Elementary Web Sites
Page last edited 02/21/07
Language Arts/Reading
Locate books for all subjects and age levels: folklore, ghost stories, picture books, fables and more.
Britannica on line; Look for articles, illustrations, maps, all part of Encyclopedia Britannica.
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site
Collection of reviews for great books for kids. Ideas for ways to use them in classroom. Activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas themes and professional topics.
Leading publisher of children’s books. A treasure trove of information.
Search engine for all subject areas.
A puzzle and games generation tool for teachers, parents and students. Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your word lists. Build your own maze or print our specialty hand-drawn mazes created around holidays and classroom topics.
Webtales
Creative and interactive spot in cyberspace geared for students in grades 3
and up. Students use language skills to complete a “mad lib” experience.
Spelling, grammar and math games that teachers can use.
Language arts, math games etc. for student use.
Create your own newspaper. CRAYON is a tool for managing news sources on the Internet and the World Wide Web. CRAYON uses a simple analogy that everyone can understand - a newspaper to organize periodical information.
Math
Math resource center for students and teachers. Problem of the week, games, hobbies, cool sites, and internet activities and projects.
Miami Univ. of Ohio with the NSTA Dragonfly Magazine publishes poetry, autobiographies, natural history essays, humor, artwork, etc. Interdisciplinary explorations such as Small and Tall (watch Danielle grow from 5 to 17 in 5 seconds) link math and science.
The goal of this web site is to help grade school children improve their math problem-solving and critical thinking skills. It has 4000 math word problems for children to enjoy!
Brain teaser activities
The Mathematics Center: math-related resources that include Professional Development, Intervention, Data Place, Brain Teasers, textbook support, math links, and projects.
Science
Links to other animals a to z. Teacher activities, endangered animals of the wild here at the Oakland Zoo.
Threats to killing grounds to breeding grounds.
This web site is about plants. You will learn about how plants grow and the different parts of a plant. We will tell you how seeds travel and what bees do to help plants. You will also learn about plants and their relationship with animals.
Zoom School is an on-line elementary school classroom with lessons in geography, biology, language arts, and early childhood activities.
National Wildlife Federation
The Electronic Zoo provides a limitless database of information for about every animal you can imagine! Click on Reptiles or Amphibians for lists of links to museums, universities, and organizations around the world.
This site is ideal for the
beginner. To explore insect anatomy, simply click on a part
of the bug graphic to find illustrated descriptions of the mouth, antennae,
wings, abdomen, thorax, and legs.
Journey North
This project presents methods
to track bird and butterfly migrations, reports migration progress with the
latest migration maps, gives weather forecasts for migrating birds, and
provides classroom lessons for tracking migrations.
Science Museum of Minnesota
The Science Museum of Minnesota presents information about migration and migration destinations. View a butterfly gallery and read stories about Monarchs from students, teachers, and families. There are also activities.
Click on Wendell’s Bug World
for bug research. In Bug World, look for roach anatomy, amazing roach facts,
helpful hints on roach removal and the roach quiz. In Worm World, read about
worm recycling and worm keepers.
Social Studies
Links to the story of Betsy
Ross's life, flag trivia, picture gallery and FAQs are available at this site.
Find directions on how to cut a five-pointed star in one snip!
World
Atlas.com
Wondering where Namibia is? Want to locate Chile? Need a map of Africa? Try this online atlas. It also provides some information about most of the countries
Take a tour of Yellowstone Park. Pictures, maps, and sounds will make you feel as though you are there in person. Send email queries to park officials. Be sure to check out the great bear stories and humor pages.
Teacher Support Sites
Here you'll find lesson plans, background information, and helpful tips on some of the key topics you'll encounter in MathSteps.
Contains hundred of short tutorial videos on software packages. Under "curriculum tools", you will find lesson plans for Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc. Username: neshaminy Password: redskins
More than a digital media library, Discovery Education unitedstreaming provides teachers with the tools to incorporate fresh, vibrant digital media into student learning environments - quickly and easily.
With
Discovery Education unitedstreaming, teachers gain access to a rich collection
of more than 50,000 video segments from among 5,000 full-length educational
videos from Discovery School and other award-winning producers -- with more
than 1,000 new titles added every year.
Searching/Reference
A question and answer search engine
Reference applications available on computers in school district libraries.
Award winning search engine. Access is granted to every Commonwealth Pre-Kindergarten through grade twelve student, educator, librarian, parent, as well as those enrolled in or providing instruction in teacher preparation programs. User name: NS079 Password: student (both are case sensitive).