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

Great Math Websites

Gamequarium

This site links to many interactive math websites, online tools, and games. This is a great resource for teachers and parents. It covers just about every math concept you can think of. It is easy to navigate and visually pleasing.

http://www.gamequarium.com/math.htm

Fun School

This site provides interactive math games directed at mostly primary grades. The site is user friendly and offers fun for students.

http://funschool.kaboose.com/formula-fusion/carnival/index.html

Cool Math 4 Kids

This is a great interactive math site that offers math games for elementary students. It links to one of my favorite games, Lemonade Stand. The site is easy to navigate and a great resources for students, parents, and teachers.

http://www.coolmath4kids.com/

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

This site links to website that offer virtual manipulatives for an array of math concepts. Beware, some of these links are addictive but a great way to spend free time sharpening your math skills. This site is great for students, parents, and teachers.

http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/category_g_2_t_1.html

Online Safety Websites

I Keep Safe
This site provides 10 technical questions discussing what every parent must do to keep children safe online.
• How and why do I check Web browser history?
• How and why do I review temporary Internet files?
• How and why do I remove spyware?
• How and why do I scan and remove viruses?
• How and why do I use a firewall?
• How do I monitor and block incoming files and information from the Internet?
• How do I monitor and block outgoing files and information from the Internet?
• How do I adjust search engine settings?
• What safety and security tools are available on a typical home computer?
• What are “updates” and why should I install them?

http://www.ikeepsafe.org/

NetSmartz Workshop: Keeping Kids and Teens Safer on the Internet
This site is designed for parents, educators, law enforcement, teens, and kids in regards to keeping youth safe on the Web. The site provides activities that can be used to teach Web safety to students. There are links to materials and videos that will help in the classroom. This is a very easy to navigate and useful site.

http://www.netsmartz.org/

Microsoft Security: Protect your Family
Help equip your kids with the skills and information they need to be safer online. Find suggestions for how to establish rules for Internet use, how to talk about challenging issues, and how you can use built-in features in Microsoft software to protect your family.

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/family/default.mspx

WiredSafety
This site provides information to parents, educators, librarians, law enforcement, kids, tweens, and teens. There are articles, links, tips, videos, games to help users understand how to be safe on the Internet. This is a great site with a lot of information.

http://www.wiredsafety.org/

National Mental Health Information Center
This site provides information for parents and caregivers, educators, administrators, guidance counselors, children, teens, law enforcement, and community organizations. Educators can learn about bullying, the warning signs, and what they can do. This site provides tools that can be downloaded, useful resources and related information, and links.
http://mentalhealth.samhsa.gov/15plus/aboutbullying.asp

Committee for Children: Educating the heart and mind
This site provides tips for many types of users. It provides a list of related articles. There is also information about award winning programs that can be implemented curriculum.

http://www.cfchildren.org/cfc/articlef/cyberbulltips/

Behaviorist and Constructivist Sites

Behaviorist Sites:

Fun Facts About Recycling- This site talks about recycling and some facts about it. It is something that a teacher would want to walk through with students to discuss the different components.
http://www.resourcefulschools.org/html/facts.htnl

NASA Kids- This site provides great information about space exploration and our solar system. There are animated videos you can watch about space shuttles launches, astronauts, and other topics. There are also games you can play and lists of activities that you can do that are all related to learning about space. The games are not problem based, but more of about learning basic information.
http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov/

Constructivist Sites:

National Geographic Kids- This site provides an interactive activity about the Lewis and Clark expedition. Students go with Lewis and Clark on their journey, making important decisions as they go, such as navigating rivers and deciding what to bring with you on the journey. It asks questions and these decisions, and students click on the answer they choose. On thing I really like about this is that after students make their decisions, the site provides feedback about their choice. This teaches students to explore on their own, and provides them with information so they learn from their decisions.
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/west/

Amazon Interactive: Ecotourism Simulation Game- Students explore the geography of the Ecuadorian Amazon through online games and activities. They learn about the rainforest and the Quichua people who call it home. Students also discover the ways in which the Quichua live off the land. They get the opportunity to try their hand at running a community-based ecotourism project along the Río Napo.

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I posted five goals to this networking website. I found that there were not any other people who shared my goals. I found the goals listed on this site to be less career related as mine were.

Personal DNA Test

I found the personal DNA test to be very intriuging. I liked the way that it allowed its users to answer questions on a spectrum. However, I do think that it misrepresented my in regards to having empathy. I consider myself a very empathetic person. Many of the other statements seem true or have some value.