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http://www.yahooligans.com
Excellent search engine that is easy to use and helpful for locating kid friendly sites.

http://www.funbrain.com
Great educational games for all subject areas.

http://www.pbs.org/kids/
Games and activities based on PBS television shows.

http://go.grolier.com
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.

Science
The following websites are recommended sites for selecting a Science Fair Project or Experiment

http://www.planemath.com/activities/pmenterprises/experimental/experimental1.html
Interactive experimental design tutorial - great for Science Projects

http://school.discovery.com/sciencefaircentral/
Great for Science Projects

http://scienceclub.org//kidproj1.html
Simple Student/Kid Science Projects

http://tryscience.org/home.html
Excellent site to find science project ideas

The following sites are excellent science websites

http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/kids/
Science 4 Kids

http://learn.jpl.nasa.gov/
Space Website

http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/
Science News 4 kids

http://www.mazoons.com/Mazes.htm
Mazes and cartoons

http://www.edheads.org/activities/simple-machines/
Edheads Simple Machines Activity
http://teacher.scholastic.com/dirtrep/simple/plane.htm
A site related to Edheads that describes the different types of simple machines in easy to understand language
http://ology.amnh.org/earth/ifrockscouldtalk/index.html
Here is a good web site about rocks and minerals.
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/tools.cfm?DocID=31&Grade=3-5
This is an interactive activity in which students classify various plants and animals, including organisms such as a frog, jellyfish, Venus flytrap, bat, human, and seaweed.  The categories into which students place these organisms include Animals, Things With Webbed Feet, Fish, Things That Lay Eggs, Mammals, and others.
http://www.kidsplanet.org/
Learn all about wildlife through reading, games and experimentation.  Find out which animals are endangered and learn how to protect them
http://www.switchzoo.com/
Change the look of zoo animals. Make a biseephantig--the body of a bison, head of a cheetah, legs of an elephant and tail of a pig.
http://www.mrsbogucki.com/cgi-bin/quiz.pl?FILE=landform
This quiz asks students five questions about different landform definitions.  They can check their answers and generate more quizzes.  This could be useful for geography skill building and SOL prep.
http://ology.amnh.org/earth/planetology/index.html
An interactive web site about the solar system
http://ology.amnh.org/astronomy/index.htm
A web site about astronomy and related topics.
Math

http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/counting/index.html
Let's Count - counting activities for Preschool & Kindergarten students available in English & Spanish. PreK - K

http://www.multiplication.com
Review multiplication facts with several games that vary in degree of difficulty - grades 3-6

http://www.aaamath.com
Basic math applications for all grade levels

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives (geometry, algebra, measurement, number operations, etc)

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

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://hbogucki.staffnet.com/aemes/apps/change/changeit.htm
Change It - practice counting coins grades 1-4

http://www.fi.edu/time/Journey/JustInTime/contents.html
A Matt er of Ti m e - clock quizzes grades K-3

http://www.mrsbogucki.com/cgi-bin/quiz.pl?FILE=fraction
A graphical representation of fractions where students determine what the answer to a basic fraction question is.  “Try Again” and additional questions are available like in the previous sites listed above.
http://www.mrsbogucki.com/cgi-bin/quiz.pl?FILE=shapes
This site follows the same pattern as a few prior sites in that the students are asked 10 questions regarding different geometrical shapes.  They answer the questions and then can check their answers.  If they (or you) want to take another test all they have to do is click on the button and a new “test” will be generated.  This could be a good review for SOL Geometry.
http://www.mrsbogucki.com/cgi-bin/quiz.pl?FILE=mult
This site is the same format at the one above.  A ten question quiz on multiplying numbers that are 1 and 2 digits could be a good math drill for skill building and SOL prep.
Social Studies

http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/
Tim e magazine for kids online - fantastic site for current events.

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com
Social Studies topics from geography and government to history and holidays.

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

http://www.historyforkids.org
Information about ancient cultures

http://earlyamerica.com/series.html
Videos on a variety of Famous Americans and events
http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/notable/notable2.html
Notable Women of Early America
Language Arts
http://www.starfall.com
http://www.cogcon.com/gamegoo/gooeyhome.html
This site has many Language Arts activities for Grades K – 2 (according the web site’s authors)
It is a very kid friendly site.  The graphics are all very appropriate for the younger students and all explanations on how to play any of the games are all given out loud.  All activities are broken down into Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced.
http://www.mrsbogucki.com/cgi-bin/quiz.pl?FILE=hmphal
Homophones (A-L)
http://www.mrsbogucki.com/cgi-bin/quiz.pl?FILE=hmphmz
Homophones (M-Z)
http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/grammar/archive/grammar_games_index_page01.html
A huge collection of online grammar games.  Grades 3+

Last Update: Monday, December 08, 2008 by Gina.Shelton@fcps.edu