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General Resources

 * Prezi: Prezi lets you bring your ideas into one space and see how they relate, helping you and your audience connect. Zoom out to see the big picture and zoom in to see details — a bit like web-based maps that have changed how we navigate through map books.
 * Fraboom is the world's first LIVE interactive online children's museum.
 * ECB Surf Reports: Monthly annotated list of web resources. Covers all subject areas

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 * SMART Exchange Find lesson plans for your SMART board and connect with teachers.

Language Arts

 * Google Lit Trips: Plot out the journey characters take on their journey in their reading materials. Books can come to life on a map by adding pictures, text, voice, and even video.
 * KidBlog: Kidblog meets the need for a **safe** and **simple** blogging platform suitable for elementary and middle school students. Most importantly, Kidblog allows teachers to monitor and control all publishing activity within the classroom blogging community.
 * Read Write Think : Engage your students in online literacy learning with these interactive tools that help them accomplish a variety of goals—from organizing their thoughts to learning about language—all while having fun.
 * Poetry Forms: Choose your poetry form from the list of links on the left. Then just add words to make the poem your own.
 * Academic Skill Builder - Free online resource, which offers educational video games that can be played by several students at once, has released 40 Web-based learning games for K–8 students. They cover basic math, language arts, vocabulary, and thinking skills.
 * 3rd Grade Reading Resources Wiki: a cool reading resource website! It's chock full of great ideas!

Math
Illuminations Academic Skill Builder - Free online resource, which offers educational video games that can be played by several students at once, has released 40 Web-based learning games for K–8 students. They cover basic math, language arts, vocabulary, and thinking skills.
 * Illuminations** is designed to:
 * Provide Standards-based resources that improve the teaching and learning of mathematics for all students.
 * Provide materials that illuminate the vision for school mathematics set forth in [|//Principles and Standards for School Mathematics//], [|//Curriculum Focal Points for Prekindergarten through Grade 8 Mathematics//], and [|//Focus in High School Mathematics: Reasoning and Sense Making//].

Social Studies

 * Wisconsin Geography: Use these links to learn more about Wisconsin's geography, geology and environment. In the coming months we will add links about Wisconsin's government, people and culture, agriculture and industry, and resources for field trips for Wisconsin studies.

iPad/iPod Apps

 * iPads in the classroom: Listing by grade level