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CIVICS AND SOCIAL STUDIES
American Memory Collection
Eyewitness to History
Memory Lane: Library of Congress
Decades of the 20th Century
U.S. historical documents in one place
Decades organized by category
"Identify The President " game
KidsGeo
Study topics and games for 6th AND 8th
History quizzes (Millionaire style)
Candidate Match Game
Be President for a Day!
Differentiation Resources
Learning profile assessments
Different learning style and learning preference inventories and checklists
Rubrics
Website for creating rubrics
Rubrics #2
Additional website for creating rubrics
Rubric conversion
Website to help convert rubric score into a percentage for a grade
Differentiation in Wilmette County
Information, Sample activities and Templates
FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCE
Blast Off
Brain Game
Career Clusters
Child Development
Favorite Subject
Food Guide Pryamid
Holland Code
Holland survey
Infant Development
Job Search
Learning Styles
Left brain/right brain survey
Myer Briggs Survey
Nutrition games
PBS Child Development
Pre-school Theme Activities
Preschool Development
Preschool learning activities
Toddler Development
Who R You?
Child Development
Infant Development
1-4 months
5-8 months
9-12 months
Infant Development
Tolddler Development
2 years
18-24 months
12-18 months
FOCUS
Video Games
Pros and Cons
The Truth about Video Games
Washington Bans Video Games
Friend or Foe?
First Amendment Topics
Game Censorship
Video Games Promote Aggression
Games Produce Violent Behavior
Myths and Facts
Zoos
Advocates for Animals
Captivity vs. Extinction
Pros and Cons of Zoos
What's Wrong with Zoos?
Reality of Zoos
Do You Approve of Zoos
Pros and Cons
GENERAL RESOURCES
Examview Training & Support
Fact Monster
Interactive website for Literacy, Math, and Science
Kids Know It
Activities, games, and worksheets make learning fun
Largest collection of PowerPoints online
Teach-nology
Lesson plans, teaching ideas, games, worksheets, and printables
T/TAC Online
SOL Enhanced Scope & Sequence
Inspiration templates ready to be used
Thinkfinity
Lessons and interactives
Perfect newspaper templates
Finally get a choice in word count and page size - and real-looking
Google Earth
Google Earth Lessons
Google Earth files/tours
United Streaming and Google Earth
Create graphs with Google Earth
Juicy Geography
Advanced how-to
A teacher’s guide to Google Earth
Google Earth Blog - tips & tricks
SMARTboard
SMARTBoard lessons
Activities by SOL or grade level
More SMARTboard lessons, Organized by Content
Middle School Smartboard Lessons
music and copyright-free images
Public Domain Pictures
Free Photos
Stock Photo ExChange
GEOGRAPHY
Pictures of places
Map game (choose your level)
KidsGeo
CIA World Factbook
5 themes of geography
Volcano World
Geography Lessons and Resources
Game to identify map locations
Egan
freetrip.com
directions, times, distance
Boston
Boston, Massachusetts
New York, New York
New York travel information
Chicago, Ilinois
ChicagoTravel information
Seattle, Washington
Seattle travel information
San Antonio, Texas
Texas travel information
Finding National Parks
Find National Parks across the USA
HEALTH AND P.E.
LANGUAGE ARTS
English Zone (Edmond)
Fact Monster with LOTS of games
Family Tree of the Greek Gods
Free audio books
Free Lessons
Greek mythology Characters
Holt textbook website
Huge book list
Find books with lesson plans, ideas, and worksheets by title.
Interactive activities by skill & grade level
Main Idea 4
Photographs for writing
Read WriteThink
Spelling games
Create a word bank, and it'll be used in every game on this site.
The Poetry Page
main ideas
Main Ideas 1
Main Ideas 2
Main Ideas 3
Recalling Details
Recalling Details 1
Recalling Details 2
Recalling Details 3
Recalling Details 4
Recalling Details 5
Recalling Details 6
LIBRARY MEDIA
Analogies Game 1
Analogies Game 2
Analogies Game 3
Analogies Game 4
MATH
Virtual Manipulatives
Glencoe textbook website
Million Penny Project
Prentice Hall textbook website
math games (basketball and baseball)
Math is Fun
Famous Mathematicians game
String of #'s in Pi
This site will tell you if a specific string of numbers, say a phone #, a SSN, a birthday appears in the first 200 million digit
Johhnie's Math Page
Cool Math Sites
Cool Math
Math SMARTboard Lessons
Fractions, decimals, percents comparison game
SMARTboard lessons for math
Interactive activities by skill and grade level
Ext 7 SOL Practice Test
N-Star
N Star Survey
MR. FLATH - ITRT
Cosmeo.com
Inspiration templates
Teach-nology
ePAT
Online testing simulator
picturesofplaces.com
ITRT page
Differentiated Instruction
Convert any file
Pearson login for EIMS & PEM
What is What in Technology
VSTE Presentation on Comic LIfe
Quotes and ideas about teaching G.E.
Political Campaign Commercials
7th grade civics projects
How to podcast
Email big files (up to 300MB)
VA General Assembly
VA State Senators and Delegates
Technology tips
Polldaddy
iPod resources
Audio books
Sounds
Sound effects and instruments
Freeplaymusic - Find any style
TV and movie themes and misc.
READING ENRICHMENT
The Lightning Thief
Hermes
Blue
Hermes: God of herds, trade, and athletics
Hermes (Encyclopedia Mythica)
Red
Hermes and Apollo
a Power Point presentation about Hermes and his brother Apollo
Hermes (mythweb)
Hermes
brief description of Hermes
Yellow
The Little Rascal: Hermes
Hermes (from Mythweb)
SCIENCE
Science Fair Interest Survey
Narrow down your science fair ideas with this website.
Science Fair Topics
Search for project topics and ideas.
Discovery Channel Science Fair Resources
Storm Info-webweather-Cole
WeatherWiz Kids- Cole
Solar Energy Blog-Cole
Storm Safety- Cole
N-STAR
Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Chesapeake Bay Program
National Geographic News
Drinking Water
Environment
The Estuary System
Stormwater
American Shad
Groundwater
Bay Pressures
Pollution Solutions
Air and Water Pollution
About the Bay
Why is Dissolved Oxygen So Important to the Chesapeake Bay?
Bay Resource Library
Factors Impacting Bay and Watershed Health
Photos - Habitats
SOL SPECIFIC SITES
Interactive SOL Released Tests
SOL Technology Integration Search Engine
Searches 133 VA school division websites
ePAT
Electronic Practice Assessment that simulates the online SOL test
SOL Released Tests (D.O.E.)
Spanish
El Dia de los Muertos
Day of the Dead History
Explains the origins of the holiday and how it is celebrated
Los Dias de los Muertos
Explains origins and history of the holiday, traditions and customs, ofrendas
Day of the Dead, El Dia de los Muertos
Discusses celebration of the holiday and symbols
Day of the Dead in Mexico
Lots of photos of various elements of the holiday, explanation of the altar
Day of the Dead Article
Explains how the holiday is celebrated on the island of Janitzio
La Ofrenda
All about ofrendas
About Dia de los Muertos
Very thorough explanation of the holiday and how it is celebrated with lots of pictures
Day of the Dead Ofrendas
The elements of an ofrenda
Traditional Altar
Explains the components of a traditional altar
Papel Picado: Traditional Art for a Mexican Fiesta
Information about Papel Picado
Papel Picado depicts Mexican Life
Article about a Papel Picado Art Exhibit
SUMMER SCHOOL
Language Arts
Context Clues
Grammar Gorillas
Adjectives
Alien Word Mine
Context Clues 2
Eduplace
English Page
fact or Opinion
Go.hrw.com
Grammar Gold- needs Plugin!!
Grammar Ninja
Holt Textbook website
Home Run Derby (parts of speech)
HOMONYMS
Homophones
Houghton Mifflin proofreading
Kids Love 2Learn
Link to Learning
Literacy Zone
Literacy Zone Power Proofreading
Main Idea
Main Idea (1-40) - finding the main idea
Main Idea - 5 passages (supporting details)
Main Idea - wrong supporting details #1
Who Wants to be a Millionnaire format
Main Idea - wrong supporting details #2
Main idea practice 1
main idea practice 2
Nouns
Plot directions (reading for deduction)
Prefixes
Pronoun Clubhouse-5th
Proofreading Exercises #2
Proofreading Makes Perfect
Punctuation Paintball
Quia English Page
Reading Comprehension-Internet Safety
Reading quiz
ReadWriteThink: Lesson Plan: A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words: From Image to Detailed Narrative
ReadWriteThink: Student Materials: Comic Creator
ReadWriteThink: Student Materials: Fact Fragment Frenzy
ReadWriteThink: Student Materials: Flip-a-Chip
Rocket Word Tag
Spelling and grammar identification
Spelling and grammar quiz
Synonym and Antonym Ballhog
Synonym Toast
Word Confusion
Word Endings
Math
Scientific Notation (Converting and comparing)
150 Interactive Activities
5th grade - time clocks
AAA MATH
Algebra Flashcards
Algebraic reasoning - weighing scales
Alien Angles
Animal Weigh (kg and Lbs)
Aplusmath.com : Games
Area & Perimeter
Arithmetic Four
Basic bar graph
basketball webquest.html
BBC activities/quizzes - Numbers
BBC activities: mode, median, and mean
BBC Measures activity and quiz
Bracket Basics
Bug coordinates
Build a new shed with mm, cm, and metres
Circumference and radius of a circle
Color chips - subtracting integers
Color chips- adding integers
Comparing fractions
Comparing Fractions, decimals, and percentages
Comparing Fractions, decimals, and percentages Quiz
Consumer Math
Count the Money
Driving
Estimation of decimals
Estimation of length, area, and counting
FEMA Disaster Math
Fishy fractions
Fraction frenzy game
Fraction match (quick)
Fractions for Beginners
Fractions for Beginners 2
Fractions from Mixed Numbers
Fractions from Shapes
FRACTIONS MYSTERY GAME
Funbrain.com's Operation Order Algebra Game
Gamequarium
Glencoe Textbook website
Hoops (equations)
Inequality word problems (Battleship)
Integer problems using the Number Line
Interactive circumference of a circle
Interactive math sites
Math Zone
Mathletics
Maze Game (x y coordinates)
Measure in inches & centimeters
Mental Machine
Multiplication game (shoot the right answer)
Multiplication practice
Multiplication Space Racer
Multiplying and reducing fractions
multiplying fractions
Operation Snowman-
Order of Operation Test
Order of Operations (baseball)
Order of Operations (timed)
order of operations flashcards
Percents
Planet Blaster - Equations
Polygons
Probability
pythagorean theorem
Find missing length of a right triangle
Reading Pie Graphs
Rounding off decimals
Scientific Notation
scientific notation on AAA math
Shipping and Handling
Simplify fractions
Sixth Grade Skills - interactive sites to use for assessment practice
Ten math word problems
Toy shopping - percent
Translations, Reflections, Rotations
Interactive site with transformations
What Good is Math?
Who Wants to be a Millionaire
Fractions (adding with mixed denominators)