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Homework Hub
A great resource for students: spelling wizard,flashcard maker, and more! A great way to improve your speed for math facts. |
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Harcourt Text Book
This site accompanies our Math and Reading textbooks. |
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Discovery Kids
Explore the Discovery Kids TV shows. Play games related to all science topics. |
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On line Dictionary
This resource include word definitions, a thesaurus, the Word of the Day, daily word puzzles, and more |
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World Atlas
This resource has maps and information about other countries. |
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Democracy at Work
Discover the inner workings of our government during this interactive exploration of American politics. |
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Natice American Cultures
Use this link to discover different cultures, customs, and history of Native Americans groups. And meet a scientist who specializes in Native American cultures. Continue your research using the Research Starter on Anasazi and Pueblo Indians. |
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Culture & Change: Black History in America
Students read about famous African Americans while expressing their thoughts online. This celebration of Black History Month includes biographies, a News Zone special report on "Working for Equality," and an interactive timeline. |
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Celebrate Hispanic Heritage
Celebrate the lives and accomplishments of Hispanic Americans. Students analyze the scope of Spanish influence across the Americas and read interviews with Latino writers, scientists, and others. |
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Our America
Travel back into American History. Create your own journal, make arts and crafts, Read diaries from the different periods. |
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Thanksgiving
Students explore the voyage on the Mayflower, the relationship between the Wampanoag and the Pilgrims, and the events that led up to the harvest feast celebrated by both groups. |
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Rosa Parks
The Mother of the Modern-day Civil Rights Movement" recounts the Montgomery Bus Boycott and proves that every individual citizen plays a part in a democracy. |
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Go for the Gold
Join us at the Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. Get athlete bios, weekly feature stories, and interactive activities. Nice! |
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American Immigration Experience
The American immigrant experience is brought home to students through a tour of Ellis Island and interviews with young immigrants of yesterday and today. |
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White House Kids
This is an interactive website that students can explore to learn more about our country's history. |
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Library of Congress: American Memory
American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. |
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Culture Quest World Tour
Join Ophelia Owl and Parsifal Penguin on their world wide tour. Learn about customs, beliefs, ars, and instituition. |
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The Stuff of Life: U.S. Design
Sometimes a chair is just a chair. But sometimes, as an object of design, a chair can help define tan era. U.S. Design: 1975-2000, by the Denver Art Museum, captures the period with furniture, architecture, graphics, and other things. |
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Bill Nye the Science Guy
Bill Nye the Science guy at NyeLabs is a great site for learning about science while also having fun. It is full of useful information and interactive games. |
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Star Child
StarChild is a learning center for young astronomers. The site is sponsored by NASA and provides its users with cool information on space and earth science. |
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NASA for Kids
Find out everything you ever wanted to know about NASA. This site contains activities and games. |
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Brain POP
Explore this site for an up-close and personal look at the wonderful world of Science and Technology! |
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Hurricanes
Get swept away in this study of extreme weather patterns. Students learn all about hurricanes and become Scholastic Weather Reporters as they complete experiments and share their data. |
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Tornadoes
Weather Watch investigates these swirling monsters of destruction. Students discover what causes tornadoes, meet a storm-chasing tornado forecaster for the Storm Prediction Center, and learn how to create their own tornado-in-a-jar! |
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Writing a Book Review
Students learn to think and write critically in this step-by-step online workshop with an award-winning author. |
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Maggie's Learning Adventures
Become a whiz with interactive adventures in Grammar, Spanish, Math and Science! |
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Brain Child
This site has games and activities that will help the students with certain skills. |
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Paper Airplane Contest
Students learn basic concepts in aerodynamics as they test just how far -and how long - their paper airplanes can fly. |
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Brain Boosters
Are you up for the challenge?? Put your brain to the test with this variety of Brain Boosting or Busting Activites!! |
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Funology
Funology.com is the best place on the Web to find things to do. Not just while you’re sitting at the computer, but anywhere. Things to do by yourself or with your friends, your parents, your pets, anyone. We’ll teach you a million and one ways to make things, explore the world, and discover skills you never knew you had. It’s one place where you’ll never be bored! |
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Discovery Kids
The Discovery Kids web site is cool because it connects its users to a ton of information and super cool sites and games. Check it out. |
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Scholastic
This site has booklists, activities, and parent information that is very helpful |
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Cyber Chase
Cyber Chase is a great interactive game site that helps students improve on their critical thinking skills while also working on math, science and social studies content. LOVE THIS SITE!!! A MUST SEE! |
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Enchanted Learning
Explore interactive games and simulations about art, history, and science. Learn about dinosaurs, sharks, languages, rainforests, holidays, and many other topics. |
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Kaboose-FunSchool Games
Check out this site for lots of fun and interactive games! Geography, History, Math, Science, and Reading are just a few of the topics you can explore! |
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Museum Stuff
This resource includes online museums, Interactive and virtual exhibits, educational links and more. |
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On-This-Day
Find out what happened today in history at On-This-Day.com. |
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Visual Manipulatives Galore!
Experience math virtually!! Use this site to explore and practice your math skills through virtual presentations! |
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CybeeMath
The site contains all the mathematical topics we have and will cover during the year. Each activity features interactive practice, challenge games and an explanation of the topic. |
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Max's Adventures
Students develop reading and math skills by using clues hidden in a fun, rhyming poem to solve real-world math problems |
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Kid Click
Another cool search engine designed by librarians just for kids! |
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Yahooligans
Yahooligans is a great site for kids. Search for information on countries, space, animals and sports. This site has links to some interactive games and screensavers. |
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