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 [|Visual Simulations]
 Educational software for schools - **Visual Simulations** provides educational software tools for use with an interactive whiteboard or data projector.  == [|Flash Animations]  ==  This website is dedicated to Flash animations for use in the English class. You need to have some sort of player installed, such as the well-known and free [|Macromedia], but it is probably already on your machine. You (or your students) may either watch directly the selected animations (click on their titles with the blue arrow) or download them to your hard drive for future use Topics available are: San Andreas fault, Hybrid car, Calories, Key finder, Global flyer, GM food, Stephenson's rocket, Lift toilet, The Meatrix, The Internet, Fuel cell1, 2 and 3, Burying CO2, Fitness, Tuberculosis, Fowl food Preterits, txt msgs, Paper planes, The Wand, Santa Clauses, What's the time, Maths quiz, English quiz, Bozzetto, Worst game, Calvin & Hobbes, Star Wars rap, Paper crane, Superman, Louis Armstrong
 * [|Environment]:** Cycles of Nature, Hurricanes1 and 2, Greenhouse effect, Global warming, Recycling waste, Water cycle1, 2 and 3, Robocow, Water shortage, Earthquakes, Food chain, Petroleum **[|Renewables]:** Wind, Sun, "Greener" house equipment **[|Science & Tech]:****[|Space Exploration]:** Ariane launcher, Lunar eclipse, Discovery, ISS, A review, Voyager, Messenger **[|Slideshows]:** Robots, Solar Cookers, Wright Bros **[|Literature]:** Milosz, Dickens, Shakespeare **[|Around the world]:** Slow Down Week, US-Mexican border, Death row, Ramadan, Miniature Earth, Katrina, Diamonds, Lady Liberty, London Access, Altria, English language, Child labour **[|History]:** Martin Luther King, San Francisco's Earthquake 1906, Elgin Marbles, Elisabeth I, Victorian era, 9/11, Gunpowder plot, British Empire, Trafalgar, Turkey, Arab-Israeli conflict, Assassination of JFK, Billy Joel song, US Civil war **[|Fun]:**

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Primary Interactive Whiteboard Resources - Maths, Literacy, Science in Key Stages 1 & 2

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="color: rgb(8, 7, 7);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">These pages contain a collection of links to suitable activities to support and enhance classroom teaching and learning. A ctivities for Stage 1 - 3 in all curriculum areas.

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="color: rgb(5, 5, 5);">**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This site offers a growing bank of imaginative, highly visual teaching-aids developed for use with interactive whiteboards in 11-18 Schools. ** <span style="color: rgb(5, 5, 5);">**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The resources are designed to be used as rich sources of visually stimulating material, making use of both animations and drag and drop interactivity. The appropriate Key Stage is indicated for each resource. **

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/index.cfm Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A really interesting way of looking at the news. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">** [|skrbl]  ** A collaborative, online whiteboard    <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="color: rgb(5, 5, 5);"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**iwb.org.uk** is a rapidly growing bank of free to use tools and resources created for teachers who are teaching with an interactive whiteboard (IWB) ==<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**<span style="color: rgb(5, 5, 5);"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">More [|Interactive Whiteboard Resources]**  == <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> compiled by Sue Lemmer, Australia ==<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="color: rgb(5, 5, 5);"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Free Flash Resources for Teachers]  ==

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Lots of games available for download which would be useful to use on an IWB.

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> This site aims to provide teaching and learning resources to make the use of the interactive whiteboard in the classroom easier and more productive

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">from Kent NGfL, UK ==<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Interactive Sites]  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> == ==<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Interactive Whiteboard Resources] <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> == ==<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**[|Sites to use with Interactive Whiteboards]** ==

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">[|Interactive Whiteboard Links]
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Here are some links that can be powerful whole-group instructional tools when used on an interactive whiteboard. These are grouped by subject area and subdivided by grade band.

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Interactive whiteboards are gaining in popularity in schools. SMART technology is one of the most popular interactive whiteboard options. Although these are intended for the Smarboard there are several that can be used for any IWB. Heaps of links, ideas, resources available here. ==<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**<span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-size: 60%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> [|Using Electronic Whiteboards in Your Classroom]   **  == ==<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">   == <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-size: 60%; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Profiles, ideas, lesson plans and web sites

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Edusim** is a free opensource 3D multi-user virtual world specifically for your classroom interactive whiteboard. Edusim is **[|http://edusim3d.com/#|extendable]** allowing multiple classrooms to connect their interactive whiteboards for collaborative learning sessio n. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">** [|Interactive Whiteboard Resources]  ** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">British site with resources organised in age levels right up to secondary level. This site has heaps of resources for all levels. Most need Macromedia Flash Player. ** [|What 2 Learn]  ** Resources and games for Yr7 & 8. ** [|Buzzin Learning]  ** interactive site for 9-13 year olds. ** [|Teachit English Teaching Resources]  ** a huge number of resources for teaching English in the upper school. ** [|StoryLine online]  ** Features book readings by many popular, current actors and actresses that today’s kids will recognize. The stories are presented in well-produced videos in full stereo with great visual effects. Each story also features a list of “related activities” and a downloadable, colorful “Activity Guide” with probing questions, discussion starters, story prompts, information about the story, the celebrity reader, and more. ** [|National Gallery of Art]  ** lots of interactive art activities. ** [|Mrnussbaum Interactive Games]  ** some good maths games here. Fractions, decimals, place value etc. ** [|Gamequarium]  ** most curriculum areas for Y0 - 8 ** [|Sadlier Oxford]  ** suitable all levels ** [|AAAMath]  ** suitable for all levels ** [|National Library 0f Virtual Maniplulatives]  ** Maths site - suitable for all levels ** [|Classroom Tools]  ** a site with all sorts of interactive tools that you can use in your lesson planning. ** [|Interactive books online]  ** I nteractive books. Search for books from NZ - some Maori titles included Lots of interactive activities for maths, language, science and other areas. Maths activities   <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">
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 * [|I Know That] **
 * [|BBC Skillwise - Numbers - Whole numbers] **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**[|Interactive Educational Websites]**
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> A range of curriculum areas

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**[|Get Smart Interactive Activities]**
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> An Australian site which caters fro Stage 1 to Stage 3

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> A website for deaf and hard of hearing but there are some useful links ==<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**[|Interactive Whiteboard Sites]** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> ==

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**[|Interactives]**
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Maths, Science and Language Arts links

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> A range of curriculum areas listed here

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**[|Interactive Learning Australia]**
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