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Listening to Reading!
Language Arts
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Storyline Online
Read Alouds online by famous authors!!! -
Online Dictionary
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Word Central
This is an online dictionary for students but also includes word activities.
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All Words
This online dictionary also offers multiple activities for students, teachers, and word lovers! -
Fluency Ideas
This site provides several fluency building activities for partner work.
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Word Roots Helper
A website that offers links to word root games online! Very Cool!
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Grammar Gorillas
This site is an online game that helps students identify parts of speech! There is a beginner and advanced level!
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Educational Helper
This site has great ideas for spelling and Vocabulary building activities! You can also make your own word lists and create per -
Making Sentences Game
Decide whether it is a true sentence.
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Making Sentences Game2
Complete the sentence correctly.
Grammar Games
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Grammar Gorillas
Find the noun or verb!
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Making Sentences 1
Is it a sentence?
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Making Sentences 2
Make a sentence!
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Grammar Blast
Games, games, games!
Science
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National Educational Technology Standards
A site sponsored by the INternational Society for Technology in Education where you can access the techonlogy standards online.
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National Science Education Standards
The website includes an online version of the standards.
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Exploratorium
The web site of this San Francisco science museum offers a bundle of activities and other great resources.
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Excite Weather
At this internet weather site, students can look up local weather reports as well as explore the weather in other parts of the c
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SEGway: Science Education Gateway
This web site offers a variety of tools and lesson plans in earth and space science.
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Science Adventures
This online directory makes it easy to find locations near your home that offer hands-on experiences, exhibits, and teacher and
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Sky and Telescope
This web site has current information on exlipses, comets, and other celestial events. Photos and timely news clips are also in
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Chem4Kids
The pages on atoms on this web site are very informative and provide a friendly environment for students to do their own researc
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Discovery.com
This site, based on the Discovery Channel, provides current and standard information on a range of scientific topics that teache
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Science Games
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Famous Geologists
Links to biographies of famous geologists!
Food Webs
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Build Your Own
Build your own food web in a variety of habitats.
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Q&A about Food Webs
Find the answers to your questions about food webs here!
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Build and Learn
Use this site to create your own food web and learn about its components.
Water Cycle
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Interactive Water Cycle
See how the water cycle works!
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Facts about the Water Cycle
Click here to learn fun facts about the water cycle!
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Information about the Water Cycle
Go here to learn about the water cycle!
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Everything about Water
Learn why water is so important!
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Water gone bad!
Take a look at this picture and figure out what's wrong!
Ecosystems
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Our World's Ecosystems
Learn about the plants, animals, and climate!
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Explore the Blue
Explore the waters by playing these fun games!
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Environments
Check out various environments with this interesting site!
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Where should I live?
Explore the world's ecosystems right here!
Math
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VA SOL
This is an online resource to the VA Math SOLs for all grades.
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Enhanced Scope and Sequence
This site contains lesson plans for math lessons organized by grade and topic. Each lesson matches a VA SOL!
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All Math!
A creative website that offers links to lesson plans, math help, worksheets, word problems, online games, classroom activities,
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A+ Math
A website that contains links to fun math games online. The games cover a variety of topics and would be useful for extra pract
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Teach our Kids Math
Great site! It provides various categories of activities ranging from homework help, extension actvities, self paced learning g
Third Grade Games
Manipulatives
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National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
Interactive website with manipulatives
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Math Manipulatives
Information on how/when to use manipulatives and links
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Dr. Super's Math Manipulatives
This site provides vitrual geometric manipulatives for grades 3-8.
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Hand-Made Manipulatives
This site provides step by step instructions on how to make class sets of manipulatives! There are tons of different types that
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Math Cats
While this site provides numerous lesson ideas, there is a specific section devoted to offline math crafts and activities that a
Number Sense
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Elementary Sites
This amazing web site provides tons of games for elementary students that all focus on various number sense concepts. The games
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Dosity Site for Math and Language Arts
This site offers math games, lessons, activities, and work sheets for number sense ideas for grades k-8. It also has numerous l
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The Number Machine
Here, a web game is featured that requires students to put three numbers in order so that they create a bigger number than the o
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Number Sense Actvities
This wonderful site contains multiple actvities to enhance number sense skills. It is organized by grade levels so everything i
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Number Sense and Numeration
This website is a great tool to use in the classroom at the computer station. It has links to online number sense games that st
Problem Solving
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Math Problem Solving
Free worksheets are offered at this website that focus on various math concepts. Some are related to holidays while others rela
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Problem Solving Games
This site has links for multiple online problem solving games of all types!
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Lesson Planet - Problem Solving
Tons of lesson plans for teaching students problem solving techniques while also teaching important math concepts. The lesson a
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Math Forum
This site offers a problem of the week for elementary aged mathematicians! It is sponsered by Drexel University and has tons of
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Math Magic
MathMagic was a K-12 telecommunications project developed in El Paso, Texas. The site allows students to increase problem-solvin
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ABCTeach Directory
The ABCTeach website offers a selection of word problems based on grade and topic. All problems involve various problem solving
Social Studies
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The National Standards for Social Studies
This website provides an online catalog of the National Curriculum Standards for the Social Studies.
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The Washington Post
Online National Newspaper
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The Los Angeles Time
Online National Newspaper
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The New York Times
Online National Newspaper
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The Society for American Archaeology
This website provides numerous lesson plans as well as information about archaeology education programs across the United States
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China is Beautiful
This websites provides teachers with the necessary background information on China and conatins reproductions of Chinese writing
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Egyptian Hieroglyphics
This web page descirbes the ancient art of writing in hieroglyphics and provides step-by-step instructions for teaching students
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History'Social Science for K-12 Teachers
This site contains everything you need to know to teach social studies!
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Smithsonian Institutes
The SI website offers pictures of paintings and artifacts from the various museums.
Ancient China
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American Musuem of Natural History
Great video activities for the Silk Road
SOL Review
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SOL Pass
Great Practice Games!
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Government with Ben
Ancient Rome
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Explore Ancient Rome
Explore daily life in ancient Rome!
Geography
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Matching Game
Match the states and capitals!
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Culture Grams for Kids
Use this site to learn about cultures around the world!
Classroom Quilts
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Cotton's Journey
Great Kid's site to show how cotton is made into cloth.
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Cotton Information
Concise information about various types of cotton cloth.
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What is Cotton?
Lots of information!
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Classroom Quilts
Article on why this is cool!
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Lesson Plans
Site is full of lesson plans on how to incorporate quilts into the classroom
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Zwolle Elementary School - Quilts
Tons of links to quilt webquests, history, projects, etc!
Smart Board
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Smarttech
Home site for SmartBoard
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Smarttech Lessons
Lesson plans using SmartBoard
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Lesson Ideas with SmartBoard
Gives good lesson ideas plus directions on how to set up the SB and how to use some of the tools
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Online Activities
This site offers online activities organized by grade level to help build student's skills for greater SOL success!
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Math Activities
This site has lesson ideas that incorporate the Smartboard into math lessons! It covers a variety of topics and are all fun, in
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Map Activities
This web page has map lessons that can be protrayed on the Smartboard to allow students the chance to use an interactive map!
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Smartboard Activities!!
Great resource of links that lead to specified smartboard activities! It is divided by subject and grade levels but also has he
Video Links
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United Streaming
Educational Video Database
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You Tube
Video Database
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Google Video
Video Database
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Cosmeo
This database is sponsored by the Discovery Channel and provides educational videos organized by grade and topic!
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Classroom videos
Organized by subject and then by grade, this website offers great links to videos along with lessons which correspond!