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Tuesday, March 16th 2010
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Children's Research Tools
Big Six Reaserch steps
has age approprait step sectioned K-2, 3-6 and 7-12
Blue Web
Enchanted Learning
Encyclopedia.com
eThemes
Find It Virginia
Info Trac Jr. Edition (middle school)
National Health Museum (terrific resource on science topics)
NetSmartz (internet safety tips for kids)
NetTrekker D. I
WPS sunscribes to this service
Social Studies for Kids
The Free Dictionary
World Book On-Line (no password needed inside WPS buildings)
Yahoo Advanced Search Window
Yahooligan's Reference Section
Ancient Egypt
Interactive 3D Illustraion of th Pyramids at Giza (Make guided web tour sheet to go along with this site!)
Photo Gallery of the Pyramids at Giza
360 Video Tour of the Pyramids at Giza (you may even look inside!)
History of the Giza Pyramids
Listen to Egypt
Games for kids to play at home
PBS Ancient Egypt Website/According to the SOL we are to focus on climate, contributions, and architecture.
Write your name using heiroglyphics
How were the pyramids built?
Daily Life
Comparing a Nobel Family and a Farming Family
PBS site on the Sphynx (virtual tour)
Building Pyramids (summary)
What is architecture?
Basic Hieroglyphics Alphabet
Tutankhamun
The Clickable Mummy
Watch video of an excavation of a golden mummy in the Valley of Golden Mummies! (teachers, as always...preview any content on the web -it changes!)
Little Horus (Egypt
Background knowledge of the Egyptian calendar
Try math Challenges from Egypt (3rd advanced, 4th and 5th)
Hall of Ancient Egypt at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Multimedia guide to the ancient world
Excellent Lessons!!!
Find a Google Earth lesson / Virtual tour of Egypt
Ancient Greece
PBS On-line Olympic resource/ Go for the Gold!
PBS Go for the Gold teacher's guides!
What is arcitecture?
Lesson/The Alphabet is Historic: The Greek Alphabet: more familiar than you think!
Multimedia guide to the ancient world
Measuring Greece Lesson
Ancient Mali
Why is Salt Good for you?
Picture of Salt mining
Take Photo Tour of Mali
Ancient Rome
Ancient Roman Games
Lee's Roman Numeral Converter
Lee's Roman Numeral Converter
Photos of a Roman House
Animal Classification
Five Kingdoms of Animals (flash video intro)
Cells and Chemistry
Temperature effects on compounds
Visual Periodic table of Elements
Interactive Periodic Table of Elements
Brainpop movie on atoms/ periodic table
Energy/atoms/molecule learning activities
Interactive Periodic Table with verbal descriptions of elements
Animated Visual of each element
"The Elements Song" by Tom Lehrer With animation
Plant/animal cell structure Interactive
BBC Science for ages 11-15
Evolution of Organelles
Biological Animations
Simple cell structure
Interactive comparison of cell types
List of Biology I Animations, Movies & Interactive Tutorial Links
Jennifer Thornton
Cell Division Video and Learning Module
China
Tour the Great Wall of China
Civil War
WW2 US Internment camps
info on Japanese Internment Camps WW2
Underground Railroad Interactive
you make decisions as characters on the railroad
Clip Art/Music/ Photos
Pics 4 Learning
Barry
Geography/Blackline Maps
Discovery School Clipart
DK Clipart Photos
National Geographic Maps
Library of Congress American Memory
Classic Cat
Find Sounds
Free Play Music
Public Domain Music List
Creative Commons
Online Archive of CA (primary resources)
Community ,Citizenship and Patriotism
Scholastics
360 Degree Tour of the WhiteHouse Rooms
U.S. Capitol 360 Virtual Tour
What's My Job
interactive
Tour the Statue of Liberty 360 degree tour
Listen to the Pledge of Allegiance
Digital Storytelling
Kidz On-Line
Create PowerPoint Show with Pictures
Kids Vids (how to make videos)
Examples from Scott County
Examples from Scott County
Gimp/Freeware for photo processing
Economics
Kid's Banks (includes a planning calculator- use whole dollars only!)
Play the Stiock Market Game 6-12
JMU Lesson links 3-6
US Mint for Kids
Consumer Reports for Kids
search Economic Education web
Social studies for Kids
Use of Resources Activity (Econ Ed)
Producers Activity (Econ Ed)
Consumers Activity (Econ Ed)
Consumer and Producer Assessment
Consumer and Producers lesson (K-2)
Bussiness Budies
Energy
NEED Energy info books on all levels (PDF version for print)
NEED Energy info book teaching activities
Ask Dr. Science
Environmental Issues/Recycling
Watch video on recycling in Europe( use this as a hook for creating problem solving strategies to enhance recycling at home)Grades 4 and up
Graphing Trash Marcopolo lessonlesson plan
NetFiles lesson example/Click on segments tab and choose the 1st classroom profile section/united streaming video
Explorers
All about Explorers (includes MISINFORMATION to use when teaching information literacy)
Cartier (Enchanted learning)
National Gepgraphic's Go West with Lewis and Clark
Famous Americans
Collection of sites gathered by Paula White
Famous Americans Collection
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Famous people in history
Find the historic people for every grade!
2nd Grade Famous People
Geography ,Geology and Maps
My Wonderful World/ National Geographic-led campaing
Expedition Hall (National Geographic Interactive)
USGS National Map (highly Interactive Resource for upper elementary - grade 12)
USGS Teacher resources and Lesson Plans
Oxfam Mapping our World
Windows to the Univesere
GeoMysteries for Children
Terra Web Resource
Terra Web for Kids
Birds Eye View
Google Earth Lessons from Roanoke City Schools
Navigatiing Our World First Grade
GPS Integration ideas
Geocache
GPS Easy Software download
Find a cahe to explore
Earthquakes by FEMA
Ology! (a terrific site for geology)
Pangea website
Think Quest on Plate Tectonics and more!
Anonther Tinkquest site on the Earth/ Plate Tectonics and more
Ology! Archeology
The Savage Earth/ 13 .org
Scroll down (to chapter 6) for rock formation and plate tectonic simulations
The Rock Cycle Explained
Plate Tectonics (5th and up can read for information)
terrific Illustration of movement of tectonic plates
Rocks and Minerals slide Show
Sedimentary rock and the Grand Canyon
Rock slide show (great pictures and descriptions)
The geology of Virginia! (has terrific graphics and summaries)
VA geology teaching resource (lots of graphics!)
National earth Science Teachers Association
Taking the Pulse of the Ocean (scroll down and look for the seismometer on the left- see how scientists monitor faults in the ocean!)
Google Earth movies!
From the college of William and Mary
VA Geology
College of William na d Mary VA geology info
Windows to the Universe/ Geology
has 3 reading levels
Habitats/ behavioral and structural adaptations
Ology! Oceans
Read for Information! Great for Adaptations
Adaptations (reading for Info)
BBC Food Chains
BBC Living Things in their Environment
Lessons from the Bay
Sounds of the Rainforest
Interactive Complete the Food Webs!
Camouflage
Chesapeake bay (read for Information)
MBGnet Terrific Biome Website!
Biology of Plants
Plant Adaptations
Take a fieldtrip to the desert!
Encarta Encyclopedia/ Biomes
What are biomes? (read for info)
Coniferous forest(read for information)
Find the weather in your biome (look for international maps on the left)
Hibernating (Enchanted Learning)
Biomes of the World
Bird feet (physical adaptations)
Compare Beaks to Tools (physical adaptations)
Bird Beaks (physical adaptations)
Producers, Consumers, Decomposers (read for info)
A portal about pond life (with educational activities
Ecosystems (has audio tours that tell children information)
Who Eats What?
Examle of a food pyramid
Jungle Walk (has many animal pictures
Global Warming simulation (Arctic Sea from 1979-2006) click on image to play video
Scholastic build a Food web
PBS Kids Food webs
Food chain Song
Food Chain activities
Build a food chain
Create a Food Web
how to
Atomic Learning (at home you need the school password- ask your teacher for details)
Kidz On-Line
Cyber Bee
NetSmartz Internet Safety
TrackStar (evaluating web pages)
Kids Vids (how to make videos)
Internet class ideas
Annenberg.org professional development
All about Explorers (includes MISINFORMATION to use when teaching information literacy)
Teacher Tackle Box
NTTI Portal
Cyber Smart Curriculum
On-Line Archive of CA
Cell (plant or animal)Structure and ,ore
Plant/animal cell structure Interactive
Internet Search Challlenge (to teach kids how to search)
BBC Food web activities
Camouflague
Many food chain activities
Food webs in Biomes
eThemes search
Ultimate Biomes
Food Chains explained
National Geographic Explore a Creature
Interactive Create a Food Web! (works in Internet Explorer/ use for assessment)
Hands-on, rock formation, Simulation
Compare Beaks to Tools (physical adaptations)
Where Can Animals Live ( good for observing physical adaptions)
Simple machines refence chart (definitions and examples
NLVM grade 3-5 Number operations
CARET -search on resources (article on using web resources for education)
BBC Barnaby Bear Recycling Game (flash player needed)
Watch video on recycling in Europe( use this as a hook for creating problem solving strategies to enhance recycling at home)Grades 4 and up
Watch video on recycling in Europe( use this as a hook for creating problem solving strategies to enhance recycling at home)Grades 4 and up
Food chain Quiz
Internet Safety
Katie's Room (Learn the ins and outs of Computers) 4 kids
Web Wise kids
grades 4-8
iKeepSafe Kids
for K-3
iKeepSafe Parents Organization homepage
Parents and teachers
Virginia Studies
Teach it with the Web VAS 6
Virtual Jamestown (supported by VA Tech and others)
Map of John Smith
Jamestown On-Line Adventure (You are the settlers! You decide how to build Jamestown and see if you can survive!)
The First Virginians (Native Americans)
Jamestown Journey (Many resources for teachers)
VA Studies (Links, links and more links!)
National Geographic
A Comic Strip About Jamestown
John Smith (Enchanted Learning)
Jamestown (History Is Fun Website)
Lists of Settlers by Occupations
VA
1994 discovery of the real site where Jamestown was founded
See how archeologists recovered a candelstick in Jamestown, VA!
On The trail Of John Smith (Interactive)
National Geographic
VA Study activities from Roanoke County
collection of Mac activities that may give Windows users a tech integration idea- Each WPS elementary has access to a Mac laptop
Jamestown Virtual Tour
sponsored by the National Parks Service
LA 3-5
Book Pals (listen to stories read by famous people)
synonmym matching game
Satr Fall Reading Activities
Houghton Mifflin's
link to web site cooresponding with Reading series
Native Americans
Native American Study cards to prints
A Time Long Ago
Information on native americans
Eastern American Indians
great tour using inquiry to guid student learning!
PBS Eastern Woodland Indians
includes movies and audio playes that reads the text to the students.
Siouan Language chart
a nice way t o compare the regional differences that occur in a language.
Listen to the Chippewa words
Native tech.org's site index
links to many facts
LA K-2
1 Getting Students Connected
K Getting Students Connected
Star Fall Reading Activity
Picadome Elementary School Portal
This page is a nicely organized list of Language Arts activities
Words Their Way Links
direct from the words their way website
2 Getting students Connected
Alphabet printables
make your own traceable words
Professor Garfield's Farm
TERRIFIC games allowing for all types of phonemic awareness practice!
Larn to write a letter
I would model during small group instruction and then allow a reader and non-reader to work together to write their own story.
1 beginning consonants
1Clifford/Matching Beginning sounds using listening skills
2 Clifford/Matching begginning sounds using letters
3PawPark/Listening to and matching beginning sounds
2 ending sounds
1Listen to a word and then find the letter which fills the missing space
3 middle vowel sounds
1Clifford/ Make words by dragging short vowels between two consonants
2 Clifford/Play concentration matching middle sounds
4 listening to and reading stories
1 Book Pals/ Listen to famous people read popular childrens books!
English as a Second Language Games
Dragon Tales
Vocab instruction
Search for Mami
an on-line book that aids in language acquisition
lesson ideas
Questioning Toolkit for Teachers
Lesson Ideas Index from Apple Learning Interchange
Teaching Practices by Grade from Apple Learning Interchange
Kathy Shrock
Web Quest Resources (aggregated by Barbara Honeycut of Albemarle County)
Smart Board Lesson Ideas
CyberBee Curriculum Ideas
CyberBee Project Ideas
McREL Lesson Plan Library
GPI School District On-Line Research Modules
Create an On-Line Museum! (Here are some examples.)
Kidspiration Ideas (the activities won
Kidspiration Lesson Ideas
Kidspiration Resources found by Harrisonburg, VA educators
Kidspiration lesson templates (click on them to download a copy from the website to your copmuter)
Virtual fieldtrips
RubiStar Rubric creator
Atomic Learning (click on curriculum tools on the homepage)
George Lucas Educational Foundation
Thirteen/ed online (click on "lesson plans" link to get to a searchable database)
50 uses of Inspiration software
Inspiration Templates
More Inspiration Templates
Computer Simulations!!!!!
SmartBoard activities
Motessouri Lesson Websites
Scholastic Lesson ideas and plans!
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
PowerPoint Templates (jeopardy, hollywood squares and more)
Excell spreadsheet resources
Learner.org
MarcoPolo Internet Connections
Search WVPT Media Rich Lesson database
Web Quest creation tool (no need to know technical stuff-just click and type)
martBoard lessons- Math
Harvey Almarode's collection
Letter Recongnition
1 Kangaroo Confusion/ Matching uppercase and lowercase letters
2 Guess the names of letters and then hear it!
Winnie the Pooh/ matching letters to make words
Life Cycles of Living Things AND Parts of a Plant
Parts of a plant Interactivity
Vascular plants (animated)
4H Virtual Forest
Hatch Butterfly On-Line (free)
Comparing Animal Cycles ( 3rd, 4th, 5th)
Plant Cycle (animated information!)
Plant Explorations (kids may build a plant on-line and print it out!)
What is tree and are they important to us?
Magnetism
Harrison burg Lesson Kidspiration or Inspiration
Map Skills K-3
All About the World Geography
iKnow that Continent game
iKnow that Continent game
Birds Eye view
National Geographic Map Machine
Where’s Iggy reading Maps Game
iKnow that Continent game
OxFam Mapping Our World Interactivity
Take a Safari to Each Continent (and see landmarks too)
The Ruler Game
allows you to choose your denominations on the ruler (ie. halves, wholes, fourths)
Measuring centimeters
interactive- great for small groups at the SmartBoard
measuring with paperclips
Hartcourt math Interactive
Math (general)
Fun School- online games and activities that are searchable by grade
Dinosaur Math
Making Graphs
SOL Math (links to websites associated with VA SOL)
AAA Math
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
321 Know Math
Paula White
Illuminations NCTM Lessons k-12
Excel Spreadsheet resources
Introducing Variables with Excel
MapLand Sofware (It is an add-in for Microsoft Excel for making data related maps!)
Create a Graph website
iKnow that.com math games
RainForest math
Math Professor Harvey Almarode
Mental math and problem solving with money
mathbolx (mental math (on iKnow that.com)
Illuminations Interactive Activities
This website houses many activities allowing children to maniulate shapes, numbers, properties and explore mathematical concepts
JMU SmartBoard activities for elem
Harvey Almarode's colection
IXL (think I excel)
math skill practice by levels by Quia
InterActivate
Paperclip measurement
The Ruler game
allows you to choose which increment of measurement to use oon the ruler
Rainforest math centimeters
Measure in centimeters
3-demensional shapes
3-D simulation Lab (match nets to their 3-d shapes)
NLVM Interactive 3-demensional shapes (use to introduce how to count faces, points, and edges)
Rainforest Math Year 2, 3-D shapes (interactive allowing you to count properties of a solid shape)
addition
Rainforest Math (go to grade then addition)
fractions
Quia Beginning fractions
interactive practice. Scroll down to see the game.
Identify fractions
interactive and self-checking
Fraction Match
Shade in the fraction
children shade in the shape to mathc the numerical fraction shown
easy match fractions to pictures
a concentration game Harcourt
Equivalent Fraction fireworks game
interactive using equivalent fractions Harcourt
Equivalent Fractions Game
Pick from a set of fractions the one that is not equivalent/ read directions and the press start over to begin playing
Rain Forest math
Fraction interactives for many levels grade 1-6/ click on the year. Then the fractions game.
Harcourt fractions
money
RainForest math money
Practice counting change...Go to second year/Money in the bottm right corner
Arcytech Money Game
Drag coins and click done to check your answer. Click next for the next problem.
iKnowThat Money workshop
Count add and subtract money
Apples 4 Teachers/ Money games
interactive read the instructions ... there is no sound on this game site.
Quia Money Matching Game
Use as a center in the classroom... allow children to use manipulatives to play the game.
place value
Intyeractive base ten block (explore other bases too)
NLVM grade 3-5 Number operations
RainForest Math (Go to:2nd/placevalue
Probability
Bobby Bear outfits
k-3 interactive allowing students to create as many outfits as possible from a limited number of pants and shirts. Make the chi
Adjustable Spinner
Allows you to use a spinner and even set the spinner to different colors and porportions! Create a recording sheet to assist c
Problem Solving
How many outfits acan you make?
Adjustable Spinner on-line
Symmetry
Matter
Effects of Heat on Change Lesson
Solids, Liquids and Gases
Chemistery 4 Kids
Oceans
Ocean Link Food Web
Ocean Link Human Impact
Ocean Current Experiment
Ocean in Motion (good graphic)
Ocean Habitats
Ocean Salinity Explained
Oceans( Got to temperate oceans/ light zones/ find out about animals in the ocean)
Oceans (go toTemperate Oceans/ How does the ocean resfresh itself?)
oceans ( go to temperate oceans/altantic and pacific/ findout how they differ)
Diagram of the Ocean floor
Oceans Alive ( physical features of the sea floor)
The Ocean Floor (scroll down for diagram of ocean floor)
Ology Introduction to the Ocean
Ology Creature Feature Game (read clues and match them to animal pictures)
Ology (awesome experiments with density of salt water and fresh water)
National Oceanography Data Center (find current info)
Ocean Life movie clips
Taking the Pulse of the Ocean (scroll down and look for the seismometer on the left- see how scientists monitor faults in the ocean!)
Picture on the Abyssal Plain
Watch time lapsed video of the tides! (Ythan tides in the month of June)
Other Portals
Nancy William
Lori Layman
Lisa Earhart at William Perry
Lianna Spring
Janelle Catlett
Barabra Honeycut
Kate Santhuff of NTTI
NTTI Master Teachers
ITRT portal of Meg Collins Swecker
Meg Collins Swecker teacher portal
Amy Gubler
Molly Pancake
NTTI Portal
Toni Sheets Portal
Justin Booth middles school science
Librarians Internet index
Utha Education Network!
Danny Mass TITL Blog spot with many links for Ed Tech
Professor Harvey Almarode
Harrisonburgs portal
Geography portal
gps
Patriotic Symbols
WPS Elem Library 1st Grade Page
Patriotic Symbols Matching game
Ben's guide Symbols of US (K-2)
Professional research
North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
George Lucas Educational Foundation
VA Deptartment of Education
From No On, Dr Jamie McKenzie
Thirteen/ ed online
Annenberg media/ Learner.org
GLEF and ALI (Tech Integration Examples)
Classrooms at Work (Tech Integration Examples)
ALI Comparing Estuaries (Tech Integration Example
CARET, Center for Applied Research in Educational Technology
Reading Pedagogy
Best Practices
Find new alphabet songs
connections/searchable by SOL's/connects books to VA SOL's
Read Write Think
Graphing Plot and Character in a Novel
Learner.org
Reader's Theater scripts
Print and Read books from Highlights
SCORE/ Unit ideas based on literature
Research Tips/Questioning /Inquiry Tips
Questioning Toolkit for Teachers
CyberBee Big Six Tutorial (demonstrates to children how to condict research)
The Big Six Information Literacy Research Model
"Research Cycle" article by Jamie McKenzie (scroll down to get to the links that tell about various research models)
Fill the Toolbox (classroom strategies to engender student questioning)
Powhatan organization
Rock Cycle
Ology! If Rocks Could Talk
Ology! Making Rocks
Ology! Uses for Rocks
Rock Cycles (5th read for info)
Metamorphic rocks
Sedimentary Rocks
Metamorphic Rock Characteristics (nice summary)
Sedimentart Rock Characteristics (nice summary)
Igneous Rock properties (nice summary)
Science 6-12
MapLand (It is an excel add-in that allows you to create data related maps!)
How Everyday Things are Made
BBC
Ology Gene scene
Dinosaur Floor
Teaching Geoscience (this has terrific lesson ideas and concept questions to use for assessment)
National earth Science Teachers Association
Neuroscience for Kids
All about the nervous system
Science K-5 General
Yahooligans Mammals
Seaword Animals Research
National Geographic
National Geographic Explore a Creature
Bay Quest (includes video and read aloud text for lowere readers)
Bay Trippers (interactivity about the VA watershed)
National Science Digital Library (Ask a science question and get a response from a real scientist)/login is wpsstudent password is wps1)
BBC
BBC
BBC
BBC
BBC
How Everyday Things Are Made
William Perry Science
Scientist in Action
Project Ideas
Cool Science for Curious Kids
Search Science U for resources
A Collection of science webquests (always preview teh quests- some link may be broken)
Great Earth Science lessons
Tony's web quests
Grade 2 Getting Students Connected portal
Teaching Scientific Investigations
Inquiry Strategies
This page houses teaching tips that may help you get started with the inquiry process
ThinkPort
K-5 search for science lessons and activities
Mad Scientist Network
Allows you to ask questions...out of Harvard University
Inquiry Learning/ Class project tips
Questions to promote Inquiry
list of questions facilitators may use to encourage critical thinking
5th grade activities with teacher guides and on-line tips
Created at MIT
On-line Friction experiment / Student controls variables
Simulation onacceleration/ students control the variables
Simulation on collision/ students controll the variables
Fearr of Physics/ many topics covered
Seasons
dress the bear
interactive
BrainPop weather activities
many choices here
Simple Machines
Read for Definitions and examples (late third and fourth grade reading level)
Simple machines refence chart (definitions and examples
Edheads (has interactive activities allowing children to identify simple machines)
Edheads Odd Machine (an interactive quiz)
Beacon learning center/ How can we move our principal/ (this sight is a great place to allow children to research the definitions of simle machines)
Soil and Decomposition
Virtual Underground Tour/ What lives in the soil?
United Streaming Video explaining decay
SOL Practice
VA Standards of Learning SOL practice websites
VA SOL Practice tests ( you can print theseout for homework)
Play hangman with SOL terms (5th grade and up)
Hutchison Elementary Practice
Poquoson Elementary School SOL reveiew quizzes
SOL Science websites to use for review (resource not quizzes)
SOL Social Studies websites to use for review (resource not quizzes)
SOL Math websites to use for review (resource not quizzes)
SOL Review Activities
SOL Pass (buy a home subscription for $15)
VA Studies Posters to print
reading comprehension practice
Solar System
Windows to the Universe (multi-leveled for differentiation)
Star Child (multi-leved reading ability to allow for differentiation)
NASA Kids
Harcourt Moon Phases Interactive
Earth and Moon positions interactive
Ology Website moon phase interactions
Ology Astronomy! (Terrific website explaining lots of good stuff!)
Standards/ Learning objectives
Teaching research skills
Introducing primary resources/ Lesson
Create a Graph website
Virtual Tour websites
3D map from Microsoft (must download virtual map program to use this map)
Tours from all over the world!
Find many Virtual Tours
US Capitol Building tour
Restored section of the Great Wall of China
A collection of virtual fieldtrips
Tramline fiedltrips
Museum of science and Industry in Chicago
360 virtual tour
World Wide Panorama Map
houses many panoramic interactive images allowing you to rotate the pictureas if you were standing at the location filmed
Weather
What is weather? animatedK-2
Think Quest on precipitation
Predict the weather/ interactive/application level/Edheads 4-6
Writing/ Graphic Organizers/Student Recording templates
Alphabet Organizer
Create a Graph website
Writing Process
Immigration