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Internet Content For the Classroom - MCI Worldcom and Marcopolo This
education resource center provides free, filtered access to educationally
rich Web sites, resources, and materials. This is a great resource for images: This site is for elementary educators. All kinds of great
information for teachers and administrators. Lesson ideas for every subject and grade level.
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This page is full of Art lessons for kids of all ages.
http://www.kinderart.com/drawing/index.html.
World Writers: Students helping students become better
writers.
http://wwwbir.bham.wednet.edu/wws/wws.htm
Writing Tips: The Sentence
http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/tips/sentence/index.htm
Writing Tips: The Paragraph
http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/tips/paragrap/index.htm
Writing Tips: The Essay
http://www2.actden.com/writ_den/tips/essay/index.htm
Teachers Helping Teacher: Language arts activities.
http://www.pacificnet.net/~mandel/LanguageArts.html
For students, parents and teachers. Rich in content, this
site provides guides with student handouts and activities.
www.riverdeep.net
WRITING PROMPTS, GRADES 1-8:
www.everydayspelling.com/workout/prompts/
The premise behind these sets of writing prompts is that regular writing
exercises will make students better spellers. Whether you want to use them for
spelling or simply for writing exercises in and of themselves, the activities
pretty much cover all forms of writing, from grade one through to grade eight.
This impressive math site is set up to provide computerized step-by-step
tutorials on most individual problems in almost any math topic.
Web Math (grades 3 - 12): www.webmath.com/index.html
Designed exclusively for middle school. Contains puzzles and tutorials for all
Math topics.
http://www.ezlink.com/~edu/CPuzProb.htm
Interactive Math Adventures:
http://www.cut-the-knot.com/
Biographies of Women Mathematicians: Biographic essays with
http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/women.htm
For students, parents and teachers. Rich in content, this site provides guides with student handouts and activities. www.riverdeep.net
Author Spotlight: Highlights some favorite
children’s authors.
ROB RIDER'S DOLCH FLASHCARDS WITH SOUND:
http://www.lsg.net/%7Eweb-frog/robrider/robriderflashcardcover2.html
Besides a few of the creator's favorite frog words :-) this
site offers students a chance to use the computer to learn
the Dolch compilation of the 220 most used words in
children's books. The flashcards come with sound, so the
students can self-check; the arrows are easily understood
and managed, to go forward or back.
A diverse set of issues and topics comprises the overall heading of Earth Sciences. At this site, you can find the whole range—with complete lesson and curriculum unit modules to accompany them. Very impressive!
Invention Convention: ideas and past inventions.
http://www.girltech.com/Invention/IN_menu_frame.html
How Stuff Works: great site for kids to find out how stuff
works. From the body to a toaster, a great resource in the science
classroom.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/
This site provides lessons for all grade levels based on books and appropriate
grade level science topics. Each lesson comes with a teacher and activity guide.
http://www.eduplace.com/kids/sla/index.html
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This site is great! For all grade levels, it gives links for Internet
field trips to correlate with the state objectives for science.
http://www.eduplace.com/science/dw/index.html
An anthology of sites selected for their outstanding science content.
Primarily for grades 3 through 8.
http://www.eduplace.com/science/bestofthenet/index.html
This educational weather site brought to you from The
Weather Channel teaches kids and adults about weather. Learn
about meteorology, take weather quizzes and find links.
http://www.wxdude.com/
Science Daily is an online daily science magazine that keeps
you up-to-date with the latest
http://www.sciencedaily.com/
What
fun in this unit! Students will employ several hands-on and research skills in
learning about the habitats of endangered species, how to best protect them,
what their habitats require—and then go on to design an ideal habitat in group
teams. They will learn computer skills as they research through the internet, as
well as word-processing skills by way of creating documents. The best part,
however, is actually constructing models of their own habitat designs!
http://www.mcps.org/ces/TechnoProjects/TechnoZoo/design.html
For students, parents and teachers. Rich in content, this site provides guides with student handouts and activities. www.riverdeep.net
These three web sites pose the question of the disappearing frog to students. They become detectives and learn all about frogs. www.aquarium.org/education/spotlight/disappearingfrogs/corepage.htm , www.mp2-pwrc.usgs.gov/FrogWatch/index.htm , www.frogweb.gov/index.html
This site is full of links for students to learn about what happened during
the Holocaust.
http://nizkor.almanac.bc.ca/
An
excellent resource for American history, with activities and lesson plans
included.
http://learning.loc.gov/learn/resource/history/chrono.html
With
the historical election that just took place, this site is a lesson on the
voting process and helps the children to explore alternative voting methods.
http://illuminations.nctm.org/lessonplans/9-12/vote/index.html
This site focuses on the four families of instruments of the
http://www.playmusic.org