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"Interactive Activity Search" will search and return relevant interactive and SMART resources specific to teaching and learning. Many (if not all) of the sites listed below get searched with this one tool.
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Notebook Software Lessons and Templates

• Smart Education site - Thousands of Notebook lessons http://www.education.smarttech.com/ste/en-us/
• Smartboard lessons - Lexington, KY - 6-12 http://teach.fcps.net/trt27/smart_board_lessons.htm
• Smartboard activities and lessons - Wichita School District http://technology.usd259.org/resources/whiteboards/smartlessons.htm
• Interactive whiteboard resources - Think Bank - United Kingdom http://www.think-bank.com/iwb/
• Scholastic Smartboard lessons http://www.scholastic.com/interactivewhiteboards/

Miscellaneous school district and university sites, links, interactive activities, Notebook lessons

• Ginny Washburne's educational resources http://homepage.mac.com/gwashburne/FileSharing2.html
• Khoi Trinh's educational resources http://homepage.mac.com/trinhk/FileSharing4.html
• K-3 Smartboard sites http://www.juliethompson.com/SMART.html
• Smartboard activity list - CREATE for Mississippi http://www.create.cett.msstate.edu/create/howto/Smartboard_Hotlist_MECA.pdf
• Smartboard in the classroom - Eduscapes http://eduscapes.com/sessions/smartboard
• Interactive whiteboard resources - United Kingdom - k-6http://www.ict.oxon-lea.gov.uk/whiteboards_main.html#Resources%20for%20Year%201
• Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching - Secondary http://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm

Interactive whiteboard resources

• Amphitheater Public Schools http://www.amphi.com/departments/technology/whiteboard/
• Smartboard activities - Bristol Valley Schoolshttp://www.bristolvaschools.org/mwarren/SBActivities.htm
• Classroom resources for Smartboard technology - Lakeland Schools http://lakelandschools.org/EDTECH/SmartBoard/smart-resources.htm
• Smartboard resources - Lee's Summit School District http://its.leesummit.k12.mo.us/smartboard.htm
• Smartboard resources - Longneck Elementary School http://www.longneckelementary.com/sb.htm
• Smartboard resources - Columbia School District http://teachers.columbia.k12.mo.us/emints/technology%20integration/smarttech.htm
• Smartboard resources - Maine http://region6.mainelearns.org/SmartBoard.html
• Smartboard resources - Plymouth WI School District http://www.plymouth.k12.wi.us/horizon/Teacher%20Resources/smart_board_resources.htm
• Smartboard resources - Internet 4 Classrooms - Memphis http://www.internet4classrooms.com/smart_board.htm
• Smartboard resources - East Carter Schools http://www.ecarter.k12.mo.us/dept/elementary/fourthgrade/ccrites/etipslesson1.html
• Smartboard resources - Kentucky School for the Deaf http://www.ksd.k12.ky.us/TRT/smartboard.htm
• Smartboard resource page - Albany Public Schoolshttp://www.albany.k12.or.us/departments/instruction/smartboardresourcepage.php
• Syracuse University Center for Digital Literacy - Smartboard resources http://digital-literacy.syr.edu/resources/smartboard.shtml
• Interactive Smartboard sites - University of Sioux Falls http://faculty.usiouxfalls.edu/arpeterson/smartboard.htm
• Technology Tools - Jefferson County Tennessee http://www.jc-schools.net/tutorials/tools/
• Ideas, lesson plans, and websites by content area - Waukesha, WI school district http://www.waukesha.k12.wi.us/wit/smartboard/specificapps.htm

Interactive Activities General Resources

• k-8 math and reading games http://www.funbrain.com/
• Quia - interactive games - share activities for free http://www.quia.com/web
• Smartboard ideas - Rockingham Public Schools http://www.rockingham.k12.va.us/howto/smartboard/lessons.htm
• Make your own jigsaw puzzles http://jigsawplanet.com/
• Interactive Whiteboard Resources - United Kingdom http://www.iwb.org.uk/

Interactive Resources

• United Kingdom http://www.topmarks.co.uk/interactive.aspx
• Whiteboard Resources - United Kingdom http://bgfl.org/bgfl/15.cfm
• K-6 Teaching Resources - United Kingdom http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/
• High School WWW resources http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek4/
• PBS - resources for all subject areas http://www.pbs.org/teachers/
• BBC schools - English, Math, and Science resources and games http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks3bitesize/
• Interactives - math, science, language, history, arts http://www.learner.org/interactives/
• Oswego City School District - Instructional tools http://oswego.org/instructools_frmst.htm

Literacy

• Smartboard elementary literacy activities http://www.lm.havre.k12.mt.us/teachertools/smartboard/reading.htm
• Elementary Language Arts - Interactive Online Stories http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/story/sbi.shtml http://www.readingmatrix.com/directory/pages/Audio_and_Text/http://www.starfall.com/http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Games/educational/onlinestory.htmhttp://www.magickeys.com/books/index.html#books

Grammar

• Purdue University Online Writing Lab http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/interact/index.html
• Applied English Grammar on the Web http://hpbyrd.com/aegweb/toc.htm
• The Language Project - Advanced English practice exercises http://www.languageproject.co.uk/free_exercises/advanced/advanced_exercises.php
• Grammar Bytes exercises http://www.chompchomp.com/exercises.htm

Social Studies

• Social Studies Online - k-8 interactive activities http://classroom.jc-schools.net/ss-units/index.html
• Jamestown Adventure http://www.historyglobe.com/jamestown/
• A Colonial Family and Community http://www.thehenryford.org/exhibits/smartfun/colonial/intro/index.html
• A Day in the Life - Colonial Williamsburg http://www.history.org/history/teaching/dayseries/webactivities/index.htm
• History Matters - 9-12 U.S. survey course http://historymatters.gmu.edu/
• The Library of Congress learning page http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/
• Gapminder global data http://www.gapminder.org
• Integrated globe www.gapminder.org/
• http://iceds.ge.ucl.ac.uk/viewer/iceds/index.html
• Geohive global statistics http://www.xist.org/default1.aspx

Science

• Windows to the Universe - Science http://www.windows.ucar.edu/
• Shodor - A national resource for computational science education http://www.shodor.org/
• Jefferson County Schools - many 9-12 links http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/tools/science-hs.html
• Interactive Whiteboard Resources - United Kingdom - flash files http://www.woodlandgrange.leics.sch.uk/iwb/ks3science.htm
• Scinet - secondary science interactive tutorials http://www.nelsonthornes.com/secondary/science/scinet/scinet/index.htm
• Tech Topics - science tutorials http://www.thetech.org/exhibits/online/topics/index.html
• Science Pages - interactive secondary resources - United Kingdom http://www.sciencepages.co.uk/keystage3/keystage3.php
• Interactive science exercises - United Kingdomhttp://www.klbschool.org.uk/interactive/science/interindex.htm
• Internet4Classrooms - biologyhttp://www.internet4classrooms.com/gateway_biology.htm
• DNA from the beginninghttp://www.dnaftb.org/dnaftb/1/concept/
• Interactive genetics quiz http://www.gig.org.uk/genetics-quz.htm
• DNA workshop http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/dna/
• Virtual fruit fly lab http://bioweb.wku.edu/courses/biol114/vfly1.asp
• Human Anatomy Online http://www.innerbody.com/
• Electric Heart - NOVA online http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/eheart/
• 3D Brain Anatomy http://www.pbs.org/wnet/brain/3d/index.html
• Life's building blocks - interactive cells http://wsgfl2.westsussex.gov.uk/aplaws/intergames/sec_science/cells.swf
• Resources for schools - interactive content http://www.abpischools.org.uk/page/teachers.cfm
• Animal Diversity Web http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html
• Virtual Courseware - life science, Earth science, environmental science http://www.sciencecourseware.org/
• Amusement Park Physics - roller coaster http://www.learner.org/interactives/parkphysics/coaster.html
• Activities in optics - online activities for students http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/activities/students/index.html

Math

• Math games - Cool Math 4 Kids http://www.coolmath4kids.com/
• National Library of Virtual Manipulatives - k-12 math manipulatives http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html
• Shodor -

A national resource for computational science education

• http://www.shodor.org/curriculum/
• http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/
• NCTM Illuminations http://illuminations.nctm.org/
• eMINTS virtual manipulatives http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00000592.shtml
• Educational Java programs http://www.arcytech.org/java/
• Elementary interactive math dictionary http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jeather/maths/dictionary.html
• Rainforest Math - k-6 http://www.rainforestmaths.com/
• Algebra - Calculus applets http://www.analyzemath.com/
• Math calculators - 9-12 http://www.ifigure.com/math/Math.htm
• Calculus applets http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/dis/OHSICS/math/socha/calc.html
• http://www.math.gatech.edu/~bourbaki/c1applets.html
• http://www.math.utah.edu/~carlson/teaching/java/calculus/
• http://math.bu.edu/people/paul/225/aapmt_talk.html
• http://www.mph.net/coelsner/calcapps/
• Gapminder global data - Statistics http://www.gapminder.org/
• Geohive global statisticshttp://www.xist.org/default1.aspx
• Interactive arithmetic lessons - k-8 http://www.aaamath.com/
• Interactive games, flashcards, and more http://www.aplusmath.com/

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