Interactive+Websites

**Getting Their Attention with Interactive Websites**

 * PICTURE BOOK STARTER LISTS FOR YOUR CONTENT AREA**
 * [|Outstanding Science Tradebooks] (compiled by NSTA)
 * [|Nonfiction History Books for Teens]
 * [|International Children's Digital Library] (for picture books in different languages)
 * [|Using Picture Books as Framing Texts for Research Projects in English]
 * [|Teaching with Picture Books] blog including [|Ways to Share Picture Books] and [|13 Reasons Why to Read Picturebooks With Older Students]


 * MATH**
 * [|Annenberg's Math Interactives]
 * [|The Maths Dictionary for Kids]
 * [|NEIRTECH Math Portal]
 * [|InterMath Dictionary]
 * [|Cool Math]
 * [|Interactive Mathematics]
 * [|Math is Fun: Pythagoras Theorem animation]
 * [|Multilingual Math e-glossary]
 * [|Math Videos.com]: Instructional Videos and calculators about geometry, algebra, and probability
 * [|Virtual Geometry and Geography Game] (you need to use BingMaps and a series of pdf handouts)
 * [|When Will I Use Math?]


 * HISTORY/SOCIAL STUDIES**
 * [|History Ease]
 * [|BBC History Interactives]
 * [|Pathways to Freedom]
 * [|Images of American Political History]
 * [|American Memory Photo Collections]
 * [|History.com Historical Speeches]
 * [|Annenberg's History Interactives]
 * [|Eternal Egypt]


 * ENGLISH/LITERATURE**
 * [|Interactive Shakespeare Project]
 * [|Knowing Poe (Edgar Allan Poe)]
 * [|MythWeb: Greek Mythology]
 * [|Annenberg's Literature Interactives]
 * [|American Writers Journey Through History] and [|American Writers II: The 20th Century]
 * [|The Academy of American Poets]
 * [|World Creation Myths]
 * [|Interactive Hacker Handbook Resources]
 * [|Indigenous People’s Literature]
 * [|ENotes Video Study Guide for Shakespeare's MacBeth]


 * SCIENCE**
 * [|The Story of Stuff]
 * [|Cells Alive]
 * [|Brain Pop Videos] (click on science and explore free videos)
 * [|BBC Science and Nature Interactives]
 * [|EPA Climate Change Kids Site]
 * [|Science Simulations]
 * [|Annenberg's Science Interactives]
 * [|Physics Education Technology]
 * [|Kids Health]
 * [|Cogitio.org: Connecting Young Thinkers Around the World]
 * [|Live Science]

> [|high school Spanish students] are using this collection
 * FOREIGN LANGUAGE**
 * [|Ed Gate World Language Center] - 6 different languages and related cultural information
 * [|Instructional Podcasts for Learning Spanish as a Second Language]
 * [|Learn Spanish:] A free online tutorial - generate customized quizzes too - use the tabs along the top
 * [|Spanish Pop Music]
 * [|Virtual Foreign Language Classroom]: Arabic, French, Chinese, German, Japanese, Russian, Latin, and Spanish)
 * Spanish Newspapers: [|El Neuvo Herald] and [|La Prensa]
 * [|BBC Language Sites]for High School Students
 * [|International Children's Digital Library]: click on "read books" and search by language or learn how
 * Virtual Picture Books in [|Spanish] and [|French] from [|Miscositas.com] for language teachers
 * [|Jim Becker's Super Language Websites]
 * [|** FOR TEACHERS: Teaching Foreign Languages K-12:] A Library of Classroom Practices from Learner.org


 * ELEMENTARY / INTERDISCIPLINARY**
 * [|The Yuckiest Site on the Internet]
 * [|Cool Math]
 * [|Giggle Poetry]
 * [|National Geographic Kids]
 * [|Interactive Tools from the National Gallery of Art]


 * ADDITIONAL RESOURCES**
 * [|Teaching with the Internet K-12: New Literacies for New Times (Leu, Leu, & Coiro, 2004)]. Chapters 5-11 focus on particular disciplines including English/Language Arts (Ch. 5), Social Studies (Ch. 6), Science (Ch. 7), Math (Ch. 8), Younger Children (Ch. 9), Multicultural Understanding (Ch. 10), Students with Special Needs (Ch. 11). Caution: Since the book was published in 2004, many of the links have changed, but you can get a sense of the types of resources available.
 * //[|Content Area Learning Comes to Life! Using Interactive Online Texts to Inspire Adolescent's Active Engagement with Content Area Reading and Writing]//


 * EXTRA RESOURCES IN DEVELOPMENT**


 * More for teacher design**
 * [|School History UK] - online history lessons, revision, games, worksheets, quizzes, and links
 * [|Online Biology Book]
 * [|Radar's Kapili.com] with Chem4Kids, Biology4Kids, Geograpy4Kids, Cosmos4Kids, Physics4Kids, and Numbernut.com for Math


 * Other Foreign Language Resources**
 * [|Portals to the World from the Library of Congress]
 * [|Reading Strategies for Web Activities] in Spanish
 * [|Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab]
 * [|Dave's ESL Cafe]
 * [|Classzone En Espanol Level 2] Online Textbook Resources
 * [|Oxfam's Cool Planet On The Line]


 * Connecting Content Subjects with Real Life**
 * Cool News to Prompt Questions in Your Content Area:
 * Science (Chemistry):[| Quick restart of big bang machine stuns scientists] (Nov. 2009)
 * [|CNN Student News:] Stories and Video from CNN
 * [|GetSmarter.org] for Math and Science
 * [|NSF Mathematics Overview]
 * [|Engineering is Elementary] (from NSF) - linking content units to children's storybooks
 * [|Doomsday Vault from 60 Minutes] - links to science, society, and the future
 * [|Does Chemistry Relate to Real Life] - Webquest
 * [|Chemistry You Need to Know] - preview 2 sample chapters and the entire table of contents plus the [|curriculum framed in relevant themes]
 * [|Chemistry of a Crime Scene] - The Real-Life Science Behind CSI
 * [|Numb3rs TV show] and math expert's description and [|We All Use Math Every Day] (a whole curriculum based on the program!) with [|season videos at Amazon]
 * Math Tradebooks/Novels/Biographies (from a larger list at [|LosBanos.com])
 * [|200% of Nothing: An Eye Opening Tour Through the Twists and Turns of Math Abuse and Innumeracy] by A. K. Dewdney (statistics, data analysis, probability) - //Also for grades 6-8.//
 * [|A Gebra Named Al: A Novel] by Wendy Isdell (math and science concepts for middle schoolers presented in a novel, algebra and order of operations)
 * [|A Tour of the Calculus] by David Berlinski (calculus)
 * [|Fermat's Last Theorem] by Simon Singh ( "This is the story of how the centuries old and most famous unsolved problem in mathematics, Fermat's Last Theorem, was solved by Andrew Wiles. It reveals a short history of mathematics and the extent to which it is a collaborative effort.")
 * [|G is for Google] by Schwartz David and Moss Marissa (a math alphabet book with all sorts of math concepts)
 * [|Math-terpieces: The Art of Problem Solving] (creative problem solving)
 * [|Mathematical Mystery Tour: Higher-Thinking Math Tasks] by Mark H. Wahl (fibonacci numbers and the golden ratio)
 * [|Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi] by Cindy Neuschwander (Pi)
 * [|Sir Cumference and the First Round Table] by Cindy Neuschwander (geometry)
 * [|Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland] by Cindy Neuschwander (angles -comes with a plastic protractor)
 * [|Sir Cumference and the Isle of Immeter] by Cindy Neuschwander (area and perimeter)
 * [|Sir Cumference and the Sword in the Cone] by Cindy Neuschwander (cubes, pyramids, cylinders and cones)
 * T[|he Mathematical Magpie] by Clifton Fadiman (law of averages, Moebuis Strip, topology, one to one correspondence, hyper-geometry, Pythagorean Theorem, number sense, geometric figures, probability, variables and more)
 * [|The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure] by Hans Magnus Enzensberger ("number 0, places, powers and roots, series, prime numbers, the Sieve of Erastosthenes, Fibonaci numbers, limits," and more)
 * [|What's Your Angle Pythagorus?] (An introduction to the Pythagorean Theorem- geometry


 * Dealing with Tables and Graphs**
 * [|Earth: A Graphic Look at the State of the World]

[|Calculus on the Web]
 * Online Textbooks**