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Grade Level Links
Pioneer Online Encyclopedia and Research
Kids Konnect great site for school projects
Students 3-6
Language Arts
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Description of Content |
| Thunk.com | Secret messages and fun for kids. Scramble and unscramble codes. |
| Web English Teacher | Despite generations as a staple of the English/Language Arts curriculum, the teaching of grammar remains a challenge. This site uses the internet to help students understand the structure of a sentence and have a little fun along the way. |
| Education Place Houghton Mifflin | Kids' games and activities for math, reading, language arts, social studies, and more! |
| Manythings.org | Interesting Things for ESL Students. A fun study site for students of English as a Second Language. Word games, puzzles, quizzes, exercises, slang, proverbs and much more. |
| Dr. Seuss | Everyone loves Dr. Seuss |
| Literacy Center | Learn letters, shapes, numbers, colors, words and more, in English, Spanish, Dutch, and French. Well Done! |
| ESL Student Quizes etc. | Activities for ESL Students. There are over 1,000 quizzes, exercises and puzzles on the a4esl.org website to help you study English as a Second Language. |
| Stories in English, Spanish and French | Multicultural Education and Esl student web site. |
| Chateau Meddybemps | Tippity Witchet's Beantime Stories on our site are great for young listeners and readers, but we don't stop there. The Young Writer's Workshop helps children learn to compose thoughts and create stories through the use of illustrations and unfinished sentences. |
| Journal Writing | Online Journal Writing Workshop this site teaches about what makes a good journal and has many great ideas about journal writing. Instruction on how to setup your own online journal are included. |
| Dositey.com | Games and Interactive lessons. |
| Awesome Stories | This Internet site is a new interactive, electronic learning tool. They produce stories behind some of the world's most interesting people, places and events. Asking the questions their visitors might ask. |
Math
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Description of Content |
| Surf Net for Kids Division and Math page. | If you just didn't get long division. Try these pages of of ways to practice and learn. Many of the links on this page are fun, fun, fun. |
| Math Graphing page | This site helps you create graphs. Here you will find four different graphs and charts for you to consider. Maybe it will help explain what you are trying to show. |
| Education Place Houghton Mifflin | Kids' games and activities for math, reading, language arts, social studies, and more! |
| Practical Money Skills | Learn about money and how to handle it and more. Sites for Teachers and Students. |
| Education Place Test Prep for Math | |
| Zions Bank site for Kids | This is the site for you when you are teaching kids about Money. It covers the basics about money, money math, money in the community, developing good habits with money, money in the nation, and money around the world. Try the money basics quiz. |
| Online Math Flash Cards | A+ Math Flash Cards |
| Quia top 20 Math Games | Have Fun ! |
| Grade 6 and Up Math | This site gets into some pretty advanced stuff. |
| Cool Math for Kids | Great Math site this one has good stuff about fractions and more. |
| Learning Planet | All Kinds of fun for all grade levels. |
| U.S. Mint for Kids. | Learn about money, play games, and find lesson plans. |
| Money Factory | Learn about money, activities for different age groups. |
Science
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Description of Content |
| Biomes What's it like where you live? | This site teaches about the six different biomes. Fresh water ecosystems, and Salt water ecosystems. |
| U.S.O.E Science Home Page | This is the Utah State Office of Education home page for science. You will find the core along with Kid links, Teacher links and more. |
| Kids Go Wild | Hey, Kids! Ready for a wild adventure? Find out what's going on around the world in with animals. If you want to see and learn about really cool animals, check out Wild Animal Facts. Test your skills and creativity by playing the online Wild Arcade. Kids, can learn about saving wild animals and the environment! |
| Zoo Tour | Take a tour of the Lincoln Park Zoo. |
| L. A. Zoo | Best reads at the virtual LA Zoo are the feature articles scattered around the site. Look for the cutesy headlines ("Where Wolf?") running down the middle of the front page, and also in: Critter Close-Up ("Hang Out with Indian Fruit Bats"), Zoo Animals ("Fabulous Fossas"), and Zoo Conservation ("Two Days of the Condor.") |
| National Zoo | Great tour of the Smithsonian National Zoological Park. |
| Froguts | Dissect a frog and more. Very interesting and not messy. |
| Space Place at NASA | This is just one of many great space sites designed by NASA. |
| Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose | This site provides engaging on-line and off-line interactive
activities, focusing on the areas of science, mathematics and literacy for preschool and elementary-aged children. Teachers can search for activities by grade level and can also register for an online newsletter that contains creative activities for children. |
| Kids Planet | Lessons intended for students in Kindergarten through 3rd grade designed to encourage students to become aware of their environment and to establish an understanding of habitat and species. |
| National Wildlife Federation | Join Nature Quest of Checkup on Ranger Rick. |
| Bell Meuseum | Build a Prairie and learn about this type of ecosystem. |
| U.S.O.E. Science Grade4 | |
| U.S.O.E. Science Grade5 | |
| U.S.O.E. Science Grade6 | |
| Infection Detection Project | This American Museum of Natural History site teaches about microbes, bacteria, and infections. |
| Creature Feature at National Geographic | Learn about all kinds of creatures like bats, bears, coyotes, dolphins, gorillas, frog, and warthogs. |
| Animals of Utah | This site from the Division of Wildlife Resources can help learn about almost any animal found in Utah. |
| Invention Factory | The Invention Factory from the Edison National Historic Site. |
| Inventing | SurfNet for kids provides many links to learn about inventing and inventions. |
| N.A.S.A. Fantastic Fun | This site is very interactive and fun. Learning about living in space and more. |
| Arbor - Trees | Surfnet for kids provides links to information about trees. |
| Kites | All kinds of links about kites, for example try 20 kids 20 kites 20 minutes to make and fly your own kite with one piece of paper. |
| Shedd Aquarium (great site) | Shedd Educational Adventures (SEA) contains a treasure trove of aquatic science resources for K-12 teachers and students. SEA brings the Philippines to life for your students with fact sheets and multimedia interactives based on the Wild Reef exhibit at Shedd Aquarium. Be sure to try some of the interactive's say like this one. |
| Fossils | A cool way to help students understand the process of
fossilization--especially which variables influence production of
"good" fossils. The interactive part is totally Flash-driven and lets students choose variables which lead to short movies demonstrating the outcomes. Don't overlook the Manual located in the main menu of the web page. Includes a graphic, interactive glossary. Requires Flash. |
| Global Sun Temperature Project | Join this collaborative project of students around the world as they try to figure out how their geographic location (i.e. where they live) affects their average daily temperature and hours of sunlight etc. |
| Hurricane Hunters | It's true! We fly airplanes right into the eye of the hurricane, and we invite you along for the ride-in Cyberspace! This is the place to see unique photos inside the hurricanes. |
| National Geographic Hurricanes facts | Learn more about hurricanes. |
| Manufacturing (How things are made) * Fantastic Site | If you've ever wondered how things are made - products like candy, cars, airplanes, or bottles - or if you've been interested in manufacturing processes, like forging, casting, or injection molding, then you've come to the right place. |
Social Studies
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Description of Content |
| Scholastics Culture and Change | Black History in America. Meet
famous African Americans, listen to jazz music, publish your own writing,
and explore history with our interactive timeline. |
| Anne Frank | Surfing the Net with Kids link page for Anne Frank materials. Great Page. |
| American Presidents | Learn about Presidents of the United States. |
| Discovering Lewis and Clark | This site focuses on issues, values, and visions related to the Lewis and Clark Expedition. |
| Utah State Legislature Kids Page | Learn about the Legislative Process. Teacher pages and lessons included. |
| National Geographic for Kids | Great National Geographic site. |
| Little Explorers from Enchanted Learning | This is a great site for just about everything. |
| Web Games (learn the States) | This site has great games to learn things like the names of the states and capitals. |
| Monticello | The home of Thomas Jefferson online. |
| Jamestown | Virtual tour of the rediscovery of Jamestown. |
| Famous Speeches | Find Famous American Speeches online text and voice. |
| PBS Great American Speeches | Find Famous American Speeches online text and voice. |
| Black History | Scholastic page of links and activities about Black History in America. |
| Mysteries of the Nile | This PBS site lets students explore the Pyramids, temples, and other monumental architecture of ancient Egypt through riveting 360° photos shot during this NOVA/PBS Online Adventure. With real-time dispatches and digital photos filed from the Nile. |
Other
| San Francisco Symphony | Explore, have fun, and learn about the Orchestra. |
| Human Anatomy | Label the different parts of the human anatomy. Interactive practice for the skeletal, digestive, respiratory, eye, skin, and skull are available. |
| Manythings.org | Interesting Things for ESL Students. A fun study site for students of English as a Second Language. Word games, puzzles, quizzes, exercises, slang, proverbs and much more. |
| Fire Safety for Kids | Learn about fire safety, take a quiz after you complete your lessons. |
| Adventure Learning | Students and teachers are "virtual" participants in the journeys and are able to communicate and interact with the expedition members as well as with other students and teachers around the world. |
| KidsClick | A Web Search created by Librarians to sites of interest for kids. |
| Mrs. Carter's 3rd Grade Links | Other good links for 3rd grade students at Mrs. Carter's page. |
| Encyclopedia of Days | Ask Professor Holiday he can tell you all about it. |
| WWW.fffbi.com | Online Missions are interactive
stories in which students become active
participants. Students are given opportunities to learn, participate, and enjoy nuts-and-bolts crime fighting and problem solving. |
| Senses | Learn about the senses. |
| New York Philharmonic Kidzone | Learn about instruments and more. Activities and instructions on how to make your own instruments are included. |
| Time Magazine for Kids | Time updates this site daily with current news. Great current events site for a classroom reporter. |
| Music Lessons online | This site has music lessons about note durration, rest, scale, cords and more. The trainer section helps you practice what you have learned. |
| Kids Newsroom | Internet site loaded with stories, pictures, contests and opportunities for learning. Each week, a new issue is added to the site with the latest news in sports, music & entertainment, health, history, local events and happenings around the world, all designed with kids in mind! |