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Van Buren Elementary School
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additional internet sites.
The websites are user-friendly and applicable for students, teachers, and parents. I've included a brief explanation with each site to help you find the one you need. All are terrific for use in the classroom. |
| Mad Lib Game | This is an on-line game using grammar in silly stories. |
| More Madlibs | Many choices from Houghton Mifflin |
| Suffix/Prefix Word Game | This is an on-line game for suffixes and prefixes. |
| Grammar Gorillas | This is an on-line game practicing your knowledge of grammar such as nouns, verbs, and adjectives. |
| More Grammar Gorillas | More fun on-line games practicing grammar. Beat the gorilla in eating his banana! |
| Book Reviews | Do you want to know what other students think of certain books? Students review books from grades 1st-8th. You may also send in your own book review to be published. |
| Aesops Fables | Read a selection of Aesops Fables. A fable is a made up story to teach a lesson. |
| Word Finds | Lots and lots of word searches to print off and play. |
| More Word Finds | More word searches created by John Potter. |
| Puzzlemaker | Make your own wordsearch with your own words!This site also includes mazes and other wordsearch fun. |
| on-line wordsearches | play wordsearches on the computer! |
| Homophone Game | an interactive matching or concentration game |
| Homophones | homophones with definitions |
| Idioms | Lots of idioms and on-line quizzes |
| Silly poems & stories | written by Grandpa Tucker |
| On-line reading games | Adventure games to test your comprehension |
| Multiplication | This site offers lots of help to reinforce the times tables. |
| Math using music | Phil Tulga has created interactive on-line lessons and activities to combine music and math. |
| Multiplication Game | an interactive matching & concentration game |
| Mrs. Glosser's Math | This site has math for grades 4-12 in algebra, statistics, math puzzles and more. |
| Multiplication grid game | on-line game for multiplication facts |
| on-line games | addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, geometry and more on-line games to practice skills. |
| geometry | online flashcard game for geometric shapes/vocab. and more! |
| Ask Jeeves | Need a question answered? Type in a question for Jeeves to answer with an easy-to-use format. |
| Martin Luther King Timeline | This is a timeline created by 2nd grade students at Buckman Elementary in Oregon. |
| Martin
Luther King
by Life Magazine |
A timeline using actual photographs. |
| GeoZoo | This site gives you information and pictures about all USA state animals, flowers, birds, and more. Good for state reports. |
| State Facts | This site gives brief facts on each state in an easy to print and color format. There is one state per page. Crayola website. |
| State Reports | Easy to access information on states, can print off state shape, birds, flowers. |
| States & Capitals | More information on states & capitals |
| States & Capitals Game | an interactive matching & concentration game for states and capitals |
| Zoom School | This is an on-line school with lessons in geography, biology, and other classroom activities. There are also pictures to print out and color. |
| A virtual tour of Plymouth Plantation | Take a tour to see how the Pilgrims and Native Americans lived. |
| Nations | Facts on nations by Crayola. One nation per page in an easy to print and color format. |
| USS Constitution | The official Navy page has timelines and virtual photos of "Old Ironsides." An easy to use site for reports. |
| Maps | Locate and print maps of any place in the world. National Geographic for Kids |
| Science Experiments | This site offers small, easy experiments which are similar versions of ones seen at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, CA. |
| Discovery.com for kids | Over 64 fun activities for kids. |
| Animal Planet | Discovery.com site about animals. |
| Animal Pictures | Animal pictures and descriptions. This site is good for animal reports. |
| Creature Feature | Animal facts from National Geographic for Kids |
| Children's Butterfly Site | Coloring pages, photo gallery and more! |
| Science Bob | home experiments, ideas for science fair |
| The Learning Web | USGS site for students & teachers. Explore things on, in, around, & about the earth, K-12. |
| Journey North | Site for teachers and students in learning about nature and bird migration. |
| More Craft Ideas | This site has more craft ideas for children. It also includes an index to choose the occasion and type choice of materials you wish to use. |
| Boeing's Kid Page | If you like airplanes this is the site for you. It has word searches, mazes, dot-to-dots, and airplane color page activities. |
| Art/Craft Activities | This site gives a variety of activities for all seasons and holidays. There are many good ideas for the classroom. |
| More craft ideas | more craft ideas for children, plus cooking and other |
| Coloring Page | This site allows the page to be colored on-line. |
| Ranger Rick Activities | Ranger Rick gives many activities for art and outdoors. |
| Origami | Make a box out of greeting cards and other origami shapes |
| Animal Coloring Pages | National Geographic for Kids coloring book |
| Drawing lessons | Step by step lessons on how to draw animals. |
| More drawing lessons | More art lessons, new animals every month |
| Kids Click! | This site is a combination search engine/Web guide for children. It was developed by librarians and filters out non-kid-friendly sites, while pointing kids in the direction of good sites. |
| Christmas Activities | Visit Santa's secret village for fun activities to do. It is an inter-active site for children. |
| Snowball game | on-line fun |
| Halloween Safety Game | An online safety quiz about trick-or-treating. A certificate is printed at successful completion. |
| Kid's web sites for school | This site by Yahooligans.com has many good learning activities. |
| Cursive Handwriting | Print out lined pages all ready to practice cursive. |
| AOL Elementary School | Activities for all subjects and projects |
| Homework Help | National Geographic for Kids has great help ideas in subject areas of science, geography, maps, animals, art, etc. |
| Works4Me | NEA help site for teachers |
| Houghton Mifflin | Many activities in all subject areas |
| Ask Eric | Lesson plans created by teachers for all subjects,
pre-school to 12th grade |
| Teacher's Corner | Lesson plans, monthly activities for all subject areas |
| Physical Education | Teachers have submitted ideas for P.E. activities |
| Humanities Site | The National Endowment for the Humanities collection of K-12 resources that cover social studies, history, literature, foreign languages, art and culture. Also includes monthly calendar of historical events/lessons. |
| Behavior Management | Suggestions for handling student behavior, and message board. |
| Education World | contains behavior management strategies, timely lesson plans, writing ideas, masters to print off for classroom use, and message board to communicate with other educators |
| Free Clip Art | many choices from Discovery Channel School |
| Lesson Plans | Scholastic, all subjects, activity sheets included |
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