Websites of Interest
This is an ongoing collection of websites that may be useful.
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Social Studies
The Mayflower comes alive as you explore the passenger list with accompanying personal history and genealogy. Click on the Pilgrim History link for a history of Thanksgiving and other Mayflower-era topics, including authentic recipes. Grades 2 and up.
Pretty much what the name implies. I would think it would a great warm-up for any Social Studies lesson.
Science
Grades 1 to 4
The largest producer of power and gas in the United Kingdom educates kids about energy through this interactive site. Through animated cartoons, students learn what energy is, how we use energy and how we waste it, too. All information is applicable to the USA, supplemented by the lovely British accents.
Grades 0 to 1
This interactive recycling game challenges students to determine if various items are made of plastic, glass, or paper. Students simply click on the items and drag the items into one of three bins (plastic, glass, or paper). spoken voice and word choices are British, so you may see some puzzled faces when the student first hear the terminology, but the illustrations will help them recognize the objects. And you will have a chance to talk about vocabulary in different parts of the English-speaking world. The website features a Teachers/Parents link that provides general standards for this interactive game. The entire activity requires Flash, get it from the TeachersFirst Toolbox page..
Grades 3 - 8
Backyard Jungle enables users, either individually or collectively, to explore the outdoors locally and across the USA. Users upload photos and information (ie, 'spotted a salamander,' or 'buffalo photographed this afternoon') from their own backyards. Through collecting data from its users, this site continually collects powerful data on nature for all to enjoy. Participating in the activities at this site requires free registration. Registering also lets you earn points through participation. Since many users have thousands of points, this site obviously offers hours of science exploration. This site appears to be a social networking place, with its users having a common admiration of nature.
Grades 0 - 3
This interesting webquest is all about the transformation from egg to chick. The students will love the video clips of live chicks, detailed pictures and the entertaining rebus rhyme and coloring activities. Teachers will love the unique lesson, creative teaching ideas and detailed rubric. The videos require the latest version of the FLASH plug-in.
Grades 2 to 8
The subtitle of this site, Cooking 4 Kids Online, says it all. From hundreds of "video recipes" to kid hosts, opportunities to submit your own recipes as Remote Reporters, featured recipes including healthy snacks, information about cooking utensils and supplies, lessons in cooking basics, and up to date previews of upcoming sections, this site motivates kids to learn to cook and eat in a healthy manner. You can teach basic weights and measures using healthy foods. Clever section titles make even eating veggies attractive to all kids.
Grades 2 to 6
This multi-topic science website includes graphics, information (presented in a kid-friendly style), and other activities. Topics include the Earth, the solar system, gravity, inertia, robots, and more. Some of the interactive activities require Flash.
Welcome to Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists, where you'll meet penguin biologists, glaciologists, cosmologists, geologists, and marine scientists working in Antarctica and the Arctic. We've given them cameras and asked them to document their adventures, in real time, so you can follow their research, ask questions, and share in their discoveries as they occur. This experiment, in celebration of the International Polar Year (2007-08), gives you an up-close-and-personal look at research in extreme environments through the thoughts and experiences of the scientists working there. We'll post their photos, videos, and blogs on this site.
The adventure begins in Antarctica in November 2007 with a series of Webcasts from the South Pole and the McMurdo and Palmer research stations. It continues for two years, shifting polar locations to the Arctic in summer. In winter 2008-09, we'll return to Antarctica. Join us and see what it's really like to be a research scientist at the top or bottom of the world.
Math
Grades 1 - 5
This website is a wonderful resource for teaching place value. A "super hero" challenges students to learn place value by using words, numbers, and decimals. This website is perfect for differentiating activities based on the learning levels of your students. The entire activity requires Flash, get it from the TeachersFirst Toolbox page..
Reading
A to Z Teacher Stuff - Grades 0 to 6
This comprehensive database for determining the level of books is a MUST for elementary and reading teachers. Just type in the book's title, and this handy tool tells you the level for guided reading, Accelerated Reader, and/or Reading Recovery.
Grades 0 to 12
This all-inclusive math website contains activities for all grades (K-12). The website also features countless lesson plans, math problems, math games, and a math dictionary. There are links for students, teachers, and parents. This resource provides excellent introduction lesson plans and highly creative games and activities. Be warned - this website does have some advertisements, but the content is wonderful. If you are looking for a way to review, re-teach, or introduce a math concept, take a few minutes to visit this website.
Grades 1 to 4
This is a fabulous site on money. Students are given a specific amount of money to spend in this virtual toy store. Basic addition, subtraction, counting and money skills are all necessary to play this great game! This site requires Flash.
Writing
Other
Grades 0 to 6
You will want to put on your dancing shoes as you listen to lively songs teaching grammar, multiplication, America, and science. While this site promotes their Schoolhouse Rock! brand of merchandise, they give educators free access to most of their songs. The cool advantage to listening to the songs on the website is that the songs are written out for a possible karaoke sing-a-long as you learn! The songs fit easily into your existing units of study. They provide ESL teachers another venue to learning English, as students sing their way through learning our language. You will need QuickTime plug-in for the audio files. Get it from the TeachersFirst Toolbox page..
Online Visual search engines:
Quintura http://www.quintura.com/
Quintura for Kids: http://kids.quintura.com/
Grades 4 - 12
Help your students to determine their own individual intelligences by using this website. The website provides information about the various intelligences, an interactive quiz (available in text or audio versions), and a detailed results page.
TeachersFirst provides this collection of printable quotations, ready for your classroom or bulletin board. Inspire, engage, or challenge your students to think with quotes from famous leaders, sports figures, thinkers, and writers.
This online tool gives teachers an easy way to find and create rubrics to fit any project. Join for free, then browse existing rubrics made by others or create your own, starting from scratch or from a template provided. You can even make rubrics in Spanish. Search rubrics by keyword or by subject. Choose "permanent rubric" if you wish to save your rubric on the site for more than a week. You can use one of your previous rubrics as the basis for a new one, simply by choosing to "duplicate" it (then make changes). This site receives funding through the U.S. Dept of Ed, so they do "track" use by zip code. There is also a tool to analyze your rubric scores for a project, though it seems a bit cumbersome.
This site contains a plethora of resources for parents, teachers and students covering a wide variety of topics.
Home of several new and entirely free resources for your students: a Spanish resource site and an English vocabulary site.
Interactive quizzes:
http://www.webworkbooks.com/spanish/quizzes/spanish-vocabulary-weekly-quiz-07-07-01.php
Verb reference with over 10,000 verbs:
http://www.webworkbooks.com/spanish/verbs/result.php?verbo=saber
Spanish dictionary with 120,000 entries and 45,000 voice files:
http://www.webworkbooks.com/spanish/dictionary/
For students of English vocabulary, there are several resources to help them expand their vocabulary, including:
http://www.webworkbooks.com/vocabulary/v1/
All the material on the site is available free of charge and will always remain free of charge.
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