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Schwab Learning: Learning Difficulties
Primarily a parent's guide to helping kids with learning difficulties which also offers resources helpful to teachers.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Learning Disabilities
This resource provides a wealth of information about learning disabilities, the most common of which is dyslexia - difficulty with language and reading.
PBS
Pbs: Misunderstood Minds
A wonderful spotlight on scientific explanations behind learning differences and strategies to aid success in school. Includes profiles of the students in the documentary as well as interactive activities designed to give site visitors a...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Alpha Pig's Paint by Letter
A paint-by-letter interactive game where students match the letter on a color palette to the letter on a picture in order to paint the picture. Three levels of difficulty allow students to match capital letters, lower-case letters, or a...
World Food Programme
Free Rice: Learn Spanish Vocabulary and Give Free Rice
Play this web game and learn new Spanish vocabulary words while providing free rice to hungry people around the world through the United Nations World Food Program. There are ten levels of difficulty.
World Food Programme
Free Rice: Learn French Vocabulary and Give Free Rice
Play this web game and learn new French vocabulary words while providing free rice to hungry people around the world through the United Nations World Food Program. There are ten levels of difficulty.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Robo Clock
Students learn various topics associated with the circle through studying a clock. Topics include reading analog time, understanding the concept of rotation (clockwise vs. counter-clockwise), and identifying right angles and straight...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Mars Rover App Creation
Based on their experience exploring the Mars rover Curiosity and learning about what engineers must go through to develop a vehicle like Curiosity, students create Android apps that can control LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robots, simulating the...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Money Bingo
Money BINGO is a fun and educational game for kids to practice counting money. BINGO grid size options and the ability to select difficulty (pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters and bills) make this activity good for kindergarten through...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Curiosity Killed the App
Students gain experience with the software/system design process, closely related to the engineering design process, to solve a problem. First, they learn about the Mars Curiosity rover and its mission, including the difficulties that...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: A Matter of Leaching
Students leach organic matter from soil to create a water sample with high dissolved organic matter content (DOM), and then make filters to see if the DOM can be removed. They experience the difficulties of removing DOM from water, and...
Colby College
Spanish Language & Culture: Present Tense Stem Changers
This site provides thirty questions that test your knowledge of stem changing verbs in the present tense. Click on the "?" mark if you have difficulty filling in the blank.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Get Your Charge Away From Me!
This activity is an easy way to demonstrate the fundamental properties of polar and non-polar molecules (such as water and oil), how they interact, and the affect surfactants (such as soap) have on their interactions. Students see the...
Curated OER
Kids Health: Kids With Special Needs
"There are many different people in the world, and each one is special. However, some people may have physical or mental challenges that require extra help or assistance."
Ministerio de Educacion, Cultura y Deporte (Spain)
English for Little Children
This is an interactive site intended to teach English as a foreign language to young children. It is a helpful multimedia resource for EFL teachers. There are ten themes, each with two levels of difficulty, that allow children to...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Creating the 14th Colony
After studying the 13 original colonies students will create their own colonies in cooperative groups. This will help students understand the difficulties the colonist had to endure in learning to work together. Students will have to...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Causes & Consequences
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand how to map the causes and consequences of conflict and appreciate the difficulties found in separating causes and consequences of conflict.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Number Bingo
Number BINGO is a fun way for children to review numbers 1-100. Children can choose between different levels of difficulty by selecting a range of numbers.
Other
The National Organization for Rare Disorders
This organization specializes in providing assistance for those with rare diseases. This part of the site lists rare diseases in alphabetical order. Each disease is defined and organizations that specialize in the disease are listed.
Other
Molecular Movies: 3 D Tutorials for Biologists
A collection of visualization-oriented tutorials for creating 3D animations for use in your biology classroom. Search by difficulty level, software package, or 3D topic area.
Other
Advanced Studio Classroom
English language learning site for Chinese speakers -- online companion site to a magazine by the same name. Provides summaries and downloadable copies of some of the articles that appear in the printed magazine, along with access to...
TESL Journal
Activities for Esl Students: Grammar Quizzes
This site from The Internet TESL Journal is developed for students for whom English is a Second Language (ESL). This is packed full of helpful quizzes covering all aspects of English grammar, from articles to sentence structure to word...
TESL Journal
Activities for Esl Students: Prepositions 1
This site from The Internet TESL Journal provides a 15 question preposition practice activity. Students are asked to fill in the missing preposition in a complete sentence. "Easy" level of difficulty. Answers are provided without...
TESL Journal
Activities for Esl Students: Prepositions 2
This site from The Internet TESL Journal provides a 20 question self quiz. Students are asked to fill in the missing preposition in a complete sentence. "Easy" level of difficulty. Answers are provided without detailed explanations.