Resources & Favorite Links
Click on the links below to visit our favorite sites or to download study materials.
*NOTE* Some student sites have advertisements. Parental guidance is recommended.
50 States — This link also mentions sports teams.
ABCya Educational Games for Gr.K-5
Agriculture in the Classroom — State agricultural facts
Ancient China — One of the British Museum's interactive web sites on ancient civilizations
Ancient Egypt — One of the British Museum's interactive web sites on ancient civilizations
Ancient Egypt Glossary and Terms
Ancient Greece — One of the British Museum's interactive web sites on ancient civilizations
Ancient India — One of the British Museum's interactive web sites on ancient civilizations
Ancient Rome — Resources and slide shows from the British Museum. This site is not like their other ancient civilization sites though.
Arcademics Skillbuilders — Arcade style games (single and multi-user)to reinforce curriculum for grades 1-6,especially
Avoiding Plagiarism — Grammarly Blog article on plagiarism
California Explorers — Lists and links to California explorers and pioneers
California Fact Cards: Native Americans
California Facts — Links to different topics and time periods of California history.
California Gold Rush from Ducksters — Ducksters is a website with many history topics that is designed for children.
Code.org — Coding activities and tutorials
Colonial Williamsburg — Games and activities to learn about Colonial Williamsburg, VA
Common Sense Media — Common Sense resources for digital citizenship and media reviews
Count Us In — Math games for K-1
Digital Egypt for Universities A to Z Index
EasyBib — An online citation creator for research papers
EasyBib Research Guide — A research guide from EasyBib
EGYPT VOCABULARY WORD LIST (129)
Enchanted Learning:States — State facts
English Works at Gallaudet University — Tutorials on writing and research skills
Exploring California — Mr. La Marr's web site for his fourth graders.
FactMonster — State facts
Glossary of Ancient Egyptian Terms and Names
Glossary of Egyptian Mythology
InfoPlease Almanac — State facts from an online almanac
KidPort Reference Library: The California Missions
Link to Google Classroom for Gr. 5-8 — Gr. 4-8,sign in here to access your Google Classroom account in order to complete assignments.
Mesopotamia — One of the British Museum's interactive web sites on ancient civilizations
Mysteries of Çatalhöyük — An interactive site about an archaeological find in Turkey of an early city
Native American Facts — Good for grades 4, 5, and 8.
Native American Facts — Good for grades 4, 5, and 8.
Netsmartz — Online Safety Resources and Games
NetState — State facts
Nine Elements of Digital Citizenship
Online Writing lab at Purdue University — Resources for many types of writing and citations
Pause and Think Online video — Digital Citizenship
PBS Kids — Learning games
Safe, Smart, Social — Provides for resources for internet safety & evaluating app safety
Scratch from MIT — Coding activities
Seussville — Games and activities related to Dr. Seuss books
Starfall — Reading and math games suitable for lower grades.
Surfnetkids: Notetaking — Barbara Feldman's curated list of excellent links about note taking from several colleges. Many examples and styles are shown.
The Spanish Missions of California
The US 50 — State facts
Tynker.com — Coding activities and courses
Type to Learn — Log-in page for the online typing program used by the school. Our school account code is 2VTSET. Each child in grades 1-8 has his/her own username and password. They were to memorize them, but I have a master list at school. Do not try to reset these at home.
US State History at Ducksters.
World Atlas — Maps and state facts