Internet sites

Favorite Sites

Educational Games for younger students Information Sites BrainPop BrainPop Jr.	KEYBOARDING SITES Dr. Seuss and other Favorite Authors	Olympics Holiday Sites	Drought, Earth Day & Nature Sites	Animals, Plants, more Nature
Math, Language Arts, Science, & Social Studies Skills Practice Select by grade level!	Rocks and Minerals Dinosaurs	Health	World Cultures Egypt , Greece, Mexico, Japan, Antarctica, Australia , Africa, Great Britain	America & Her People
Explorers	Inventors & Inventions	States & Other Government sites	Black History & Civil Rights	Math
Map Skills	Space and more Science	Language Arts Reading	OAS SuccessMaker at home	Weather

SEARCH SITES:
1. Easy to use - Ask Jeeves for Kids
2. Yahooligans is divided into categories such as School Bell and Science and Nature. This is a wonderful site for young
people to use as a search engine....or just explore.
3. Kids' Click - Search index by librarians.
4. infoplease.com
5. Search for images
6. Clipart for kids
7. Kidskonnect - a good portal
8. Pathfinders...search alphabetically or by index at this site by Indianapolis library
9. Family Friendly Search
10. Awesome Library

GREAT INFORMATION SITES:
1. Check out the many informational movies at this super site called BRAINPOP...learn about science topics,
    health topics, our election process and more. Then take a short quiz to see how much you have learned.
2. ZOOM SCHOOL at Enchanted Learning...COUNTRIES, ANIMALS, AND MORE:
3. This site is the creation of a school librarian who says "Berit's Best Sites for Children is a directory of
     recommended sites for children up to age 12. I take great care in choosing high quality sites that are safe,
     fun and educational."
4. Barbara Feldman, a syndicated newspaper columnist and mom, posts weekly site listings and reviews
    for kids and families at her surfnetkids site. Check out the "Current Topics" selections.
5. A huge collection of sites for K-2 on many subjects.
6. History "Picture of the Day"
7. Learn about historythrough eyewitnesses.
8. FirstGov for Kids site - great for history, science and math, art....
9. Library of Congress
10. Nationalgeographic.com
11. Factmonster.com
12. View history - year by year from 1900 to 2001
13. PBS site with many history links...Ancient World, Biographies, U.S. History, Wars & Espionage, and World History
14. Grade level help

Keyboarding practice sites:
1. Computer Circus - a ThinkQuest game
2.   Typer Shark
3.   Mr. Kent's Typing Tutor
4.   Bubbles Game
5.   Nimble Fingers
6.   Room 108 Typing Tutor
7.   Touch Typing
8.   Dance Mat Typing from BBC - fun!

Educational GAMES:
1. Billy Bear 4 kids
2. Funbrain....try this educational hangman game
3. Kids Domain Games
4. Funschool Games divided into grade level...choose one!
5. Nick Jr.
6. Lizardpoint has dot-to-dots, memory, geography games, map skills....
7. ALFY Cool Sites...This site is great for all subject areas!
8. Mouse Practice: Alfy games for little ones, Sticker games Kendra's coloring pages Billy Bear's coloring pages
Click and drag mouse practice, coloring pages, Dress the Boy - Dress the Girl
9. Fun 4kids2play...for little ones... games, more games
10. Meet Boowa and Kwala.....site for lower primary grades.
11. Web activities from your favorite PBS shows.
12. Little Animals Activity Center
13. Super learning site for kids from billybear4kids.
14. LittleFingers Parlor- practice counting and other skills.
15. Play checkers against the computer.
16. Fun and games at Bonus.com
17. Timeforkids games - try Famous Face-offs. Look at More Games for archived games.
18. All kind of Match Games (or Memory)
19. PrimaryGames.com....games and puzzles galore!
20. Play I Spy puzzle game
21. Winnie the Poo online puzzles
22. Stories, games, songs, literacy activities...written words are in Korean, but spoken in English
23. Puzzlemaker - create fun puzzles...use spelling words to create a word search
24. Great kid games at Smithsonian site
25. Matching game for the little ones from BBC
26. Wee Webbies "Pick the picture that is different"
27. This site can be used to create patterns and learn about colors
28. Instruments of the Orchestra
29. First grade jeopardy game at quia.com (add, subtract, time, money, shapes) (use Internet Explorer)
30. Phonics fun at Clifford: Read an interactive story or play a phonics game
31. What belongs together?
32. Learn colors, numbers, letters, shapes at Kinderweb
33. Practice keyboarding
34. Online puzzles for K-2

35. Connect the World-Arthur PBS

Learn all about your favorite authors at this site!

DR. SEUSS
1. Fun games and activities with Dr. Seuss characters at Seussville
2. Cyber-Seuss crossword puzzles
3. Seussville University site for fun games
4. An I Spy kind of Dr. Seuss activity
5. Dr. Seuss fun quiz.
6. ABC Hide and Seek
7. Green Eggs and Ham picture scramble
8. Seussville University science games
9. The cat's concentration game
10. Listen to the diffendoofer song
11. Dr. Seuss web hunt
12. Interactive word search puzzle
13. Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss
14. Count the Findows in the Windows
15. Dr. Seuss Trivia game
16. Which One Comes Next?
17. The Advertising Artwork of Dr. Seuss
18. Dr. Seuss book list hangman game
19. The Diffendoofer Game
20. Lorax Save the Trees game
21. Who Said That?
22. Oh Say Can you Say?
23. Horton's Who Hunt
24. Let's Play Elephant Ball
25. Sneech Belly Game

Other Favorite Authors:

1. Judy Blume
2. Jan Brett
3. Norman Bridwell Clifford
4. Marc Brown
5. Betsy Byars
6. Eric Carle
7. Roald Dahl, Roald Dahl fans
8. Betsy Duffey
9. Mem Fox
10. Jean Craighead George
11. Brian Jacques
12. Patrick Jennings, Patrick Jennings biography at Scholastic
13. Mercer Mayer
14. A. A. Milne - Winnie the Pooh, Winnie the Pooh coloring pages
15. Robert Munsch
16. Mary Pope Osborne
17. Tomie de Paola
18. Barbara Park
19. Beatrix Potter Online games and read aloud stories of Peter Rabbit
20. H.A. Rey..Curious George
21. J.K. Rowling
22. Laura Ingalls Wilder

Favorite Series:
1. Magic School Bus
2. Junie B. Jones
3. Magic Tree House
4. Arthur
5. Berenstain Bears
6. PBS Berenstain Bears
7. Mother Goose

HOLIDAY SITES:

Multicultural Calendar:
See what holidays are celebrated in each country.

1. Yahooligans holiday sites
2. Kids Domain holiday sites
3. Billy Bear 4 Kids Holiday sites

St. Patrick's Day
Leprecaun Fun!
St. Patty's Pot O' Gold Game
Can't Catch Me!
Animated Puzzle - fun!
Easy Drag and drop puzzle fun
Med-hard drag and drop puzzle fun
Jigsaw puzzle
Another jigsaw puzzle
Slider puzzle

Valentine's Day:
Fun Games

Thanksgiving Sites:
1. Scholastic site on Thanksgiving
2. Learn all about the Mayflower
3. Kids' Domain - Thanksgiving games
4. Lil' Fingers games
5. BlackDog's Thanksgiving fun games
6. Primary games for Thanksgiving
7. Mr. Pumpkin Head
8. Vicki Blackwell's Internet guide to Thanksgiving
9. Pretend you are a historian investigating the first Thanksgiving

Winter Holiday Sites:
1. Ramadan at Primary Games and Kid's Domain
2. Christmas Around the World
3. Print and color an alphabet Christmas book
4. Winter fun at Kids Domain
5. Claus.com
6. Holiday games with Arthur: Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Ramadan....
Music Box, Dressup, Scrapbook
7. Another Christmas Around the World site
8. World view of Christmas
9. Ben & Jerry's holiday page: Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa
10. Award winning Hanukkah site...meet HanuKat!
11. Torah Tots...spin a dreidle and more Chanuka games.
12. Visit the North Pole...Click in the elves trunk for some fun games or play a Christmas match game
13. Hanukkah links at Lil' Fingers and Primary Games, Hanukkah match game
14. The Rec Center at this Candy Cane Village has some fun games.
15. Jerrie's December links for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa
16. Snow games: make a snowman,Snow People in the snow, Snowman, Snowwoman, Decorate a tree, Match the snowflakes memory game, Snowman jigsaw puzzle, timed Frosty jigsaw puzzle , Winter games at Kid's Domain,
Ten Little Snowmen - dress the snowman and sing along to "Ten Little Snowmen"
17. Holiday Online Coloring Book
18. Billy Bear Christmas games
19. Billy Bear Hanukkah games
20. Kwanzaa site from HarperCollins Childrens's books
21. Kwaanza at Kid's Domain
22. ABC's of Winter for little ones
23. Everything About Kwanzaa
24. Feliz Navidad
25. The Story of Chanukah
26. The History of Christmas
27. History Channel: The History of Toys
28. History of Toys
29. Winter math word problems for 1st grade
30. Dream Snow Hangman game
31. Dream Snow Scramble
32. Lots of Frosty activities! Winter Match game
33. Click on Make Your Own Snowflake...fun!!
34. Throw some snowballs but don't hit Santa!
35. Holiday Tetris game

Drought, Earth Day and Nature links:
1. Watch movies about the Earth at Brainpop.
2. Natural Resources Kids Page
3. Fun games at Kidsdomain
4. Word Searches and Earth Quizzes
5. Activities and super frog info
6. Save the trees in Seussville.
7. Virtual House...game to find the toxic chemicals and more
8. Recycle at Funbrain.com
9. Planet Pals for the little ones
10. Animal Concentration Game
11. SPRING games at Kids Domain
12. April sites from Jerrie...Easter and Earth Day links
13. Habitats - for the little ones
14. Nature -children learn about the woods, ponds, rivers, and more!
15. Pond Life at Zoom School
16. Apples, apples, and more APPLES!
17. Choose a Rainforest site at Yahooligans.
18. See Mountains around the world...learn about rocks and earth scientists and more.
19. Explore the Fantastic Forest at National Geographic site.
20. Kennesaw links for landforms
21. Super ThinkQuest on Environment Issues
22. Recycle City
23. KidsTown School: Farm
24. Lots of Farm activities and links
25. Learn all about Rainforests!
26. Great photos and sounds from Costa Rican rainforest
27. Play Amazon Explorer game from PBS
28. Dr. Blyth's Rainforest Education homepage
29. Georgia Habitats

30. Delaware River Basin

31. Georgia Annual Precipitation

32. Georgia Weather

33. Norcross Weather

34. Climate for Atlanta, GA

35. Newsvine

36. Water Science for Schools

37. Drinking Water and Ground Water-Kid's Stuff

38. Saving Water Partnership

39. Water Meters

40. The Story of Drinking Water

41. Average Annual Precipitation-Georgia

42. Drought Information for Kids

WEATHER
1. The Weather Dude
2. Musical Meteorology from the Weather Dude
3. Scholastic site for Weather: Winter Storms, Tornadoes, and Hurricanes... info and activities
4. Hyper Hurricanes at discovery.com
5. Tornadoes at discovery.com
6. Storms of the Century at PBS
7. Thunderstorm video at Brainpop
8. Twisters ThinkQuest
9. Hurricane Storm Science...fun site!
10. Weather games
11. Tornado Match Game
12. Learn about Tornadoes and take a quiz
13. NASA for Kids - Weather
14. Great Winter Activities
15. The Weather Channel
16. Hurricanes at fema.gov
17. Water Cycle Webquest
18. Brainpop movies on weather topics of all kinds

ANIMALS, PLANTS, and More Nature:
1. Let's visit SeaWorld.
2. Let's visit the San Diego Zoo.
3. Endangered Animals
4. Exzooberance - links to zoos in all states, live cams, and a wonderful photo gallery
5. Great ANIMAL site...from earthworms to mammals!
6. Cyber Tiger at National Geographic.com
7. Zoom School mammals
8. Utah's Hogle Zoo
9. Virtual Tide Pool at low tide and high tide
10. Nature Puzzles and Games from PBS
11. Help Detective LePlant solve the mystery of Plant Life.
12. BIOMES: Let's visit all the biomes.
13. Biomes at Zoom School
14. Visit World Biomes
15. Explore the desert in this ThinkQuest.
16. Brainpop movie about deserts
17. Earth Floor biome site
18. Build a Prairie activity
19. What Grows at kidsfarm.com - for the lower primary grades
20. ThinkQuest on ocean animals...includes a quiz and crossword puzzle
21. ThinkQuest about carnivorous plants
22. Zoom School on Hibernating Animals
23. Thirteen sea life games and activities from BBC
24. Brainpop science movies
25. Animal Facts internet hunt
26. All about deserts at zoom school
27. World creatures - cool facts

Some DINOSAUR activities:
1. Dinosaur Math
2. Dinosaur Quizzes
3. All About Dinosaurs!
4. Dinosaur Match Game
5. Dinosaur Alphabet Book
6. Watch a Dinosaur Movie at Brainpop.
7. Play Dinosaur Dig and learn to read a grid. (Choose 2nd grade, then Dinosaur Dig.)
8. Dinosaur Concentration and Word Search
9. Dinosaur games at Bonus.com
10. The Age of Dinosaurs
11. A Dinosaur version of the Hangman game
12. Play Dinosaur Egg Hunt - learn facts in a concentration game. (Choose 2nd grade, then Dinosaur Egg Hunt.)
13. Dinosaur Floor at the museum
14. Topsy Turvy Dino Tale at StoryPlace

ROCKS and MINERALS:
1. Cape Cod Rocks
2. Gallery of Mineral Photographs
3. Rock Hounds
4. Brainpop movie on the Rock Cycle

HEALTH:
1. A great site to study the human body.
3. Learn about your teeth.
3. Watch somehealth movies at Brainpop
4. Fact file about the skeletal system
5. Kids Health for kids - this link is for bones but check out the index on left of screen
6. Muscular systemat discovery.com - check out the index bars for other systems and body functions
7. The science connection - index of body systems pages
8. Pathfinders site for: circulatory system, digestive system, excretory system, muscular system, nervous system,
respiratory system, skeletal system
9. Great interactive game to learn anatomy called "Body Parts"
10. Colgate Kid's World - WOW! Lots of games about teeth.
11. Kid's Health
12. Take a body tour at this BBC site
13. Eat 5 A Day for good health
14. Interactive games about health and safety at this Harcourt site
15. All about kid's nutrition
16. Food and my body

ThinkQuest
Bethesda ThinkQuest entry.."Unforgettable Symbols of the United States of America."

Olympics
1. Olympics through time
2. U.S Olympic Hall of Fame
3. The Ancient Olympics
4. 2006 Olympic mascots
5. Enchanted Learning Olympics
6. Educator's site for the 2002 Olympic games
7. Kids Domain Winter games
8. Winter Olympics for kids, information and activities galore
9. Olympic Games Primer - all you could want to know about the Olympics!
10. Work the Olympic Rings puzzle
11. Brainpop movie on the Olympics and on Athens
12. Learn about 15 different sports at KidZone .
13. Winter Olympics
14. Olympic site at Scholastic
15. Time for Kids Winter Olympics 2006
16. Official site for Torino 2006 Winter Olympics
17. Kids Village begins in Italian but you can choose English
18. U. S. Olympic Teams information and games
19. 2006 Olympics for Kids

WORLD CULTURES:

Learn about any country HERE.
ThinkQuest about world cultures called "Breaking Down Walls"
Around the World

Afghanistan
Afghanistan for Kids

Antarctica
1. See photos of Antarctica
2. All about penguins
3. Penguin puzzle
4. National Geographic Fun Facts about the Emperor Penguin
5. Enchantedlearning site on Antarctica
6. Kid created web site about penguins
7. ThinkQuest about animals in Antarctica
8. Polar Pairs game

Canada
Enchantedlearning site on Canada
Prime Minister Martin of Canada gives a holiday message

Ancient Egypt
1. King Tut's Tomb
2. This site has 3 ways to enjoy Ancient Egypt: Explore, Story, and a Challenge...great!
3. EGYPT: visit the Carlos Museum at Emory
4. Hieroglyphics
6. Explore Egyptian tombs with Nova
7. Mark Millmore's Ancient Egypt
8. Ancient Egypt
9. Mummies, Pharaohs, and Egyptian Mad Libs
10. Egypt Fun Guide from Sea World

GREECE
1. Daily life in Ancient Greece
2. Visit Ancient Greece and Rome
3. ThinkQuest on Ancient Greece

MEXICO and South America
1. Aztecs, Incas, Mayan civilizations at ThinkQuest
2. Celebrate Hispanic Heritage
3. Mayaruins.com
4. Hispanic Americans
5. Enchantedlearning site on Mexico
6. The Spanish Language site at enchantedlearning.com
7. English-Spanish dictionary at enchantedlearning.com
8. World Almanac for kids online - Mexico
9. Mexico for Kids...can view in French, Spanish, and Italian, too
10. Celebrating Hispanic Heritage at galegroup.com - biographies
11. Welcome to Mexico (slideshow created by kids)
12. Cinco de Mayo

Let's visit Japan:
1. KIDS' WEB Japan
2. Join PEGGY IN JAPAN
3. Great virtual photos of Japan
4. Photos and info about Japan for kids
5. Zoom School Japan
6. Share a visit to Japan - lots of info about Japan by Helen DeWitt, a teacher.
7. Japan site for kids
8. More and more Japan
9. Weather in Japan today
10. Mt. Fuji

Korean site: stories, songs, and more...written in Korean but spoken in English

Take a trip to Australia:
1. Elementary themes - Australia
2. Zoom School Australia
3. Kids Down Under . Lots of great info...generally geared towards elementary students.
4. Australian Animals
5. Australian Animals ThinkQuest
6. Aboriginal people
7. Australia for kids......WOW! super site.
8. Lots of info about Australia down under!
9. Australian animals and printouts from Enchanted Learning
10. Andrea and Phil's Aussie Pics
11. Visit the zoo with the Crocodile Hunter
12. Kid Cyber list of Australian links
13. Tales from the Billabong
14. Australia Word Search and Jigsaw Puzzles
15. The flag, emblems, and national anthem of Australia
16. koala site from National Geographic
17. Visit Cook Primary School in Canberra
18. Indigenous heritage and culture - aborigines (use Internet Explorer)
19. National Geographic pictures of Australia
20. Great Barrier Reef and Islands - pictures
21. Virtual Great Barrier Reef from National Geographic
22. Australia's Great Barrier Reef at National Geographic
21. Australian animals and printouts from zoom school
22. Where do I belong? animal game

Take a trip to Africa:
1. See animals on a safari in AFRICA
2. AFRICAN SAVANNAH ANIMALS...WITH VIDEO CLIPS, TOO..from Oakland Zoo
3. Play some fun animal games - see how much you know!
4. Animals of Africa at Hogle Zoo
5. PBSKids on Africa
6. Africa project

Visit Great Britain:
1. Map of Great Britain
2. Virtual tour of Great Britain
3. Thatched Cottages
4. Castles of Great Britain
5. View a panoramic view of Picadilly Circus...downtown London.
6. Tower of London tour
7. Explore London
8. How is the weather in London?
9. Learn all about the Royal Family.
10. National Geographic's "Ghost in the Castle" tour
11. Life in the Middle Ages
12. Great Britain web hunt

AMERICA AND HER PEOPLE:
1. A good site to learn about Native Americans
2. Plains Indians
3. American Indians and the natural world
4. Native Americans listed by tribes
5. Jerrie's links at KSU for Native Americans
6. ELLIS ISLAND...learn about America's immigrants.
7. Scholastic site on Immigration
8. Immigration images 1900-1920
9. Ellis Island...audio clips and more.
    Find out about YOUR relatives at Ellis Island....immigration timeline and much more. Great site!
10. Immigrationfrom Library of Congress, History Channel, American Memory site...super!
11. Coming to America - super ThinkQuest on immigrations
12. Tour Plimoth Plantation
13. Timeline of the Revolutionary War
14. Famous Moments in Early American History...see "movies" about George Washington, Paul Revere, and more.
15. Virtual marching tour of the American Revolution
16. Meet a colonial family named the Daggarts.
17. Visit Colonial Williamsburg .
18. Colonial Kids ThinkQuest
19. Visit Mt. Vernon....tour the farm and then take a quiz.
20. Historical Figures (a ThinkQuest)
21. Pioneers ThinkQuest
22. Learn all about the American West!
23. Learn about the history of the American West at the Museum of the American West.
24. The Oregon Trail
25. Famous Americans....Academy of Achievement in arts, business, sports, etc.
26. Surviving the Dust Bowl
27. 1920's Music
28. Great site to look at the 20th Century....divided into decades.
29. World War II Scholastic site
30. Click on the Attack Map to see timeline and video of Pearl Harbor attack.
31. "What did you do in the war, Grandma?"...learn how WWII affected American women.
32. How did WWII affect fashion?   (Fashions of the Century described by decades here, too)
33. ThinkQuest site on Pearl Harbor
34. See video clips about some of the most important moments in 20th Century history:
     Wright brothers flight, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, JFK assassination...and more.
35. Wow...learn anything about WWII at these links!
36. Wonderful ThinkQuest on WWII
37. WWII Timeline
38. Anne Frank
39. American Memory Timeline from Library of Congress...1783 to 1968
40. Learn about The Great War Society and WWI.
41. Women of the Century from discovery.com
42. Native Americans in Georgia
43. PBS Liberty's Kids - Now and Then
44. PBS Liberty's Kids - homepage
45. Letters from WWI
46. PBS online - Lewis & Clark
47. The Jamestown online adventure - http://www.historyglobe.com/jamestown
48. Christopher Columbus for K-2
49. Pocahontas for K-2
50. Children of WWII (three actvities)
51. Long Ago and Now game for kindergarten
52. BBC site about WWI
53. PowerPoint "movie" AnimatedAtlas - U.S. history from 1783-1950's
54. Colonial Williamsburg for kids from history.org
55. Virtual tour of Chinatown in San Francisco

EXPLORERS:
1. Zoom School Explorers
2. Explorers of the Millennium!
3. Explorers by name, by country, or by century
4. Travel across America with Lewis and Clark.
5. PBS site on Lewis and Clark...super!
6. ThinkQuest about explorers

INVENTORS and INVENTIONS:
1. Zoom School Inventors
2. Inventor Archives in Alphabetical Order
3. Museum of Ancient Inventions
4. Famous Inventors A-Z, Famous Inventions, Black Inventors, etc.
5. Time Warp - choose a decade and check out the inventions.
6. Inventions A-Z and country where invented
7. Inventors A-Z and country where they lived
8. LOTs of Inventor/Inventions links

States and Other GOVERNMENT Sites:
1. Learn all about Betsy Ross and the U.S. flag.
2. American Flag and other geography games
3. History of the American Flag, the Bald Eagle, and otherU. S. history facts
4. Learn about (and hear!) The Star Spangled Banner.
5. Explore the states.
6. 50 states map game at Alfy site
7. Fun State Facts from the Census Bureau
8. Visit the 50 states.
9. WOW! super "states" games, Find the state at Funschool.com., Drag and drop the states in correct location.
10. Find out great state information at netstate.com.
11. Ben Franklin shows us lots of information on the U.S. government....K-2 and 3-5 grade levels.
12. Visit the White House.
13. The White House for kids
14. Inside the White House with National Geographic - pretend you are President (interactive.)
15. Georgia wildlife
16. Georgia scavenger hunt
17. Georgia Tourism site....learn all about Georgia
18. All about Georgia
19. This is a wonderful site by the Library of Congress....content includes Amazing Americans,
Explore the States, Jump Back in Time, and much more!:
20. Visit this site created for primary students to learn about President Lincoln.
21. Another Lincoln site
22. George Washington - Pioneer Farmer (at Mount Vernon)
23. Awesome 3-part movie about George Washington!
24. An overview of Lincoln's life
25. Brief biography of Lincoln
26. Abraham Lincoln's Beard
27. Test your knowledge of states and capitols.
28. U.S. Founding Documents - scanned copies of the originals
29. U.S. History.org
30. Here...you can be "President for a Day" at this interactive PBS site.
31. How does the government affect YOU? even your school!
32. Inside the voting booth..learn all about it!
33. Quia quiz on states and capitals
34. Uncle Sam for kids - government site for kids...super!
35. Guess the states or guess the capitals
36. Grolier site about Presidents of the U.S.
37. The New Georgia Encyclopedia
38. Play this States game to see how much you know about the states.
39. Learn about state flags and U.S. flags
40. Early U.S. flags
41. Library of Congress site for Georgia
42. Millionaire game about the U.S. Government

BLACK HISTORY and the Civil Rights Movement:
1. Visit this site to learn all about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Movement from this Seattle Times site.
2. Learn all about MLK at this timeline site prepared by elementary school students.
3. Hear exerpts from some of MLK's sermons and speeches.
4. The Underground Railroad
5. Take a Black History Quiz
6. African American Quilts
7. We Shall Overcome - Historic places of the Civil Rights Movement
8. Black History Month web scavenger hunt for 3rd and 4th grade
9. Black History Month web scavenger hunt for 5th grade
10. Timeline of Black History at Scholastic site
11. Black American Scientists and Inventors
12. Try this MLK quiz at Surfnet.
13. Enchanted Learning info on MLK
14. Interactive crossword puzzle about MLK
15. The King Center...hear Dr. King speak about serving our community
16. Interactive timeline about Dr. King
17. Living Under Enslavement: African Americans living on Hermitage Plantation
18. Fight for Rights history challenge at TimeforKids.com
19. Match some famous African Americans to their "kid" pictures
20. Hall of Black Achievement
21. African American Icons at the historychannel.com
22. African American biographies at galegroup.com
23. African Americans in History
24. Black History in America from Scholastic
25. Breaking Racial Barriers - the Harmon Foundation Collection
26. Kulture Kidz site...learn about African American culture
27. Britannica's Guide to Black History biography index page (viewed best in Internet Explorer)
28. Timeline, quiz, and activities about Dr. King
29. African-American Trivia games

MATH sites:

1. INDEX SITES for math practice:
    SILVER BURDETT GINN MATH SITE FOR K-6
    Harcourt Math site for grades K-6
    National library of virtual manipulatives for all grade levels
    Funbrain math games
    Basket Math covers it all!
    Thats a Fact - by grade level
    Practice math facts in 60 seconds at ArithmAttack
    Math Playground

3. DIVISION ACTIVITIES:
    Division matho game
    Mad Math - work sheet (use IE only)
    Flash division facts (choose the number)
    All about Division from aaamath.com
    DaisyMath short division
    DaisyMath long division
    Division practice at AAA Math
    Practice long division (IE only)
    Division practice - choose number of digits
    Math Magician division
    Math Journey - fun game
    division of decimals
    Math Journey - choose division
    Divisibility practice (divisibility by 2-10 activities)
    Math Challenge
    Race the Wangdoodles (for 2 players)

5. PLACE VALUE
    Place Value activities at AAA Math
    Place Value practice
    Place Value practice at thatquiz.com (use IE)
    Place Value at BBC
    5 Alive Math site - choose Place Value lesson
    Place Value Playoff game (use Internet Explorer)
    Who Wants to be a Place Value Master (rags to riches game)
    Place Value Puzzler at funbrain
    Place Value game

6. MONEY:
     Let's do lunch at Spiffey's
     Count the money
     use correct coins to count the amount
     the money desk
     Buy It game
     Learn to Count Money
     Funbrain Change Game
     How many cents?
     Piggy Bank
     Money flashcards at A+ Math
     AAA Money
     U. S. Mint site...fun games!
     Quia games
     Webmath.com count coins
     Match the amounts
     Money Quiz
     AAA Money activities
     Spending Spree (for 1 and 2)
     Money activities for 1st-3rd grades
     Money - choose type of coin to count
     Count the Money (and practice multiplication) at Math Playground

7. CHARTS AND GRAPHS:
    Simple graphing site
    "Data Picking" at BBC
    Easy graphing site
    Graph Practice
    Cynthia Lanius' graph lesson
    Virtual Manipulatives - create graphs
    Make a graph!
    Reading Charts and Graphs
    Reading a Bar Graph
    Interpreting Chart Information
    Reading percentages in charts

8. Let's practice telling TIME
    telling time
    Time by the hour
    time by the hour
    time by the hour and half-hour
    Harcourt's Time for 3rd grade
    Harcourt's Match the Times
    Harcourt's Time to the Minute
    Clock Wise
    Willy the Watch Dog game
    Learn to tell time
    Just in Time site
    Time Quiz
    DaisyMath clocks
    A great place for teaching time
    Primary Games What Time Is It?
    Time for grades 1-3
    Stop the Clock game,     game 2
    Elapsed time 1
    Elapsed Time 2
    Elapsed Time practice
    Quia games for elapsed time
    Choose the correct elapsed time
    Train times

9. COMPARING NUMBERS <, >, =
Every Day Counts activity 2

10. COUNTING ACTIVITES:
    AAA Math Counting, Lesson 2, Names of Numbers, Words and Numbers, Skip counting and more!
    Let's Count
    Count at Sesame Street
    Count the chickens
    The Counting Story
    Count the fish,
    123 Match count,
    Funbrain counting activities
    123 order
    Number train
    The number game (match number to word)
    Squigly's Apples (ordinal numbers)
    Learn to count by 2 with Space Hopscotch
    Connect the dots at Funbrain (by 1's, 5's, or alphabet)
    Match the picture to the sound (number)
    Snakes and Ladder game
    Talley Marks activity
    Find the missing number
    Fill in the missing number in the 1-100 number square

11.    PATTERNS AND SEQUENCING:
    Pattern practice at Funbrain
    Pattern Mania - what comes next?
    Pattern activity
    Math pattern blocks - create a design on screen
    Number Patterns from BBC
    Missing Numbers in a Sequence
    Patterns and Sequence activities at AAA Math
    Funbrain sequencing the numbers game
    Attribute trains
    Lots of sequencing activities at quia.com

12.   ROUNDING OFF:
    Math Journey - choose rounding off
    The Rounding Off game from the BBC
    A+ Math Rounding flash cards
    Rounding Off at FunBrain
    Rounding for grades 1-3

13. ALGEBRA
    Some basic algebra problems from AAA Math
    more problems
    Fun algebra at funbrain.com
    Postman Phil algebra game
    Equation match game at BBC - fun algebra
    Algebraic Reasoning at Math Playground

14. MATH LINGO:
for kindergarten, for 1st grade, for 2nd grade, for 3rd grade, for 4th grade, for 5th grade

15. PROBLEM SOLVING AND LOGIC PUZZLES
      Problem Solving Word Problems
      Problem Solving Magic Squares
      Abiator's Active Classroom for Problem Solving activities
      Problem Solving from BBC
      Play this problem solving game,
      Starship game - choose add/subtract or multiply/divide
      Problem Solving Step-by-Step in a ThinkQuest
      Butterfly Slide puzzle
      Spring Slide puzzle
      Math logic problems from Scholastic
      Math Word Problems - Ask Dr. Math
      Number Slide puzzle
      Brain Teasers...you do the math
      Funbrain Magician really makes you think - uses word problems
      RiverDeep online games for math and critical thinking
      5th grade math review (rags to riches game)
      Math Hunt
      Brain Binders folded paper
      Word Problems
      More problem solvingword problems
      Work Sudoku puzzles online!
      Sudoku Mini puzzles
      Logic Games at Math Playground
      Calculator Chaos

16. GEOMETRY
    Trouble Bubbles: Use geometric shapes, flips, and turns in this game
    What is the Perimeter?
    What is the Area?
    Area and Perimeter Practice
    Shapes quiz (use IE)
    Pattern blocks
    Catch the correct shape game
    Match the shape (for kindergarten)
    Interactive geoboard (look at "list activities" for area and perimeter)
    Buzz Buzz Shapes game
    Super animated math lessons - choose lessons and then topic (such as Slides, Flips, Turns or Area and Perimeter)
    K-2 Virtual Manipulatives
    Area and perimeter at funbrain.com
    Rags to Riches game for Perimeter and Area
    Practice Symmetry at Math Playground
    Area and Perimeter at Math Playground

17. MEASUREMENT:
    Measure It! at Funbrain - Easy
    Measure It! - Medium
    Measure It! - Hard
    Taller or Shorter (for kindergarten)
    Harcourt site to calculate equivalent measurements
    Measure this - fractional parts!
    Measure the bears
    Learn to Read a Ruler
    Matchthe equivalent measures game
    BBC site - Animal Weigh In
    Measure by centimeters
    Measure by inches and centimeters...easy to hard- at Funbrain
    Which measuring tool would you use?

    METRIC:
    A metric thinkquest
   Comparing metric lengths
    Measure objects in centimeters with online ruler
    Matching game - match equivalent metric measures
    Estimating metric length at Harcourt
    Metric crossword puzzle
    (Answer to metric crossword puzzle)
    Rags to Riches game

18. SPATIAL ACTIVITIES:
     Spring jigsaw puzzle
     Jigsaw puzzles galore
     Drag and Drop puzzles from NASA

20. GAMES
    Topsy Turvy (thinking skills)
    Snakes and ladder game for 1 or 2 players - practice counting!
    Play checkers
    Fill 'er up airplane game
    Colors Game at MathCats
    3D Tic Tac Toe
    Guess a Number
    Logic Games

21. FRACTIONS
    Fractions practice
    Fractions quiz
     Add or subtract fractions
    DaisyMath fractions
    DaisyMath Fractions 2
    Visual Fractions
    Compare fractions
    Add fractions
    Subtract fractions
    Learn about fractions from BBC
    Pizza Fractions
    Pizza Fractions in Spanish
    Short word problems using fractions
    Everything fraction at AAA Math site
    Pizza Party at Primary Games
    Soccer shootout game at FunBrain
    Fractions and Mixed Numbers Jeopardy Game at quia.com (Use Internet Explorer)
    Math Lab Fractions
    Soccer shootout
    Color the fractional part
    Fractions ThinkQuest - Hungry for Math?
    Match equivalent fractions
    Fresh Baked Fractions game - equivalent fractions
    Solve the Mystery Picture
    Flowering Fractions
    Mrs. Bogucki practice
    Ancient Egyptian Math Cats - adding fractions

22. DECIMALS - ORDERING, ROUNDING, ADDING, ETC.
      Seashell rounding game
      Decimal Switch (ordering)
      Tug of War game (subtracting decimals)
      Decimal and Whole Number Jeopardy game
      Laser Beams (rounding to whole number - FAST!)
      Funbrain (place value and rounding)
      Funbrain (decimal addition and subtraction practice)
      BBC site quiz
      Fractions, decimals, and percentages
      Rounding game at BBC
      Place Value Strategy game
      Decimal Darts
      Decimals menu - pick easy, medium, or hard
      Beat the Clock game
      Everything about decimals - at AAAmath site
      Eight decimal games
      Decimal Challenge
      Decimal and Whole Number jeopardy at Quia.com

23. PRACTICE COORDINATES ACTIVITIES
    Simple Coordinates game
    General Coordinates game
    What's the Point? at Funbrain
    Simple Maze game
    Maze Game
    Points quiz
    Billy Bug practice coordinates
    Find Hurkle
   Zap the Aliens
   Locate Aliens

24. MEAN, MEDIAN, RANGE
    Practice mean, median, range at BBC
    Watch this Brainpop movie about mean, median, mode, and range.
    Data handling links at BBC
    Rags to Riches game for mean, medium, mode, and range

25. RATIO activities
Practice with ratio
resize puzzle pieces to fit in the puzzle

26. PROBABILITY
    Brainpop movie on Basic Probability
    Brainpop movie on Probability of Independent Events
    Spinner
    Adjustible spinner

27. INTERACTIVE MANIPULATIVES
    Interactive Manipulatives
    More Interactive Manipulatives
    Activities by grade levels

28. INVESTING
Investing for Kids

29. Word Problems
    Sock Adventures - Fractions/Estimations
    Sock Adventures - Multiplication
    Sock Adventures - Money
    Add, subtract or multiply at Quia
    Abiator's classroom
    Math Word Problems (with video explanations!)
    Math Word Problems for all ages
    Millionaire Game Word Problems
    Math Hoops

MAP SKILLS
1. Map and Graph Quiz
2. National Geographic Map Machine
3. Great Map Games....USA, Africa, World
4. Track a hurricane and learn about latitute and longitude.
5. LOTS of map activities at KSU site.
6. Can you name the state?
7. Lots of map and globe activities
8. Brainpop movie about map skills

Puzzles
Puzzlemaker

Internet tutorial
Internet for Kids....kids, learn how to use the internet!
Copyright information for kids

SPACE & More Science:
1. StarChild.
2. See the planets at nineplanets.
3. Play a Space Game.
4. Artyastro has lots of activities and games about planets and the moon.
5. Play a Space Concentration Game.
6. Another look at planets at Astro for kids
7. Space and color books and games of all kinds!
8. NASA Fun and Games!
9. The SUN
10. Sun-Earth Day mega site...movies and more
11. "Windows to the Universe" site....try the games.
12. Astronomy"Picture of the Day"
13. Animations of movement of sun, moon, Earth....plus lots more!
14. Solar System Trading Cards
15. Interactive game: "Do you want to be an astronaut?" from National Geographic.
16. NASA Kids
17. ZOOM School Astronomy Dictionary
18. ZOOM School All About Space
19. Nine Planets for Kids
20. Kidsastronomy.com
21. Light and waves from NASA Kids
22. Learn about sound at fearofphysics.com
23. Water Cycle from NASA
24. Drippy the Raindrop...story of the water cycle
25. Droplet and the Water Cycle game
26. The Water Cycle at enchantedlearning.com
27. States of Matter
28. States of Matter review
29. Solids-Liquids-Gases thinkquest
30. Physics for kids
31. Solar System Simulator
32. Color Matters
33. Carmine's Color site
34. Art museum color game
35. Color Theory has a PowerPoint presentation
36. Simple Machines
37. Earthquakes for kids site
38. Mt. Edna lives and breathes...animation
39. Brainpop movies...anything about the Earth...rocks, volcanoes, weather, and more
40. Current volcano activity around the world
41. Volcano World site
42. Simple Machines from Edheads
43. Backyard Bugs...fun game to identify creepy, crawly creatures
44. Name That Bug game
45. Rainforest site from zoomschool
46. Insects for the young ones...click on pictures
47. Birds for the young ones...click on pictures
48. Farm for the young ones - listen to animal sounds - learn about farm animals
49. McGraw Hill science site correlates to new science series (lesson summaries and online quizzes and more)
50. You can be the doctor during a virtual knee surgery at this Edhead site!
51. Your weight on other planets
52. Space at Cyber kids
53. Living Things activities at BBC
54. Materials in Science activities at BBC
55. Physical Science activities at BBC
56. Picture puzzles from NASA

LANGUAGE ARTS sites

1. Activities for K-1:
Little Explorers Picture Dictionary for K-2....Pre-K and K activities, too
GREAT literacy site for K-1...color words, shapes, numbers, letter sounds, (in Spanish, too)
The ABC game - match picture to beginning letter
Who should come first?
Phonics and word family activities for K-2, "Pick the picture that begins with the letter..."
Clifford's interactive stories and games
Another billybear game...using the alphabet....beginning letter sounds, letter location on the keyboard, and more.
Compare and Contrast grade 1
Ending word sounds at Dosity.com
Korean Fairy Tales, Dress the family game, and more
Learn to make your letters at this PBS site.
Scholastic activities to build language skills: Nina the Naming Newt, Leo the Letter Loving Lobster, and Reggie the Rhyming Rhino
Literacy games from BBC...capitol letters, patterns, words that make sounds, etc
Three great games about Arthur!
Fun Book Word Search Puzzles
"What's the Word?" vocabulary game
Chicken Jane animated story from "Between the Lions" PBS site
ABC Cow game
Finish the word at PBS kids' site
Sort game at PBS kids' site
Pounce game from Between the Lions
Reading skills - grade 1 (Contrast, Main Idea, Sequence, draw conclusions, note details, make inferences)
Little Animals Activity Center - interactive stories and more!
Who am I? reading activity at Starfall
Starfall magic words
Starfall ABC games
Literacy games - The Magic Key - from BBC
What? When? Where? Why? games
Rhyming practice

Connect the World-Arthur PBS

Facts and Opinions-Arthur site to learn about facts/opinions

Starfall

Starfall Books to Read-Starfall books to read : fiction and nonfiction

2. Online stories:
Listen to online stories at Kennedy Center
Read stories from all over the world (in English, French, or Spanish)
Stories by Stephen Cosgrove read aloud
The Mighty Book library (username and password can be obtained from your teacher)
Choose an animated story at storyville to be read to you....then complete an online activity.
Learn to read at Starfall.com. Phonics games and online books...super!
ThinkQuest on the book Holes
Poetry...rate it, read it, write it.
Sara Plain and Tall quiz: http://www.quia.com/tq/239572.html
Between the Lions stories

3. Genres:
Starfall.com index of examples
ReviseWise English

Poetry
Fern's Poetry Club
All kinds of poetry links for children
Ideas for you to write poems
Poetry Connections - by a 5th grade class
Poetry for Children links
Annie's Rhyme Time
Poetry writing at Scholastic
Poetry scavenger hunt
Starfall poetry
Guess what? poems

Myths, folktales, tall tales, and fairy tales:
Myths, FolkTales, and Fairy Tales from Scholastic
Jan Brett tells how she wrote her folktale, The Mitten
Read about some Tall Tale Heroes
Aesop's Fables online collection (some with audio)
Myths, legends, fables...and what makes them different
Read classic poems, fairy and folk tales, and fables (with beautiful illustrations)
Mother Goose - nursery rhymes
Lots of Myths!
Tall Tales
Folk Takes from Around the World
Grimm's Fairy Tales

4. Research and reference skills:
Learn how to locate the "Parts of a Book"
Dewey ThinkQuest
A story about the Dewey Decimal System
Reference crossword puzzle
Quia "Rags to Riches" game: Where would I Look?

5. Reading for Meaning:
Game to find Main Idea
Main Idea and Details
reading for meaning activity
Main Idea
Main Idea at Harcourt site
Main Idea practice
Main Idea practice for grades 1-2

6. Context Clues, inferences, important details:
Direct Definition Context Clues Practice
Direct Definition Context Clues
Context Clues Practice (Nouns)
Context Clues Practice (Verbs)
Context Clues Practice (globes)
Context Clues Practice
Predicting Text Content
Inference Questions
Word Clues Matching Game
Cows game - Inferences
Quia game - Inferences
Another Quia game for Inferences
Try another game for Inferences
More practice for Inferences
Guess the meaning of the word
Context Clues tutorial
Inferences
Important details
Fake Out! - word meaning
Reading Comprehension quizzes on Solar System
Figure out a word's meaning
Locating specific information practice for grades 1-2

7. Story Elements: setting, character, etc. - Author's purpose
Test Tutor for Story Elements: characters, setting, plot
Story Elements at Harcourt
Storytime - story elements
Harcourt site - Story Elements
Harcourt story elements - 4th grade
Author's purpose
Harcourt story elements - 5th grade

8. Letter Sounds and Spelling activities:
Find the spelling error at Spellaroo .
Another spelling game called Spellcheck
Spell a puzzle game at Alfy site.
Unscramble these letters to spell the word...hint is given
"Fowl words" - How many words can you make? FUN activity!
Phonics links...EVERYTHING about phonics!
Ending letter sounds: Dosity.com, Level 2, Level 3
When two vowels go a-walking song from "Between the Lions" PBS site
The "H" sound - song from "Between the Lions" PBS site
The "O" sound - song from "Between the Lions" PBS site
The "E" sound - song from "Between the Lions" PBS site
The "W" sound - song from "Between the Lions" PBS site
Vowels - song from "Between the Lions" PBS site
Audio clips from "Between the Lions": letter "s", ten sight words, "oo" sound, "ar" sound, vowels
Chicken Stacker game - short a sound
Gawain's Word game - blended sounds to make words
Alphabet soup game
Choose correct plural form at funbrain.com
Rooting Out Words game
3 Spelling games at BBC
Short A practice
Short E practice
Short I practice
Short O practice
Short U practice
Practice ending consonant sounds
Practice beginning consonant sounds

9. Subject and predicates:
Subjects and Predicates game called Rags to Riches
Another Rags to Riches game about subjects and predicates

10. Types of Sentences
Sentence Clubhouse interactive game
Brainpop - Types of sentences
Quia activity
Another Quia activity

11. Compound, complex sentences, fragments
Putting sentences together - activities for compound sentences
Writing compound and complex sentences from BBC
Activities to find sentence fragments
What is a sentence? activities
Make longer sentences activities
Skillwise activities and game from BBC
Harcourt Grammar Gold activity

12. Punctuation and grammar:
Word "skills" including using commas, apostrophes, word tense, verb-subject agreement, and more!
Grammar Gorillas
Grammar Blast - all parts of speech
Grammar Park for grades 3-5
Go for Grammar Gold!
Grammar Glossery
Comma Activities
Proofreading practice for grades 1-5
Proofreading exercises (for grade 4)
Skillwise comma activity
Skillswise apostrophes
Avoid double negatives
Penguins on Ice game
English grammar quizzes
Is this sentence correct?
Grammar Blast

13. Nouns:
Make it plural!
Grammar Gorillas - nouns and verbs
RATS! game (common and proper nouns game)
DUNK game (common and proper nouns game)
RATS! game (noun or verb?)

14. Pronouns:
BBC games about Pronouns
Pronoun game
Pronoun agreement
Skillswise pronouns BBC

15. Verbs:
Choose the correct verb tense in this Funbrain game
Action Verbs
Grammar Blast : 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th,
Verb games from BBC
Verb-subject agreement quiz from BBC
Grammar Gorillas Nouns and Verbs,
Brainpop movie on subject and verb agreement
Brainpop movie on verbs and their objects
Grammar Gorillas nouns and verbs,
Irregular verbs,
Learn the past tense of irregular verbs - quia.com jeopardy game
Subject-verb agreement,
Subject verb agreement activity from BBC
Getting the right tense
Choose the correct past tense

16. Adjectives:
Skillwise adjective activities
Another adjective activity

17. Adverbs:
Adjective or Adverb
Is it adjective or adverb?
Vocabulary Machine (change adjectives to adverbs)
Revise Wise English (adjectives and adverbs)
Grammar Blast (adjectives and adverbs)
Pick the correct word (adjectives and adverbs)
English Zone (place the adverb in the sentence)
Alien Word Mine
Supernova Sentence Puzzle
What is an Adverb?
Choose the best Adverb
Skillswise adverbs
RATS! game (adjective or adverb?)

18. Synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, contractions, homophones, prefixes, suffixes, alliteration, rhyming words:
Matching/memory game at dositey.com. Work on contractions, contractions2, synonyms1, synonyms2, antonyms
Antonyms and synonyms crossword puzzle
synonyms memory games 1 and 2
antonyms memory games 1 and 2
Word "skills" including Prefixes,Suffixes, Silent Letters, Homophones and more
Practice with homophones: Practice 1, Practice 2, BBC game, Interactive practice
Choose the correct word.
"Between the Lions" homophones song
Alliteration game
Sounds the same
BBC synonyms game
Rhyming words match game
Another rhyming words match game
Synonyms and antonyms game

19. Prepositions
Choose the correct preposition

20. Simile, metaphor:
What is a simile?
What is a metaphor
More simile practice

21. Cause and Effect:
Lesson 3
Flippy at Harcourt,
more Cause and Effect
Choose the correct connecting word
Cause and Effect transition words
Adverb clauses - Cause and Effect
Practice Cause and Effect
Cause and Effect activity at Study Zone

22. Compare and Contrast:
Compare and Contrast,
Compare and contrast at Harcourt site
Compare and Contrast - 4th grade
Compare and Contrast - 5th grade
Compare and Contrast at Study Zone

23. Fact and Opinion:
Fact and Opinion practice
Exercises for Fact/Opinion
Quia Fact/Opinion quiz
another quia activity
Fact/Opinion quiz
Fact or Opinion
Harcourt game to practice Fact and Opinion
Fact and Opinion - 5th grade

24. Sequence, Summarize
Understanding sequence,
Sequencing activities
"Summarize this" activity
Summarize and paraphrase - 4th grade
Summarize and paraphrase - 5th grade

25. Vocabulary words
vocabulary practice

26. Follow instructions:
Follow instructions activities

27. Writing activities:
Provide words to write a wacky story.
Writing activities from BBC, 3 Penguin sentence games,
Movie at Brainpop about Prewriting and Organizing your thoughts
Ideas for Writers at Harcourt - click grade level
Writing "Starters"
The Writing Plant writing helper
Proverbs Critical Thinking activity
Write a wacky story (mad libs)
The Story Plant from BBC
ReviseWise - Beginnings and Endings

28. Word Search or vocabulary games:
Wordsearch puzzles at Funbrain...or make your own
Word Play at Between the Lions site

29. English-Spanish language
The Alligator Translator at FunBrain
Click HERE for a web site that "reads" written English text.

ALL About Me! links
What do I want to be when I grow up? webquest

Occupational Outlook Handbook
First Gov for Kids - Careers

Houghton Mifflin site for test practice
Third Grade Practice test
Practice site for math problem solving for grades 3& 4

CRCT practice site
Information site from Georgia Dept. of Education about the CRCT

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