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Sequencing activities

SFecich — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 07:30:38 CDT

My day sequence Choose between 4, 6 and 8 activities for your day and put them in the right order.

My life - a time line Which picture best represents each age?

Activity timeline Choose the number of categories for sorting and label them.

Exercise

SFecich — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 07:29:32 CDT

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Spelling

SFecich — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:56:23 CDT

Doorway spelling - Practice your spelling skills with this fun interactive game. You can peek at your words and then try spelling them!

Interactives Spelling Bee- This site is great because it has starting points for a variety of grade levels, from first grade through twelfth.

Spelling Bee the Game – Based off of the movie and musical, this interactive site lets you really feel like you are in a real spelling challenge.

Orangoo Online spell checker. Simple, free and super easy to use. 27 languages supported!

Spelling Match Game Helps students in grades 1-8 with their spelling and vocabulary.

It's a goal Choosing the appropriate vowel correctly to spell simple CVC words.

The Times Spelling Bee - This site will challenge some of the best spellers. Spell words correctly, as quick as you can, to earn points.

Spelling Bee Listen to three stories, one at a time, and then spell words from each story

Super Why: Princess Presto Golden Crown Spelling Bee Spell words to win the spelling bee and earn a crown.

Spin and Spell - A fun way to spell

Spell a Picture As the students type a letter pictures will pop into the screen. They then complete spelling the word based on the pictures that appear. Found on talking smartboards

SpellingConnectionsOnline.com Goes with the company’s Spelling Connections program; however, anyone can use this site! Found on Smartboard goodies blog

Magnetic letters Click on letters to add them to the magnetic board. See what words you can spell!

Kidsspell - You can select from one of our spelling lists, or create your own. Once you have selected a list, play one of our many free spelling games.

spelling city - Practice for a spelling test can be fun. There are three modes – test me, teach me, and play a game.

Super Why: Presto Create a Super Hero Spell words to create a super hero!

Spell check - The computer will give twenty sets of four words. Place a check next to the word which is spelled wrong. Spell the word you checked correctly in the box.

Spellaroo- Spellaroo can hop better than he can spell. Click on the word that is spelled wrong.To start, click on a level

Letter Blocks - A fun and challenging spelling game

Spelling Match Students have to complete matching activities based on the sounds and or meanings of words. - found on Free Technology for Teachers

Teacher smartboard resources

SFecich — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:43:24 CDT

Here is a link to my live binder all about Smartboards and resources!

Safety signs

SFecich — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 08:44:14 CDT

Road signs - Interactive game to support road and safety sign knowledge

Road signs creation - Create your very own signs.
Watch the Street Safety Animated Songs - Learn about safety songs in the yard,crosswalk, traffic, signals, driveway, sidewalk, and more! Choose to play song with animations, song only, or lyrics only.
Street Safety Activity Page - has many ideas and printable picture cards about fire safety. View picture cards, coloring pages, and more links about safety.
Download pictures of each verse for you to print out and enjoy at home. Download and print pictures of each verse in the songs, corresponds with these songs.

Bats

SFecich — Sun, 29 May 2011 09:12:05 CDT

Foxy Fruit Bats A great National Geographic video. A flying fox may have a head that looks like a fox, but it's actually a bat. Learn more about these fruit-eaters.

Listen & Read:Bats Listen and read about bats in an article from Scholastic entitled "Don't be scared of bats"

Vampire Bats from National Geographic. Includes facts and photos, video and sound, maps, e-cards, and printables!

Bat Facts & Houses - Some great educational resources about bats

What does a Bat Look Like? - The diagram below shows the main parts of a bat.

Bats4Kids This special website is designed for all children.
All About Bats: This site provides plenty of printables on bats and bat anatomy, along with general background information on classifying bats.

Kid's Zone Bats

Bats at Enchanted Learning

Bat Species Wordsearch (print out)

Echo the Bat

World environment day

SFecich — Thu, 26 May 2011 07:40:03 CDT

Cycles of life - click and drag pictures into the correct order of life cycle of plants and trees.

Earth day puzzle - car pool Put together a puzzle that shows the importance of car pooling.

Earth day cross word puzzle Solve this Earth day crossword puzzle.

Yard Sale Don't throw it out, have a yard sale!

I Don't Want to Clean My Room Help Anita reuse and recycle while cleaning her room.

Waste Eco-Quiz Test your smarts on waste.

Wastebusters Quizzes Try these two and see how you do.

The Great Garbage Caper Help the principal solve the caper and reduce the amount of garbage produced by your school.

Trash Troopers People have dumped garbage in the frogs’ home. Become a Trash Trooper and help clean up the mess!

Recycle-ma-Whoozitz Is English your second language? Have fun with words and recycle your trash in this goofy machine!

Word jumble Drag the letters together to make a word about Earth day.

Wordsearch Solve this earth day wordsearch online!

Earth day puzzle - plant a tree Put together a puzzle that shows the importance of planting trees.

Earth day puzzle - enjoy nature Enjoy nature by putting this puzzle together.

Earth day puzzle - conserve energy Put together a puzzle that shows the importance of conserving our electricity.

Earth day puzzle - endangered animals Put a puzzle together that shows some of our endangered species.

Earth day painting pictures Paint these pictures of Earth day online

Amazon memory Click on the cards to find the matching animals that live in the Amazon.

Africa Memory Click on the cards to find the matching animals that live in Africa.

Great barrier reef memory Click on the cards to find the matching animals that live in the Great Barrier Reef.

Deep sea creatures memory Click on the cards to find the matching animals that live in the sea.

Help the environment memory Click on the cards to find the matching how to help the Earth.

Coloring pages - interactive online coloring pages to celebrate world environment day

Slide show - top 5 ways to save the Earth!

EcoKids providing free resources for teaching and learning about topics in environmental science. The games offers dozens of online games across eight categories. Within each of the eight categories the games and activities are again categorized according to age appropriateness.

Sydney Interactive House and click on the items to read facts and solutions about water conservation. Found on Smartboard goodies blog

MyAdobo create a home. Different home elements (car, bathroom, garden) can be designed from a simple interface, given 3 choices in each category Found on speech techie blog

Crafts for the classroom- World environment day crafts to do in the classroom

World Earth day quiz - take this world environment day interactive quiz

World Earth day sudoko - interactive sudoko games that you can print and play

eCard with an environmental message Scholastic lets you send a tree free e card - found on Larry Ferlazzo's website

EekoWorld's house activity is an engaging interactive learning activity, again from PBS. Kids can navigate around a house, enjoy great graphics and animations, locate problems and make choices that hurt or benefit the environment.

Thrifty Threads is a fun, expressive design game about recycling and adding new life to dour old clothing. Found on speech techie blog

Trees

SFecich — Thu, 26 May 2011 07:33:42 CDT

Cycles of life - click and drag pictures into the correct order of life cycle of plants and trees.

Tree Planting Tips Learn how to plant trees.

Walk in the Forest Virtual forest where they do field research using the same scientific methods and tools that Smithsonian scientists use to monitor forest biodiversity. Students can act as dirt detectives, predicting which trees will thrive in each type of soil; learn about forest layers and the plants and animals that take up residence in each; identify a tree; observe seasonal changes; map the forest; and use amphibians as an indicator of the forest. Found on ilearn technology

Plants

SFecich — Thu, 26 May 2011 07:33:20 CDT

Zip's plants - choose a category and Zip the bee will explain the part.

Cycles of life - click and drag pictures into the correct order of life cycle of plants and trees.

Tessie's garden - Help Tessie grow her garden by choosing seeds to plant and water them to grow!

Exploring the Secret Life of Trees is a neat interactive site for 3rd through 5th grade students designed to help them gain an appreciation of trees, observe trees in every day life, and develop an interest in learning more about trees.

Growing plants - label a plant, drag and drop the labels into the correct spots to label the plant with the four parts.

The Garden Pizza Place experiment with different amounts of water, sunlight and fertilizer to grow a large plant. Found on speech techie blog

My Secret Garden, an activity for younger or developmentally younger students in which you can choose a number of garden elements and watch them grow! Found on speech techie blog

Alien flowers Drag the flowers into order and label them with ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd, ...). Which flower should come first? Which flower should come last?

Grow a flower Grow a flower by sequencing the events correctly.

Grow a plant - Put the sequence of growing a plant in order

Parts of a plant - Identify the parts of a plant.

Amphibians

SFecich — Thu, 26 May 2011 07:32:44 CDT

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Caterpillars and butterflies

SFecich — Thu, 26 May 2011 07:31:55 CDT

Cycles of life - click and drag pictures into the correct order of life cycles of butterflies

Caterpillar color- Feed the caterpillar some fruits and see what happens.

Explore Butterflies Build a butterfly habitat, observe butterflies in a virtual field observation, and learn about butterflies and climate change.

Build your own Caterpillar activity is more than just a dress-the-animal for fun type of interactive. Found on speech techie's blog

Very hungry caterpillar - The very hungry caterpillar youtube video, a newly hatched caterpillar eats his way through all kinds of food.

Eric Carle talks about his book - This is the history of classic edition of the bestselling story written for the very young.

Butterfly match - Match the butterflies according to one spot, two spots, or create your own!

Life cycle of animals

SFecich — Thu, 26 May 2011 07:31:10 CDT

Cycles of life - click and drag pictures into the correct order of life cycles of butterflies, frogs, plants, and trees.

Round and round - Learn how animals and plants grow and change. Click on the plant or animal you would like to examine. Then put the pictures in order of the animal changing.

Employment

SFecich — Tue, 10 May 2011 12:38:22 CDT

Drive Of Your Life - Drive of Your Life is a fun online career exploration game that helps middle-school and high school students learn more about themselves, higher education and careers. Found on 21st Century Teacher

Could This Be Your Life - Welcome to the interactive game that teaches you about careers and life choices, brought to you by the Illinois Center for Specialized Professional Support. Found on 21st Century Teacher

What Do You Like - Kids can an explore an immense amount of career and labor information from the United States Bureau Of Labor Statistics. Found on 21st Century Teacher

MyPlan.com - A large selection of career videos that are short but easily understood. Found on 21st Century Teacher

The Fun Works - his Web site is about careers. Not just the interesting ones other people have, but the ones YOU can have. Don't know where to start? Well, dive right in and You can EXPLORE many different areas, not just the ones that seem obvious, THINK about what you enjoy. Found on 21st Century Teacher

Showing The Future - Think you’re up to a challenge? Want to know if you can make the right choices in the “real” world? You’ll have a whole new identity including occupation, income, whether you’re married or single, whether or not you have kids, and more. Found on 21st Century Teacher

Careership -CareerShip® is a free online career exploration adventure for middle and high school students. CareerShip is a product of Mapping Your Future, a public-service web site providing free career, college, financial aid, and money management information and services. Found on 21st Century Teacher

Job Success - Want to learn more about time management? Development discusses important factors in workplace success and what you can do to influence your career in positive ways. Found on 21st Century Teacher

Career - Move ahead in your career with tutorials on resumes, the job search, interviewing and more.

The Jobs Game: How much do you know about the jobs in your community?

A video about Working at Starbucks A typical day as a Starbucks barista

Craig Shop floor replenisher

Jobs e book 1 - A great e book about different jobs. Learn about job vocabulary, match different jobs together, and do a crossword.

Jobs e book 2 - A great e book about different jobs. Learn about job vocabulary, match different jobs together, and do a crossword.

Math Apprentice is an awesome flash site that shows kids how math is used in the real world, with real world jobs. Students can explore math through games that feature bicycle designers, biologists, artists, mechanics, inventors, doctors, engineers, astronomers, game designers, programmers, chefs, veterinarians, sportscasters, and meteorologists.

Career Aisle is from the South Carolina PBS Station, and has many short, and accessible, videos on different careers. There are a number of other activities and resources related to jobs there, too.

Words Revision for basic words identifying individual occupations

Kids Work It has a number of engaging and accessible activities about careers in health, television, and the theater.

GCF Learn Free specifically for their Job Application exercise. There are numerous high-quality and accessible activities on the site designed to teach life-skills. You have to register to use them, but it’s free and easy to use.

EmurseThis is a free and accessible online tool to create resumes. It walks you through the process of making one. They basically have a series of text-boxes to fill-in, and have instructions written in simple English. You then end-up with a professional-looking resume.

California Career Zone (which, despite its name, is useful for students everywhere) has three separate sections — Assess Yourself, Explore Industry Sectors, and Reality Check. They are all well-designed and accessible.

BioWorksU, a very accessible series of activities focusing on health occupations.

Hot Shot Business from Disney. It’s a great interactive site where students have to start virtual businesses.

Career Voyages. its numerous closed-captioned videos about every occupation imaginable.

.The Learning Edge. You’ll find eight issues of animated newsletters with text and audio support, and most of it is about jobs and careers.

Mindopia is the newest addition to this list. After clicking on a career you might be interested in, you’re led to a page of simple interviews with people working in that profession, along with other resources (including salary projections).

Mother's day

SFecich — Sun, 08 May 2011 09:01:24 CDT

Happy Mother’s Day, Dear Dragon is a “talking story” from Starfall.

Mother's Day social story - here is a social story you can print and read, it has appropriate symbol supports.

Mother's day online coloring pages - Fun interactive printable Mother's Day coloring pages for kids to color online.

Mother's day online coloring pages II - Fun interactive printable Mother's Day coloring pages for kids to color online.

Mother's day online card - Fun interactive printable Mother's Day card for kids to color online.

Mother's day word search - Mother's Day online wordsearch

Greatest mom award - Print this award for the greatest mom!

Mom mania- Be a mom and fix a healthy snack for the kids! Very fun game

Tic tac toe- mother's day tic tac toe

Little critter & mom - Little critter and mom pictures

Little critter & grandma- Little critter and grandma pictures

Mothers day on sprout- Find different crafts, cards, and games to celebrate moms!

Mother's Day Word Search Find the hidden words associated with Mom's special day. Play game online or print and solve on paper.

Things to Do With Mom Word Search Very easy word search game. Can you find the ten words before the clock runs out?

Mother's Day Word Search Puzzle
Easy word search puzzle game to play online.

Mother's day cross word puzzle - Interactive mothers day crossword puzzle

Mother's day dot to dot 1 - Mothers day interactive dot to dot to print or play on the SMARTboard

Mother's day dot to dot 2 - Mothers day interactive dot to dot to print or play on the SMARTboard

Mother's day dot to dot 3 - Mothers day interactive dot to dot to print or play on the SMARTboard

Mother's day dot to dot 4 - Mothers day interactive dot to dot to print or play on the SMARTboard

Differences in mom's pictures - Can you find the differences in these pictures? Print it out and find the differences!

Mother's day maze 1 - Easy skilled mother’s day maze that can be printed out or played on the SMARTboard.

Mother's day maze 2 - Medium skilled mother’s day maze that can be printed out or played on the SMARTboard.

Mother's Day Concentration Match all the pictures to reveal the Mother's Day message.

Habitats

SFecich — Tue, 03 May 2011 07:13:33 CDT

Animal Homes - Choose a level and click and drag the animal to it's right home.

Habitats - Learn about various living things such as animals and plants, sort them into different categories and discover where they fit into the food chain with this fun science activity for kids.

Home sweet home Use scientific evidence to explain why animals live where they do.

House hunt - Turn over two leaves to match the animal to it's home.

Habitats game - This activity is based around a series of questions relating to the suitability of particular habitats for animals.

Amazon memory Click on the cards to find the matching animals that live in the Amazon.

Africa Memory Click on the cards to find the matching animals that live in Africa.

Tornado

SFecich — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:49:47 CDT

Fujita Pearson Scale: This is the old scale used to rate and describe the tornado, but it gives the children an idea of what kind of damage occurs. The scale has now been enhanced to these wind speeds.

Tornado Video: This 3 minute National Geographic video for kids explains how tornadoes form and what to do in the event of a tornado.

Stop Disasters is a game designed for students to learn about natural disasters, disaster prevention, and city design.Students can plan to prepare for hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, wildfires, and tsunamis. - found on free technology for teachers blog

Tornado Alley: In the U.S. most tornadoes occur in the states between North Dakota and Texas, although they can happen anywhere. (More in depth information can be found at tornadochaser.net)

Teach Your Kids about Tornado Safety: Safety tips from eHow explaining what to do before, during and after a tornado.

Weather Wiz Kids: This site has a lot of information created especially for kids.

FEMA for Kids: This site has information and more. A highlight of this site are some Tornado stories written by children.

Tornado Photo Gallery: This site shows the different types of tornadoes: Cones, Wedges, Elephant Trunks, Ropes & Stovepipes.

Easter

SFecich — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 08:57:26 CDT

Easter Reading Activity Simple reading text and online quiz.

Online Easter Word Search Interactive Easter word search

Egg Catch Game: Catch the falling eggs with the basket.

Easter Quiz - Have fun answering these Easter questions.

Elementary grammar quizzes. Put the jumbled words in the correct order to make sentences.

9-Piece Tile Swap Puzzle: Swap the puzzle pieces to put the picture back together.

Easter Crossword PuzzleInteractive Easter crossword puzzle, for young learners and English language students.

The Bunny Trail Maze Help guide the bunny through the maze while collecting as many Easter eggs as you can in this fun and challenging game.

Funny Bunny Enjoy watching the lighthearted bunny hop about, make faces and giggle.

Easter Spelling Quiz Vocabulary quiz for Elementary learners. Match the jumbled words to the correct spellings.

Decorate an Easter Egg : Pick a color for your egg, decorate, and print.

Find the Differences Game: Find the difference

Easter Gap Fill Activity Simple English gap fill exercise about Easter.

Maze 1 - Good luck on this interactive Easter maze.

Maze 2 - Good luck on this interactive Easter maze.

Maze 3 -Good luck on this interactive Easter maze.

Easter Egg Roll hunt - Find the words with this interactive Easter egg roll wordsearch.

Easter Video Listening Quiz Video listening quiz about the history of Easter.

Easter Worksheets Simple printable worksheets on the topic of Easter.

Egg Fun Decorate and print your own Easter Egg design with this bright and sunny activity!

Easter Candy Sweets for the sweets! Can you scramble up this puzzle?

Meddybemps Decorate eggs by dragging and dropping decorations, paint eggs, as well as form words and sentences.

MightyBook.com An Easter matching activity as well as an e-book. Found on Smartboard goodies blog

MES-Games Learn all about Easter words.

Card Maker Help Kidz Learn just keep giving. Brand new is their highly accessible site.

Find the Bunny Pals - bunny concentration

Tic-Tac-Toe de' Bunny - bunny tic tac toe, play against billy bear.

Mix and Match - Try to match them up. Then try mixing them up to see what silly character you can make. To play, just click on the little buttons on the left side of the pictures.

Easter Egg Hunt Outside - See if you can find all of the Easter Eggs.

Bunny Dress Up Game - Dress up the bunny for Easter.

Easter Egg Dress Up Game - Dress up the egg for Easter.

Easter Egg Hunt in the House See if you can find all of the Easter Eggs.

Chocolate Eggs and Chocolate Bunnies Yum! Can you swap these pieces around?

Easter Coloring Color Easter pictures online with a nifty set of art tools!

Marshmallow Chicks Pink and yellow marshmallow chicks make this scrambler puzzle fun to complete.

Easter Coloring Pages Color Easter eggs, chocolate bunnies and more with these easy-to-print coloring pages.

Easter What's Different? Find the ten differences between these two Easter photo

Whomp! Help Buddy, the Easter Bunny, protect his chocolate eggs from pesky gophers!

Decorate an Easter Egg : Pick a color for your egg, decorate, and print.

Dress the egg - Decorate the Easter Egg by dragging and dropping the items with your mouse.

Just Not the Same Game See if you can find the egg that's not the same as the others

Egg Hunt Game 1 Try to find all the eggs hidden in the park. Put the eggs in the basket by dragging them with your mouse, and when you're finished, please remember to tidy up the park.

Egg Hunt2 10 eggs are hidden among the flowers and the grass. Click on each egg as you find it. (Flash)

Alphabet

SFecich — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 07:25:03 CDT

Letters Game Type the letters in the fireball to save your city.

ABC Game Find the matching letter on the blackboard.

Leo the Lobster Help Leo find the matching letters

Letters Help Rusty Rat catch the falling letters.

Interactive Alphabet Goes through the alphabets : giving its name, its sound, and showing how it is written

ABC Hide and Seek Find the alphabet

Letter Fire Click on the letter at the bottom of the game that matches the letter flying by. The more letters that you match, the faster the letters fly by!

Letter Match Separate the words into the different boxes by looking at the first letter of each word.

A - Z Highway Game Help Arthur find the truck that goes with each letter.

Alphabet Flash Cards Can you recognize the letters on Boowa's alphabet flash cards?

Letter Matching Drag the correct letters to complete the words in Letter Matching. This is a fun kindergarten or preschool game for reinforcing letter recognition, spelling, reading skills and vocabulary.

Alphattack Can you save the planet from the alpha bombs?

Big Bird's Letters Identify the letters with Big Bird

Alphabet Action Click a letter to hear its name and see a picture

Teach Me ABCs Learn your letters with Teach Me ABCs. This is a fun alphabet preschool game that helps kids with letter recognition, reading and vocabulary. Click on letters and things to hear their names.

ABC's Zoo Learn about letters. Include the alphabet song.

Alphabet Match Click on the tile that has the same letter as the animated alphabet.

Super simple ABC's - Great alphabet games that progress through letter id to letter sounds in 3 different levels.

Sesame Street: Letters to Big Bird Identify what letter each object's word starts with

Magnetic letters Click on letters to add them to the magnetic board. See what words you can spell!

Alphabet match - Alphabet match is a great way to review the alphabet with a memory type game. Match the picture and letter.

Connect the dots ABC order Connect the dots in alphabetical order.

Upper and lower case letter match - Match the upper and lower case letters by coloring in the matching tshirts.

Bembo's Zoo is an online, interactive, and dazzlingly animated version

Alphabet action - Click on a letter to hear it’s name and see a picture of the word. It will speak aloud the letter name.

ABC match -Click the picture card, then find the matching letter card, much like concentration -

Alphabet soup- Make words with cookie monster. Choose the middle letter, and cookie monster says the word and describes it.

ABC order - put the letters in abc order game. Has audio feedback and is based on a train theme.

ABC mix up - The letters in the alphabet are all mixed up! Can you put them back in the correct order?

ABCD Watermelon Fill in the missing letters, you can choose from the three choices.

abc on starfall – Click on a letter of the alphabet, learn the letter sounds, and practice with words that begin with that letter. – used in Mrs. Eye’s class

Fruit and vegetables game- ABC matching game with a fruit and vegetable theme.

More alphabet soup - Click the letters in the soup to find the missing word that completes the sentence.

Matching games

SFecich — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 07:23:10 CDT

Between the Lions, Word Play

Memory match shapes - Play a memory match game with shapes

Memory match numbers - Play a memory match game with numbers

Memory symbol game- Play different matching games with your choice of symbol representations