Other Ed Tech Resources
LGUSD is committed to integrating technology into all aspects of the curriculum.
Teachers please connect to the District Intranet to access technology integration lesson ideas.
Best Search Engines for Students
All Grades K-8
- Interactive Sites for Education
All of the best K-5 online, interactive, educational games and simulations in one place. - Connections Academy
The best Educational websites and online learning games for K-8.
Keyboarding
- Los Gatos Union School District K-8 Keyboarding Scope & Sequence
- 10 fastfingersTest and improve your testing speed
- keybr.com
Interactive, keyboarding practice page that allows the user to print out a chart of statistics - NimbleFingers
Includes beginning, intermediate and advanced lessons - Peter's Online Typing Course
Work your way through 18 lessons - TypingWeb
Tracked typing courses for kids
- Touch Typing Instruction
Provides instruction, tutorials, games and tests - Touch Typing Lessons
Games, lessons and tests - Type the Alphabet
How fast can you type the alphabet? - Typing Games
Spacebar Invaders, Outer Space Fleet and more - Typing Tests
One to five minute timed tests - Typing Test.com
One to five minute timed tests - WMP Typing Test with adjusted speed
Learn 2 Type for Kids
Art
- Artist's Toolkit
Explore the six fundamentals of art, line, color, space, shape, balance, and rhythm - BeFunky
Photo effects for photos - Build Your Wild Self - NY Zoos
Avatar generator with human and animal parts - Create a Flower
Explore symmetrical relationships of flowers - Math Art
Learn math through art - Portrait Illustration Maker
Create and save an avatar - Portrait Illustration Maker
- SFMOMAArtThink
Theme-based activities in visual arts, language arts, and history/social studies - Tagxedo
Word clouds with shapes - Wordle
Create word clouds - WordItOut
Build word clouds - More Art Resources
History/Social Science
- CIA World FactBook
Information on history, people, government, geography and more. - World Book Online
UserID: losgatos4u
Password: 12345 - National Archives and Records Administration
Archive of primary sources - Interactive Timeline
Create a timeline online - Today in History
The Library of Congress historic facts highlighted - U.S. World Maps and Puzzles
- U.S. States and Capitals
- More History/Social Science Resources
US Constitution
- Ben's Guide to U.S. Government
The US Constitution - Constitution of the United States
The U.S. Constitution - Bill of Rights
Amendments 1-10 of the U.S. Constitution - Amendments 11-27
Amendments 11-27 of the U.S. Constitution
Language Arts
- Diagramming Sentences
Practice Diagramming Sentences - Interactive Persuasion Map
Map out arguments for a persuasive essay or debate - Interactive Venn Diagram
Compare any two items - Spelling City
Enter your own spelling lists and practice - More Language Arts Resources
Math
- Math Train TV
- Galileo Online Test
- Calculation Nation (Use Guest Pass)
- Create a Graph
- Math Art - Learn math through art
- Math Live - Glossary of terms, and many math Lessons
- Math Textbook Online - Pearson SuccessNet
- Multiplication Tables Test
- National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
- Perimeter and Area Interactive
- Junior High Math Interactives
- More Math Resources
Science
- Earth/Moon/Sun Position Simulation
Observe and control the earth and moon orbits - Earthweek.com
A digital weekly diary of the planet - Encyclopedia of Life
A collaborative, ongoing effort to organize information about all the species on earth - FOSSWeb
Interactive activities, a newsletter, and other great projects and resources. - Periodic Table
A visual interpretation of the Periodic Table of the Elements - More Science Resources
Photo, Video, Audio & Clip Art Resources
- Calisphere
Primary source images from the University of California - ClipArt ETC
Free clipart with source information for citation - Clip Art, Photos, Video Clips and Sound Clips
- Creative Commons
Access search services for works - ExploreLearning Gizmos – Online interactive gizmos
- Free Play Music
Music free to use for projects - HubbleSite - Photos from the Hubble telescope
- Ivy's Search Engines
Ask Jeeves, Yahooligans, Animal Searches and More - JPL PhotoJournal
View images of the planets and the universe - KidsKnowIt Network
Fun educational interactives - NASA Images
View images of the solar system and universe - Pics4Learning
Thousands of images donated by photographers - Public Domain, Copyright Free Media
Images for student use - Royalty Free Music
Free Royalty Free Stock Music for Education - Science Photo Library Teacher Access Only
- TEKMOM
- Search Engines Just for Kids
- Wikimedia Commons
Database of freely usable images
Web Resources by Grade Level
All Grades K-5
- Interactive Sites for Education
All of the best K-5 online, interactive, educational games and simulations in one place. - Connections Academy
The best Educational websites and online learning games for K-8.
Kindergarten
- Beginning Sounds
Beginning letter, short and long vowel practice - Learn My Letters
ABC alphabet and phonemic awareness practice - Starfall
Learn to read
First Grade
- FOSSweb Air & Weather
Interactive exploration with temperature and weather - FOSSweb New Plants
Help Framer jane plant y our garden and watch it grow - FOSSweb Solids & Liquids
- Change a liquid into a solid or a solid into a liquid
- Picture Match
Beginning letter; short or long vowel sounds - Plants and Animals
See which environments plants and creatures inhabit - Starfall
Learn to Read - Word Sort
Word Family Sort - What is weather?
Exploring wind, rain and clouds
Second Grade
- Acrostic Poem
Create an acrostic poem online - Diamante Poems
Create a Diamond-shaped poem - Letter Writer
Learn parts of a letter and write your own letter - Letter Writing
More letter writing activities
Third Grade
- Biomes of the World
Learn about the world's aquatic and terrestrial biomes - Earth/Moon/Sun Interactive
Explore the interactions of the Earth, Moon and Sun in the Phases of the moon - Light & Dark
Try this interactive experiment with light and dark - Light & Shadows
Try this interactive experiment with light and shadows - Living Things - Variation
Click and drag the living things into the correct group - Moon Phases
Learn about the 8 phases of the moon - Moon Phases Model
Interact with this simple model of the 8 phases of the moon
Fourth Grade
- Academy of Achievement
Learn about the greatest thinkers and achievers of our time - Annie's Mission
Help 10 year old Annie Biggs find her father in the Mission
- Bio4Kids
The website for resources for students on The Biography Channel - Biographies of Notable People
Visit this site for biographies organized by topic such as explorers, Women, Math, Scientists, etc. - Book2Web: Famous People
This McGraw Hill website features biographies of over 300 famous people - California Mission Studies
Annotated links to official resources - California Missons Virtual Tour
Visit this site for mission history, music and more - Meet Amazing Americans
Discover the inventors, politicians, performers, activists and other everyday people who made this country what it is today. - Strike It Rich
See if you have what it takes to strike it rich during the Gold Rush Era.
Learn about California's, Forty-niners and the Gold Rush Fever
- Quotations
Use this topics directory to find quotations
Fifth Grade
- Eight Planets
A comprehensive information site feature the planets - History Alive Webiste
Review social studies materials - Interactive Solar System Facts
Animated, interactive tutorial about space and the planets - Our Solar System
Learn about the Sun, planets, comets, and asteroids - Solar System Trading Cards
Collect all 12! - State Facts
Essential facts provided by the U.S. Census Bureau - US History Early Years
Read or view primary sources from Columbus's ship's log to SoJourner Truth's speech - US History Interactive Map
Become a geography whiz - US States and Capitals
Review the capitals, bird and flowers for each of the 50 states
Sixth Grade
- Hunt the Ancestor
Rescue a prehistoric burial from destruction - Caveman Challenge
Move along the evolutionary scale - Skeleton Jigsaw
Reconstruct animals from fossil bones - Etymology Dictionary
Learn the history of a word and its meaning - Recent Earthquakes
USGS records recent earthquakes - Persuasion Map
Students can use this online interactive tool to map out an argument for their persuasive essay.
Seventh Grade
- FOSSWeb
Interactive activities, a newsletter, and other great projects and resources. - Cells Alive!
An interactive website about cells and nuclei - Cow's Eye Dissection
Watch online. Learn more about eyes or do your own dissection.
Think Green
- Energy Consumption – Explore this simulation to see how much energy is needed to heat and cool homes in different cities in the US at different times of the year.
- Power Up! – Explore this interactive to find out about the different energy sources used to produce electricity in the United States.
- Future Power – Help determine what fuel source a community should use to keep costs low and produce the least carbon dioxide.
- How to Light Up a Room – Different properties of window covers affect how much light is absorbed, reflected, and transmitted. Explore how five kinds of window covers affect the light that enters a room.
- Mineral Resources – Explore how mineral resources are in everyday objects.
Eighth Grade
- Newton's Laws
Explore Sir Issac Newton's Laws of Physics
Digital Citizenship
Digital Identity
- Build Your Wild Self
Avatar creator - Portrait Illustration Maker
Create a custom avatar - Tagxedo
Word clouds with shapes - WordItOut
Build word clouds - Wordle
Create word clouds
Digital Literacy – Internet
- Checking External Links with AltaVista
Type link: in the search box and then add the URL of the website you want to research - EasyBib
Choose MLA style to cite websites - EasyWhoIs
Type in the domain name to find a website publisher - SweetSearch
A Search Engine for Students - Tips for Better Searching Techniques
Follow these four steps to get better search results. - Web Search Strategies in Plain English
Watch this brief video for helpful search tips.
Digital Literacy – Productivity
Digital Literacy – Creativity
Library
- Los Gatos Library
- Santa Clara County Library
- Librarian's Index to the Internet
- California Digital Library - Calisphere
- Library of Congress
- Information Literacy
Tutorials
- Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard
- Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard
- Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger
- GarageBand '08 - Find Out How
- GarageBand '09 - Find Out How
- iMovie '08 - Find Out How
- iMovie '09 - Find Out How
- iPhoto '08 - Find Out How
- iPhoto '09 - Find Out How
- iWork '08 - Learn about Pages, Keynote & Numbers
- iWork '09 - Learn about Pages, Keynote & Numbers
National Educational Technology Standards
The National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) are published by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE).