Websites
General |
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Excellent site for watching mini educational videos and corresponding activities. Ask your teacher for username and password information |
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Excellent search engine that is easy to use and helpful for locating kid friendly sites. |
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Great educational games for all subject areas. |
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Games and activities based on PBS television shows. |
http://www.enchantedlearning.com An incredible site with excellent information on a wide-variety of elementary topics. |
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This site has excellent online encyclopedias and reference resources. The New Book of Knowledge features reference material and current events for grades 3 and up. |
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Links to over 600 educational games focusing on Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies and more... |
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This site from the United Kingdom contains wonderful Shockwave interactive games with activities for all the subject areas. |
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Learn about online dangers. |
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Games, activities and information about internet safety |
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Learn about the basic principles of internet safety. |
Math |
http://www.ixl.com/promo?partner=brightserve&phrase=i4c_728x90 Interactive Math Games |
http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/ Research-based and standards-aligned free educational math games and language arts games will engage, motivate, and help teach students. |
http://oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/mathmagician/cathymath.html Math Magician Games |
http://www.rainforestmaths.com/ Excellent interactive websites for math. |
http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/counting/index.html Let's Count - counting activities for Preschool & Kindergarten students available in English & Spanish. PreK - K |
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Review multiplication facts with several games that vary in degree of difficulty - grades 3-6 |
http://www.eduplace.com/math/brain Brain Teasers - a new brain teaser every Wednesday. grades 3-6 |
http://www.mathsurf.com/teacher/index.html Math Surf - math problems to sharpen your mental math skills. grades 1-6 |
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Web Math - math help with all concepts for all grade levels. |
http://www.primarygames.com/curriculum/math.htm Primary Games - provides math games and activities for teaching numbers, patterns, geometry, addition, subtraction, multiplication, money, time, fractions. grades K-4 |
http://www.visual fractions.com Visual Fractions - Practice identifying and renaming fractions and mixed numbers. Grade 2-4 |
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Aplus Math - offers a variety of games, puzzles, and worksheets to improve basic math skills. grades K-6 |
http://www.mathcats.com/explore/reallybignumbers.html Saying Large Numbers - focuses on reinforcing the verbal representation of numbers between zero and one billion. grades K-3 |
http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/fractions/index.html Who Wants Pizza - a fun way to learn about fractions using pizza. grades K-2 |
http://standards.nctm.org/document/eexamples/chap4/4.2 Interactive Geoboards - helps students identify simple geometric shapes, describe their properties, and develop spatial sense. grades K-2 |
http://illuminations.nctm.org/mathlets/shapetool/index.html Shape Tool - an interactive shape tool applet, which can be used to create various polygons and other geometric figures. grades 2-4 |
http://www.aplusmath.com/cgi-bin/flashcards/money Money Flashcards - count the correct amount of cash using pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, and dollars. grades 2-4 |
http://www.funbrain.com/cashreg Change Maker - figure out how many of each bill or coin will be given back when you pay for something. grades 2-5 |
http://www.funbrain.com/poly/index.html Shape Surveyor - calculate the area or perimeter of a rectangle. grades 2-5 |
http://www.funbrain.com/measure/index.html Measure It - measure using centimeters or inches at various difficulty levels. grades 1-6 |
http://www.learner.org/teacherslab/math/patterns/buttons Guess My Button - Sorting and classifying to help discover a lot about patterns of objects, people, and places. grades 1-3 |
http://naturalmath.com/mult/index.html Multiplication An Adventure in Number Sense - breaks down the process of learning multiplication facts. grades 3-4 |
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Flashcards, worksheets, and games to help you practice your math facts grades 1-5 |
http://www.redmond.k12.or.us/patrick/renz/Math%20Web%20Sites2.htm Comprehensive list of math websites for grades 3-6 |
http://hbogucki.staffnet.com/aemes/apps/change/changeit.htm Change It - practice counting coins grades 1-4 |
http://hbogucki.staffnet.com/aemes/apps/mmm/mmm.htm Mad Minute Math problems - great practice for the Math Challenge grades 1-6 |
http://www.fi.edu/time/Journey/JustInTime/contents.html A Matter of Time - clock quizzes grades K-3 |
http://www.sln.org/pieces/silverman/TourDeMath.html Tour de Math - varies in difficulty grades 2-6 |
http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/ekowalcz/math/elementary_web_sites.htm Elementary Interactive Math websites |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/mathsfile/gameswheel.html Shockwave math games involving algebra, data, geometry, measurement, and number sense grades 3-6 |
http://www.learningbox.com/Base10/ Place Value games that reinforce concepts of ones, tens, and hundreds |
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/mw/swfs/mathlingo_grade1.html Math vocabulary game |
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/mw/ Houghton Mifflin math games |
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Click here for more math websites that are grouped by skills. |
Social Studies |
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/ Time magazine for kids online - good site for current events |
http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews Scholastic News website - news articles on current events, includes games & quizzes. |
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com Social Studies topics from geography and government to history and holidays. |
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A fun way to learn about money and banking. |
http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz Test your geography knowledge. |
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/ National Geographic games and activities and lots of good information. |
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Information about ancient cultures. |
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Lots of information about the U.S. Government |
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/education/kidspost Washington Post for Kids |
http://members.aol.com/donnandlee Mr. Donn's Ancient History website - lots of activities and information about Ancient Civilizations. |
http://www.cr.nps.gov/colherit.htm Links to the Past - explore people, places, objects, and events |
Language Arts |
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Digital library with hundreds of digital books from Capstone Digital. These digital books can be accessed for individual reading, homework, research and fun! Please see your teacher for login information. |
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TumbleBookLibrary is an online collection of animated, talking picture books which teach young children the joys of reading in a format they'll love. Please see your teacher for login information. |
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Student dictionary and Word of the Day |
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Tar Heel Reader: Books for beginning readers of all ages |
http://www.literactive.com/Home/index.asp Literactive: Teaching Children to Read |
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Online books |
http://www.harcourtschool.com/menus/harcourt_brace_spelling.html Spelling activities for grades 1-6 |
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A great site for children learning to read. |
http://www.storylineonline.net This site has stories read by famous actors and actresses |
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/wordfamily/ Word Family Sort |
http://www.readwritethink.org/parent-afterschool-resources/ Read Write Think Website offers a host of online activities. |
Science |
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Science movies and quizzes on a wide-range of topics |
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NASA website for kids |
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/worms Interactive site about worms |
http://yucky.kids.discovery.com The yuckiest site on the internet - science entertainment for kids |
http://www.ecokidsonline.com/pub/index.cfm Information, games, and activities about the environment |
http://www.epa.gov/recyclecity Learn about ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle at Recycle City |
http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/caer/ce/eek/earth/groundwater/index.htm Learn all about the wonders of water |
http://www.planemath.com/activities/pmenterprises/experimental/experimental1.html Interactive experimental design tutorial - great for Science Projects |
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/kids U.S. Department of Agriculture site especially for kids |
http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/resources/explorations/light Interactive site for kids about light |
http://imagers.gsfc.nasa.gov/index.html Adventures of Echo the Bat & The Adventures of Amelia the Pigeon - online stories |
http://www.edheads.org/activities/simple-machines Learn all about simple machines |
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/ This site was designed by NASA to teach children about Astronomy |
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/trees1/index.html Trees are terrific - learn about trees at this interactive site (available in Spanish) |
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/insects/index.html Learn all about insects (available in Spanish) |
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/index.html The Great Plant Escape - discover the mysteries of plant life (available in Spanish) |
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/trees2/index.html Learn all about the parts of a tree and why trees are important to us (available in Spanish) |
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/woods/01.htm Take a walk in the woods and learn about nature |
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/index_flash.shtml Great Science activities for elementary students |
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/crittercam/index.html Get an animal's point of view |
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Kids Health - articles and interactive activities about health |
http://www.worldwildlife.org/wildfinder Search for information about worldwide wildlife by area or by animal name |
http://kidsastronomy.com - Kids Astronomy http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov - Nasa kids |
http://www.edheads.org/activities/weather/index.htm Report and predict the weather on this interactive website |
SOL Practice |
| Virginia Department of Education - SOL Released Questions |
| SOL Pass - See your teacher for password |
| Jefferson Lab - Virginia Standards of Learning Practice Tests |
| Interactive Quizzes |
| SOL Practice Quizzes |
| Practice Tests and Tutorial Sites |
| SOL Games and Activities- Wendy Seger |
| SOL Social Studies Quizzes - Harrisonburg County |
Typing Practice |
| Typing Games |
| Nimble Fingers |
| Dance Mat Typing |


