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Family Sites
A Math Dictionary for Kids!! It's a dictionary beyond dictionaries, great math site for all ages!
Crossword Puzzles for Kids: There are several types of crossword puzzles to choose from, Backbone, Full Crossword, Picture Builder, and Word Seek.
Scrabble Tiles: Make your own game of scrabble.
This Day in History: You can also find out What Happened on Your Birthday?!
Cool Math for Kids: An amusement park of math and more... especially designed for FUN, FUN, FUN!
Crayola Crayons: This site offers arts and crafts projects and ideas for everyday or rainy-day fun. They have coloring books and activity pages for any occasion.
Disney: Disney Online for Kids
Time for Kids: There are 15 TFK kid reporters that will give you the kid's eye view on everything happening in the country and around the world! Look for their reports.
Weekly Reader: Great resources and fun for kids, teens, teachers, and parents. After a century of keeping kids current in the classroom, Weekly Reader is celebrating its 100 th birthday!
Virginia SOL's: The practice tests contained within this site have been created by talented people who care.
Discovery Kids!: Biggest New Thing.
Kids Click!: KidsClick! was created by a group of librarians, as a logical step in addressing concerns about the role of public libraries in guiding their young users to valuable and age appropriate web sites.
Yahooligans: If you are doing a search on the Internet, I strongly suggest this web guide for kids.
Ask Jeeves for Kids: Have a question and want to know where to look...then ask Jeeves!
Anne Bell's Clarinet Website of Music - lists of virtually every combination of instruments from the most standard clarinet solos to the most avant garde and unique combinations.
Just for Kids - Learn from the University of Illinois Extension Urban Program Resource Network
Children's music, preschool activities and children's stories Animated storybooks, games, activities
Arty the Parttime Arstronaut - Be an astronaut, see what it would be like in space
Animated Atlas...growth of a nation
http://www.quia.com/pages/computertests.html#ethics - Computer ethics
The Jouney Inside - The History of a Computer by Intel

Black History Sites

http://www.ancestry.com/home/celebrate/blackhistory.htm
http://www.kn.sbc.com/wired/BHM/AfroAm.html
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/AfroAm.html
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1999/blackhistory/
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhm1.html
http://lii.org/bhmonth
http://www.theholidayzone.com/black.html
http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/blackhist/
http://www.familyeducation.com/topic/front/0,1156,1-4818,00.html?yah
http://www.post-gazette.com/blackhistorymonth/kids.asp
http://www.ourblackheritage.com/

5th Grade Resources
Fun Brain: This is a great site that is free and is for all levels. It has lots of spelling, grammar and math games that give immediate feedback on your responses.(grades K-8)
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Scavenger Hunt: Learn more about Martin Luther King Jr.
The Underground Railroad: This site is maintained by National Geographic. It takes the students on a journey through the underground railroad in a fun atmosphere with lots of good facts, pictures, and sounds.
Time Line of the Civil War: Civil War Photographs.
White House Kids: President Bush's Kids Connection
Supreme Court Justices: Portrait and overviews of the Supreme Court Justices
Supreme Court of the United States: Reference a wealth of materials about the highest court in the country on its official Web site.
Thurgood Marshall: Information on the man who argued the Brown vs. Board of Education case and went on to become a Supreme Court Justice.
Kids Voting USA: Test your voting skills. Share your wish for our country and read other Kids wishes.
U.S. National Debt Clock: See what the current national debt is daily.
The Nine Planets: A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System.
NasaKids: Click on space and beyond, solar system, age is relative.
Space Day: Click on mission fun, brain warp!
Exploring the planets: Brought to you by the National Air and Space Museum.
Amazing Space: Solar System Trading Cards. The Truth About Black Holes. Hubble Deep Field Academy and much more!!!
Echo the bat: Learn more about electromagnetic spectrums here. Sponsored by NASA.
The Ocean View WebQuest - Dive right into your journey of the ocean world, knowing that this learning effort could make the difference in the future of our oceans.
Virginia Earth Science Resources - Oceanography Links
Ocean Sciences Education Teacher Resource Center - Follow the red and green channel markers to the best marine education materials available on the Web.
Chesapeake Bay Program- The Chesapeake Bay Program is a unique regional partnership that has led and directed the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay since 1983.
Temperate Oceans Data for spreadsheet activities
Oceans Alive - The Water Planet - Physical Features of the Ocean link includes a graphic of ocean depths
Treasures @Sea - Fun Interactive Activities
Ocean Quest - An encyclopedia of oceanography created for education by our military
Carl Peak's fabulous reference room - Wonderful sites for all VBCPS elementary students created at Ocean Lakes Elementary School.
Math
CoolMath.Com - What are Tessellations? A special site for tessellations and more!!
Math Playground - action packed site for students in grades K-6. Practice your math skills, play a logic game and have some fun!!!!!

Language Arts

Tilings from Historical Sources - The history of tessellations - and the Tessellation Toolbox : This tool allows you to build tessellations and other designs..

Social Studies

Abraham Lincoln's Springfield Home -Lincoln Home National Historic Site – 5th grade – Virtual Tour of Lincolns Home. This site contains a wealth of information about the sixteenth president.

Science

Chemistry
Chemical Elements.com - An Interactive Periodic Table of the Elements -
periodic table, elements, molecules, uses of . . .
The Periodic Table of Haiku - iSciFiStory.com - poetry about elements
Rader's CHEM4KIDS.COM - information about matter – elements – molecules . . .All About Molecules -bill nye matter – chemistry site – info on molecules J

Minerals

Atlas of Rocks, Minerals, and Textures- This gives you microscopic views of different minerals
VolcanoWorld Kids' Door - A good site about volcanoes
Frank Potter's Science Gems - Earth Science II – It has A TON of science
websites!It has more than 12000 WWW resources.
Earth Science Lessons
Type and Structure of Rocks
Department of Labor - Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) Kids' Page
Mine Safety and Health Administration's page that was made with kids in mindDMME - Division of Mineral Resources
This site shows the state of Virginia and what minerals are found in the regions

Learn about the plates of the earth

http://ology.amnh.org/earth/plates/index.html
http://www.eoascientific.com/campus/earth/multimedia/plate_tectonics/view_interactive
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/tectonics/#
http://scign.jpl.nasa.gov/learn/plate6.htm

Cells

http://www.cellsalive.com/toc.htm
http://vilenski.org/science/safari/plants/plant.html
http://vilenski.org/science/safari/animals/index.html
http://www.cbc.umn.edu/~mwd/cell.html (Very high level/in-depth site!)

Ocean Study Links

The Ocean View WebQuest
Virginia Earth Science Resources - Oceanography Links
Ocean Sciences Education Teacher Resource Center
Chesapeake Bay Program
Temperate Oceans Data for spreadsheet activities
Oceans Alive - The Water Planet - Physical Features of the Ocean link includes a graphic of ocean depths
Treasures @Sea - Fun Interactive Activities
Ocean Quest - An encyclopedia of oceanography created for education by our military

Revolutionary War Sites

Revolutionary War
Reference Resources: American Revolution- A kid friendly reference site
Animated Atlas: Growth of a Nation- Animated Growth of a Nation
Official Website of Colonial Williamsburg - Learn about Colonial Williamsburg

Some Important People:

George Wythe
Biography
In-depth biography

Thomas Jefferson
Links to biography and other info
Biography

George Washington
More information

James Madison
Biography

George Mason
Links to different information

Mathmagica-JasonProject 3-5
Fraction Addition
http://www.jasonproject.org/digital_labs/mathemagica/addition_fractions/
8 Options>Practice>Self-Correct
Math Playground - action packed site for students in grades K-6. Practice your math skills, play a logic game and have some fun!!!!!
Multiplication
http://www.jasonproject.org/digital_labs/mathemagica/mult_with_cc/
NCTM

Tools
http://illuminations.nctm.org/tools/index.aspx
The Factor Game - The Factor Game is a fun interactive game that exercises your factoring ability. Test your skills against a human or the computer. Grd. 3-9
Shape Pan Balance - This double pan balance provides an interesting environment in which to consider the concept of "equivalence.” The weight of the objects can be specified and fixed, or you can change the weights dynamically. Grd K - 9.
Web Resources
http://illuminations.nctm.org/swr/list.asp?Ref=1&Std=0&Grd=3#

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/vlibrary.html
Percentages – Discover relationships between fractions, percents, and decimals
Rectangle Multiplication – Visualize the multiplication of two numbers as an area.
Rectangle Multiplication - Common – Draw a correspondence between the common method for multiplying numbers and an area representation.
Rectangle Multiplication - Lattice – Draw a correspondence between the lattice method for multiplying numbers and an area representation.
Rectangle Division – Visualize and practice dividing numbers by using an area representation.

Ambleweb
http://ambleweb.digitalbrain.com/ambleweb/ambleweb/ambleweb/numeracy.htm
Equivalent Fractions
http://www.cut-the-knot.org/Curriculum/Arithmetic/EquivalentFractions.shtml
Arcytec
http://arcytech.org/java/
VISUAL FRACTIONS
http://www.visualfractions.com/

4th Grade Resources
Fun Brain: This is a great site that is free and is for all levels. It has lots of spelling, grammar and math games that give immediate feedback on your responses.(grades K-8)
50 States: This is a great site with facts on all of the 50 states and capitals, including famous people from each state.
Nifty Fifty United States: The Nifty Fifty covers the state bird, flower, tree, capital, insect, fish, song and nickname. The site is arranged in six different regions so that the state facts can be studied in a way that makes sense.
Weather Dude: The TV meteorologist Nick Walker. A weather education site especially for kids.
Dan's Wild Wild Weather Page: Brought to you by NEWSCHANNEL 19's, Chief Meteorologist Dan Satterfield.
Nine Planets: A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System.
History of Jamestown: This site is maintained by Jamestown Rediscovery. It has many good links and facts about Jamestown.
Jamestown Trivia: ***** 5 star rating by the students. In this interactive site, students try to attain the Prof. of history status by clicking on the correct Jamestown statements.
Virtual Jamestown: In this site, students should definitely go to the Jamestown Experience link. On this page they can look at old contracts, letters, and laws written in Old English.
Simple Machines: This site gives great definitions and pictures for simple machines.
The Write Page: Explains the different genres and gives examples of different authors within each genre.
Brain Pop: Good site on electricity.
Theater of Electricity: By the Boston Museum of Science-Learn more about electricity and take the lightning safety quiz.
Atom's Family: Click on Frankenstein to learn more about static electricity.
Electric Vehicles: Navigate through this site to learn more about electric vehicles.
Carl Peak's fabulous reference room - Wonderful sites for all VBCPS elementary students created at Ocean Lakes Elementary School.
Social Studies
The Native American group in the Chesapeake region:
Work through the column at the left. Great stuff in there!!!
The Chesapeake Bay: Our History and Our Future:
Work through the student activities and take a look at the vocabulary
Which Way to the Rivers Run? This shows the directions that the river systems flow in VA
Excellent source for several questions about rivers in the watershed
A Scrapbook on Jamestown:
Web resources for creating a Multimedia Scrapbook on Jamestown
Jamestown WebQuest:
An Internet WebQuest on Jamestown
Center for Global Environmental Education – Rivers of Life:
Yangtze Resources River Profiles
Animated Atlas...growth of a nation
Math Playground - action packed site for students in grades K-6. Practice your math skills, play a logic game and have some fun!!!!!

Science
4th grade Plants
Quia Plant Parts – Activity and learning
Plant Parts Diagram - Label the parts of the plant
Invasive species - A comprehensive, online information system that facilitates access to and exchange of invasive species data and resources by researchers, scientists, and concerned citizens
Great Plant Escape - Excellent Site! This is the website with the different case studies. Unlock the mystery of plant life.

Structures of plants:
http://curriculum.calstatela.edu/courses/builders/lessons/less/les8/flower.html
http://curriculum.calstatela.edu/courses/builders/lessons/less/biomes/introbiomes.html

The Moon

Phases of the Moon: Good information about the moon’s phases. Test your knowledge by scrolling to the bottom of the page and taking the Phases of the Moon quiz.
The Lunar Cycle Challenge : Drag the moons to the places in their lunar cycle.
A Lunar Calendar: Keep track of the lunar phases with these printable calendars.
Virtual Reality Moon Phase Pictures:
View the phases of the moon for any date.
Space Academy: Information about the moon’s phases. Also see the phase for a specific day.
Moon Information: The Nine Planets an Introduction web site.
Moon Puzzle: Answer the questions to reveal a picture.
Moon Phases animation - from Harcourt Brace
Names for Full Moons -explanations from The Old Farmer's Almanac
Visit Arty Astro: Join the part time astronaut as he explores space.
NASA For Kids: Lots to explore!

Earth-Moon-Sun websites

Aristotle
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Aristotle.html
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Copernicus.html
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/retrograde/aristotle.html
Aristotle and Ptolemy
http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Things/copernican_system.html
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/retrograde/copernican.html
http://www.davison.k12.mi.us/academic/tuttle/copern.htm (list of sites)
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/tour_def/people/ancient_epoch/aristotle.html
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Aristotle.html
Ptolemy
http://nineplanets.org/psc/theman.html
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Ptolemy.html
http://www.hao.ucar.edu/public/education/sp/images/ptolemy.html
http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/retrograde/aristotle.html
Aristotle and Ptolemy
http://space.about.com/library/weekly/aa103102a.htm
http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Things/ptolemaic_system.html
Copernicus
http://www.blupete.com/Literature/Biographies/Science/Copernicus.htm
http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Things/copernican_system.html
http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96feb/copernicus.html
http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Copernicus.html
http://space.about.com/library/weekly/aa022603a.htm
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Galileo.html
http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/g/galileo.htm
http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/galileo/
http://www.rit.edu/~flwstv/galileo.html
Galileo
http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Galileo.html
http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Bio/index.html
http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/People/kepler.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/galileo/
http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96feb/galileo.html
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06342b.htm

4th Grade Weather

Weather Activities

Researching Weather – Find out about anything weather related -- instruments, phenomena, and more!
Weather Instruments – Research various weather instruments.
Franklins' Forecast- Make your Own! Make Your Own Weather Station – Directions for how to make various weather instruments.
AccuWeather.Com – See an animated map of the weather. Click on our State to get a closer view.

Electricity

http://www.code-electrical.com/historyofelectricity.html
Time line of electricity
http://www.science.howstuffworks.com/electricity1.htm
How Things Work...
http://www.sunblock99.org.uk/sb99/people/DMackay/electricity.html
Direct and alternating current...
http://www.brainpop.com/science/energy/electricity/
The basics...
http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/story/chapter02.html
Where does the word electricity come from?
http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/story/index.html
Energy Quest...