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Links to interactive educational websites:

• I Spy -- Play the children's favorite online; includes a Venn diagram puzzle that will challenge older kids
• Journey into the Brain -- Players have to remember the neuron firing sequence and repeat it; sound and color (I think there was a toy named Einstein like this)
• Oddball -- choose the picture that does not belong (early elementary)
• Shuffle -- rearrange the pieces of a puzzle to put the picture in place; similar to the old plastic number game
• Sokoban -- PUSH the crates into their spots; be careful, sometimes they get stuck!

• ScrapBlog - Make your own scrapbooks online
• Funschool - A whole slew of activities covering all kinds of subjects, grouped by grade level
  • Preschool
  • K - 2
  • 3 - 4
  • 5 - 6
• Puzzlemaker -- Now part of DiscoverySchool.com, this site lets students create printable puzzles that can be used in a variety of ways
• X-tras:
• Constitution Day
  • Links organized by grade level
• Halloween
• Carve a Pumpkin
• Halloween Games
• Seek-a-Halloween word
• Mystery Message at Black Dog
• Thanksgiving
• Thanksgiving Games
• Chanukah/Christmas/Kwanzaa
• The Chanukah Match Game
• Chanukah Slide Puzzle Game!
• Candy Train
• Concentration ~ exclusively at 12days.com
• Christmas Tic-Tac-Toe
• Claus.com - the merriest place in CyberSpace
• Kids Domain Christmas Games -- evil elves and word search
• Merry Christmas - Hangman game
• North Pole games
• Christmas Tetris
• Kwanzaa Slider and Jigsaw Puzzles
• St. Patrick's Day
  • Catch a Chaun
  • Catch the Leprechaun Game
  • Jigsaw puzzles
  • Maze puzzles
  • Word Search Puzzle
• Easter/Passover
  • Billy Bear
  • Spring Games
  • Egg Matching Game

 

Language Arts/Reading

Contractions:

• Matching game 1
• Matching game 2
• Matching game 3 -- (opening screen is same as Matching game 2, but it is different)
• Contraction Concentration 1
• Contraction Concentration 2
• Type the Contraction
• A Bed Full of Cats
• Treasure Trove -- which key unlocks the treasure
• Fly By -- which plane is carrying the right contraction

Spelling:

• Alphabet Superhighway -- Spelling game (note:  sound only works on a Mac)
• SpellaRoo -- Select the incorrectly spelled word in a sentence
• Spellbound -- See the word and spell it correctly
• Spelling -- Choose the incorrect word from a group of four
• Trading Places -- Match the picture with the correct spelling (early elementary)

• 2Bee or Nottoobee -- choose the correct verb to complete the sentence
• Grammar Blast -- grades 2-5; based on the Houghton Mifflin text series
• Grammar Blast -- grades 6-8
• Grammar Gorillas -- choose the right word in a sentence
• Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus -- extremely cool page which prints a graphic organizer of any word you enter!
• Plural Girls -- change singular words into plurals
• Power Proofreading -- the power is out at HMET-V and the proofreading technicians are needed to fix scripts, memos and the like; files for grades 2-8
• Stay Afloat Word Game (Hangman) -- choose categories (climate, animals, rain forest...)
• What's the Word? -- Reading and vocabulary for really young ones
• Word Confusion -- homonymns

• Bright Ideas for Writing -- list of suggested topics by type (opinion, personal narrative, persuasive essay and more) for grades 1-5
• Bright Ideas for Writing -- grades 6-8 version
• Clifford's Interactive Storybooks
• Evaluation Station -- Step-by-step guide to revising/evaluating your writing for grades 2-5
• Evaluation Station -- Step-by-step guide to revising/evaluating your writing for grades 6-8
• GameGoo - Educational Games -- 13 activities for lower elementary organized from beginner to advanced (thanks, Ms. B!)
• Graphic Organizers -- a set of printable graphic orgranizers for grades K-5
• Graphic Organizers -- a set of printable graphic organizers for grades 6-8
• Learn to Read at Starfall - teaching comprehension and phonics -- (thanks, Ms. B!)
• Listen & Write -- help with writing poetry; students can listen to poetry, submit their own, add stanzas to existing poems...
• One Look Reverse Dictionary -- have you ever had the experience when you couldn't think of a word, but you knew the definition? This site is for you!!
• Paint by Idioms -- various idomatic expressions
• PictureMatch -- choose the first letter of the word in the picture
• Seussville Games -- celebrate Dr. Seuss's birthday
• Seussville University -- reading, math, science and problem-solving
• Sign the Alphabet -- check your knowledge of the sign language alphabet
• Wacky Web Tales -- create your own web tales; supply the right parts of speech.  Includes Parts of Speech help; site changes weekly.  Grades 3 and above.
• Wacky Tales - Create your own mad libs interactively. -- Tests parts of speech
• Wiggleworks Books extension activities
• A Garden and A Tree Can Be --  Play I Spy
• Clifford, the Big Red Dog --Clifford's Interactive Storybooks
• Fire Fighters -- Community Club
• The Bremen Town Musicians -- Listen to the original version by the Brothers Grimm at National Geographic
•  Wordmaker -- choose letter combinations to make words

• A Math's Dictionary for Kids -- animated, interactive math dictionary explaining over 500 terms in simple language
• A+ Math -- interactive flash cards, math puzzles, printable worksheets, etc.
• AAA Math -- organized by topic and grade level; lots of things to do
• Absurd Math -- pre-algebra from another dimension
• Allmath.com -- flashcards, math biographies, math tools and converters
• Coolmath4kids - An amusement park of math designed especially for fun! -- worth a visit just to watch the cool cursor; covers geometry, fractions, math games (including the popular Lemonade Stand) and more!
• Count On! -- collection of online games; you need strategy to win
• Crack Hacker's Safe -- Determine the next pattern in the series
• ExploreMath.com -- a variety of online manipulatives
• Flashcards for Kids! -- add, subtract, multiply, and divide numbers from 0-999; can control level of difficulty
• Guess the Number -- word problems, easy to difficult
• Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles -- over 40 math puzzles
• Looking for the Top Quark Game -- hide coordinates on an XY grid; play against the computer or another opponent; good practice!
• Math -- Sixteen math games and ten "use your math" activities; works with both middle and upper elementary
• Math Baseball -- drill and practice add, subtract, multiply, divide
• Math Car Racing Game -- add, subtract, multiply, and divide
• Math Tables for Kids! -- math problems in a grid with scoring
• Number Cracker Game -- What comes next in a series of numbers
• Number Line -- click the number line at the correct answer
• One False Move -- order numbers low to high and vice versa
• Power Football -- drill and practice add, subtract, multiply, divide
• Puzzle Solvers at Cryptic Manor -- NSA for kids
• Sieve of Eratosthenes -- clever applet for finding prime numbers
• Symmetrizer -- View symmetry in action!
• What's the Point? -- identify coordinates on a graph

• Bartering with Aliens -- converting numbers from Base 10 to other formats
• Houghton Mifflin Mathematics math puzzles and interactive quizzes organized by grade level and chapter
• Math Cats convert numbers -- length, weight, volume
• Math Multiplication -- speed drills-how fast can you multiply your times tables?

• Cookie Dough Spell the Number Day -- Spell number words
• Let's Count! Activities -- counting and comparing number values suitable for the little ones
• Line Jumper -- Jump on the correct number on the number line

• 13 Ways of Looking at a Half
• Who Wants Pizza? -- a fun way to learn about fractions
• Fraction Frenzy -- race against the clock as you pair equivalent fractions
• Fraction Shapes -- Colorful way to determine equivalent fractions by shapes
• Fresh Baked Fractions -- Fraction game
• Math Zapper -- Fabulous intro to fractions, decimals and percents from StudyWorks! Online
• More Fun Fractions -- sequel to above site
• Soccer Shootout -- score and save by answering math problems

• Bathroom tiles -- rotate the bathroom tiles; challenge for measuring angles
• Game Central-- a colorful set of tangram puzzles from CyberChase
• Geometry Flashcards -- good review page
• Online tangrams -- eight different puzzles to try
• Area and Perimeter Volume 1 -- quick tutorial
• Area and Perimeter -- longer tutorial
• Fence Me In -- Help keep the puppy inside the fence
• Shape Surveyor Geometry Game -- Area/Perimeter practice
• StudyWorks! Online : Interactive Geometry
• Tangram puzzles and tangram challenges

• Change Maker -- Money
• Current Value of Old Money -- how much would a specified amount of money from a certain period of time be worth today?
• Exact Change Please -- Help Abe Lincoln purchase goods by counting up the exact change (a little slow between items, but fun sound and graphics)
• Flashcards for Counting Money
• Flashcards, same as above but more than one problem at a time
• Learn to count money
• Money Desk -- Drag the right amount of change to the desk; Easy, normal or hard levels
• Money Matching Game -- Match the dollar amount with the number of coins
• My Schoolhouse Interactive Money -- very cute for beginners
• Piggy Bank -- Kind of fast but fun. Coins drop into slots and you have to click on the right amount to fill the piggy bank before the square is filled. This one is unique because you can click on a coin to add or click it again to subtract
  

• ALFY - Brain Train - Time Flies -- Learn about time; match analog to digital
• BornThinker - SMILEY CLOCK
• Clockwise -- tell time to the hour
• Double Fun Match Memory Game -- analog and digital times; fractions and decimals (degrees of difficulty)
• Stop the Clock Time Game --
  • Time to the half hour
  • Time to the quarter hour
  • Time to five minutes
  • Time to the minute
  • Military time

•  Brainy Tunes -- humorous songs about the brain
•  http://www.looplabs.com/ -- pretty cool online sound mixer
•  The Piano Player -- read music and "play" a virtual piano
•  New York Philharmonic KidZone!
•  Ricci Adams' Musictheory.net
•  Welcome to SFSKIDS -- excellent interactive site for kids from the San Francisco symphony

• Alphabet
  • Alphabet Zoo - Match upper and lower case
• Coloring Pages
  • Dr. Seuss - The Grinch
  • Columbus Zoo and Aquarium
  • Online Coloring Book
• Dinosaurs
  • Prongo Dinosaur Drawing Game - click on dinosaurs to create a diorama
• Dinosaur ABC Book - read aloud book about dinosaurs from the Children's Museum in Indianapolis
• You Dig! - try your hand at digging for dinosaurs
• Hatch and Match Dinosaur Matching Game
• Dinosaur Bones Jigsaw Puzzles
• Farm
  • Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood - build a farm (also build a town, a construction site and the land of make believe)
  • Nina Names Things on the Farm - identify and select things found on a farm
• Oceans
  • Aquademics - drag your mouse to color the fish
  • Reading Rainbow's Build a Fish Habitat
  • Nina Names Things in an Aquarium - identify and select things found in an aquarium
  • Create a Beach Scene
• Little Fingers Games - games for various skills
• Nina's Naming Game - same as above, but includes home, store, restaurant, firehouse, aquarium, supermarket, construction site, airport, museum, garden, and zoo
• Building Language for Literacy - letter/sound recognition
• GameGoo - Educational Games - organized by beginner, intermediate, and advanced
• Sesame Workshop - Sesame Street
• StoryPlace: Pre-school Library
• Tot Zone activities - Online activities for toddlers and preschoolers

All Areas:

• ExploreScience.com -- photosynthesis, density, temperature and more
• Fossweb.com | FOSS Modules -- Magnetism, electricity, landforms, earth, water, mixtures, structures of life, human body, physics, solar energy, nutrition, etc.
• Ology -- From the Museum of American History; a place for kids ages 7-12 to explore, ask questions, get answers, meet OLogists, play games, and see what other kids are interested in
• Online Exhibits @ the Exploratorium -- illusions, color, and other experiments
• Who Wants to Win a Million Dollars? - The Science Game -- Based on the popular game show (sorry, no real money)

Animals:

• Froguts - An Online Virtual Dissection of a Frog
• Wild Ideas -- Interactive animal games from the San Diego Zoo

Biology/Health:

• BioInteractive -- Virtual tours of the heart; virtual cardiology lab and more; help the doctor diagnose a patient
• Bright Smiles, Bright Futures -- for kids, parents and teachers in grades K-3  
• Food Dudes -- matching game of healthy foods  
• Food Pyramid Match-Up -- another matching game to match food photo w/correct group  
• Genome Project -- Think it was easy to map chromosomes?  Try this game to match the chromosome pairs
• Health Maze -- answer questions about health to move from the Castle Disease into the Garden of Good Health
• Human Bones Quiz -- Match each bone to the correct part of the body
• KidsHealth Game Closet -- interactive trip through the body, how your body works, health hunt game  
• Magic School Bus Maze Craze -- eat the good foods and avoid the bad  
• Pyramid Power -- View the pyramid and read about food groups, then put the foods in the right places
• Pyramid Blast Off Game -- reach Planet Power by choosing the right amounts of food, calories, and activity
• Ready Kids -- be prepared in every situation, from the Department of Homeland Security
• SparkleCity -- an interactive adventure about caring for your teeth  
• Staying Healthy Scrambled Words
• Staying Healthy Word Search -- beat the clock in this online game

Chemistry/Physics:

• Chemical Elements Quiz - enter the correct symbol for each element name
• Chemistry Drill for Kids! -- go through the Periodic Table
• Electricity and Magnetism -- online tutorial w/graphics that can be manipulated to better understand the concepts
• Fear of Physics -- Physics explained simply in a number of videos; do things like set up paths for roller coasters, collisions, and jump shots from different heights, speeds and angles, etc. 
• Funderstanding Roller Coaster -- try to keep the coaster on the track by manipulating speed, mass, friction, etc.
• Multimedia Physics Studios
• Periodic Table Game -- easy periodic table quiz for younger kids
• Simple Machines Activities - Lever - Pulley - Wedge - Screw - Inclined Plane - Wheel and Axle - Gear -- explore simple machines found in everyday objects
• Virtual oscilloscope -- manipulate frequency and color to change onscreen patterns; math applications as well

• Earth Day Games -- interactive environment games
• Earth Day Hangman
• Earth Day Storybook -- choose your own ending
• Miss Maggie's Earth Adventures - environmental education for grades 4, 5 and 6
• My Footprint - (for older kids) answer the questions about where and how you live, and find out how many acres of land are required to support your lifestyle choices
• Seussville Save the Trees Game - arcade like game
• Squigly's Online Earth Day Games

• Order It Up - put the planets in order by radius, mass, density, etc.; click on a planet to look up the info and get hints
• Surfing the Solar System - Answer questions about the solar system
• What a Ride - animation that takes kids on a simulated ride from the sun to Pluto at what is equivalent to 300 times the speed of light
•  ZOOM ASTRONOMY -- lots of information on planets; interactive links
• Online Exhibits @ the Exploratorium

Geography:

• ALFY - Brain Train - Map Race -- Place the states in their correct position
• Alphabet Superhighway -- scroll down to the map game, where students are challenged to read and interpret maps (three levels of difficulty)
• Bike Route -- map reading skills; help Inez find the best route home
• FactMonster - Countries of the World
• FactMonster - Fifty States
• Maps That Teach:  U.S. and World Geography -- free interactive maps
• US Geography for Kids! -- drill and practice for all kinds of state facts--capitals, flower, bird, etc.
• Visit Europe
• Welcome to Geo-Globe: Interactive Geography! -- all kinds of activities relating to world geography
• Where is that -- identify the country, capital, etc. in this map game (by country, continent, in varying levels)
• Who is That -- guess the president; includes famous scientists and mathematicians options
• World Flags Quiz -- match the flag to its country; not as easy as it sounds!

• Abraham Lincoln for Primary Children
• Inside the White House -- clever site which lets the student become president; many anecdotes about past presidents if you can get them to READ
• Living Room Candidate -- television commercials for presidential candidates from 1952 to present
• Who is That -- identify presidents and other famous people from clues given

History

• HyperHistory Online -- Searchable world history database organized by subject, person, date, etc.
• Marie Time Capsule -- enter a day and year and find out what was happening (goes back as far as 1800)
• World/U.S. History Quiz 1900-2000 -- how well do you know the 20th Century?

Jamestown:

• Archaeology Digs
• Archeology Digs - Be an Archaeologist
• Colonists Clothes
• Colonists' Food
• Colonial America

• CIESE Online Classroom Projects -- activities for grades 1-8 and above
• COOL TEACHING LESSONS AND UNITS
• Day I Was Born--Online Project - (Homepage)
• FunBrain.com - Writer's Block
• Spaghetti Book Club - book reviews for kids, written by kids
• Weather Watch - exchange weather information across climate zones

Compiled by Education Technologist.