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Art
Click on the Art Collection to search a large collection of images of well known works or art.
Explore the tools that artists use - like line, color, balance- to build works of art.
National Gallery of Art - terrific web site for kids. Activities and projects of 10 works of art.
Make show and tell cool again. Use pictures and sound to create a slide show.
Directions for creating tesselations using Appleworks paint program.
 
Author websites
Links to websites of childrens authors and illustrators.
List of addresses of authors. Why not send your favorite author a letter.
List of websites for childrens authors.
Learn about Ramona, Henry, Ralph and the characters in Beverly Cleary books.
Welcome to the web site of artist and writer, Faith Ringgold. If you are an artist, writer, teacher, or a kid of any age who loves art and stories you may just be in the right place.
 
Black History Month
Read about slavery in early colonial days. Best for grades 4 and above.
Biographies of great African Americans.
Short, easy to read biographies of African Americans - arranged alphabetically.
Easy to read, illustrated story of Booker T. Washington.
Timeline of civil rights from Factmonster.
Meet famous African Americans, listen to jazz music, publish your own writing, and explore history with our interactive timeline.
Learn about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from this site created by elementary age students.
Biography and timeline about the life of W.E.B.DuBois.
Use this interactive activity to introduce African-American history through primary sources.
Visit the home of an enslaved carpenter from the Hermitage Plantation in Georgia and explore the ways in which African Americans cared for their families, used their skills, preserved their African traditions, and resisted enslavement.
This resource is designed for younger students and highlights the lives and work of a dozen or more African-Americans in the sciences. Scientists include such notables as George Washington Carver, Mae Jemison, Elijah McKoy, and others. The interactive lab offers links to interactive activities, some off site, that students can use to learn more about science topics, such as how an airplane stays in the air, how 3D graphics work, how gas masks work, and more.
An interview with Rosa Parks.
Timeline of African American history.
Scholastic web site of African American Inventors.
You are a slave in Maryland in the 1800s. Can you escape? Learn what challenges slaves faced in National Geographics Underground Railroad adventure. Online interactive adventure.
Learn about Henson, Arctic explorer and his trip to the North Pole.
 
Constitution and Citizenship Day
Government site for grades 3-5. Information about the Constitution with links to other sites about the Constitution.
Activities that will help teach about the creation, content, and ongoing interpretation of the Constitution—and help find connections to students everyday lives.
These timeline entries, taken as a whole, tell the evolving story of the U.S. Constitution and the continuing role that it plays in our lives.
Learn about the Constitution. Short paragraphs and clipart graphics.
Read about the history of the Constitution. No graphics on this site.
A mural by Barry Faulkner. Place your cursor on the image to view numbers that correspond to the list of names.
Download grade level appropriate lesson plans in pdf format.
The White House - Learn more about the Constitution through the links and games on this page.
 
Dental Health Month
Learn about teeth, gums, braces, and how to brush and prevent cavities.
 
Fire Safety
Hershey, the fire safety dog teaches about fire safety. Reading required. Grade 4.
Explore this wb site for fire safety tips.
 
Iditarod Sled Dog Race
This site is from the Anchorage daily newspaper. Great for daily human interest stories about the race and the mushers. Check out the photographs.
Official Iditarod website. New
Read interviews with mushers. Has a writing workshop persuasive essay activity.
 
Images and Clipart
Click on the Pictures button to locate images.
 
Keyboarding
A fun colourful website with animation and games introducing touch typing to children aged 7 to 11.
 
Language Arts
This website contains a variety of games for all the different parts of speech (nouns, adjectives, verbs, pronouns, prepositional phrases, and adverbs).
This interactive board game allows the students to distinguish between a compound, complex, or simple sentence.
Students identify what belongs in each of the places listed (farm, restaurant, store, home, and more)
 
Literacy - Poetry
Hundreds of poems to read and rate.
Welcome to the Kenn Nesbitt poetry playground, Poetry4kids.com, where you will find lots of funny poems and poetry books for children, games, and journals, plus a rhyming dictionary, funny poetry podcast, and lots more.
Listen to U.S. Children's Poet Laureate Jack Prelutsky read one of his poems, then follow his tips and techniques to have some fun with poetry writing!
 
Literacy Activities
The Character Trading Cards tool allows students to create their own character cards, which they can then print off, illustrate, and trade or keep. It can be used with characters in a book students are reading or as a prewriting exercise for students who are writing narrative stories.
 
Math - Addition
Add 3 or more numbers together to get a total up to 20.
Two player game. Adding 2 digit number and a 1 digit number.
Two person game. Add two 2 digit numbers.
Use sums of twelve to defeat the number balls.
Practice basic addition facts by selecting penguin with the correct answer. Facts are grouped into levels. You may choose to complete it faster for extra points.
Four numeral cards are shown. Arrange them to make an addition sentence.
 
Math - Counting
You need to figure out the first and third numbers in these series. Start with the number of dots "before" and then choose the number of dots that is "after." This is a random quiz. Take it a few times until you are comfortable with counting in your head.
You need to figure out the first and third numbers in these series. Just click on the right answers. Start with the number "before" and then choose the number that is "after." This is a random quiz.
You need to figure out the first and third numbers in these series. Just click on the right answers. Start with the number "before" and then choose the number that is "after." This is a random quiz.
Start with the number "before" and then choose the number that is "after." This is a random quiz.
Count the number of toys and match to the numberal. (1-10)
Counting balloons game.
Counting objects 1-10.
Skip count by various numbers along a number line.
Count in steps of 1-20 from any number up to 100.
 
Math - Data and Probability
Students can create a game spinner with variable sized sectors to look at experimental and theoretical probabilities.
Bobbie Bear is planning a vacation and wants to know how many outfits can be made using different colored shirts and pants. Interactive.
This activity allows the user to graph data sets which will then be made into a circle graph. Users may input their own data or alter pre-made data sets.
Build a virtual ice cream cone. Choose from 3 flavors of ice cream and 3 types of cones. Predict how different combinations you can make and record the ones you create.
On line game from PBS to find the median.
Students can create a game spinner with one to twelve sectors to look at experimental and theoretical probabilities.
This dice game allows you to experiment with how increasing or decreasing the number of rolls can effect the outcome. So give it a try, choose the number of rolls you would like to make… and roll the dice!
 
Math - Decimals
Compare decimals (tenths, hundredths, thousandths) using symbols. Interactive activity.
 
Math - Facts - Addition
Add the numbers on the red balloons and then click the green balloon having the right answer.
Untimed fact practice.
Addition fact practice. Levels increase in difficulty. use arrow keys and spacebar to hit the spaceship with the correct answer.
Practice addition facts.
Find the missing addend.
Have fun while you visit with the Murbians! Choose whether to practice add, subtract, mulitply or divide and which level of facts.
Practice adding and subtracting. Ladybugs with dots help to visualize amounts or use a counting on strategy.
Throw the dart to get the target sum. Good game for practicing doubles facts.
Add numbers to reach the target number.
So, play a favorite fun game after doing some math first!
Addition fact practice. Choose one addend for all problems or select mixed addends.
Review your facts with this fun addition game. Then you can create your own alien!
Wash windows to earn your way up to the penthouse. Earn upgrades to your rig by getting your answers correct.
Practice your math fact while helping Peabody the Penguin catch as many fish as he can through the TEN levels! Find the key each time to open the door to the next level.
Choose a fact family or a group of families to practice. Rewarded with a game to play after successfully answering questions.
Review your addition facts while you serve some pizza to some hungry mice!
The new pet shop opened and they need your help to fill it with the tiny animals they intend to sell. Get all the birds, hamsters, gerbils, turtles and fish in order to open the shop in time!
Choose the rocks for the frog to hop onto to equal the total. Addition practice with 3 or more addends.
Help Snagger the fish catch all the correct answers. Once he is full, he may need some help getting back to his house! Have fun!
Practice your math facts to interview the suspects and solve the crime!
 
Math - Facts - Division
Bingo type game. Division up to 11s. Timer show how long it took to get a Bingo.
Wash windows to earn your way up to the penthouse. Earn upgrades to your rig by getting your answers correct.
 
Math - Facts - Multiplication
The faster you answer, the faster your car will go.
Select 2 factors and an array will be created for those numbers. Helps with multiplication facts.
Race up to 4 others as you jump your penguin from iceberg to iceberg.
Choose a number, then count by multiples of that number.
 
Math - Facts - Subtraction
Count Us In - Game 8. Subtration facts to 10 in a slow paced bowling game format.
Review your facts with this fun subtraction game.
Practice subtraction facts with this fun game.
If some bunnies run away, how many will be left?
Practice basic subtraction facts. Untimed.
Choose a specific number to subtract or select mixed practice.
Help fill the Puny Pet Shoppe with cute, small, pets while practicing subtraction facts.
 
Math - Fractions
Can you choose the fractions needed to power your dolphins to the finishing line first? Game format. Identify the largest fractions.
Grampys favorite game is hide and seek. He is hiding at a fractional distance between the beginning and the end of the hedge. Learn to estimate linear fractional amounts.
Can you recognize equivalent fractions? Your job is to find all the equivalent fractions as quickly as possible. Watch out for the monster who's on a relentless mission to capture you.
Select the proportions of your flag. Create a flag to the required proportions.
See Equivalent Fractions and where they fit on the Number Line. Interactive - move a marker along the number line from 0 to 1.
Students represents fractions by coloring in the appropriate portions of either a circle or a square, then order those fractions from least to greatest.
By working on this activity, students have opportunities to think about how fractions are related to a unit whole, compare fractional parts of a whole, and find equivalent fractions, as discussed in the Number and Operations Standard.
Visualize different fractional amounts. Try the different graphics to see fractional amounts in different ways.
There are 13 ways that this square can be divided in half. Can you find them all?
Identify Fractions with Lines or Identify Fractions with Circles will give instruction and practice in identifying the numerator and denominator. Identify Goups will give instruction and practice in finding fractional parts of a group of objects.
 
Math - Geometry (Intermediate Grades)
Interative online game using coordinate grids.
Identify shapes by properties.
Click and drag transformation blocks to the area below the coordinate grid. Set the correct values then click the Transform button.
 
Math - Geometry (Primary Grades)
Find basic 2d shapes. Primary Grades. Audio will read text.
 
Math - Geometry and Spatial Sense
Learn abut slides, flips and turns using letters of the alphabet.
Online tutorial demonstrating angle types. Colorful, entertaining format.
Learn to use a coordinate grid system as you move the bug to its food.
Help Captain Calamity free the princess by answering questions about symmetry, angles, fractions, and rotation of shapes.
Website where kids can practice plotting points in a coordinate plane (Ohio Indicator G6).
Count the number of cubes in an arrangment. Not all of the cubes are visible. Some may be under other cubes.
The volume of a box can be determined by using this applet to manipulate and enumerate unit cubes, rows of unit cubes, or layers of unit cubes. Gr. 3-5
Move Edmo and Houdini around the doghouse by using and learning prepositions: in, out, over, under, on, off, and behind. Grades: PreK-2
This site has solid figures which can be rotated and manipulated. Can be used to count faces, edges, and vertices. Teacher lesson plans and questions are also available.
Bingo like game to using geometry vocabulary. Level
Identify pictures that match geometry vocabulary to reveal hidden picture. Gr. 4 level geometry vocabulary.
Narrator asks the user to help find a given shape in a picture.  User clicks all shapes in the picture, a count is given until all shapes are located, i.e. first picture contains 12 triangles.
Practice terms used to describe angles. Formats include flashcards, matching, and concentration game.
Program a ladybug to hide behind a leaf. Use 45 and 90 degree rotations. Develop visual spatial skills.
Use forward/backward and turning movements to program a ladybug to move through a maze. Learn to visualize the results of turning through 90 and 45 degree angles. Be patient ? program is slow to load.
Interactive applet for creating, comparing and analyzing patterns. Grades K-2.
Interactive, manipulative activity
Online interactive and manipulative pattern blocks.
Place the number tiles into the correct order on the track. There are 3 levels of difficulty.
Sort colored shapes into a Venn Diagram. Appropriate for elementary grades.
Grade 4 quadrilateral and triangle shape sorting activity. Drag the shapes into the right groups as they go past. Shapes move quickly.
Students investigate the first quadrant of the Cartesian coordinate system through identifying the coordinates of points, or requesting that a particular point be plotted.
Interactive, online activity.
Sort the shapes by color and if it is or is not a rectangle.
Identify and sort by type.
Explore rotational symmetry and view examples.
Many examples of symmetry in objects such as animals, letters and masks. Includes rotational symmetry. Try the kaleidoscope activity. Grades 4+
Play this online game and identify lines of symmetry.
How many lines of symmetry does a square have? Find out this and more in this symmetry sorting activity. Available as a bounce back demo or without bounce back for assessment.
Interactive tangrams. Choose a picture and use tangram pieces to fill in outline.
Clues in the Taxicab Treasure Hunt lead you through a grid of city blocks as you search for a store of riches. How many clues do you need?
Interactive activity to explore slides, flips and turns.
Interactive activity to help visualize slides, flips, and turns.
Learn about triangle properties before sorting them in different Venn diagrams.
Use interactive geoboards to identify simple shapes and their properties.
Interactive triangles. Drag the dots on each vertex to reshape the triangle and see the name of the type of triangle change as the shape changes.
This activity deals with scalene, isosceles, equilateral, and right triangles. Students use a GSP sketch or an interactive web page to drag and manipulate four triangles, one of each type, and use the activity handout(s) to guide their exploration.
 
Math - Kdg and Grade 1
Students stack blocks on a scale to balance.
Counting ond ordering numbers from 1 to 6.
Help Salvabear Dali finish his portraits of his friends by clicking on the dots in each picture in the correct order.
Add and Subtract with Count Hoot Count Hoot helps young students with one-to-one correspondence in learning addition and subtraction facts.
Choose the coins to practice. Multiple choice questions for counting coins.
Gr. K-1 Easy level
Fifteen primary math games - length, volume, add, subtract, sorting, counting and more.
Place 2 or 3 numbers in the empty spaces. Sequencing numbers 1 to 10.
Sesame Street site for finding shapes in the environment.
A pattern will appear. Two choices to complete the pattern will be given. Click the button of the image that will correctly complete the pattern. Correct choices score points.
Match the numeral with the printed number name.
Early learning site for letters, numbers, shapes, and colors.
Count the sea horses (1-10).
Counting forward and backward to ten. Recognize simple shapes and odd or even numbers.
Click on the number that is 2 less than the given number.
 
Math - Manipulatives Online
Create a game spinner with variable sized sections to look at experimental and theoretical probability.
Students are shown shapes on a grid after setting the perimeter and asked to calculate areas of the shapes.
Online interactive arithmetic rack.
Hundred chart. Drag counters to cover numbers as teacher directs. Describe patterns.
Students represents fractions by coloring in the appropriate portions of either a circle or a square, then order those fractions from least to greatest.
This is a java based online graphing calculator.
Hundred chart. cover numbers with different length rectangles or squares.
Play by yourself or against a friend to form pairs. Match numbers, shapes, fractions, or multiplication facts to equivalent representations.
Online pattern blocks are easy to rotate.
Students are shown shapes on a grid after setting the area and asked to calculate perimeters of the shapes.
Hundred chart. Can use mouse to draw on the chart.
Students investigate the first quadrant of the Cartesian coordinate system through identifying the coordinates of points, or requesting that a particular point be plotted.
Students investigate the first quardant of the Cartesian coordinate system by directing a robot through a mine field laid out on the plane.
Hundred chart
Sort colored shapes into a Venn Diagram. Appropriate for elementary grades.
Online library of interactive math applets suitable for grades K-12. Includes geoboards, base ten blocks, and many more.
 
Math - Measurement
Interacative measuring of ingredients to make cakes using metric units. Grades 3-4
Students are shown shapes on a grid after setting the perimeter and asked to calculate areas of the shapes.
Comparison activities - developing the language of comaprison using such terms as biggest, smallest, longest, etc.
The volume of a box can be determined by using this applet to manipulate and enumerate unit cubes, rows of unit cubes, or layers of unit cubes.
Use your knowledge of area and perimeter to design sections for a party. A fun way to practice area and perimeter skills.
Use an online ruler to measure objects in centimeters.
Online game to measure in centimeters or inches.
Design areas with a given area and perimeter.
Students are shown shapes on a grid and asked to calculate areas and perimeters of the shapes.
Catch and measure each fish to decide which tank to put it in.
 
Math - Mixed Operations
The 24 team game online.
Practice and reinforce skills in all 4 operations using a calculator. Choice of operations and size of numbers to use.
Choose to practice addition, subtraction or multiplication.
Two player game. Add 2 numbers then choose to double or triple the sum to place game pieces on a board.
Practice computation in a baseball game format. Choose addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division and a level of difficulty.
Practice math facts using timed tests. Computer will tell you percent correct, and time used to answer facts.
 
Math - Money
Choose the coins to make the amount shown.
Pay the little farmer the exact change and he will say thank you. If you do not pay the little farmer with exact change, he will say uh-oh and you will have to try again.
Find the correct change. Two levels of difficulty.
Interactive game. Select coins which make the amount of money needed.
Count the coins and find the value.
Click on the coin combinations below that you would like to practice.
You can perform interactive foreign exchange (FX, or forex) rate calculations, using live, up-to-the-minute currency rates.
Drag coins into a container to create the amount of money shown. Amounts can be over $1.00.
Find the values of 2 set of coins and compare which is greater or less.
Make change using the fewest possible coins and bills.
 
Math - Number Sense
Add the 2 pairs of numbers in the bottom level to fill in the gaps in the middle level. Add the numbers in the middle level to find the number at the top. then check your score.
Find pairs of numbers that add up to 10 or 100.
solve each broken using only certain keys. Great fun!
This hundred square is written in code. It starts with one and ends with a hundred. Can you build it up? You can use the interactivity below or print and cut out the pieces from these sheets.
Compare numbers using greater and less than symbols in a cartoon format. grade 2-3
Drag the greater than or less than symbols to complete the number sentences. Three levels of numbers to 100, 1000, and 10,000.
Interactive activity to compare and order decimals.
Online hundred chart. Drag transparent counters to cover numbers. Good for creating number patterns and visualizing patterns of multiples.
Make the number on the crazy counter using as few steps as possible. Practice with doubling, halving, addition and subtraction.
This PBS site contains about 3 dozen online math games.
Guess the decimal on the number line.
Game format to order decimals on a number line.
Check your estimation skills. Game format.
Play the factor game against a friend or the computer.
With this activity, you can visually explore the concept of factors by creating rectangular arrays. The length and width of the array are factors of your number.
Select the correct answers on the grid.
A tic-tac-toe style game in which players pratice arithmetic facts while trying to get five markers in a row.
Presented in an appealing game format, students try to find a hidden dogbone. They are given a blank hundred chart and must locate a given number of dogbones within an allotted amount of time.
Everybody gets confused with their greater than > and less than < signs. Here is a small game to help you remember which is which. Click on the crocodile to make him turn around and show the correct symbol for the pair of numbers.
Can you guess what number Chuckles is thinking of?
Develop estimation skills as you try to guess the number by narrowing the range of choices;
After Okta hides some bubbles under a shell, he then either adds more bubbles or takes some away. Students have to determine how many bubbles are left under the shell.
This site uses pennies to put the concept of greater numbers in a context students can understand.
Use a Venn diagram to sort multiples in this interactive activity.
This BBC site is good for grades 1-2. Choose Odd and Even, More or Less or Missing Signs. The last 2 choices involving money use the British pound system and would not be appropriate.
Move a slider along a number line the required number of spaces forward or backward. Fun graphics.
Can you make a bigger number with the digits you are given? GAme format.
Drag the number tiles to the correct place on the number track. (Number sequencing)
Drag and drop the number tiles to their correct position on the Venn diagram.
Use a hundred chart to locate numbers and for adding. Grades 1-2.
Find the pairs of numbers that equal 100. Game format.
Locate the ones, called units on this site, tens and hundreds that make up a given number. Grades 1-2.
Type in the numeral that represents the amount of items grouped by 10s and ones.
Use known number facts and place value to multiply and divide, including by 10 and 100.
The goal of the Place Value Game is to create the largest possible number from the digits the computer gives you.
Interactive lesson.
Fun, interactive game for 2 players, uses factors and multiples through 9 times 9.
This game tests that knowledge by challenging you to choose multiples from a series of falling numbers. Use the arrow keys to move the ghost left and right.
Jump to the rock (10) and then to the rocket ship to escape the monster. Teaches bridging through 10 when adding a single digit number.
Using frames of 10 can be a helpful way to learn basic number facts. The 4 games that can be played on the interactive ten frames on this site help develop counting and addition skills.
Hang out the washing in the correct order in this ordinal number activity.
Order decimals through thousandths.
 
Math - Odd or Even
Choose a range of numbers. Sort the numbers into odd or even.
 
Math - Patterns and Algebra
Complete the patterns using colors and shapes.
Interactive online counting activity.
Can you help Digit open the safe? To do it youll need to crack the patterns.
Help find the 3 object pattern in a grid
Function table. Find the rule.
Investigate the relationship between input and output values.
This is a java based online graphing calculator.
An interactive classification activity. Choose which question to ask to find the secret button.
Primary pattern activity. Clifford the Dog.
An activity for developing understanding of simple equations. Hide individual numbers or symbols as you wish. Designed for teacher led investigations.
Help Mr. Cracker obtain the secret code before the insidious Prof. Soup catches him by guessing what number comes next in a series of numbers.
Crack the code on the safe to open it. Number patterns with higher numbers.
Guess the correct pattern sequence of shapes. An interactive game (two difficulty levels) similar to Mastermind.
Use the string of beads to copy colour sequence patterns. Kindergarten level patterns.
Pattern matching game. Starts easy (Kdg.), but more difficult levels may involve mentally rotating shapes to locate matches.
Get ready for algebra with the wacky Wangdoodles. Your mission is to use balanced equations and algebraic reasoning to find the missing Wangdoodle weights.
Students investigate very simple functions by trying to guess the rule from inputs and outputs.No negative numbers.
 
Math - Place Value
Place the beads in the correct place to match the question asked. Need to know place value, odd and even, largest, smallest, etc.
Choose the range of numbers. Practice comparing using the greater than and less than symbols.
Mathc the base ten blocks to the correct number on the pieces of moving fruit. Three levels of play/
 
Math - Problem Solving
The AIMS Puzzle Corner provides over 100 interesting math puzzles that can help students learn to enjoy puzzles and the mathematics behind them. The puzzles are categorized by type, and within each category are listed in order of increasing difficulty. The puzzles have have not been assigned a grade level appropriateness because we have discovered that the ability to do a puzzle varies by individual not grade level.
Aunty Math has challenge problems for grades K-5. Every other week there is a new challenge. Challenges also involve reading.
Logic and number pattern game for two players. take turns cutting the ropes. The player who cuts the last rope take a virtual balloon ride.
Math challenges for families. Suggested for middle school students but can be used as enrichment for grades 3-4.
Grand Slam Math is an interactive program to help you become better at solving word problems.  Level 1 contains 15 addition and subtraction word problems.  Level 2 contains 12 multiplication and division word problems.
This site has been developed with the intention of helping students and professionals to sharpen their mind. For years puzzles, mathematical or otherwise, have been very much part of our lives. It is believed that solving puzzles not only exercises one's brain but also aids lateral thinking. And let us face it; it is a lot of fun.
Online, interactive magic square game. Three levels of difficulty from easy to challenging.
Calling all math detectives! Mysteries are popping all over town, and our chief sleuth needs your help to crack each case.
My name is Max, and this is the truth. I'm six and a half. My best friend is Ruth. We like to solve problems all about math, Like adding, subtracting, patterns, and graphs.
Problem solving activities centered around the theme of airplanes. Includes geometry, elapsed time, and distances. Grades 4-5.
Hundreds of self-checking math word problems for students in grades 1 to 6. There are currently 675 word problems available.
 
Math - Structuring
Use your knowledge of doubling facts to solve near doubles.
Thinking about numbers using frames of 5 can be a helpful way to learn basic number facts. The four games that can be played with this applet help to develop counting and addition skills.
Combining 2 sets to find total. Choose dice patterns, bead rack, finger patterns, or several others.
Practice subtraction.
Subtract from 10 or 20.
Use a number line as support to practice subtraction facts.
Thinking about numbers using frames of 10 can be a helpful way to learn basic number facts. The four games that can be played with this applet help to develop counting and addition skills.
Find the section of pipe that will make 10. Useful for structuring all parts of 10.
 
Math - Subtraction
Practice with 10 less. Cllick on the number that is 10 less than the number on the goalies shirt.
 
Math - Teacher Resources
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics website
ORC is a unique service that provides peer-reviewed, best practice websites for educators.
 
Math - Time
Read the time in words, then stop the clock when the hands are in the matching position.
Practice finding elapsed time given a starting time and an ending time.
Perfect for learning to tell time to the hour and entertaining to young students.
Drag the 5 digital times to the correct analogue clock, the press STOP THE CLOCK to record your time.
This two player game reinforces telling time to the hour and half-hour.
 
Math = Place Value
Matchbase ten blocks to the number. Choose numbers up to 29 or up to 59.
 
Music
Learn about the instruments of the orchestra.
Take a backstage tour, meet artists, or try the online composition or rhythm games.
Fun activities and games for music.
On this site you can learn about the different families and different types of instruments - strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion. Click on the instrument to hear the music sample.
Interactive activity about sounds, rhythm and music.
Visit the composition gallery, try your hand at composing, or learn about instruments.
S.F. Orchestra site for kids.
Create your own tune online.
 
Parent Resources
Learn how to form cursive letters. To see the animation, move your mouse over a letter.
Links to several keyboarding programs and web sites which would be helpful to maintain and improve keyboarding skills.  Each program is freeware and is designed to work on a Windows computer.
Freeware and shareware tutorials for developing and practicing keyboarding skills. Includes reviews of each program and a link to a dowload site for the program.
 
Preschool
Listen and interact with the story.
Learn colors and shapes. Narrated.
Count to 100 with the rabbit.
Connect the dots with letters of the alphabet.
Online interactive coloring and games - matching, memory, shapes, and more from Fisher Price.
Early counting activity.
Practice the letters of the alphabet in order.
Click on the objects that start with each letter of the alphabet shown.
Online coloring activities. Good beginning mouse practice.
Eddie asks the user to paint a shape a specific color.  Three shapes are displayed along with three colors and a paint brush.  User clicks on the specified color and fills the shape.
Memory game requires user to click the cards to turn them over and see the shapes.  Continue clicking until you match all the shapes.
Sort all kinds of objects by their color, shape, pattern, use and more.
 Narrator posses a question about a shape, i.e. Which is the triangle?  Three shapes are displayed and the user must click on the correct shape.
 
Reading
Bailey Bookmark will dig around and help find the book that is just right for you!
Bookwink seeks to get students excited about reading by providing video book talks online as well as booklists that are appropriate for grade levels three through eight. Book talks are categorized by theme or topic, with the books of the day featured on the main page.
Arthur fans will enjoy this game where you read to solve real life problems by choosing the best advice (cause/effect).
Guys Read is a mission of a collective group of children and young adult authors that want just that, guys to read. They have gathered here, an excellent resource enabling you and your son (daughters too) to find a book that captures their interest and draws them into the world or reading!
Read the clues and locate the objects. Early literacy.
Into the Book is a reading comprehension resource. The focus is on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing and Synthesizing. Watch the engaging 15-minute videos, and try the online interactive activities.
Interactive site for rhyming, beginning or ending sounds. Requires no reading.
There are many different kinds and ways to use construction equipment. Hydraulic shovels, bulldozers, dump trucks, wheel loaders, and lots more. Here, you will see everything about construction equipment with pictures and movies!
If you are a fan of Garfield, you will enjoy putting these comic strip frames in sequence and answering questions about the panels.
For upper elementary and middle school students, this online news source shares the latest findings in science. The site explains what research is revealing to scientists as it entertains kids.
Simple story sequencing activity. Non-readers can listen the words in each part and the finished story.
An Arthur game where you pick that word that does not fit with the other three.
Zoobooks.com is a kid-friendly website about animals. You will find educational games and fascinating information about the animals kids love—just like the monthly magazine.
 
Reading - Audio Books
 Click on the sentences to have them read out loud. 
Free audio stories for children.
Collection of stories to read online.
 
Reading - Early Literacy
Match a printed letter to the spoken letter.
Letter identification - uppeer and lower case
Click on a letter of the alphabet, then choose the pictures that begin with that letter.
Read the riddle and guess the animal.
Find the rhyming objects on the farm. Colorful. Audio included.
Find the pictures that start with the indicated letter.
Interactive storybook for early readers.
Letter identification and beginning sounds.
Drag the pictures to the correct word box. Great for kids learning to read!
Learn about rhyming words.
Interactive Storybook for early readers.
Select a level; find the missing beginning or ending sound and drag the card into the missing space.
Select the letters in alphabetical order.
Listen to a rhyming story as it is read aloud. Find the beginning letter of the missing rhyming word.
Color the selected letters online.
Find rhyming words to match the animals.
Find the rhyming words.
Find the words that rhyme.
Online book.
Match lower case to upper case letters.
Online story
Online story with audio.
Online story with audio
Interactive storybook for early readers.
 
Reading on the Web
This rich site offers two versions of each fable — traditional and contemporary. They have been delightfully illustrated by students in a University of Massachusetts computer art class.
Read one of the ecology stories and make choices for the characters.
An interactive environmental site for kids in Canada and around the world.
A site that explains how just about everything in the world works.
Easy reader stories online include fiction and non-fiction, play fables and more.
Read the mysteries and solve them online.
Discover the story of Americas past as presented by the Library of Congress. Lots of history to read about and explore.
Explore geographic, scientific and historical concepts, issues and events.
The New York Times kids edition. News summaries, science and other features. Middle grades and older.
Click on Ranger Rick, then choose a month from past issues to locate past articles in the Ranger Rick archives.
A site that gives the science behind the news. Middle grades +
Read or print articles from the magazine Tme for Kids.
 
Reference Resources
An online service of Ohio libraries to answer your research questions online anytime. You will be connected to an actual librarian to help with questions.
This online rhyming dictionary offers a limited sample of one- and two-syllable rhymes and does not display triple rhymes.
Connects children with facts - focusing on animals, nations and states, space, sports, inventions, and presidents.
 
Science
Suitable for all grades the Ask an Expert Page provides links to experts in a number of different categories. One of the greatest values of the World Wide Web is the people that are part of the Internet community. This site offers a quick one-step process for finding experts in any field.
NASA Kids Club features interactive educational games and activities for students K-4 to help them learn science, technology, engineering, and math concepts.
 
Science - Animal Adaptations
How fast can you match up animals adaptations? Are you ready to find out? Play this game to test yourself.
This site tells about physical and behavioral adaptations of aoubt 25 different animals. Read about adaptations that help them obtain food, keep warm, defend themselves, or hide from predators.
Appropriate for K-4.
Many animals have developed remarkable defenses to keep from being eaten. Read about a variety of animals and their methods of defense.
With their powerful strides and flashing teeth, often it seems that predators have the upper hand in the battle for survival. This video segment reveals an arsenal of strategies animals use for their own defense, suggesting that some prey animals are not nearly as vulnerable as they may seem. 3 min. video
How do animals meet their needs for oxygen, climate, food, water, and shelter? Play this game to learn.
Select an animal. In the description for each animal its adaptations are described.
An animal makes its living by finding food. Plant eaters have a relatively easy time of it, while meat eaters must work a little harder for their next meal. This video segment explores the wide range of food-finding strategies that exist in the animal world and identifies some of the physical and behavioral adaptations that make them effective. 2 min video clip
Interactive quiz about animals and why certain adaptations are required.
Printable page. Match bird beak to type of food.
Did you ever wonder why there are so many types of bird beaks or bills? The most important function of a bird bill is feeding, and it is shaped according to what a bird eats. Look at these pictures of different shaped beaks.
Build a fish by choosing the characteritics of body parts and coloring that allow the fish to live in certain habitats.
Interactive activity to locate camouflaged animals in different habitats.
How do desert animals adapt to their environment.
What is animal adaptation and how are animals adapted to where they live? Click on Investigate the Facts.
Select an exhibit area from the tour list. Then use the pulldown menu with the list of animals to choose one. You will be able to read a fact sheet about the animal you picked which includes its adaptations.
The natural world is filled with animals trying to eat other animals and trying to avoid being eaten. This pressure to find food or to keep from becoming someone else's dinner has, over millions of years, produced an incredibly effective way to escape detection by predators or prey: camouflage. This video segment explores the world of camouflage, including some of the methods and benefits of this important evolutionary strategy. Footage from NOVA: "Animal Impostors." 3 min video
This site focuses o;n many adaptations of penguins.
Look at pictures of skeletons and bones to see adaptations.
 
Science - Animals
An easy to use, on-line book about butterflies. Can start at a basic level on each topic and progress to more advanced information.
Read facts and information about earthworms. Reading level: grades 3-4
Animal Diversity Web is a searchable database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology from the University of Michigan. It includes thousands of photos, descriptions, sound recordings, and other information about individual animal species.
Animals of the World (Grades 2-4 Must type in the name of the animal) See how few clues you need to guess the animal in the picture - mammals, birds, insects, reptiles, amphibians and fish categories
Match the baby animal to the adult it will become.
Click on the map, hear about a creature, and then decide if it is a real animal or not! Guessing and deductive reasoning.
Read and learn about 2-6 different animals from each continent.
Print the picture and draw how litter could harm wildlife.
Home page of Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
The San Diego Zoo offers animal facts, photos, Webcams, video, audio, and teacher resources.
Learn about benefits of insects, their anatomy, and classification criteria. Includes audio of all text.
 
Science - Animals - Endangered
Find what plants and animals are endangered in any state. Great section on causes of endangerment.
Learn about endangered species on each continent.
 
Science - Animals - Habitats
Interactive BBC site to explore habitats.
 
Science - Animals - Ohio
Minute-by-minute observations of peregrine falcons on the Terminal Tower. The Cleveland FalconCam is a project that follows a pair of peregrine falcons nesting on Clevelands historic skyscraper, the Terminal Tower. Enjoy the ongoing coverage of the current pair of falcons, Buckeye (male) and SW (female).
Links to pictures and information about wildlife of Ohio.
 
Science - Earth and Space
Earthquakes for Kids is part of the larger US Geological Survey Earthquake Hazards Program site. It includes games, puzzles, science fair project ideas, facts, images, and more.
The primary component of this content resource is an online activity in which students "drag" moons to their correct places in lunar cycles.
Calendar view of the moon for each day of the month.
Click on the green arrow to watch the moon revolve around the earth and see what the moon looks like at each phase.
See moon as it appears today (default). Can choose other dates using selection tools.
Select the year, month, date, time and time zone to see a virtual picture of the phase of the moon.
Explore the planets and other solar system bodies.
 
Science - Ecology
Grade 1 - learn about garbage and recycling.
Play the game to find out how quickly you can reach the end of the resource trail by identifying which resource is used to create an object.
Explore a virtual city to see many places and ways to recycle. Great for an ecology unit.
Online story about recycling in cartoon format. Easy reading level.
Sort the plastic, paper, and glass items into the correct box. Grade 1
Shrink the Landfill (Grade 4) With $50,000 dollars, can you reduce trash by 10%?
 
Science - Energy
Learn about wind, solar, geothermal, and renewable energy sources. Interested in wind energy? See how a wind turbine works.
The story of energy - what it is, its sources and uses.
Read about the sources of renewable and non-renewable sources of energy and how they can be managed.
Students will enjoy learning about energy with the interactive games in the kids section such as Fridge Frenzy, Bulb Hunter, Wacky Windows, Attic Attack, and Whack a Hog. A Handbook is also available that teaches students to save energy in their home.
 
Science - Forces and Motion
This website allows the students to visually see how force affects the movements of objects.
Interactive site to explore forces and how the size or slope affects a cars movement.
Interactive onlilne exploration of friction on different surfaces.
Explore magnetic attraction and the effects of forces on a spring.
Interactive, virtual experiments with pushes and pulls.
 
Science - Light
Interactive website to explore which objects give off light.
Interactive site to explore location and length of shadows.
 
Science - Matter
Interactive site. Experiment online with reversible and irreversible changes.
How can you change a liquid into a solid or a solid into a liquid? Come find out! Click on CHANGE IT.
Use this interactive site to explore the properties of matter.
Sort objects by materials from which they are made. Grades 1-2.
Interactive site to check how solids and liquids change as they are melted or cooled.
Primary level, interactive site for sorting materials according to their porperites.
Fourth graders can read about the states of matter.
These animations show the movement of molecules in solids, liquids, and gases.
The chart shows the properties of different states of matter. Diagram shows how particles move in each state of matter.
An interactive site using tools to separate mixtures and then fill in a chart about the properties.
Fourth grade appropriate. Read about mass.
 
Science - Nutrition
Use nutrition guidelines to pick a healthy breakfast. Game format.
The Kids Food Cyberclub is an all-you-can -learn buffet of interactive food-themed quizzes and activities, not to mention yummy facts about good food.
Nutri-Facts is your free source for nutrition information on almost six thousand different foods. Locate facts found on the nutritonal label on all of these different foods.
Three different online nutrition games.
This website allows students to go on a virtual tour of the food pyramid, make healthy food choices, and play a variety of games that deal with Nutrition.
How to read nutrition labels.
Use the United States Department of Agriculture website to explore and understand the revised food pyramid.
 
Science - Plants
Explore the trees, plants, animals and insects in a woodland environment. Audio will read all text. Excellent closeup pictures. Shows seasonal changes of the environment.
Topics covered include plant parts and what they do, photosynthesis, pollination, seed dispersal, and the characteristic plant adaptations of each biome. The information does not come only in text form (and why should it when there are so many interesting things to observe about plants)--amazing illustrations are part of each page. Vivid photographs, time-lapse or slowed-down QuickTime video clips of processes like pollination and seed germination, and diagrams complement the text.
How do desert plants survive their environment.
View the life cycle and other information about fastplants used in grade 4 plant unit.
Learn about the parts of a plant.
How can you decide whether something is a leaf or not? What are some of the tricky things that normal backyard leaves do? Learn about leaves.
Very elementary friendly video showing plant adaptations.
Interactive site allows user to take apart a flower and discover the part of a flower and its purpose.
Learn about Parts of the Flowers or Life Cycle of Seed Plants. Click on View Online to see student created, animated, applets about these topics.
At this site you will learn all about plants - how they grow and what the different parts of a plant are. Learn how a seed travels, what bees do for plants, and about plant and animal relationships. This site offers a lot of great information about plants as well as some interesting activities.
Time-lapse photography allows us to easily see the movements of plants and clearly demonstrates that plants are living organisms capable of some extraordinary things.
Pictures and text about plant roots. Grades 4+
Learn about the parts of a tree and why trees are important to us. Interactive and entertaining.
Have fun learning about why trees are important.
Identify a tree by using leaves, fruits, or names. Continue clicking on the image that best resembles your sample, until you identify the tree. Requires actual leaves to identify.
 
Science - Rocks - Formation
Discussion of rock types found in Ohio.
How do rocks undergo change. Interactive.
Learn about the types of rocks with this song.
Read about the rock cycle.
 
Science - Rocks - Fossils
Click on #2
Remains and traces of ancient life are preserved in rock as fossils. This fossil record is a natural documentation of the evolution and history of life on Earth. In this interactive resource adapted from the University of California, Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology, see an animation about how organisms, such as dinosaurs, become part of the fossil record.
Fossils - Variety of species fossil pictures.
Follow a fossil from discovery to museum display on this Smithsonian site.
Fossils provide evidence of past life.
National Geographic movie explores organisms that lived a long time ago that are similar to organisms that are alive today.
 
Science - Rocks - Properties
Contains pictures and brief staements about many kinds of rocks by classification. Also includes minerals. (Foss site)
 
Science - Rocks Changes
Click each dot to see a photograph showing the effects of erosion.
Pictures showing how ice and roots have changed rocks.
 
Science - Rocks -Uses
Go to Photo Gallery. Click on Gallery 3
Learn about 10 different types of rocks through this rock slide show.
 
Science - Seasonal Changes
Look through the window to see the weather outside. Then dress Caillou appropriately for the weather. Interactive. Grade 1.
This interactive activity from the Adler Planetarium explains the "reasons for the seasons." Featured is a game in which Earth must be properly placed in its orbit in order to send Max, the host, to different parts of the world during particular seasons.
 
Science - Simple Machines
See examples of the 3 types of levers and how they work.
Simple Machines Activities: Learn about simple and compound machines while you explore the House and Tool Shed!
Visit different rooms in the house or the tool shed and discover the different simple machines.
Learn about simple and compound machines as you explore a house and tool shed. Visually appealing and instructional. Correlations to Ohio physical science standards given for grades K, 1, and 3. Downloadable pre and post tests available.
Online tutorial, explains how each machine works and tasks it can do. Includes online printable quizzes and puzzles.
 
Science - Soil
Look around the scene and find things made of sand, clay, gravel, pebbles, etc.
What is soil and why is it important?
Read answers to questions about soil.
Find out how earthworms help the soil.
 
Science - Sound
Interactive activity to explore changing the pitch of sounds.
Follow the numbers, click on the partially filled bottles to create familiar tunes. Do you know why the bottles have different pitches?
Explore how sounds are made and sort sounds from quiet to loud.
 
Science - Space
Click on the orange ball to play a game that helps you learn about the different planets when looking for Ms Friz.
A NASA sponsored site for young astronomers. Learn about planets, space travel, astronauts, and the universe. Two levels of difficulty in content and text. Level 1 provides audio support for text by clicking on speaker.
This is a collection of many of the best images from NASA planetary exploration program.
 
Science Erosion/Weathering
Weathering and erosion work together as destructive natural forces. Their by-products -- sediments -- are subsequently deposited to produce characteristic landforms such as dunes, deltas, and glacial moraines. The images in this still collage produced for Teachers' Domain depict surface features that result from these powerful processes, as well as measures designed to mitigate their unwanted effects.
Erosion webquest to use with Solons Grade 4 Science Unit on Erosion and Weathering.
What are glaciers and how were they formed?
Learn how erosion contributed to formation of the Grand Canyon.
View pictures and learn about glaciers.
 
Science Weather
Drawings of cloud types and explanations of cloud formation.
View an animation of what happens what a cold front or warm front moves.
By changing the Equatorward Temperature, Poleward Temperature, and Relative Humidity you can turn sunny skies into the perfect day for a snowstorm.
What causes snow? What do snowflakes look like?
Read about the man who studied snowflakes. Click on snowflakes to see pictures of snowflake shapes and patterns.
Animation of water cycle. Cllck on Get This File - View Online.
Visit this site to explore the wonders of the weather! You will find lots of great information on thunderstorms, tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, tidal waves, snow and avalanches, weather maps and more.
Learn how to report and predict the weather at the underground W.H.E.D. weather caves!
Learn about clouds.
 
Shockwave Games
Interactive fact practice using an addition facts grid. A susrprise picture is revealed at the end.
This fun game teaches students how to measure weight in both the metric and the U.S. measurement systems. NOTE: The Talk link leads to message boards.
Alphabet/word matching. Help Arthur find the truck that goes with each letter of the alphabet.
Try to locate a box within a grid.
Beginning shapes game for 2 players. Match a numeral to a shape with that number of sides.
Online activity. Sort the cars by numbers.
Counting up to ten animals. No reading required.
Pythagorus takes a dive in his fish tank. Can you figure out the probability of catching a red fish?
Lower Case and Upper Case - Help Rusty Rat catch the falling lower case and upper case letters.
Concentration type game to match amounts of money. Grades 3-4.
Choose the number that belongs in the empty square.
Listen to the sentence being said. Click on the missing word.
Drag the number to the correct place in this interactive times table to solve a mystery puzzle.
Select the answer to a subtraction fact (up to 20) to reveal a mystery picture.
Select the 2 cards and the operation wich will equal a given number.
Copy the given shape by combining smaller shapes.
 Choose the parrot that speaks the written word and place it on the stand.
Interactive proofreading passages. Select a grade level (2-8) and a passage focused on a particular skill. Skills include spelling, punctuation, and grammar. Self checking so students can complete independently.
Practice addition facts on the Snakes and Ladders gameboard.
Interactive website. Folding shapes to show line symmetry.
Practice simple addition and subtraction. Show the number fact and the frog will hop along a counting line to assist with seeing the combinations.
 
Social Studies - Africa
An excellent on-line reource of tales separated by themes, such as friendship, greed, lying, wisdom and kindness - all which end with a moral for all.
World Wise Schools is the global education program of the Peace Corps, created especially to engage American students in inquiry about the world in order to promote peace through understanding and friendship.
 
Social Studies - Communities
Scholastics Community Club Web page is a fantastic and easy-to-navigate resource for the K-2 emerging reader. Students click one of eight community helpers -- including a police officer, mayor, veterinarian, and pizza maker -- to see photos and hear audio of that worker describing his or her job. Each page also includes two or three simple text sentences, each with a clickable audio clip.
Our Neighborhood is presented in the form of an interactive map. Students click a building on the map -- such as the library, for example -- to find out about a community helper who works in that building. The activity includes six helpers, with only about five sentences about each, but the information is written at a level appropriate for 3rd grade or below.
Learn about the history of transportation from early sailboats to bullet trains.
This easy-to-navigate game matches job descriptions to pictures of community helpers. Students read a sentence, such as, I deliver mail to your house. They then must click one of six pictures of community helpers.
 
Social Studies - Cultures and Customs
Although focused on the Amish in Pennsylvania, the readings about Amish dress, lifestyle, and beliefs also contribute to learning about Amish groups in Ohio.
One page description of the Amish culture and customs.
Narrative description of the culture and cutoms of the Applachian people.
Timefor Kids site for learning about countries and cultures.
Interactive site sponsored by Plimoth Plantation.
Scholastic site for exploring different cultures.
 
Social Studies - Economics
Simulation activity. You are the farmer who makes decisions about what products to raise, how to manage them, and how to market them.Your goal is to keep your farm profitable despite the ups and downs of weather, market conditions and unforeseen circumstances.
Economics lesson. Students learn that Community Helpers provide a service for their neighborhood.
Read a story about a mouse from the country who visits the city. After reading, students will make a cost/benefit chart to show the differences between costs and benefits. Lesson includes two interactive drag-and-drop activities.
First Grade economics unit website.
You choose what you’ll sell, and scour the headlines for the trends that affect your business. Act fast when big news hits - make it or go broke. Students choose, Play without an Account and do not need to log in with any information.
First Grade Economics Unit website.
Learn about money and banking.Grades 1-3
 Your goal in this game will be to make as much money as you can within 7, 14 or 30 days. To do this, youve decided to open your own business -- a Lemonade Stand! Youll have complete control over almost every part of your business, including pricing, quality control, inventory control, and purchasing supplies. Youll also have to deal with the weather, which can be unpredictable. Unfortunately, the weather will play a big part when customers are deciding whether or not to buy your product.
Have you ever wondered if you would be good at running your own business? Well here is your chance! You now have your very own lemonade stand and 30 days to try and make some money.
Read the story describing conditions during the journey of Lewis and Clark. Facing scarcity, those two explorers had to make some big choices based on considerations of scarcity.
Click on interactive activity and activity for online interactive activities for students.
First Grade Economics Unit website.
Everybody has wants. You may want toys, clothes, and treats to eat. You may want stories to be read to you, songs to be sung to you, and fun things to do. This lesson will help you to find out that everybody has wants - even penguins!
Lesson plan for teachers which introduces the concept of scarcity by traveling back to the early 1800s in an interactive time machine with Lewis and Clark.
This site is used with the First Grade economics unit.
A sweet place to learn basic economics. A video game for second graders.
This lesson teaches students about scarcity and choice: Scarcity means we all have to make choices and all choices involve costs. Not only do you have to make a choice every minute of the day because of scarcity, but, when making a choice, you have to give up something. This cost is called oppportunity cost.
Games. stories, and lesson plans to learn about the history and individuals on U.S. coins.
First Grade Economics Unit
 
Social Studies - Government
The Library of Congress has created an interactive version of the rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, which enables students to see changes that were made from the original text.
Virtual tour of a town teaches roles of federal, state, and local government. Created by PBS for grades 3-6.
Primary students take a field trip to city hall and study the jobs of the mayor and the city council. They can read about city offices and visit the library to link to their own city hall.
Incudes Arlington National Cemetery, Jefferson, Washington, and Lincoln Memorials, Mt. Rushmore and others.
Learn about Washingtons birthday with simple text, graphics and audio. Good for grades K-2.
The site encourages civic engagement among 6 to 12 year olds by prompting them to submit ideas to address prominent citizens issues as they most relate to kids lives. Community discussion and the democratic process are modeled by allowing kids to choose which ideas they like best. The ideas with the most votes are featured on pbskids.org/speakout in the form of a message to our President. This active, digital message will reflect youths changing concerns and proposed solutions over time.
Includes the Flag, Bald Eagle, Independence Hall, Liberty Bell, Stautue of Liberty and the White House.
An interactive, virtual tour of the White House.
Photo tour of the White House for kids. Text is written for kids and tour is conducted by Spotty, the dog of President Bush.
Click on the picture of a president. Read his biography and see images from his life. Includes all of the presidents.
Information about a variety of U.S. symbols. Site also has coloring pages to print out.
This is a webquest for the second grade government unit.
Photos of famous locations and national buildings in Washington D.C.
 
Social Studies - History
Learn about a day in the life of a Native American boy from the Sioux tribe.
Interactive site to learn how to distinguish primary from secondary sources.
Students and teachers may be surprised to learn what the harvest celebration of 1621 was really like! Students use the skills that historians use to discover the facts and misconceptions about The First Thanksgiving. Interactive activities help students understand how the Wampanoag lived and gave thanks and virtually tour the Plymouth Colony to learn how the colonists prepared for the celebration.
This website will teach how to make a timeline. It will give the students practice with timelines.
Primary site to compare past and present. Grades 1-2.
 
Social Studies - Immigration
Site had a map of Greater Cleveland area and shows where different ethnic groups have settled, where they came from and why.
This site from the National Heritage Academies provides an overview of U.S. immigration from 1830-1920 through the use of pictures, timelines and audio.
Seymour Rechtzeit was eight years old in 1920, when he left his home in Poland and journeyed to America. Why do you think he came, and what happened when he arrived? Read on as Seymour, now nearly 90 years old, tells his story.
Map and text showing patterns of German immigration.
Read primary source materials from several immigrants.
Text and chart describe immigration patterns.
Learn about immigration through stories of 5 kids who immigrated in the 90s and a man who arrived in 1920. Take an interactive tour of Ellis Island. Great nonfiction reading for grades 3-6.
Map shows patterns for Italian immigration.
Map of world shows country of origin of Asian immigrants. Clicking on a flag by the country gives more information and statistics.
First click Start the Journey. Use the interactive map to move around the island.
This site has classroom activities. The charts and graphs which show immigration patterns can be printed in several forms.
 
Social Studies - Inventors
Seven forgotten inventions. Includes the gas mask of Garrett Morgan, an Ohioan.
Have fun learning about inventions from ATM machines to Zambonis. Go back in time to the lightning rod or find out about modern inventions like Post It Notes or CDs.
Search by inventor, invention, black inventor or women inventors. Also has a timeline of inventions. Gr. 3-4
This web site accompanies an exhibition at the National Museum of American History exploring the process of invention. Learn about the five steps of innovation: the preconditions, the invention itself, promotion, competition and consequences.
Read biographies of Ohio inventors thenplay a game to identify them.
Each month TellZall, the history wizard, will show you an object that was commonly used in 20th century Ohio but is now rarely seen. TellZall also will tell you how the object was used, who made it, who used it, and why it is no longer used. Stop back each month to see what has disappeared.
Click on the thumbnails for popup pages featuring larger images, a description of each inventions historical development and a second image related to the invention.
To find out more about daily life in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, look at the everyday things shown below. Try to guess what each one is and how it was used. After you have made your guess, click on the picture to find out.
Brief biographies with links to more information. Search alphabetically, by time period, category, or country. Gr. 3+
 
Social Studies - Maps
Can you find your school? Your street and house? Use the arrow keys to move the view in a different direction. On the left is a zoom tool that permits you to zoom in closer on the map area.
This interactive adventure engages children in a story-based scenario that shows overhead views. Good introduction to understanding of map views.
For printable outline maps, select a state, region, or continent from the dropdown menus.
Create a map of any city or get city to city driving directions.
Create detailed maps of geographic areas of United States by selecting layers to include.
Good resource for a variety of maps of Ohio.
SHOW®USA offers a mapping application that displays a wide variety of information about the fifty states in a visual format. The site includes more than 141 maps with data about everything from Spanish speakers to foreclosures to Bigfoot sightings.
Large collection of interactive United States map activities to increase familiarity with location and capitals of U.S. states.
Interactive map - place the state puzzle pieces in the correct location.
This interactive web site helps you identify where Ohio is in relation to other continents, countries, and states, as well as identifying the states surrounding Ohio. Then it teaches about longitude and latitude and has you locate Ohio using those measures.
 
Social Studies - Ohio Biographies
List of famous Ohioans.
Play games or read about famous Ohioans categorized by astronauts, Indians, inventors, presidents, and women.
List of famous Ohioans. No links to more information.
 
Social Studies - Ohio History
Links to information about Ohio agriculture, history, resources, maps, and so much more.
Explore life and work on canals in Ohio in the 1850s. Animated and interactive.
Timeline show important historical events in the life of Cleveland over the past 200 years.
Interactive resource. Select an area of the Wester Reserve and use the maps to compare the economy, history, migration and populations in different years.
History from the Ohio Hills is a Web site for students and teachers of Ohio History. It features video clips, resources for each of the academic content standards and interactive quizzes.
Online encyclopedia about Ohio natural history, prehistory and history. Included written information, maps, timelines and images.
Watch and listen to mini videos to find out how archaeologists learn about the past.
Start here for links to Ohio archaeology, Indian heritage, and tree and snake identification.
Excellent for 4th Grade Social Studies Unit One. This online activity gives information about the early settlement of Ohio and includes both printable and online activities.
OhioPix, a searchable image database created by the Ohio Historical Society Archives/Library to provide online access to photographs, paintings, prints and objects from the Society collections. Online photo galleries illustrate specific topics or themes.
Learn about objects that were used in 20th century Ohio but are rarely seen now. Includes hoola hoop, typewriter, outhouse and more. New one added each month.
 
Social Studies - Ohio Native Americans
Learn about artifacts, events, lifestyle, people and more.
Learn about traditions of these prehistoric tribes. View maps, timelines, and images.
 
Social Studies - People in Societies
African Americans in Cleveland.
Arthur card matching game. Cards have food, flags, musical instruments, or sports from countries around the world. Previous knowledge not required.
Questions and answers about the Amish. Focus on the Amish in the Pennsylvania Dutch area, but information is pertinent to Ohio Amish too.
This educational and entertaining site provides at-a-glance comparisons of all fifty of the United States of America plus basic information and other demographics.
This webquest on Cultural Groups in Ohio has good information about the Amish, Germans, and Native American groups.
 
Social Studies - Solon
Website for the city of Solon.
Solon ethnicity data from 200 census.
 
Teacher - Search Portals
Search the llist of math interactive Java applets arranged by Ohio math standards. Activities range from about a 4th grade level to high school math levels.
 
Teacher Resources
Resource for printable themed writing paper forms, border papers, bookmarks, graphic organizers, and many more resources.
Make Bingo boards from word lists provided or your own list. Can change font and font size. Make multiple arrangements of the words for sets of cards.
This Microsoft Office ckipart site has thousands of clipart graphics that can be added to documents or clipart library.
Print out this concept web to use for many topics.
Online, web-based contdown digital timer.
Teachers Domain is a free digital media service for educational use from public broadcasting and its partners. You’ll find thousands of media resources, support materials, and tools for classroom lessons.
This mini site will help support class and homework activities with downloads of DKs famous photographs that can be included in your school projects. They can also be used just for fun!
Need a pentagonal pyramid that's six inches tall? Or a number line that goes from -18 to 32 by 5's? Or a set of pattern blocks where all shapes have one-inch sides? You can create all those things and more with the Dynamic Paper tool. Place the images you want, then export it as a PDF activity sheet for your students or as a JPEG image for use in other applications or on the web.
This site has over 50 printable graphic organizers in pdf format. Preview of each organizer is availble.
Understanding the concept of energy is crucial to the comprehension of many ideas in physical science, Earth and space science, and life science. The video programs, print guide, and Web site of this workshop for elementary school teachers provide a solid foundation, enabling you to distinguish between the way energy is commonly understood and its meaning in science.
Online, interactive resource for transitioning from Excel 2003 to Excel 2007.
Graphic organizers for content instruction.
Intervention Central offers free tools and resources to help school staff and parents to promote positive classroom behaviors and foster effective learning for all children and youth.
Into the Book provides you with tools to help elementary students learn to use strategies in reading, the arts, and across the curriculum.
Use this to make a form for a K-W-L activity.
Online software training videos for Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher, and Appleworks. Short videos with audio describe procedural steps for these software programs.
Each piece of clip art is designed to print as lined shapes for use in a variety of writing projects. Students can use the printed graphics to write their stories, poems, reports, home made books, notepads, stationery, etc. Teachers can use the printed shapes for bulletin boards, stories, word lists, vocabulary, sentence building exercises, notepads, etc.
Online resource with hundreds of photgraphs screened for schools to use. Photographs are not copyrighted so may be used in any project.
Online, interactive website to help transitioning from Powerpoint 2003 to Powerpoint 2007,
Need a map fast? National Geographic Expeditions Atlas has printable black and whie maps that are good for classroom use.
This is an online quiz generator.
Science video clips - available online for free. Click on Videos and Animations to search for appropriate topics.
Reproducible templates for 36 different shap books. Available in pdf format with wide double primary lines or with no lines.
Teachers Domain offers digital media from public TV broadcasters that is free for educational use. Users can search for materials via individual state standards, Common Core State Standards or national standards from different organizations. Each user has the ability to customize the online experience by creating an online profile specifying the grade level, state standards and other categories of interest.
Scroll to bottom to find Time-Line Maker. This generator can be used to make horizontal or vertical time lines with up to 9 events.
Just fill in the blanks in the form to create your own Venn diagram for any topic.
Free, web based screen reader. No software to install. Works on any device with web access.
Online interactive help for transitioning from Word 2003 to Word 2007.
 
Teacher Resources - Language Arts
Looking for an exhaustive list of folktales from every state and region in the United States? This is it! User-friendly American Folklore offers stories in almost every folktale genre imaginable including historical, ethnic, weather-related, campfire, ghost, famous characters, and legends stories.
Organizer for writing paragraphs.
This online unit contains seven lesson plans about folktales, for students in grades 1-2 or 3-5. Each lesson provides a reading or project-based (not online) activity, and uses a popular American folktale (such as Johnny Appleseed or Pecos Bill) to improve reading, writing, and vocabulary skills. For early childhood classrooms, take a look at the Folktale Unit Ideas for grades K-2.
This site offers simple descriptions of graphic organizers like bubble maps, Venn diagrams, and flow charts.
This site contains a wealth of teaching resources. Start by clicking the Writing with Writers link under Folktales, and read or listen to a story written by one of the guest authors. Then, have students follow the steps provided -- from brainstorming to publishing online -- to write their own folktales. Student writing is posted at the site. Next, check out Exploring Everyday Folklore, to discover what folklore is,how it is passed down within families, and how to share their stories with others.
 
Teacher Resources - Math
Professional resources for improving students math learning.
 
Teachers - Corrective Instruction and Assessment
Find lesson plans, activities, assessment items and instructional resources in a variety of formats from some of Ohio’s most trusted content providers by clicking
Use this site to locate instructional activities aligned to the Ohio diagnostic Tests.
Access model curricula aligned with the new academic content standards. Examples of assessement items and lesson plans,.
Ohio Achievement Test support tool.
 
Teachers - Lesson Plan Sites
National Council on Economics Education site. Search for lessons by grade level or topic. Many lessons have interactive online activities.
 
Tools for Learning
Awesome Highlighter lets you highlight text on web pages and then gives you a small link to the highlighted page.
Create vocabulary flashcards for any subject or concept. There are multiple ways to study your flash cards, on the site from testing yourself with a quiz to playing games that challenge your speed.
 
Word Study
Large selection of words and categories in this classic game to develop vocabulary.
Choose the small words you can make from a big word. Letter Name Stage.
Match beginning sounds.
Child sees the word spelled correctly, then letters are mixed up and child must put them in order again.
Help the tooth fairy find synonyms. Grades 1-2.
Games focus on a short or long vowel sound. Drag a letter to match the picture. Has sound and animation. Letter Name Stage.
Students choose the corret homonym to complete the sentence.
 
Word Study - Letter Name
Another Clifford site to play. Students drag words into the correct box based on matching the initial consonant. Words are spoken by the computer when they are dragged and directions can be read aloud by the computer. Letter Name - initial consonants
In this Clifford site, student choose a vowel to place between two consonants to make a real word. Letter Name - short vowels. You can choose to have directions read aloud. Words are pronounced as they are made.
On this Clifford site, students click on a key picture (word) to hear it spoken. They then click on pictures of things that begin with the same sound and drag them into a box. Uses only pictures to discriminate initial consonant sounds. The names of all pictures can be be spoken by the computer so there is no confusion as to what the intent of the picture is. Letter Name - initial consonants
Whirlyword is a fruit machine that makes 3 letter CVC words.
Word Maker provides a simple, engaging way for students to generate dozens of different words by first choosing an ending (for example -an, -ed, -at, -op) and then adding a beginning letter or blend. When a correct word is created, the word is stored in a Word Bank where students can read and review their words.
 
Word Study - Within Word
Choose the correct vowel pattern which goes between the beginning and ending consonants to complete a word. Two levels of play. Has adjustable speed.
What sound can you hear in the middle of the words that Jim is making?
Ten colourful poems with animation, audio and activities - featuring Daisy the snail, the toad and the goat, and friends.
Ten vowel patterns, (some r-controlled). Given a word with a blank in the middle, select missing vowel pattern. Picture clue also provided.
Look carefully at the cards to see if they match. When you see a pair click Snap! But dont get Snap happy - if you get it wrong, you lose a point. Use the slow/fast slider to increase the challenge. Faster is harder but you get more Snaps!
Help Wordblender make words by choosing a start sound (onset) and an end sound (rime) to blend together. Wordblender will tell you if youre right or not. You might even be able to make some new words that dont exist!
Word Maker provides a simple, engaging way for students to generate dozens of different words by first choosing an ending (for example -an, -ed, -at, -op) and then adding a beginning letter or blend.
After selecting a postcard, locate a featured vowel pattern in all the words. In the second level, drag a vowel pattern to correctly fill in a gap in a word.