Links for Staff        
General Education Sites

ABCya
All children's educational computer activities were created or approved by certified school teachers. All educational games are free and are modeled from primary grade lessons and enhanced to provide an interactive way for children to learn.

Aims Education Foundation
Variety of resources from AIMS created materials.

ALEX
Alabama Learning Exchange of Lessons. Includes a wealth of searchable lessons for all areas of the curriculum.

Armored Puzzles
Make simple crossword puzzles. This program puts all of the words you specify (no more, no less) into a simple crossword puzzle.

E-Learning for Kids
Activities and lessons for all subject areas and grade levels K-6. Many appropriate for the SmartBoard

Educational Games from the Game Classroom
Grades K-6. Many great for the SmartBoard

Enchanted Learning
Children's educational web sites and games in content areas which are designed to capture the imagination while maximizing creativity, learning, and enjoyment

ESL: Tiddlywinks!
Original teaching activities for ESL

Explainia.com
Provides a range of animations in the categories of health, technology, work, software, and sports.

Find-It Illinois
Everything you might want to know or find out about in Illinois from the Illinois State Library.

FunBrain
All kinds of educational activities for kids. Includes a Words section where teachers can create word searches, etc.

GEM The Gateway to Educational Materials
Source of thousands of learning resources.

ISTE / International Society for Technology in Education
Teacher Resources

Landmarks for Schools
Links to teaching and learning resources on the Net and collaborative online projects.

Mrs. Meacham's Classroom Snapshots
Lots of primary ideas and lessons. SmartBoard Calendar Math page HERE

Scholastic Network
Resources for families, kids and teachers

Mrs. Winston's Classroom
Wide variety of tools, lessons, etc.

Sheppard Software (Great Site for ALL..SmartBoards too)
We make learning fun! We design educational software and online games with these goals: 1) To add sound and visual effects to make learning fun and more memorable. 2) To design games with many difficulty levels so that players will continue to be challenged no matter how far they progress. 3) To provide games that will exercise players' brains.

Sites for Teachers
Over 550 educational websites ranked by popularity.

SkillsWise / BBC (Great Site for Language Arts & Math..SmartBoards too)
Facts, worksheets, quizzes and games to help improve skills

Super Teacher Worksheets
Create hundreds of worksheets for your students form all subject areas and for all grade levels.

Tagxedo
Create word clouds from text you provide and dictate the specific shape the word cloud takes. You can even upload the shape as a jpeg.

Teaching Videos
Includes a very wide assortment of videos you can use with your students

Toy Theater: Grow-Create-Play
Includes a wide variety of games and activities that lend themselves well to the SmartBoard. Math, Art, Music, Reading, Puzzles, Playsets.

Watch Know Learn
Thousands of free videos arranged by subject.

Wordle
Create word clouds from text you provide.

Virtual Field Trips Site
A variety of online field trips