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Visit this website and learn about Abraham Lincoln’s life from childhood to President of the United States. At this website one can visit Lincoln’s home which is now part of the National Park Service by viewing pictures taken of the home place. In addition to pictures of Lincoln’s home, this site offers a quiz on Lincoln, a treasure hunt, and much more.
http://www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/lincoln/index.html
This PBS site allows you to view pages designated for each character in the Arthur series. There are printable coloring pages, postcards you can print and mail (or email), as well as other activities. Click on a character such as Binky and deal with sequencing using audio readers.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/arthur
In this interactive activity try to build the carbon atom by combining up and down quarks and electrons.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/atom/
BAM! is a current, credible, and applicable interactive content that students can use to investigate health and science topics for school. It also is a resource for teachers who would like to incorporate the health topics covered on the site in their classrooms.
http://www.bam.gov
This award-winning interactive program is part of the "Whole Frog" project. You can interactively dissect a (digitized) frog named Fluffy, make movies, and play the Virtual Frog Builder Game. The interactive Web pages are available in a number of languages.
http://www-itg.lbl.gov/vfrog
This is an interactive site that teaches students about biodiversity on our planet.
http://ology.amnh.org/biodiversity/index.html
Most teachers and parents have used the printed version of BRAIN QUEST for years in academic challenges. This is the on-line version of the game where everybody wins. BRAIN QUEST challenges kids on the stuff they need to know, including math, science, social studies, and reading. Kids can play it alone or with friends, as a review of the grade just finished or preview of the grade to come.
http://www.brainquest.com/kids.php
Books for young children, older children, and young adults. One book is a talking eBook and others are illustrated or animated.
http://www.magickeys.com/books/
This site contains a set of Java Applets that are interactive for showing Pythagorean Theorem, perspective drawings, and more.
http://www.cinderella.de/en/demo/
Register your class for an online field trip to Colonial Williamsburg! There are seven individual electronic field trips that you may register for or one rate for all field trips. Individual trips for the 2007 - 2008 school year at $120. The set of seven trips is $500. Each field trip incorporates many activities beyond the set date of the electronic field trip. A segment titled Web Adventures is available to your class throughout the year with the paid field trip. It provides web-based interactive activities and videos to extend learning. A special section titled, "In Their Own Words," uses primary sources to teach students more about the period. Each trip has opportunities for students to use email, online voting and a forum to actively participate in the experience. Students may have their individual questions regarding colonial times answered by history experts by posting or emailing questions. Each field trip is aligned to National Standards of Learning in History and a bibiliography are included. A Teacher's Guide, additional internet links, TV broadcast and an online video preview to show prior to the field trip are also included.
Field trip dates are scheduled from October through April. The 2007 - 2008 schedule is available at http://www.history.org/History/teaching/eft.cfm. This year's lessons include: Jamestown Unearthed, Emissaries of Peace, Founders or Traitors?, For Ready Money, No Master Over Me, Treasure Keepers,
The Industrious Tradesmen. For a small price, your students can truly experience Colonial Williamsburg! Technical support is provided throughout the school year to make your experience a success. Purchase orders are accepted.
http://www.history.org/History/teaching/tips/intro.cfm?Ref=Sample&bSideNav=1
An amusement Park of math for kids
http://www.coolmath4kids.com/
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute invites curious kids to explore biology...on screen, off screen, and in between. Students find answers to questions such as what is the connection between a butterfly and a caterpillar as well as why we eat roots and stems.
http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/index.html
The activity in this section places you within the cell, involving you with the processes of DNA replication and protein synthesis.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/dna/
A collection of educational units. Dositey.com is intended to provide a much-needed boost to teachers looking to enhance their classroom curricula, as well as to provide teachers with innovative homework assignments. Each module is designed to be instructional, fun, and easy to use. Lessons are interactive and utilize visual presentation of a single topic to enhance the learning experience. For example, addition problems in math are displayed both with and without regrouping. Site has printable worksheets in addition to interactive activities.
http://www.dositey.com
Spanish as well as English interactive activities for teaching basic math skills from fractions to scatter plots.
http://www.harcourtschool.com/elab/index.html