Classroom Updates:
http://twitter.com/MsNagelin
Math Webpages:
https://www.pearsonsuccessnet.com
http://www.mathplayground.com/
http://www.factmonster.com
http://www.songsforteaching.com/index.html
Reading Webpage:
www.treasures.macmillanmh.com
General Sites on a Variety of Subjects
Kids Click! Web search for Kids by Librarians
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/
Kids Click! was created by a group of librarians at the Ramapo Catskill Library System, as a logical step in addressing concerns about the role of public libraries in guiding their young users to valuable and age appropriate web sites.
Interactive Learning Center
http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/8112/learning.html
On this site you will find activities from pre-school through 4th grade as well as Advanced Math, Fractions, USA Capitals, and the Solar System. Also here are simple activates for Reading Maps and Reading Graphs.
Scholastic Online Activities
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/index.htm
Scroll down to the Activity Index and find activities in Reading & Language Arts, Social Studies, Science, and Math. Each category also has "Quick Takes," a daily riddle or question.
National Geographic Interactive Features
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids
Check out the Kids Magazine. Enjoy such educational games as "Go West with Lewis and Clark," "The Underground Railroad," or "Secrets of the Maya Glyphs." Enjoy Activities and Experiments, Creature Features, or the Cartoon Factory.
Enchanted Learning
http://www.enchantedlearning.com
Enchanted Learning is a treasury of sites and activities that run the gamut from Anatomy to Zoom Dinosaurs.
Venn Diagram, 3 Circles
http://interactives.mped.org/preview_venn.aspx?id=28&title=
This interactive tool allows students to create Venn Diagrams that contain three overlapping circles. Students identify and record concepts that can be placed in one of the three circles or in the overlapping areas, allowing them to organize their information logically.
I Know That
http://www.iknowthat.com/com/
This site has activities for the Arts, Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, and Engineering, The activities encourage self-paced learning about each topic with brief facts, more extensive exploration, and cross-disciplinary knowledge.
Fine Arts
Art Safari: An Adventure in Learning for Children and Adults
http://artsafari.moma.org/
Art Safari invites children to explore the painting and sculpture collection of The Museum of Modern Art. This site encourages children to learn about art by looking for animals in works of art. Children can also create their own artwork and print it or save on the computer.
Exploring Extremes in Music
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/exploring/xtremes/nso/artsedge.html
Through a variety of engaging online activities, this site will allow students to explore extremes in several key elements of music, while listening to musical selections from the Xploring Xtremes concert performed by the world-renowned National Symphony Orchestra (NSO)!
San Francisco's Symphony for Kids
http://www.sfskids.org/templates/home.asp?pageid=1
This website provides a great way for people of all ages to hear, learn, and have fun with music, become familiar with the different instruments of the orchestra, and learn music concepts in the music lab.
Access Art: Visual Arts Online Workshop
http://www.accessart.org.uk/online_workshops.html
Animated, interactive workshops covering topics such as photography; photography, drawing, installation art, photography, and color.
Art Games
http://www.albrightknox.org/artgames/index.html
Kids 4-12 can learn the building blocks of art and creativity through this interactive website from Albright-Knox. They can learn about portraits, still-lifes, landscapes, color, and materials, as well as create their own works in the interactive studio.
Health
5 a Day—healthy eating
http://www.dole5aday.com/
This site is packed with fun activities designed to motivate people to eat more fruits and vegetables and be physically active.
All Systems Are Go!
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/systems.html
Arnold is missing a number of body parts. Students are presented with a body system and a variety of organs. Students drag and drop all the organs that belong in that particular body system to Arnold's body. Once all four systems are complete, a clothed Arnold will appear. But if students drag in an organ that doesn't belong, all the organs pop out and students have to start that system over.
Language Arts
Star Fall
http://www.starfall.com/
This outstanding site to help children read is perfect for K-2 students. It contains exciting interactive books and phonics games.
Wacky Web Tales
http://www.eduplace.com/tales/
Wacky Web Tales is an online version of MadLibs that allows students to have fun with the parts of speech.
Stay Afloat
http://www.funbrain.com/hangman/index.html
Stay afloat is similar to Hangman.
Choose a category. The site will show you a word. The player will guess a letter. If that letter is in the word, it will appear. If the letter is not in the word, one object is placed in the boat. The player must guess the words before all the objects are loaded and the boat sinks!
Letter Generator
http://readwritethink.org/materials/letter_generator/
The Letter Generator is designed to help students learn to identify all the essential parts of a business or friendly letter and then generate letters by typing information into letter templates.
Math
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives for Interactive Mathematics
http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/vlibrary.html
This is a three-year project to develop a library of uniquely interactive, web-based virtual manipulatives or concept tutorials for mathematics instruction for grades K-8. This site is organized by standard and grade level.
Interactive Math Tools
http://illuminations.nctm.org/mathlets/index.html
Interactive Math Tools are Java applets students can use to explore math
Find a wide variety of tools such as Bobbie Bear (counting strategies), Cubes, and Fraction Pie.
AAA Math - Interactive Practices and Challenge Games
http://www.aaamath.com/index.html
Interactive lessons are conducive to learning math skills than traditional textbooks and work sheets for the following reasons:
* The ability to animate illustrations of concepts.
* Interactive exercises provide immediate feedback with the correct answer if a mistake is made. This eliminates repetitive practice of incorrect methods which is typical of traditional homework assignments.
* The ability to have interactive games that reinforce the concept.
Tic Tac Toe Squares
http://www.funbrain.com/tictactoe/index.html
Students use the traditional game of Tic Tac Toe to solve problems in • addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, squares, cubes, square roots, and all operations.
Math Baseball
http://www.funbrain.com/math/index.html
FUNBRAIN gives a math problem. Enter the answer to the problem and hit the "Swing" button. If the answer is correct, they will get a hit which will be a single, double, triple, or home run based on the difficulty of the problem.
Science
How Stuff Works
http://www.howstuffworks.com/
Students find out how things work in the areas of computers, autos, electronics, science, home, entertainment, health, money, travel, and people.
Monster Bugs
http://www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/games/bugs/index.htm
Students will have fun making their own virtual bug at the Monster Bugs section of The Magic Schoolbus website. Students select from various wings, legs, and heads to create a virtual bug found in nature or they can put together parts from different bugs to create a fantasy creature.
Building Big
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/index.html
This site brings bridges, skyscrapers, tunnels, and dams to the Internet for those who want to learn more about man-made giants that fill our communities. It features introductions to the engineering of structures, interactive engineering labs, building designs challenges, a databank of large structures, and interviews with engineers.
The Space Place
http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/
At this award-winning site, a joint effort of NASA, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and others, students can learn amazing facts about space, Earth, and technology, view animations that show how the world works, and participate in activities that teach them more about space.
Social Studies
Seven Wonders of the World
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sunken/wonders/
The notion of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World can be traced back to the fifth century B.C. These creations rivaled many created by nature in their size, majesty, and beauty. Six of the seven wonders no longer stand, having been destroyed by natural disaster or by humans.
Pyramids
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/explore/
Jointly designed by NOVA and PBS, this site gives elementary and middle school students an overview of Egyptology and the continuing archaeological excavation of the Pyramids at Giza. Take a virtual tour through the pyramids.
Expedition Hall
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/hall/
Welcome to the interactive "museum" that takes you on geography journeys. Here students climb a mountain, hover over the Earth, speed across Europe, visit an archeological dig, and even order sushi—plus, games, animations, and more.
