Little Bird Tales - Home

A great tool for writing and digital storytelling for younger students. Students can upload their artwork and then record their stories. Would be fun for a class room project or for individual stories to share with family and friends. this site is free!

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Science Monster

Science Monster Fun lessons with activities to help reinforce your science lessons! Plants, Chemistry, Physics, the Solar System and more are available.

New Sims - PhET Simulations

New Sims - PhET Simulations Interactive Science simulations for the University of Colorado at boulder (thnx Lucy Gray)

Science Explorer

Science Explorer :Lots of fun, hands on, science activities for students of all ages.

Elmwood Technology

This is the blog of a teacher I work with, he has some really great links here for 1 - 6 grades. There are links for almost all curriculum topics.

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Computer Kiddos Wiki / Scratch Animals on the move

For those of you who use Scratch or those who would like to. If you have never heard of Scratch then you need to look here. MIT created this great software to teach students about programming and it does that and so much more. Lots of great how tos, videos and activities for teaching scratch to your students. This program is a great way to teach those higher order thinking skills. Scratch encourages thinking, planning and problem solving skills. This can also be used to reinforce science and math learning. Great tool for geometry!!! It is actually great fun to play with for adults too!

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Drupal

We use Drupal for our school district website.  It was quite a learning curve!  We are still in Drupal 5 largely because of that learning curve and the modules we need, but can now upgrade to Drupal 6.  We will be working on our theme so that it will be compatible and then do the final upgrade.  The site I want to feature today is Drupal Garden, it allows you to create a website using Drupal 7, and it is awesome.  I do know a bit about using Drupal.so was able to get around pretty easily but I do love the management features and getting a look at how Drupal 7 might function.  You can actually create your site and then export it so that you can host it yourself.  If your district is looking at a Content Management System, Drupal is one of the biggest, but for those who are accustom to using FrontPage or DreamWeaver to create websites it is a very new kind of environment. This would be a good way to get a look at that environment before making the move.  We are still novices and sometimes call in an outside consultant to help us when we are trying out very new things but it has been interesting!

Take a look at Drupal Gardens