Steve Jobs and Apps for Autism

Last night's episode of 60 Minutes re-ran two stories that may be of interest to educators. The first story featured Steve Jobs' bi...

Listen and Read - Non-fiction Read Along Activities

Listen and Read is a set of 54 non-fiction stories from Scholastic for K-2 students. The stories are feature pictures and short passages of...

An Interactive Timeline of Immigration to the U.S.

Scholastic recently released a fantastic new interactive timeline of immigration to the United States . The timeline is divided into five er...

Exploring the Early Americas - Library of Congress Interactives

This morning I spent a bit of time exploring the Library of Congress's education resources. One of the resources that I particularly lik...

Interactive Map of Sea Level Rise Estimates

Surging Seas , produced by ClimateCentral.org , is an interactive map of the potential impact on the United States of rising sea levels. The...

Build Your Own Video Games on Sploder

Sploder is a website that offers free tools for creating your own video games. There are four basic game templates that you can modify to y...

Cookie Offers Excellent Educational Games

Cookie is a site offering dozens of excellent educational games for pre-K and elementary school students. The games that I tried all featur...

PBS Kids Cyberchase - Dozens of Math Activities

PBS Kids Cyberchase offers dozens of online and offline mathematics games and activities for students. The collection of more than forty onl...

The White House Shows You Where Your Tax Dollars Went

I have to admit that I am guilty of occasionally wondering where my tax dollars go. Now thanks to the White House's Federal Tax Payer Re...

Tutpup - Play, Compete, Learn Mathematics

Tutpup is a fun website on which young students can practice their mathematics skills in a friendly online game format. The games are desig...

Where Should Waste Go? An Interactive Lesson on Recycling

My Garbology , produced by Nature Bridge, is an interactive game that teaches students about sorting garbage for recycling, reusing, and com...

AudioViator - Free Audio Tours of Cities and Landmarks

AudioViator is an excellent collection of audio tours of cities and landmarks all over the globe. All of the tours that I previewed are Cre...

Resources for Celebrating the Birthday of Dr. Seuss

If he was alive today, tomorrow Dr. Seuss would be 108 years old. I loved reading his books when I was a child and I'm sure that many ...

Complete Missions on NASA's Station Spacewalk Game

NASA's website is full of great resources for teachers and students. Here is another good example of that. NASA's Station Spacewalk...

Interactive Animated Heart

Explania is one of my favorite resources for animated explanations of topics in technology and science. Some of their offerings are videos ...

24/7 Science at The Lawrence Hall of Science

24/7 Science is a website produced by The Lawrence Hall of Science for the purpose of sharing science games and hands-on activities for el...

Podio - Task Management, Collaboration, and More for Higher Ed

Podio is a service designed for businesses to use as a company intranet. Recently, Podio announced that they are making their services avai...

Identify the Stars and Planets Using Your iPhone

Through my friend Angela Maiers I recently learned about a neat augmented reality iPhone app that helps users identify the stars and planet...

Geosense - An Online Geography Game

Geosense is a fun way to use and improve your knowledge of world geography. Players can play against the computer or challenge another play...

BioDigital Human - 3D Platform for Understanding Anatomy and Physiology

One of the services that Google shut down as part of their Labs closure was the Google Body Browser. It was a good site for anatomy and phys...