Growth of a Nation

Animatedatlas.com has an interactive atlas that allows you to explore how the nation grew from 1790 to the year 2000. This history spans from the development of the 13 colonies to 50 states. The site hosts a 10 minute video that can be played all the way through, or paused when needed. Also during the video any state can be clicked on to show details of the state's history.


This site can be used to teach about the 13 colonies, the civil war, the revolutionary war, or just to give an overall summary of how the United States developed through history.

Order Of Operations - Math

Solving equations can be confusing if students do not understand order of operations.

Amby.com has a web-based interactive tutorial that can help students remember and practice order of operations.Funbrain.com also has an interactive game to help students learn the importance of order of operations. There are 3 levels of games for Order of Operations. There is an Easy level that only uses addition and subtraction. The Medium level uses addition, subtraction, and multiplications, and the Hard level uses all operations.

Decimals, Fractions, and Percentages

This site describes a card game that is similar to war but instead of using a regular deck of cards, the players use cards that have a mixture of decimals, fractions, and percentages. (The teacher will have to construct the cards.)

This game will help students understand the concepts of equality and inequality among decimals, fractions, and percents. This game will be a fun way for students to become more familiar with various representations of the same number.

Hi-Lo Using Fractions

This interactive Web page allows students to play Hi-Lo using fractions instead of whole numbers. The rationale behind this game is that students will be challenged to order fractions while using the clues to discover the fraction that the computer is thinking of.

One advantage of having students play the computer instead of each other is that partnering students may have difficulty monitoring each other if they do not know fractions well enough.

Kerpoof Studio

Kerpoof is a free online tool that allows you to create movies, stories, and pictures. The site houses several pre-created backgrounds and actors that are ready for your students to create with. Students can be the director of their own movie by adding custom animations to a time line. Their work can be saved by creating a login to their account that allows them to access their products from any location with Internet access.

You Be The Producer

You Be The Producer is a site dedicated to film making for teachers and students. This site is filled with great resources that can help your students become filmmakers.

You Be The Producer has lesson plans with corresponding videos for each step of the film making process.

There is even a sample script and film maker tips on this site.

You Be the Producer is a great resource for a beginning or seasoned film maker.

Remix America

RemixAmerica is an free online movie editing application. This application allows you to remix the words and speeches of American History with current topics of today. Students can use RemixAmerica to create videos on American History and to generate discussions and analyze topics relevant to American History.

There are four ways to create using RemixAmerica.

You can create a talk back by responding to a video that is already created.


You can create a Remix. To create a Remix click the Remix button and then use their editor to edit, add transitions, and add video and audio to a remix.


You can also create a new remix using audio and video from your own computer, or from websites. Their editor allows you to grab and edit video, and add a soundtrack and commentary.


You can even upload your own movies and allow others to remix what you have created.

After you create your remix you can email your movie to friends or embed it into your site or blog.



I learned about Remix America from Mitch, a participant in Lights! Camera! Education!, a movie making class that I co-taught this week for the AZ K-12 Center. Thanks for the tip Mitch!