Free Visual and Content Resources
Teaching Tools:
- Kitzu.org -- Online digital learning kits by grade and topic, hosted by the Orange County Dept of Education, California
- BBC/School -- Marvelous riches of information geared around school content from the U.K.'s BBC -- for teachers and families
- Merraim Websters' Visual Dictionary Online: great images and even audio recordings of pronunciation; not just for little kids as it has very sophisticated material up past high school as well
- Google for Educators
- Google Sketch-up -- free 3D drafting tools
- Google Earth -- free (but large) download; see the world and add to it
- Search Google by filetype:.kmz and .kml (Keyhole Markup Language) for Google Earth overlays
- Plus fly through photos of real places in books with GoogleLitTrips.org
- Google Maps
- Google Docs drawings -- new March 2009
- Enquiring Minds -- teaching tools from UK, funded by FutureLabs and Microsoft
- National Geographic Maps -- road, atlas, topographical
- Exploratree -- Thinking Guide toolset
- MillionFutures -- Fascinating visual paperairplanes with visions of the future
- Power League -- Group opinion tool
- NDSL Science Literacy maps
- National Science Digital Library -- lots of resources
- Earthwatch -- Blogs, photos, and links from Earthwatch Expeditions
- SavetheWords -- adopt a word from a very big cool grid -- from Oxford Dictionaries
- Wordle -- Visualize words in a word grid -- free, just cut and paste-- how to use this? check out this Google Doc for great ideas to bring these into the classroom
- Graphing Calculators -- of all types! Links from CTAP 4
- 6th Grade Math - Matrices -- abundant resources from CTAP 4
- Middle School Math Assessment Resources -- also CTAP 4
- SF Exploratorium -- Original Pi Day
- Visual Fractions
Video -- find here
Concept Maps -- find here