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Interactive Resource

An interactive resource is a resource which requiresinteraction from the user to be understood, executed, orexperienced. For example - forms on web pages, applets, multimedialearning objects, chat services, virtual reality.

• Assessment, Assessment Rubrics and Evaluation Guidelines
  This website is a collection of assessment tips and tools, to help in developing, adapting, and adopting assessments that detail what teachers expect students to learn and evaluate what they have mastered for any given lesson.
• Black History Treasure Hunt & Quiz
  Centered around a 12-question quiz, this website encourages users to explore other Internet-based resources related to each question in order to try find the answer to each question.
• Center for Highly Interactive Computing in Education(HI-CE)
  The Center for Highly Interactive Computing in Education at the University of Michigan develops learner-centered technology and curriculum that addresses major needs of schools today - Enabling all students to learn and enabling students and teachers to engage in serious intellectual inquiry around authentic, meaningful, motivating, mindful-learning experiences.
• CIESE Online Classroom Projects
  CIESE sponsors and designs interdisciplinary projects that teachers throughout the world can use to enhance their curriculum through compelling use of the Internet.
• CIMEL
  CIMEL is an acronym for Constructive, collaborative Inquiry-based Multimedia E-learning and results from an NSF-funded project at Lehigh University. Site provides a prototype of media-based computer course.
• Clickable Poems
  Clickable Poems is electronic hypertext linking poetry, history and culture. Learn about living and dead poets, and create poems.
• Congress for Kids
  An interactive site with quizes and tours that are designed to make learning about Congress fun for students.
• Create a Graph
  An interactive website where the user selects one of four types of graphs to generate. The user then plugs in data, and sees a graph representing the data.
• Edutopia On-line
  The Foundation documents and disseminates the most exciting classrooms where innovations are taking place. It is hoped that by spotlighting inspiring teachers and students, others will consider change.
• Getsmarter.org
  Getsmarter.org, an initiative of the Council on Competitiveness, gives students, parents and teachers a free and private way to compare science and math skills to students worldwide. It also provides warm-up practice quizzes in both math and science.
• History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course
  Designed for high school and college teachers of U.S. History courses.
• Kidlink's KidSpace: A Place for Students to Publish and Share
  KidSpace is a creative, innovative environment developed by teachers working in Kidlink for many years. Teachers and students who participate in Kidlink activities publish and share their work in this for the dynamic, template driven, collaborative community.
• Lego Robolab
  The ROBOLAB software, jointly developed by National Instruments, Tufts University, and LEGO Dacta, is engineered for the classroom and teaches basic computer programming, robotics, and automation skills.
• Math in Daily Life
  Explore how math can help us in our daily lives. This exhibit looks at the language of numbers through common situations, such as playing games or cooking.
• NASA - MSU/Bozeman CERES Project
  Faculty at Montana State University and classroom teachers from across the nation have developed an extensive library of on-line and interactive K-12 science education materials for teaching astronomy.
• National Library of Virtual Manipulatives:Interactive Mathematics
  An extensive collection of Standards-based virtual math manipulatives with activities, organized by grade level and math topic.
• Native American Cultures Across the U.S.
  A lesson with activities designed to develop in students an appreciation of the diversity of Native American cultures.
• Ology
  A cleaver, animated site with activities related to "ology", the study of something. Website includes activities about genetics, paleontology,astronomy and biodiversity.
• Simple SokoMind logic puzzles
  The "simple" SokoMind logic puzzles are freeware puzzles for Windows 95 (and higher) that can engage students as young as kindergarten in insightful problem solving activities. This software fits on a floppy disk and can easily be distributed.
• Teacher's Lab
  Teachers Lab; a place for teachers to explore new ideas in learning Science, and Math.
• The Northwestern University Collaboratory Project
  The Collaboratory Project is a Northwestern University initiative that provides project consulting, training, technical advice, and Web-based resources and services to K-12 teachers and their students who are interested in using Internet technologies to advance education.
• The Quality Information Checklist
  This website is designed to help determine if information found on the Internet is quality information. There is an interactive quiz with examples.
• Think.com
  Think.com is a free service from Oracle designed for teachers. After registering, services include a place to build a school website; tools for conducting on-line discussions; integrated e-mail designed for a school; and administrative tools.