| 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 |
| 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 |
|
| 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 pages; School 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 |
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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 | |
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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" |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
|
| 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.com – environmental information; enter the zip code for pollutants in any community |
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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, & Examples – from 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 | |
| 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: *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 |
|
| 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 |
| 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 |
|