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Cool Stuff
| Date&Time.com |
Make a customized
calendar, as big or little as you like! |
| How Stuff Works |
Explanations of anything
under the sun! |
| Mind Reader |
Amaze your friends with
this math game! |
| Puzzlemaker.com |
Make your own
crosswords, word searches, or other puzzles. |
| Smithsonian Institute |
National Museum of
Natural History |
| To Inspire |
We all need a pick-me-up
now and then! Inspirational quotes arranged by categories as
well as a quote of the week challenge. |
| Virtual Wall |
A digital version of the
Vietnam Memorial, you can see the wall, biographies, pictures, and virtual
rubbings of each name. |
| The Why Files- Science behind the news |
An electronic
exploration of the science behind the news. |
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Geography
| Ben's Guide to the U.S. Government for Kids |
Ben's Guide (Franklin,
that is) interactive games for kids including states. |
| Explorers of the world |
Tons
of information about exploration and discovery world wide! |
| InfoNation |
Allows
you to view and compare statistical data for all UN member states, up to
five at a time. |
| Map Room |
Over
250,000 maps of all areas of the world hosted by University of Texas. |
| Outline Maps |
Outline
maps of countries and continents through ABC Teach |
| Outline Maps |
Outline maps of
countries and continents through Education Place. |
| World Atlas.com |
World
maps, flags, and other information |
| Xpeditions |
From
maps to viewing the earth from outer space, comparing country data to
climbing a mountain, this site is great for teachers and students!! |
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Health
| Calorie King |
This site has the
nutrition information for just about anything, including fast food! |
| ECB Surf Report - Nutrition |
Links for nutritional
websites from the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board. |
| Nutrition.gov |
This site offers
information on food facts, safety, health management, resources, and much
more! |
| USDA Food Information |
All sorts of neat
information from the USDA. This has the food
pyramid, articles, and an interactive site to compare your eating with
the dietary guidelines. |
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History/Social
Studies
| American Civil Liberties Union |
Learn
more about the ACLU as well as their stand on many different social
issues. |
| America's Story from America's Library |
Sponsored by the Library
of Congress, this site is very user friendly and includes primary
documents, scavenger hunts, sounds, and videos. |
| Best History Websites |
Contains links to over
800 history-related web sites that have been reviewed for quality,
accuracy, and usefulness |
| Federal Reserve Bank 101 |
Site from the Federal
Reserve Bank, explains the history and function of the Federal Reserve. |
| FirstGov for Kids |
Designed
for grades 6 - 12, this site offers links to sites, quizzes, and other
activities arranged by categories. |
| History Matters |
Designed for high school
and college history teachers, this site includes primary documents,
articles and weblinks. |
| HyperHistory |
Over
2000 files covering 3000 years of history. |
| Library of Congress Learning Page |
American
Memory is a gateway to rich primary source materials relating to the
history and culture of the United States. |
| Links to American History |
Sponsored
by the Thrall NY Public Library, this site offers links to sites arranged
by topic. |
| Presidents of the U.S. |
The Internet Public
Library's POTUS (Presidents of the United States) site offers convenient
at-a-glance information on each United States President with links to even
more information. |
| Supreme Court of the U.S. |
The
official site of the Supreme Court, all the information you could possibly
need. |
| Today in History |
This page from the
Library of Congress, highlights a historical event each day and includes
text, photographs, and links to related items in the library's collection. |
| Trenches on the Web |
Tons
of stuff about World War I |
| U.S. National Archives and Records Administration |
The
mission of NARA is to ensure ready access to the essential evidence that
documents the rights of American citizens, the actions of Federal
officials, and the national experience. The Declaration of
Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights are all available in online
format. |
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Literature/Language
Arts
| Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site |
Book reviews, activities
and recommended books for different subjects and topics. A good
place to start if you are looking to incorporate literature into your
classroom lessons |
| Children's Literature Web Guide |
A great source of
information on children's literature, including book awards, discussion
forums, information for teachers and storytellers and many links. |
| The Citation Machine |
A
great tool for research projects, just input the author, title, etc., and
PRESTO you have a complete citation. |
| CyberGuides |
Online literature guides
for novels. Arranged by grade levels |
| Dictionary of Quotations |
Thousands
of quotes that you can search by subject or author |
| E.L. Easton's English Online |
Although
this is a personal website, E.L. is very organized and has information and
many links about Language Arts and foreign languages. |
| English Online 100 Things to do with Books |
Sponsored by the New
Zealand Ministry of Education, this page offers questions to ask about
characters, plot, setting, etc. |
| Itools |
Great
site to search, translate languages, locate maps, etc. |
| Kay Vandergrift's Young Adult Literature Page |
This
site features a look at young adult literature and its effects
on teens. |
| Kidpub |
A site where children
can publish stories that they have written. Allows schools or
classes to post their stories together. |
| Newbery Medal Home Page |
Sponsored
by the American Library Association, this site includes the history of the
medal, criteria, and past and present winners. |
| Online Literature Library |
Sponsored by Knowledge
Matters, this site contains full text books, fables, and short stories.
Wow! |
| Plagiarism - What it is and how you can avoid it |
From
a media center, this site has links for quoting sources as well as real
life examples of how plagiarizing has affected professionals. |
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Math
| Algebra help |
Includes
help for students and worksheets, calculators, and lessons for teachers. |
| Brain Teasers |
Every
Wednesday, a new Brain teaser is posted along with last week's answer.
Questions are posted based on grade ranges. |
| Coolmath4kids |
Games, lessons, brain
benders, etc. |
| Cut the Knot |
Interactive math
activities, quotes, puzzles, links, and more. |
| Illuminations |
Sponsored
by the National Council of Teachers of Math, this site has lesson plans,
interactive "tools," and a very cool list of web resources
arranged by standard and grade level. |
| Math Central |
Math
ideas for teachers in K-12 |
| Math.com |
All
levels of math separated by concept. Includes games, calculators,
and homework help. |
| Megapenny |
Help
students visualize numbers using stacks of pennies as an example. |
| Money Math- Lessons for Life |
A supplemental middle
school math curriculum that teaches the importance of sound personal
finance to students in grades 6-9. Lesson topics include income, saving,
taxes, and budgeting. |
| Multiplication |
Games,
activities, and worksheets for teaching multiplication.. |
| NCTM |
National Council of
Teachers Mathematics standards and details about NCTM publications,
national and regional meetings, and more. |
| Platonic Realms |
Math questions, trivia,
quotes, and lots of other stuff. |
| Prime Numbers |
The
prime pages - prime number research, records, and resources |
| Puzzling numbers games |
Amaze
your friends with any of these "magic" math games! |
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Music
| Creating Music |
Creatingmusic.com is a
children's online creative music environment. You can compose music, play
with musical performance, music games and music puzzles. |
| Dallas Symphony Orchestra |
With links for kids and
teachers, this site offers a virtual tour, information on instruments and
practice, and lots of neat links. |
| History in Song |
Interesting site with
music arranged by its role in historical events |
| Instrumental Music Teacher Resources |
This resource provides
music educators with a selected list of journal articles, research
studies, and other materials which deal with many of the issues important
to the practicing music educator. |
| K-12 Resources for Music Educators |
Tons of web links
related to music, instruments, and education |
| Mahtomedi High School music links |
A list of links to
musical web sites |
| The Piano Player |
This site lets you
choose your level in reading music. |
| PBS Jazz |
Biographies and history
of music as well as more links |
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Reference
Sites
| Awesome Library |
Awesome Library
organizes the Web with 19,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the
top 5 percent in education. |
| Factmonster |
Sponsored by Information
Please, this site includes a dictionary, atlas, almanac, and encyclopedia. |
| Infomine |
University of
California's Scholarly Internet Resource Collection |
| Infoplease |
"All
the knowledge you need," includes an atlas, dictionary, encyclopedia,
and almanacs |
| Internet Public Library |
Sponsored by the
University of Michigan, this site provide library services to Internet
users. Activities include: finding, evaluating, selecting, organizing,
describing, and creating information resources; and direct assistance to
individuals. |
| Librarians' Index to the Internet |
Don't
be caught off guard by the title - this site has tons of education,
government, reference, social issues, and much much more! |
| Online reference resources |
Penn State's list of
online resources, including biographical, consumer, countries, etc. |
| Reference Desk Online |
"The single best
source for facts on the web" |
| yourDictionary.com |
Dictionaries,
thesauri, language resources, and tons of other reference sources! |
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Science
| Awesome Library |
Science
links, worksheets, and lessons plans |
| Biomes and Habitats |
Enchanted Learning's
page provides printable maps of some biomes for younger students to
color or label. |
| Chem4kids |
Similar to
Biology4kids, tons of information, arranged by category, about atoms,
atomic structure, etc. |
| ExploreMarsNow |
A
virtual Mars base with very cool graphics and lots of factual
information about the planet. |
| Forces of Nature |
A student-created
site that explores many weather-related phenomena, including drought,
floods, monsoons, snowstorms, and wind storms. |
| Human Anatomy Online |
An anatomy guide
with clickable images of the various body systems for students to
explore. |
| Science Timeline of Inventions |
This site from
HyperHistory provides biographies of many important inventors. |
| National Geographic |
NG's teacher web
site with links to printable maps, calendars, grants, TV programs,
etc. |
| NetFrog |
Like Froguts,
another interactive frog dissection site, from the University of
Virginia |
| NOAA |
National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration home page features loads of information
about weather, climate, environment, and more. |
| Science Net Links |
Providing a wealth
of resources for K-12 science educators, Science NetLinks is your
guide to meaningful standards-based Internet experiences for students |
| Science Spot |
Science activities,
lessons, & worksheets. |
| Volcano World |
"The Internet's
leading source of information about volcanoes." |
| Weather Watch |
Weather Watch from
Scholastic highlights hurricanes, tornadoes, winter storms, and
forecasting, and includes interactive student activities. |
| Web Weather for Kids |
Web Weather for Kids
has tons of activities and information for kids and highlights
thunderstorms & tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards & winter
weather, and clouds. |
| Wild Wild Weather |
Created by Dan
Satterfield, the chief meteorologist for WHNT-TV in Huntsville,
Alabama. This page has many resources for teachers and students,
as well as many facts and graphics. Focuses on clouds, natural
disasters, and much more! |
| The World's Biomes |
Introduces aquatic,
desert, forest, tundra, and grassland biomes. |
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