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| This site it hosed by NASA and covers many exciting topic in Earth science. There is a moon phase game, a water cycle tutorial, a reason for the seasons movie, and many other great facts about many topics. The home page offers links to projects as well where students can print templates and directions for creating scale satellite models. This site is a tremendous source for elementary science teachers. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1; http://kids.mfc.nasa.gov | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2. http://www.scienceteacherstuff.com/ | Science Teacher Stuff is a site that is a tremendous resource for locating other internet sites relating to many topics in elementary (and through grade 12) science sites on the internet. There are sections for electricity, force and motion, matter, sound, light, and heat to name a few. They have categories for just about all science topics covered K-12. From the home page, one can view a list of science publications, science supply vendors, science professional groups, discussion groups, technology, math, etc. I found some of the links to be invalid; however, there are quite a few links organized by topic for one to locate some information without having to use a search engine. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3.http://www.cws-scf.ec.gc.ca/hww-fap/index_e.cfm | Hinterland's Who's Who is maintained by the Canadian Wildlife Service. This site allows you to view or print fact sheets for birds, mammals, and other related topics. Each fact sheet describes the appearance, life history, and habits of a Canadian bird or mammal or else discusses a wildlife-related topic such as bird feeding or endangered species. The fact sheets are great resources for discussing animals and ecosystems and animal adaptations and habitats. The site also has other links to environmental information. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4.http://mbgnet.mobot.org/index.html | Maintain by the Missouri Botanical Garden, this website lists the Biomes of the world. It is a great resource for ecosystems units. This site has lots of great information ? and is written in a very clear and concise format for older elementary students. Each section is organized into manageable pieces of information enabling students to locate information very easily. There is more information in this one website than any other that I?ve ever encountered. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 5.http://www.billnye.com | Bill Nye the Science Guy is a very interesting and engaging man who presents science topics in a clear and concise manner. His T.V. programs air on digital cable and satellite TV. This site allows you to download PDF files for various episodes. You can find the episode topics easily on the website. I really do not like the Flash presentation as I have a slow internet connection. The PDFs have a brief summary of the episode and lists resources. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 6.http://www.need.org/guides.htm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 6. http://www.carolhurst.com/ | Carol Hurst is a literature site that contains useful information on many topics for literacy. This site includes a useful table of contents so that you can see all the links on one page to facilitate ones search. She includes reviews and lesson ideas for certain titles as well as literature ideas for several topics. I find this site useful as a resource finding ideas to include in a novel study; however, there are not too many titles included on this site for immediate use in the classroom. This site is a good start to locate information on different topics, but I found it to be limiting in scope. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| This site hosts useful lessons for using the 6 trait writing process. You can search for lessons by grade level by the trait that you would like to work on with your students. There is also other information that is useful for the students to understand what each trait stands for and what types of things are assessed in any given trait. This site also gives teacher support for getting started using the 6 trait writing in the writing classroom. I use this site periodically to look for specific lessons. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 7.http://www.nwrel.org/assessment/assessment.asp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 8. http://www.aesopfables.com/ | This site has hundreds of fables ready to copy and print for use in the classroom. There are fables from Aesop and others as well as fairy tales by Hans Christian Anderson. I find this free site helpful to use fables in my classroom. I usually copy and paste the fables from this site into a Word document so that I can format them anyway that I like. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| four blocks for upper grades | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Math Sites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 http://www.mathmastery.com/ | Math Mastery is a great resource challenging students in grades 4-8 with daily problems to solve as well as for drill and practice for any math operation. The daily challenges are very challenging and the drill and practice is like a beat the clock. This site allows students to track their highest score with each drill. There is also a link for activities to do at home that changes weekly. I like that I can use this site for good math students and also for those who require remedial drills for their multiplication tables. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 10. http://www.illuminations.nctm.org | Maintained by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics ? this site hosts many great math resources and is organized by grade level, K-12. There is an extremely cool link to using interactive multi-media math lessons (geometric solids and graphing using spreadsheets, to name a few.) There are links to math internet sites that the NCTM stands behind, many lesson plans, resources for teachers on research, and the ability to create your own interactive online math lessons. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||