General Resources

• American Rhetoric - Online speech bank - historical ("I Have a Dream", Native American speeches, current and from the past.
• Elementary Theme Pages
• Internet Coach Puzzle Library
• MarcoPolo.com
• Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators

• TeachersFirst.com
• Education-World
• DiscoverySchool.com
• Teach-nology.com
• Kids.gov - web portal for kids from the Federal Citizen Information Center
• KidSpace @the Internet Public Library

Searching Tools

• AltaVista
• Ask
• Dogpile
• Google.com

Search Tools For Kids

• Yahooligans
• Ask for Kids
• KidsClick

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• Edo No Iki Gallery
• The Louvre
• The Museum of Modern Art (NY)

Music

• San Francisco Symphony for Kids

Reading/ELA

• Magnetic Poetry.com
• Words and Pictures
• GameGoo
• LittleFingers

• The Moonlit Road
• Project Gutenberg
• Getting Kids Connected
• KidPub

• Geometric Orbits
• Sorting Bricks and Sticks
• Math Games from Subtangent.com
• The Broken Calculator - Fun and challenging for all ages!
• Get the Turtle to the Pond and Ladybug Logic
• algebra.help

Multiplication/Division Practice

• Table Trees
• Multiplication Machine
• Division Machine - 3 levels

• Math Teasers - from EduPlace - Weekly questions for gr.3-4, 5-6, 7-8.
• Ask Dr. Math
• Dissecting Triangles and Squares
• Drawing Fun Fractions
• Math Dork -Signed Numbers - the Basics
• The Math Contests at the UMass @ Dartmouth
• National Library of Virtual Manipulatives - Utah State University
• WhiteHouse Math Challenge
• ChangeMaker
• Plane Math
• Venn Diagrams

• eNature.com
• Newton'sApple
• OLogy from the American Museum of Natural History
• Cool Science for Curious Kids
• All about Turtles
• Microbe Zoo
• BugBios - "Shameless promotion of insect appreciation".
• Frank Potter's Science Gems
• CellsAlive!
• Periodic Table of the Elements

• Welcome to the Planets
• StarChild: A Learning Center for Young Astronomers
• The Nine Planets
• The Nine Planets - Just for Kids!
• Discovery Hanger
• Simple Machines
• Virtual Knee Surgery
• Virtual Hip Surgery
• Virtual Hip Resurfacing
• Weather
• Wild Games

• Youth Leadership Initiative - e-Congress, lesson plans (List available here)
• White House 101 - Facts and fun for all ages

From US Senate site maintained by the Rules Committee:

• Watch the entire ceremony streamed live - http://inaugural.senate.gov/index.cfm
• Facts and Firsts http://inaugural.senate.gov/history/factsandfirsts/ "So Help Me God" video available
• Inaugural History http://inaugural.senate.gov/history/
• Past Platforms Slideshow - http://inaugural.senate.gov/history/platform/slideshow-platformspast.cfm
• Luncheon - http://inaugural.senate.gov/luncheon/index.cfm China, menu, videos of past luncheons
• Video "So Help Me God" - RealPlayer file 34 minutes

• 2009 Presidential Inauguration Learning Activities from the NEA
• Barack Obama  Book - early readers - from Enchantedlearning.com subscription. Printable pdf
• Barack Obama Book - fluent readers from enchantedlearning.com subscription. Printable pdf
• Barack Obama Activity Book - fluent readers from enchantedlearning.com subscription. Printable pdf
• Lesson Plan from the Virginia Center of Politics on "Presidential Inaugurations" - pdf file
• PowerPoint to accompany "Presidential Inaugurations"
• The Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents from the Avalon Project of the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale University

• Theban Mapping Project
• Ancient Egypt - from the British Museum
• How to Make a Mummy - from National Geographic
• Mysteries of the Nile from NOVA Online
• Explore Ancient Egypt - from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• GeoNet - from EduPlace
• GeoGame
• Where Is That? - A geography game
• The Underground Railroad

• The Whitehouse for Kids
• The National Inventors Hall of Fame
• Countries of the World - the World Fact Book
• The Greeks - Crucible of Civilization
• mrdowling.com
• Martin Luther King - BrainPop
• Civil Rights BrainPop
• Brown vs. the Board Of Education Topeka Kansas - BrainPop

• French - Basics, Intermediate
• French Vocabulary/Spelling Practice - Classroom terms: JigWord, MatchWord, SpeedWord, WordWeb
• Spanish Vocabulary/Spelling Practice - Intermediate

Technology

• Web Design
  • Learning HTML- from the Internet Public Library
  • Learning HTML For Kids
• Keyboarding
  • Bees and Honey
  • NimbleFingers®
  • Dance Mat Typing
  • Mr. Kent's Typing Test II
• Internet Safety
  • Surf Swell Island - Help Mickey find jewels to decipher the magic code!

• "Name That Computer Term" game
• Microsoft Word Quizzes
• Microsoft Excel Quizzes
• Microsoft PowerPoint Quizzes
• Parts of a computer
• Basic Computer Systems
• Computer Basics
• Formatting icons Quiz
• Computer Parts
• Drawing Toolbar Quiz
• Creating a Graph

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