Student Links

NASA Kids Club: Games and interactive activities  http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub/flash/index.html

ED Heads: Online Games focused on Science, math, engineering and critical thinking http://www.edheads.org/ 

Interactives: Interactives provides educators and students with strategies, content and activities that can enhance and improve students' skills in a variety of content areas.  STEM/STEAM Archives - Annenberg Learner 

Science Archives - Annenberg Learner 

Smithsonain.com: Games, articles, information http://www.smithsonianmag.com/?ref=home

Nobelprize.org: Games and interactives based on past Nobel Prize acheivements. http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/

Steve Spangler Science: Various science experiment kits for purchase. http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiments/

 NOVA by PBS:  A Website based on the PBS NOVA episodes.  It includes interactive materials and videos.  Also includes descriptions and scientists' blogs.  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/

Physics and Mechanics

Animated Engines: Discover the innerworkings of engines. http://www.animatedengines.com/

Amuseument Park Physics: Design Your own Roller Coaster. Amusement Park Physics -- Design a Roller Coaster (learner.org) 

Design and create: PBS Kids Build . DESIGN SQUAD GLOBAL | PBS KIDS 

Natural Science Resources

BioInteractive By Howard Hughes Medical Institute:  Many resources related to anatomy including virtual labs where you can act as a medical intern and participate in a cardiology lab.  It also includes a virtual museum, animations and videos.http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/

Med Myst- Play this game to solve medical mysteries of infectious diseases.  http://medmyst.rice.edu/

Africam:  A 24/7 real life African Safari at the touch of your fingertips! http://www.africam.com/wildlife/index.php

Live Monarch: Raise your own monarch or track a monarch globally. http://www.livemonarch.com/

Soil-net: discover soil through this interactive website! http://www.soil-net.com/

Ocean Explorer:  Interested in life that exists under the sea?  This is the website for you! http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/

Brain Boosters http://school.discoveryeducation.com/brainboosters/

Braingle- games, brain teasers, puzzles and more     http://braingle.com/

Puzzle Playground- A treasury of classic and modern puzzles http://www.puzzles.com/PuzzlePlayground/WelcomeToPuzzlePlayground.htm

Puzzle Barons Logic Puzzles: Logic Puzzles by Puzzle Baron 

Conceptis Logic Puzzles http://www.conceptispuzzles.com/

Sharp Brains- Top 50 brain teasers Brain Teasers, Puzzles and Games for Teens and Adults - SharpBrains 

Puzzlemaker by Discovery Education- Create your own puzzles http://www.discoveryeducation.com/free-puzzlemaker/?CFID=13729171&CFTOKEN=69868598

The Grey Labrynth- Can you solve the unsolved puzzles? http://www.greylabyrinth.com/puzzles

Riddles and Brainteasers by National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/games/riddles/index.htm 

Language Arts

Writing Resources

Read.Write.Think Student Interactives- Writing tools such as timeline makers, poetry tools and more! http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/

Figment- A community where you can share your writing with others!  http://figment.com/

Teen Ink- A magazine, website and books written by teens for teens http://teenink.com/

Chateau Meddybemps- Young Writers Workshop http://www.meddybemps.com/9.700.html

ZigZagZine- An Electronic magazine for and by kids! http://www.zigzagzine.com/

Reading Resources

Lit Pick-  LitPick provides free electronic books to students in grades 4-12. Students take on the role of a book critic, reading books, developing and posting reviews anonymously on the LitPick site where other students can read them. Members can also participate in the LitPick threaded discussion forum with authors, publishers, publicists, and parents who are interested in learning about YA literature.  http://www.litpick.com/

YouZine-  Youngzine is a child-centered website that provides articles, images, and videos about world news, science and technology, society and arts, movies, and books. School-age children are encouraged to respond to the content and may submit articles, short stories and book reviews. All content is reviewed by Youngzine’s editors and updated every two weeks. Grades K-8. www.youngzine.org

Book Crossing- Find books, share books, and meet fellow book lovers  http://www.bookcrossing.com/

Project Gutenburg- Free EBOOKS to download http://www.gutenberg.org/

Biography.com-  Famous Biographies https://www.biography.com/

PBS- Activities based on popular children's shows. http://pbskids.org

Poetry4kids- This is Kenn Nesbitt's Poetry Playground. You can find funny poems, games, contests, lessons, a rhyming dictionary, and links to other poetry sites. https://poetry4kids.com/

The Poem Machine- There are blanks that allow a person to type in various parts of speech and then choose a type of poem to be created. Similar to Madlibs.https://www.poetrygames.org/poetry-machine/ 

Storyline Online- The screen actors guild association provides you with an online streaming video program of books read aloud. Storyline Online 

Geography

50 States and Capitals- Database of information about states and capitols http://www.50states.com/

Atlapedia Online- Maps, facts, and statistics from around the world http://www.atlapedia.com/

Geosense- Test your knowledge of geography alone or against an online player! http://www.geosense.net/

GeoWorld- Quizzes about Countries around the world http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/

National Geographic-photos, news, and more! http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

Economics

How the Market Works: Try the virtual stock market game!http://www.howthemarketworks.com/

Investing for Kids http://library.thinkquest.org/3096/

Virtual Stock Exchange Games: Play the stock market game for free http://www.marketwatch.com/game/

Current Events

4 Kids http://www.4kids.org/

Time for Kids TIME for Kids 

PBS News Quiz News Quiz | PBS 

Government

Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids http://bensguide.gpo.gov/

I-civics- U.S. civics games http://www.icivics.org/

President's Hall- Information and past Presidents http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/

Find Law-  The articles and amendments http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/constitution/

History

Smithsonian for Kids http://www.si.edu/Kids

Digital History http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/

Eyewitness to History: History through the eyes of those who lived it http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/

History and Politics Out Loud- Audio materials of significant historical events and speeches http://www.hpol.org/

Factmonster http://www.factmonster.com/

World History: Hyperhistory http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html

NOVA PBS- This website accompanies PBS NOVA episodes http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/

On This Day, by the NY Times- Famous moments in history from the NY Times http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/on-this-day/

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World http://unmuseum.mus.pa.us/wonders.htm

This Day in History By The History Channel http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history

Voices of the Holocaust http://voices.iit.edu/

Webexhibits http://www.webexhibits.org/

Women in History: BIographical Sketches of History's Greatest Women http://nwhp.org/ 

Design and create: PBS Kids Build . DESIGN SQUAD GLOBAL | PBS KIDS 

Make Belief Comix: Create your own comic strips   http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/

Scratch: Create music, movies, and video games  http://scratch.mit.edu/

 We make Stories: Digital Storytelling  http://wemakestories.com/

My Pop Studio: Go behind the scenes of your favorite media http://www.mypopstudio.com/

Mrs. Glossers Math Goodies- (Grades 3-8) This site contains interactive lessons in which students can practice their probability skills. The lessons contain examples, summaries diagrams and activities for students to do in order to better understand probability. Mrs. Glosser's Math Goodies

Shodor Educational Foundation (grades 3-University) This site contains many interactive applets for the students to use to develop their understanding of theoretical versus experimental probability. Shodor Educational Foundation - website interactive. You can browse by your "audience" or grade level.

Geometer's Sketchpad Activities for Young Learners: Grades 3-5 Click HERE 

AAA Math- (Kindergarten- Pre-Calculus) This web site contains many different applets to practice fraction skills. Students can continually practice fraction problems while it keeps track of the number of questions the student got right and wrong in a given time period. http://www.aaamath.com/fra.html

Visual Fractions- This site allows students to test themselves on their abilities to identify, rename, compare, add and subtract fractions. Each of these topics is presented in several ways and the students have the opportunity to answer questions presented with them while the computer keeps track of their score and time. http://www.visualfractions.com/

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives: (Pre K- 12th Grade) You select the mathematical category and grade level and the website will give you a variety of options for interactive virtual manipulatives. Click HERE.

Illuminations Interactive Activity- (Grades 3-8) This game allows students to practice adding fractions. The student is given one fraction card at a time and must move markers on various fraction lines so that the total move is less than or equal to the fraction on the card. The object is to move all markers to the end of the row in as few cards as possible. The game can be played with one or two players.

http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=18

Aunty Math- Math Challenges for K-5 learners     http://www.dupagechildrensmuseum.org/aunty/

Cyberchase- Fun interactive math games for kids     http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/

Cool Math- An Amusement Park of Math and More!     http://www.coolmath.com/

Math Baseball- (Grades K-5)Put your math skills to the test with this fun game    http://www.funbrain.com/math/index.html

Super Impossible Math Questions- A series of Math Challenges  http://www.skytopia.com/project/imath/imath.html

Figure this!- Math challenges  http://www.figurethis.org/index.html

Tessellation Town- Create your own Tessellation with this interactive resource.

http://www.mathcats.com/explore/tessellationtown.html

The Art of Problem Solving- Challenging math problems  http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/

SumDog- Free math games based on the common core math standards.  Through playing these games, students can have the opportunity to compete against other students throughout the United States.   http://www.sumdog.com/