May 2001
General | Grades K-2 | Grades 3-5 | Grades 6-8
General
A+ Math Flashcard Creator
Design and print flashcards for your students using any of the four basic operations from 1-12.
http://www.aplusmath.com/Flashcards/Flashcard_Creator.html
Cinco de Mayo
Cultural activities and projects for Mexico's special holiday.
http://teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-2306.html?s14
Clouds from Space
Excellent photographs taken from space showing different cloud patterns.
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/cloud1.htm
Daily Puzzles
MathsNet provides three math puzzles each day for you to find solutions. Some of them are tricky!
http://www.mathsnet.net/dailypuzzle.html
Don Klipstein's Lighting Info Site
Helpful hints and lighting related info with links to more.
http://www.misty.com/people/don/light.html
Encyclopedia Smithsonian
Here is the ultimate resource from the Smithsonian Museums in Washington D.C. Discover great resources you can use to supplement your curricula with pictures, stories, and facts.
http://www.si.edu/resource/faq/start.htm#top
The Everglades Ecosystem: Everglades National Park
The habitats, animals & endangered species of the Everglades, as well as a look at the area's water management.
http://www.nps.gov/ever/eco/index.htm
Excellent Choices in Trade Books
Are you having trouble keeping up with all the new children's books? See Dr. Marilyn Carpenter's choices for outstanding trade books for students in grades K-9 published from 1994- 2000.
http://www.englishcompanion.com/Readings/booklists/marilynslist/index.html
The FBI Kids Page
Learn about the FBI, find out how they use working dogs to help them, and discover ways you can help fight crime in your area.
http://www.fbi.gov/kids/k5th/kidsk5th.htm
FinerMusic
Excellent web-delivered educational music content for students and teachers. Watch videos and listen to performers (many of them children) play some of the classical music masters' finest pieces. Look at the extensive biographies of Beethoven, Mozart, Liszt, Bach, Chopin, and others. Lesson plans and practice exercises for grades K-8.
http://www.finerMusic.com/on/home.html
Fonetiks
Online Language Laboratory where you can receive phonologically complete pronunciation guides in 12 languages. (Does not work with Macintosh)
http://www.fonetiks.org/index.html
Future Problem Solving
Founded by Dr. E. Paul Torrance this site engages students in creative problem solving experiences by stimulating critical and creative thinking skills. FPS teaches kids how to think, not what to think through competitive and noncompetitive programs. Their mission is to design and promote positive futures using creative problem solving.
The Great Internet Light Bulb Book
Everything you ever wanted to know about light bulbs including how they work, which kinds are most efficient, tips for making them last longer, etc. from Don Klipstein.
http://www.misty.com/people/don/bulb1.html
Health and Nutrition links
Many resources to help you teach health and nutrition. Lessons include alcohol and substance abuse, conflict resolution and decision-making, health and nutrition, and viral and bacterial infections.
http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/health/
Historical Maps of the United States
Maps of early inhabitants, exploration and settlement, U.S. territorial growth, historic sites, and military history maps with additional links to outside map sources.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/histus.html
Lightning and Storms
Wonderful pictures of lightning in various locations and situations.
http://www.chaseday.com/lightning.htm
Make Your Own Mazes Online
Create mazes from simple to complex to offer spatial problem solving experiences to students.
http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/AdvMazeSetupForm.html
The Mystery Spot
Search the answers to these engaging scientific mysteries. Investigate the doomed Arctic expedition, figure out what happened to the local frog population, strive to save the scientists trapped in the Amazon working to make killer bees less deadly, find out how to stop the deadly but rampant black Syndrome disease, and other fascinating mysteries.
http://www.accessexcellence.org/AE/mspot/
One Look Dictionary
This dictionary incorporates many dictionary resources to help you find exactly what you need, from definitions to correct spelling, from synonyms to antonyms.
Peace Corps World Wide Schools
At this site you can connect with a Peace Corps volunteer somewhere in the world to learn about different countries, view video clips, and read stories written by the Peace Corps workers.
http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/
Practical Money Skills for Life
It's never too early to start teaching real-world financial planning to students. Grades K-6 have four lessons each while grades 7-12 have fourteen lessons. Complete teacher guide with blackline masters for overhead, teaching notes, student worksheets, and lesson quizzes. Order the free video and CD-ROM containing interactive games, additional quizzes, and loan and interest calculators. Encourage parents to use the 10 "To-Do" tips on the parent pages in helping them chose age-appropriate activities in teaching money management to their children.
http://visa.edgate.com/visa/english/teachers.html
Quia
Explore thousands of activities in all curricular areas. Educational games, quizzes, and activities- check out the top 50, activities with Picasso, or musical instruments, or try the science trivia, or math practice games to enhance your thinking skills.
Science News Online
A weekly newspaper about science-related fields. Covers current information with lots of links to interesting stories.
Superteach - Your Online Grammar Tutor
Learn grammar rules and practice fixing common mistakes such as verb tense errors, run-on sentences, sentence fragments, punctuation errors, irregular verbs, and more.
http://webnz.com/checkers/grammar2.html
Virtual Museum of Canada
Explore dozens of exhibits including Panoramas of North American Landscape Art, Hockey, Champlain's Voyages and Travels, Black Communities in Nova Scotia, Photographs from the Yukon Gold Rush, Athena's Heirs including four centuries of Canadian Science and Medicine, and Inuit Treasures in 3-D.
http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/English/Exhibits/index.html
Wacky Web Tales
Similar to Mad Libs, fill in the adjectives, nouns, names, adverbs, or whatever is requested and then see your Wacky Web tale online.
http://www.eduplace.com/tales/
What is a Print?
Learn how to create prints with this interactive tutorial making prints by wood cutting, etching, lithography, and screen printing. Included are master examples of each and a glossary of print terminology.
http://www.moma.org/whatisaprint/flash.html
Who Dunnit?
Students learn about forensic science by studying objects that relate to a crime.
http://www.cyberbee.com/whodunnit/crime.html
The Wright Flyer
The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum presents facts regarding the Wright Brothers flight with pictures of the 1903 Flyer. Also included are links to other rockets and flying machines
http://www.nasm.edu/galleries/gal100/wright1903.html
Grades K-2
Emmett Scott's Cartoon Corner
What do cartoonists do? What is the difference between spot drawings, editorial cartoons, caricature, and animation? Find stories, puzzles, drawing tricks, and art activities. Check out the creative play link for creative ideas that will keep children busy for hours.
http://www.cartooncorner.com/index.html
Gatefish
Indoor and outdoor activities for young children. Try making pasta people, mobiles, grow garlic, sweet potatoes, make pinecone birdfeeders, or make a crown or dalmatian ears. Includes lots of gardening tips to use with children.
http://www.gatefish.com/activities/index.html
Growing Plants
Why are plants important? Grow plants from seeds, find out what plants need to grow, learn the basic parts of a plant, and more in 7 lessons from Educate the Children in the United Kingdom.
http://www.educate.org.uk/teacher_zone/classroom/science/unit1b.htm
The Math Magic Resources for the K-4 Teacher
Units on time, money, 4 basic operations, fractions, measurement, graphing, and problem-solving for K-4.
http://www.geocities.com/teachingwithheart/mathpageone.html
May Fifth Fun
Ideas for celebrating Cinco de Mayo.
http://www.geocities.com/smilecdg/mayfifth.html
May Primary Mind Benders
Magic square, wordsearch, alphabet pyramid, and kite twin puzzles with solutions included.
http://www.createdbyteachers.com/primaryactivitymay.html
Mother's Day Activities and Projects
Especially for primary students here are art projects, stories, math, music, science and social studies activities which tie in to a special day for Mom.
http://teachervision.com/tv/lpsearch/theme=Mother%27s%20Day&grade=primary
Puzzle Page from Emmett Scott
Find the correct letters and help Peetie Heffer spill the milk, count the flies, or search for stars. See if you can solve the puzzles and brain benders!
http://www.cartooncorner.com/puzzlepage.html
Syllabication Rules
Here are twenty rules to help students understand how to divide words into syllables from Teacher2Teacher.
http://www.createdbyteachers.com/syllablerulescharts.html
Vowel Helpers
Make vowel flash cards for students to practice at school or home. Includes CVC, CCVC, CVCC, CCVCC, VCE, vowel digraphs, R-controlled, and dipthongs.
http://www.createdbyteachers.com/vowelhelpersmain.html
Water Works! El Agua Trabaja!
Five lessons about the water cycle have been developed for young science learners by a team of educators in Chicago. Many of these ideas will motivate you to examine water use in your neighborhood.
http://www.chias.org/ipsd/2001/index.html
WebQuests for Early Childhood
Are your first and second graders ready to tackle WebQuests? Here are over a hundred WebQuests to motivate your students to learn more about some of their favorite topics.
http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/computing/web_quests/early/
Grades 3-5
A Celebration of Young Poets
Creative Communications is committed to providing resources for promoting language arts in schools. A subscription is offered for Poetic Power, a free newsletter encouraging poetry for and by students in grades 4-12. Also available are poetry contests for students and language arts grants for teachers.
The Story of the Young Map Colorer
What is the minimum number of colors needed to color a map with no colors touching which are the same? Explore the mathematics of mapping.
http://www.c3.lanl.gov/mega-math/workbk/map/mpprstory.html
Equivalent Fractions
Practice matching equivalent fractions, make flashcards, or play concentration.
http://www.quia.com/custom/351main.html
Grade Three Teachers
This site is designed for 3rd grade teachers, students, and parents of students in the third grade. Find online projects, thematic units, lesson plans, activities, and ideas especially for third graders.
Headbone Derbies
Internet research adventures that will teach your students online research tools. Choose from history topics, like "Escape to Freedom" or "Iz and Auggie go to the Polls", or science topics such as ecology or Mars. Sign up for free as a class or individual, and Headbone will keep track of the score. (grades 4-8)
http://www.headbone.com/derby/eco/teachersguide/toolkit/
The Learning Pod
Help your students progress by taking online state practice tests, quizzes, and working on games to help enhance basic skills for standard requirements at each grade level.
http://familyeducation.com/article/0,1120,2-21882,00.html
The Math Magic Resources for the K-4 Teacher
Units on time, money, 4 basic operations, fractions, measurement, graphing, and problem-solving for K-4.
http://www.geocities.com/teachingwithheart/mathpageone.html
May Intermediate Mind Benders
Find solutions for Crosspix, patterns, multiplication square, and match the same hippos. Answers are included.
http://www.createdbyteachers.com/interactivitymay.html
Mother's Day Activities and Projects
Especially for 3-5 grade students, here are activities and projects in language arts, math, music, science, and social studies, as well as art projects which tie in to Mother's Day.
http://teachervision.com/tv/lpsearch/theme=Mother%27s%20Day&grade=intermediate
Science WebQuests
Over 200 WebQuests covering all aspects of science.
http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/computing/web_quests/science/
Syllabication Rules
Here are twenty rules to help students understand how to divide words into syllables from Teacher2Teacher.
http://www.createdbyteachers.com/syllablerulescharts.html
TeAchnology
Over 50 links to social Studies lesson plans for grades 3-6.
http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/history/36/
Your Mission: The Last Mission
Students are challenged to find a location for the last California Mission. They work as a team to research the geography, native people, and natural resources of the region. Here's a great alternative to the traditional "mission model." Lots of additional resources are included.
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/the_last_mission/
Grades 6-8
About the Numbers in Today's Date
Fascinating facts about each number in a calendar. Learn to look for patterns in other numbers as well.
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/education/number/
Born in Slavery
Examine primary sources through actual slave narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/
Current Value of Old Money
Created by a science librarian at the University of Exeter, teachers and older students can find sources to compare inflation, costs of living, and more for periods in history including Ancient Rome, Spain, and Colonial America, among others. Included are many links to further explore concepts of money and economics to history.
http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/current/howmuch.html
The English Room
Lessons incorporating the Internet for poetry, literature, research, and writing, with many links for English teachers, grades 6-12.
http://members.tripod.com/the-english-room/
Geometry Webquest
Learn mathematics vocabulary as you solve the geometry scavenger hunt, and then work with Geometer's Sketch Pad to complete a number of investigations.
http://www.itrc.ucf.edu/webcamp/final_projects/cross/INDEX.HTM
Headbone Derbies
Internet research adventures that will teach your students online research tools. Choose from history topics, like "Escape to Freedom" or "Iz and Auggie go to the Polls", or science topics such as ecology or Mars. Sign up for free as a class or individual, and Headbone will keep track of the score. (grades 4-8)
http://www.headbone.com/derby/eco/teachersguide/toolkit/
Learning Pod
Help your child develop his math, reading, and test-taking skills with online state practice tests and skill-building games.
http://familyeducation.com/article/0,1120,2-21882,00.html
Math WebQuests
Over 80 WebQuests in mathematics brought to you by TeAch-nology.
http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/computing/web_quests/math/
Medieval Technology Pages
Technology during the Middle Ages? Learn about agricultural advances, Arabic numerals, cannons, looms, rat traps, spectacles, the wheelbarrow and other helpful inventions of the period.
http://scholar.chem.nyu.edu/technology.html
Mother's Day Resources
Especially for middle school students: included are art projects, language arts, math, history activities, and literary investigations which tie into Mother's Day.
http://teachervision.com/tv/lpsearch/theme=Mother%27s%20Day&grade=junior
Mysteries of Egypt
National Geographic teams up with others to bring this exploration of ancient Egyptian treasures. Discover the life and times of Hatshepsut, Tutankhamun, and the treasures they left behind, learn about the mummy's curse and how it impacted those who were there, and find out about the IMAX reenactments for the film.
http://www.civilization.ca/membrs/civiliz/egypt/egypt_e.html
Play Ball!
It's that time of year again. Celebrate the baseball season by helping students learn the facts, and put their baseball knowledge to the test. Although this site is geared for parents, you will probably find teaching resources you can use.
http://familyeducation.com/topic/front/0,1156,1-14026,00.html
WebQuests for Language Arts
There are over 100 language arts WebQuests designed for middle school students, many centered around a particular literary work.
http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/computing/web_quests/language/
CyberScoop Archive Page
TEAMS Support Page
Electronic Hallway