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Subject Area Sites
Art
Language Arts
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History/Social Studies
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7th Grade Texas History
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Search Engines
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http://www.ask.com\
www.dogpile.com
www.google.com
www.yahoo.com
www.go.com
www.Excite.com
www.hotbot.com
www.infoseek.com
www.LookSmart.com
www.Lycos.com
www.Mamma.com
Useful Sites
RELEASED TEXAS TESTS:
Get a head start on testing and expose your
students to formats with these extensive
collections of release tests from the Texas
Education Agency. Grades three through
twelve are covered, with reading, math,
writing, science, and social studies; scroll
down to view all selections.
Search for Definitions from a Different
Point of View
From Merriam-Webster and QA
International, Visual Dictionary
Online is an interactive
dictionary with an innovative approach
that will help students to learn English in
a visual and accessible way. A quick glance
at the index is all it takes to
connect words with images. For example,
students can type a term like narwhal
into the easy index search box to zero-in on
an illustration of this marine creature with
its spiraled, 10-foot tusk. Or students can
explore 15 major themes to access
more than 6,000 images related to a
variety of engaging,
browsable topics. Additional features
include a Game of the Week, played by
associating words with images, and audio
pronunciations spoken by real voices.
Click Here to Access Visual Dictionary
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Build Your Vocabulary—and Feed the World
In October 2007, John Breen, a computer
programmer in Indiana,
debuted Freerice.com, which he
had initially created as a way to help his
son prepare for the SAT. Today, some 500,000
people daily visit this vocabulary-quiz
Web site. And while word-game fun is
part of the draw, players get an extra jolt
of “feel good” joy:
FreeRice donates 20 grains of rice to
the United Nations’ World Food
Program (WFP) every time a player
selects the correct definition for a
particular word. Paid for with advertising
income, 4 billion grains have been won for
the WFP so far. That’s 160 metric tons, or
enough to feed 200,000 people for one day.
FreeRice has a
custom database containing thousands of
words at varying degrees of difficulty.
There are words appropriate for people just
learning English and words that will
challenge the most scholarly professors. In
between are thousands of words for students,
businesspeople, homemakers, doctors, truck
drivers, retired people—in
short, everyone!
FreeRice automatically adjusts to
keep you at the “outer fringe” of
vocabulary, where learning can take place.
There are 50 levels in all, but it is rare
for people to get above level 48.
Click Here to Visit Web Site
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WHAT INTERESTS YOU?
Students will consider which kind of career interests them, and then
explore it further with this online introduction to choosing a
career and following its path. Several possibilities are included
under each category, along with typical salaries, job prospects, and
how to prepare for that specific career.
CAREER MATCHING & EXPLORATION:
A brief, preliminary quiz gently guides students to possible career
interests, then offers possible fields for students to explore.
These fields each include potential career choices, factoids, and
resources, matching up individual traits with each career. |
P.E. CENTRAL:
This site offers loads of lesson plans in physical education and health, with
related classroom management issues, integrated lessons with other subjects,
field day suggestions, best practices, and assessment all included. Lessons are
organized by grade and level.
WEB TRACKS TOOL:
http://www.2learn.ca/kids2learn/2Learnkidswebtrack.html
More than likely, your students are using internet resources for most research
projects. This online tool allows them to track their resources, save their
notes, and print them out.
LOGIC AND MEMORY GAMES:
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Games/educational/#memory
Improve both critical thinking and student retention skills with these online
games.
Patriotic Symbol Web
Sites
TAKING NOTES WITH CORNELL NOTES:
http://www.englishcompanion.com/pdfDocs/cornellintro.pdf
This printable template helps students to develop, refine, and manage their
note-taking skills, for any subject or any assignment. A sample is provided in
the left hand column for making connections, including questions, categories,
vocabulary, reviews, and reminders.
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE)
http://www.free.ed.gov/
FREE offers quick access to more than 1,500 resources in the arts, sciences,
history and other subjects from the Library of Congress, National Archives,
Smithsonian, NASA, the National Science Foundation and other federal agencies.
This site makes it easy to find teaching resources on federal government Web
sites. The site was developed with the cooperation of more than 35 federal
agencies and is updated each week with new materials and highlights.
TOP EDUCATIONAL LINKS
http://education.bjbarton.com/links/
Listings of many top educational links covering all subject areas.
EATING SMART FOODS:
http://www.riverdeep.net/current/2001/04/041001_lunches.jhtml
Nutrition. What's in it for your students? Plenty to capture their interest, as
it turns out. Find out how eating a healthy lunch can turn your students' lives
around, making them more attentive, faster, stronger, and even nicer.
www.maps101.com
A collection of over 4,000 maps and related teaching resources for geography,
history, earth science, government classes, current events, language arts, and
more!
http://www.kidsnewsroom.com/
"Kid Style News for Kid Style People" that is what this site's opening banner
says. Each week there is a new issue to read but don't worry if you miss a week
since old issues are archived. The Info Central area is not to be missed. Here
you can find a wide variety of resources from careers to history to full text
books to shapes and geometry. There are even links to exemplary student produced
websites covering famous inventors, ancient civilizations, the 20th century,
space, earthquakes and volcanoes.
www.girlstart.org
Girlstart
is a non-profit organization in Austin, Texas which encourages and empowers
girls in mathematics, science, technology, and engineering.
http://www.factmonster.com
Fact Monster combines essential reference
materials, fun facts and features, and free, individualized homework help. From
the dinosaurs to the stock market to the latest on Harry Potter, Fact Monster
has the information kids are seeking, all in one easy-to-use, searchable site.
www.kidsclick.com
Schoolwork
Ugh ! This is another all-in-one resource.
www.ipl.org/youth/
Internet
Public Library Youth Division—another useful resource.
forum.Swarthmore.edu/students/
the math forum
student center—great! Elementary
Math through Graduate level –“Tips and Tricks” section is very useful and
has puzzles, shortcuts, simple rules….
www.shared-visions.com/explore/english/
Exploring
English—very kid friendly
http://www.spartechsoftware.com/reeko/
Reeko’s Mad Science Lab
www.exploratorium.edu/
Exploratorium Science
www.chem4kids.com
Chemistry for kids
www.ecola.com/
NewsDirectory.com
www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.html
The Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
www.hyperhistory.com
HyperHistory Online
www.about.com
www.howstuffworks.com
explanations of how all kinds of stuff works
www.yahooligans.com
www.timeforkids.com
QUICK WORLD MAPS:
http://www.theodora.com/maps/
If you are looking for world maps, country maps, population maps, coloring maps,
country flags, etc., then this is the place. This site offers a huge resource of
all types of assorted mapping and learning tools for classroom use.
ONLINE ESL ACTIVITIES:
ESL BEARS:
http://eslbears.homestead.com/
ACTIVITIES FOR ESL STUDENTS:
http://a4esl.org/
INTERESTING THINGS FOR ESL STUDENTS:
http://www.manythings.org/
ENGLISH ZONE:
http://english-zone.com/
TAKAKO'S GREAT ADVENTURE:
http://international.ouc.bc.ca/takako/index.html
Try any of the sites above for a varied selection of online ESL activities. Be
sure to review each site and exercise offered first for grade appropriateness
and ability levels.
PATRIOTIC CLIP ART:
http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/july4/clip.html
Add some patriotic pizazz to your newsletters, web pages, or worksheets with
this downloadable clip art selection of American icons.
ONLINE DICTIONARY AND THESAURUS:
http://dictionary.reference.com
This online dictionary is easy to use and offers fairly quick results. Another
nice feature--it also provides immediate access to selecting your word search
through either the dictionary or the thesaurus.
http://pics.tech4learning.com/
“A
copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students."
http://www.school-clip-art.com/
Great clip art for your teachers and kids. It's
totally FREE.
http://www.writers-free-reference.com/
Where to find free Information on the Internet such as homework help,
encyclopedia, newspapers, quotations, thesaurus, history, kings and rulers,
on-line books, maps, unit conversions, currency conversion, census, ancient
literature, English grammar and 100s more reference resources
REFERENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR:
http://www.col-ed.org/cur/lang/lang92.txt
Here is a clever lesson plan--disguised as an advertising campaign--to help your
students become more familiar with the different types of reference materials
available in the library. After researching various reference resources
according to the directions here, they will be mounting a campaign to convince
classmates of the best Reference Book of the Year. Be sure to have a class vote
on which poster would win, and discuss why.
Black History
http://www.thehistorymakers.com
In celebration of Black History Month invite your students to The HistoryMakers,
an archive of multimedia-filled biographies of African Americans who have
contributed in some form or another to American history and the black community
since 1900.
http://www.allwords.com/
"A dictionary with all definitions in English, but the ability to search for a
word in English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, and Spanish. Additionally,
there is pronunciation file for each English word."
http://www.bartleby.com/61/
Online version of the 1996 edition of the popular English language dictionary,
featuring over 200,000 entries. Entries include pronunciation guide, definition,
and brief etymology. Searchable only (no browsing).
http://www.clichesite.com/index.asp
Alphabetical listing of commonly used English phrases and expressions. An
explanation/definition is given for each expression. Cliches are also indexed by
topical category.
http://www.bartleby.com/81/
This Bartleby.com edition of Brewer's "Dictionary of Phrase and Fable" was
created from the 1898 edition of the text. They describe it as "Comprising over
18,000 entries that reveal the etymologies, trace the origins and otherwise
catalog 'words with a tale to tell.'" Browsable and searchable.
http://www.dictionary.com/
Dictionary.com is the best general English-language dictionary online.
STUDENT-CREATED STUDY GUIDES:
http://www.theteacherscorner.net/resources/review.htm
What is the best way to motivate your students to review class material in
preparation for quizzes or exams? Try this method, whereby students themselves
create study guides on transparencies of all covered materials.
STUDY SKILLS CHECKLIST:
http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/checklis.html
Start with a checklist to see what is and what is not being accomplished with
study habits.
STUDY SKILLS BASIC HELP:
http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/stdyhlp.html
Find tips for learning how to properly concentrate, how to read difficult
material, how to attack vocabulary, how to become motivated, and more.
TIME SCHEDULING SUGGESTIONS:
http://www.ucc.vt.edu/stdysk/htimesug.html
Learn how to list major events and accomplish each item on the list, checking
and crossing it off when finished.
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