Primary Source Sites

Archives
This is a great digital classroom, the National Archives' gateway for resources about primary sources, activities and training for educators and students.

http://www.archives.gov/education/

Primary Source Materials & Documents
This site provides copies of many primary source documents.

http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listdocumentpa.html

Repositories of Primary Sources
A listing of over 5000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar. All links have been tested for correctness and appropriateness.

http://www.uidaho.edu/special-collections/Other.Repositories.html

From Revolution to Reconstruction
This site provides many primary resource documents regarding American history from 1400 to present day.

http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/D/index.htm

Health and Physical Education Sites

Healthy Choices for Kids Online
The Healthy Choices for Kids nutrition education program was created by the growers of Washington state apples and is funded in part by the Washington Apple Education Foundation, Tree Top, Inc., and other industry sponsors. All materials are copyrighted, however any educator may freely copy and distribute all content for use in a classroom setting. This program consists of four separate volumes, each comprising a complete, ready to use curriculum guide. This site features great activities for kids.

http://www.healthychoices.org/

Nutrition Exploration
This is a great site for kids to learn about nutrition. Students can play fun and interactive games and activities. Students can view great recipes. There are fun links for students as well.

http://www.nutritionexplorations.org/kids/main.asp

Kids Health
This is a great interactive site made for kids to help them learn about physical health.

http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/

FDA for Kids
This sire is about food safety. It is directed at children to help them make great choices about what they eat. It also teaches them about healthy food storage and preparation conditions.

http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/kids/default.htm

Music Sites

The Man with the Musical Suit
This is an interesting site that allows the user to make music and dance through a techno suit. There are instructions for this process. A great fun and interactive site.

http://www.pjotro.com/

PBS Kids-Music
This is a great interactive site. Students can interact with many different characters. There are songs and sounds students can interact with. It is a very user-friendly site.

http://pbskids.org/music/

ArtsAlive
The National Arts Centre (NAC) presents ArtsAlive.ca Music, a great place to discover the excitement of the performing arts! Learn all about orchestral music, the NAC Orchestra, its musicians and friends, great composers, conductors and much more! This is a great site for teachers and students.

http://www.artsalive.ca/en/mus/index.asp

Rock and Roll
This is a great site for educators. It provides many different musical lesson plans. The resources are intended to stimulate student interest and creativity, to develop higher order thinking skills and to promote interdisciplinary learning.

http://www.rockhall.com/programs/plans.asp

Art Sites

Imagination Cubed
This is a site that is similar to a draw program. The mouse acts as a pen. Users can also stamps images, place shapes, type words, and import lines. This is a great site to draw a picture. The user can send the picture, save the picture, or e-mail the picture.

http://www.imaginationcubed.com/LaunchPage

Make-a-Flake
This is a great site for winter fun. This site allows the user to cut a flake online. Users direct the scissors to the part of the folded paper they would like to cut. The user can undo the previous cut and view the snowflake at any time. The snowflake can be saved in a gallery on the site or you can also e-mail it to someone.

http://snowflakes.lookandfeel.com/

Artcyclopedia
This site allows the user to look up art by artist’s name or the title of the work. The user can also look up work at various museums.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/

Drawing Lessons
This site instructs the user in drawing various types of arts. The site is broken into three different levels. A great site to teach about drawing.

http://www.drawspace.com/

Great Reading and Language Arts Sites

Clean Up Your Grammar

This site is great to give students practice sorting nouns and verbs. It is an interactive sorting game that gives students immediate feedback. Here is the scenario: The beach is getting dirty with bad grammar, and we need your help to clean up the beach. Pick your level (Level 1 or 2), and put the trash in the correct garbage can. You can also play this game in Spanish.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/adventure/grammar1.htm#


Techniques for Teaching Reading Effectively

This site provides information about print awareness, the sounds of speech, phonemic awareness, phonics, informal assessment, fluency, vocabulary, spelling, writing and text comprehension. This a great resource for teachers and parents.

http://www.readingrockets.org/teaching/reading101

Contraction Practice

This site gives students practice with contractions. The Contraction Cards can be used in different ways: As a concentration or matching game, as flashcards, or they can be used together to create a card game which children can play as partners and try to make contraction pairs for points.

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

Seussville

This site is dedicated to Dr. Seuss. It provides a biography about the author, a list of works, click and play games, events coming up in the future, and a link to a bookstore.

http://www.seussville.com/

Great Social Studies Websites

Declaration of Independence
This site is dedicated to the Declaration of Independence. Students can learn what acts led up to construction of the Declaration. The site provides information on the signers, how it was safeguarded, the publishing of the document, and the actual words of the Declaration of Independence. This site provides great images of actual documents.

http://research.history.org/pf/index.cfm

Colonial House

This site is an interactive recreation of life during the colonial times. Students can view journal entries, houses, tools, and clothing. This is an actual show on PBS. Students can watch videos, hear audio statements and interviews, and view photos.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/colonialhouse/index.html

Virtual Jamestown

This site is an interactive site that allows students to interact with the materials posted regarding Jamestown. Students can view maps, real documents, public records, labor contracts, court records, and photos. This would be a great website to develop a unit of colonialism around. The site even offers examples of how other students and teachers are using these resources to learn. The Virtual Jamestown Archive is a digital research, teaching and learning project that explores the legacies of the Jamestown settlement and "the Virginia experiment." As a work in progress, Virtual Jamestown aims to shape the national dialogue on the occasion of the four hundred-year anniversary observance in 2007 of the founding of the Jamestown colony.

http://www.virtualjamestown.org/

Social Studies for Kids

This site provides great information on a variety of subjects including cultures, holidays, languages, religions, economics, geography, government, presidents, maps, states, US history, wars, etc. The site also provides great visual aids and images. It also lists information about this week in history, current events, and near holidays.

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/

Great Science Websites

Human Anatomy
This site allows the user to explore these human systems: skeletal, digestive, muscular, lymphatic, endocrine, nervous, cardiovascular, male reproductive, female reproductive, and urinary. Each system is visually displayed and students can click on parts to view a description.

http://www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html

Endangered Species
This site provides information about endangered species. Students can explore the causes of endangerment, photos, profiles, interesting facts, laws that protect species, case studies, and ways to help. Students can look up the species that are endangered in their state.

http://www.endangeredspecie.com/

Climate Change
This site explores the issue of climate change. Students learn about climate and weather, the greenhouse effect, the climate system, and how climate has changed.

http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/index.html

Water- Learning and Living
This system explores ecosystems and the essential ingredient of water. There are a variety of ecosystems to discover. Great picture provide a visual understanding of interdependence.

http://www.watercare.net/wll_cc/cw_ed_map2.htm