Technology Integration Resources

Technology Integration Resources & Professional Development

This section contains web links that students, parents and teachers alike, may find useful in helping students in the content areas. Resources may pertain to grades PreK-12.

Ages 3-5

Between the Lions

Primary site with stories and great songs pertaining to letters and sounds.

GameGoo

Colorful and fun educational games for primary students.

Gamequarium

Practice ABCs, colors, and shapes.

Meddy Bemps

This site is just plain awesome. It has many opportunities for students to practice using the mouse and hand and eye coordination.

Playhouse Disney

Shows from the Disney channel are featured here in an interactive learning environment. Under more shows, Felix has kids correctly match animal features, Shanna's Show has kids guess her career, and Manners with Max talks about the importance of manners.

Scholastic PreSchool Playground

Create poems with phrases read aloud and pictures to choose from, have Clifford books read to you, work with patterns and more.

Sesame Street

Lots of fun and interactive games including practice on speaking Spanish, patterns, counting, holiday fun, weather and more.

Starfall

This is an excellent site for students to use for reading. It's colorful and interactive.

Assessment

Success Website

ODE has a new testing website. It has information on what kids need to know to be prepared, sample questions to do online including some with typed responses that can be printed. Incorrect answers are immediately explained. Content includes Math, Reading,

Clipart/Images

Awesome Clip Art for Educators

Holiday and general clip art that is copyright free and can be used on web pages.

Chips Ahoy!

School-related clip art.

Classroom Clipart

Classroom clipart is a Clip Art Gallery and clipart site for students. Pictures are copyright free and can be used on web pages.

Cute Colors

Just what it says- cute graphics! Click on the Free Cliparts tab at the top, then Free Clip Art Sets to right. Graphics can be used on web pages as long as a link and their logo is on your page as well.

Library of Congress

Find images of famous people and events.

School Clip Art for Teachers and Kids

Free School Clip Art for students and teachers. - Clipart for educational purposes. Items can be used on web pages.

TeachNet

Educational images that can be used on web pages as long as you add their image and internet link.

General Technology Websites

42 Explore

This site has links and wonderful activity ideas for integrating technology.

ABCya!

This site has many grade specific resources such for picture drawing (paint), keyboarding, various content area items as well as holiday resources.

Academic Skill Builders

Students can play these cool and free online games to practice math facts, state capitals, phonics, vocabulary and parts of speech.

Connect 4 Classrooms

Resources for every grade level and subject you can think of!

Create A Graph

Create many different types of graphs by using data that you and your students collected.

EduPlace Games

Spelling, Language Arts and Geography games. Be sure to check out Wacky Web Tales (Mad Libs)!

Edutopia

A great place for articles and videos on technology integration into any content area. The site is sponsored by George Lucas.

Explore Learning

Online simulations for math and science.

Fact Monster

Search for facts or drill down by subject.

FunBrain

Math and Language Arts interactive games.

Fun School

Search for games by grade level and subject area.

Game Board Templates

This site has a ton of game board templates and some suggestions on how to use them in the classroom. Many can be downloaded and edited in Word. They can be used in centers or would be great to use in conjunction with the SMART Board, especially for team

Gamequarium

The site with 1500 links of learning and growing fun. Sites are separated into subject specific areas for upper and lower elementary

Great Websites For Kids

Database of websites sponsored by Association of Library Service to Children

Ohio's Instructional Management System (IMS)

Search within this database off ODE's site for model lessons grades Pre-K through 12 and the content areas.

Ohio Resource Center

This site has standards-aligned lesson plans ans resources for Math, Science and Reading.

PBS Multimedia Kits

Wonderful units developed by teachers and free to teachers. Great lesson plans, online activities and videos.

Primary Games

Games, journaling paper, coloring pages and more for primary students.

Quiz Hub

A noncommercial portal to excellent free online learning activities for elementary and middle school students. Includes educational games, puzzles, and quizzes.

Word Clouds for Kids

Just like Wordle but for younger kids!

Quiz Star

This is a great resource for creating online quizzes. There are great reports and many choices in creating the quizzes.

Scavenger Hunts

Similar to WebQuests, but more simplified search without a final project.

Study Ladder

Activity games and worksheets for literacy and math.

Teacher's Domain

A K-12 online, media-on-demand resource library that offers innovative methods to help keep students engaged and interested in civil rights, engineering, physical science, life science, and earth and space science.

Teachers First

TeachersFirst is a rich collection of lessons and web resources for K-12 classroom teachers, their students, and even students' families. Materials are arranged by subject area and grade level, making it easy to locate lesson plans ......

Trumbull County ESC

This site has tons of resources for integrating technology as wells as the other academic subject areas!

Grants

Edutopia Grant Resources

Edutopia has a great list of websites to find grants for various programs/projects.

eSchool News

eSchool News has many resources for grant information.

G.A.R. Grant

Dominion

Donors Choose

Martha Holden Jennings Foundation

An easy grant to apply for. Applicants should be sure to follow their guidelines.

ORR Family Foundation

Grant funding resource.

Target

Technology & Learning

Grant advice.

Graphic Organizers

Freeology

Free Graphic organizers!

Scholastic

Here you will find pdf files that are editable and can then be printed.

Templates

Graphic organizers and templates.

Inauguration

Inauguration of Barack Obama

Watch highlights of the inauguration, see pictures, and more!

I Do Solemnly Swear!

Find more than forty items including photographs, manuscripts, campaign posters, letters, broadsides, and inaugural speeches here.

The Official Site for The White House

Get all sorts of facts from this official White House site.

The Democracy Project

This PBS site shows what it's like to be president for a day and what it's like inside the voting booth.

Internet Safety

Brainpop Jr. Video

Watch the video about being safe on the computer!

Cyber Safe

Be Cyber Safe is a good overview of the dangers that are out there for kids while they are online. It's full of information and links to additional resources. Definitely a good site to check out.

Cybersmart!

Lessons by grade level.

Cyberbullying.org

Canadian site with examples and what can be done.

Cyberbullying Research Center

The Cyberbullying Research Center is dedicated to providing up-to-date information about the nature, extent, causes, and consequences of cyberbullying among adolescents.

Digital Parenting

Digital Parenting offers 112 pages of interviews, how-to's (on everything from Google SafeSearch to Windows 7 Parental Controls), and expert views on a large range of issues: digital parenting by age and stage, cyberbullying, online privacy.......

Federal Task Force on Bullying

Google has tips for parents regarding safe internet use. They will soon have a companion video online.

Google's Web Safety Page

Google has tips for parents regarding safe internet use. They will soon have a companion video online.

iKeepSafe

Many resources for parents, educators and kids.

iSafe

This non-profit organization provides free resources (lessons, videos, etc.) to teachers, students and parents related to being safe on the internet, information about security issues, copyright information, etc. There's also an online training that teach

Microsoft Safety Tips

This page has information and rules for students ages Pre-K through 17. It is written in a very clear and easy to understand manner.

NetSmartz

This site has great information, videos, activities and more for parents, students and teachers. Be sure to check out the Kids and Educator areas!

SCOCA

Cybersafety resources including videos.

Surfswell Island

Surf Swell Island is a place on the Internet where kids and parents can learn about Internet safety. Children of all ages learn best when they are relaxed and having a good time. That's why the folks at Disney have chosen to address this very serious topi

Safeteens

Information that can be used to teach kids to be safe on the internet.

SafeKids

Various Links to organizations with information on web safety.

Stop Cyberbullying

Cyberbullying information by age group and for parents.

Stop Bullying

An official U.S. Government Web site managed by the Department of Health & Human Services in partnership with the Department of Education and Department of Justice

Stop Think Connect

Dept. of Homeland Security's site for Cybersecurity.

The Cyber Tipline

A site for reporting internet predators.

Tumblebooks

Videos: Little Red Cyber Safety (Gr.3-4) & Surfing Safely (Gr.3-4) TumbleBooks is a great site with over 200 animated audiobooks along with coordinating puzzles and games. Click on TumbleBooks below Books and Literature section to access them.

WiredSafety

More safety tips on chatting, mobile phones and more!

Keyboarding/Typing

Dance Mat Typing

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/

Free Typing Games

Fun and various levels for typing

Type Online

Easier lessons with directions on where fingers rest on keyboard.

Mr. Kent's Typing Tutor

Practice typing by selecting keys to practice.

Power Typing

More difficult typing lessons and games.

Touch Typing

Free typing program with various language keyboards.

Typing Web

Language Arts

Between the Lions

Primary site with stories and great songs pertaining to letters and sounds.

Book Adventure

Get a free account and have kids read books in class. Then, they can take an online quiz!

Carl's Corner

Scroll down for Scott Foresman K-3 materials.

Fairy Tale Webquest Grades 4/5

GameGoo

Colorful and fun educational games for primary students.

Giggle Poetry

Cute poetry that will make you laugh out loud!

Guide to Grammar and Writing

This site contains loads of lessons, interactive quizzes, PowerPoint presentations, and more, all centered around topics in grammar and writing. Excellent for students and teachers.

Lexile Framework

Search for book lexiles or search for book lists by lexile level.

Mrs. Lewis' Reading Street Page

This web page was created by another teacher and has lots of links for Reading Street grades 1-6.

Primary Games

A great primary site for Language Arts.

Poetry 180

Site by The Library of Congress including poems. Great to pull up on the SMART Board to show teaching points.

Puzzlemaker

Make word searches and puzzles using vocabulary, sight words, spelling words, etc.

Reading Rockets

This site has interviews with children's book authors and illustrators. Note: Many of the videos require Real Player (a free download).

Reading Street Digital Products

Preview the digital products that came with our new Reading Street program for K-4.

Read Write Think

Interactive tools online along with lesson plans and activities for grades K-12. A great resource to check out!

Resources for Reading Street

This site has resources for grades K-5 Reading Street.

Robert Munsch.com

Listen to books written and sometimes read by Robert Munsch the author.

Scholastic

Read Clifford stories, do various activities with Goosebump stories and The Magic School Bus, etc.

Sight Words

Sight Words by grade-level broken into individual letters for kids to click and drag. Site reads words, too.

Silly Books

Stories written by children that are read aloud online.

Spelling City

Type in sight words and they are read and spelled to student.

Starfall

This is an excellent site for students to use for reading. It's colorful and interactive.

Story Scramble

A sequencing activity on PBS Kids.

Teach-ology

Make bingo cards with sight words. Print one, shuffle words, print next, etc.

The Florida Center for Reading Research

Look at the right side of page. Click under Instructional Materials for Teacher on your Student Center Activities grade level. Scroll down for activities!

Wacky Web Tales

Mad Libs

Writing Fun

This site gives information on the various types of writing (narrative, informational, etc.) as well as tips.

Math

A+ Math

This web site was developed to help students improve their math skills interactively.

AAA Math

Hundreds of pages of Basic Math Skills. Interactive Practice on every page. An Explanation of the math topic on each page. Several Challenge Games on every page. Math Problems are randomly created.

Base Ten

Base 10 blocks interactive activities.

Cool Math 4 Kids

A fantastic elementary/middle school math website with interactive games on geometry, math facts and more. Click on the link to www.coolmath.com for pre-algebra and up.

Count Us In

Games designed to help children understand basic math concepts.

EDformatics

Released tests from all over the country. Print or take online.

Everyday Math Resources

This is a link to a site with online activities that correlate to units in our Everyday Math series. You could also use them with the Smartboard or data projector in the lab/classroom.

Grade 1 EveryDay Math Resources

Units are listed with resources that pertain to them.

Math & Logic Games Galore

A ton of links with math logic puzzels, questions and games.

Math in Daily Life

Shows ways math is used in your daily life.

Math Maven Mysteries

Online story problems for intermediate grades.

Math Playground

Great math problems for grades 1 and up.

Rainforest Maths

Interactive activities for grades K-6.

That Quiz

A collection of quizzes on Fractions, Geometry, and other concepts.

Virtual Manipulatives

Great interactive activities K-12.

Yummy Math

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 4th was based on LeBron James's return to Cleveland. Yummy Math lists....

News

NBC Learn

NBC Learn K-12 makes thousands of historic videos, current events, and original resources available to K-12 teachers and students, all aligned to state standards and mapped to curriculum.

USA Today

Find out the latest news in USA Today.

New York Times

Check out the New York Times here.

Canton Repository

View the Canton Repository newspaper online.

The Beacon Journal

Read The Beacon Journal online here.

Test Prep.

Success

Success portal provided by the state providing OGT information/prep for parents and students.

Reference Tools

Britannica Online

A credible online encyclopedia

Enchanted Learning

This site has great diagrams, maps and vocabulary information.

Encyclopedia

A creditable online encyclopedia

How Stuff Works

Research how things work. Everything from computer stuff to fireworks.

Infohio

This is a wonderful free resource for researching any information with grade-level specific reading levels. See your librarian or Technology Director for password information, if needed.

Jeeves

Type in a question or a key word and kid-friendly sites are returned.

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary

This site has a dictionary and thesaurus. Definitions as well as pronunciations are given.

OCIS

The Ohio Career Information System (OCIS) is an Internet-based delivery system for accurate, comprehensive, current, and relevant occupational, post-secondary school and financial aid information. OCIS contains the latest national, Ohio and local labor ma

World Factbook 2000

A reference tool for maps and flags around the world.

Rubrics

RubiStar

Create your own rubrics with a lot of flexibility!

Scholastic

Enter up to 10 skills to create a rubric that calculates the total number of possible points.

Tech-nology Rubrics

This rubric maker will create topic specific rubrics in a jiffy. This isn't the site to use if you want to personalize your rubric, but it's fast and easy.

Science

BrainPop

A wonderful science and social studies site with movies followed with a quiz. Requires a yearly subscription for most videos, but some are free.

BrainPop Jr.

Another wonderful science and social studies site (for the primary grades) with movies followed with a quiz. Requires a yearly subscription for most videos, but some are free.

Discover Magazine

Science articles.

EdHeads

Find science activities including topics such as weather and simple machines.

Enchanted Learning

Great site for research on science and social studies topics.

Eyes on the Skye

Online book on Earth's rotation, tilt, how seasons are formed, etc.

How Stuff Works

HowStuffWorks, a wholly owned subsidiary of Discovery Communications, is the award-winning source of credible, unbiased, and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works. From car engines to search engines, from cell phones to stem cell

Interactives Rock Cycle

Explore various rocks and how they are made.

Kids Design Network

With Kids Design Network, you'll investigate a challenge, dream up a design, and draw your plans on the computer. Then, using the Internet, you can show your design to a real engineer! They'll help with your design, so you can go and build it!

NASA

This content resource presents information about six different types of telescopes and includes an interactive activity that allows students to select an object (sun, moon, planet, or galaxy) and the type of telescope through which they would like to view

National Geographic Classroom Magazine

Great articles and even some free BrainPop movies and quizzes.

Science News for kids

Read about the latest in science news.

The Science Spot

Lesson plans, puzzles and links relating to science topics such as biology, earth science, physics, and more!

Teacher's Domain

This site contains lesson plans, images, and video clips in the content areas of Science and Social Studies for Grades K-12. Although there are only 1,000 resources so far, they are of good quality, are free, and are aligned to state and national standard

The Dirt on Soil

Information on the layers of soil and it's composition. Site from Discovery School.

SMART Board/ Mimio Resources

Wall Wisher

Create electronic sticky notes. Each student could add a note about what they have learned.

Primary Wall

Cute primary-themed wall for notes. Each student could add a sticky to share what they know. Create a free account for more options.

A+ Math

This web site was developed to help students improve their math skills interactively.

BBC

Great activities for many subject areas and ages. Be careful to watch- they don't use American English.

Beginning of the Year Lessons

Beginning of the year lessons for your classroom.

Center School District SMART Board Resources

Templates, tips and more!

Cool Math 4 Kids

A fantastic elementary/middle school math website with interactive games on geometry, math facts and more. Click on the link to www.coolmath.com for pre-algebra and up.

EdHeads

Edheads helps students learn through educational games and activities designed to meet state and national standards.

SMART Lessons

SMART Board lessons on a teacher's blog.

EveryDay Math & Language Arts SMART Board Lessons for Gr. 1

Lessons for grades K-2 including Language Arts and Grade 1 EveryDay Math.

Explore Learning

Online simulations for math and science.

eMints

These sites have smart board activities for grades 6-12 on geometry, number and operation concepts, functions and algebra, fractions, and statistics.

Game Board Templates

Grade 1 SMART Board Lessons

Interactive Games

This site has an enormous amount of interactive games.

Interactive Resources

This site has great activities in various subject areas and for many grade levels.

Internet 4 Classrooms

Interactive sites and lessons for the SMART Board

Pete's PowerPoint Station K-8

You can use PowerPoints on the SMART Board just as you would a SMART Board lesson.

Resources for Reading Street

This site has resources for Reading Street grades K-5 that could be used on the SMART Board/Mimio.

Scholastic

Online interactive educational activities for Pre-K through 12. Be sure to check out Computer Lab Favorites at the top of the page.

SMART Board Lessons

SMART Board lessons on a teacher's blog.

SMART Board Lounge

Find tons of games on popular game shows, several video tutorials, and lessons for various content areas on this site.

SMART Notebook Software and Training Materials

Find all you need to get started with SMART Notebook v. 10.

Teachers Love SMART Boards

Great site with resources and information regarding SMART Board integration.

Virtual Manipulatives

A math website for K-12 that is great to use with the SMART Board.

Social Studies

GameUp

A fun site from the creators of Brain Pop for educational games. These games are focused on Brain Pop's highly popular animated lessons.

50 States

Tons of information on the states!

Awesome Stories

Interactive site with links to primary-sources such as pictures, maps, charts, etc.

Biography Maker

Learn to write an interesting biography from this site with a step-by-step approach.

BrainPop

A wonderful science, social studies and misc. site with movies followed by a quiz.

Census in Schools

On Dec. 21, the U.S. Census Bureau released its first round of 2010 Census data, including resident population for the nation and states, as well as congressional apportionment totals for each state. To assist teachers in using this information in the cla

Data Analysis

Here you can do comparisons between countries for different criteria (population, household six, etc.). It's a component of INFOhio.

DMArie Time Capsule

Create a document that shows famous people with the same birthday as you, the price of many items on your birthday, popular toys at the time, and more!

Election T.V.

Election.tv is an online video resource for voters and candidates. Their objective is to make videos and profiles available for every candidate for every federal, state and local election in the United States. Election.tv is non-partisan and not affiliate

Map Skills

BBC website with interactive learning of map skills.

Time's Most Important

Time Magazine's site for the most important of everything for the year.

My Wonderful World

This site provides resources for parents and teachers to help kids become more geo-savvy. It includes suggestions for simple, outdoor family activities that help teach kids about geography, links to geography games and online adventures for kids and teens

National Geographic Classroom Magazine

Great articles and even some free BrainPop movies and quizzes.

Placement of States

Students must click and drag states to proper location on U.S. map.

Study Skills

How to Study

For grades 3-12.

Study Guides & Strategies

Studying information for high school students.

Teaching Resources

Useful Charts

Various subject-related charts for teachers.

ABC Teach

Many free printables and activity ideas.

A to Z

A to Z Teacher Stuff is teacher-created, and designed to help teachers find online resources more quickly and easily. We offer lesson plans, thematic units, teacher tips, discussion forums for teachers, downloadable teaching materials & eBooks, printable

Differentiating Instruction

EduHound's list of websites packed full of information regarding differentiated instruction.

Ohio Resource Center

ORC enhances teaching and learning by promoting standards-based best practices in mathematics, science, and reading for Ohio schools and universities. ORC serves as a trusted source of easily accessible, peer-reviewed, high-quality, and effective resource

Success Portal

Click on Educator’s Workroom. (Bottom of page) Click on Diagnostic Assessment Support. Click on Activities for leveled activities

Videos for the Classroom

Watch Know Learn

Free educational videos for grades Pre-K- 12, organized by subject/topic.

Wikis & Blogs

Wikis in the Classroom

Links and resources.

Using Online Journals & Blogs

Blogs are similar to Wikipedia in that you can easily and quickly post items. However, others do not edit responses made. This tool can be used in the classroom with students and for educational staff as well. These websites are about using weblogs in the

Example Classroom Blog

8th Grade American History Class