teacherpage

REMC Toolkit- http://www.remctoolkit.org/Teacher

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/

Teacher Tips for Classroom Technology - http://www.edzone.net/~mwestern/

History Globe - http://www.historyglobe.com/websites.html

CIVICS

Washington D.C. Tour - http://sc94.ameslab.gov/TOUR/tour-old.html

Washington, D.C. Site Seeing Map - This interactive site has hot links to information and pictures on some of the more famous sites around Washington, D.C. Visit the three branches of government.

White House Kids - http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids White House for Kids – The executive branch taught to kids. Learn more about past Presidents, take a quiz, watch a video, and more.

PBS Kids - Democracy - http://pbskids.org/democracy/ Interactive site about voting and elections, past and present. Students can create and print out a future voters card. Apply to be President for the day and make choices as you go. Learn more about how the government works.

OYEZ - http://www.oyez.org/tour – U. S. Supreme Court Multimedia – Take a 360 degree virtual tour of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Internet Public Library - http://www.ipl.org/div/potus - POTUS Presidents of the United States. The Internet Public Library site that gives you research on each President.

Michigan Capital - http://senate.michigan.gov - Michigan Senate Virtual Tour – Take a virtual tour of the Capital of Michigan.

Michigan Kids - http://www.michigan.gov/mikids/ - The official Michigan government site for kids with many lessons.

ECONOMICS

Hot Shot Business http://www.disney.go.com/hotshot/hsb.html - Disney Online Hot Shot Business – An interactive simulation game for budding entrepreneurs where kids open their own pet spa, skateboard factory, landscaping business, or comic shop. Students start marketing campaigns; change products, services, and prices; and respond to demanding customers and big news events.

The United States Mint - http://www.usmint.gov/kids/flashIndex.cfm - The United States Mint – H.I.P. - Pocket Change – An interactive site that generates interest in coins, the Mint, and U.S. history.

EconEdLink - http://econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM457&page=teacher EconEdLink

A premier source of classroom tested, Internet-based economic lesson materials for K-12 teachers and their students.

Money Flash Cards - http://www.aplusmath.com/cgi-bin/Flashcards/money Money Flashcards - See how well you know the value of money.

Geography

Sheppards Software - http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games.htm – An interactive site where you learn the locations, capitals, abbreviations and over 500 important facts about our 50 states.

MAPS - http://www.maps.com/games/ - Interactive site including sections of arcade, map quizzes, trivia, puzzles, and find it.

Map Quest - http://www.mapquest.com/ – Interactive site in helping people find places and directions throughout the world.< xml="true" ns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" prefix="o" namespace="">

FunBrain Where is That Game http://www.funbrain.com/where/index.html – Interactive site for one or two players to identify states, capitals, or countries.

History

Jamestown Online Adventure - http://www.historyglobe.com/jamestown/ – An interactive simulation game where the year is 1607. You are the captain of the Jamestown Colony in Virginia and have to make important decisions for your crew to survive. Will your colony survive and prosper or will it be another “Lost colony”?

You Be the historian - http://americanhistory.si.edu/kids/springer/

5th Grade Social Studies - http://www.caledonia.k12.mi.us/k12resource/5thgrade/5thgrademain.htm

National Geographic Presents the Underground Railroad – http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/ - Interactive site about the Underground Railroad – includes classroom ideas, time line, resources, links, and much more.

National Geographic Presents Go West Across America with Lewis and Clark – http://www.nationalgeographic.com/west/index.html - Interactive site where Lewis and his colleague William Clark have chosen a special team for the journey, and you’re invited.

Martin Luther King Jr. Presented by Pocantico Hills School – ttp://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/taverna/98/king.htm - A site created by a school about Martin Luther King Jr. and includes an early elementary time line, quiz, word search, links, and more.

America’s Story from America’s Library – http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi -Discover the stories of America’s past, see time lines, information on states, join America at play, see, hear, and play along with America’s past.

Think Quest of European Explorers - http://library.thinkquest.org/J002678F/welcome.htm - . Interactive site about European explores developed by students. Includes bibliography, timeline, games, and a logbook.

English Language Arts Web Sites

Sylvan books online - Each Sylvan Dell book contains a 3-5 page For Creative Minds (FCM) educational section in the back which provides fun activities and information to enhance the book's educational value. All of our FCM sections are viewable below in their entirety and we hope you enjoy! http://www.sylvandellpublishing.com/CreativeMinds_000.htm

Starfall – http://www.starfall.com/ - Interactive site that emphasizes learning to read for early elementary students using visual and audio.

National Geographic Games -http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/games/index.html - Interactive site with funny fill-in the blanks, cartoon factory, interactive adventures, funny photo fill-ins, mazes, quizzes, visual blenders, and more.

PBS Kids – http://pbskids.org/ - Interactive site for early elementary with games, music, stories, and coloring.

Sunnie Bunniezz –http://sunniebunniezz.com/ - Interactive early elementary site that includes poetry, storytelling, puppetry, clowning, holiday, puzzles, activities, and more.

Disney Playhouse - http://disney.go.com/playhouse/today/index.html - Interactive site for early elementary that has activities, games, stories, and music of kid’s popular Disney characters.

Nick Jr. com – http://www.nickjr.com/kids/ - Interactive site with many stories, activity packets, games, and more for early elementary students.

Writing Prompts - http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/prompts.html

Creative Writing Prompts - http://www.creativewritingprompts.com/

Your Heart - http://kidshealth.org/kid/htbw/heart.html

Life Cycles - http://msnucleus.org/membership/html/k-6/lc/index.html

Science worksheets and Lessons - http://www.myschoolhouse.com/courses/Science-Lessons.htm

Internet 4 Classrooms - http://www.internet4classrooms.com/science_elem_animals.htm

Magic School Bus - http://www.scholastic.com/MagicSchoolBus/games/habitat/index.htm#

SCI4 KIDS - http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/kids/

MCGRAW-Hill Science - http://www.mhschool.com/science/2002/student/

Just for Kids (Science) - http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/kids/index.html

Guided sites for Science THEMES

ttp://www.caledonia.k12.mi.us/k12

resource/newunits/science/science.htm

Life Cycle of a Butterfly - (WEBQUEST)

http://coe.west.asu.edu/students/bkeller/quest/index.html

Bonus Web Sites

United Streaming - http://streaming.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm -

Video lessons, pictures, clip art, writing prompts, and a lot more for a fee.

Enchanted Learning - http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html -

produces children's educational web sites that cover all subject areas

. Interactive – small fee

Gaggle.Net – http://gaggle.net/ - A site that is an e-mail service designed

specifically for classroom use. The teacher is in charge

ABC Teach – http://www.abcteach.com/ - A site that has many materials for Pre-K to 6^th grade teachers to use for their class. Requires a membership fee.

Web for K-8 - Great Websites

More Great Websites for the Digital student

Infotec with Mr. Losik

Daniel COOK - Kindergarten

NOGGIN - Kindergarten

WEBQUESTS -

http://www.caledonia.k12.mi.us/k12resource/Webquest2004/webquest.htm

MUXICALL - making music with others

FREE IS GOOD - http://www.misd.net/fig

http://jpsonline.org

WWILD TEAM - World Wide Interactive Language Team -

http://it.coe.uga.edu/wwild/index.html