Animal Websites	Winter Holiday
Martin Luther King, Jr.	Math
Language Arts	Science
Social Studies	Thanksgiving
Native Americans	Solar System
Allowable Search Engines	Hot Shots

 

Animal Websites

 

Utah 'Themepark' - Animal Adaptations

http://www.uen.org/themepark/html/habitat/animal.html

http://www.uen.org/utahlink/activities/view_activity.cgi?activity_id=4750

this second one is a great place for kids to go to research

 

 

Kratt's Kreatures

http://www.pbs.org/kratts/world/content.html

a good PBS show about animals has a website!

 

Dirtmeister

http://teacher.scholastic.com/dirtrep/animal/index.htm

a lesson plan plus web links about animal adaptations

 

EcoKids

http://www.ecokidsonline.com/pub/splash.cfm

has some good information as well as games

 

MBGnet

http://mbgnet.mobot.org/

ecosystems

 

Journey North

http://www.learner.org/jnorth/

animal migration

 

ScienceNetLinks

http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?BenchmarkID=5&DocID=232

a lesson (and resources) about animal adaptation

 

Zoo Atlanta

http://www.zooatlanta.org/site/education/educational_activities/animal_adaptions.html

information about animal adaptations

 

Sea World

http://www.seaworld.org/AnimalBytes/animal_bytes.html

great info on various animals

 

Arctic Studies Center

http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/html/wildlife.html

Biomes

Magic School House

 

Animals A to Z

http://www.oaklandzoo.org/atoz/atoz.html

 

http://www.lpzoo.com/tour/tour.htm

Caves:

 

http://www.goodearthgraphics.com/virtcave/index.html

 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/caves/

 

http://www.colossal cave.com/cavetour.html

 

http://www.rubyfalls.com/fun/kidsbox.htm

Cinderella project

Go to the web site below:

http://www.northcanton.sparcc.org/~ptk1nc/cinderella/

Holiday

 

 

Hanukah http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/chanukah/index.html

Kwanzaa http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/kwanzaa/index.html

Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

About the holiday:

http://www.holidays.net/mlk/holiday.htm

 

Who was Dr. King?

http://www.holidays.net/mlk/story.htm

http://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/mlk/srs218.html

http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/about_king/interactiveFrame.htm

http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/taverna/98/1.htm

 

Famous things he said:

http://www.holidays.net/mlk/speech.htm

Math

http://www.mathfactcafe.com

http://www.aplusmath.com

http://www.coolmath.com

http://www.funbrain.com/

http://www.allmath.com/

http://www.factmonster.com/

http://www.mathsyear2000.org/

http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/fractions/index.html

http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/Lessons/

http://www.mathmastery.com/

http://www.gdbdp.com/multiflyer/

http://www.toonuniversity.com/

http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/Graphing/pie.asp

http://multiplication.com

http://www.jasonsdeli.com/index2.html

click on “Texas In-Store Menu” for menu

 http://www.austinzoo.com/information/information.html

Find information about the Austin Zoo

www.funbrain.com

 

Language

http://www.eduplace.com/tales/

-students create their own stories by inserting parts of speech

http://funbrain.com

-interactive literacy games-Grammar Gorillas, Vocab. and Spelling games

http://childrenstory.com

-students can read a story- fairy tales, holiday stories, interactive stories

http://www.v ocabulary.com   

http://www.chompchomp.com

-interactive grammar review

http://www3.sympatico.ca/alanbrown/kids.htm

-research for authors

www.puzzlemaker.com

use to create puzzles with your vocabulary words

www.jimarnosky.com

Crinkleroot author

www.jigzone.com

http://www.writingfix.com/Traits.htm

6+1 writing site for ideas

http://www.readtofeed.com/

great website about how to help poor countries

http://www.roalddahl.com

Roald Dahl website

Science

http://www.si.edu/harcourt/science

http://www.edheads.org

http://www.fi.edu/fellows/payton/rocks/

rocks

http://www.howstuffworks.com/index.htm

www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus

 

 http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/

space website

 

 

Social Studies

http://www.senate.state.tx.us/kids/IntroALT.htm

Site that takes about our state senate, tours the capitol, etc. Heard it was a great site on the news. I have a scavenger hunt for this one in the scav. Hunt file.

www.50states.com

facts about the states

www.kidzone.ws/animals/turkey.htm

turkey facts

http://maps.yahoo.com

There is an activity that goes along with this titled  Sam’s Computer Lab in excel in the scavenger hunt file

http://www.elbalero.gob.mx/kids/about/html/home.html

web site about Mexico

www.americaslibrary.gov

 

http://www.geographic.org/

Solar System Websites

 

http://www.kidsastronomy.com  Great one!!!!!

 

http://www.solarspace.co.uk/Mercury/mercury.htm

 

http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level2/planets.html

 

http://www.nasm.si.edu/ceps/etp/  Good pictures

 

http://www.kidzone.ws/planets/index.htm

 

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/planetstorm/planetstorm.html

 

http://www.naples.net/weather/planet.htm Big words, but good info. on weather on Venus, Jupiter, and Mars

 

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/astronomy/

 

http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/ps1gle1a2.htm

 

 

Thanksgiving Web sites

Thank you in many languages

http://www.elite.net/~runner/jennifers/thankyou.htm

 

http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0769407.html

 

http://babelfish.altavista.com/

 

Native American Web sites

http://teacher.scholastic.com/thanksgiving/pictimeline/oct1621.htm

 

http://www.bostonkids.org/teachers/TC/html/w-now.htm

 

 

http://www.bostonkids.org/teachers/TC/html/w-foods.htm

 

 

http://www.plimoth.org/Library/Wampanoag/wamp.htm

 

http://members.aol.com/calebj/dir.html

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