A-Z Elementary Teacher Helps
Compiled by Melody Buckner, Cleveland City Schools

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Adobe Acrobat Reader - free download; needed to read any file from the Web or email ending in .pdf Annette Lamb's Interactive Websites, Games, & Activities - don't miss Math & Language Arts Activities
Apples for Teachers - daily morale booster
Artist's Toolkit - amazing site; watch artists in action; explore the artist's toolkit
Animal Trial - pictures, games, animal puzzles. facts, zoo links
Air Junk - see what kind of "stuff" we breathe...look at the sunbeam first, then complete the interactive tour and exercises to see particles & flecks in the air we breathe
Anne E. Moncure Elementary School - select Teacher Resources, Kids Stuff Activities, & Kid Links; excellent; from a 5th grade class, but modifiable; interactive online activities; all subject areas AmericanTeachers - free, but register; great education portal to sites categorized by content area; grant info; extensive portal to student homework, study, & reference sites
Action Quiz - many categories of quizzes from classical music to geography to literature Alfy - lesson plans, thematic units, teacher resources; useful links for primary grade children
Amazing Feats of Aging - gr 3+; see why & how humans & animals age; discover the secrets of healthy aging
Atlapedia - maps, country facts, resources
Aviation Education - Kids Corner - select age group; coloring books, word puzzles, experiments; ages 5-teens; scroll down to Other Fun Web Sites for Kids; also check Educator's Corner

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Bookmark Keepers Online - access your bookmarks from any computer with Internet access:   MyBookmarks – FREE; Free Bookmark Managers – collection of FREE bookmark keepers; IKeepBookmarks.com – FREE; Portaportal.com – FREE; Backflip – FREE; save & share your personal web resources
Between the Lions - gr 1-3; stories with adventure games
Behavior Management from  the Master Teacher - strategies for handling about 120 behaviors in the classroom; all grade levels; select a category
Difficult Behaviors in the Classroom
Blackwell’s Best - gold mine for teachers/students; resources from digital camera tips to Online Scavenger Hunts to the War with Iraq Blue Web'N - online library of 1800+ Internet sites categorized by subject, grade level, and format (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references & tools; search by subject area or grade level
Bubble-Town - bubble memory, bubble engineering, bubble games, bubble formula, bubble skills BrainConnection from Scientific Learning - general, education, and clinical topics
BBC Schools - Words & Pictures - gr 1-3; phonics areas such as Vowel Phonemes, Consonant Clusters; online interactive games & activities with printables; Gallery section with student submitted writings; students may submit work

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Chem4Kids -  lots of info for students; also select EXAMPLES, top of page CyberKids - learning center, fun & games, holidays, brain teasers, more
Communication
Communicating Effectively - good tips for teachers and students for making presentations;  American Sign Language Browser/ Michigan State University - extensive; Out on a Limb: A Guide to Getting Along - gr 2-4; conflict resolution; activities
Converters & Calculators - Martindale's Calculators Online - math & science; Measure for Measure – several hundred interactive Web sites that calculate and convert all kinds of info; MegaConverter - convert almost anything; Online Conversion – fun & interesting; also scroll down, select “Fun Conversions”; Fun Calculators from Rona's Teacher Tools; select Unusual Tools from Teacher Tools
Clip Art, Animations, Web Graphics, Presentation Graphics  
FlamingText.com - FREE, but register; select from horizontal menu at the top (headings, buttons, arrows, dividers, fonts); Animation Factory - FREE animations for PowerPoint presentations, Web pages, etc.; check the HELP section for tutorials and answers to common problems with graphics; CoolText - Online graphics generator for web pages, presentations, etc.; real-time generation of graphics customized FREE; Bellsnwhistles.com - animations, graphics, backgrounds, more for your presentations or web pagesSchool Related Background Sets & Clipart - comprehensive; AwesomeClipArt for Kids – FREE; clip art; certificate, puzzle, cryptogram, maze, worksheet makers; FREE Clip Art from SERP; Jerri’s Educational Clipart; LearningPage.com's ClipArt - FREE, but register for full use; Amazing Picture Machine -   hundreds of pictures, along with lesson ideas; some have copyright restrictions, so READ that section; also a section with information for citing images and pictures; School Clip Art for Teachers & Kids; Pictures for Projects or Fun - EXTENSIVE links (web shots good); Clip Art Gallery from DiscoverySchool; TeacherFiles.com - holiday, icons, backgrounds, animals, much more; 
Create a Graph - FREE; create bar, line, area, or pie graphs online; submit the data, website does the rest; grades 2-8 Character Education from Midge Frazel - dozens of helps and resources
CyberGuides: Teacher Guides & Student Activities - supplementary, standards-based. web-delivered unites of instruction centered on core works of literature; K-12 Comprehensive Educational Resources & Lesson Plans - thousands of lessons/links; don't miss Gifted & Special Ed, Internet Plans, Tutorials, & Resources,  & Holiday; others good as well

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Dositey - free animated online workbooks for the development of reading and math skills, gr K-8; print free worksheets; select grade level; click on math & language arts activities
Discovery School’s Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators  - comprehensive; select Site Map for clear picture; teacher tools, lessons, more
Daily Math - Lessons for Math in Daily Life - figuring square feet, cooking measurements, etc.; good related sites
Picture DICTIONARY - several categories; flashcards, fill-in-the-blanks, word scramble, stinky spelling
Digital History - gr 3-12; interactive timelines, essays, visual histories, and reference room with speeches, music, images, maps, and more from various times in American history; games; ask a historian

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English Online - from New Zealand; all grade levels
EduHound - everything for K-12 educators
Educational Press - FREE; create game boards, quizzes, matching, word scrambles & searches, flashcards to print from your browser; all subject areas
Essay Punch - gr 3-12; takes users through steps of writing basic essay; provides questions to help guide through steps; completed essays may be transferred to word processing program, email; click "Start Writing Now"
Entomology Image Gallery - gr 3-up; view images & movies of beetles, ticks, lice, & other insects
Education Place (Houghton Mifflin) - monthly themes, games, activities; hundreds of online activities
Exploratorium - 650 interactive exhibits of science, art, & human perception; explore these subjects: sound, light, color, music, motion, animal behavior, electricity, heat & temperature, language, patterns, hearing, touch, vision, waves, weather EvaluTech (SREB States’ Departments of Education) - instructional Resources; select Search Tip Cards>Online in HTML Format OR make selection under OTHER Web Resources (lesson plans, enrichment activities, etc.)
Engineer It! - gr 3+; online guide devoted to basic engineering principles with activities & online games; select "Teacher Resources", "Water", or "Wind" ExplorA-Pond - the pond ecology site; amazing collection of math & science pond lessons & activities (Pond Action); virtual pond

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Free the Children - 9 stories of children caught up in circumstances beyond their control; excellent classroom material for all grade levels Flashcard Exchange - FREE; create your own or use those created by others; Flashcard Centre - FREE; Flashcards for Kids - math; gr 1-12; Flashcards for Kids - math; elementary grades
FactMonster - FREE; comprehensive info; categories from science to sports; homework FinditQuick for Kids - kid-friendly; answers for topics in the universe, history, and people
Franklin Institute Online's Museum Hotlist FreeSite.com - home of the Web's best freebies; from sounds to graphics
FunSchool, Zeeks, Kids Domain - hundreds of online activities by grade level; click on each of the 3 tabs across the top for each section and different activities Food Timeline - detailed timeline; K-12 lesson plans related to food history, diversity, and technology; Culinary History Timeline
FunBrain - dozens of games; choose age or game;  Curriculum Guide - select Game Titles & Descriptions, Game Subject Areas, or Game Grade Level Index FleetKids - encourages learning through inquiry & getting kids started on the path to money smarts; students learn about financial concepts through online interactive games; calculators available

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Giggle Poetry – K-8; poetry online; poetry instructions for 26 types of poetry
GrammarNow - FREE; answers specific grammar, formatting, or composition questions; scroll down to RESOURCES for grammar & ELS links
Graphic Organizers; Using INSPIRATION & KIDSPIRATION in the Classroom from Teacher Tap; SCORE Graphic Organizers; Inspiration/Kidspiration - select Curriculum Integration; FREE 30 day download; Education Place Graphic Organizers
Global Schoolhouse - FREE, but register; projects, online adventures, online field trips, map resources, student tools (currency converter, time zone converter, ZIPs, language translator, measurement converters)
Grammar Games - gr 3+; hugh collection of online grammar games
Great Sites for Great Kids - cyberspace guide for middle elementary
Getsmarter.org - gr K-12; animated, interactive testing & learning site; compare your math & science performance against students worldwide; learning tools & links to help you "get smarter"
Geography World - hosted by Brad Bowerman, a geography teacher; every resource imaginable; Geography Site - online lessons, skills, and fun

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Holiday Sites from Suzy Red - comprehensive
 History Timelines – The History Beat – VERY comprehensive
HPR*TEC - MUST SEE; tools galore; FREE
Hubs:  KidsHub - all content areas; TeachersHub - comprehensive
Health Library.com - volumes of information ideal for educators, appropriate for all levels; read through books and journals online
Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Cool Science for Curious Kids - projects for K-4

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IKnowThat.com - free, but register; games in most content areas
ISTE - note “Nets for Students”, “Nets for Teachers”, & Educator Resources, K12
Iloveteaching.com - new teachers; encouraging words; mentoring; classroom management; teachers & technology
Indian Child - outdoor games, homework help, clean jokes, baby pics, amazing facts, tongue twisters, short stories; explore thoroughly
Illuminations - Investigations: PreK-12; online, interactive, multimedia math investigations; single or multi-day
Interactive Online Activities - Teach R Kids Math - preK-3; BasketMath Interactive - all operations;  Math Exercises - ages 6-12, 4 levels, all operations; Interactive Mathematics Miscellany & Puzzles - puzzles, games, math glossary, more; Free Puzzles.com - math & geometry puzzles; gr 3-12;  Cool Math for Kids; FunSchool; 194  Flash, Java, & Shockwave interactive games & activities; preschool-gr 6;
Internet Public Library - subject collections; KidSpace & TeenSpace
iTools - search, language, research, financial, map, Internet tools; all FREE
Insectclopedia - databases of insects, big Ds, definitions, insect control, all you could want to know about insects

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Jill Dembsky’s Kids Excellent Web Links - collection of interactive math activities; appropriate for grades 4-6 - Access from HOME ONLY Jennifer Vilenski’s Life Science Connections - grades K-12; life science and human body adventures; very comprehensive
Jokes from The Little Red Schoolhouse - select “Hot Joke”
Julie Vickery's Holiday Zone - select other occasions from the end of the page - Access from HOME ONLY
Jan Brett's Homepage - 2,265 pages of free activities; also make your own classroom signs, calendars, planners, certificates, stationery, coloring pages, more
Japan Studies - National Clearinghouse for US-Japan Studies from Indiana University; select grade level and subject area; gr K-12
Japan - KidsWeb - comprehensive; reading level gr 5-up; infor good for all levels
 Just look at this: Countries of the World by Photius Coutsoukis; facts on countries, maps, flags, geography, and climate

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King’s List of Online Math Activities - collection of interactive math activities; appropriate for grades 4-6 Kid’s Search Tools - very comprehensive
Kids.Net.Au - search engine just for kids and children
KidsHealth - check it out before giving the URL to kids
KidsPort - interactive math, language arts, science, social studies activities; K-8
KidsInvent - kids learn science through online invention; save their work online and work on the invention later; great experience
KinderTeacher.com - check Teacher Site Map & Teacher Resources
Kiddyhouse - preK-2; lesson plans, clip art, teacher tools; Kids' Korner - age-appropriate activities; homework help; holiday activities
KizClub - printable activities, writing, phonics. crafts, more
KidsRead.com - K-5; trivia games & word scrambles
KidzClub - preschool-early elem; stories online; printables; clip art
Kids' Corner FactFinder - gr 2-5; great for kids to learn US census info; interactive map gives info on each state; online quizzes
Kennesaw State University. Ed Tech Center, Teaching with the Web - by Jerri Cheek, Dr. Traci Redish; select grade level Kindergarten Connection - teacher tips, lesson plans, links
Kindergarten + - K-3; EXTENSIVE collection
KnowPlay? Scroll across to see the categories, such as Reference (definition lookup, thesaurus lookup, rhyming dictionary, encyclopedia lookup, quotation lookup, world atlas lookup, CIA world factbook, fine artist search, acronym serach); Local (movie listings; yellow pages; weather pages, city guides; dining guides; elected officials; local polluters); Media Search (sounds, video, icons, more); Recipe Search; Music Stuff; Computer Related; Internet Utilities

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Literature Lesson Plans & Classroom Activities - select letter of author's last name or Author Study, then you may select links from next page Little Red Schoolhouse - extensive; QUALITY resources; check all areas
Language Translators: Babel Fish Translation, TravLang - select a flag representing a language, select a word or phrase, hear it pronounced;  FreeTranslation.com Learning Kids Interactive - free educational software games and experiments for kids k-12
Lesson Plans: LessonPlans, Integrating Internet Resources into the Curriculum - compiled by Elizabeth Miller; EXCELLENT lessons; Lesson Plans from the Peace Corps – grades 3-12; Lesson Plans from GradeLevelGold – select a level from the drop-down menu; Lessons from United Nations, CyberSchoolBus – lessons in “Curriculum”; Technology Connected Lesson Plans from Tangipahoa Parish Schools  - scroll down to Archived Lesson Plans; Learners Online - online lessons tied to current events; all content areas; FREE; Lesson Plans 4 Teachers; Web Resources from Spartanburg School District 3 - awesome collection of lesson plan sites, subject links, webquests, more; Lesson Plans Search - all grade levels; easy to use; organized by categories; 4-2-Explore - current; must-see; extensive; TeachersFirst - collection of lessons & web resources for K-12 teachers, students, parents; arranged by subject & grade level; Lessons from Teachers.net - preK-12; all content areas; may also post your lessons; Educational Resources & Lesson Plans - thousands of links to lesson plans & resources; extensive; Lesson Plan Central - free lessons, webquests, worksheets, student links, & clipart
Language Arts Exercises (Interactive) - gr 4+; vocabulary, grammar, reading comprehension, more Literacy Center - from the Early Childhood Education Network; PreK-K; early literacy learning activities

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Mr. Donn's History Pages - Early Man, Civilizations, Lesson Plans, Ancient History, Archaeology, Online Games, Freebies, States, Government, Economics, Wars, Explorers, American women, Patriotic Symbols, Maps & Geography, & Wonders of the Ancient World, Timelines MatMice - sponsored by Scholastic; FREE homepages for kids; easy to use with graphics and other tools
My Hero: An Interactive Series - gr 2-12; explore historical & contemporary heroes; create webpages about the people who inspire, providing children & parents a chance to tell their stories
MightyBook - FREE read-aloud books, ages 2-preteen; storybook & poetry competitions
Maxie's Magnificient Guide to Free Stuff for Kids & Teachers - scroll down for great materials; games, software, worksheets, clip art, more
Multnomah County Library - extensive resources Mimi’s Cyber Kitchen – interesting and fun
Metro Nashville Public Schools Cyberguides – k12; some unavailable Music Education Gal - solutions, ideas, & help for Elementary Music Teachers
Midge Frazel's Home Page - resources for teachers, administrators, media specialists, librarians; great resources/lessons
Medical Mysteries - adventure game; play scientist, historian, & detective as you learn how infectious diseases are spread and solve mysteries
Music in the Air - Sounds from the Orchestra - lots of info about sounds & music & what it looks like when it's recorded; info about & sounds from musical instruments; activities for instrument construction; quizzes
Music: BigEars - The Original Online Ear Trainer - train your ears to hear pitches online
Music4KidsOnline - songs, lyrics, games
Musiclopedia - recording artists, bands, instruments, orchestras, publishers, groups, more

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Nutrition Cafe - Have-A-Bite (choose a meal and see how your nutrition fares); Grab a Grape (online interactive game on nutrition); Nutrition Sleuth (similar to Hangman) NOVA's Electric Heart - amazing heart facts; map of human heart; online heart transplant
Nutrition Camp - nutrition facts; calisthenics calculator, label information National Geographic Kids - grades 3+; select World Magazine for articles, online games, brainteasers, more
Newspaper Resources - Scholastic - news, games, quizzes, movies, sports, more; Nando Media – 11 newspapers; Newseum - get today’s front pages from more than 34 countries; check out the Cyber Newseum; Email Newsletter Center – FREE newsletters for teachers & parents
National Center for Tobacco Free Kids - all ages; support to be tobacco-free; meet movie and television stars who share their reasons for being smoke-free Nellie’s Website - English/ELS site, but dozens of projects cover other disciplines); K-12; webquests, grammar, writing, organization, time management, rubrics; select from drop-down menu or choose "Table of Contents"

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Our First Grade Backpack - primary teachers; sites to complement lessons on insects, butterflies, Earth Day, weather, animals, fairy tales; lesson plan, clip art, award, & worksheet links
Oxfam’s Cool Planet - This site is provided by a group seeking to conquer hunger in the world and is appropriate for grades 3-12
Online Interactive Reading - gr 3-5; collection of stories with comprehension & main idea questions Online Rhyming Dictionary - gr 1-12; choose any part of the word that you want to rhyme
Ology – American Museum of Natural History -
Marine biology, genetics, biodiversity, astronomy, paleontology
Online Adventure - A Mathematics Fantasy – grades 4-7; scroll to end for teacher options
OOPS (Our Overnight Planning System) - VERY comprehensive; check Internet Intervals for 5-60 minute inquiry-oriented activities; extensive links in every subject area with online interactive activities; virtual field trips
Our Solar System - Windows to the Universe - grades 1-up; beginner, intermediate, advanced levels; basic planet facts; latest news; NASA images; myths & culture about planets; EXCELLENT space sight
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Practical Money Skills for Teachers - K-12 & spec. needs; lessons Puzzlemakers from the Educator's Network
Paragraph Punch - gr 3-6; takes users through steps from pre-writing, writing, organizing, editing, rewriting, & publishing; completed essays may be transferred to word processing program or email application; click Start Writing Now Phil’s Place - VERY comprehensive collection of resources from curriculum to lesson plans to music education resources and everything in between
Primary Games.com - all subjects; interactive Prongo.com - ages 3-12; interactive games, brainteasers, more
Postopia - games & activities; sponsored by Post Cereals Physical Education Lesson Plan Page - extensive

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QuizStation - Bronze Level FREE
QuickTime Player - free media player plug-in that gives you fast access to movies from the Web
Quia - no membership required to USE quizzes & activities; FREE trial membership if you want to create your own quizzes for your students; $49 per year after trial expires; select from middle section of window, "Top Activities" or "Select Categories" for FREE access to all quizzes, games, etc.; ALL subjects included
Quotations - The Little Red Schoolhouse - dozens of meaningful quotes ; Quotes & Sayings – speeches, quotes, poems, more; The Quotations Page
QuizStar - web-based utility to create a custom quiz that others can take online.   If you have a lesson plan centered around internet websites, or if you want students to be able to do take-home assignments over the internet, then QuizStar is for you!
Quiz Center - FREE; create, administer, & grade quizzes online Quiz Hub - FREE quizzes

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Resource Room - links, lesson plans, articles, word lists, online times table practice , & hard to find useful resources for learning, especially those who learn differently or who have "learning difficulties" or specific learning disabilities such as dyslexia or dysgraphia; math, reading, spelling, gifted/LD, older learners; links
READING FOR K-2: StarFall - FREE online activities; request FREE writing journals for classroom use; created to meet the needs of the emergent reader by incorporating rhyming games and high-interest books that teach phonemic awareness, phonics, decoding skills, & comprehension; designed to instill confidence
Real Player - free plug-in download that allows you to hear streamed audio; required by many websites now Reading Matrix - gr 3+; online interactive reading resources; analyzing text, audio & text, proofreading, reading comprehension beginner, & intermediate, advanced, short stories, vocabulary
Rubrics:
RubiStar – FREE; customizable rubrics for every possible project; interactive; Rubrics, Rubric Makers from Teach-nology; Kathy Schrock’s Rubrics & Assessments
; Project Based Learning – all subject areas & grade levels; interactive; Rubric Builder – FREE; create your own or clone/edit those of other teachers; Rubrics from The Teachers Corner

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SKEWL Sites - teacher's resources & lesson plans Site for Teachers - probably the most extensive collection on the web
Surfing the Net with Kids – wonderful resources; sign up for weekly newsletter; new lesson topic each week (this week is Greek mythology) SuzyRed's Math Sites - extensive list of math sites, many with interactive exercises for students, along with homework helps
SATIRITAS – technology integration resources; certainly select Tutorials for Technology Integration SmartKidZone.com - FREE, but register by clicking on "Get Involved, then register as individual teacher;
SchoolNotes.com - FREE, but register; create notes for homework and class info and post on the web FREE SchoolExpress - FREE worksheets; spellmaker, online activities, award maker, treasure hunts, more
Science Monster - gr 2-5; information about the solar system; take a star tour; see how gravity and inertia work; play a lunar landing game Scorecard.comenvironmental information; enter the zip code for pollutants in any community

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Technology Tutorials for Teachers
TriviaPlaza - geography, music, and movie quizzes
Teach-Nology - FREE access to 19,000 lesson plans, 5,600 printable worksheets, over 200,000 reviewed web sites, rubrics, games, teaching tips, current education news, teacher downloads, webquests, teacher tools, message boards. word scrambles ThinkQuest Library - hosts over 5000 educational web sites created by students for students through Thinkquest competitions & programs; get ideas for your own projects
Teacher Tools
ETutor
  - FREE online lesson planner with easy fill-in-the-blank templates; Word Search Maker from Teach-Nology; Word Search Builder, Calendar Maker, Lessons, Math Worksheet & Flashcard Generator, Databases r from PedagoNet's Learning Resource Center; SchoolNotes – FREE; create notes for homework and class info and post on the web in seconds; Teachers-Pet.org – FREE; created with Microsoft Word by an English teacher; create stimulating classroom exercises; Filamentality – create hotlists, scavenger hunts, webquests, more FREE; Hot Potatoes-  includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web; free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web; other users must pay for a license; Personal Educational Press – FREE worksheets, cards, games, more; Discovery School – Puzzlemaker, Lesson Planner, Quiz Center, Worksheet Generator; FREE, but register; Scholastic - variety of resources and tools for teachers and students FREE, but register; lesson plans, teaching strategies, daily news, monthly activity calendar, teaching tools, ONLINE activities, and more; Templates for Teachers from Education World – dozens of templates, many modifiable; Rona's Teacher Tools - financial, search, interactive, preparation and miscellaneous tools - FREE
The Educator's Network - FREE; subscribe to the newsletter; mouse over all drop-down menus; The Teacher's Corner - amazing collection of resources; explore all areas
Time Capsule - gr 3-8; select a date and see highlights including music, politics, TV, movies, prices, etc.
Time Machine - select the historical period, then an area of the world

Thingstodo.com - attractions, state histories, facts, famous people, state symbols, news, more
Teachley's Amazing Talking Brain - The snippets of information that form the content for Teachley's Amazing Talking Brain is written as though a child's brain is doing the talking; games, facts, illusions, memory enhancers, more

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US POPClock - Current population numbers & other statistics available by the minute US History.org - Philadelphia Sites & History; extensive historical info on Philadelphia
University of Illinois Extension Character Education
good information for teaching kids character education, along with good links to resource materials
United Nations Cyberschoolbus - quizzes & games; curriculum; resources (extensive); Infonation (choose countries & get latest statistics); community Dr. UNIVERSE - ask science questions of experts; check Dr. Universe's favorite links

Unit Finder - The Solution Site  - thematic lessons; K-12; all content areas

UNbelieveable Collection from Dr. Elaine Doolittle - Teach the Children Well - dozens of categories (grammar, bears, bats, countries, more


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Virtual Field Trips - Tramline Trips - grades K-12; Glacier National Park Electronic Field Trip - with audio; select lesson plans from the bottom menu; Homework.Spot's Field Trip Archive - from Alaska to Yellowstone; Tour of National Parks from Park Geology - caves, sand dunes, more; Geology Field Trips - 3 categories; MMS Student Resource Center Virtual Field Trips
Virtual Abacus - interactive abacus; test drive & learn how it works
Visual Fractions - interactive practice to help students visualize fractions, grades 3-8
VISA's Practical Money Skills for Life - resources for teachers & students
Volcano World from the University of North Dakota - ask a volcanologist, good links, kids' section, lesson plans, volcano history; comprehensive
Vocabulary University - upper elementary, middle, high school; online activities
Vocabulary Training Aids - SpellMaster.com - create Flash vocabulary training aids online FREE
Verizon’s SuperThinkers - check "Enlighten Me", "Parent & Educators Pages", and all links associated with each
Virtual Tour - About Faces: The Postwar Book in Craniofacial Knowledge; K-8; glimpse into history & study of parts of the face

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www.4Kids.org - Cool Spots:  virtual museums, photography, painting, crafts, zoos, animal facts, space, plants, oceans, environment, flight, geology, physics, weather, archaeology, architecture, the body, food & nutrition, safety, math helps, practice, & games, stories, mythology; Fun Stuff:  games, coloring book, interactive musical instruments; Back Issues: good tech info
World Almanac for Kids
WantDBest.com
- ancestry, genealogy, kids, sites
WWW2Learn – educators resources; students sections identified by grade level; excellent
Weekly Reader Gallery – grades preK-10; interactive site with games, quizzes, contests, trivia, current events, creative activities WaterWorks - gr 4-up; explore science behind water fountains; loads of fun & fascinating online activities plus curriculum resources
Web Teacher - FREE training for teachers in web basics, multimedia (sound & image files), peripherals & utilities, & the Web in the classroom; mouse over each category to see contents Webpages4Teachers - FREE easy webpage design and free hosting; Web Pages for Teachers from Inspiring Teachers - FREE; easy to use; Web Page Resources, Helps, & Examplesfrom Elizabeth B. Miller, Univ. of SC
Webquest for Teaching - collection of resource links, K-12 webquests, & webquest helps; Webquests - Educational Technology Center, Kennesaw, GA; select grade level

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XPeditions - gr 4+; interactive museum that will take students on geography journeys; lesson plans, games, maps, activities, more

X-TRA Good!  Best Practices of Technology Integration in Michigan

X-amine this!! KidsClick - web search for kids by librarians EXcel Resources - tutorials; lesson plans for all grade levels
X-Tra Good Search Engines:  KartOO How-to;  KartOO - most innovative search engine I've seen; interactive; check first link for directions
X-TRA Good TIPS
*To start a new page in Word: Wrong - Keep pressing the Enter key until you see the row of dots that denotes the start of a new page.
Right - Press Ctrl+Enter.
*To change the size in your web browser:
View text on web pages larger or smaller:  VIEW>TEXT SIZE>SIZE desired>F5 refreshes screen
*Shrink all your open windows into buttons in a hurry: Click the blank area of your taskbar with your right mouse button and choose Minimize All windows from the pop-up window. Windows sucks all the open windows off the screen.     
* Automatically add http://www. and .com on either side of the word in the location bar:  Type a word in the Internet Address bar and press CTRL+ENTER
*Word provides you with an instant Thesaurus for finding synonyms as you write. To use this easy tool, just highlight the word you need a synonym for and press Shift + F7. Or right-click on the word in your document and choose Synonym from the pop-up menu.
*Set default Font in Microsoft Word: Format>Font>Choose Font>Click Default>Click YES


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Yak's Corner - Newsmagazine for Kids; Planet Yak – good international info For Parents & Teachers – teacher guides to go with news stories You'll love these Internet Projects from West Loogootee Elementary and these from Snaith Primary School
Yosemite & Other National Parks - National Park Service Yuckiest Site on the Internet - sponsored by Discovery Kids

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ZIP Codes - US Postal Service ZuZu - kids can contribute poems, stories, art, or pictures to this online newspaper for kids
Zoom Rainforest - K-6; perfect site for what you'd see in a visit to the rainforest; beautiful illustrations & diagrams; puzzles, math activities, quizzes; rated among the best


FREE to Tennessee Teachers:

Tennessee Electronic Library:  FREE access to extensive information; check JUNIOR & STUDENT EDITIONS as well; password is ELVIS

Marco Polo
:  FREE, but register; curriculum aligned lessons from 8 partners, one in each content area
Internet4Classrooms: Bill Byles & Susan Brooms, formerly of Memphis City Schools
Atomic Learning - username: yourschoolname    password: ccyourschoolname
Techno-Savy Helps