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Wacky Web Tales
Bud Not Buddy Background Information
Citation MachineHoovervilles During the Great Depression
The American Experience: Riding the Rails
America on the Move: Pullman Porter
Christopher Paul Curtis Biography
Chinese New Year
MathNCTM Illuminations Factor Game
Tessellations - make your own tessellation editing a triangle, rectangle, or hexagon
Product Game - a fun, interactive game that exercises your skill with factors and multiples.
Concentration - Match numbers, shapes, fractions, or multiplication facts to equivalent representations.
Deep Sea Duel - Strategy game that requires you to select multiple cards that add to the target number. Can you reach the goal before Okta?
Cube Nets - Identify which nets can fold to make a cube
Cubes - Figure out the volume of a box by filling it with cubes, rows of cubes, or layers of cubes
Isometric Drawing Tool - Create designs by drawing 3-D shapes with cubes
Fractions
Multiply Fractions - by a whole number (video)
Thinking Blocks - model and solve word problems
Multiplying Fractions - Millionaire Game
Fraction Game - Work with relationships among fractions and ways of combining fractions. Can be played by one or two people.
Fraction Model - Manipulate fractions with adjustable numerators and denominators. You can then see decimal and percent equivalents. (The numerator and denominator can take values up to 100.)
Coordinates Game (one quadrant)
ScienceBirds
All About Birds: Your online guide to birds and bird watching
Bird Sounds - The Cornell Lab of Ornithology: Can search sounds by species
Bird Videos - Watch bird videos of your favorite backyard birds
Bird Videos from Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Journey North: Robins
San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Birds
Skull Site: Bird Skull Collection
EnvironmentAirNow - Air quality index for kids
Down the Drain: How Much Water Do You Use?
EPA Student Center - has information about water conservation, waste and recycling and environmental basics
EPA Environmental Kids Club: Home Page - contains information about air, water, garbage and recycling, and you and your environment.
EPA Environmental Kids Club - Air
EPA Student Center - Air
EPA - Recycle City
Solar System
NASA: Solar System Exploration
Sun trek - Take a journey into space and find out more about the Sun and its effect on the Earth
StarChild - Solar system information by NASA for kids
Amazing Space - uses images from the Hubble Space Telescope's images to educate
Stardate - StarDate is the public education and outreach arm of the University of Texas McDonald Observatory
Seasons Web Sites
Seasons Interactive at SEPUP - change the month and see how temperature, length of day, and hours of daylight change in various cities
Seasons Interactive - explore the factors that affect temperature: the position of the Earth in its orbit around the sun, the tilt of the Earth's axis of rotation, and the path of the Sun in the sky over the course of a day.
Optics
Optics for Kids
Jamestown Online Adventure
Salem Witch Trials
Revolutionary War
The American Revolution (Battles) - information about the battles in chronological order
Battles of the American Revolution - overview of major battles
American Revolution - includes the battles of Lexington, Bunker Hill, Long Island, Ticonderoga, Saratoga and Yorktown
History Central: Major Battles of the Revolutionary War
The Patriot Resource: Battles of the American Revolution
The American Revolutionary War: A Timeline of Major Events
Biographies of the Delegates to the Constitutional Convention
United Nations CyberSchool Bus
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Alphabetic Rain
Typing Adventure - great for home row practiceCopyright-friendly Collections
Photos for Class - Age appropriate images, with automatic citation within Creative Commons
Pics 4 Learning - This collection consists of thousands of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers. (Grades 1-8)