National Audubon Society
National Audubon Society: Audubon Adventures: The Pollination Story
A colorful, interactive chart illustrating the stages in the pollination of flowers by bees.
Starfall
Starfall: Pete's Sheep (Long E Listening Practice)
Learn the long E sound in English while enjoying an animated story about sheep. You can listen to the story over and over again and watch the story come alive with animation.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Showing Creative Problem Solving
After reading excerpts in which Buck solves a problem in Jack London's The Call of the Wild, students write their own three-paragraph animal stories imitating London's style and word choice. Teacher and student instructions are provided...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Game: Decisions on Deadline
This lesson explores Decisions On Deadline, a free, fun, and fast-paced browser and tablet-based game where players take on the role of journalists running down stories, working against time and a limited budget while navigating a string...
National Institutes of Health
Niehs: Kids' Pages: Bradley and the Bad Pb
Interactive children's story that teaches about the dangers of lead poisoning. Click on "next" at the bottom of the story to see all the different sources of lead in the environment and the symptoms of lead poisoning.
South Carolina Educational Television
Etv: Artopia: Media Studio: Create a Storyboard
Interactive storyboarding activity in developing a logical story line by sequencing and captioning a series of twelve pictures.
Starfall
Starfall: Reach for the Stars How I Became an Astronaut
This is the interactive ebook "How I Became an Astronaut: The Story of Stephanie D. Wilson." It provides a short biography of her childhood interests, her education, and training to become an astronaut.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Modern the Emperor's New Clothes: Video
As you watch this modern version of The Emperor's New Clothes, take note of the character's personalities, how these characters interact, and how they are similar or different from one another. Check out the additional activities below...
Other
Triton and Patterns Projects: The Light in the Forest
This amazing site is loaded with information on how to navigate through the The Light in Forest through interactive activities and reflections. A great site for both students and teachers.
Starfall
Starfall: Make a Snowman
Build a snowman and read a story about ten little snowmen. This book engages the reader in an animated story. Other links provide emergent reading skills.
South Carolina Educational Television
Etv: Artopia: Media Studio: Movie Soundtrack
Understand the impact of movie soundtracks. Watch a movie clip of Charade and sample nine different music genres to see how they affect the meaning of the story. [1:03]
Education Development Center
Education Development Center: Tv411: Reading Structure of a News Story
Interactive lesson explains the content and organization of newspaper articles. Includes self-scoring exercises for practicing identifying the five W's (who, what, when, where, and why) in a series of brief news articles and a...
Other
Carnegie Mellon University: Alice
An innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy for students to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. This is a free teaching tool designed to be a student's...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Columbian Exchange
In this interactive lesson supporting literacy skills, students watch video dramatizations that tell the story of the Spanish explorers who arrived in the Americas with Columbus and introduced European, African, and Asian plants and...
Other
The World of Beverly Cleary: Official Site
A look into the life and works of the acclaimed children's author Beverly Cleary. Includes sections about Cleary's life, but focuses more on her stories and characters, including some interactive tools and games. Also includes trivia...