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BaucomPages - This page contains a listing of the web resource pages of plans, activities, and sites put together especially for you. Volunteers - Parent volunteers must log in here and complete the online form prior to volunteering. eschools - Electronic Registrar Online - Check out the course catalog, register for workshops, view your transcript, and complete course evaluations. LEARN NC - I highly recommend this site as one to use! This is a program of the UNC-CH School of Education and is a statewide network of educatiors using the power of the Internet to improve K-12 education in NC. LEARN NC provides a collection of resources designed by experienced North Carolina educators for classroom teaching and learning and for professional development. Standard Course of Study - This part of the LEARN NC site allows you to go to the NC Standard Course of Study and click on the curriculum area and grade to see the goals and objectives. An added neat feature is you can also see how many lesson plans are in the database for a particular goal or objective. Click the goal number and you will see the objectives with the number of lessons. Click the objective number and you will see a list of the lessons available. Choose the lesson of your choice to go with what you are teaching. NC Public Schools - From DPI, this site offers you a wealth on information. Be sure to check out the Teachers Connect section for websites, online projects, lesson plans and much more. Discovery School - This amazing site has SO much to offer! You'll probably want to check it all out so plan on spending quite a while here. Puzzlemaker - Do you need customized crossword puzzles, word searches, and math puzzles? You've come to the right place to create your own. PBS Teacher Source - A WOW site! Get the scoop on current events through activities and find fun lessons for the different subject areas. Definitely worth checking out! Awesome Library - This great web database offers LOTS of information to teachers, kids, teens, parents, librarians, and the community. Each site has been carefully reviewed to meet a high standard. Go in as a teacher and check out the subject area of your choice to find lesson plans and related web sites. Highly recommended! Education World - This is a search engine for educational websites only. This information source has news from USA Today and monthly site reviews, along with lesson plans, articles by education experts, and info. on how to make the best use of technology in the classroom. Yahooligans Teachers Guide - Become Internet literate and get ideas of how to teach the Internet to your students, find LOTS of newsletters full of information and links to more information and activities on specific topics, get lessons plans and other teaching resources, and more. Be sure to check out The Big Picture search to find different types of resources related to a particular topic. This is a wonderful feature, a real time saver and one of my favorites! Blue Web'n - Another one of my favorites! This searchable database has over 1000 outstanding Internet sites that are easy to use or you can do a specific search. There are SO many web-based activities, projects, and lesson plans here! Time for Kids - This is a wonderful site by Time Magazine that features online news stories and activities put together for kids. The articles are written on different grades levels - K/1, 2/3/ 4/6 and you can also get them in Spanish. What a great way to get kids interested in current events and get them reading! Would make a good center activity. Other great online news
magazines for kids: World Book - The Teacher Resource Center - A rich source of information, resources, articles, and lesson plans are here! Be sure to check out the Fun and Learning link at the bottom. The Gateway (GEM) - Get quick and easy access to a multitude of educational materials found on federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial internet sites. Scholastic - An educational and fun-packed site with MANY ideas for teachers, kids, and parents. Be sure to check out the lesson plans, authors online, the online activities, and the "This Week on Scholastic.com." Education Place - This Houghton Mifflin site is filled with elementary resources for teachers, students, and parents. It includes Reading/Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies Centers, Intervention, Professional Development, searchable activity database, educational games, and textbook support. Be sure to check out the monthly themes. Quia - This is so cool and a must for your centers! Quia has a directory of thousands of online games and quizzes in over 40 subject areas, templates for creating 8 different types of online games, including flash cards, matching games, word search puzzles, hangman games, and challenge boards, tools for creating online quizzes, and free teacher home pages. Ask Jeeves - Have a question you need answered? Here's the adult counterpart to Ask Jeeves for Kids. Just type in your question and the search for your answer begins. Check out the Jeeves Daily Trivia for fun. Museum of Modern Technology - Teachers, brush up on your knowledge of basic operating systems and the desktop (even though you don't see it at school anymore). Find out about e-mail, the World Wide Web and Networks. This is a cute tour with a quiz. The Internet Public Library Reference Center - Need information about anything? Then this library is for you! Just click on a subject area category or click the desk to ask a reference question. The Internet Public Library Youth Division - A great tool with access to easy kid sites about almost anything. Wonderful for creating student activities! A good site for student research! Cybersites - Do you need reference materials online where you or your students can go to look up information? This site has a wide variety you may be interested in using. FunBrain - This site has a multitude of games in different subject areas, a Quiz Lab where you can create quizzes that will automatically be grades and e-mailed back to you or access thousands of quizzes written by other teachers. What a FUN way to practice skills or enrich! World Book Feature of the Month - Get a collection of information on a special topic of the month from World Book. MCC - multi-cultural calendar - This is the ULTIMATE site for getting information about almost any holiday or multi-cultural event you can think of. There are several ways to do your search so it's easy to do. Joan Holub's 100th Day of School Website - Need some ideas on how to celebrate the 100th day of school. Well, look no more! This collection of 300 celebration ideas was put together with ideas from teachers, librarians, principals, media specialists, and other educators. Make the 100th day special in your classroom! SprocketWorks - What an interesting site! Take an interactive approach to discovering space, music, US history, flight, horses, chemistry, birds, ships, oceans, time, money, art, and logic games. Just be patient as the activities take time to load. These are wonderful center activities! Exploratorium : Memory Exhibition - I just can't remember where I put it! Sound familiar? Even though the exhibition is over, the online activities here are fun and worth using in your classroom. Seeds of Change Garden - A wonderful educational site from the Smithsonian Institution that explores cultural diversity and history by looking at the evolution of agriculture and cuisine throughout the world. Take a look at history and find out how the past can help us into the future. Idea Box - A cute and fun site for lower grades! Get an idea of the day or lots of activities, songs, games, crafts, and more. The Learning Kingdom - This is a unique and fun site! There is a Cool Fact of the Day, Cool Word of the Day, Person of the Day, Today in History, Holidays and Events, and Quote of the Day. ENC - Eisenhower National Clearinghouse - This federally funded site's mission is to identify effective curriculum resources, create high-quality professional development materials, and disseminate useful information and products to improve K-12 mathematics and science teaching and learning. This has a LOT to offer you! K-12 Classroom Projects - These projects were created by teachers attending a course at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Their focus was to develop a project that would engage the learning of their students with the Internet as a tool. Web Resources from DPI
- WOW! Here is a HUGE database of web sites for each curriculum area that have been
selected by NC teachers and education consultants. Just click on the grade level and
subject of your choice. Happy hunting!
Cybertours - Want to learn how to use the Internet to have an impact on student learning? This will take you on guided tours to help you learn how to incorporate technology (especially the Internet) into the curriculum through guided exploration, reflection, and sharing. Excellent! ePALS Classroom Exchange - Join the world's largest classroom exchange! Whether you just want to find cyber penpals or want to join group projects or class to class projects, this site will help you cover your telecommunications and add some fun to your classroom. Check out the What's New at the bottom. The Adventures of CyberBee - Get curriculum ideas for using the Internet, research tools, how tos, treasure hunts, and more at this great site. How to Find Information on the Internet - Need some quick easy help on surfing the net or looking for strategies to do your searches? Check out this site! It also has help for advanced searching. Web Guide - This is an index with thousands of excellent web sites found by teachers in all subject areas for grades K-8. Internet Scout - This search engine has librarians and educators looking for the online resources most valuable to the education community. The Field Trips Site - Avoid those long bumpy bus rides and cold lunches and take an on-line field trip! Each trip covers a single topic that follows a sequential story as stops on the trip take you to different selected sites. Excellent! 5th grade teachers - there's one on American Presidents. For everyone, Author! Author! and Poet's Pantry have super ideas for writing. Insects and Minibeasts and Temperate Forest Biome are great science ones. Field Trips - This is Lightspan.com's Field Trip page. You can join a field trip in progress, host your own, or find an archived one. Virtual Field Trips - WOW! This site has a LOT of field trips you can take your kids on! North Carolina Virtual Visits - Take a tour around North Carolina with this cool site developed by the Educational Technology Division of NCDPI. A must for 4th grade! Scholastic Internet Field Trips - These are guided tours to the best of classroom-appropriate Web sites. Each field trip provides quick suggestions for using targeted Web sites to teach a specific topic. Within each area you'll find field trips in an alphabetical list of topics. Knowledge Network Explorer - Put together by Pacific Bell to aid California teachers, librarians, and students with the increasing demands of technology, this site is packed with loads of great ideas. Be sure to check out the Online Learning Blue Web'n (many super web based activities and projects) and some of the Web Quests. Also, keep up-to-date with what's happening in technology. Eduplace Project Center - Want to get your class involved in exchanging ideas and information with other classes? Check out all the online projects available. Most have specific sign up dates but some are ongoing. What a great way to to learn about other places! Education World - Check out this listing of collaborative projects and you may find one you'd like to try with your class. Global SchoolHouse Internet Projects Registry - Use this page to save time and do a search to find an online project for classroom integration. You can also add a project of your own or make changes to one you've created. Co-nect - This site has more online activities for you. Education Place - This Houghton Mifflin site has MANY online activities for you and your class to participate in. To help you they are organized by subjects. Scholastic Online Activities - Here is another site with a lot of online activities available for you and your class. The WebQuest Page - This site has access to hundreds of inquire-oriented activities in which most or all of the information used by learners is drawn from the Web. Awesome for center based activities as these Quests are designed to use the learners time well. The focus is on using information rather than on looking for it and to expand student thinking. Spartanburg District 3 Webquests - Here is another site with quests developed by teachers from Spartanburg, SC. Educational Media and Technology K-2 WebQuests - Webquests from California. Educational Media and Technology 3-5 WebQuests - More WebQuests from California. WebQuest Academy - Here's another great collection of webquests from Warrensburg, Missouri. Computer Integration Activities - Our Lady of Peace School in Canada put together this wonderful collection of webquests, online activities, and lessons integrating technology into the curriculum. There is a LOT here! Integrating Technology into the New Curriculum - Find out various methods and practices to integrate the use of technology into the curriculum. Real Kids Young Writer's Clubhouse - Meet author, Deborah Morris and some student authors, get great pointers for writing called "Keys to Writing Success." You can also find out about some writing contests. Decisions! Decisions! Online - Promote student critical thinking as you integrate writing, social studies, and science with monthly online activities. Sttudents explore a current events topic and face challenging, real-world dilemmas. By watching short videos and discussing the issue with their classmates, students role-play legislators faced with controversial bills. Students' success in achieving the goals they set for themselves and their nation depends on their critical thinking and decision-making skills. Recommended for grades 5 - 10 but could be adapted for 3rd and 4th. Get a 45 day trial. Costs $349.95 for a 1 yr. site license. Book Adventure - This is a great
reading incentive program dedicated to encouraging kids in grades K-8 to read. With the
help of Rex Reader and Bailey Bookmark, kids have more than 4,000 of the most popular and
acclaimed titles from which to Art Safari - Integrate art work with writing and technology via this neat site. You can explore the painting and sculpture collection of The Museum of Modern Art. A series of questions will guide you to make up stories based on 4 different artworks. Students can then create their own artwork on the computer or carry out projects by painting, drawing, or making a sculpture. The Children's Literature Web Guide -
This site is an attempt to gather together and categorize the growing number of Internet
resources related to books for Children and Young Adults. Much of the information that you
can find through these pages is provided by others: fans, schools, libraries, and
commercial enterprises involved in the Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site - This is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics. This is an excellent resource! The Five Paragraph Essay - 4th and 5th grade teachers, check this out if your students need help with writing. There are many helpful suggestions and prompts for writing expository, narrative, and persuasive essays. CyberGuides: Teacher Guides and Student Activities - CyberGuides are supplementary, standards-based, web-delivered units of instruction centered on core works of literature. Each CyberGuide contains a student and teacher edition, standards, a task and a process by which it may be completed, teacher-selected web sites and a rubric. The Academy Curricular Exchange - Here's a site with a collection of language arts lessons created by teachers. Storybook Station - I love this site! Create personalized stories or letters just by adding a little information. What a super motivator to get reluctant readers reading!
NOVA - This awesome science TV series has become a wonderful resource for teachers. Just click on the This Week on NOVA and the Teacher's Guide lesson and you are set. Everything you need to do to make the topic a valuable learning experience for your students has already been done for you. Be sure to check out the Online Activities and Teachers Exchange too! ENC - Looking for lessons on a specific topic in science? You'll love this site. Just click on the topic of your choice and you'll get a huge selection of lesson plans with different grade levels. Science Daily - Get the latest scoop of what's happening in the world of science. Be sure to check out the other links here too. Science Learning Network - Here's an awesome site! Visit the International Network of Museums. Also, keep this bookmarked for the Exploritorium's Ten Cool Science Sites monthly. BrainPOP - Here's a WOW site filled with lots of information, activities, and movies! Science 4 Kids - This awesome site explains science concepts through stories written for kids. Be sure to check out the Teacher's Desk and Teacher's WhizKid Activity Packet. Kinetic City - Here's an interesting and exciting site your students will love produced by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Your students will be battling Deep Delete virus attacking our planet, Vearth: the virus is based on the Project 2061 Benchmarks for Science Literacy, Try Science - Here's another great site with activities, experiments, field trips, and adventure! Weather - What Forces Affect Our Weather? - Need LOTS of information about weather and how it affects us? This site is filled with great explanations and some hands-on activities. The Weather Channel - The Weather Classroom - Here is a wealth on stuff on the weather. Check out the Weather Classroom Calendar to find out what is airing and find the lesson to go with the program. These are extremely informative and there are activities to go with the lesson to add further understanding. Don't forget to look at the Teachers Lounge. Volcanoes - Can We Predict Volcanic Eruptions? This site has a wealth of information about volcanoes. Be sure to check out the Related Resources for many more great volcano sites. Volcano World - This awesome site has so much information about these mountains of fire. There are current eruptions, volcano of the week, famous volcanoes, and much more. Be sure to check out the Teaching and Learning Link. The Science of Light - Find out all about light and how we see colors and shapes. 2 activities are provided. The Science House - The Science House at NC State works in partnership with K-12 teachers to emphasize the use of hands-on learning activities in mathematics and science. Check out the hands on activities in the Teacher Toolbox. A Private Universe Project - What causes the phases of the moon? What are the reasons for the seasons? This learning lab will help you help your students find out through a learning lab and activities. Bob Miller's Light Walk - Help students understand the concepts of light, shadows, and images as they go with artist, Bob Miller on a Light Walk. Wonderful explanations are given to these science concepts as well as activities. A neat site! KidsHealth for Kids - Get great ideas for your health unit! This site has information on just about anything you cover. There are also articles that can help you understand health problems and issues some of our students face. How Things Work - Ever wonder just how things work? This site may have the answers you've been looking for. Energy Smart Schools - Need ideas, activities, and sites to more information on energy? Click on the Teaching Resources button and you'll find many. Check out the Teacher Links and Kids Links. EREN Kid Stuff - The Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network has some good links you can use or you can Ask an Energy Expert. US Geological Survey - Track hurricanes, earthquakes and find out much about earth science at this comprehensive site. The Learning Web - Be sure to check out this great resource for teachers put together by the US Geological Society. Explor things on, in, around, and about the earth here. CIESE, the Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education - Find interdisciplinary projects that you can use to integrate technology via the Internet. There are collaborative projects, partner projects, and real time data projects. The Academy Curricular Exchange - Find 130 science lessons created by teachers from 14 different states. Science Monster - This awesome site has a lot of science information, activities, and games in a format kids will love and learn from. Definitely worth checking out! Extreme Science - Here's a cool site to get information on time, space, weather, earth science, creatures, maps and atlases, and cool technology. Pfizer Fun Zone - Another site dedicated to making science fun. Check out the games and activities here. Frank Potter's Science Gems - WOW!! This site is awesome! Get many great links to great science resources here.
1st Headlines - Get the latest news coverage for the US and international media sites. This has links to individual stories in most major newspapers and network news websites. Browse in in different sections or by specific topics. CIA - The World Factbook 1999 - This site has a map, flag, and LOADS of information on every country in the world listed alphabetically as well as reference maps, notes and definitions, and appendixes for everything. Just click on the Country Listing button to start researching! 50 States.com - Need information an any of the 50 states? This one is a good place to start. You can even listen to the state song being played. Stately Knowledge - This basic listing of state facts with sports teams and points of interest included as well as a state flag is enhanced with links to 4 online encyclopedias and almanacs ready to access each particular state. If more information is needed, there are other helpful links with the state home page included. infoUSA - Need LOTS of information about our country what's happening in it? This site is PACKED with so much. The Presidents of the United States of America - Find out about each of our presidents and their first ladies at this fact filled site. Welcome to the Whitehouse - Take a tour of the White House, find out about the President and Vice President and what's going on here. Be sure to check out the White House for Kids link. World Flag Database - Find over 260 pages on countries and international organizations with basic information including the formal country name, capital city, area, population, currency, languages, and religions. The flags include the national and state flags, ensigns, and sub-national flags. Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids - Explore with Benjamin Franklin and find out all about our government. Divided into different grade levels, students can work their way through the various topics and get more information with the many links provided. This is very thorough. PBS Kids Democracy Project - This great interactive site gives an understanding to the way our government works in a way students can understand. Be sure to check out the classroom resources. The Geographic Learning Site - Help students better understand geography and foreign affairs. The Challenging World section focuses on the 5 geographic themes and can be used to stimulate students to think geographically and globally, use effective research methods and tools, and seek out answers for themselves about important and difficult problems behind today's headlines. Covers grade levels K-4, 5-8, and 9-12. GeoBee Challenge - A wonderful center research activity to make learning geography fun. Each day 5 new questions from the National Geographic Bee are posted. Can you answer them and beat the Bee! National Geographic - What a fabulous site filled with news, maps, and beautiful photography, as well as interactive features and a section for kids and educators! Be sure to check out their great lesson plans! Geographia - For a wealth of indepth information about the different countries of the world and lots of pictures, this one is a good choice. The GeoNet Game - Designed for grades 4 and up, this challenging game of the United States helps students think geographically and aids them in building a global context for the information they learn. Atlapedia Online - Find full color physical and political maps as well as key facts and statistics on counties of the world. Country At a Glance - Get loads of information about the countries of the world. These are divided up by continents. E-Conflict World Encyclopedia - A great resource for information about countries around the world. You can even get current weather and listen to their national anthem. Culture Quest - Join Olivia Owl and Parsifal Penguin as they take you on a worldwide tour as they sample the delicious cuisines, play the games, see the museums, enjoy crafts and history, hear the folktales, and learn aoub the holidays and festivals of many of the world's cultures. The Academy Curricular Exchange - In need of some social studies lessons? Check out this collection created by teachers from 14 states. North Carolina Encyclopedia - This encyclopedia is designed to give you an overview of the people, the government, the history, and the resources of our state.
A+ Math - This site was designed to help students practice their math facts interactively. Get flashcards, fun games, a homework helper, advanced problems, and worksheets. ENC - for a HUGE selection of lesson plans on a variety of math topics on different grade levels, you'll love this site. Just click on the specific math topic and you'll get a listing of lesson plans available. About the Numbers in Today's Date - This interesting site has a calendar where you click on the date and you'll get facts about and using the date number. AIMS - An awesome site full of super lessons and activities that integrate math and science. There is SO much here! AIMS Puzzle Corner - Try these puzzles that get your students doing math just for the fun of it yet, at the same time they practice their problem solving strategies. Aunty Math's Fun Math Challenges for Kids - Here's a wonderful site to help motivate students with their problem solving skills. Every other week, Aunty Math has a challenge for them. Brain Teasers - More problem solving practice with a new problem posted each Wednesday. You can never get too much practice. There are questions for different grade levels. Elementary Math Problem of the Week - Math Forum presents more problem solving practice with a new problem of the week. The solution will be posted the following week. Math Archive - Need math lessons? Here is a HUGE database filled with sites containing math lessons. Interactive Games and Puzzles - Need a challenge for your students? Want to get them thinking? This site is full of games, puzzles, mazes, and other interactive activities to definitely stimulate (and sometimes frustrate) the brain. Locker Problem Activity - Here's a fun problem for you to try with your students. You can integrate technology into it by using a spreadsheet to help solve it. Magic Squares - Here's a collection of Magic Square activities for you to have your students try. Get those brains working! The World of Trotter Math - This site is put together by a teacher who loves math. There are many fun and stimulating activities for your students to try. Mathematics Enrichment - Try using these problems with your class. There are different ones for different age levels. Make it a challenge for your students to try to solve some above their age. Clever Games for Clever People - Make math a fun and educational subject. This site has games taken from the book On Numbers and Games and would make great math center activities Helping Your Child Learn Math - Here's a site filled with math activities to do while you're on the go. You may want to share some of these activities with your parents. How Far is it? - To help students understand the distance between two places in the world (as the crow flies), this site will be a big help. It will also give you the latitude and longitude location of each place. Kid Klok - Do you have students who have trouble telling time on a nondigital clock? This site shows a clock and you can select a time and it will show it. Harcourt Animated Math Glossary - Here's a great place to help students with math vocabulary! Just click on the grade level of your choice and you'll see a list of terms. Click on the term and concept for it illustrated. Finch Math Problems of the Week! - Have your students brush up on their problem solving skills. This site has a math problem for every week of the year for grades 3 and 4 and grades 5 and 6. Room 108 Math - These interactive activities were developed and put together by a teacher to give practice and visual instruction for math skills. Shape and Space in Geometry - Discover ways to teach geometry in your classroom through this lab with background pages of information and activities. Multiplication Rock - Do you have kids that need to learn their facts to a rhythm and beat? This could be the place for them. Visual Fractions - This site provides visual help in understanding fractions. A wonderful center activity! Statistics: What do the Numbers Tell Us? - Learn about statistics through polling. What a great way to help students understand this concept through a real life experience letting them know how statistics affect them in daily life. Patterns in Math - Visit this learning lab to explore logic patterns, number patterns, and word patterns. These activities really teach you to reason and think. Tessellation Tutorials - Are you studying tessellations? This site has links to a definition of tessellations, historical and geographic connections of tessellations, and numerous tutorials. Math in Daily Life - Have students explore some ways we use math in our daily lives through common situations like games or cooking. They will have to use decision-making skills and predictions with the activities. A wonderful site for math enrichment in upper grades. Scale and Structure - This site is filled with activities tested for elementary students that will help them under the concepts of scaling and why things are constructed the way they are. The ArithmAttack - Do you want to motivate your students to practice their math facts? Here's another site that will allow you to do that. Choose addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division and select the high and low numbers to work with. You will then have 60 seconds to see how many you can do. It will give you a score at the end with the number you did correctly and incorrectly. The Academy Curricular Exchange - Here's a great site where you can find a collection of math lessons done by teachers from 14 states. SMILE Program Mathematics Index - WOW! Check out this huge collection of math lessons on a wide variety of topics and levels. You're sure to find something you can use here! Creative Imaginations - Looking for some tangrams? Here's a site that has a pattern for the tangrams and some specific ones for you to make. Word Problems for Kids - Upper grade teachers - do you have some students needing some enrichment in math? This site has a collection of selected word problems they could work on. If it's too difficult, they can use the HINTS. Coolmath - Here is a site that boasts to be an amusement park of math fun! Their goal is to make math fun so check it out. Ask Dr. Math - Have a math question you'd like an answer to? Then Dr. Math is just the person you need. You can search for answers to past questions or submit one of your own.
Art History - This page from the Internet Public Library Youth Collection has many wonderful links to sites on a variety of art concepts that are fun and easy to understand for kids. Artists - Another page from the Internet Public Library Youth Collection with great links to sites on famous artists. Gateway to Art History - Discover art from the different periods in history. artsconnected - Search an art database to find art from all over the world, take a tour, search another database to find units, activities, tours, and other resources for your classroom, access the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Walker Art Center for information, or check out the playground for interactive art activities. A fabulous site! The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Take a tour of this museum from your computer. This museum is on of the largest and finest art museums in the world. Be sure to check out the daily ArtiFact, special exhibitions and Explore and Learn. National Gallery of Art - Take a look at the paintings, sculpture, and other art exhibits in our country's national art gallery. Be sure to check out the online tours and education division. Global Show-n-Tell - Want to display kids artwork or view the works of others. This online museum is the place to go. It is organized by different age levels. Art for Kids - Check out this search engine with access to all sorts of art topics and activities. Art Safari - Head off on an art safari - an adventure in looking. You can choose a famous painting to look at and then write a story about it. Or you can create you own artworks of animals on the computer. You can even submit your story and artwork to a Childrens Art Display that will be seen by people all over the world! CHICO's Musical Heritage Network: Virtual Tours - Celebrate the joy of music making as musicians and dancers perform before your very eyes! Tours include the Great Lakes Powwow Tour, the Javanese Gamelan Tour, the Mariachi del Corazon Tour, and the Salsa Stories Tour. Children's Music Web - Check out cool links like the Children's Music List which can take you to almost every kid's music site on the web, and list to actual performances on the Children's Music Mustard Pages. Eyewitness Encyclopedia: Music - Discover the intriguing world of musical sound and the extraordinary variety of instruments that create it. Music - This page from the Internet Public Library Youth Collection has many wonderful links to sites on a variety of music concepts that are fun and easy to understand for kids. Essentials of Music - Get basic information about classical music, find out about the eras, read about the composers, and look up musical examples. Sony Classical - Find a wealth of information on many current classical musicians reflecting a vibrant diversity of musical traditions and innovations.
Eatin' Right Eddie - Help Eatin' Right Eddie on a nutritious quest up the Great Food Pyramid. You'll learn about the five basic food groups and healthy eating habits. There are great links to other nutrition sites at the bottom of the page. Searching South and Central Americas - Use this collection of selected sites to gather information about countries in Central and South Americas. Plant Research Project - This site contains links to some wonderful plant resources for researching. Black History Month - Check out these fun and educational web sites for Black History Month. Wild Weather and Devastating Disasters - Find out about a variety of weather storms and disasters here. Travel the US - Hop on board and get ready to travel the US. Use these sites to help gather information about our fabulous fifty states. Valentine's Day - For some great Valentine fun, check out these web sites. President's Day - What's it like to be President? Get information on past presidents and their first ladies and more here. The Wonderful World of WebQuests - Want resources about WebQuests and great sites filled with wonderful ones? I've searched the web and found them for you. Enjoy your quests! Integrating and Motivating With Technology - Get lots of ideas on how you can easily integrate technology into your daily curriculum. 1-2-3 Web Page - Find out the main components of a class web page, look at some examples, and get links to some awesome graphic sites. Plant Research Project - Find web sites to use with your plant research. Hurray! It's Been One Hundred Days - Get ideas and activities to celebrate the 100th day of school. Down Under - Digging Up the Dirt
on Rocks and Minerals - Designed for 1st, 3rd, and 4th grade units on rocks, soil, and
minerals. Do You Hear What I Hear - A Study Second Grade of Sound - Find lesson plans, activities, and webquests for sound. Different Shoes Day - Celebrate
different cultures by demonstrating appreciation and acceptance as you promote diversity.
You'll find activities to do with your class as well as sites with more ideas and
activities. Stations for Problem Solving - Here's a fabulous WebQuest filled with fun and challenging activities by Lee Alberdi for math problem solving! Second grade teachers, check out this awesome animal WebQuest by Susan Hunt and Laura Godshall. What a wonderful way to get your kids using the Internet and research skills! Using Technology to Differentiate and Improve Student Achievement |
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