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2nd Grade Research

All the Information in the Known Universe
Kentucky Virtual Library's web tutorial for beginning researchers

http://www.kyvl.org/kids/portal.html
National Geographic - Animals
Type an animal in the "quick find" search box.

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/
Animal Articles
Sheppard Softwares free site on animals.

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games_trivia_animal.htm
Smithsonian Wild
This Smithonian site has pictures of animals in the wild. There are links to follow for information from the photo pages.

http://siwild.si.edu/index.cfm
Kids Planet - Get the Facts
Electronic fact sheets on over 50 species.

http://www.kidsplanet.org/factsheets/map.html
Rainforest Animals
Fact sheets on animals in the rainforest by The Animal Spot.

http://www.rainforestanimals.net/
American Kennel Club
Search for information on different types of dogs.

http://www.akc.org/
Kids Connect - Animals
Provides a brief fact sheet with links for more information.

http://www.kidskonnect.com/subject-index/13-animals.html
InstaGrok
A new search portal with facts, videos, and links to other sites. You must create an account to use all the features.

http://www.instagrok.com/
African Wildlife Foundation
This site has mammals only.

http://www.awf.org/section/wildlife/gallery
Animal Facts: Young People's Trust for the Environment
Animals listed in alphabetical order. African animals included.

http://www.ypte.org.uk/animal-facts.php
Animals - Australian Museum
Animals that live in Australia.

http://australianmuseum.net.au/animals
BirdLife International

http://www.birdlife.org/
Penguin Project

http://mesh.biology.washington.edu/penguinProject/home

Dorothy Canfiled Fisher

DCF homepage

http://www.dcfaward.org/

Interactive Games

Curious George
games

http://pbskids.org/curiousgeorge/
Clifford
games

http://pbskids.org/clifford/games/index.html
Houghton Mifflin Reading
games

http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr05/
K-2 Student Interactives
Utah Education Network has put together a site with educational, interactive games.

http://www.uen.org/k-2interactives/

Library Skills

Order in the Library

http://web.archive.org/web/20070127034103/http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/s2s/utopia/library4/src/library4.swf
Information Literacy Game
Players take turns moving around the board, answering questions. There are four categories, and two questions must be answered c

http://www.library.appstate.edu/elearn/game

Mythology

Myth Web
Identify the Gods of Olympus.

http://www.mythweb.com
Callaiope, Muse of Eloquence
"This site was constructed as a Technology Integrated Project for the Fayette County School Corporation, Connersville, Indiana."

http://fayette.k12.in.us/~cbeard/calliope/vocabindex.html

POETRY

Shaped Poems
ReadWriteThink allows you to create a shaped poem online.

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/shape/
Acrostic Poems
ReadWriteThink allows you to create an acrostic poem online.

http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/acrostic/
Poetry Idea Engine
Scholastic offers four different poem styles that you can creat online.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/poetry/poetry_engine.htm#
Poetry Creator
An online poetry creator by netrover.com.

http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/poetry.htm
Tagxedo
Create your own poem and paste it into tagxedo to create a shaped poem.

http://www.tagxedo.com/app.html

Red Clover

Red Clover Homepage

http://www.mothergooseprograms.org/lit_red_clover_nominees.php

SMART Board activities

Grammaropolis
Word sort game designed for use with a SMART Board.

http://smartboardgoodies.com/2010/08/30/grammaropolis-word-sort-game/
Spin to Win
Use this game to learn prefixes and suffixes.

http://smartboardgoodies.com/2010/08/18/spin-to-win-prefixsuffix-game/
Plant Life Cycle Interactives
Several simple games that help students learn the life cycle of a plant.

http://www.e-gfl.org/e-gfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks1/science/plants/10growing_plants.swf
SMARTBoard Lessons
Smartboard Lessons created by Longwood Staff ; everything from kindergarten rhyming words to 4th grade electricity.

http://www.longwood.k12.ny.us/longsmart3.html
Using the SMARTBoard to Support Language Arts
The Kenton County School District in KY has complied resources for the SMARTBoard in the area of language arts for K-12.

http://kenton.schoolpointesites.com/content_page2.aspx?cid=938
SMART Exchange
Find templates that have been created and shared by teachers.

http://exchange.smarttech.com/search.html?m=01
SMARTBoard Integration
compiled by Lee's Summit School District in MO, this site has it all! Find interactive websites, rescources and tutorials.

http://its.leesummit.k12.mo.us/smartboard.htm
e-Learning for Kids
Interactive lessons broken into grade level and curriculum categories.

http://www.e-learningforkids.org/courses_grade.html#grade_2
Starfall
This links to Starfalls reading page. Learn the vocabulary and then read the story. Interactive.

http://www.starfall.com/n/level-c/index/load.htm?f
Interactive Whiteboard Activities
This is an interactive site organized by subject and grade level.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/whiteboards/languagearts.htm

Technology Practice

MouseProgram.com

http://mouseprogram.com/
ABCya

http://abcya.com/kindergarten_computers.htm