Internet Locations for Sixth Grade Curriculum

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• SCORE: Schools of California On-Line Resources for Education links to sites that support state mandated curriculum, including mathematics, science, history/social science, and language arts. SCORE includes links to lots of wonderful educational sites directly related to curriculum for California Schools, as well as teacher lesson plans. An excellent site sponsored by the California Technology Assistance Project, the Education Council for Technology in Learning and the California County Superintendents Educational Services Association.
• Educational Hotlists sponsored by the Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They have links for all types of science, as well as countries, art, literature, music, writing & composition, American History, schools on the web, education, mathematics, reference, and black history. An incredible resource.
• BJ Pinchbeck's Educational Links! INCREDIBLE!! This site rocks! The best place for homework help ever. If it isn't here..it isn't anywhere! Eleven year old BJ and his dad use the Internet to help with homework and to research information on the Net. They have selected more than 500 terrific sites that can help you find any information that you need. Don't miss this one.
• Education World for Teachers: Unique Links by Curriculum Areas. Sponsored by American Fidelity Educational Services, in partnership with the National Education Association and the Vocational Industrial Clubs of America. These special links are not the standard history, science, math links. Worth a look.
• Blue Web'n Content Catagories - Blue Web'n is a searchable database sponsored by Pacific Bell Knowledge Network. They put together a list of outstanding Internet learning sites categorized by subject area, audience, and type (lessons, activities, projects, resources, references, & tools). Blue Web'n does not attempt to catalog all educational sites, but only the most useful sites -- especially online activities targeted at learners. They provide a hot site of the week.
• Homework Central gets the information down to the seven to 10 areas that provide the richest content. Each single link has been screened by an educator. Grades 1 to 6.
• CUE's California Web Projects - Global SchoolNet Foundation (GSN), sponsored by California Computer Using Educators (CUE). The California Web Project uses the resources of the Internet to unleash the creative efforts of California students as they create a home page containing their own original research and information. You can search their database by topic and grade level to visit projects done by other schools or sign up to create and publish your own internet reserach projects.

• BJ Pinchbeck's Reference Links
• Homework Helper's

• Mr Dowling's Electronic Passport. A sixth grade teacher's social studies page. Very good.
• Internet Scavenger Hunt Jamestown, Virginia)
  

• Newspaper Hotlinks Select a state and search newspaper and other related media organizations' Internet sites. In addition to U.S. dailies, you'll find Canadian, selected international papers, weeklies, business papers and alternative press among the links you can find. Site recommended by Curriculum Administrator.
• The Nando Times An original on-line newspaper with national and international articles. Site recommended by Curriculum Administrator.
• Use the News with guides for using the newspapers to enhance current events curriculum and tools for evaluating news articles.

Early Humans,

• SCORE: World History and Geography Links: Ancient Civilizations including links on early humans, Egypt and Kush, Greeks, China, Mesopotamia, Hebrews, India, and Rome.
• History On-Line with sections on Ancient Egypt, Ancient Rome, and Ancient Greece
• The Seven Wonders of the World, an award winning site. Check it out!
• The Eruption of Vesuvius: Eye Witness Account by Pliny the Younger, and Pompeii Excavations
• Ancient Rome sites:
  Daily Life in Rome, Rome, A Brief History (including religion, aqueducts, roads), Rome Odyssey at Emory University, and The Civilization of Ancient Rome
  • Horace's Villa Excavation, Licenza, Italy. Horace was a famous poet who lived during the last days of the Roman Republic. His home is the only period house of a Roman writer that can be identified and visited today.
• Ancient Egypt:
  Ancient Egypt Interactive Tour Wow!
  Egypt Odyssey at Emory University
  Guardian's Egypt Copyright © 1995-98 Andrew Bayuk All Rights Reserved. A very complete site with a kid's page which includes arts, crafts, lesson plans and even a place to write your name in hieroglyphs.
  Mark Millmore's Ancient Egypt including his list of Ancient Egypt Links
  Exploring Ancient World Cultures: Links to Egypt Sites including articles on Egyptian Forgeries, The Official Egyptian Tourist Site, Life in Ancient Eqypt, and the History of Egypt.
  
  • Nova's Pyramids: The Inside Story At NOVA's online Pyramid adventure, students not only learn about the great pyramid at Giza, they wander through its chambers and passageways. Links to excavations at the pyramid sites of Khufu, Menkaure, and Khafre, as well as the Sphinx, provide additional information about ancient Egypt.
• Ancient Greece: Greek Odyssey at Emory University
• Odyssey On-Line, a journey to explore ancient Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman cultures. You can make your own discoveries through cool puzzles, games, and worksheets.

• World Geography sponsored by The Mining Company. Includes maps, census data, climate, weather, clip art, countries, earthquakes, hurricanes, statistics, time zones, population and more!
• National Geographic Map Machine
• Geography World
• World Geography Game lesson plan.

• Atlas and Map Links
• TEAMS Map sites. Excellent.
• Altapedia's Countries On-Line
• United Nations' Country At A Glance
• E-Conflict World Encyclopedia" Country information from around the world. A resource for business, tourists, students and teachers. Eradicate Conflict through Cultural Understanding.
• Geographia Homepage More of a tourist page. Nice photos.
• TEAMS Places, Peoples, Cultures. Good information on selected countries by Los Angeles County Office of Education's TEAMS Distance Learning Program.
• Yahooligan's Flags for every country.
• Lycos Countries of the World. Good country summaries.
• Countries by Region: Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia, Central Asia, Latin America, Middle East, Pacific & Oceania, and Ireland. Sites pre-screened by Homework Central.
• InfoNation, InfoNation is an easy-to-use, two-step database that allows you to view and compare the most up-to-date statistical data for the Member States of the United Nations. Select up to seven countries and the statistics and other data fields in which you are interested, including geography, economy, population and social indicators
• Ask Asia includes information on Asia including culture, politics, history, religion and more.

• BJ Pinchbeck's complete links to history, social studies, news and current events.
• This Day in History. The History Channel shows us what happened on this date in years past, or put in another date and check it out. What happened on your birthday?
• Explorer's Web: History On-Line Exploration and Discovery an overview of exploration....WOW!!! This site includes a link to an alphabetical index of explorer sites for all time periods and continents.
• History Resources compiled by the Department of History at Texas A&M University, including Library of Congress, U.S. National Archives and Records, Smithsonian Institution, CLIO, the National Archives Web Site, and the Presidential Libraries.

• SCORE's Award Winning CyberGuides to Literature for grades 6 to 8 and grades 4 to 6. CyberGuides are supplementary, web-based units of instruction centered on core works of literature. They are designed for the classroom with one online computer. Each CyberGuide contains a student and teacher edition, objectives,a task and a process by which it may be completed, teacher-selected web sites and a rubric. CyberGuides aligned with California's Academic Content Standards as indicated in the Teacher Guides. There are 30+ titles, including many Newbery award winners.
• Webster's Word of the Day by Merriam Webster. Each word has a definition, example sentence and the history of the word. It is fun and interesting. Links to other neat word stuff.
• Guide to Grammar and Writing developed by Professor Charles Darling and Capital Community-Technical College. A very complete overview of grammar, with help at the sentence, paragraph, and essay level.
• Newbery Medal and Honor Awards
• Caldecott Medal and Honor Awards
• Edgar Allan Poe Awards - Juvenile Mystery Awards includes nominees and winners from 1961 through 1996.
• Young Adult Reading Ideas:
  
  • Booklist's 98 Fiction Books for Middle Readers
  • Booklist's 98 Non-Fiction Books for Middle Readers
  • The Children's Literature Web Page: Favorite Books and Must Reads
  • Popular Paperbacks for Young Adult Readers
  • Edgar Allan Poe Awards - Juvenile Mystery Awards
• Biography Maker Interactive tool to write your own biography by the Bellingham Schools.
• Children and Young Adult Authors & Illustrators Internet Home Pages by the Library Science Program at James Madison University.
• Children's Literature Web Guide by David K. Brown, Doucette Library of Teaching Resources, University of Calgary

• BJ Pinchbeck's Science Links
• IBM Education's Web Link, including links to Animals & Zoos, Bats, Biomes, Forestry & Trees, Insects & spiders, Human Body, Inventions, Oceans, Weather and more!
• Interactive Tour of the Cell - Microbiology
• Frank Potter's Science Gems, Physical, Earth and Life Science Topics, WOW!
  
• Science and Mathematics Education Resources, including microbiology links, Earth Science
• Science Hotlists, includling biology, energy, physical, space and earth science.
• Birmingham Zoo, a database of animal facts and photos for over 2,200 animals.
  
• Theatre of Electrictiy, including history, construction, sparks, lightning, Franklin's kite, tesla coils.
• Edison's Kids Page learn about Thomas Alva Edison, experiments.
  
• The Learning Studio - San Francisco's Exploratorium
• Exploratorium's Exhibit & Phenomena Cross Reference
• Discovery Channel Online
• What's New in Science? from Internet for Kids by Dr. Victoria Williams.
• Newton's Apple: Teacher's Guide - PBS TV series index

• BJ Pinchbeck's Math Links
• Math Teacher's Guide at the Elementary School Teacher's Place The Math Forum at Swarthmore University wants to provide us with the greatest possible coverage of math and math education web sites. This math experience is sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

• BJ Pinchbeck's Computer and Internet Sites
• Internet Scavenger Hunt Jamestown, Virginia
  
• TH E 'lectric Learning Web - NetTeach News

• BJ Pinchbeck's Music and Art Links

• Sports Links by Los Angeles Unified School District
• CNN and Sports Illustrated

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Web Page Author -Mary Beth Baker
Staff Advisor - Carla Walker