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Free Rice - Learn new vocabulary and earn donate rice to the UN World Food Program.
NoodleTools - use this to cite your resources, with your user name (first initial last name) and the password given to you by your teacher.
Citation Machine - Use this web tool to cite your resources.
Sixth Grade Math Skills - This site provides links to practice topics such as Numbers & Operations, Algebra, Geometry, Measurement, and Data Analysis.
NCTM Illuminations Factor Game
Math Magician - Practice multiplication and division facts. Can be timed for 2 1/2 minutes or 5 minutes.
Math Magician Games - can choose facts to practice.
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.
Lemonade Stand - create a virtual lemonade stand by choosing recipe, price and supplies. Can you make a profit?
Coffee Shop - see how much cash you can make on a street-side coffee shop.
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 cubesBanana Hunt - Estimating number of degrees in an angle
Fractions
Equivalent Fractions - Triplets game
Multiply Fractions - by a whole number (video)
Multiply Fractions - by a whole number - visual fraction models
Rectangle Multiplication - Click Fractions - Rectangle Multiplication
Thinking Blocks - model and solve word problems
Multiplying Fractions - Millionaire Game
Subtracting Fractions - from a whole
Equivalent Fractions - Practice creating equivalent fractions
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.)
Equivalent Fractions - Manipulative pieces to create equivalent fractions
Adding Fractions - Find common denominators to add fractions
Comparing Fractions - Compare fractions with different denominators by finding a common denominator
Current Events
Science Daily: News &Articles in Science, Health, Environment …
The New York Times Science Section
The Boston Globe Science Section
National Public Radio ScienceFriday with Ira Flatow
Krulwich Wonders... : NPR - (NPR Science Correspondent Robert Krulwich demystifies dense and difficult science.)
Climate Change
BBC News: Climate Change – Rising sea levels: A tale of twocities
Climate Action – European Commission
Global Warming – National Geographic
Greenpeace International Climate Change
International Youth Climate Movement
Natural Resources Defense Council
NY Times: Climate and the Environment
TED Talk: The Science Behind a Climate Headline by Rachel PikeTED Talk: Why I Must Speak Out about Climate Changeby James HansenUnited Nations Climate Change Portal
Women's Biographies: Distinguished Women of the Past and Present
PBS: The American Experience includes Ansel Adams
CIA: The World Factbook - Country entries include sections on Land, Water, People, Government, Economy, Communications, and Defense Forces.
TechnologyCopyright-friendly ImagesImageQuest - a library resource created by the Encyclopædia Britannica with millions of images that you can use for non-commercial purposes. There is a photo for just about any subject you can think of. The collection includes photos and clip art, and even allows you to sort results by shape (horizontal or vertical rectangle, or square). Information is provided for each image about the creator and rights.
U.S. Government Images search - The USA.gov search engine lets you look for photos and images from the federal government. You can find photos of just about anything, from satellites to Socks the cat, with little or no usage restrictions. Most of the results take you to images located on the Flickr website: before you use the image for your own project, make sure to look for usage information on the image's Flickr page.
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)
Pixabay - offers over 1/5 million royalty free stock photos and videos.
Google Images -To find images that can be reused and remixed use Google's Advanced Image search options. To use the usage rights filter option, select "advanced image search" on the main Google Images page. Once in the "advanced image search" page, you will find the usage rights options at the bottom of the page. In the usage rights menu you can select one of four options; "labeled for reuse," "labeled for commercial reuse," "labeled for reuse with modification," or "labeled for commercial reuse with modification."Unsplash - Over 550,000 free high resolution photos shared by a huge online community of photographers.
Research Sites
InstaGROK - Visual search engine that can help generate keywords
SweetSearch - All results have been evaluated and approved by librarians and teachers
NoodleTools - Create your Works Cited page here. User name is same as psbma login.
Citation Generator (MLA format)Finding Credible Sites
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