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