| This site provides images, artifacts, timelines and maps about historical periods that took place in the United States from 1600-present. | |
| The Mint | This website provides tools to help parents as well as educators teach children about sound money management and establish good money habits at home. |
| Harcourt HORIZONS | This site has a variety of materials and resources to use with Christina School District's Social Studies curriculum and textbook. |
| You Be The Historian | This website is a story of a historical fiction family that lived in New Castle, DE two hundred years ago. Students learn about the family’s life on a daily basis by reading the text and viewing artifacts. |
| The Library of Congress - Kids and Families | A resourceful website for teachers and parents provided by the Library of Congress. |
| The Virtual Body | This site provides animated illustrations of different body systems. |
| The Yuckiest Site on the Internet | Use this site to find out about spit, earwax, eye gunk, etc. |
| Science Clips | Simple animated explanations of numerous science concepts for different age groups are offered on this site. The age ranges are from 5 years to 11 years old. |
| FossWeb | This web site relates directly to Foss science kits for each grade level. Click on a module and you will be directed to a variety of interactive activities related to that kit. |
| KidWings | Kids can dissect virtual owl pellets on this site. This is a great extension of the owl pellet activity in the Foss Human Body kit. |
| Nutrition Explorations | This is another site about the human body. This site includes 2 cartoon characters that are involved in interactive games and activities about the food pyramid and healthy food choices. |
| Human Body "Applet" | Students will drag appropriate bone labels on an illustration of a man and then check with a “scanner” to see the bones underneath. |
| KidsHealth | This site has plenty of information on the human body and the different systems. There are also sections on commonly asked kid questions and answers, healthy recipes, dealing with feelings, illnesses, etc. |
| National Library of Virtual Manipulatives | Most accessed site in our room. This is a library of virtual math manipulatives. You can find every math manipulative imaginable on this site. There are clocks, money, base ten blocks, fraction circles and bars, Cuisenaire rods, spinners, dice, graphs, etc. There are also units and lesson plans to use with the manipulatives. |
| Interactiviate | This site includes interactive Java-based courseware for exploration in science and mathematics. There are activities, discussions and lessons on a variety of topics for students from grade 3 and up. |
| Whiteboard Resources | This is an invaluable site to use with interactive whiteboards. It includes a number of resources in English, Math, and Science for use with the interactive whiteboards. Each of the links on the site has a normal version of the activity as well as a full screen version for whiteboards. |
| Primary Resources | (Another site from the UK) A wealth of free, ready to use ideas, resources, worksheets and lesson plans are available on this site. Online activities, presentations, and teaching tools are given in several whiteboard file formats, as well as Flash and PowerPoint. We use this site a lot in mathematics, but also have found it very useful in all other areas. |
| Create Your Own Interactive Games | This site includes many primary level pre-made games as well as templates and directions on how to make your own interactive game. |
| The Maths File Game Show | This site has several number, algebra, data handling, and measuring games with game show host, Pythagoras, and hostess, Hypatia. Most of the activities here are geared toward the upper elementary or middle school grades. |
| Maths Whack 'Em Booster | Several helpful math activities that can be used with a whiteboard are on this site. This is another site from the UK, so any of the money activities are in pounds instead of US currency. Time is also on a 24-hour clock. |
| Scramble Word Magnets | Use this web page to make sentences or poetry by moving around scrambled magnetic words. |
| Magnetic Poetry | This is another scrambled magnetic poetry web site that can be used with Nursery Rhymes. |
| Teaching That Makes Sense | A website designed to give teachers writing strategies to use with their students. This site gives many examples of student work along with useful organizers and posters. |
| Eye On Idioms | Use this link to practice idioms with your students. |
| Letter Generator | Use this web page to learn the parts of a letter and how to write your own. |
| Andersen Fairy Tales - Leaping Match | The Fairy Tale Story of the Leaping Match is a retelling of the Folk and Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen. It's the online story of a society princess, a flea, a grasshopper, and a fish! For Kids and Teens of all ages, for School Time or any time. These folklore classics are part of the Andersen Fairytales Netsphere. With links to more storytelling magic, arts, games, and fun! |
| National Geographic Kids | National Geographic Kids provides articles, interactive activities, and games for teachers and students. |
| Game Goo | A wacky and somewhat goofy interactive website that helps provide early reading skills for boys and girls. |
| Reading Theme Links | Most accessed site, in our room, during Guided Reading. This is perfect for a third grade teacher using the Houghton Mifflin Reading Series. All the themes and their stories are listed with valuable links and resources for teachers to use to provide background knowledge, vocabulary and comprehension skills. |
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