Online Resources and Web Sites
Use Internet only with adult supervision.
Use Internet only with adult supervision.
- Word Central - Merriam-Webster's Online Student Dictionary
- encyclopedia.com - Free encyclopedia, provides users with more than 57,000 frequently updated articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia
- Repository of Primary Sources - a list of websites describing manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources by geographic region
- XtraGoogle - Just enter your search terms, and click on the button of the service you want to search
- Citation Machine - Use to create your bibliography
- NoodleBib Express - Interactive tools to assist with creating your bibliography
- The Artist's Toolkit - Visual elements and principles such as line, shape, space, movement, color and balance. Each element is introduced with an animated demonstration, examples from various museums and an opportunity to create your own composition
- Echoes of Africa - BBC site showing Africa's influence in music
- Metacritic Site - Reviews of movies, music, and video games, giving a numerical score to each work. They have now added book reviews to their site
- Music in Public Domain:
- Instant Poetry Forms - Learn poetic forms by filling in the blanks
- KidsPoint - Games, quizzes, reading lists, and homework help
- Reading Online - Electronic journal from the International Reading Association
- Hints About Print - Great lesson on teaching kids how to evaluate books for research projects and comes with a checklist for kids to use when they want to evaluate a book
- iWrite - resources for great writing
- ALA ALSC Childrens' Notable Lists - Award winning literature and media
- ALA Literary and Related Awards - Links to information about ALSC's book, video and other literary awards.
- Author Websites:
- Find Something to Read:
- A Book and A Hug - Find a book to read
- Bookfinder - Baltimore Public Schools' portal to resources about books
- Books in a Series - Lists popular children's series titles
- Children's Literature Network - For those who are passionate about linking children and books
- Children's Literature Site - Books and activities by Nancy Polette
- Database of Award-winning Children's Literature
- Guys Read - Books that have special appeal for boys
- INK Think Tank: Nonfiction Authors
- International Children's Digital Library - Selects, collects, digitizes, and organizes children's materials in their original languages and creates appropriate technologies for access and use by children 3-13 years old
- Minnesota Maud Hart Lovelace Award - Books and Contest
- Read Kiddo Read - Lots of recommendations.
- Reader's Theater Resources
- Reader's Theater - Aaron Shepard's Home Page , Authors online! Stories, scripts, and more
- Storyline Online - Watch and listen to Screen Actors Guild celebrities read award-winning books
- Storynory - Free downloadable iPod-ready audio stories for kids
- A Compact for Reading & School-Home Links - Ideas for family, teacher, princilpal and student collaboration to support chldren who are learning to read (K-3)
- Into the Book - 8 research-based reading comprehension strategies
- Authors and Illustrators on the Web
- Jim Trelease's Website
- Lexile Leveled Books
- Mosaic Listserve Tools - Assessments, lesson plans, worksheets, and other tools related to teaching comprehension/reading strategies
- Read Write Think - Quality resources for teaching and learning in reading and language arts
- Reading Rockets - Information and resources on how young kids learn to read, why so many struggle, and how adults can help
- Scholastic Book Wizard - Finds books by grade, age and reading level.
- Teachers as Readers book club
- The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA) - Free information, educational programs, advocacy, research, publications, chapters, support groups and more
- Healthfinder.gov - Source of credible, accurate information to help Americans choose to live healthier lives.
- Dictionary of Units of Measurement
- EMTeachline - Multilingual resource with math related links that are part of The Franklin Institute Online Museum Educator program
- Math Cats - interactive math projects, math art and crafts, math writing contests, and math story problems
- Math Wire - field-tested math activities and worksheets which support the constructivist approach to learning mathematics
- Copyright
- Copy Photography Computator: Photos and copyright
- Copyright Duration: A flowchart for determining whether copyright is still in effect in the United States for a copyrighted work. From a company that provides copyright registration services
- Copyright Guidelines - Jefferson County, CO
- Copyright Resources: schools being prosecuted for copyright violations
- Copyright with Cyberbee
- Library of Congress - How to Understand Copyright Restrictions
- Play it Cyber Safe (Business Software Alliance)
- Evaluating Resources
- Hints About Print - Evaluating Print Resources
- Kathy Schrock's Critical Evaluation Resources
- Parents' Choice Foundation - Evaluations of children's books, videos, toys, audios, computer software, television, and magazines
- Web Research Guide - Interactive site for teaching web site evaluation
- Information Technology Skills
- 21st Century Skills - What information technology skills are needed in science, geography, math and English?
- Atomic Learning - Software tutorials & resources - User ID & password available from library media/technology staff
- "Do We" Really Know Dewey? - How the Dewey Decimal Classification System organizes information
- ISD #623 Instructional Media and Technology Web Site
- Knowledge Network Explorer - lessons & tools for using the Internet, formerly known as Blue Web'N
- Learn About the Internet for Elementary Students
- Lissa Explains it All - This tutorial shows kids and beginners how to make their own Web page and publish it on the WWW
- Search Engine Comparisons Chart
- Tammy's Technology Tips for Teachers: Projects and resources for using technology with students
- Media Literacy & Critical Thinking Skills
- Center for Media Literacy - Promotes a framework for accessing, analyzing, evaluating and creating media content, and helps citizens, especially the young, develop critical thinking and media production skills needed to live fully in the 21st century media culture
- New Mexico Media Literacy Project - Teaches children, youth and adults to become more critical consumers of media messages
- Media Literacy - From Cable in the Classroom
- Online Safety
- BlogSafety.com - Where teens, parents, and teachers can learn how to stay safe
- Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use
- Cyber Safe School Materials
- Research Process
- Big6© Grade 3-6 Assignment Organizer - A tool to keep track of your progress using the Big6© problem solving process (PDF)
- Big6© Information Problem-Solving Process
- How to do Research - Kids Research Portal (elementary) by the KY Virtual Library
- Down to Earth Astronomy - Space Telescope Science Institute
- Edheads - Makes difficult concepts easy to understand.
- Hall of Fame - Database of inventors and inventions
- Hey LHS Kids - Activities for learning science and math concepts.
- Inside Einstein's Universe - Portfolio of highly visual, dramatic interactive learning resources
- Kinetic City - Collection of science experiments, games and activities.
- National Marine Sanctuaries - US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Marine Sanctuary Program (NMSP) offers photos, streaming video, and important facts for more than one hundred key animal and plant species from each of the national marine sanctuaries of America's oceans and the Great Lakes
- Online Conversion Tools - Convert units of measurement
- Online Journals Search Engine - Ojose allows you to search over 60 scientific databases using only one search field -- this translates to hundreds of thousands of journal articles and publications.
- Periodic Table of Comic Books - a ‘periodic table of elements’ showing which comic book heroes are associated with particular elements.
- Science Across The World - Wide range of topics and free resources in several languages."
- Weather Channel for Kids - Get your local forecast and learn about weather.
- 10 X 10 - Current events at the global level are updated hourly on this visual grid of words and pictures that highlights leading international news. Click on a thumbnail photo to read the related story. More compelling than a scan of the daily headlines, this ever-changing, unbiased site would be an excellent addition to a daily discussion of world events.
- American Colonies online resources
- American History Quiz
- Awesome Library - Organizes the Web with reviewed resources, including the top 5 percent in education
- Ben's Guide - U. S. Government for Kids
- Bus Safety Resources:
- http://itre.ncsu.edu/GHSP/NCBUSSAFETY.html
- http://www.nysgtsc.state.ny.us/kids.htm#top
- http://www.nsc.org/news_resources/Resources/Documents/School_Bus_Safety_Rules.pdf
- http://www.mbschoolboards.ca/whatwedo/SchoolBusSafety.htm
- http://www.nhtsa.gov/people/injury/buses/kidsschoolbus_en.html
- http://members.tripod.com/~Busmom/saferule.html
- Calendars through the Ages - History of calendars that have been or are now in use.
- CIA World Factbook - Basic information on countries of the world
- Cyber School Bus - Multi-lingual United Nations' resources about countries of the world
- Earth Calendar - International holidays by date, country, religion, lunar phases.
- Election 2008 - from BrainPop
- Election 2008 - from Weekly Reader
- Exploring Earth - Excellent webpage on Earth Science and an especially useful page on GIS National Atlas—online GIS mapping site
- First Amendment First Aid Kit - from Random House
- First Gov - U. S. Federal Government kids' sites
- Geography games: Almost all of these have 3 levels of difficulty within the selections - Continents, European Countries, Asian Countries, South and Central America, Africa, and United States
- Kids.gov, the "official" portal for the U.S. Government
- Library of Congress - Primary source materials and lesson plans - Contains the wonderful American Memory Collection, Thomas Legislation, and America's Playground among others
- Library of Congress Portals to the World - links to in-depth information
- Lonely Planet - travel guides for countries of the world
- Native American Facts for Kids - resources on American Indians
- North American Indian - Photographic images by Edward S. Curtis (Library of Congress)
- Palaeography Tutorial - Learn to read old styles of handwriting found in documents written in English between 1500 and 1800.
- Perry Castaneda Library Map Collection
- Social Studies for Kids
- Stately Knowledge - Information about the United States
- Timeticker - Displays the current time for dozens of countries throughout the world.
- U.S. Election resources
- U.S. Census Facts About States and the U.S. Census FactFinder site
- Virtual Tourist - travel information by travelers
- Whitehouse for Kids
- Adolescent Literacy in the Content Areas - Online newsletter from the Educational Alliance at Brown University contains research, stories, and strategies related to four key components of an effective adolescent literacy initiative: motivating students to read; use of research-based strategies; support of reading and writing across the curriculum; and organizational support
- Answers.com - Draws on sources including the Columbia Encyclopedia, the American Heritage Dictionary and Roget's Thesaurus, as well as specialized references for technical terms
- Combating Censorship - resources from National Council for Teachers of English
- Curriculum Connections - collection of original lesson plans and resources that help K-12 educators integrate multicultural, anti-bias, and social justice themes into their curricula
- Designing Pathfinders for Children and Young Adults
- DiscoverySchool - Lesson plans, Kathy Schrock & more
- Education/Best Practices - Maintained by Annette Lamb and Larry Johnson
- Educators' Spotlight Digest, the first multimedia, online magazine dedicated to providing information and ideas to teachers of information literacy skills
- Educator's Reference Desk - Lesson plans, online education information
- Global School Net Foundation - Linking kids around the world with global project-based learning
- Images/Video/Sound Files:
- Animal Pictures
- Cities and Buildings
- Civil War Photos - From Library Of Congress
- Copyright-Free Photos - From the Federal Government
- Creative Commons - Audio, images, text, video, and other formats that are free to share online
- Earth Science Pictures
- Edward S. Curtis North American Indian Images - From Library Of Congress
- Free Foto
- Glaciers
- Library of Congress - Primary source materials and lesson plans - Contains the wonderful American Memory Collection, Thomas Legislation, and America's Playground among others
- Military Images
- Pics4Learning - Copyright-free photos
- US Fish & Wildlife Service
- Visible Earth from NASA
- Weather-Related Pictures from NOAA
- Music in Public Domain:
- Classic Cat
- Free Play Music
- Royalty Free Music For Education
- Internet Public Library - provides a number of online library services, including a searchable subject directory of Internet links that have been librarian-reviewed; online reference titles; online-viewable books, magazines and newspapers, and tools for Internet searches
- iWrite - resources correlated to The Writer's Handbook
- Librarian's Index to the Internet - More than 14,000 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians to provide relevant, high quality information
- Library of Congress - Primary source materials and lesson plans - Contains the wonderful American Memory Collection, Thomas Legislation, and America's Playground among others
- Literacy Matters: Content Literacy: Web sites containing background information, research-based instructional strategies, lesson plans, sample activities, guidelines, book lists, and resources to strengthen your students' literacy skills, and thus, strengthen their content learning
- Microsoft Education - Lesson plans & resources for teachers using Microsoft programs
- MMSD Language Arts Professional Resources - PDF files containing information, examples and sample worksheets related to strategies outlined in Mosaic of Thought: Teaching Comprehension in a Reader's Workshop
- Mosaic Listserve Tools - Assessments, lesson plans, worksheets, and other tools related to teaching comprehension/reading strategies
- Parents' Choice - Nation's oldest not-for-profit evaluator of children's books, videos, toys, audios, computer software, television, and magazines.
- ReadingQuest: Making Sense in Social Studies - For social studies teachers who wish to more effectively engage their students with the content in their classes, this site includes a fabulous collection of strategies that can be adapted to other content areas
- Sites for Teachers - Educational Sites Rated by Popularity
- Tammy's Technology Tips for Teachers - Projects and resources for using technology with students
- Teachers As Readers - Roseville Area School Teacher Book Club
- Teachers Helping Teachers - Lesson plans & resources
- Teachnet.com - Smart Tools for Busy Teachers
- Tech4Learning - Teaching Tools and Pics4Learning
- ThinkQuest Library
- Cyber School Bus - Multi-lingual United Nations' resources about countries
- I Love Languages - Comprehensive catalog of language-related Internet resources
- One Minute Languages - Learn languages via podcasts
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