A site that is offering a lot of great online content arranged by subject and worth checking out for the middle school to high school student is  Gooru.The library covers 5-12th grade Math and Science courses, and they are expanding to subjects like History and English Language Arts in the near future!

They sent me a message saying that they are starting with a new collection, Intro to American Government. Don't miss the interactive tour of the White House. 

Gooru has organized links that exist elsewhere, but it should really help when you are trying to organize your curriculum. 

I just read that Ted Talks is now making animated lessons about certain subjects that teachers might want. It has just begun so there are limited movies, but the ones that are there are very interesting. It looks as if it might be a free version of Brain Pop. Certainly worth checking out. http://ed.ted.com/
I just watched the one on the atoms! Worth checking out.You can turn the videos into an assignment where the student would watch the video and then take a quiz. This can be customized by you.

Lawrence Hall of Science

This is a science site for kids, 24/7 Science. http://www.lawrencehallofscience.org/kidsite/
It has some great science games and questions that elementary kids would find interesting.

TES Iboard

A great find - TESiboard is a good resource for tools that you can use with your Smartboard or at your computer.  It is a site from England that has lots and lots of math and literacy tools, especially for the younger grades. They have made it so you can easily link to the one activity on your website. If you are working on having a class website, this could be a great resource.


http://www.iboard.co.uk/curriculum.htm#maths-year1numstrategy_yearreception


 

PBS Learning Media

It has been a long time since I have posted, but this site is one that is worthwhile bookmarking. PBS Learning Media has made an interface that allows for you to search through their resources for audio, documents, video, interactives and pictures. You can make an account so you can save your favorites. There doesn't seem to be a downloadable option for the videos and interactive, but the fact that you can save them in a favorites folder seems to be a good option. The price is right, free. They are going to offer a premium package for districts later, but being able to search for the interactives that PBS has in one place, is worth exploring.
PBS Learning Media http://www.pbslearningmedia.org/

Weather Forecasts, History of Weather

This site, WeatherSpark, is a new site that allows you to see the latest weather forecast for where you live. However, the part that is terrific about this site is that it also allows you to see and compare what weather was a week ago, months ago, years ago! You could go to this site and see what what the weather was like on the day that you were born.
It will allow you to create graphs and compare them. I think that the students would love this. I know I find it fascinating!

Safe Browser for Children - Kid Rex

This is a good place to start searching with students. KidRex, http://www.kidrex.org/
It is a site that uses the filters that Google provides for people to customize the sites. It also takes information from users about sites that manage to slip through the filter and are inappropriate. If you have a search engine page at school as your home page, this is where you should start.

Scholastic Study Jams

This site -Scholastic Study Jams - has over 200 study jams on different topics. It has  math and science topics. Each one has a video, possibly a song and a test that goes with it. I think it is an excellent way to introduce a topic or review work. I highly recommend it.

Math Games - SumDog

Sumdog.com is a great site for students to practice their math facts. From their website, we read, "All of Sumdog's games are free to use at home or in school (why is this?). Each one covers 100 numeracy topics across 10 levels, and most are multiplayer - letting you play with other students around the world.
Students can sign up free to customise their profile picture and track their individual progress.
Teachers can sign up free to set up their school, create free student logins, see students' activity in the last week, and set up multiplication competitions."
It does appear that if you don't pay for the service, you can setup your whole class, print out cards for them to access their accounts and see how many problems they solve, but they can not compete within the class. I actually think that is good as I don't really need for my students to be more competitive with each other, I do want them to be more focused on improving their own skills. The level of skill is easily set by the player. I think that the students will choose to play this.
I recommend you looking into this.

Laura Jernegan: Girl on a Whaleship

 Laura Jernegan: Girl on a Whaleship
This site, http://www.girlonawhaleship.org/ is a beautifully crafted site. It would be great for anyone just interested in a good read, learning about artifacts, or information on whales. A six year old girl in 1868 travelled on a whaling ship with her dad. Her journal was discovered and is photographed and placed on the site. You can read the journal or have it read to you. It has maps about where she travelled, where whales migrate and diagrams of the ship she travelled on. You have to experience this beautiful site to understand how much there is here. I can visualize it being used in a science class about migrations, a history class learning about the importance of artifacts and having primary sources to study. I can see how you might use this site in a class about journalling. I couldn't believe how wonderfully this six year old girl could write!