Kathryn Isaac
 
Academic Content Standards Guides
Academic Content Standards Guide for parents of children in grade 2.
 
Animals
Great website to learn about animals and how they migrate.
Variety of interactive games for kids to learn about and explore animals.
Great website for kids to learn interesting facts about animals from all over the world. Extremely kid friendly!
Monarchs and migration.
National Geographic information about zebras and their migration.
 
Biographies
Time for kids website focused on biographies. Includes activities and interesting facts.
 
Economics
Read a story about a mouse from the country that has to make decisions. Learn about economics.
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.
Learn about producers and consumers. Audio provided for text.
 
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.
Find out about the mushers, history of the race, weather at checkpoints, and get daily race updates.
It’s unlike any other event in the world. A race over 1,150 miles of the most extreme and beautiful terrain known to man: across mountain ranges, frozen rivers, dense forests, desolate tundra and windswept coastline.
 
Keyboarding
 
Language Arts
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.
 
Language Arts - Literature
Here are some classic children's stories to relax and listen to.
 
Literacy
This site has animated books that are read aloud to students. All of the selections have moving pictures, music, and sound effects. Silly books are designed for ages 3-13.
 
Math - Basic Facts
Interactive fact practice using an addition facts grid. A susrprise picture is revealed at the end.
Students stack blocks on a scale to balance.
Practice and reinforce skills in all 4 operations using a calculator. Choice of operations and size of numbers to use.
Timed (one minute) practice with basic facts. Choose which of the four basic operations to practice.
Throw the dart to get the target sum. Good game for practicing doubles facts.
Drag the number to the correct place in this interactive times table to solve a mystery puzzle.
Select 2 factors and an array will be created for those numbers. Helps with multiplication facts.
Choose a number, then count by multiples of that number.
 
Math - Brain Teasers
An exciting collection of brain teasers, puzzles, riddles, games and optical illusions. With thousands of brain teasers and puzzles, over one hundred awards, BrainBashers is updated with optical illusions and games regularly and has 5 new puzzles added every other week.
Brain teasers that invovle real-world problem solving. Great to try on your own or with a friend.
Great interactive website with games, puzzles, brain teasers, and even jokes!
 
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.
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?
 
Math - Geometry and Spatial Sense
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.
Great interactive site to explore the concept of symmetry!
Copy the given shape by combining smaller shapes.
Play this online game and identify lines of symmetry.
This is a great website to practice making shapes on geoboards.
 
Math - Measurement
Measure the length and width of rectangles with the interactive ruler.
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.
Use an online ruler to measure objects in centimeters.
Great practice measuring in centimeters and inches.
Students are given shapes to practice measuring area and perimeter.
 
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.
Choose the coins to practice. Multiple choice questions for counting coins.
Count the coins and find the value.
 
Math - Number Sense
Locate numbers on the hundred chart. Game is timed.
Add and Subtract with Count Hoot Count Hoot helps young students with one-to-one correspondence in learning addition and subtraction facts.
This PBS site contains about 3 dozen online math games.
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.
Can you find all 10 bones on he hundred chart in under one minute?
This game helps students count on from any number on the hundreds chart.
 
Math - Patterns and Algebra
Complete the patterns using colors and shapes.
Interactive online counting activity.
Investigate the relationship between input and output values.
 
Math - Problem Solving
Every Wednesday evening a new brainteaser is added to this site. You can select from non-routine problems for grades 3-4, grades 5-6 or grades 7-8. Can choose to see helpful hints if needed.
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.
 
Math - Time
Tell the time.
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 ~ Fractions
 
Online Activities
Various interactive activities and movies to help students gain a better understanding of concepts covered in class.
 
Parents
Learn how to form cursive letters. To see the animation, move your mouse over a letter.
This website is designed by PBS Kids. It offers a video clip that parents/guardians can watch. It provides valuable insight as how adults can foster reading development in young children.
Like reading, writing is a skill that can be effectively developed in the home, as well as the classroom. Education researcher Cynthia Neese Bailes provides tips for parents.
This website offers worksheets to parents of young children that can be downloaded and printed. These worksheets can provide opportunities for children to practice writing the alphabet at home. Adobe Reader required.
 
Poetry
More poetry for children of all ages.
This site provides appropriate poems by the famous authors, including Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert Browning, etc....
 
Reading
List of about 60 authors who have actually replied to student letters. Includes Christopher, Cleary, Giff, Naylor, Polacco, Prelutsky, VanAllsburg, etc.
This website provides graphic organizers to used with Reading and/or Writing Instruction. Each graphic organizer can be printed.
Interactive sight to foster word knowledge and build reading skills.
 
Reading-Stories
Listen to some stories read by famous people.
 
Science
This is a great interactive website that covers a variety of science topics.
Helpful website for researching grassland habitat
Watch a video and learn all about the rock cycle.
 
Science - Animals
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.
 
Science - Earth and Space
Calendar view of the moon for each day of the month.
See moon as it appears today (default). Can choose other dates using selection tools.
 
Science - Forces and Motion
This website allows the students to visually see how force affects the movements of objects.
Interactive onlilne exploration of friction on different surfaces.
Explore magnetic attraction and the effects of forces on a spring.
 
Science - Light
Interactive website to explore which objects give off light.
Interactive site to explore location and length of shadows.
 
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.
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.
Interactive nutrition game teaches about the food pyramid.
Enter the Salad Factory to make a Super Salad! There are many different ways to make a Super Salad, and no one out there is better at making a Super Salad than a SuperKid! You can choose from a variety of Super Ingredients to make a deliciously unique and uniquely super Super Salad
 
Science - Rocks - Formation
Explore how different rocks are formed.
Animations of how 3 types of rocks are formed.
Discussion of rock types found in Ohio.
How do rocks undergo change. Interactive.
Learn about the types of rocks with this song.
This website allows the students to click on the three different types of rocks (Metamorphic, Sedimentary, and Igneous). Underneath these different categories, the students will find many examples of these rocks with a brief description of each.
 
Science - Rocks - Minerals
Short descriiption and links to information about some minerals.
 
Science - Rocks - Properties
Interactive game format using hardness scale. (Foss site for this unit)
Hands on classification lesson.
 
Science - Rocks and Soil
Look around the scene and find things made of sand, clay, gravel, pebbles, etc.
Match layers of soil names and learn about what each layer is made up of.
 
Science - Rocks Changes
Click each dot to see a photograph showing the effects of erosion.
Pictures showing how ice and roots have changed rocks.
View animations showing how the three different kinds of rocks are formed.
 
Science Weather
View an animation of what happens what a cold front or warm front moves.
Read about the man who studied snowflakes. Click on snowflakes to see pictures of snowflake shapes and patterns.
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.
 
Social Studies - Cultures and Customs
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.
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.
 
Social Studies - Government
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.
Webquest to inform students about the U.S. Monuments.
 
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.
Read primary source materials from several immigrants.
This webquest on Cultural Groups in Ohio has good information about the Amish, Germans, and Native American groups.
 
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.
Students can view physical maps and political maps of countries all over the world.
This teaching packet from The U.S. Geological Survey is appropriate for grades K-3. Students will learn basic concepts for visualizing objects from different perspectives and how to understand and use maps.
Interactive map - place the state puzzle pieces in the correct location.
 
Social Studies - Ohio History
Timeline show important historical events in the life of Cleveland over the past 200 years.
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.
This website will give students practice with timelines.
 
WebQuest
Students will navigate through this website to learn all about frogs.
 
WebQuests
 
Word Study
Students choose the corret homonym to complete the sentence.
 
Word Study - Letter Name
Rhymes to work on blends - A variety of short poems with a variety of blends.
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
Child sees the word spelled correctly, then letters are mixed up and child must put them in order again.
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?
Poems and activities to practice phonics and fluency.
Ten vowel patterns, (some r-controlled). Given a word with a blank in the middle, select missing vowel pattern. Picture clue also provided.
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!
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.