This page was designed as a list of some of the best resources that I have found through my travels around the web. The page is meant to be used by students, parents, and other teachers. I have another link to a site of great links for just educators...watch for that link soon.
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-Go and check out what the government
tells us about education in the United States. This site is well designed
and clearly laid out. You can find just about anything you are looking
for and search for whatever is not easily accessible.
This list of search engines is designed to be used by parents, teachers,
and students alike. There is no BEST search engine. It all comes down to
a matter of preference. Please try the different ones that I have listed
here. You will find the one you like and stick with it.
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This site is part of the Women's International
Center web site. This is mostly a text based site that is written
at a relatively hard level. The reason that I am putting it on this site
is so that my female students and mothers can go to the site together and
learn about the achievements of women in history. Watch for this site to
be referred to in class at some point. It has a lot of great information.
The ever popular RMS Titanic sinking has many sites. This is the official
Titanic-online site. You can learn just about everything surrounding the
ship's sinking and all of the attempts to recover parts of the ship. Please...go,
explore!
The American Civil War Hompage
This page contains everything you would want to know about the United
States Civil War. It is really an extremely complete site to visit. Once
that you are there, you could spend days exploring all of the resources
that it holds. The amount of resources that it has can become a little
overwhelming, but it does not really take away from the usability of the
site.
American Colonial Era and Revolutionary War
This is not the best site about the Revolutionary War, but it is a great
place to start. The webmaster of this site has set it up so that people
go here to then travel off to other places that he as linked to. I have
used this site to help me with numerous project throughout my time at Delaware.
The History Place-American Revolution
The link that I have given you is part of The
History Place homepage. The link is to a huge timeline about the events
of America's birth. If you go to the link for The History Place, you can
learn about all sorts of events from around the world. The site and its
parent site are worth checking out.
NASA online Educational Resources
This is an online sampling of Internet sources at NASA and affiliated
organizations of interest to the education community" concentrating in
science and technology.
These two sites are places to find maps of specific places around the world. The main use of these sites is for people to map the route in which they will travel when taking a trip
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I've only got one word to describe this site *WOW*. The reason that
I made this claim is that this site is just like the book that we all know
and love. It takes the reader through a whole explanation of how different
things operate. This site is a little wordy, but I think that teachers
could definitely utilize the information from it in their classrooms and
parents can visit the site with their children. It really is pretty awesome.
Make sure that you go and check it out.
A very common topic to study in the fifth and sixth grades is volcanoes.
My mother actually stumbled across this site and I thought that it was
worth putting on here. This site gives you just about any type of volcano
information you could ever want. Almost any teacher could integrate this
site into their lessons and have the students follow volcanic activity.
They could ask experts the questions that they have. They could read and
get background information for a report. The possibilities are almost endless.
Misc. Science -Take a look at these...they are runner ups to my Best
of list....
Stig's Sky
Calendar
Accuwather
Bill Nye the Science
Guy's Nye Labs Online
San Diego Zoo
National Zoo
Zoom Dinosaurs
Electronic Zoo
Sydd's Internet
Zoo
Space Zoo
Extreme Science
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What a find...FunBrain.com is a place for just about anyone. Go here
and get that extra practice on the work that you didn't understand during
the school year. FunBrain.com has created 30+ games to be completed online.
You'll never realize that you're actually learning some very important
information. To parents and teachers, FunBrain.com tracks all of the work
of the individual competing. You can get printouts via email of each performance.
I am definitely going to use this site in my classroom.
I think that the best way to describe this site is that it is an online
magazine that is interactive with the reader. This site is set up for young
people who want to explore different areas of study. They can go here and
learn just about anything...You can read articles, answer questions in
a forum, and do lots more. Take time to explore this site...
This is a site for kids to go and learn about social skills. They will interact with other "club members" by telling their opinions about things and saying why this is true or isn't true. The site is specifically designed so students can work on it alone. There are no advertisements, sensitive material, etc. The site even has pages for parents and teachers to go read about the purposes of the site. Enjoy it!
Misc...runner ups
The Moonlit
Road
SchoolHouse
Rock
UNICEF Voices of Youth
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I'm not going to go through and describe each one of the author pages, but I will tell you that these are all children's literature authors and that they have all put out some great stuff. If you have a chance go through and explore the different pages. You might find your new favorite author! (please send me any other author's pages you might know about)
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Hey
Teachers - I have put together a list of resources that I think you
will love. Please excuse the mess, I am still working on the site and I
haven't put things into categories yet.
Do you want online curriculum materials? Do you want your
students to have their own web pages or email addresses?
Go to my Online
Curriculum Materials page to find out how.
If you have some time, check out these two GREAT web pages...They
are coming off of my page, but they were not created by me. My mother
was given the data file at a conference, and I wanted to share it with
the world. If some of the links are not active, I'm sorry.
I'll try to keep an eye on them.
(P.S.-the pages are from related classes and have
many of the same links)
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