Tech in the Elementary Classroom

From all disciplines, Powerpoint resources that can be used for teaching. To download to your computer, right click on the files, and click “Save Target As”. These great resources can be modified to fit your needs. Grades K-12

Pete’s Powerpoint Station

Houghton Mifflin Edugames

WackyWeb Tales, Fake out, GeoNet, Brain Teasers, Spelling Match and Power Proofreading interactive sites

Interactive Websites

Also from Jefferson County, a comprehensive list from all disciplines of online sites. Bookmark or save these sites and build your own page of the ones you want your students to use.

Interactive Resources

A huge, almost unmanageable list of web resources. You must be sure to bookmark sites here, and then create a list of links on your own website for kids to use.

Know It All.org - from NC, a collection of interactive activities by topic/level; some very clever interactive sites here

Virtual Field Trips - explore some of these online tours

Teacher Tools

Compelling Reasons to Use the Internet - WOW! - lots of great links here!

Language Arts Resources

Internet4Classrooms – Language Arts

By grade level, skill, writing, reading, etc (elementary)

Language Arts - Primary

Includes online activities and lessons for : Letter Fun, Working with Words, Go Grammar, Spell It, Read It (elementary)

Language Arts Tools

Great stuff here; scroll down for some great book report ideas – check out the Book Report Bingo sheets!

Read Write Think

A huge list of writing tools

Everyday Edits – great short edit pieces for grades 4 up; can be copied and pasted into a flipchart and used on a daily basis!

Miss Take’s Challenge – daily powerpoints and correction activities to practice editing.

Spelling City

Looky Book - read new picture books online

Six Traits Resources

Poetry Generator

Simply the best interactive poetry site, using pattern poetry to build individual student poems

Professor Garfield’s Web Portal

ESL - Lanternfish

Tammy Worcester's Favorite Internet Sites

Math Sites

Online Math Worksheet Generator

Math Facts Practice Websites

COLLABORATIVE PROJECT

Global Schoolhouse - register and find classrooms to exchange with

JUST FOR FUN - Creating your own images – all you need is a camera!
Big Huge Labs

Typogenerator - type in words; creates a graphic

Spell with flickr - creates words with photos from Flickr; blocked from school, but try at home!

Comiqs - create your own comics with photos

Image Generator Add text to photos; cool!
Graphic Sites - Copyright Free

Videos Online

Teacher Tube

National Geographic - some short videos available here to stream free

About.com - free educational videos on the web - a list

Zamzar – use this to save online videos to your computer so that you can use them in school!

Cool Tools

What is that file? identifies unknown file types

Zillow - find the value of a home

Homework Excuse Creator

Big Huge Labs- creates printable products with photos; really cool

Peoplefinders - find people anywhere; scary

Live Plasma - visually linking musical resources

All About Me Scavenger Hunt - students can explore "themselves" - grades 3-12

All About Me (K-3)

Make a Name Tent for each child

How to Sign Your name in sign language

How popular is YOUR name on a timeline

For Teachers:

12 Powerful words

ART and MUSIC

Arts and Music – Internet4Classrooms
Artopia - can create a My Portfolio - NC site

A Pintura, Art DetectiveThe @rt Room - great activities
Artsonia - the largest kid's art museum

Related Files

Tech in the Elementary Classroom Flip (flp file - 337kb)

The FLP file type is primarily associated with 'Corel Flow Project Flow Chart' but can also be used as another version of .flipchart files - created with Promethean educational lesson-planning programs such as ActivPrimary and ActivStudio.

John Kennedy Media Center
Media Specialist