John Hardy's List: Free stuff

A blog focused on free resources, ideas, and lesson plans for teaching with technology.

Wikispaces has given away 323364 free wikis! We're giving away the Plus wiki features that normally cost $50/year. No fine print, no usage limits, no advertising, no catches.

This offer is available exclusively for K-12 educational use. K-12 means kindergarten through secondary school. It is available worldwide to teachers, students, and educators.

TeAch-nology - The Art and Science of Teaching with Technology® - represents a vision of teaching in a world driven by technology. Our mission to provide services designed to support educators' in effectively incorporating technology in teaching and learning.

HyperHistory is an expanding scientific project presenting 3,000 years of world history with an interactive combination of synchronoptic lifelines, timelines, and maps.

Online Scientific Calculator

Coolmath was designed for the frustrated, the confused,the bored students of the world who hate math. Coolmath was designed for the students who just need to get throughthis stuff so they can reach their other academic goals. Coolmath was designed for the math geeks of the worldwho love math and want more, more, more!

Graphs and charts are great because they communicate information visually. For this reason, graphs are often used in newspapers, magazines and businesses around the world.

The Big6 is a proven approach to information problem-solving. It helps you succeed in school and life. Use the Big6 to find, use, apply, and evaluate information for specific needs and tasks.

Welcome to BiologyInMotion! Here you will find animations, interactive activities, and cartoons designed to make learning biology a richer, more engaging experience. New additions include interactive tutorials, quizzes, and other activities, in addition to updated versions of the many biology cartoons currently gathering dust in my portfolio.

A webquest on evaluating websites, for grades 9-12.

A collection of online interactive manipulatives, organized in grade bands (PreK-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12) and aligned to national math standards. Provided by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM).

There doesn't seem to be an index or TOC page for this Harcourt site, but if you replace the two numbers in the URL (e.g., replace the 4s with 2s), you'll get appropriate content for the grade level you're interested in.

In this student interactive, from the ReadWriteThink site (Thinkfinity partner site for Language Arts), students explore comparison and contrast. The interactive includes an overview, definitions, examples, tips on organizing a paper, links to graphic organizers, suggested transition vocabulary, and a checklist.

An award winning WebQuest exploring the question: What is the relationship between the moon and the tide?

CIESE (Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education) sponsors and designs interdisciplinary projects that teachers throughout the world can use to enhance their curriculum through compelling use of the Internet. We focus on projects that utilize real time data available from the Internet, and collaborative projects that utilize the Internet's potential to reach peers and experts around the world.

Scratch is a programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web.

Scratch is developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab

"Removing classroom walls. Opening windows to our world."

"What! A podcast? I know what you’re thinking. Sounds complicated. Sounds expensive. Sounds, well, technical. The truth is, listening to podcasts or watching videocasts in your classroom couldn’t be easier—or cheaper. If you have a computer and an Internet connection, you already have all the equipment you need."

FREE (Federal Resources for Educational Excellence) makes it easier to find teaching and learning resources from the federal government.
More than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources are included from dozens of federal agencies. New sites are added regularly.