K-8 Recommended Reading Book List...
KHAN ACADEMY
Library of over 3,000 videos covering everything from arithmetic to physics,
finance, and history and 311 practice exercises, we're on a mission to help
you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace.
http://www.khanacademy.org/
Fun educational games for kids
http://www.funbrain.com/
Cool Math for Kids
http://www.coolmath4kids.com
Divibility Quiz Generator
http://www.mathwarehouse.com/arithmetic/numbers/divisibility-quiz.php
Fractions (factoring, multiples, GCF, LCM)
http://www.math.com/homeworkhelp/HotSubjects_fractions.html
Sudoku
http://www.websudoku.com
SOCIAL STUDIES
States
This site contains an interactive geography game. Students can
memorize the
location of each state in the United States.
http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/usaquiz.html
Learn States & Capitals on this website through interactive games.
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games.htm
Practice for the National Geographic GeoBee!
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geobee/today.html#/star
National Geographic for Kids
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/
List of explorers with links to information. Great for your filmstrip
project!
http://www.multcolib.org/homework/alphaexp.html
Revolutionary War Web Quest
Fill out the questions to the packet using this website to hunt for answers...
http://nb.wsd.wednet.edu/lmc/webhunts/revwar_webhunt.htm
White House for Kids
http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/whlife/index.html
SCIENCE
Learn about the parts of an atom here. Write about what you learned for
extra-credit
http://education.jlab.org/atomtour/listofparticles.html
You'll find enough periodic table information on this site to take you
through the years to come.
http://www.periodictable.com/
Interactive periodic table.
http://www.webelements.com/
You can also find periodic table project information on this site.
http://www.chemicalelements.com/
Information for periodic table project can be found here.
http://www-tech.mit.edu/Chemicool/
Weather Webquests for...
The Water Cycle | Cloud Types and Formation | Local Weather | Weather Across
the USA | Climate
http://davidson.k12.nc.us/webquests/weather/weather.htm
You can spend hours exploring the Exploratorium web site and the links that
are
included.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/
K-8 Recommended Reading Book List
http://c-t-l.org/kids-recommend/#anchor7
This site will give you a reading list by both category and grade level.
Perfect for parents and students!
http://www.bookadventure.org/ki/bs/ki_bs_helpfind.asp
Online Books - This site links to complete texts that are tucked
away
in obscure archives all over the net.
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
You can find unabridged classic stories online at this site.
http://www.literature.org/authors/
The Internet Public Library - This site links to thousands of online
books, magazines, journals, and newspapers.
http://ipl.sils.umich.edu
Check out this great and helpful site!
http://dictionary.reference.com/
Lists and descriptions of books and authors can be found
here.
http://www.kidsreads.com/authors/authors.asp
Not sure what book to read for your book report? Look here if you need help
selecting a book. = )
http://www.bookhooks.com/index.cfm
Reading Units with online questions and instant results, printable questions
with an answer key, and vocabulary activities.
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/units/units_with_books.htm
Call It Courage by Armstrong Sperry
Answer multiple choice questions, learn vocabulary words from the story, and
do activities related to the book.
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/reading36/call_it_courage.htm
Eragon site
http://www.randomhouse.com/teens/eragon/
This is a site that will help you to create a bibliography. You type
in the information about the book, magazine or web site and it creates
a polished bibliography that is correctly formatted and ready to
print!
http://www.noodletools.com/quickcite/
Wild World of Words is a site with word games.
http://www.ash.udel.edu/ash/challenge/word.html
VOCABULARY STUDY AIDS - Create your own study aids using this
website. Simply highlight and delete the existing word list; type in your
vocabulary words; then type in the definitions in step 2; select the
type of study aid you would like; and then print it out to
study.
http://www.educationalpress.org/educationalpress/
Finds some creative writing activities here. I like the "Wacky Web
Tales."
http://www.eduplace.com/tales/
You can generate ideas for research reports here.
http://thinktank.4teachers.org/
Web English Teacher-many resources for teachers are linked to this
site.
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/ya2.html
Flip Words-a Boggle like game that you can play
online.
http://playgames.comcast.net/deluxe.aspx?code=110115763&genre=Word&RefID=&Session=&origin=allGames_gname&ln=en
Good writing samples.
http://www.learner.org/channel/workshops/middlewriting/p4_jb_samples.html
Find an online thesaurus here.
http://thesaurus.reference.com/
Good site for fifth grade language standards practice. Use this for your
goals.
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_5th_lang.htm
ADVANCED language practice links.
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/eoc_english1.htm
Organizer for the bio-cube extra-credit
project.
http://readwritethink.org/materials/bio_cube/bio-cube_planning.pdf
Released STAR test practice questions for Reading and Language Arts.
http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/sr/css05rtq.asp
Read a biography and create a bio-cube for extra-credit.
http://readwritethink.org/materials/bio_cube/
Quotes to use for Father essays.
http://festivals.iloveindia.com/fathers-day/fathers-day-quotes.html
ART
This link is great for working on your drawing skills
http://www.coolschool.k12.or.us/courses/116200/
Circulatory/Respiratory Systems Test
http://quizlet.com/3173305/test/
Digestive System Activity
http://sd71.bc.ca/sd71/edulinks/bodysys/digestiv/index.htm
Media Converter for PowerPoint Presentations
1)Copy and Paste URL of video link you would like to convert to be downloaded
onto your
computer under 'Media URL'
2)Click on 'Continue'
3)Choose 'mpeg' or 'mp4' as the type of file you want to convert the link into
for the 'conversion
format'.
4)Click on 'Start'. The converted and downloaded file will be placed on the
desktop of the
computer.
5)Move the video into our server folder.
6)Insert video into your PowerPoint presentation
http://www.clipconverter.cc/afterdownload/