Google SketchUp

Google SketchUp is an affordable CAD style program. This program will let students build 3D homes, parks, or stadiums Along the way they will learn area, perimeter, and volume.

http://sketchup.google.com/index.html

Delicious Bookmarks

How do you implement web 2.0 right now in your classroom? Set up a Delicious Bookmark Tag of sites your students can use for a research project.

del.icio.us/MrPolizzi/Greece can be a bookmark of student websites for Greece research.

Google Custom Search Engine

Use Google's Custom Search Engine to limit what your students can search for as well as what websites they can search. The custom search can be embedded in a website. Go see how some educators are using the search at http://www.google.com/coop/cse/

Virtual Frog Dissections

If you are a Science teacher or a frog lover you will love this idea. A few companies out there have created computer programs to let students digitally dissect a frog minus the smell. The NY Times profiled www.froguts.com but there are many alternatives out there.

Publishing Student Books

After having students create books why not publish them and put them in the school or community library. blurb.com's service lets students create their own professional looking book for as little as $12.95.

Lulu is another website that offers cheap publishing.

Multiplication Tables

Timez Attack from bigbrainz.com is like flash cards on steroids. The player can only advance through levels by multiplying their way through enemies. The graphics are impressive rivalling some popular video games.

Boolify Search Engine for Kids

Boolify Search Engine lets young internet browsers piece together puzzle pieces to perform a boolean search. A cat block put with an and block and a fish block might return catfish.

Algebra through Video Games

Dimension M (http://www.dimensionm.com/) offers different Algebra video games for students to show off their Algebra skills and save the Universe.

iGoogle for teachers

Any teacher should consider getting an iGoogle account. You can set up feeds of information relevant to your class. Teachers can put important bookmarks on the page. A constant stream of math and science do now puzzles can be displayed to the class. Never again will you have to scramble for a warm up.

Fantasy Congress

Attention Social Studies teachers. Help your students learn the in and outs of congress as well as its members. Use Fantasy Congress in your classroom, it's like fantasy sports only with politicians instead of athletes and none of the steroids.

www.fantasycongress.com

Plagiarism

Turnitin.com's Plagiarism Prevention System helps teachers identify with a percentage of accuracy where students may have lifted parts of their paper from. This detailed report from searches of hundreds of sites will kepp students on their toes.