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FedWorld Information Network Home Page -Access to thousands of U.S. Government web sites, more than a 1/2 million U.S. Government documents, databases and other information products.
Welcome to AskERIC -a personalized Internet-based service providing education information to teachers, librarians, counselors, administrators, parents, and others throughout the United States and the world.
Discovery Kids -A spin-off of the Discovery Channel will captivate any curious child with it's supply of projects, adventures, and articles about the world around us.Kids can even personalize their own site with the Automatic Adventure Personality Profile.
Time Magazine for Kids:
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators -is a classified list of sites on the Internet found to be useful for enhancing curriculum and teacher professional growth. It is updated daily to keep up with the tremendous number of new World Wide Web sites.
Newton's Apple
How Stuff Works
-The index to hundreds of fantastic 'How Stuff Works' articles!
Silly Billy's World Tetra Virtual Aquarium Click here for
The Cool Word of the Day
AUNTY MATH
Math Challenge of the Week
MATH BASEBALL: A math baseball game for you to play! Nye Labs Online: This is Bill Nye, The Science Guy's website. The site basically follows the concept of the television show, that "science is cool", and uses the latest technology on the internet. The Exploratorium:
You Can With Beakman and Jax
Virtual Body Cool Science:
How Stuff Works?
Ask Dr. Universe!
VISIT ENDANGERED ANIMALS:
General
Online library for all students. Quite extensive.
Ask Jeeves for Kids! -Great place for kids and teachers to ask questions, get support or just check spelling.
This is a popular search engine for kids. Good to use when your kids are "surfing the net."
This children's version of TIME For Kids is published year-round and is a place for kids to express their views on the news. TIME is completely up-to-date and is read by millions of kids/parents and currently comes in two editions:
TIME For Kids: News Scoop Edition TIME For Kids: World Report Edition
Grades 2-3 Grades 4-6.
A complete collection of Teacher's Guides/lessons from this PBS program. Lot's of fun science experiments from the last seven seasons are listed here also.
Browse the Lets Find Out Encyclopedia by subject. Let's Find Out - The Knowledge Adventure Encyclopedia is an online research tool and homework helper. Covering a wide range of topics especially suited for school projects, it's fun, easy to use, and free!
Want to draw some pictures with your computer? We do too. This site shows you how.
What temperature is best for your angel fish? What's a cherry barb look like? Which fish eats which? Learn all this and more as you build your own virtual aquarium. Pick your fish and watch 'em swim - it's better than your mom's lava lamp.
Math
Every other week, "Aunty Math" presents a new math challenge to the internet audience via the DuPage Children's Museum site. Each challenge is presented in the form of a story taken from the life of Aunty Math, her two nephews Barney and Danny, and her niece Gina. Aunty Math challenges present an opportunity for students in grades K-5 to use their math and thinking skills to solve various problems. These challenges can be found on the
FLASH CARDS: Some electronic flash cards to practice your math facts with.
Click here YES for free download of Macromedia Shockwave to experience animation and entertainment in your Web browser.
The Exploratorium is a museum of science, art, and human perception located in San Francisco, California. Online since 1993, the site contains more than 10,000 Web pages and hundreds of sound and video files, exploring hundreds of different topics. That makes it one of the most visited museum Web sites in the world. This unique museum was founded in 1969 by noted physicist and educator Dr. Frank Oppenheimer, who was director until his death in 1985.
This site is based on characters from the television show "Beakman's World". The site has interactive demos, questions, images, and other science information for kids.
Build a virtual skeleton bone by bone (it'll clap when you get it right). Then take a narrated tour to learn about your brain, watch a heart pump blood, and find the three ums: duodendum, jejenum, and ileum.
Why Don't Spiders Stick To Their Own Webs?
Why Does My Voice Sound Different On A Tape Recorder?
Explore the Internet with Dr. I. :
Dr. Internet will help you explore science and math fun and facts on the Internet! Dr. Internet will help you to find stuff that can help with your homework or your science project or is just cool!
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute invites curious kids to explore biology... on screen, off screen, and in between.
Do you ever wonder how things work? You can spend hours exploring this area to find out about all sorts of machines and things and why they work. Includes hundreds of articles and question of the day.
Dr. W.S. Universe is as smart as she is curious. And ... she has a whole university ready to tackle your question.
A US Government web site that contains information on animals, wild flowers, and endangered species. It has coloring book images of animals that you can print and color. It also contains fact sheets on various animals.
TURTLES: Crawl out of your shell and investigate......
SNAKES This slimey site promises to update often
Froggy Page Home to all kinds of virtual frogginess.
Archaeology's Dig A children's magazine on archaeology from the publishers of Archaeology Magazine. Quizzes, fun facts, contest and more! Ask questions of a real archaeologist!
Archaeological Adventure
Picture gallery of Archaeological wonders of the world.
Astronomy for Kidsis an excellent site about astronomy, designed for kids, with tons of information. You can even send post cards from around the solar system.
Check your weight on other planets
Enter your weight into the calculator and find your weight across then solar system.
U.C. Berkely Space Science Laboratory Load your on-line resource cart with lessons on Space Science, Sun Earth and Solar System. Suggested grade level and NSES Content Standards given for each lesson.
HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE: Check out these awesome pictures taken by the Hubble Space Telescope from high above the Earth's atmosphere!
Sea and Sky: Travelport Entrance Sea and Sky is a non-profit Web site created for the sole purpose of bringing the splendors of the seas and the wonders of the universe to members of the internet community.
WHY SEASONS CHANGE Why do the seasons change from summer to winter?
OBSERVATORY Want to learn about the stars?
SOCIAL STUDIES LINKS
HISTORY-GEOGRAPHY-GOVERNMENT
Take a virtual tour of the White House An electronic tour of the First Family's home. You will discover that within each room you will have the opportunity to go back in time in that room and see how the room has changed.
Take the Ferry to a tour of the Staue of Liberty or visit the National Park Service for a detailed history on the Statue and Ellis Island
Teacher's Geography Lessons and Activities: K-12
National Geographic for Kids
News, cartoon and editorial writing, exploring the world and the always great photos.
Also available is The National Geographic Pen Pal Network for English-speaking boys and girls around the world who like to write, mail, and receive letters.
First Voyage of Columbus: Meeting the Islanders (1492)
HOW PEOPLE IN OTHER COUNTRIES LIVE, WORK AND PLAY:
Countries with their Anthems, Flags, Maps, History, Weather, Geography, Government and Economic Information.
CUFFS FOR KIDS
Safety tips and questions game from a real police officer.
PE Central The ultimate Web site for health and physical education teachers, parents, and students. Their goal is to provide the latest information about contemporary developmentally appropriate physical education programs for children and youth.
Discovery Channel lesson plans are available on this page for Grades K-6. Ancient History, Animals, Astronomy, Earth Science, Economy, Human Body, Life Science and Literature are featured.
Teacher Links
The Scholastic Book Club
Patriotic Songs This site gives you morning songs with lyrics and musical accompaniment.
The Character Education Partnership An organization committed to developing civic virtue and moral character in our youth for a more compassionate and responsible society. The purpose of character education is to help students develop good character, which includes knowing, caring about, and acting upon core ethical values such as caring, honesty, fairness, responsibility, and respect for self and others
FunBrain
quiz lab for easy online assessment (math, grammar, science, spell, history) for kids of all ages.
This is the company I use as my book order company.
Verbatim is a magazine devoted to what is amusing, interesting, and engaging about the English language and languages in general. They gently poke fun at the messes people can get into with English and the misunderstandings that arise from our common language. All this, plus a generous helping of book reviews, should provide a hour or two's diversion for the person interested in language.
Parent Links
Family Education Network ALL parents should check out this site. Has grade and age level information about children. Very informative...
TryScience for Kids: Science Experiments Features science projects, electronic field trips and kid science experiments in such fields as health, technology, psychology, and biology.
Family Safe Surfing
4Kids.org Your link to the latest tecKNOWLEDGEy on the Web'. You can find great kids' Web sites, Ask Amy questions about the web, Speak Out! in our weekly topic question or just play with our Fun Stuff.
SurfMonkey Kids Channel A fun and family-friendly Web directory, where every link is guaranteed to be great for kids. Comes with a SurfMonkey Bar for safer surfing.
FunBrain Online educational games (math, grammar, science, spell, history) for kids of all ages.
The Discovery.com Browser Booster: fun and friendly Web surfing through family-safe, customizable features and the latest multimedia tools.
