Learning Links

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Math Playground

Practice your math skills, play a logic game and have some fun!.

Online Books for Students



*Online Books (e-books) & Database
These resources require a fcps login and password. Please contact your child's teacher for information on login.

*General Student Resources:
(P=most appropriate for primary grades , U= most appropriate for upper grades, unmarked site appropriate for all)

Current Events:
Time for Kids
Scholastic News
Sports Illustrated for Kids

News Flash Five

Math Sites:
Ask Dr. Math
Math Glossary
Virtual Manipulatives
Rain Forest Maths
Math Games from UK
Math Mayhem
Count Us In (P)
Set Online (U)

Fish Tank Math(U)

That's a Fact

Language Arts:
MysteryNet's Kids Mysteries
Virginia Readers' Choice
Word Girl
Kids Read
Lemony Snicket
Potamus Place(games & more)
Kids on the Web tools(U)
Between the Lions (P)
Starfall (P)
Seussville(P)

Jan Brett (P)
Learning Vocabulary Fun

Social Studies:
LookLex: Sarahara

National Geographic Kids
Enchanted Learning
Kidipede
Kids Commonwealth
American Memory (U)
(Library of Congress)

Scribble States
Mr. Donn's History Page (U)

Science:
Yuckiest Site
WebRangers
Exploratorium
Kids C.A.V.E.
NASA for Kids
Mad Sci. Network
Zoo Books
Science News for Kids
Strange Matter
Make a Flake
Online Egg Hunt

Energy Kids

 

Just for Fun:
Crayola Kids
Cyberchase
Kids Go Wild

General Sites:
E Learning for Kids: Choose your grade level and skill strand to practice math and play games
*Requires login & password: fairfax


Field Trips
Take a virtual field trip to some great online museums. There are interactive activities on each site - almost as much fun as visiting in person.

National Gallery of Art for Kids
Try the Collage Machine, Paint Box, Pixel Face, Mobile and 3-D Twirler.
Museum Kids
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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University of Chicago:
Be an Art Detective, visit an artist's studio, explore art materials, & make your own art
National Zoo
Wonder what the pandas are up to?
Visit the panda and other animals at the National Zoo with the site's live Animal Cams.
San Diego Zoo
See what the polar bears, pandas, apes & elephants are doing out in San Diego, California.
New York Philharmonic's Kid Zone
Kidzone is a place for kids to come play games and learn about
the instruments,
music, musicians, compose your own music, even design your own instrument!
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Even if you can't fly out to California, you can visit the sharks, penguins, and otters at the Aquarium
British Museum
Learn about ancient civilizations with a visit to the British Museum.


Puzzle Sites

Brain Food:
These puzzles require both logical and mathematical reasoning. Can you solve them?
Math Olympiad sample problems from Washington State:
These problems have been organized for you, by difficulty, with the easiest problems listed first. The first 6 problems are developmental and train the student to approach the problem and to investigate possible solutions, while not being extremely difficult. Such problems allow the coach/teacher to concentrate on the other aspects of problem solution that 5th and 6th graders typically find difficult: communicating their thinking, examining more than 1 strategy, checking their results.

Connect the Dots:
Connect the dots pictures to practice counting up to 100.
Think Fun:
Online versions of Tip Over, River Crossing, Rush Hour
Invention at Play:
Explore and invent using the thinking games and puzzles at Invention Playhouse - the Smithsonian's new Lemelson Center
Brain Games:
puzzles, logic & reasoning, word games, brain fitness, typing games, even a virtual Rubik's Cube

SOL Linksks

 
Interactive Quizzes, Gr. 3
Scroll down the page for SOL
Interactive Quizzes, Gr. 4
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Interactive Quizzes, Gr. 5
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Interactive Quizzes, Gr. 6
Scroll down the page for SOL
 


Links for Parents

Lots of Lists:
for reading, that is

Magic Keys:
Online reading for beginning readers and for young adults-includes stories, riddles and fun activities
Author's & Illustrators on the Web
Your favorite author's websites online
Reading Rockets:
WETA's site, offers activities, worksheets, exercises, skills, tests, and information on struggling readers

*Please note that these sites contain links that are outside the FCPS network. FCPS does not control the content or relevancy of these pages.

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Mosby Woods Home

adapted from Colvin Run ES-Curater Tori Meleski