• Search Engines
• Image editing, drawing & fun 
• Library, DCSD Library & Reference
• EasyBib

• Typing Pal
• Typing Test
• Typing DATA

• ABCya

Books read by authors. No words.

• Search Engines 
  • Bing (SafeSearch Scrict is set on school computers. Parents can set these same filters for Bing at home.) 
    
  • Google (SafeSearch Scrict is set on school computer. Parents can set these same filters for Google at home. )
  • Wolfram Alpha-a computational knowledge engine
• Student Search Engines and search resources
  
  • KidRex
  • Kiddle
    
  • InstaGrok
  • Enchanted Learning
  • United Streaming/Discovery Education
• Image Search
  • Photos for Class (citations downloaded with image)
  • Creative Commons (allows for reuse in most instances with citation)
  • Bing
  • Google 
  • Pics4Learning
  • MorgueFile
• Music  
  • Creative Commons  
  • FreePlayMusic
  • SoundJay
  • Royalty Free Music
  • Free Music Archive
  • Sound Bible (sound clips, sound bites, sound effects) 
    

• Photovisi free photo collages
• Sketchpad
• Ribbet 
  
• Tagxedo word cloud maker
• ABCya Word Cloud 

• Crayola Draw 
• ABCya Paint 
• Color sort
• Bloopers colors 
• Build With Chrome

• Writing and Reference
  •  Dictionary.com
  • Bartleby (Great Books Online)
  • Rhyme Zone
  • NoodleBib (Tool for making citations. Click on NoodleBib Express under Free Software Tools)
  • Synonyms 
    
• Story Elements
  • Cinderella's story elements
  • Pinky Dinky Doo
• Create & Publish Stories Online
  • Picture Book Maker
  • Carnegie Library Storymaker
  • Storybird-stories with situational art
  • StoryJumper
• Online Books and Authors 
  • We Give Books 
  • Bookpop
    
  • Speakaboos 
  • Literactive 
  • Tarheel Reader
  • Tumblebooks
    
  • BBC Storytime
    
  • Bookshare (username/password required)
• Word & Vocabulary Fun

  •   ABCya Word Cloud 

  •   Freerice.com

  • WordWorld 
    

  • Spell a Picture by Kerpoof    
  • Spellingcity.com   
• Fix Wordle on Mac
  • Download HERE then click "ok"  
    
• Mysteries
  •  Kids.Mystery.Net
• Biographies
  • Children's Encyclopedia of Women  
  • I'm a Hero 
  • Biography.com4Kids
  • History.com
  • Amazing Americans
  • Biographies for kids

• Book Review Sites
  • The Spaghetti Book (Read book reviews by students, listen to story tellers, and more.)
  • Bookhive
  • Kids Reads 
  • BookAdventure (Very similar to Accelerated Reader)
• Fun with Language Arts
  •  Starfall
  •  Storybots  
  •  Scholastic I SPY
  • Weekly Reader-Kids
  • Primary Games.com Language Arts 
  • Kids Domain Reading Games 
  •  Clifford's Website
  •  Between the Lions-PBS Kids
  •  Game Goo "Learning that Sticks"Reading readiness activities for primary students
  • ABC and 123 Magnets
• Poetry

  • Scholastic Poetry Brainstorming Resources

  •  Shadow Poetry 

  • Types of Poetry 

  • Acrostic Poems

  • Fern's Poetry Club

  • Found Poetry

• Grammar
  • Grammaropolis 
  • Adjective Detective
  • My English Images (great for ESL) 
    
  • Strunk-Elements of Style
  • Past and present tense of "Be"
    
• Emerging Reader Alphabet Fun
  • ABC Match AaBb
  • ABC Order 

• General Math 
  
  • Khan Academy
  • Math Live-Animated math lessons
  • Number Nut-math lessons 
    
  •      Everyday Mathematics     
    
  •      Virtual Manipulatives   
    
  • A+ Math  
  • Math Mastery 
    
  • Education Place 
    
  • Connect the Dots (Counting) 
    
  • Funbrain.com 
  • The Internet Mathematics Library
    
  • CoolMath.com 
    
  • Math Cats 
    
  • Count Us In Games 
    
  •  Fun 4 the Brain
  •  
    
  •  Tower of Hanoi
  • Base 10
    
• Geometry
  • Symmetry Quiz 
    
  • Tangram Game
    
  • General Geometry 
    
  • More Geometry 
    
  • Tessellations (ask teacher for code)
• Probability
  • Play Your Cards Right 
    
  • Probability Manipulatives
• Time
  • Clock-Move the Hands 
    
  • Hours and Minutes Activity 
    
  • Time Concentration Activity 
    
  • Time Matching Activity 
    
  • Clock Talk 
    
  • Beat the Clock
• Graphing
  • Coordinate Plane (plotting points)again
  • Pictogram Graph

• Math Facts and Computation 
  
  • Math Jeopardy Games
  • Logi-Numbers
  • Xtramath.org
  •   Tutpup 
  • Math Fact Practice 
    
     
  • Alien Invaders addition
  •  Fuel the Brain
    
  •  Math Magician Games(Oswego City Schools) 
  • QuizHub
  • Sumdog math games 
    
  • Math Fact Cafe
  • Play Kids Games Math Fact Practice Games  
    
  • Math Two Games
  • Make  5-math facts on a table
  • Math Assessment
• Fractions
  • Hungry for Math
    
  • Concept of a Fraction 
    
  • Fraction Flag-Thirds 
    
  • Fraction Flag-Halves and Quarters 
    
  • Arcademic Skill Builders
• Decimals
  • Decimal Numbers Workout 
    
  • Introduction to Decimals Matching Game
• Money
  •   Coin Combo  
    
  • Cash Out 
    
  • Buy It with the Little Farmer 
    
  • Lemonade Stand 
    
  • Lemonade Larry 
    
  • Funbrain: Change Maker
  • Count on it
  • Counting Money
    
• Primary Math 
  • Cows by 5*
  • Count Your Chickens 
    
  • I Love Shapes
  •  How Tall
  •  Count Fis
  • Number recognition-Disney
  • 1 - One Hundred Chart
  • 2 - Number Bingo
  • 2 - Math Problems
  • 3 - Connect the dots
  • 3 - Sorting-Fuzzbugs (FUN!)

• General Science 
  
  • Science Fair Central 
  • Discovery School 
    
  • Building Big  
    
  • Soda Constructor 
    
  • BrainPop 
    
  • Cool Science for Kids 
    
  • How Stuff Works 
    
  • Sandlot Science 
    
  • EdHeads 
    
  • I Know That-Science Lab Games 
    
  • Women in Science-iwaswondering.org 
    
  • Exploring Nature
  • Ology from AMNH-includes earth science, climates, biodiversity, anthropology, archeology. 
    
• Biomes 
  
  • Biomes of the World 
    
  • Biomes - Enchanted Learning 
    
  • Biomes from Berkely
  • Blue Planet Biomes 
    
• Simple Machines 
  
  • EdHeads (simple machines simulation & the Odd Machine)
    
  • Leonardo 
    
  • Exploring Simple Machines Webquest
• Solar System & Astronomy 
  
  • Cosmic Quest 
    
  • Nasa Kids 
    
  • Starchild 
    
  • Astro-venture 
    
  • What is your weight on other planets? 
    
  • What is your age on other planets? 
    
  • Moon Phases Simulation (click start simulation)
  • NASA:Planets
  • NASA: Moon
  • European Space Agency Kids 
    

• Weather
  • Environment Explorers
  • EdHeads (weather simulation)
  • Seasons Interactive
  • Alfy's Snow Day
  • Weather (dress the bear)
  • Weather Wiz Kids
  •  Weather Wheel

• Volcano
  • National Geographic.com 
    
  • Geotopics 
    
  • Current Volcano Activity 
    
  • Questions About the Effects of Volcanoes 
    
  • I Know That 
    
  • US Geological Survey 
    (Go to "Natural Hazards, and Select a Hazard" to choose volcanoes)
    
  • Global Volcanism Program
  • Landform Detectives: an interactive game that teaches about how our earth was formed. 
    

• Electricity
  • School Science Clips-Using Electricity (BBC) 
    
  • Who can resist etc (Conductors and Insulators)
    
  • ReviseWise Science (BBC) 
    
  • The Blobz Guide to Electric Circuits
  • Build a circuit

• Animals
  • Animal Info from Sheppard Software
  • Animals-Enchanted Learning
  • Animal Search
  • San Diego Zoo (Kid Territory)
  • In Search of the Ways of Knowing (A walk through a forest in Africa)
  • Something Froggy
  • Virtual Owl Pellet Dissection
  • National Geographic Animals
  • AnimalJam-learn about animals and their environments virtually from Nat Geo. 
    
  • Animal Games
  • Switcharoo Zoo - an interactive game
  • Build Your Wild Self 
    
• Chemistry
  • The Hobby Shop
  • WebElements
  • Chem4Kids
• Geology & Earth Science 
  
  • MTU Volcanoes Page 
    
  • Rocks and Minerals
  • Sedimentary Rocks 
    
  • Igneous Rocks 
    
  • Metamorphic Rocks 
    
  • Rocks and Soil
  • Landform Detectives: an interactive game that teaches about how our earth was formed.
• Force and Motion 
  • Speed & gradient *
  • Pushes and Pulls *
  • Friction *
  • Cut the Rope *
  • Video of Zero Gravity Nat Geo
  • Sports & Science-Football  
  • Sports & Science-Winter Olympics  
• Health & Anatomy 
  
  • Health Quizzes, Facts & Links 
    
  • Nova's Cut to the Heart 
    
  • Virtual Body (MEDtropolis)
    
  • The Circle of Blood (Franklin Institute)
  • BBC's Human Body 
    
  • Innerbody.com 
    
  • EdHeads (knee & hip surgery)
    
  • My Body Scavenger Hunt 
    
  • Yucky.com 
    
  • KidsHealth 
    
  • How the Body Works
  • Be the Beat

• 3rd Grade Countries 
  
  • Peace Corp Kids World 
    
  • Country Reports.org 
    
  • Atlapedia 
    
  • Time for Kids Go Places 
    
  • Wikipedia
  • Natl Geo Kids find people and places 
    
• Current Events 
  
  • Time For Kids 
    
  • Yahooligan! News 
    
  • Yak's Corner
  • News by PBS Students
  • Scholastic News Zone 
    
• Native Americans 
  
  • Indian Legend.com
• Iroquois
  • Iroquois Oral Traditions 
    
  • Mohawk Iroquis Village
• Aztecs
  • The Ancient Aztecs 
    
  • The Mexica/Aztecs 
    Aztec Culture
• Algonquin
  • Facts for Kids: Algonquin Indians
    
  • Algonkin 
    
  • Resources on the Algonquin 
    
  • Glossary of Indian Nations
• Inca
  • Inca 
    
  • Inca Civilization
  • Nat Geo Inca Mummies 
    
• Pueblo
  • Pueblo Indians 
    
  • Anasazi and Pueblo Indians 
    
  • Pueblo Arts 
    
  • Pueblo
• Geography 
  
  • Atlapedia 
    
  • Geography Quiz (USA) 
    
  • Perry Castañeda Map Collection 
    
  • Geography Quiz (World) 
    
  • Yahooligan's State's Game 
    
  • National Geographic 
    
  • World Geography Quizzes
• Government
  • KIDS.gov 
    
  • Ben's Guide to the U.S. Government
  • Branches of Power interactive game
  • Road to the Capital-interactive game on elections
    
• Holidays 
  
  •  The First Thanksgiving
  • What Really Happened? A Thanksgiving Investigation
  • Thanksgiving online fill-in-the-blank
  • E-Book Thanksgiving 
    
  •  BrainPop Jr Thanksgiving Games and Activities
  •  
    Pumpkin Carving  
  • Snowflake 1 **
  • Snowflake 2 **
  •   Fox Creek 
    Earth Day 
    

• Communities
  • Build a community-Electrocity
• Colorado History 
  
  • World Book Colorado Page(Access at school only)
    
  • Colorado Virtual Library 
    
  • Colorado.gov 
    
  • Stately Knowledge 
    
  • Ask Colorado 
    
  • Colorado History in Photos 
    
  • Colorado State Symbols 
    
  • Bent's Fort Virtual Tour
  • Doing Colorado History
    
• American History 
  
  • American Memory
  • Dates in History
  • Dig. Am. History with Timeline
• American Revolution 
  
  • Mission US: Revolutionary War and Underground Railroad games.
  • Liberty! The American Revolution---PBS 
    
  • The American Revolution CyberSleuth 
    
  • Revolutionary War Web Sites for Kids
  • Liberty Kids
  • History.com-The 13 Colonies 
    
• Explorers 
  
  • Explorers of North America 
    
  • Explorers ThinkQuest 
    
  • Exploring the Explorers 
    
  • Enchanted Learning Explorers 
    
  • Explorers 
    
  • Civilization.ca The Explorers
  • History.com-Exploration of North America
• States 
  
  • States Web Games 
    
  • Animated Atlas 
    
  • ClassBrain's State Reports(Grades 4-12)
    
  • Stately Knowledge (All grades)
    
  • 50States.com (Grades 5-12)
    
  • U.S. Facts and Statistics (All grades)
    
  • Explore the States (Grades 4-12)
    
  • State Facts from the U.S. Census Bureau (All grades)
    
  • Printable State Maps 
    
  • Postcards From America (A husband and wife team tour the United States. They send a daily postcard to classes or individuals.)
    
  • Geography Quiz (USA) (This site, by Lizardpoint, also includes quizzes for other parts of the world.) 
    
  • State Master StateMaster allows students, teachers and researchers the ability to compare US States in some 3,000 different ways.
  • Statetris - A tretris like game to learn your 50 state geography 
    

• Internet Safety 
  
  • NetSmartz Kids
    
  • NSTeen
  • ThinkUKnow-Virtual Cyber Cafe
  • Professor Garfield-Internet Safety
  • IKeepSafe 
    

• Computer Basics-Primary
  • Computer parts 
  • Bees and Honey - mouse skills
• Computer Basics Secondary/Adults
  • CommonCraft
  • Codecademy
• Miscellaneous
  • QR Code Generator 
    

• Keyboarding
  • Keybr.com
  •  Dance Mat Typing 
    
  • Touch Typing 
    Learn 2 Type
  • Typing Test Online
  • Keyboarding Practice
  • Keyboarding
  • Keyboarding Online
  • Typing Web
  • Timed Typing Test
    
  •  Type Man (like pac man)
    
  • ABCya! Keyboard Zoo
  • Keyboard Climber
  •  Keyboard Climber 2
    
  • Key Seeker
  • Keyboard Ninja
    
  • Letter Bubbles
  • Big Brown Bear
  •   Hyper Spider
  • Rocket Typing
  •  Cups Typing
  •  Air Typer
    
    
  •  Zombie Typer

    
    

Primary Sources

• National Archives Digital Vault
• World Digital Vault

Citations

• Easybib

DCSD Resources and Links

OVERDRIVE for DCSD

• Video tutorial for using OVERDRIVE

• Cargo Bridge (**harder**)
• Red Remover
• Sugar sugar
• Duck, Think Outside the Flock
• Factory Balls
• Factory Balls 4
• King of Shapes
• Sliding Blocks
• Rubik's Cube
• Jolls
• Silk
• Incredibox
• This Is Sand

•  Wonderground