Friday 5: Essential Sites for Students and Teachers
Lucy Gray
It's almost back-to-school time, and I'm preparing a list of web sites
for computer images at my new school, the North Kenwood/Oakland
primary building, a charter school run by the University of Chicago. I
thought I'd share this long list with you this week as I attempt to
start re-publishing the Friday 5 on a regular basis.
Hope you are all having a great summer! Please note my new contact
info.
Lucy Gray
Lead Technology Coach
The University of Chicago Center for Urban School Improvement
1313 E. 60th Street
Chicago IL 60637
AIM: elemenous
email: elem...@gmail.com or lg...@usi-schools.org
blog: http://lucygray.org
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ART
Access Art Visual Resourceshttp://www.accessart.org.uk/index.php
Africa: The Art of a Continent
http://artnetweb.com/guggenheim/africa/
The Artist's Toolkit
http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/index.html
Be an Architect
http://www.sanford-artedventures.com/play/arch2/index.html
Building America:
http://72.9.224.44/
Crayola
http://www.crayola.com/
Learning Through Storytelling:
http://www.turnerlearning.com/turnersouth/storytelling/index.html
A Lifetime of Color
http://www.alifetimeofcolor.com/
CLIP ART
Discovery School Clip Art
http://school.discovery.com/clipart
DK Clip Art
http://us.dk.com/static/cs/us/11/clipart/jan04home.html
Microsoft ClipArt
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/clipart/default.aspx
Pics4Learning:
http://pics4learning.com/index.php
ECONOMICS
KidsBank:
http://www.kidsbank.com/
Economics Education Web:
http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/K-12/home.cfm
Illinois Council on Economic Education - Stock Market
http://www.econed-il.org/icee/
PBS: Don't Buy It (Media Smart)
http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit/buyingsmart/
The Stock Market Game:
http://www.smgww.org/
GRADE LEVEL SPECIFIC SITES
Kindergarten Interactive Sites
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/month2month.htm
First Grade Interactive Sites
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_1st.htm
Second Grade Interactive Sites
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_2nd.htm
Third Grade Interactive Sites
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_3rd_original.htm
Fourth Grade Interactive Sites
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_4th_original.htm
Fifth Grade Interactive Sites
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_5th_original.htm
Sixth Grade Interactive Sites
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_6th_original.htm
Seventh Grade Interactive Sites
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_7th_original.htm
Eighth Grade Interactive Sites
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/skills_8th_original.htm
Scholastic's Online Interactive Learning Games for Grades 3-5
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/index_grades35.htm
GENERAL STUDENT SITES
Chateau Meddybemps
http://www.meddybemps.com/
Eduweb Adventures
http://www.eduweb.com/portfolio/adventure.php
Homework Spot
http://homeworkspot.com/
Kids.gov
http://www.kids.gov/
National Geographic Kids
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/
Quiz Hub
http://quizhub.com/quiz/quizhub.cfm
ReadWriteThink Student Materials
http://www.readwritethink.org/student_mat/index.asp
Scholastic Kids
http://scholastic.com/kids/
Sheppard Software
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/
Smithsonian Education - Students Home Page
http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/students/
Yahoo! Kids
http://kids.yahoo.com/
GEOGRAPHY
History Maps in K12 Classrooms
http://www3.newberry.org/k12maps/
Geography Games for Kids
http://www.kidsgeo.com/geography-games/
Geonet Game
http://www.eduplace.com/geonet/
National Geographic's Places Directory
http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/places/directory.html
National Geographic's Expeditions
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/atlas/index.html?Parent=world&Rootmap=morocc&Mode=d
National Geographic's Geospy Game
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geospy/
Portals to the World
http://www.loc.gov/rr/international/portals.html
United Nations Cyberschoolbus
http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/index.shtml
MATH
A+ Math
http://www.aplusmath.com/games/
AAA Math
http://aaamath.com
Cool Math 4 Kids
http://www.coolmath4kids.com/
Count Us In
http://www.abc.net.au/countusin/default.htm
Everyday Math
http://everydaymath.uchicago.edu/
Math Cats
http://www.mathcats.com/
NCES KidZone
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/index.asp
MUSIC
Learn - Arizona Opera
http://www.azopera.com/learn.php
Louis Armstrong:
http://www.satchmo.net/
New York Philharmonic
http://www.nyphilkids.org/main.phtml?\
PBS Jazz Greats:
http://pbskids.org/jazz/index.html
San Francisco Symphony
http://www.sfskids.org/templates/splash.asp
NEWS
BBC for Kids
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/
CNN Student News
http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/
National Geographic Kids News
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/kids/
NYT Student Connections Home Page
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/students/index.html
Scholastic News Online
http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/scholasticNews.jsp
Time for Kids
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/
READING/WRITING
American Library Association
http://www.ala.org/gwstemplate.cfm?section=greatwebsites&template=/cfapps/gws/default.cfm
Poetry 180
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/p180-list.html
Children's Picture Book Database:
http://www.lib.muohio.edu/pictbks/search/
Starfall
http://www.starfall.com
RESEARCH
Choose the Best Search Engine
http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/literacies/information/5locate/adviceengine.html
eCUIP Digital Library
http://ecuip.lib.uchicago.edu/index.html
Encyclopedia of Chicago
http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/
Fact Monster
http://www.factmonster.com/
Internet Public Library's KidSpace
http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/
Netrekker
http://ntdi.nettrekker.com/
Student Research Guide:
http://www.kyvl.org/html/kids/portal.html
Refdesk
http://refdesk.com/
SCIENCE
FossWeb:
http://www.fossweb.com/
Inventions at Play:
http://www.inventionatplay.org/index.html
The Life Cycle
http://www2.bgfl.org/bgfl2/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/science/plants_pt2/
Nasa Kids
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/home/index.htm l
Science Fair Central
http://school.discovery.com/sciencefaircentral/
University of Illinois - Extensions:
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/kids/index.html
SOCIAL STUDIES/HISTORY
African American History Month (Library of Congress)
http://www.loc.gov/topics/africanamericans/
American Memory
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
America's Story from America's Library:
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi
Ben's Guide to Government:
http://bensguide.gpo.gov/
Chicago WebDocent:
http://cwd.uchicago.edu/
Drop Me Off in Harlem:
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/exploring/harlem/artsedge.html
HyperHistory Online
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html
Illinois During the Guilded Age:
http://dig.lib.niu.edu/gildedage/
Jacob Lawrence: Over the Line:
http://www.phillipscollection.org/lawrence/index.html
Louis Armstrong:
http://www.satchmo.net/
PBS Jazz Greats:
http://pbskids.org/jazz/index.html
TEACHERS
4Teachers
http://www.4teachers.org/
Apple Learning Interchange
http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/
Blue Web'n:
http://www.kn.att.com/wired/bluewebn/index.cfm
CanTeach
http://www.canteach.ca/
CMSI (Chicago Math and Science Initiative)
http://www.cmsi.cps.k12.il.us/
Cyberbee
http://www.cyberbee.com/index.html
DiscoverySchool
http://school.discovery.com/
Edhelper
http://edhelper.com/
Edinformatics:
http://www.edinformatics.com/
Education World: Teacher Tools & Templates
http://www.education-world.com/tools_templates/index.shtml
Enchanted Learning
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html
Flashcard Exchange
http://www.flashcardexchange.com/
Everyday Math:
http://everydaymath.uchicago.edu/
Filamentality
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/
IMSA 21st Century Information Fluency Project - Wizard Tools
http://21cif.imsa.edu/tools/
The Game-O-Matic
http://clear.msu.edu/dennie/matic/
George Lucas Educational Foundation/Edutopia
http://www.edutopia.org/
Houghton Mifflin's Graphic Organizers
http://eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/
Internet4Classrooms
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/
K-12 Resources for Music Educators
http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/music/k-12music/
Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/
Kathy Shrock's Guide to Rubrics
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/assess.html
The Learning Page:
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/index.html
Library of Congress for Teachers
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/
The Math Forum @ Drexel University
http://mathforum.org/index.html
NASA for Educators
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/k-4/internet/index.html
NCTM Math Illuminations
http://illuminations.nctm.org/
NYT Teacher Connections
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/index.html
PBS Teachers - Resources For the Classroom
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/
ReadWriteThink
http://www.readwritethink.org/
Rubistar:
http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php
S.C.O.R.E
http://www.score.k12.ca.us/
Smithsonian Educators
http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/
Smithsonian Teaching Heritage Resources
http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/educators/resource_library/heritage_resources.html
Teachers First
http://www.teachersfirst.com/index.cfm
Teacher Tube
http://www.teachertube.com/
TeacherVision
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/
Virtual Fieldtrip Sites
http://www.gaillovely.com/VirtualFieldTrips.htm
Writeboard
http://writeboard.com/
TECHNOLOGY FOR KIDS
CyberSmart:
http://www.cybersmartcurriculum.org/home/
Get Your Web License
http://pbskids.org/license/
NetSmartz
http://www.netsmartz.org/
Webmonkey For Kids
http://www.webmonkey.com/kids/
TUTORIALS
Atomic Learning
http://www.atomiclearning.com/
Atomic Learning - PowerSchool
http://nd.atomiclearning.com/powerschool4?noCache=642;1125669660
Atomic Learning - SmartBoard software
http://www.atomiclearning.com/smartboard95_mac
Lucy Gray
I meant to add that this list is going to be continually updated and
is viewable at:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfzj36ng_354g3cb75
If you'd like to collaborate and add this document, shoot me an email,
and I'll add you to the Google Doc.
Thanks,
Lucy Gray
elem...@gmail.com