Standards:
Educational Standards – Searchable by state http://edstandards.org/Standards.html
Professional Development / Teacher Resources http://www.schoolnotes.com/ - free teacher webpages – great for setting up classroom pages with assignments, homework, links, etc. http://www.callparents.com
– mass calling or texting of messages to parents (some schools or districts subscribe to this service)
Why virtual manipulatives in education? – article with links to resources http://otec.uoregon.edu/virtual_manipulatives.htm
Mathematically appropriate uses of technology – article about the use of technology in the classroom http://my.nctm.org/eresources/view_article.asp?article_id=2264 www.thinkwave.com
- Free online gradebook software
Free or Free trial Software www.teachers-pet.org
- MS Word Macro plug-in word find, crosswords, word jumbles, etc www.sheppardsoftware.com
- Geography, math, science, history, vocab games, quizzes…all free software downloads for schools www.inspiration.com
- Diagramming Tools – 30 day free trial, many schools have district licenses www.billybear4kids.com
- K-5 level worksheets, games, software, storybooks, stationary www.google.com/services - googledocs & spreadsheets - Word processing and spreadsheets, heavily marketed toward schools because there is no fee and no need for disks, etc. everything saves to googles server – google login required
Multiple Content areas www.unitedstreaming.com
–Discovery Channel site – many schools subscribe – downloadable video clips, demonstrations, etc www.schoolexpress.com
–all kinds of stuff www.storyit.com
- storybooks, storybook creators, printable pages, etc
Online Science and Math Simulations – Check to see if your school subscribes! www.explorelearning.com
All kinds of educational games – search by grade level and subject www.funbrain.com
General Science
Interactive web lessons, science related – K-12 (earthquake and googleearth) http://www.learningscience.org/

**USGS (recent earthquakes – real data) http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/
Science lessons, activities, etc. www.sciencenetlinks.com
Scientific Method notes http://www.biologycorner.com/bio1/scimethod.html
Human Anatomy
Human Anatomy resources and Podcasts – High school and Higher-ed level www.instantanatomy.net
National Space Biomedical Research Institute – Human Anatomy and Space http://www.nsbri.org/Education/Materials.html
Medicine – blood typing, virus infection http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/medicine/
Cardiovascular sites – comparison of different types of hearts and systems http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/cardiovascular/click.html
Obesity http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/obesity/index.html
Heart Transplant in 19 steps http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/eheart/transplantwave.html
Cell Biology
Cells Alive- http://www.cellsalive.com/
Parts of the Cell- http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/~acarpi/NSC/13-cells.htm
Wikipedia- Cell Biology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(biology)
Virtual Cell- http://www.ibiblio.org/virtualcell/tour/cell/cell.htm
Online Onion Root Tip- http://www.biology.arizona.edu/cell_bio/activities/cell_cycle/cell_cycle.html
Cell Bio- http://www.biology.arizona.edu/cell_bio/cell_bio.html
Meiosis and Mitosis comparison- http://www.accessexcellence.org/RC/VL/GG/comparison.html
Cell images- http://www.pbrc.hawaii.edu/microangela/cells.htm
Parts of the Cell- http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/~acarpi/NSC/13-cells.htm
Microbiology
Microbiology video library- http://www-micro.msb.le.ac.uk/Video/videoindex.html
Biology
Interactive Bio activities- http://science.nhmccd.edu/BioL/ap1int.htm
Interactive Biology sites – animations, interactive labs, etc http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/index.html

**Virtual Field trip – San Diego Zoo http://www.biologycorner.com/worksheets/vft_zoo.html
http://www.sandiegozoo.org/zoo/ex_panda_station.html
Virtual Fish Tank – build a fish and assign characteristics and see how it interacts in the environment http://www.virtualfishtank.com/main.html
Genetics
Mendel’s Pea experiment- http://www.sonic.net/~nbs/projects/anthro201/exper/
**Fruit Fly Lab – Very Cool! http://www.sciencecourseware.org/vcise/drosophila/Drosophila.php?guestaccess=1
DNA double helix game http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/medicine/dna_double_helix/index.html
Color and Predation – short video clip to demonstrate http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/animations/pocket-intro/pocket-intro.mov
Mouse genetic color advantage – video clip to demonstrate genetic advantage of a color mutation http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/animations/pocket_pop/pocket_pop.mov
Dissections
**Virtual Frog Dissection - www.Froggy.lbl.gov.virtual
Frog Disection – Step by step slides http://frog.edschool.virginia.edu/Frog2/
Plants
Plant stress- http://cycas.cornell.edu/ebp/projects/laststraw/ise/home.html
Viruses
Common cold- http://www.commoncold.org/
Medicine – blood typing, virus infection http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/medicine/
Physics
**Physics games http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/physics/
Chemistry
Chemistry games http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/chemistry/
Periodic Element Game – match symbols to names, etc http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/pt.cgi
Ecology
Smog City – Monitor the affects of pollution, etc http://www.biologycorner.com/worksheets/smogcity.html
www.smogcity.com

Weather / Geology / Space
Weather data & images- http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/
Weather & forecasting- http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/wx/home.rxml
National Geophysical Data Center- http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/ngdc.html
National Earthquake Information Center- http://earthquake.usgs.gov/regional/neic/
US Geological Survey- http://www.usgs.gov/
US Water Data for the Nation- http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis
National Space Biomedical Research Institute http://www.nsbri.org/Education/Materials.html
NASA Education Resources http://education.nasa.gov/home/index.html
Economics
Economics lesson w/ survey tool for real data- http://www.econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM444
Social Studies
Political database of the Americas- http://pdba.georgetown.edu/
Math
Scaling graph paper http://id.mind.net/~zona/mmts/graphPaper/scalingGraphPaper/scalingGraphPaper.html
Math – lessons with plans, activities, etc – even links to national standard for lesson http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/lessons/
Tangram http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/frames_asid_290_g_3_t_3.html?open=activities
Algebra
Illuminations 6-12 Algebra http://illuminations.nctm.org/Activities.aspx?grade=3&grade=4&srchstr=Algebra http://illuminations.nctm.org/WebResourceList.aspx?Ref=2&Std=1&Grd=0
Math Forum algebra http://mathforum.org/search/myresults.html
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
Gr 6-8 Algebra http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/category_g_3_t_2.html
Gr 9-12 Algebra http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/category_g_4_t_2.html
Explorelearning Gr 6-8 Algebra http://www.explorelearning.com/index.cfm?method=cResource.dspChildrenForCourse&CourseID
=121

Gr 9-12 Algebra http://www.explorelearning.com/index.cfm?method=cResource.dspChildrenForCourse&CourseID
=126
Shodor Interactive Algebra http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/index.html#fun
Algebra activities from cut-the-knot http://www.cut-the-knot.org/Curriculum/index.shtml#algebra
Algebra with base 10 blocks http://arcytech.org/java/b10blocks/
Scaling graph paper http://id.mind.net/~zona/mmts/graphPaper/scalingGraphPaper/scalingGraphPaper.html
Fractions, Decimals, Percents
Fraction bars http://arcytech.org/java/fractions/fractions.html
Fractions, decimals, percents http://my.nctm.org/eresources/repository/2071/applet/FractionPie/index.html
Pattern blocks- exploring fractions with shapes http://arcytech.org/java/patterns/
Cuisenaire Rods http://arcytech.org/java/integers/
Shape fractions http://math.rice.edu/%7Elanius/Patterns/
Visual fractions http://www.visualfractions.com/
Equation Grapher http://www.frontiernet.net/~imaging/graph_my_equation.html
Time & Money
Money applet- http://arcytech.org/java/money/
Time applet- http://arcytech.org/java/clock/
Literature
Literature – Lord of the Flies , Authors http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/literature/
Phonics
Elementary Level Phonics exercises and videos http://www.starfall.com/n/level-a/learn-to-read/load.htm?f
Economics
**Trade game http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/economics/
History
Nobel Peace Prize – 20 th Century Wars http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/peace/

Art
Color Theory – mix red, green, blue to match the color http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/rgb.cgi