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Student Stuff
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An interactive touch typing prgoram for elementry school
aged children. | |
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Find great books to read from a large number of genres of
types of books. Play exciting reading games and enjoy other reading
activities at this site. | |
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Explore great lists of books to read, create your own
reading list, listen to a story, make book plates, do word mazes, puzzles,
and other activities | |
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Watch video files of favorite books read by famous actors.
Each book offers an accompanying lesson plan and activity
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Set up by a group of fourth grade students, this site
offers book reviews, author interviews, and links to other book clubs for
boys and girls. Send in your own book
review! |
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Basic guidelines and resource links for writing research papers. |
Interactive Websites by Subject
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An interactive adventure that helps students learn
about marine ecology. | |
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Cool Science is a fun site that helps students appreciate
science. Covered: Observation skills, plants, animal classifications and
metamorphosis. | |
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This site contains a live, interactive camera that allows
students to view the insects at the Insect Zoo. It also provides
information about the insects. Teachers can use this site to set up
a tour by an entomologist. | |
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Students can help Detective Leplant and his partners
investigate plant mysteries including cases about soil, plant growth,
seeds, and reproduction. | |
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From National Geographic, audio and video clips help
students learn about featured animals. | |
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Students can view images and movies of beetles, ticks,
lice, and lots of other creepy crawling insects. | |
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Students can view a multitude of Java programs that
creates a solar system, view the moons and their orbits around their
planets, and learn about astronomical distances. | |
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Discover the fierce force of gravity and pelt poor Jupiter
with a comet! | |
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Students will collect solar system trading cards by
playing an interactive card game. They will identify the sun, planets,
comets, and asteroids by answering questions about them. Students will
learn facts about the solar system presented with amazing pictures taken
by the Hubble Space Telescope and various NASA missions. | |
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At Funology find fun facts, experiments, crafts, recipes,
magic tricks, jokes, and a whole lot more | |
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View a map of the Earth showing the actual day and night
regions at this moment. You can also view it as currently seen from the
Sun, Moon, orbiting satellite, or from above a variety of cities.
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Explore the wonders of flight with Toby, the wizard who
wants to fly. | |
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Interactive activities related to weather instruments and
storms. | |
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From the Indianapolis Children's Museum, an interactive
skeleton that assist the learner in identifying specific bones.
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Explore the mysteries of why and how humans and animals
age, and discover the secrets of healthy aging. | |
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Explore the science and engineering behind water fountains
at home or in the classroom with Water Works. The website has loads of fun
and fascinating online activities, as well as helpful curriculum
resources. | |
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A complete list of online calculators and
converters. |
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Enter two global coordinates and receive the crow's flight
distance between the two or examine the distance between many large cities
on the planet. | |
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Explore the animated timeline that traces the growth of
the United States at the animated atlas. | |
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Interactive shockwave quizzes on topics of
geology. | |
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An interactive center created to help kids learn about the
United States House of Representatives and its role in
lawmaking. | |
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A super site for kids to learn U. S. census
information. Includes an interactive map students can click on to
learn information about each state. Also includes online quizzes.
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There are many time capsule sites available on the web and
this is just one that students can use. At this site you can type in a
specific date and see the highlights including music, politics, TV,
movies, prices of goods, etc. | |
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This is a fun educational site for audiences as young as
preschool. Some of the areas covered: science, language arts and
geography. | |
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A collection of language arts, math, science, and social
studies. | |
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This site contains a variety of edu-taining activities
covering areas of math, language arts, social studies, and
science. | |
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Take a virtual tour of the seven wonders of the world and
and learn about The Temple of Artemis, The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, The
Great Pyramid, The Lighthouse of Alexandria plus three
others. |
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Great site for kids to learn about language skills through
an interactive fun environment. | |
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Click and drag to make a poem. | |
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This is a fun educational site for audiences as young as
preschool. Some of the areas covered: science, language arts and
geography. | |
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This site, from the Early Childhood Education Network,
provides lots of early literacy learning activities for young children, In
order to view the webpages you will need Flash Player. | |
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Started in 1995 to promote international communication for
students, this is a must see for teachers in k-6 classrooms. Students are
able to write stories that are displayed on this site (teacher will join,
get a password and send the completed stories). For the younger grades
students will love the “Create Your Own Scenario”. (Not all pages at this
site are interactive.) Grades K-5 | |
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A huge collection of online grammar games. | |
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This web site takes users through the actual steps of
writing a paragraph. The web site provides questions that help to guide
users step by step through pre-writing, writing, organizing, editing,
rewriting, and publishing. Completed essays may be transferred to a
word processing program, HTML editor, or e-mail application.
To begin, click "Start Writing Now." | |
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Try your hand at an online, multi-player spelling bee.
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Play over 100 games, hear your favorite theme songs, read
interactive stories from Sesame Street. |
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Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for
children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over
6,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books
they've read offline, and earn points and prizes for their literary
successes. | |
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This site provides an on-line streaming video program
featuring Screen Actors Guild members reading children's books
aloud. | |
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Play this fun interactive game which is just like Hangman but instead you throw a bucket of water over a bear. The word lists include: Days of the Week, Months of the Year, Colour Words, Dolch action words, Number Words 1-16. | |
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Free animated online workbooks for the development of
reading and math skills, Grades K-8. You can also print out free
worksheets. | |
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Sears created this interactive site to use with elementary
school children. Just choose your favorite holiday story and answer a few
short questions. When you click "submit", your personalized story will be
complete. You can also print the story. | |
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Trivia games and word scrambles based on children’s books
and movies. Visit the Trivia and Games section. | |
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Choose from classical or current authors and learn more
about them at this website. | |
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Choose from a collection of stimulating story settings to
help get your story started. | |
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Traditional and modern fables Illustrated and retold by
art students at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst .
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Interactive flash and shockwave games to practice basic
math facts. Also provides fraction
practice. | |
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Interactive, animated math glossary for Grades
1-8 | |
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Interactive practice and estimation games sorted by
grade level and math topic. | |
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Interactive practice to help students visualize
fractions. | |
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Interactive math activities for students with games,
calculators, etc Grades K - 5, Grades 3 - 8 | |
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Create bar, line, area, or pie graphs online! You
submit the data and the website does the rest! | |
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Explore Math offers a variety of resources to teach
mathematics, including multimedia learning activities that enable teachers
to illustrate difficult math concepts with interactive
simulations. | |
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Free Puzzles offers interactive math and geometry puzzles
with solutions. | |
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This site has lots of catchy tunes here help students
learn about grammar, America, mathematics, science, and computers. The
RealPlayer plug-in is required for the audio and video files. | |