Revised
4/26/05
General Resources
Online Science-athon
http://scithon.terc.edu/
The Science-athon offers elementary and middle-grade students
opportunities to discover the science in their daily lives through
experiments, data collection and analysis, and sharing of data
online.
Scrub Club
http://www.scrubclub.org/home.php
A study of school children revealed that those that washed their
hands four times a day missed between 21% and 54% fewer school
days due to illness than those that didn't. In order to improve
both health and school attendance, the not-for-profit NSF International
created this website for kids three to eight. It teaches the six
steps of hand washing though songs, cartoons, stickers and games.
Life Cycle of Butterflies
Butterflies
http://www.EnchantedLearning.com/subjects/butterfly/
Summary/Directions: All the normal information about the life cycle
but some very interesting information about extremes, largest, smallest,
fastest. longest lifespan. A good section on a butterfly's defense
mechanisms. There is a chart comparing moths to butterflies that
students can use to make a Venn diagram. A wonderful illustrated
butterfly glossary is available. In the butterfly puzzle as students
answer questions correctly a piece of the butterfly puzzle comes
into view. There are several printouts that teachers can use. (notes
by Janet Wislocki)
Children's
Butterfly Site
http://www.mesc.usgs.gov/butterfly/Butterfly.html
Entomologist Dr. Paul Opler answers children's questions about butterflies
and tells the butterfly life cycle story through click-and-print
coloring pages. Be sure to visit the photo gallery.
Monarch Watch
http://www.monarchwatch.org/
Monarch Watch is a cooperative study of the monarch's fall migration
to promote science education in primary and secondary schools.
Recently, more than 40,000 students in thirty-nine states and three
Canadian provinces tagged and studied more than 49,000 Monarchs.
In addition to information on joining the Watch, you'll find lots
to learn about the monarch, and many ideas for classroom projects.
North American Butterfly
Association
http://www.naba.org/
The North American Butterfly Association, Inc. (NABA), a non-profit
organization, was formed in 1992. NABA's mission is to increase
public enjoyment and conservation of butterflies. NABA focuses on
the joys of non-consumptive, recreational butterflying including
listing, gardening, observation, photography, rearing and conservation.
This site has links to some images of North American butterflies
and has questions and answers.
Balancing and Weighing
Soils
BLM
Soil Biological Communities for Kids
http://www.blm.gov/nstc/soil/Kids/index.html
Neighborhood
Map Skills and Geography
How Far
Is It?,
http://www.indo.com/distance/
Do not be confused when you first go to this site by the "Bali
and Indonesia" title. Scroll to the bottom and enter the starting
point such as Hartford, CT and the final destination such as Paris
,France and click on Look it up and you will get a wealth of information.
FirstGov
For Kids- Geography
http://www.kids.gov/k_geography.htm
Government
Books online
Story-Making
Machine
http://communicationconnects.com/stories.asp
Use the Story-Making Machine for classroom story-writing assignments
or use pre-written stories to reinforce target sounds for articulation.
Internet Picture
Dictionary
http://pdictionary.com/
Look up words in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish,
check meanings, spellings. There are flash cards, word scrambles
and spelling games.
MightyBook.com
http://www.mightybook.com/home.htm
A virtual library of stories for children of all ages.
Hiyah.com
http://www.hiyah.com/main_page.html
Fairy tales and classic stories. Story runs as a virtual video:
you can pause, forward, rewind and play.
Learn to Read at
Starfall - teaching comprehension and phonics
http://www.starfall.com
Interactive story books, phonics activities, and printable lessons.
You can send for free writing journals for your class - even free
shipping! Go to the site to order them
Reading Comprehension
Literature
S.C.O.R.E
Cyber Guides for Literature
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/cyk3.html
A
Quest for Respect with the Grouchy Ladybug
http://www.yorkville.k12.il.us/webquests/webqfrey/webqsfrey.html
A WebQuest written for Grades 1 & 2 based on the book by Eric
Carle. Activities include charting the activities of the grouchy
ladybug that day, drawing and describing the main character, discovering
the meaning of respect, researching facts about ladybugs and making
your own, and discussing personal feelings of respect and then role
play.
Writing
Math Practice
A+ Math
http://aplusmath.com/
This web site was developed to help students improve their math
skills interactively. Has a game room, Flashcards, Math Word Find
puzzle. Create and print your own set of flashcards online,Worksheets
section, and Homework Helper.
Tangram
Game Online
http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/games/area/tangram.html
Move the pieces to make the displayed shape. Get a hint if you're
not sure. This needs Flash to work. Ask your computer teacher to
download Flash and it should work.
Free Printable
Worksheets
http://kidzone.ws/math/
Choose math skills theme or season and print out a worksheet.
Math Story Problems
DuPage
Children's Museum: Aunty Math
http://www.dupagechildrensmuseum.org/aunty/index.html
Each week there is an interesting math challenge presented for K-5
students. You can submit answers and see math skills involved.
Cat
Story Problems
http://www.mathcats.com/storyproblems.html
Story Problems written by children. Click on the white column for
a worksheet, the black column to get the "Magic Blackboard"
- if you put your mouse over it the answer is shown. On the bottom,
"Number Stories" are drawings and problems submitted by
children.
Halloween
Word Problems
http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/2ndgrade/halloween.htm
Halloween story problems created in Kid Pix by children.
Reading
Math: Using the "Story" to Help Children Solve Math Story
Problems
http://www.kidbibs.com/learningtips/lt35.htm
Tips for using certain books to make math word problems.
Money
Aplusmath:
Money Flash Cards
http://www.aplusmath.com/cgi-bin/flashcards/money
"How much money is here?" Flash cards present one problem
at a time, using dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies.
If you prefer an interactive presentation with ten, twenty or fifty
problems on a single screen, visit http://www.aplusmath.com/Worksheets/OnlineMoney.html
instead.
Family
Education Network: Piggybank (needs Shockwave)
http://fen.com/studentactivities/Piggybank/piggybank.html
"Can you choose coins that add up to an amount of money?"
As coins fall from the top of the screen, click on them to reach
your goal. To remove a chosen coin from your total, simply click
on it again. Easy level shows the sum of your chosen coins. When
playing at the hard level, you have to keep the running total in
your head.
FunBrain:
Change Maker
http://www.funbrain.com/cashreg/
Earn money in a virtual piggy bank by calculating change. "If
you get the answer correct, the amount of change is added to your
piggy bank. If you get the answer wrong, the correct amount of change
is subtracted from your piggy bank. The more money you get in your
piggy bank, the harder the questions will get." Change Maker
has four levels of difficulty (including Big Spender with purchases
over $100) and five currencies: American dollar, Canadian dollar,
Mexican peso, English pound and Australian dollar.
MegaPenny
Project
http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/
See what one million pennies (and other amounts) would look like,
how much it weighs, etc. Has descriptions and visuals of one, 16,
up to trillions of pennies.
Time
The
Behavioral Report
http://www.jimwrightonline.com/php/tbrc/tbrc.php
This website allows you to make behavior reports for students. You
can personalize them by student name, choose, write and arrange
behaviors and choose a rating scale (yes/no, smile face, 1-9 scale,
etc.) Then you can print it as a daily or weekly chart.
FunBrain
http://www.funbrain.com/
FunBrain is a site at which you can choose the age of the students
and the subject and find simple games that practice skills in a
fun way. This site does not use any special plug-ins so it can be
run on any computer connected to the Internet.
Kathy
Schrock
Scholastic
Theme
Lessons and printables for K-3 from Enchanted Learning
http://www.EnchantedLearning.com/themes/
Computer
Lesson Ideas for Early Stages
http://www.schools.ash.org.au/revesby/li.html
Has Lesson Ideas for Kid Pix, Hyperstudio,
ClarisWorks, and Netscape.
PBS TeacherSource
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/
2,500 lessons available for K-12 Arts & Literature, Math, Science
& Technology, Social Studies, Health & Fitness and Early
Childhood.
42 eXplore
http://eduscapes.com/42explore/
Great place to develop theme lessons and
to explore educational websites for a variety of subjects and topics.
Search by topic, subject or by date. The idea is explained in easier
and harder terms. Then there are 4 websites that relate, very helpful
if one site is busy or not working. There are some general ideas
for projects, followed by more related websites with details. Allows
teachers as well as students to explore topics for learning.
