Online Educational Activities

The Internet has a wealth of activities for teachers to use with their students. This listing will direct you to noteworthy sites for educational materials.

http://www.cosmeo.com/welcome/what.html
Cosmeo brings together a deep video encyclopedia, interactive games, reference content, and tutorials to help kids stay engaged in learning.Cosmeo is based on the multimedia tools from Discovery Education that reach more than 30 million students in classrooms across the United States, and amazing video from Discovery networks including Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, and Discovery Kids.

http://www.atomiclearning.com/
Atomic Learning provides web-based software training for more than 100 applications students and educators use everyday. Our short, easy-to-view-and-understand tutorials are an integral part of a professional development program, a valuable curriculum supplement, and an anytime/anywhere training resource.

http://www.brainpop.com/
BrainPOP is an educational program, providing content spanning seven main subjects including: Science, Math, English, Social Studies, Health, Arts and Music, and Technology.

http://www.quia.com/
Quia provides a wide variety of tools, including:

• Templates for creating 16 different types of online activities, including flash cards, word search, battleship, challenge board, and cloze exercises. Quia activities are designed with different learning styles in mind to suit the needs of all your students.
• Complete online testing tools that allow you to create quizzes, grade them with computer assistance, and receive detailed reports on student performance.
• Access to online activities and quizzes in more than 150 categories. All of the shared activities have been created by teachers from around the world.
• A schoolwide network that lets you collaborate with your fellow teachers quickly and effortlessly.
• An easy, centralized classroom management system including a master student list, archive of student results, and the tools to conduct schoolwide proficiency testing.
• A Class Web page creator that includes a course calendar and an easy way to post your Quia activities for students and parents.
• Online surveys for gathering student and teacher feedback.

http://www.spellmaster.com/
These vocabulary training games are ideal for class work or revision and are specifically designed to work  with projectors, interactive whiteboards and tablets.

http://www.educatortemplates.com/cgi-bin/hotlinks/index.cgi
A FREE directory of customizable & printable education related templates. Templates will help you focus on content instead of format, create an identifiable look for all your items, standardize the way a project is completed and/or presented, and help you get your projects completed faster.

http://www.4kids.org/
4Teachers.org works to help you integrate technology into your classroom by offering online tools and resources. This site helps teachers locate online resources such as ready-to-use Web lessons, quizzes, rubrics and classroom calendars. There are also tools for student use.

http://www.quizlab.com/
Develop online quizzes for any lesson or select from our library of teacher-created quizzes

http://www.easytestmaker.com/default.aspx
EasyTestMaker is a FREE online test generator to help you create your tests. With Easy Test Maker you can create multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, matching, short answer and true and false questions all on the same test.

http://quizstar.4teachers.org/
QuizStar is a Web-based quiz maker that enables you to create, administer and automatically grade your quizzes online! With QuizStar you can
- Manage classes and quizzes
- Attach multimedia files to questions
- Make quizzes in multiple languages
- Access from any Internet-connected computer
- Allow students to complete and review

http://www.funbrain.com/
Teacher resources for fun educational games for learners of all ages.

http://www.freewebs.com/technologyworkshop/index.htm
This workshop will provide you with ideas and activities that will help you integrate technology into the classroom. Access individual tools, e.g. Internet resources, WebQuests, online quizzes, and learn how to utilize computers in your classroom.

http://school.discovery.com/teachingtools/teachingtools.html
Create and save puzzles with Puzzlemaker; create, save and administer quizzes with Quiz Center; and create and save worksheets with Worksheet Generator.

http://www3.essdack.org/socialstudies/lessonplans.htm
Links to online simulations, interactive web sites, virtual museums and lessons for face-to-face simulations. There are some very cool things out there! Don't be afraid to try them with your students.

http://www.syvum.com/online/games.html
Free educational activities for students at all levels in all areas/subjects.

http://www97.intel.com/odyssey/index.aspx?i=1

Innovative ways to use technology and promote critical 21st century skills - in the classroom or in the community. http://iteslj.org/Articles/Mello-Quizzes.html Article aimed at those who would like to have further information on the applicability of the Self-Study quizzes for online students.

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