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The Knowledge Loom is a place for educators worldwide to do the following: review research that identifies promising practices related to various themes, view stories about the practices in real schools/districts, learn to replicate the success of these practices in your own organization, add your own stories and knowledge to the collections, and discover supporting organizations and resources, including annotated Web links.

Kids will have fun with Mazes. These printable mazes appeal to kids from preschool and kindergarten up to grade school. Teachers may also like to include the theme mazes in their lesson plans. Print and enjoy!

Poll Everywhere is live audience polling. It replaces expensive proprietary audience response hardware with standard web technology. You can gather live responses in any venue: conference presentations, classrooms, radio, TV, print-anywhere. Some of the creative uses for this include: conducting quick comprehensive checks in training, replace expensive classroom clickers, let students submit questions and feedback to a teacher, and even use as an anonymous way to collect answers to sensitive questions. Poll Everywhere is free for people who need to collect 30 or less responses per poll.

The mission at ReadWriteThink is to provide educators, parents, and afterschool professionals with access to the highest quality practices in reading and language arts instruction by offering the very best in free materials.

Customized surveys can be generated in a word processing or desktop publishing program, but Survey Monkey, is an online, user friendly site that automatically collates data. This site can be used for pre-assessment with your class or for any number of other activities.

WVIZ Ideastream is one of eight Educational Technology agencies in the state of Ohio. The Educational Services Department assists schools and districts in utilizing new technologies, provides staff development in the use of technology, and provides student and teacher programming through technology.

AdLit.org is all about adolescent literature. You can find book lists, video interviews with authors, and a comprehensive list of strategies for teaching reading and writing. The strategies page gives detailed descriptions of how to implement each strategy. AdLit's strategies page also gives guidance as to the proper timing for implementing the suggested strategies.

Children’s Literature Activities for the Classroom contains hundreds of links to children's literature sites by genre and book title.

Patti's Electronic Classroom provides phonemic awareness activities, as well as web links, teachers corner, activities, and much more.

Planet Esmé is a children's literature site with classifications by subject and many ideas for classroom use.

Browse the fiction and nonfiction titles in the Primary Source Library selected to educate students for global understanding. For example, Listen to the Wind: The Story of Dr. Greg and the Three Cups of Tea is a children’s book that tells the story of Dr. Greg Mortenson’s promise to build a school in a remote Himalayan village after the villagers saved his life. Let's Eat! What Children Eat Around the World presents traditional foods from Thailand, South Africa, Mexico, France and India, and provides a number of recipes.

Professor Garfield Teacher’s Lounge has lesson plans, activities, and research dealing with Comprehension and Questioning Skills, Phonemic Awareness, Phonics and Vocabulary.

ReadWriteThink is a partnership between the International Reading Association (IRA), the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), and the Verizon Foundation. They are working together to provide educators and students with access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction through free, Internet-based content.

Explore Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers to find out how you can launch a child into a bright future with reading strategies that work.

60 Second Recap provides book summaries in sixty second video segments. There is a sixty second summary of each chapter of each book. Along with the chapter summaries there is a general overview of each book. 60 Second Recap offers registered users the option to record a video response to each video summary. If you don't have access to a web cam, you can record a simple text response.

Expand your English learners’ reading experiences with a new, free audio story each week from Storynory. You’ll find both classic stories and original tales that have been adapted from stories around the world. All the stories and audio books come with full English text. Students can double-click any word in the text for translation into a host of languages.

Stop by the StoryPlace, a digital library created specifically for children. The library’s materials include free online books, online activities, take-home activities and reading lists for preschool and elementary students. The site is accessible in English and Spanish.

Wordsmith.org is a fun online tool that creates anagrams from any word or phrase you type in.

Writing with Writers allows students to work with authors, editors, and illustrators in exclusive workshops designed to guide them in developing their skills.

Read Across America, from the National Education Association, contains activities promoting reading.

SOS for Information Literacy is a dynamic web-based multimedia resource that includes lesson plans, handouts, presentations, videos and other resources to enhance the teaching of information literacy. It is dedicated to helping educators find motivating ways of teaching information literacy skills to children.

Student Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism is brought to you by Education World. It is an easy to read document that you could have kids read to help them understand the concept of plagiarism.

Billy Bug is a graphing game for elementary and middle school students.

Brain Nook is a virtual world in which students can practice their mathematics and English skills. Brain Nook provides students with a series of scenarios that they have to resolve by answering mathematics and language arts questions. Brain Nook presents students with questions based on their skill levels which is determined by a quick pre-assessment and adjusted as they progress through Brain Nook's virtual worlds. 

The website Count Us In offers games designed to help children understand basic number concepts.

Cyberchase is an animated television series teaches kids aged 8–12 math and problem-solving concepts and helps build an appreciation of math as a tool we can use every day.

Education World's Math Subject Center is your one-stop shop for free math teaching materials.

Illuminations provides resources for teaching math. It is provided by The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics which is the public voice of mathematics education, providing vision, leadership, and professional development to support teachers in ensuring mathematics learning of the highest quality for all students.

The NCES Kids' Zone provides information to help you learn about schools; decide on a college; find a public library; engage in several games, quizzes and skill building about math, probability, graphing, and mathematicians; and to learn many interesting facts about education.

Learn Your Tables is a neat little site for students to use to learn and develop multiplication skills. The site offers two basic games on two different levels. The most basic game is a simple drag and drop activity in which students match equations to their correct answers. The more "advanced" game has students enter the correct answer to a multiplication question. The easier of the two levels only contains problems from one multiplication table while the more difficult level contains problems from multiple multiplication tables.

Math Hunt allows you to explore amazing facts and fantastic math. They scour the web for science and social studies information to help us crack math problems.

The Money Page provides resources for teachers and in addition offers kid’s activities.

Utah State University developed the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives. They have made dozens of free PreK-12 math manipulative's available online. These applications help students visualize complex relationships and increase their understanding of everything from addition to Venn diagrams and beyond.

Number Nut offers an introduction to mathematics and its variety of topics. It is not just of kids, it’s for everyone. Under basic math they cover: Shapes & Colors, Numbers & Counting, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division. Advanced Math covers: Fractions, Decimals, Percentages, Estimation & Rounding, Ratios and Money.

Solomon Stick offers free K-12 Math Videos.

Ten Marks, an online mathematics tutoring service, offers a free program for teachers . It is designed to be a supplement to classroom instruction, not as a replacement for it.
Ten Marks provides educators with an online forum in which they can assign mathematics practice problems to students and track their students' progress. If a student gets stuck on a problem he or she can open a tutorial to help him or her through the problem. Ten Marks provides teachers with the option to CC parents on the assignments sent to students. The online curriculum provided by Ten Marks can be aligned to the state standards a teacher chooses.

Yummy Math is a website designed for the purpose of sharing mathematics problems and scenarios based on things happening in the world today. For example, the activity for December 12th was based on wrapping Christmas presents. Yummy Math lists activities chronologically as well as by mathematics subject area. Two mathematics teachers, Brian Marks and Leslie Lewis, developed Yummy Math and welcome suggestions from other mathematics teachers. 

Entomology for Kids and Teachers is a great support for a study of pollinators. The entomology resources include state standards based lesson plans for grades k-12, teacher resources (field guides, trade book lists, and recommended websites), and fact sheets on critters and insects, especially ones common in and around the school yard. If you live in a rural area, the page describing how to create a honeybee hive will help to involve students in a variety of pollinator protection activities.

Hey LHS Kids is a science activities website for kids developed by the Lawrence Hall of Science at UC Berkeley. Hey LHS Kids features some good activities for elementary school students.

The Kids Garden includes a myriad of resources to help parents and educators teach children about gardening at home and at school. Topics covered include pollination, flower anatomy, propagating plants, garden wildlife, composting, and weeds and wildflowers.

Succeeding With Science is a great resource for games, videos, and other activities for teaching and learning science. Succeeding With Science is organized by age and within each age range there is a selection of games and activities for students to use on his or her own. You'll find that quite a few of the activities are suitable for use on touch screen computers and interactive whiteboards.

Engage your students with Animated Atlas: Growth of a Nation, a 10-minute narrated movie, divided into smaller segments, which depicts the geographic history of the United States from the beginning of the nation to 50 states. Geographic elements are interactive, as is the timeline.

What do dolls, piñatas and swaddling have in common? They can all be found at Children & Youth in History, the first Web site focused on children in world history—from the past to the present. This free online resource was created by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University and the University of Missouri–Kansas City. You’ll find sections with Web Site Reviews, Primary Sources, Case Studies and Teaching Modules.