STUDENT ONLINE RESOURCES

RESEARCH

• Grolier Online
• SIRS Databases
• PebbleGo

LANGUAGE SKILLS AND RESOURCES

• Harcourt Reading -Trophies
• Readquarium
• Fun With Words
• Clifford's Adventure
• Webster Dictionary
• e-Learning for Kids

• Dr. Seuss Games
• Welcome to Seussville
• The Rhyme Zone
• Crawford the Cat Word Search
• Rosetta Stone
• eHarcourt School

READING

Stories:

• KOL Jr Stories
• PebbleGo
• Starfall Books
• Tumble Books
• The Learning Site (Harcourt)
• Children's Storybooks Online
• Storyline Online
• Weekly Reader
• MeeGenius
• Magic Keys

   

Games:

• Game Goo (Earobics)
• Between the Lions (stories, songs and games)

Poetry:

• GigglePoetry
• Poets

Authors:

• Biographical Dictionary
• Jan Brett
• Eric Carle
• Dr. Seuss
• Beverly Cleary
• Judy Blume
• Jan and Stan Berenstain

Award Winners:

• Newbery Medal
• Caldecott Medal

WRITING

GRAMMAR

• Magnetic Poetry
• 6 Steps to Writing
• Graph Words  (thesaurus)

• Easy Grammar Quizzes
• Wacky Web Tales (like MadLibs)
• Vocabulary Fun

ESOL

• English Vocabulary Quizzes

MATH RESOURCES

Sites that cover many strands

• Pearson Successnet
• National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
• Coolmath4kids An amusement park of math
• Primary Math Games Tetris, Fishy Count, Flip It Frenzy, etc.
• Math Lessons that are fun! !Many activities
• Mr. Nussbaum - Math
• AAA Math   Comprehensive set of interactive math activities  
• A+Math: Flashcards, Game Room, Homework Helper
• Houghton Mifflin Mathematics
• Max's Math Adventures Scholastic for Teachers
• Base 10 Blocks: Exploring Numbers Make and solve your own problems
• Harcourt Math Glossary
• Games Wheel Contains math games that students always seem to enjoy
• Math Maven Mysteries Read the mystery and solve the math problems
• Sheppherd Software   math concepts of all kinds  
• Internet4Classrooms   math by grade level

Number and Number Sense

• Let's Count   Count and stamp the given number of objects
• Number Time  Math games for lower grades
• Count On Play Sudoku and many more number games
• Fresh Baked Fractions Click on the fraction that is not equal to the others
• Gamequarium Number Sense Games Tons of number sense math games
• Math Playground Play with numbers and give your brain a workout
• Multiples and Factors multiples, factors, number sequences and number patterns
• Describing Fraction What is a Fraction? 
• Who Wants Pizza? Learning about Fractions
• Fraction Pointer Students match diagrams to fractions on a numberline 
• Place Value Identifying Place Value
• Soccer Shootout Adding and subtracting fractions
• Tony's Fraction Pizza Shop Practice applying fractions. 
• Visual Fractions Fractions are better understood when seen
• Decimal & Whole Number Jeopardy
• Guess My Number

Computation and Estimation

• Times Tables   Great site for reviewing multiplication facts
• Decimal Speedway Be the first to race your car across the finish line. 
• Batter's Up Baseball: Play baseball with addition & multiplication
• Math Mayhem Compete head-to-head in fast-paced, multi-player arena. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
• Two Minute Warning Race against the clock and try to solve as many problems as you can in 2 minutes. Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide
• Multiflyer Fun multiplication game
• Interactive Multiplication Practice Multiplying by 1 digit
• Table Trees Practice your multiplication facts!
• Math Magician Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division
• Mad Math Minutes Add, subtract, multiply, divide
• Prongo - 2 Player Addition Game Addition
• Multiplication Games  Many multiplication games
• ArithmAttack  How many computer-generated math problems can you answer in 60 seconds?

Measurement

• Stop The Clock (hour/half hour)   Telling time to the hour and half hour
• Stop The Clock (quarter hour) Telling time to the quarter hour
• Stop The Clock (5 minute) Telling time in 5 minute increments
• Stop The Clock (1 minute) Telling time to the minute
• Snapdragon Telling Time Telling time to the hour
• Elapsed Time Pick your difficulty level
• Measure the Teddy Bears Primary: Measure the teddy bear with the ruler
• Gamequarium Measurement Games Many geometry games to play
• Identify & Count Money Stamp, group, identify and break up coins
• Funbrain Measure It Practice measuring with cm. and in.
• Virtual Judee Clock Virtual Clocks
• Pan Balance-Shapes Make the right side heavier, lighter, or equal to the left side

Geometry

• Gamequarium Geometry Games Tons of geometry math games
• Geometry Math-o Identify types of angles, shapes, and lines.
• Robopacker Flips, turns, and rotations.
• Shapes, Spaces, & Measures BBC Schools
• Geometry Terms Quiz VA SOL 3.18-3.19
• Pattern Blocks Using Pattern Blocks
• Tangrams Tangrams
• I Know That - Geometry Shape recognition, angles, perimeters, areas  

Probability and Statistics

• Create A Graph  Create bar, line, pie, area, and xy graphs
• Spinner Probability Spinner
• Virtual Manipulatives Virtual Manipulatives
• Bar Chart Create a Bar Graph
• Bugs in the System Graphing Working with Bar Graphs
• Create a Bar Graph: Create graphs using this site 
• Data Picking
• What's The Point: Graphing Coordinates
• Bitesize Math: Graphs, Charts  

   

Patterns, Functions, and Algebra 

• Number Sentences Number Sentences
• Function Machine Function Machine
• Thinking Blocks Ratios
• Number Patterns Number Patterns
• Number Factors Find the factors

   

Know Your Math Facts

• Math Flashcards
• A+ Flashcards
• Math Fact Cafe: The Fact Sheet Factory
• E-Lab - Modeling Division with 1 Digit Divisor
• E-Lab - Modeling Division with 2 Digit Divisor
• E-Lab - Division with Remainders

SOCIAL STUDIES RESOURCES

HISTORY

General:

• Frontier Museum
• The History Place
• National Archives
• Fifty States
• Kidipede - History For Kids
• Biographies - 1st-3rd Grade
• White House Inside (Interior tour)

Explorers:

• Explorers - Enchanted Learning
• Christopher Columbus

Ancient Civilizations:

Egypt:

• Ancient Egypt Kid Connection
• Make your own cartouche
• Tour of a Pyramid

China:

• China
• Walk the Great Wall of China
• Your Chinese Name
• Ancient China -History for Kids

Mali:

• Introduction to Mali
• Mali Civilization
• Magical Mali
• Virtual Journey of Mali

Greece & Rome:

• Greek Architecture
• Ancient Rome-History for Kids

Native Americans:

• Powhatan Tribe
• Virginia's First People

Famous Americans:

• Dr. Martin Luther King
• Biographies for Kids

Jamestown:

• Jamestown Online Adventure
• JamesQuest
• Jamestown Settlement & Yorktown Victory Center
• Jamestown Rediscovery

American Revolution:

• Sign the Declaration of Independence
• America's Story
• A Journey Towards Freedom

Civil War:

• Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, Slavery & Reconstruction Links
• The Civil War at the Smithsonian
• Map of Civil War Battles
• Civil War Home Page
• The Underground Railroad
• Civil War for Kids

Virginia History:

• Virginia History
• Virginia Studies Poster Set
• Virginia Studies

GEOGRAPHY

CIVICS

Continents:

• Continents and Oceans
• GeoSpy - National Geographic

United States:

• Virginia Regions
• Virginia Cities and Towns
• Regions of VA
• Regions of VA 2
• Place the States
• Geography for Kids
• Pictures of Washington D.C.

• Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids
• Bios of the Presidents of the U.S.A.
• Congress For Kids
• How the President is Elected
• The Democracy Project

ECONOMICS

GENERAL INFORMATION

• Econopolis
• Goods and Services

   

• Enchanted Learning
• BrainPop
• BrainPopJr.
• Social Studies for Kids

SCIENCE RESOURCES

• National Geographic News Bites

FORCE, MOTION & ENERGY

• Internet4Classrooms - Simple Machines
• Internet4Classrooms - Sound
• Internet4Classrooms - Force
• Internet4Classrooms - Magnets
• Internet4Classrooms - Electricity
• Electricity and Magnet Links
• Electric Circuits

• EdHeads Simple Machines
• Simple Machines
• Coaster Gallery
• Bite_Size_Science: Magnets and Springs
• Bite_Size_Science: Forces in Action
• Bite_Size_Science: Friction
• Bite_Size_Science: Electrical Conductors

MATTER

• States of Matter-Chem4Kids
• States of Matter
• Bite_Size_Science:  Online interative experiments that make the properties of solids, liquids and gases change.

LIFE PROCESSES

Animals:

• Critter Corner
• The Yuckiest Site on the Web
• Cool Science
• Oysters
• Secrets @ Sea
• Migrating Monarchs
• Internet4Classrooms - Animals
• Junglewalk
• Journey North Fall 2004
• Metamorphosis- Brainpop movie
• Biology for Kids_ Animals
• Life Cycles
• Bite-Size_Science: Food Chains
• Bite-Size_Science: Grouping Living Things

Plants:

• The Great Plant Escape
• Enchanted Learning's Glossary of Plants
• Internet4Classrooms - Plants
• The Great Corn Adventure
• The Parts of a Flower
• Bite_Size_Science: Plant Life Cycles
• Food Chain
• Bite-Size_Science: Helping Plants Grow

LIVING SYSTEMS

Biomes/Habitates:

• What's It like Where You Live?
• Biomes
• Animal Habitats
• Major Biomes of the World
• The Earth Life Web

Cells:

• Cells Alive! Animal
• Virtual Cell Web Page
• Animal and Plant Cells
• Inside a Cell
• Cells

INTERRELATIONSHIPS IN EARTH/SPACE SYSTEMS

Weather:

• FEMA for Kids
• EdHeads Weather
• The Weather Channel- Newport News
• Weather Gone Wild
• National Weather Service for Kids
• Internet4Classrooms - Weather

Moon Phases:

• What phase is in the moon in now?
• Phases of the Moon
• Lunar Challenge
• What was the moon phase when you were born?
• Cybervoyage to the Sun
• Earth/Moon System
• Moon Phase Simulation

Space:

• NASA for Kids
• NASA SCIence Files
• NASA Brain Bites
• U.S. Centennial of Flight
• Student Observation Center
• Astronomy for Kids

Ocean:

• The Ocean - Kids and Teachers

Rock Cycle/ Soil:

• Interactive Rock Cycle
• The Dirt on Soil
• Rock On! Cyberhunt
• Environment
• Geology for Kids

Volcanos/ Earthquakes:

• Volatile Volcanos
• Volcanos
• Earthquakes for Kids
• 4 Types of Volcanoes
• You try it! Plate Tectonics
• Earth Museum
• Internet4Classrooms - Earth

Water Cycle:

• The Water Cycle
• The Water Cycle at Work
• The Watershed Game

WEB CAMS

MISCELLANEOUS

• Africam
• Ape Cam San Diego
• Panda Cam San Diego Zoo
• Bald Eagle Cam
• Bear Cam
• Butterfly Cam
• Dolphin Cam
• Eagle Cam
• Butterfly Cam at the American Museum of Natural History
• Earth & Moon Viewer:  lots of links!!
• The National Zoo Animal Cams:  All of the live animal cams from the Washington Zoo
• Earth Cams for Kids:  Lots of links to lots of different cams (ex. Torch on the Statue of LIberty) 
• Pyramid Cam:  A live view of the Egyptian Pyramids

• Enchanted Learning
• Just For Kids
• 4th Grade Science Powerpoints
• Science News for Kids
• Exploratorium-Hand on Activities
• How stuff works
• Extreme Science
• BBC-School Science Clips
• Bite_Size_Science 

TESTING STRATEGIES AND SOL PRACTICE SITES

SOL Practice Sites:

*Great sites for SOL review

• I.Q. Interactive Quizzes: Poquoson Schools Review Activities*
• Jefferson Labs: Math / Science tests*
• SOLpass*
• Virginia SOL.com/test
• Tabb Elementary Practice Tests
• SOL Mania (Clover Hill Elem.)

   

SOL Practice Tests:

The state of Texas has online tests in the same format and by the same publisher as the Virginia SOL tests. The following are student practice tests from Texas.

• 3rd grade Reading Test
• 4th grade Writing Test
• 3rd grade Math Test
• 5th grade Reading Test
• 4th grade Reading Test
• 5th grade Math Test
• 4th grade Math test 2003
• 4th grade Math Test 2006
• 5th grade Science Test

Miscellaneous Sites:

• BrainPOP
• Third Grade Activities
• Fourth Grade Activities
• Fifth Grade Activities
• Salem Elementary Review Site

keyboarding practice sites

• Free Typing Lesson
• Spacebar Invaders
• Save The Sailboat
• Keyboarding Drills
• Dance Mat Typing
• Learn the Keys
• Free Typing Test
• Keyboard Skills