Webster's Dictionary Word Central - An on-line dictionary and many activities.
Grammar Gorillas - Have fun with the different parts of speech.
Kids Read - Read about your favorite books and authors. You can even join the book club.
Book Hive - A guide to children's literature and books.
Yahoo Author's Page - Here you will find a list of web sites about various children's authors.
Planet Book Club - Discuss good books with other kids, meet an author, and learn a new word everyday.
What Makes a Good Story - learn about plot, characters, and other elements of good stories by reading the short story, "A Jury of Her Peers," by Susan Glaspell.
BrainTeasers and Puzzles - A site maintained by Houghton Mifflin that contains weekly brainteasers for specific grade levels.
Funbrain - Activities and games for students to participate in various curricular areas. Students can select quizzes to take and their results will be emailed to their teacher. Teachers need to register and set up a database that will be mailed to them.
Math Magic - Math Magic is a K-12 telecommunications project. It provides motivation for students to use computer technology while increasing problem-solving strategies. MathMagic posts challenges to trigger registered teams to pair with another team and engage in problem-solving dialogue. Solutions are then posted.
A+ Math - Play games like Bingo, discover hidden pictures, test yourself with flashcards, and use the homework helper that will tell you if your answers to homework assignments are correct. There are multiplication, division, addition, subtraction, geometry, fractions, and money versions of each activity.
ArithmAttack - How many computer-generated arithmetic problems can you answer in 60 seconds?
Division Facts Concentration Game - Uncover the quotient and the matching division problem.
Division Facts Matching Game - Match the quotient to the matching division problem.
Magic Squares - Magic squares have been a fascinating topic in mathematics for centuries. They are formed by filling in all the squares with the numbers starting from one so that the sum of all row, columns, and diagonals is the same.
Stars
Star Child - This is a learning center for young astronomers. It has four categories to explore, entitled: The Solar System, The Universe, Space Stuff, and the glossary. Each category allows students to choose a high or low ability level and provides specifics in each category, like space wardrobe, the Milky Way, the planets, and the Moon. Each category also has real photographs and child-friendly descriptors for each topic.
NASA Kids - There are fun activities, a teacher's corner, and lots of cool information.
Properties of Water
Give Water a Hand -Describes a community project "Give Water a Hand" and involves students in a clean drinking water project. This site is kid friendly. It has graphics and is easy to read
Movement and Features of the Ocean
National Data Buoy Center - What causes our seasons? What causes ocean waves? These and seven other subjects are explained and illustrated with graphs.
Sea World - This site has a wide selection of sea animals with information including senses, habitat, behavior, diet, and picture. Also lists related children's books.
Shark Realities - An outstanding multimedia content packed site with fascinating personal accounts, links to experts, and even a 3-D encounter with a virtual shark.
Oceanography- Student activities and teacher lesson plans which integrate other curriculum areas.
Matter
pH Factor - This site has 12 substances in which the students can quickly check the pH level and determine whether the substances are acids or bases. Lesson plans are available.
Simple Machines
Gears and Pulleys - A site from Lego Dacta is an enrichment project for gears and pulleys. The site has student worksheets and a teacher's guide. Student worksheets may be printed. An Inventor's Log requires the students to apply what they have learned in a problem solving context.
Marvelous Machines - This is a series of experiments about simple machines: levers, wheels and inclined planes.
Simple Machine Experiments - Here you will find several lesson plans for a simple machines unit.
Simple Machines - Students will be able to identify the six simple machines and give examples how each can be used to lessen the effort needed to do work.
Simple Machines For Kids - This site includes examples and definitions of simple machines.
Inventor's Toolbox - This site defines the elements of machines and has several links to interactive pages.
Spotlight on Simple Machines - Here you will find explanations of
simple machines.
Ecosystems
Biomes of the World - Pictures and descriptions of different ecosystems throughout the world.
Earth on Edge - From the PBS show, see how five ecosystems are being affected by earth changes and see how you can get involved.
CyberZoo's Biomes - Explore eight different ecosystems including fresh water, tundra, grasslands, and deserts.
Colonial Period
Jamestown Virtual Colony - a resource for teaching about Jamestown
A Colonial Family and Community - Be a history detective and go back in history to investigate the daily lives of a colonial family in Conneticut.
The American Revolution
The American Revolution for Kids - This site includes timelines, events, games, maps, and more. This is a great site for lots of information.
A Revolutionary Game - Want to make your own American Revolution? You'll need a good horse, a road map and a working knowledge of LIBERTY! This is an interactive site to test a student's knowledge of the revolution.
American Revolution Navigation Tools - Use this site as a resource to link you to specific topics, a timeline, maps, and student projects connected to the American Revolution.
Early America - Here you can find links to famous moments, famous people, issues and events of the 18th century, and documents dealing with the American Revolution..
Timeline of the American Revolution - A timeline of America during the revolution (1764-1775)
Chronicle of the Revolution - Links to topics related to the Revolutionary War.
Building A New Nation
White House- White House homepage - link to White House for kids, tours, and other great links.
House of Representatives- The House of Representatives' home page includes links to three branches. Identify and/or contact representatives; browse and search historical documents of U.S.
United States Senate -The United States Senate's home page allows students to identify and/or contact senators; browse legislative activities, committee notes, and senate history.
Ben's
Guide to Government for Kids
- This site provides learning tools for K-12 students, parents,
and teachers. These resources will teach how our government works,
the use of the primary source materials of G, and how one can
carry out their civic responsibilities.
Kids Democracy Project - This is an interactive site that allows students to see how government affects their lives, the voting process, and becoming president for a day.
Science, Tobacco, and You - This site promotes awareness of the effects of tobacco and was designed for teachers and students.
The Lung Association for Children - Learn about your lungs and what tobacco does to them.
Smart Play - An interatctive site that promotes sports injury prevention.
Life Bytes - This site has a lot of interative and informational places to visit. Learn about smoking, mental health, drugs, alcohol, and more.
Puzzle Maker Web Site - Get ready to create puzzles and mazes for all your curricular areas.
The Mailbox - America's favorite teaching resource! If
you like the magazine, you'll love the web site. Register
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extras to use with any unit.
Teaching Ideas Web Site - This site has quick activities in every curricular area including design & technology, and information & technology systems.
TeachNet - They contain tools that every busy teacher needs to have a successful classroom including, bulletin board ideas, lesson plans, class management tips, and much more.
Language Arts Lesson Plans - You will find activities and lesson plans for grammar, spelling, poetry, and other language arts ideas at this site.
Tips-O-Matic - Writing tips for teachers for sentences, paragraphs, and essays (writing to inform).
Cyber Guides to Literature - Cyber Guides are a supplementary, web delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature. Each Cyber Guide contains a an overview of the novel, activities, and teacher selected web sites linked to the novels.
Graphic Organizers - This site has a wide variety of graphic organizers.
Ask Jeeves for Kids - This site is a question and answer site. Students may type in a question and the site will provide links to help answer the question.
Pro Teacher - This is a search engine just for teachers!
7Search - This site is a search engine that checks for your search on seven search engines at the same time.
Yahooligans - This a search engine designed specifically for children.
Search.com - a metasearch of more than 800 specialized search engines from around the web.
Mamma - The mother of all search engines.
Google - A very strong search engine! I even found myself using it!
Yahoo - One of the more popular search engines used all over the world.
Dogpile - They claim they are all results and no mess.
