These are great places to check out!
A site where you can play games, try experiments, and even enter
contests!
Science Challenge!
Test your knowledge and find out if you know more than a fifth grader!
Are you smarter than a fifth grader?
White House for Kids
The White House!
Kid Power!
Kid Power games and learning
A story about twins who committed a jewelry theft.
Who did it?
National Geographic for Kids
All about National Geographic topics.
Discovery Channel - Social Studies site to help students with
their
schoolwork.
Discoveries
Gilder Lehrman is a museum par excellence in New York City that
has a searchable database of historical documents. Check it out!
History fun
Do you love CSI and the court cases that we solve in third grade
TAG? Check
this out!
More mysteries to solve!
FunBrain - A super fun site, full of fun and games.
FunBrain Games
A site for educators that gives many links to games and resources
of various types
Many, many games that will delight and inform
FactMonster - Need information? This site can help with any topic.
All the facts you need!
San Francisco Science Center - Fun hands-on, minds-on science
experiments.
Science experiments
How Stuff Works. Great site to find out all about how things work.
How things work.
The Yuckiest site on the Internet!
Yuk!
Play Kids Games - Learn something while you have fun
Kids' games
I'm a Hero - Choose this to see timelines, history, even books
about many
heroes.
Heroes
All about the animals that we sometimes have for pets.
Pets
Time for Kids - Homework and research help
Homework help
A place to enter your writing competitively. Check this out!
Writing contests for kids
Do you like to solve mysteries, puzzles and crimes? Then this
site is for
you.
Mysteries, puzzles and crimes
Occupational Outlook Guide - a most complete description of
careers in the
United States
Occupational Outlook Guide
Games, puzzles, and mysteries to solve!
PBS detective site
Find out how to make lots of money at this fun site from real millionaire
Warren Buffet.
Secret Millionaires' Club!
Would you like to find out how to start a lemonade stand? What are the things
you need to do to make money at it? Click here to find out.
Lemonade Stand Game
The Stock Market Challenge - for fourth grade TAG students who are
participating in the Challenge. This is where you can log in for your team,
make purchases or to sell shares of stock. You can also do research from here
and get quotes on share prices.
Play the Stock Market Game!
A wonderfully interesting site that describes NJ Lighthouses.
Lighthouses
Essays and other writing activities for budding writers
Writing fun
Do you wonder what the winning entries are? Here is where you can
read the
winners.
Writing contest, and winners' stories to read
Tips, writing exercises and even mini-courses to help improve
your writing.
Breaking through writers's block, and other fun writing helps
Scholastic's site for readers and writers
Reading lists, tips and more
From here, you can link to all kinds of interesting things about
dragons!
All about dragons!
Fourth grade TAG students - do you want HyperStudio at home? Some
of my students have asked for it, and here is where you can get it. Be sure
you get the Student Edition.
HyperStudio
Individuals or groups can begin with $100,000 and learn how to make money in
the market. It's a good place to begin when you want to learn how to do better
with your team when the Stock Market Challenge begins.
Want to play a stock market game? It's free!
Tornadoes are powerful storms that form over land and do terrible
damage. Here is a site from National Geographic where you can learn about
these powerful storms.
Tornadoes!
Lighthouses with pictures!
Lighthouses in NJ and around the country
The NJAGC makes many resources available for gifted students,
their teachers
and parents. This includes books, links, and a conference every
year.
The New Jersey Association for Gifted Children
This is a site where you may get your work published, if you are interested.
Where you can be published
This is another site where you can get published.
Lulu Publishing
Want some suggestions about what to read this summer? Click here,
and go to
Photos/Docs for even more suggestions.
Scholastic's summer reading list
This is where Joseph Renzulli is a professor. There are many
links for gifted education here, both for students and for parents. Their list
of resources is excellent.
Find out more about gifted education
Find a personalized reading list - just for you! Click on the
link and put in your grade or reading level, or a book that you're interested
in. Check it out!
Reading list
Children of the Holocaust
Children during the Holocaust
This is where you can find out about Anne Frank and her contribution to our
understanding of what happened to her during the Holocaust.
Anne Frank: Who was she?
Children's stories of Holocaust survival
Holocaust survival
Poetry for Children
Children's poetry
Some people tried to help those who were affected by the Holocaust.
Rescuer Link 1
Even during the Holocaust, some people cared.
Rescuers Link 2
Rescuers were called "Righteous".
Rescuers Link 3
Children who were survivors have stories to tell.
Children of the Holocaust
Read these children's stories of survival.
Children's stories of Holocaust survival
These are videos that explain Greg Mortenson's work to build
schools for the children of Pakistan and Afghanistan. Excellent
descriptions of the Pennies for Peace program, which raises money
for the schools.
Three Cups of Tea videos