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Thousands of paintings by hundreds of artists.
Dinorama at National Geographic
Zoom Dinosaurs (User name: pingry Password: bigblue)
Dinosaur Exhibits at the Smithsonian Museum
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A high-quality online collection of lesson plans developed by Thirteen Ed Online Master Teachers utilizing PBS resources and educational activities on the web.
This is an outstanding resource for project-based learning that covers all content areas with projects categorized by grade level.
A good place for a variety of ideas for teaching the basics including fun things to print out and use like awards, calendars, pictures of animals and forms of all kinds.
Teachers Helping Teachers - Online Lessons
Refdesk.com Quote of the Day, Word of the Day, This Day in History.
Education World Great site with lots of information for Teachers. Additionally, follow this link to an article called
Technology Integration Made Easy which links to several great sites for K-2.
Gus and Inky's Underwater Adventures
Long Vowels: Words and Pictures and POEMS
Arthur's Website Hosted by PBS, this is the homepage of Marc Brown's Arthur, the aardvark.
Authors and Illustrators From the Children's Literature Web Guide, information about children's authors and illustrators and their books.
Binky's Story Scramble Help Binky put the story in the right order.
Construct-a-Word provides a simple, engaging way for students to generate dozens of different words by first choosing an ending and then adding a beginning letter or blend. New!
Jan BrettJan Brett's Home Page
Let's Meet Jan Brett A WebQuest designed for Second or third Grade Language Arts Teacher recommended!
Phonics Fun For Early Readers - Clifford the Big Red Dog has some pictures for you to look at. Find the words that begin with the same sound as the large picture.
Picture Match is designed to give new readers practice with identifying beginning-letter and short- and long-vowels sounds through a simple, fun game.
Rhyming BBC Literacy A fun and interactive animated game to help children at KS1 with rhyming words.
SEUSSVILLE Based on popular Dr. Seuss books. Fun activities. Games require Shockwave
Word Wheel 1 a multimedia tool for pupils to explore and develop their skill at blending phonemes in CVC words. New!
Word Wheel 2 a multimedia tool for pupils to explore and develop their skill at blending phonemes in words with clusters. New!
Book Cover Guide Students can use the tool to review the parts of a book cover before analyzing how book covers work or creating their own book covers. NEW!
Letter Generator tool is designed to help students learn to identify all the essential parts of a business or friendly letter, and then generate letters by typing information into letter templates. New!
Poems: Acrostic In this online tool, students can learn about and write acrostic poems.
Poems: Shape A shape poem is a poem that describes an object and is written in the shape of the object.
See 'N Spell Have fun with magnetic letters.
StoryPlace: The Children's Digital Library
The Official Eric Carle Website
A great site to learn about graphing.
Games for learning and review for upper elementary students.
Are your pupils up to the challenge?
See if you can figure out how this works!
This site will allow students to research the conversion of different countries' currency.
The National Center for Educational Statistics offers and excellent resource for educational data to enhance the math curriculum..
Based on the NCTM standards, this online resource offers rich, comprehensive math content in five grade level groups K-12. There are online math investigations, reflection activities with teacher video vignettes, reviewed web sources, Internet-based lessons matched to standards and searchable NCTM standards.
This site has everything for math teachers and students. A favorite part is the Library of Problems of The Week with published, and quite different solutions, from around the USA.
The PBS Frank Lloyd Wright Web site
Sites for K-1
San Francisco Symphony Kids' Site
Be sure to check out the Performalator to play an existing piece, then make your very own tune with the Composerizer.
The New York Philharmonic Kidzone
The NYPHILHARMONIC KIDZONE, an interactive site for children, has been visited by kids from all 50 states and over 77 foreign countries! Try the Instrument Storage Room for descriptions and sound clips, go to the Composer's Gallery for portraits and s ound clips, spend time in the Composer's Workshop making up your own tune, read kids' reviews of Philharmonic concerts, visit the Musician's Lounge to read about and hear musicians play, follow the scientist in the Instrument Laboratory, join the Kidzone email club.
Classics for Kids is a great way to introduce your favorite music to your children, or to the uninitiated of any age. Host Naomi Lewin shares insights on the composer, stories behind the music, and other fun historical facts in this weekly program. Kids can get even more involved with the music through a page of printed games and activities developed by Music Education Consultant Jennifer Morris. These are distributed monthly.
Iditarod Trail Dog Sled Race Site
Native American History Links for Grades K-12
New Jersey
The Canal Society of New Jersey
New Jersey Legislature Kid's Page
New Jersey Department of Labor
New Jersey Department of Agriculture
Virtual tour of New Jersey's many attractions and places of interest
NJ WebQuest
Here's your chance to join Bing and Bong at a special Web site to learn about light and color, nature and technology. Mix colors, make an animation and learn about shadows, then discover the seasons and view the power of the wind. Fun learning puzzles, creature creation tools and other goodies are just a click away. (The soundtrack is pretty neat, too!)
Features some fun hands on activities to make to further understand the solar system
EarthPulse - National Geographic
This site has dozens of research resources, videos and online adventures and webquests related to the study of our earth and conservation. There are themes for oceans, climate, weather, energy, technology, heroes, habitats, population and ecosystems.
Stargaze with Dr. Hubble!
Check out this view of the earth from the new space station.
This is a terrific site that really does show "how stuff works"!
This amazing site offers amazing astronomy resources.
Frog lovers---this is for you!
Take an undersea adventure with this collection of fish-related links
Connect to NASA Explores every week for fun classroom trivia questions, plus easy-to-read articles and fact sheets written by NASA staffers focusing on the latest scientific breakthroughs and research.
Children can ask questions in their own language!
Webquests
This is the most complete and current source of information about the WebQuest Model. Whether you're an education student new to the topic or an experienced teacher educator looking for materials, you'll find something here to meet your needs.
The Sweet Science of Chocolate
Learn about cacao, the source of chocolate when you visit this site. You will find out about Chocolate's importance to early Americans.
Discover the different kinds of chocolate candy the Mars company makes when you visit this site. What other products does Mars make/ Why do you think they make such a variety of foods.
Visit this site to learn about Xocolatl and to unlock the secrets of this beverage once reserved for Aztec warriors and nobility.
Exploratorium Magazine: A video tour of a chocolate factory
Visit this site and take a video tour of a chocolate factory. Follow a chocolate ean until it becomes part of a chocolate bar.
Virtual Postcards of "Chocolatey" Greetings
Send virtual postcards with "Chocolatey" Greetings, read chocolate quptes or write your own chocolate quote or comment.