KATE, the Kentucky Academy of Technology Education, collects the most innovative and successful technology practices in K–12 education and makes them available to the teachers and students of Kentucky -- the United States -- and the world.
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Visit this website and learn about Abraham Lincoln’s life from childhood to President of the United States. At this website one can visit Lincoln’s home which is now part of the National Park Service by viewing pictures taken of the home place. In addition to pictures of Lincoln’s home, this site offers a quiz on Lincoln, a treasure hunt, and much more.
http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/lincoln/index.html
In this interactive activity try to build the carbon atom by combining up and down quarks and electrons.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/atom/
This award-winning interactive program is part of the "Whole Frog" project. You can interactively dissect a (digitized) frog named Fluffy, make movies, and play the Virtual Frog Builder Game. The interactive Web pages are available in a number of languages.
http://www-itg.lbl.gov/vfrog
This is an interactive site that teaches students about biodiversity on our planet.
http://ology.amnh.org/biodiversity/index.html
This site contains a set of Java Applets that are interactive for showing Pythagorean Theorem, perspective drawings, and more.
http://www.cinderella.de/en/demo/
Register your class for an online field trip to Colonial Williamsburg! There are seven individual electronic field trips that you may register for or one rate for all field trips. Individual trips for the 2007 - 2008 school year at $120. The set of seven trips is $500. Each field trip incorporates many activities beyond the set date of the electronic field trip. A segment titled Web Adventures is available to your class throughout the year with the paid field trip. It provides web-based interactive activities and videos to extend learning. A special section titled, "In Their Own Words," uses primary sources to teach students more about the period. Each trip has opportunities for students to use email, online voting and a forum to actively participate in the experience. Students may have their individual questions regarding colonial times answered by history experts by posting or emailing questions. Each field trip is aligned to National Standards of Learning in History and a bibiliography are included. A Teacher's Guide, additional internet links, TV broadcast and an online video preview to show prior to the field trip are also included.
Field trip dates are scheduled from October through April. The 2007 - 2008 schedule is available at http://www.history.org/History/teaching/eft.cfm. This year's lessons include: Jamestown Unearthed, Emissaries of Peace, Founders or Traitors?, For Ready Money, No Master Over Me, Treasure Keepers,
The Industrious Tradesmen. For a small price, your students can truly experience Colonial Williamsburg! Technical support is provided throughout the school year to make your experience a success. Purchase orders are accepted.
http://www.history.org/History/teaching/tips/intro.cfm?Ref=Sample&bSideNav=1
The activity in this section places you within the cell, involving you with the processes of DNA replication and protein synthesis.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/dna/
A collection of educational units. Dositey.com is intended to provide a much-needed boost to teachers looking to enhance their classroom curricula, as well as to provide teachers with innovative homework assignments. Each module is designed to be instructional, fun, and easy to use. Lessons are interactive and utilize visual presentation of a single topic to enhance the learning experience. For example, addition problems in math are displayed both with and without regrouping. Site has printable worksheets in addition to interactive activities.
http://www.dositey.com
This activity lets you manipulate tectonic plates. Pull the plates apart and push them together and watch what happens to the Earth.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/tectonics/
Drill games are for students grades K-12 including Math, Social Studies, Vocabulary and Science. Topics for the drills include U.S. President, U.S. and World Geography, Periodic tables, and Math tables. Good site for high school review. Site requires membership but has several free drills.
http://www.edu4kids.com/#http://www.edu4kids.com/
Interactive site from the American Museum of Natural History with information about Einstein and his work.
http://ology.amnh.org/einstein/index.html
This site has selected free information available for students, teachers, and parents. (It has become a subscription site.) Students can learn all about dinos, Surf the Web with LITTLE EXPLORERS which is a picture dictionary with links to over 1000 educational activities, read a map and answer questions about it, and color US state flags and answer questions about them. Fun, educational pages for preschoolers. Why oceans are salty and blue? What causes waves and tides? Do ocean crafts and print out ocean animal pages. Read amazing facts about whales and dolphins. Important inventors and inventions of all time as well as explorers who mapped the world and went into space.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html
At this website students as well as adults can play Where Is That?, a map game, seeing how many countries they can correctly identify. This game has different levels to test ones map skills, from simple to more difficult. They can also play RaceCar Math as well as games to develop skills in reading/language arts such as Grammar Gorillas.
http://www.funbrain.com/kidscenter.html
Lots of fun and interactive learning activities for students of all ages. Great for preschool and young students!
http://www.funschool.com/
This is an interactive site that allows students to on a genetic journey and complete with activities they can do.
http://ology.amnh.org/genetics/index.html
Looking for more resources on interactive activities to help integrate technology into your classroom? Check out TICK, a repository of instructional lesson plans, activities, and resources for teachers in Kentucky.
"I Love Technology. KATE-TICK is the place for teachers to find the best sources of technology for integration into their classes." — Toni Dickens
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