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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 guide.
 
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Book Nuts Reading Club

 
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.

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Interactive Websites by Subject

Science
Social Studies
Language Arts
Reading
Math

SCIENCE

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http://www.secretsatsea.org/
An interactive adventure that helps students learn about marine ecology. 
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Cool Science for Curious Kids
Cool Science is a fun site that helps students appreciate science. Covered: Observation skills, plants, animal classifications and metamorphosis.
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Iowa State Insect Zoo
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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The Great Plant Escape
Students can help Detective Leplant and his partners investigate plant mysteries including cases about soil, plant growth, seeds, and reproduction.
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Creature Feature
From National Geographic, audio and video clips help students learn about featured animals.
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Entomology Image Gallery
Students can view images and movies of beetles, ticks, lice, and lots of other creepy crawling insects.
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The Astronomy Workshop
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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Planet Impact
Discover the fierce force of gravity and pelt poor Jupiter with a comet! 
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Solar System Training Cards
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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Funology
At Funology find fun facts, experiments, crafts, recipes, magic tricks, jokes, and a whole lot more
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Earth and Moon Viewer
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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I want to fly!
Explore the wonders of flight with Toby, the wizard who wants to fly. 
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Hurricane Storm Science
Interactive activities related to weather instruments and storms. 
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Bones Inside You
From the Indianapolis Children's Museum, an interactive skeleton that assist the learner in identifying specific bones.
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Amazing Feats of Aging
Explore the mysteries of why and how humans and animals age, and discover the secrets of healthy aging. 
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Water Works
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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Measure 4 Measure
A complete list of online calculators and converters.

Social Studies

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Latitude and Longitude
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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Growth of a Nation
Explore the animated timeline that traces the growth of the United States at the animated atlas.
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Wicked
Interactive shockwave quizzes on topics of geology.
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Kids in the House
An interactive center created to help kids learn about the United States House of Representatives and its role in lawmaking. 
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FactFinder Kids' Corner
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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Time Capsule
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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Enchanted Learning
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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Game Aquarium
A collection of language arts, math, science, and social studies.
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Fun Brain
This site contains a variety of edu-taining activities covering areas of math, language arts, social studies, and science. 
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The Seven Wonders of the World
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.

Language Arts

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Language Games for Younger Kids
Great site for kids to learn about language skills through an interactive fun environment.
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Magnetic Poetry
Click and drag to make a poem. 
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Enchanted Learning
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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Literacy Center
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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Kids’ Space
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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Grammar Games
A huge collection of online grammar games.
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Paragraph Punch
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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Spell Bee
Try your hand at an online, multi-player spelling bee.
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Sesame Street Games
Play over 100 games, hear your favorite theme songs, read interactive stories from Sesame Street. 

Reading

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Book Adventure
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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BookPals
This site provides an on-line streaming video program featuring Screen Actors Guild members reading children's books aloud.
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Room 108 Don't Wet The Bear

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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K-8 Online Animated Interactive Lessons
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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Story Book Station
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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KidsRead
Trivia games and word scrambles based on children’s books and movies. Visit the Trivia and Games section.
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Meet An Author
Choose from classical or current authors and learn more about them at this website. 
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Story Starters
Choose from a collection of stimulating story settings to help get your story started. 
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Aesop's Fables
Traditional and modern fables Illustrated and retold by art students at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst .

Math

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Wicked
 
Interactive flash and shockwave games to practice basic math facts.  Also provides fraction practice.
 
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Harcourt Multimedia Math Glossary 
 
Interactive, animated math glossary for Grades 1-8
 
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AAA Math
 
Interactive practice and estimation games sorted by grade level and math topic. 
 
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Visual Fractions
 
Interactive practice to help students visualize fractions.
 
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Cool Math 4 Kids
 
Interactive math activities for students with games, calculators, etc Grades K - 5, Grades 3 - 8
 
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Create A Graph
 
Create bar, line, area, or pie graphs online!  You submit the data and the website does the rest! 
 
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ExploreMath.com
 
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.com
 
Free Puzzles offers interactive math and geometry puzzles with solutions.
 
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SchoolHouse Rock
 
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.
 

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