual cash register. New! 2013 - Adventure Sequences - Choose your level
and help Molly cross the bridge by correctly completing the sequence
(pattern). - Balloon Pop Fraction Pop balloons in
order from the smallest fraction to the largest fraction. New!
2013 - Best
Math Friends - BMF -Friend as many current celebrities
and historical figures as you can by answering their word problems - Builder Ted In this interactive game,
students must order decimals - Comparing Big Numbers Great for
interactive boards! - Comparing
- Dirt Bike Comparing Fractions- Compare
fractions. New! 2013 - Dirt Bike Proportions a multi-player
racing game that allows students from anywhere in the world to race one another
while completing equivalent proportions New! 2013 - Concentration Games from Harcourt Brace: Fractions/Decimal Equivalents, Fractions/Decimal Equivalents II, Fractions/Decimal Equivalents III, Equivalent fractions, Decimals, and
Percents. - Converting Fractions to
Decimals Crack the Mission 2110 vault using your
knowledge of fractions and decimals. - Cash Out You're the cashier at this
crazy store. You need to give change to the customers buying things. Try to sell
as many items as possible before the time runs out. - Change
Maker Get as much money in your piggy bank as possible,
by figuring out the correct change. From FunBrain - Count the Goodies - This multiplication
activity from Harcourt School’s Mighty Math Calculating Crew asks you to
multiply using regrouping. Three problems at a time are presented. - Decention Match all equivalent
fractions, decimals, and percents. IWB friendly! New!
2013 - Decimal Detectives A game that tests
knowledge of decimal values. There are different levels of difficulty. - Decimal
Squares Add, subtract and multiply decimals in a
multitude of games. - Dividerama Practice long division.
New! 2013 - Division Simple and larger division
problems. Whiteboard friendly! - Division Machine This activity has three
levels of division for students to practice. - Disaster
Math - Six sets of interactive word problems: Earthquake
Math, Hurricane Math, Tornado Math, Wild Fire Math, Winter Storm Math, and Flood
Math. - Draggable Math Do everything you would
on paper with the click of a mouse! (+,-,x,/) - Equation Maze Solve equations and
journey through the maze. New! 2013 - Fraction
Flags You can decide whether to make your flag with
halves, quarters or a mixture of fractions - Fraction Race: Find the fraction of a
set and race around the track. (lowest terms) - Fraction
Shapes Explore geometric models of fractions and
discover relations among them. - Fractions, Decimals or Percent - two are
given, you supply the third - Fresh
Baked Fractions Click on the fraction that is not equal
to the others. From FunBrain. Easy to Super Brain - Genius
Boxing Punch your genius opponent by completing the
number sentence using <, >, or =. (Grade 3) - Guess the Number Developing skills in
halving and estimation - Interactive Activities Number and
Operations - Introduction to
Decimals - I Know That! Online Multimedia
Fraction Games, Registration is free! - Factor Tree Find all prime factors of a
composite number with our factor tree. This game is interactive. - Hooda
Math Hooda Math is all about making math fun and making
math easy.
Teacher and Student Recommended - Johnnie's Math Page Multiplication
Activities - The Legend of Dick and Dom:
Decimals Help Dick and Dom find the biggest decimal in
this game of horses, hats and turnips! - The Legend of Dick and Dom:
Frequency Charts - The Legend of Dick and Dom:
Money - Magic Math Market Discover the magic of
two important mathematical concepts: fractions and decimals. (Grades 3) - Math 3 Under the Sea IWB recommended (+
- x /) - Math 5 Live Lessons> Place Value,
Multiples, Factors, Primes, Fractions, Decimals, Multiplication and Division
(Grade 5) - Math
Baseball Math practice from FunBrain (+ - x /) - MATHO 1 Have fun practising
your basic facts and calculation skills with this maths game. To play, get up to
three of your friends, and select a card, then solve the equations that appear
when you press the shuffle button. - MATHO 2 If you had success
with Matho 1 and want another challenge, try this harder version with more
complex calculation skills, including order of operations. - Maths: Fractions -
Revisewise-Interactive guide to fractions - Maths: Number Patterns -
Revisewise-Interactive guide to patterns - Money Game In this game, students will
solve word problems about money. The game has a virtual cash register that
students will use to solve the problems New! 2013 - MultipliACTION Improve your
multiplication skills (2 digit and up) New! 2013 - Multiplying Fractions Practice
multiplying fractions. (Grades 4-6) - Multiplication Table
- Mystery Number Place
Value - Great whiteboard resource - Number Cop Choose your game mode: select
a number to practice multiples of that number, or select 'Primes' or 'Perfect
Squares'. In each game type you will have a total of 50 numbers to test. - Number Sense Make a number bigger than
Hacker (Place Value) - National Library of Virtual
Manipulatives Number & Operations (Grades 3-5) - National Library of Virtual
Manipulatives Number & Operations (Grades 6-8) - One
False Move Step into the wrong room and you'll be
doomed. You are given a table of numbers.
Click on the numbers in order from
lowest to highest (or highest to lowest). (Easy-Medium-Hard) - Ordering Game Get good at placing
numbers in order! Includes Negatives, Decimals, Fractions and Reverse Order Be
sure to choose "Larger View" for IWB. - Pattern Quest Computer is picking a
secret pattern, you will have 8 tries to guess the pattern. You'll also get some
clues to help you problem solve. - Penguin Waiter Game Figure out the tip
from FunBrain - Percent Problems - a one-player, or
two-player Jeopardy style game from Quia - The Place Value Game -A math game
requiring logic, strategy and a little luck! - Place Value Game-Math Racing In this
fast-paced math racing game, students will identify large whole numbers in
standard and word form. New! 2013 - Place Value
Pirates Each round gets harder and harder, includes
decimals (Grades 5-6) - Place
Value Puzzler Choose Place Value. Easy · Medium · Hard ·
Super Brain. - Place Value to 100
Thousand Toon University, 3 levels of play - Place Value Up to 1000 Can you put your
knowledge to the test to beat Robbie the Robot? (Grade 3) - Power Football All operations
with decimals. From FunBrain - QUIA Math Journey An online
math activity. (+ - x /,rounding) - Rounding-Fun
Brain gives games (Easy, Medium, Hard, Super Brain)
- Rounding Off Round off numbers
to significant figures, decimal places or the nearest 10, 100 or 1000. From
BBC - Soccer Math Game - Simplifying Fractions
In this game, students will practice reducing fractions
to the simplest form. New! 2013 - Skater Math Make sure you don't press
the correct answer until your skater is ready to jump over the obstruction. (+ -
x /) - Snork's Long Division Game A step by
step long division game that allows students to practice their long division
skills - Soccer Shootout - Multiplying Fractions
from FunBrain - Solving Percent Problems Using a Pyramid
Grid - an interactive lesson - Spy Guys Interactive
Lessons>Decimals, Percents, Integers, Prime Factorization, Fractions, Problem
Solving Bank (Grade 6) - Thinking Blocks Math Model An engaging,
interactive (whiteboard) math tool to help students learn how to solve
multistep word problems. (+ - x /) - Tipster allows students to practice
calculating percentages with tips (Grade 5-6) - Tic Tac Toe Squares Get three X's in a
row before the computer gets three O's in a row. From FunBrain (+ - x /) Easy to
Super Brain - Visual Fractions This Fractions is a
collection of activities that use pie charts, number lines, and other graphics
to illustrate fraction operations. - Wicked Interactive Play these exciting
mathematic games to improve your basic fact recall - www.multiplication.com Interactive games
to help teach the multiplication facts.
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Content Standard
2
GEOMETRY
Students apply geometric concepts, properties, and
relationships in a problem-solving situation.
- Interactive Activities Geometry
- Everything you wanted to know about Area and Perimeter
- Baseball Geometry - Select the game to
play: identifying, measuring or labeling angles; find the area of triangles,
rectangles or circles; or find the perimeter of rectangles and the circumference
circles. - Calamity's Quest
- Eyeballing Game Game presents you with a
series of seven geometries that need to be adjusted a little bit to make them
correct - Funbrain Shape Surveyor Geometry
Game - Gamequarium:
Math Games-Geometry - Geometry Workshop An interactive,
exploratory environment with lots of tools for learning about shapes and
geometry. After launching the activity, just click on "Choose a Challenge Topic"
to select a set of problems. (iKnowthat.com) - Hooda
Math Hooda Math is all about making math fun and making
math easy. Teacher and Student Recommended - Icy Slides, Flips, and Turns Objectives:
determine if two objects are congruent through a slide, flip or turn. - If the Key Fits
- Johnie's
Math Page Geometry Activities - Math 3 Under the Sea IWB recommended 3D
objects, 2D shapes, Perimeter - Math is Fun:
Quadrilaterals IWB recommended - Math 5 Live Lessons> Triangles,
Polygons (Grade 5) - Maths: Angles - Revisewise-Interactive
guide to angles - NCTM Tangram Puzzles Developing
Geometry understanding and spatial skills.
See the CCSD's Standards-based lesson using this web site! - National Library of Virtual
Manipulatives Geometry Manipulatives (Grades 3-5) - National Library of Virtual
Manipulatives Geometry Manipulatives (Grades 6-8) - Shape Mods Geometry Game Transform the
green shape into the red shape using reflections, rotations, and translations.
(Grades 5-6) - Shape, Space & Measures Find out
about angles, lines and graphs. Important shapes and useful everyday
measurements are also covered.
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Content Standard 3
MEASUREMENT
Students use a variety of tools and techniques of
measurement in a problem-solving situation.
- Beat the Clock Interactive time
game - Gamequarium: Math
Games-Measurement - Jigsaw Puzzle Size Up Introduction to
ratios by assembling the puzzle. - Math 5 Live - Lessons> Area,
Perimeter, Volume (Grade 5) - Measurement Equivalents -
Match game with standard equivalent measurements, such as pounds,
ounces, pints, cups, etc. - Measurement
Game - Practice using a ruler, in inches and
centimeters. FunBrain - National Library of Virtual
Manipulatives Measurement Manipulatives (Grades
3-5) - National Library of Virtual
Manipulatives Measurement Manipulatives (Grades
6-8) - Spy Guys Interactive -
Lessons>Area, Perimeter, Volume - The
Ruler Game Use this game to improve how you read a
ruler. - What Time Will It Be? -
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Content
Standard 4
ALGEBRA
Students use algebraic methods to investigate, model, and
interpret patterns and functions involving numbers, shapes, data, and graphs in
a problem-solving situation.
- Action Fraction Learn about
fractions, and how to add and subtract using the different denominators. - Algebra Planet Blaster - Practice your
math and defend your planet! - Angles - Interactive game to help
recognize and label acute, obtuse, and right angles. - Billy Bug and his Quest for Grub Click
on the arrow keys to guide Billy to the coordinates of the hidden grub. - Catch the Fly - [all 4 quadrants are
used] Use the keyboard to enter the x and y values of an ordered pair to help
the fly catch a bug. No score is kept, each question is essentially a one
question game - Compare Unit
Fractions From Math is Fun, Be sure to choose "Larger
View" for IWB. - Cool Math - Pre Algebra has a ton of
really easy to follow lessons and examples that will make you a successful
pre-algebra student.active game - Create your own pattern - Drag shapes to
create a pattern. Instructions on how to use this page in
your classroom. - Data Graphs From Math is Fun Display
your data as a Bar Graph, Line Graph or Pie Chart, then Print it. - Dino Dig A fun dinosaur archaeologist
themed coordinates game. Find the correct coordinates to uncover the dinosaur
bones. New
2013! - Elapsed Time on a Clock - From Harcourt
School Publishers - Fractions, Decimals, Percents Jeopardy
Game - Change fractions to decimals and percents and
vice-versa. IWB friendly Use <command +> to make screen larger - Fractions with Baseball, Football, Soccer
- Gamequarium: Math
Games-Algebra - How Does My Pattern Grow Make flowers
grow by completing patterns with shapes. New 2013! - Hurkle Your challenge is to find the
Hurkle on the grid in as few guesses as possible. - Interactive Activities Algebra
- Math 3 Under the Sea IWB recommended.
Patterns - Math Files: Late Delivery Help Postman
Phil deliver to the right houses by finding the value of the expression written
on each door. - Maths: Shapes - Revisewise-Recognize
properties and names of shapes - Measuring Angles - Use a virtual
protractor for making measurements. - Measuring Angles - Investigating angles
and the use of a protractor - National Library of Virtual
Manipulatives Algebra Manipulatives (Grades 3-5) - National Library of Virtual
Manipulatives Algebra Manipulatives (Grades 6-8) - Number
Cracker - guess what number comes next in the
pattern - Percentages and Fractions Side by Side
Game - Solving Equations 1 Race against the
clock to solve addition or subtraction algebra questions. New
2013! - Solving Equations 2 Race against the
clock to solve two-step algebra questions. New 2013! - Spy Guys Interactive -
Lessons>Summarizing and Extending Patterns - What's the Point - Find the x-y point
on the grid. Funbrain
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Content
Standard 5
DATA ANALYSIS AND
PROBABILITY
Students use data analysis and probability to analyze
given situations and the results of experiments.
- Data
Interpretation Games - Numerous activities on
using and interpreting data - Activities include bar, pie and line
graphs, data collecting and much more - Data Picking - While Class 8H pose for a
photo, click on each student to collect data to produce a frequency table.
Next, select a chart or graph that matches your data. - Graphing-Grapher - interactive column
graph maker, students can change values and labels - Graphing-Creating
your own Graph It's easy to create and even print your
own graphs. - Graphing - Virtual Manipulatives Bar
Chart, Histogram, Pie Chart, Venn Diagrams - Interactive Activities Probability
- Math 3 Under the Sea IWB recommended.
Data Analysis - Math 5 Live - Lessons> Displaying
Data, Probability (Grade 5) - Mode, Mean, Median - Interactive lesson
followed by activities - (UK measurements) - National Library of Virtual
Manipulatives Data Analysis & Probability
Manipulatives (Grades 3-5) - National Library of Virtual
Manipulatives Data Analysis & Probability
Manipulatives (Grades 6-8) - Pattern Quest By using clues, and
eliminating wrong guesses, the player attempts to deduce a pattern in the fewest
number of guesses. - Probability BBC Bitesize: Maths
- Probability Pond Describe, find and show
probability. New 2013! - Reading Charts and Graphs - students
answer questions about various graphs - Train Race This game can be used to
extend a basic understanding of the median, mean and range. From BBC - Spy Guys Interactive -
Lessons>Graphs, Probability