101 Internet Uses In The Classroom
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Teachersfirst
Website
This
site has lots of helpful hints for teachers.
Choose from thousands of lesson plans or just chat with another teacher
using the message board. Sign-up to
receive a weekly newsletter via e-mail so you can stay up-to-date on new items
added weekly to the site.
Microsoft Online
http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/default.aspx?lc=en-us
Need clipart or templates or would you like to try the latest Microsoft software? This site has it all. Clipart is conveniently categorized making it easy to find anything.
Discovery School
This site serves as an excellent resource for practically anything you want to do in your classroom. Features include lesson plans, educational games and puzzles, clip art gallery, puzzlemaker, and much more.
Region
VII Service Center
Find
information about the education area in which your district is located.
This site provides information on workshops, job openings in the area, as
well as a variety of educational information.
Texas Education Association
Stay informed of the latest educational mandates as well as a plethora of classroom resources.
QuizStar
A great website to create your own online quizzes. Quizzes you create are available from work or home. Students take the quiz and the scores are emailed to the teacher.
Education by Design
A fun site for everyone. Play scrambler puzzles, practice math skills, publish stories, jokes, riddles, and poems online. Great reading, writing, spelling, and special education tips. This site is great for learning activities for kids of all abilities.
Mindfun
Challenge
your brain at this web site. Many
trivia and brainteaser games can be found here.
Teacher
Resources
This
a great site for creating online tests and reviews. You can turn your review questions into games for students to
play for content review. Some games
include flashcards, jeopardy, concentration, and word search.
It is easy to use and better yet, the website makes the games for you.
All you have to do is type in the information.
Puzzlemaker
Create
your own crossword, word search, mazes, math games and more at this site.
Better yet, let you GT students create them for you!
Texas
Education Agency
It
is always helpful to have your department of education on web site available for
reference. This is a good place to go to learn about new standards or procedures
that your state will be adopting.
Teacher
Created Materials Web Site
http://www.teachercreated.com/
At
this site you can find links to web sites under the activities menu relating to
current holidays along with free activity pages to go with the holiday and web
site. You can also find great Internet Resources and products from this site.
Harcourt
Brace School Publishers: Learning Site
Whether
or not you are using the Harcourt Brace series of books, this site is a fabulous
resource. You can match your grade level and topic to find interactive
activities and resources for your students in all subject areas and grade
levels.
CEC-Lesson
Plans
A
large collection of lesson plans for the K-12 curriculum in language arts,
mathematics, science, social studies, and miscellaneous. There are some quick
and creative ideas here.
Kathy
Schrock's Guide for Educators
http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/
A
collection of thousands of web sites in all subject areas for teachers and
students to use. This is a great place to begin an Internet search for a certain
topic area for lesson plans or a teacher demonstration.
Discovery
Channel School
This
is a great resource of information in the arts, science, social studies, current
events, and lesson plans. From this site you can gather information on thousands
of topics that your students will find fun and exciting. This is also a great
site with many jump points to other exciting sites.
The
federal government has produced a database of thousands of activities created
for the classroom from all of their departments. You can access information from
the department of energy to the state department and use any activities or
lesson plans that they have created for the classroom.
Billy
Bear's Playground
http://www.billybear4kids.com/
This
site has adorable clipart, fonts, screen savers, and wallpaper for your
computer. It also launches to some holiday sites for your students.
ClipArt
Connection
http://www.clipartconnection.com/index.html
Search
this database for FREE Clip Art.
Scholastic
Inc.
This
site has some fun activities and lesson plans for the classroom, but the real
benefit of this site is that it has the official Baby-sitter's club, Animorphs,
Goosebumps, Clifford, and Dear America Web Sites. Your students can visit these
sites to learn about up and coming books and to read about their favorite
authors. From, some of the sites they can find either the e-mail or snail mail
addresses of their favorite authors. This site is a great way to get students
interested in reading and writing.
Busy
Teacher's K-12 Website
http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt
This
is a very big information site. There are hundreds of organized links to sites
on all topics of study. There is also a database of thousands of lesson plans
ready to be implemented in your classroom.
Teachnet.Com
This
is a good site that has a variety of resources for teachers and a Brainstorm
activity for the day. You can search by topic or just look at the ideas they are
presenting for that day or week.
SmarterKids.com
This
site sells all types of teacher supplies
online. A lot of supplies, books, games, and activities are heavily discounted.
This is a great site to check out before heading to the teacher supply store.
Student
Resources
Free
Translation
http://www.freetranslation.com
This
site comes in handy if you need to translate something into Spanish or if you
need to translate something from Spanish to English (and a few other languages
as well). Students could
communicate with an e-pal from another country in that child's own language.
This is also great for ESL.
Texas
Senate Kids
http://www.senate.state.tx.us/kids/
Students
get ready to explore Texas State government. Take a virtual field trip of the
capital building, discover Texas trivia, and learn about current state senators!
IPL
Youth Division
This
is a fabulous launch site for you and your students. There are vast resources
ranging from reading, science, social studies, fine arts, and holidays. This is
a public library at your fingertips on the web!
Ref
Desk.com
Great
reference tool for students and teachers. Contains links to encyclopedia sites
and information databases.
Kids
Castle Home
http://www.kidscastle.si.edu/home.html
Kids'
Castle is a magazine for kids created by the Smithsonian Institute. The online
magazine features articles written to interest students on sports, history, the
arts, travel, science, and air and space. All of the articles have exciting
pictures and the students can post questions on the site and receive answers
from all over the world.
www.TimeForKids.com
This
site will get your students excited about reading and learning about current
events. Time for Kids is a magazine published weekly for students to read in the
classroom. Your students can go to the site and read all the current articles
from the magazine each week and see the vivid and exciting pictures. Students
can also search the archives to go back and read past articles.
World
Magazine
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/world/index.html
This
site is an on-line version of the popular kid's magazine World from National
Geographic. Your students can explore current and past articles on-line.
Students can also learn amazing facts about hundreds of topics.
National
Geographic
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/main.html
An
excellent online version of the magazine, this site offers long stories,
beautiful pictures, and resources for both teachers and students.
Kids@nationalgeographic.com
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/index.html
Your
students will love this site. It is filled with fun and engaging articles and
pictures. Check out the Creature Feature with your students where they can learn
about different animals and can send a postcard to a friend through the Internet
with a picture of the animal.
Student Search
Engines
When
your students are searching the web for any topic they should always begin their
search at a site that is student safe. These search engines have tested all of
the sites for children's eyes and most of their sites are child friendly and
easy for all students to read and use.
A safe and secure site for your students to learn to communicate using technology with students around the world. Over 103,959 classrooms, 4.6 million students and educators in 191 countries participate in the world's largest online classroom community.
Online Dictionary/Thesaurus
What does propinquity mean anyway? Not only does this site contain the traditional dictionary and thesaurus it also has these abilities: translator, foreign language and medical dictionaries, word of the day, and games.
English Zone
Quick and easy worksheets, handouts, online exercises for interactive language lessons, exercises and quizzes. Learn about idioms, grammar, verbs, and more. This site is packed with wonderful information and activities.
Biography Maker (Grades 4-8)
http://www.bham.wednet.edu/bio/biomaker.htm
Step by step instructions to help students write biographies.
Learn Vocabulary Syndicate
Grade specific puzzles, comic strips, word games, and many other ways to sharpen vocabulary skills.
Book Adventure (Grades K-8)
Created by Sylvan Learning Foundation and sponsored by well known educational associations and corporations this site is a FREE reading incentive program dedicated to encouraging kids in grades K-8 to read. Kids have more than 4,000 popular books to choose from. They can then take a quiz on each book read for prize incentives. Great resource for teachers to search books by grade level, author, genre, reading level and then print out books as a reading list. Teachers can set up their own class quizzes. Great reading links and resources.
FREE Online Books Page
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
Download classics from this site. Here's a directory of over 20,000 books that can be freely read right on the Internet.
Online Writing Lab
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
Created by Purdue University this site is an excellent resource for teaching writing skills. Hundreds of handouts and links to resources of every aspect of writing.
Young Authors Workshop
http://www.planet.eon.net/~bplaroch/index.html
This website provides students with links to online resources that will take them step by step through the writing process. The steps in this process are those used in Writer's Workshop. The pages are designed for use by an individual student or small group of students working on a project.
Vocabulary University
Features include grade level interactive word puzzles that help expand one's vocabulary such as puzzles using Latin & Greek roots, synonyms, antonyms, analogies, and thematic word puzzles.
Personal Education Press
http://www.educationalpress.org/
this website turns your computer and printer into a printing press for FREE educational materials such as flashcards and game boards. No software to download, it runs off your browser.
The
Children's Literature Web Guide
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/index.html
This
is a great web site for students to use to find their favorite authors on the
web. It also has great information about new children's literature and resources
for teachers to use that literature.
Poetry
4 Kids
This website
is filled with humorous poems for students. The poetry is fun and enjoyable.
Dr.
Seuss's Seussville
http://www.randomhouse.com/seussville/
This
site sponsored by Dr. Seuss's official publisher has lots more fun and exciting
activities for you to use with your students.
The
Official Eric Carle Web Site
This
is a fun and exciting site for teachers and students who love Eric Carle. The
site has some on-line activities relating to Eric Carle's newest books. From
this site you can e-mail Eric Carle and read a biography of the author's life.
IPL:
The Author Page
http://www.ipl.org/youth/AskAuthor/
Read
biographies on all your favorite authors and the childhood memories that
inspired them to become authors. From here you can e-mail some of the authors
and receive responses via the Internet.
Judy
Blume's Web Site
Students
can read a biography of Judy Blume and find out about her latest books. She also
gives some writing tips. This site is a good encourager for students in writing
and for budding authors. Students can e-mail Judy Blume from this site and get a
great response via e-mail.
Welcome
to Jan Brett's Home Page
This
is a great site for young children. Jan Brett has artwork for students to print
and color. There are a wide range or projects that a student can use
independently or a teacher can use as a classroom activity. There is an
illustrated Jan Brett alphabet that students who are learning their letters and
sounds can use. Also, you can e-mail a Jan Brett postcard to anyone from this
web site.
Patricia
Polacco
http://www.patriciapolacco.com/h.html
For
any students interested in Patricia Polacco stories or how she illustrates her
books, this is a great site. This site is sponsored by the author and contains
some illustrations for students to color, tour Patricia Polacco's home, and
check out upcoming stories.
S.C.O.R.E.
CyberGuides
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyberguide.html
This
will be one of your most useful web sites ever! This site has taken the
literature we use in our classroom and created interactive web activities that
correlate with the literature and the new California State Standards. The
activities are easy for students to understand and promote higher level thinking
skills.
The
Electric Postcard
http://postcards.www.media.mit.edu/Postcards/
On
this exciting site your students can write a post card with over 100 different
graphics for the picture to anyone electronically. Students just choose a
graphic for their card, include an e-mail address, and write to anyone on the
Internet. It is a great way to foster student writing and it is fun for the
students to send and receive the postcards.
ALSC:
The John Newbery Medal
http://www.ala.org/alsc/newbery.html
The
Newbery Medal is awarded each year for writers of children's books. You can
preview a list of nominated books for this year and view a list of all Newbery
winners from 1922 to present.
WordCentral.com
Dictionary
Wow,
this site will knock your socks off. Students can look up words on this site,
encode text to change vowels, send encoded text to friends via email, check out
the daily buzz word and try to find its meaning, and even build their own
dictionary on the web. Students can spend hours here building important
vocabulary and decoding skills.
White
House for Kids
http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/
Kids
of all ages love this site! Kids can learn about the history and location of the
White House. They can read and see pictures of past and present White House kids
and pets. Kids can explore current information about the president, first lady,
vice-president, and his wife and send an e-mail to the White House. They'll get
a great response from the White House via e-mail or regular mail too.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
This
site is as wonderful and diverse as National Geographic magazines. Students can
travel to other lands, space, or under the ocean. The pictures and information
that a student can find at this site is unparalleled.
http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/
This
site is great for students who are studying the ancient civilizations of the
World. This site gives detailed history about many of the ancient ruins.
Students can click their way through thousands of pictures while reading
detailed and exciting information about the ancient wonder and how it influenced
ancient civilizations and history.
The
Whitehouse Home Page
This
Web site is maintained by the Office of the President of the United States and
contains information about the first family, the executive branch, and a virtual
tour of the White House.
The
Library of Congress
The
Library of Congress presents information about and materials from its
collections over the Internet. Its online information and services include the
following: schedules of exhibits and events, a menu or services provided, a
substantial digital library of various text and media, an online catalog system,
information on Congress and the government, as well as related links to WWW
sites.
Welcome
to Susan B. Anthony House
http://www.susanbanthonyhouse.org/
This
is a fun web site about the life of Susan B. Anthony and her home which is a
national landmark. Students can read about Anthony and her part in the Women's
Rights Movement. At this site, you can also take a cyber visit to her home!
American
Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html
This
web site sponsored by the Library of Congress is a fun site for students to
explore. Students can look up any date and find an important thing in history
that happened on that date. It is a fun thing to do for birthdays, holidays, or
anniversaries.
1492:
An Ongoing Voyage
http://sunsite.unc.edu/expo/1492.exhibit/Intro.html
From
the Library of Congress, this site is a feature-packed enriching lesson on the
voyage of Columbus and the impacts of the discovery of the New World. It offers
maps and other historical documents.
Anne
Frank Online
This
site has some great information about Anne Frank. You can see pictures of her
life and read excerpts from her diary. There is also a special education page to
help with teaching the lessons of Anne Frank in the classroom. There are also
some great resources on the Holocaust.
Martin
Luther King, Jr.
http://www.seattletimes.com/mlk/
This
is a great site about the famous civil rights leader. There are some fabulous
links, lesson plans, on-line interactive quizzes, and background information.
This would be a great site for your students to just explore.
Cultures
Learn about a variety of cultures from Greek mythology to Mayan and Aztec.
Maya
Adventure
http://www.sci.mus.mn.us/sln/ma/
Explore
the Mayan Ruins and create a scrapbook and journal of your adventure. There are
some fun and interactive activities at this web site.
Life
in the Middle Ages
http://www.kyrene.k12.az.us/schools/brisas/sunda/ma/mahome.htm
Monks
and nuns had to take a vow of poverty, saying that they would give up all their
personal possessions. Learn about castles and cathedrals, feasting and jousting,
and what the daily lives of knights, peasants, doctors, ladies, and kings were
like.
Plymoth
Plantation
http://www.pilgrims.net/plimothplantation/vtour
Travel
back to the days of the pilgrims with this Virtual Internet Tour of Plymoth
Plantation. The plantation has been recreated and is filled with tour guides who
live their parts, complete with dress, accents, and names!
PBS
Online
Access
the resource of PBS through the Internet. The site has vast resources in science
and social studies with lesson plans for teachers and activities for students on
PBS Kids. If you or your school own any of the PBS made videos you can access
supplementary information to go along with the videos.
50 States & Capitals
A very complete list of states and facts.
The Age of Exploration
Click on the Educational Programs link and head off to The Age of Exploration Educational Resource. This well written and very useful curriculum guide covers maritime discovery from ancient times to Captain Cook's 1768 voyage to the South Pacific. Lots of teacher and student activities are found on this page.
CIA World Fact Book
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/
Maps and statistical data for every country in the world.
Educational Web Adventures
http://www.eduweb.com/portfolio/adventure.php
Travel back in time to the Renaissance and explore Leonardo da Vinci's workshop in search of clues; learn about the people and Geography of the Ecuadorian Amazon; go undercover to Asia to expose the illegal trade in tiger parts. All are great educational adventures!
GeoNet Game
http://www.eduplace.com/geonet/
How well do your students know the geography of the United States? They've got 2 hours to find out! The game questions are organized according to the national geography standards. They've been designed to help children think geographically and to help them build a global context for the information they learn.
The History Channel
http://www.historychannel.com/
Make history come alive with resources on this site.
How Far Is It?
Calculate the distance between two places. Students could find the distance between their home and any other place in the world and see it visually on a map.
Our Timelines
Create your own personalized timeline for you and your students. You can also create time lines for others and see how they fit into History.
Science News For Kids
http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/
Brain
Pop
This
is the best site! The site is filled with short educational videos (cartoons) on
science, technology, and heath topics. The videos are engaging, interesting, and
packed full of difficult concepts told in a simple and easy to understand way.
There is also interactive quizzes for students to take after viewing each of the
videos.
Star
Child: A Learning Center for Young Astronomers http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/Starchild.html
This
is an exciting and interactive web site. Students can explore the solar system,
universe, and all of space. They can also interact with the website through some
fun games and activities. Great link page to other fun and exciting sites on the
web.
Envirolink
Home Page
This
site has up to date environmental and science information for teachers and
students. This site has fabulous links to science lesson plans and other
exciting science web sites.
The
Franklin Institute Science Museum
The
Franklin Institute Science Museum brings the vast exhibits, resources, and fun
of their museum right to your desktop for you and your students to enjoy.
Volcano
World
Volcanoes
are one of the most dramatic phenomena in nature, attracting millions of
visitors each year to U.S. National parks and fascinating millions more children
in our science courses everyday. Volcano World greatly enriches the learning
experiences of these children by delivering high quality remote sensing images
and interactive experiments that add to the students learning about
volcanoes.The pictures and interaction of this site will have your students
begging to learn more about volcanoes.
Ontario
Science Centre
The
Ontario Science Centre web site gives you a virtual tour of their exhibits,
online science experiments at the Interactive Zone, a list of Web Connections,
and several educational programs that have been tested by educators.
Cosmic Quest @ The Children's Museum of Indianapolis
http://www.childrensmuseum.org/cosmicquest/fieldguide/planets.html
Take
a tour of the solar system. Learn about the planets, space exploration, and the
leading astronomers who have allowed us the window into space.
Students
for the Exploration and Development of Space
This
site is specifically designed to encourage students to become interested in
space exploration. Students can check out hundreds of pictures from outer space
and find out about current events in space exploration such as shuttle launches.
SeaWorld/Busch
Gardens Animal Information Database
ln
addition to the animal informational resources available at this site, teachers
visiting this site can find several classroom activities and entire units of
study that you can use in the classroom. Students can take animal quizzes and
explore hundreds of fascinating pictures.
National
Park Service Place on the Web
The
National Park Service maintains this web site. This site links to all of the
national parks and contains valuable science and social studies information
about the parks. You can learn about the history and cultural information that
shapes this nation through the national parks and monuments.
MTPE
- For Kids Only
This
web site sponsored by NASA contains valuable information on Earth Sciences for
teachers and students. Students can interact with the site to watch Pangea form
into the current continents, learn about weather patterns and tropical storms,
and link to other exciting Earth Science sites. Teachers can also find guides
for teaching Earth Science units.
Environmental
Education for Kids
http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/caer/ce/eek/
This
fascinating site gives kids valuable information on the Earth and the plants and
animals that inhabit all of the Earth. Kids can also explore careers in the
environment and test their knowledge with the Riddler!
American
Museum of Natural History
This
exciting site contains fabulous graphics of past and present exhibits at the
Museum of Natural History. Each exhibit has a list of activities and links
relating to the topic. There is also a special place for kids and educators. For
any natural history topic you will teach in your class, this site is a must!
Interactive
Frog Dissection
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/frog/
This
is an exciting site. It uses multimedia and other technologies to allow students
to virtually dissect a frog by following the step-by-step instructions.
National
Wildlife Federation
This
site offers information on almost every imaginable environmental topic.
Resources include lesson plans and activities just for kids on the site.
Bat
Page Game Room
http://members.aol.com/bats4kids2/boxpage1.htm
This
site is filled with games all about bats. There are crossword puzzles, connect
the dots, poetry boards, concentration games, and more. A single student can
play games as a review of bat concepts or two students can play against one
another. It is a good preview and review web site.
Access Excellence
http://www.accessexcellence.org
The site for Health and Bioscience! Sections for Middle School Science and Health with lessons, discussions, projects, and factoids. Teacher developed mystery experiments and interactive forensic mysteries.
Cells Alive
In this very colorful, visually appealing site, cells come alive. Use a biocam to see cell division in cancer cells, try techniques to enhance the microscope image, look at the creatures that cause allergies and much more.
Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education (K-12)
The mission of this website is to help K-12 teachers realize the benefits of integrating technology into the curriculum in order to more effectively engage students in learning and improve student achievement in math and science. The unique classroom projects use real time data from the Internet that will enhance any teacher's curriculum.
The Exploratorium
A museum of science, art, and human perception in San Francisco, California, there are over 200 Science experiments and great resources for teachers.
MAD Labs
See what a network of scientist providing Science information can do for you. Here's a site where you ask a Scientist, search through 15,000 answers to Science questions, locate resources, demos and ideas for Science projects, research experiments, and take a trip through images from the Visible Human Project.
The Virtual Cell Web Page
This website offers a 3D view of an interactive journey through a typical cell. It has both a tour in which students can dissect various parts and a textbook which allows students to research such topics as active transport and organic chemistry.
Skywatcher's /Diary
http://www.pa.msu.edu.abrams/diary.html
A monthly calendar of daily descriptions of the night sky brought to you by Abrams Planetarium at Michigan State University. Links to pictures and to an archive of past issues.
Volcano World
The premier site for volcano information! Detailed descriptions, clickable maps of world regions, photos, search engine and many more resources. Great for all ages.
The
Prime Pages
http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/
Here
is a website dedicated entirely to the study of prime numbers.
Find out all about the largest known prime, see the long list of all
existing primes, find other prime websites, learn about the history of the prime
number, etc.
Harcourt
Brace Math Glossary
http://www.hbschool.com/glossary/math/
This
is a good resource for students and teachers. This site is an animated glossary
of mathematical terms students should be familiar with sorted by grade levels
1-8.
Brain
Teasers
http://www.eduplace.com/math/brain/
These
brainteaser activities are geared for grades 3-7 and can be used as lesson
openers or as a way to integrate math into other areas of the curriculum. One
new teaser is presented each week and you can search through all of the
archives.
Flashcards
for Kids
http://www.edu4kids.com/index.php
This
site has online flash cards featuring addition, subtraction, multiplication, and
division.
About Today's Date
http://richardphillips.org.uk/number/
Find out about the numbers used in today's date. Here's a good Math warmup: Go to the board and write the digits of today's date and have students try and write all the facts associated with it. They'll be surprised when you write down the facts that you know, now that you have read this page!
A+ Math
Create and print out flashcards, worksheets, and interactive Math games.
Absurb Math
http://www.learningwave.com/abmath
Here's an interactive mathematical problem solving game series that will challenge and appeal to students. Lots of hidden clues. Students must read carefully and use their mathematical skill and knowledge to solve the adventures. Answers are available to parents and teachers by e-mail.
Cool Math
http://www.coolmath.com/home.htm
An amusement park of Mathematics! This website certainly is fun and educational. Try out the links to Algebra, Tessellations, Geometry, Calculus, Fractal Gallery and Fractal of the Day, Trigonometry, Fun with Numbers, How to Succeed in Math, and links to great sites and resources.
Escape From Knab (Grades 6-11)
http://www.escapefromknab.com/
Escape from Knab is an educational simulation using Math concepts on the fictitious planet of Knab. Visitors soon discover the results of their actions and decisions. Lessons and answers for teachers are available.
Mathforum
This site features weekly Math problems to solve, Math resources by subject, a teacher exchange, Dr. Math that answers tough math problems for students and teacher, and discussion groups.
Interactive Mathematics Micellany and Puzzles
Intriguing puzzles, information, quotations, and problems all about Math.
Math Goodies
Over 400 pages of Math activities. Includes interactive lessons, crossword and search puzzles, chat boards, image library, educational links, articles, newsletter, homework area for students and more.
Math Stories
Download and print over 4,000 Math problems for your students.
Maths Online
http://www.univie.ac.at/future.media/moe/
The goal of this website is to create a novel style of interactive learning material for the study of Math. It accomplishes this with multimedia learning units on Mathematical subjects, interactive tests, over 60 online tools and links to Mathematical topics and collections.
Math Lessons That Are Fun!
http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/Lessons/
From Algebra to Calculus to Fractals and Fractions, this site is fun.
Middle School Math Class Seasonal Problems
Here's a monthly series of seasonal math problems. The pages are designed so that there are ready-made problems for each month of the school year. The problems include holidays, seasons, and sports. Many are open-ended so that children can get extra practice for standardized tests. Complete with answers.
Rick's Math Web (All Grade Levels)
Over 4,750 math problems for learners in Pre-K-12 who need help learning mathematical concepts. Also includes tips and tricks for learning different math operations and supporting worksheets for practice.
Webmath
This is a fantastic site for Math help. It's designed to give the K-12 student immediate help over the Internet with their Math problems. The site generates answers to specific questions. In addition it attempts to show the student HOW to arrive at the answer by giving a step-by-step solution instead of just giving the answer.
Art
Studio Chalkboard
http://www2.evansville.edu/studiochalkboard/
The
award winning pages at this website will allow you to find resources for atrists
and aret students that focus on the fundamentals of drawing and painting.
The Drawing section provides 20 different lessons on perspective,
shading, and composition, while the Painting section focuses on color use and
painting tools.
Pics4learning
Allows
you to add pictures to your web site or get great educational clip art.
World
Wide Web Virtual Library: Museums
Often
in teaching art or art history it is difficult and expensive to find
replications of famous pieces of art. This site will allow you to visit the
museums where the art is housed and show your students the original pieces of
art. Most museums will have accompanying information on all of the art pieces.
An
American Thanksgiving for Kids and Families
http://www.night.net/thanksgiving/
A
fun site for students to explore to learn about the first thanksgiving and
continuing American traditions. There are fun and interactive thanksgiving games
for the students to play on and off the computer. Great ideas for teachers to
use in the classroom too!
Torah
Tots - Chanuka
http://www.torahtots.com/holidays/chanuka/chanuk.htm
This
site provides children with music, games, history, and coloring pages about the
Jewish holiday of Chanukah. Students can explore this site to learn about the
beginnings of the holiday and how it is still celebrated today. The site also
teaches students how to play spin the dreidel and let's them play the game right
at the site.
Merry
Christmas from Santa at the North Pole
http://www.merry-christmas.com/kids_zone.htm
This
is a fun site for students to explore and learn. The site has coloring
activities, music, recipes, stories, games, and letters to Santa. Your students
can e-mail their Christmas wish list to Santa and receive an answer back via
e-mail!
Torah
Tots - Passover
http://www.torahtots.com/holidays/pesach/pesgames.htm
This
is another great site for students during Passover. This site gives the complete
story of the holiday along with fun activities and coloring pages.
Independence
Day on the Net
http://www.holidays.net/independence/
Listen
to patriotic music, read about our national holiday, find arts and crafts
projects, and watch an Internet firework display!
Classical
Net: Quick Composers Guide
http://www.classical.net/music/rep/Iists/index.html
This
site contains biographical information on many of the great composers. The site
is organized by time period so that you can access a group of composers from the
same time. The biographies are well written and linked well when two composers
interact or have things in common.
Crayola
This
exciting site lets students tour the Crayola factory, play online games with
crayons, coloring pages, crafts, stories, and poetry. There is also a great
database full of fun arts and crafts activities for students and teachers that
require little more than a set of crayons, paper, glue, and scissors.
The Music Education Launch Site
http://www.talentz.com/MusicEducation/
Links to lesson plan, animated lesson plans featuring Mr. Note, interactive lesson plans and games and more.