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http://www.discovery.com/ |
http://www.nineplanets.org/ Each page of this site provides text, images, and even some sounds and movies about the planets. |
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http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/StarChild.html This is an excellent site where students can learn about the solar system, the universe, and other space information. It is divided into two levels. The graphics are wonderful! |
http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/ This site offers spectacular images from the Hubble Telescope. |
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| http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/ This is a "cool science for curious kids". |
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http://www.funbrain.com/ This is an awesome site for math students. Students can fine tune math skills through fun games and activities. It includes games for all levels. Great site!! |
http://www.aplusmath.com/ Aplusmath.com is designed to improve student's math skills interactively. It includes Flashcards, Game Room, Homework Helper, and much more. Great site!! |
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http://www.eduplace.com/kids/index.html This site includes games, activities, and resources for students studying math, reading, social studies, and science. |
http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/iongoal/tablcont.htm This is a well designed math site. Many interactive and fun activities grouped by grade-level through eighth grades. |
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http://www.mathgoodies.com/lessons/ Math puzzles and interactive math lessons for integers, percent, number theory, circles, and ploygons. Concepts are explained in easy-to-understand language, accompanied by examples and illustrations. |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/mathsfile/ Join ancient mathematicians Pythagoras and Hypatia for online games and printable worksheets covering numbers, algebra, shapes, space and measures. Games include several levels of difficulty and answers are provided for the worksheets. |
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| http://www.mathstories.com/ Solve math problems about story characters, holidays, magic, and more. Problems are sorted by topic and level of difficulty and each worksheet can be printed. |
http://www.fleetkids.com/ Fleet Kids teaches you how to earn, spend and save money through games. Manage a pretend company so you can make enough money to build a roller coaster, spend coins wisely in order to make it to the finish line, count out the correct change at a virtual cash register, and more. You must sign up first so you can keep up with your scores. |
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http://www.storyplace.org/ The Story Place is a wonderful digital library. It includes online stories, online activities, and take-home activities. There is even a place to purchase the book if you are interested. |
http://www.encyclopedia.com Encyclopedia.com offers free encyclopedia information with the click of a mouse. It includes over 14,000 articles from The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Third Edition. The entries are so short so you can check facts fast. It also includes links to millions of articles form the Electric Library. Great site! |
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http://www.randomhouse.com/seussville/ Do you love Dr. Seuss books? This site is totally dedicated to the characters from the Dr. Suess books. |
http://www.vocabulary.com/ In this site you can participate in free vocabulary puzzles to enhance your vocabulary mastery. This site is designed for upper elementary levels and beyond. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/99/index.html If you want to find a famous quotation, this is the site for you. It includes over 9,000 selections gathered by John Bartlett, Ninth Edition. |
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/ARTFL/forms_unrest/ROGET.html Roget's Thesaurus Search Form |
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http://www.classicshorts.com This site includes a wonderful collection of short stories. |
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http://tiger.census.gov/ The Tiger Map Service is a project sponsored by the U.S. Bureau of the Census. This site provides high quality detailed maps anywhere in the U.S. |
http://library.thinkquest.org/J002611F/ Colonial Kids is another great ThinkQuest site created by students. It features information about Colonial American homes, schools, clothing, chores, transportation, crafts, and native people. |
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http://www.fotw.net/flags/ Everything you ever wanted to know about flags can be found at this site called Flags of the World. |
http://www.mnh.si.edu/vikings/ Take a brief tour of this Smithsonian Museum of Natural History exhibit, which traces the Viking journeys to Iceland, Greenland and Newfoundland, Canada. |
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http://library.thinkquest.org/j003409/ This interesting site explains that mummies have been found in China, Peru, European bogs, and other unexpected places. This is a ThinkQuest site created by students. |
http://usatoday.com USA Today online is a great site to get up-to-date news and current events. |
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http://tukids.tucows.com/ Tukids is an ultimate site for children. It is full of craft ideas, cool software downloads, games, kid picks, news, mailing lists, and much more. |
http://www.smokeybear.com/ This is an excellent site that teaches children about fire safety. It includes games, coloring sheets, mail, and bear facts. |
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http://www.puzzlemaker.com/ Puzzle Maker is a site where educators and students can design a wide variety of puzzles at different skill levels. |
http://www.ajkids.com/ If you are a curious person, this is the site for you. You can ask Jeeves anything. |
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http://www.bluemountain.com/ Children love to give and receive cards. You can send free online animated cards through bluemountain.com. |
http://www.cyberkids.com/ This site was created for kids to have a good time while they learn. It contains a reading room, theater, games, puzzles, and an on-line magazine. |
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http://www.education-world.com/ This is a fun site for teachers! It is full of ideas for the first day of school, news articles, lesson plans for all subjects and all levels. It's updated daily and very easy to navigate. |
http://www.nickjr.com/ This site is for very young children. It includes all the characters who they know and love. (Blues Clues, Little Bear, etc.) It has a place where they can play games and complete other fun activities. |
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Neat O Resources for Lesson Plans |
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Triple A Math www.aaamath.com Interactive practice on a variety of math skills. |
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The Landmark Project www.landmark-project.com A library of online resources. |
Sites for Online Bookmarking and URL management Every teacher should look at these and/or utilize them! www.portaportal.com www.murl.com www.backflip.com |
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New and helpful search engines www.refdesk.com www.alfy.com |
Just a really cool site about classical music http://www.thirteen.org/listeningadventures /carnegiebridge.html |
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Kathy Shrock's Guide to Online Resources for Educators http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/ A categorized list of sites for use in enhancing curriculum. |
A Web site that will bring out the creativity in your students. http://www.kidpix.com/ |
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Education World www.educationworld.com The self-proclaimed "educator's best friend." |
*******All standards from all states!!!! A great and handy resource! http://www.edstandards.org/Standards.html#State |
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Dr. Alice Christie's Educational Resources Page http://www.west.asu.edu/achristie/edresources.html A page of links from an Educational Technology professor at Arizona State University |
Factmonster www.factmonster.com A search engine and online resources for kids. |
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California Learning Resource Network www.clrn.org Learning resource information, resources, lesson plans, and Web sites. |
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Doctor Math www.drmath.com |
Parent, student, and teacher math-related resources. www.teachertools.org/index.html www.pbs.org/teachersource/teachtech.htm |
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An electronic calculator on line http://www.angelfire.com/pa/baconbacon/page3.html |
Ebook library on line http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks/ |
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Application for a Social Security Card http://www.ssa.gov/online/ss-5.html |
Enchanted Learning a good educational web site Teachers love this site. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html |
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Learn "Excel." A free tutorial. http://www.usd.edu/trio/tut/excel/ |
Good math site for K-8 teachers http://www.figurethis.org/challenges/toc.htm |
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K-8 Sites of interest http://trainland.tripod.com/funstuff.htm |
Population Clock http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html |
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How stuff works. http://www.howstuffworks.com |
A math teacher will find this interesting www.mathgoodies.com |
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Flashcards and homework sheets for teachers. Check it out. www.aplusmath.com |
Make Your Own Flashcards. Click on teachers and design flashcards. www.funbrain.com |
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Lesson Plans for Science with many links. http://www.csun.edu/~vceed002/ref/plans/ |
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An interactive Web site on measurement. Students learn to read a ruler http://www.funbrain.com/measure/index.html |
Spanish or English a great Web site for kids. (University of Illinois Extension) http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/kids/index.html
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On line conversion . Change grams to lbs inches to centimeters. http://www.onlineconversion.com/ |
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