Mugurdy Visual Search Engine renders your results as screen shots of the web page.

Tutpup Educational Games

Check out this free educational game site.

Elmers Glue Crew

Elmer’s Glue has partnered with Wal-Mart in a recycling program for used glue sticks and bottles.  Click the link to sign up your classroom.

Pinky Dinky Doo 

Pinky Dinky Doo harnesses the power of television, print, and interactive media to promote reading and imaginative storytelling. To achieve this, Pinky invites children to participate in funny and fantastic stories, games, and songs that support critical early literacy skills.

The series has four primary goals. It aims to:

Celebrate the power of inventing and sharing stories.

Pinky showcases the storytelling process, demonstrating to children that stories come from ideas in people’s heads. It shows children that they can use their imaginations to create their own wonderful and surprising stories.

Introduce basic narrative elements.

Pinky’s stories and games call attention to the following elements:

• Characters (what are people’s names, characteristics, and roles in the story?)
• Dialogue (who said what?)
• Main ideas (what happened and where did it happen?)
• Sequence of events (what happened and when did it happen?)
• Details

Provide opportunities to use effective listening comprehension strategies.

The more time children spend reading, being read to, and talking about what they read, the more they are able to think about and understand stories they hear. Pinky’s stories are designed to:

• Engage viewers in the language and interaction surrounding the stories.
• Promote children’s ability to listen, think along, and learn.

Expand vocabulary through stories.

Listening to stories is an effective way to build vocabulary. Pinky’s stories and games:

• Focus on the meaning of words and concepts within the context of the story.
• Feature fun activities containing rhyme, rhythm, and alliteration.

Explore.Org – probably suited more for middle and high school.

Explore is a multimedia organization that documents leaders around the world who have devoted their lives to extraordinary causes. Both educational and inspirational, explore creates a portal into the soul of humanity by championing the selfless acts of others.

explore’s growing library consists of more than 250 original films and 30,000 photographs from around the world. We showcase our work at film festivals, on over 100 public broadcast and cable channels, and on numerous online destinations including explore.org, Snag Films, Hulu and TakePart.

Expo Writing Center from Scholastic has writing lessons by grade level.

Lincoln Memorial Interactive Field Trip

Experience a virtual walk through of the memorial and listen to park rangers share their reflections on the memorial and its history.

Family Literacy Council – Explore the Literacy House

Explore the rooms of theLiteracy House, and see how simple it is to help
your child learn through daily activities using everyday household items.
The main ingredients are you and your child, and the payoff is big!

Discovery Box

Discovery Box provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary? What if you had to try to convince people that intensive farming was wrong? What pieces of evidence would you assemble to help convince others you were right? You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view and comment on the Discovery boxes submitted by others.

Vocab Sushi.Com is a new, free site for vocabulary development and practice.  It is probably too advanced for most of our students, but those of you with middle/high school students may enjoy the site.  It’s also a fun way to enhance your own vocabulary!