Additional school links

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General

Blue Web'n offers links to resources in many subjects.

Busy Teachers Website offers links on a wide variety of subjects.

CTW Workshop The folks who brought you Sesame Street offer activities for younger children and advice for parents in a colorful format.

Education Week is an on-line education newspaper. Great place to go in you are interested in current events and newsy discussion of issues.

Educator's Reference Desk is a good place for researching an issue.

Encyclopedia Smithsonian, organizes some of the wonderful information available from the Smithsonian and is especially useful as a science and social studies resource.

Family Education Network provides news and resources aimed at helping parents take an active role in their children's education.

Graphics for teachers

Internet Public Library Youth Division is a well organized directory of carefully selected links on a variety of subjects, including math, reading, social studies, science, health, music, art, sports and fun stuff.

Library of Congress is organized and informative and more fun than you might think. It includes interesting on-line exhibits and links quickly to Congressional information and the patent office and to hundreds of other libraries.

PTA provides news and tips from the long-standing parent organization. Be sure to check out Helping Your Child Learn

Quia -- provides online games and quizzes, and tools and templates to create learning exercises such as flashcards, puzzles, and games. Teachers can also create their own classroom Web pages.

Schoolgrants.org

US Department of Education provides pointers to other sources as well as news of the federal department's doings. Make sure you check out Links to Other Online Educational Services which includes connections to state departments of education.

Reading

Allwords has an online dictionary, word of the week and a feature to help you when you get stumped on a crossword puzzle.

Aesop’s Fables provides the full text of hundreds of Aesop’s Fables, as well as works by other writers such as Hans Christian Andersen.

Caldecott Medal Home Page includes names and summaries of current and past winners of the prize.

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site offers information on a variety of children's books and authors.

Database of Award-Winning Children's Literature lets you build a list of award-winning books based on criteria such as multi-cultural representations, gender of protagonist, age of reader, etc.

Good Books for Children compiled by the Berkeley Library.

Jan Brett's Home Page offers a printable set of alphabet and number cards 1-10 for display in a classroom or use at home, as well as other activities and news of the children's book author.

Leveled Books Database (Beaverton School District) Allows you to search the data for the Reading Recovery and Guided Reading levels.

Leveled Books Database (Portland Public Schools) Has printable, .pdf lists giving Reading Recovery levels and estimated grade level -- organized by title, author and level -- in addition to the on-line database.

Newbery Medal Home Page includes names and summaries of current and past winners of the prize.

A Scientific Approach to Reading Instruction tells what research has told us about teaching reading and how to put it into practice.

Vocabulary game from Education for Kids gives player a word for which they must select the correct definition from several choices. The site says its best for grades 6-8.

Math

Algebrahelp.com includes general tips as well as tools that will do calculations for you such as factoring, adding fractions, and percentages.

Allmath Simple and easy-to-use site that gets you right into useful math learning tools such as a multiplication table, square puzzles, on-line flash cards, metric conversion, math biographies, and glossory.

Jan Brett's Numbers are printed cards of the numbers 1-10 to use as flashcards or display at home or in the classrom.

Math in Daily Life explains why we need to know this stuff, with hands-on activities.

Math drill activities from Education for Kids cover adding, subtracting, multiplication, money, time, and more.

The Math Forum is hosted by Swarthmore College and includes problem of the month and discussion

MathStories offers word problems for all ages. groups.

Plane Math offers cute and easy-to-use math activities kids can do on line.

Top 10 Tips for Parents for making your child mathematically proficient from a coalition of national education organizations.

Science

Bug Club includes information on how to keep insects as pets and an on-line insect identification guide.

DNA for Dinner is a genetic engineering activity by high school and college teacher William Peace.

Encyclopedia Smithsonian, organizes some of the wonderful information available from the Smithsonian and is especially useful as a science and social studies resource.

"Family of the Sun" song teaches about the planets and is sung to the tune of "The Farmer in the Dell.

Lawrence Hall of Science Kids’ Corner offers a variety of on and off line activities for kids.

National Geographic for Kids has lots of activities and information, especially in the science and social studies areas.

National Air and Space Museum features on-line exhibits on travel, from the early days of flight to space trave.

National Museum of National History offers research information from the museum's seven scientific departments, such as the Mammal Species of the World data base .

National Zoo ranks high on the cute factor and has facts as well as photos and videos.

Reeko’s Mad Scientist Lab is a great source of experiment ideas.

USGS Learning Web is a portion of the US Geological Service web that is dedicated to K-12 education, exploration, and life-long learning. Topics include plants and animals, land, water, and maps.

Social studies

A History of the Pledge of Allegiance

National Geographic for Kids has lots of activities and information, especially in the science and social studies areas.

Thomas provides Congressional information and gets right to the point with a home page that gets you straight to tons of information and tools including searches of bills and the Congressional Record. Be sure and take a look at the links on the left including government offices and historical documents

United Nations CyberSchoolBus carries on-line activities and resources about the United Nations and the world.

White House includes a special section for kids.

Writing

Allwords has an online dictionary, word of the week and a feature to help you when you get stumped on a crossword puzzle.

Advice for Young Writers is written by Elizabeth Winthrop, whose books include “Castle in the Attic.”

Merriam-Webster Online has a dictionary, thesaurus, word of the day, and word games.

Read Kids Real Adventures Club is a friendly, supportive site for young writers with tips and success stories.

Rhyming dictionary also includes related tools.

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