Primary+(1-2)

Language Arts * Math * Units of Inquiry

Language Arts
Phonemic Awareness
 * Interactive chart: @http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/try/activities/phonemic-chart

General
 * Apps for K-5 core language standards
 * Oxford Owl - a FREE website built to support you with your child’s learning. To help you along the way, you’ll find age-specific [|reading] and [|maths] tips and activities, FREE eBooks, and lots of fun ideas to really bring your child’s learning to life. You will also find support and advice on a range of questions you may have – including helping your child with their phonics, motivating boys to read and ensuring your child is doing their best in maths.

Math
General > **(**//www.pbskids.org/lab//**)** > The company has announced 60 new cross-platform games that help children aged two through eight build critical math skills. Available free on the PBS KIDS Lab Web site, the games feature a colorful cast of characters, from Curious George to the Cat in the Hat. Each game suite links to a set of games that are accessible through computers, mobile devices, and interactive whiteboards.
 * Oxford Owl - a FREE website built to support you with your child’s learning. To help you along the way, you’ll find age-specific [|reading] and [|maths] tips and activities, FREE eBooks, and lots of fun ideas to really bring your child’s learning to life. You will also find support and advice on a range of questions you may have – including helping your child with their phonics, motivating boys to read and ensuring your child is doing their best in maths.
 * **PBS KIDS new games**
 * **Johnnie's Math Games**: You can now find over 1000 activities for JK-8 through this site! @http://jmathpage.com/

Units of Inquiry

 * ===Images to support inquiry and understanding===
 * Fotopediais a collaborative photo encyclopedia that hosts high-quality images whose subjects are matched to Wikipedia articles. For subjects that don't have a Wikipedia entry the community can build one. Some images are linked to a map so that you can see where the image was taken. You will find that some Fotopedia contributions are Creative Commons-licensed (copyright friendly) and others are not.
 * Integration example: Browse Fotopediafor a Creative Commons-licensed picture of a Zebra (to be posted on a class website about animals). Browsing is a great visual way for students to discover information about animals. While browsing the collection of Zebra images students can read the article about Zebras, click and see where the images were captured, and then jump into browsing images and information about where those images were captured. In the Zebra example, a student can begin with looking at pictures of Zebras and go to browsing pictures of Tanzania and reading about habit in Tanzania.//(This post originally appeared on Free Technology for Teachers.//)

> Old Maps Online is a good use of Google Maps that I recently learned about through Google Maps Mania. Old Maps Online is designed to help you find historical maps of where you live or any other location that you enter into the search function. By default Old Maps Online searches for maps near your location. You can refine your search to a specific time using the timeline slider on Old Maps Online. Old Maps Onlinedoesn't host the maps that you find through their search box. Old Maps Online refers you to the host of the maps. One of the frequently used hosts is the David Rumsey Historical Map collection.
 * ===Old Maps Online - Find Historical Maps for Your Area===
 * ** Applications for Education **: There are other ways to find historical maps online, but Old Maps Onlinemakes it very easy to do. The maps that you and your students find could be used as overlays in the Google Earth layers. You might also use the maps for a local history comparison activity by comparing your students' current vision of where they live with what it looked like in the past. //This post originally appeared on Free Technology for Teachers.//

> ==Ocean Tracks - Track and View Marine Animals in 3D == > Source: Free Technology for Teachers - Richard Byrne > > Ocean Tracks is an Australian website on which students can view the tracks of marine animals in an online 3D environment. The "tracks" part of Ocean Tracks shows you where in the world tagged animals are swimming or have swum. Ocean Tracks uses the Unity browser plug-in to provide animations of the underwater views of tracked animals. You can see what bluefin tuna, swordfish, sharks, and many other fish see in 3D. Watch the promo video below to learn more about Ocean Tracks. > > > ** Applications for Education ** > Ocean Tracks could be a great resource to use in marine biology lessons to show student how far some marine animals travel. Students will also enjoy seeing what those animals see. Those underwater views could be helpful in demonstrating to students why animals like sharks use their sense of smell to find prey. > > If you do decide to use Ocean Tracks in your classroom, bear in mind that it is quite bandwidth intensive. (Elementary teachers - hang in there...we are getting the bandwidth fix in Elementary! Mark this for future use!) //This post originally appeared on Free Technology for Teachers.//
 * ===Commotion in the Ocean - 1st grade -===

General
This morning Google announced the release of a new way to view images in Google Maps. 3D Photo Tours on Google Maps is a collection of public Panoramio and Picasa images of famous landmarks arranged into 3D panoramic tours. You can take a tour of places like the Grand Canyon, Buckingham Palace, and Fenway Park. Here's a complete list of the places for which 3D photo tours are available. To access these new views you do have to have to be using a modern browser that supports Web GL technology. The video below highlights the new 3D Photo Tours on Google Maps. > > >  > > > ** Applications for Education ** > > If you don't have access to Google Earth on your school's computers, the 3D Photo Tours in Google Maps is a great alternative for showing students what some of the famous landmarks they may have studied look like. > //This post originally appeared on Free Technology for Teachers.//
 * Kid-friendly Search Engines
 * ==New 3D Photo Tours on Google Maps ==