Web Links for All Students
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ACADEMIC & RESEARCH SITES
Research
CNNfyi.com
News
for students and teachers
Search
tools for students a
'one-stop ' page of search fields for general or specific search engines
along with numerous research tools. Bookmark this one!
Specialized
Search Engines & Directories This WebQuest page has links to numerous
search engines along with hints for which one to use for the type of
info desired.
NoodleTools:
Information Literacy- Search Strategies
Search
Engines
descriptions and ratings of different types of search engines along
with links to the sites
Encyclopedia.com Presented by Electric Library
Britannica.com Comprehensive encyclopedia-
search by key word or category
Ask.com Search Engine that works best
with simple language queries.
Encarta
Online
encyclopedia, dictionary and atlas
Kids
Connect Research Service
Berit's Best Sites for Children
Enchanted Learning
has a little bit of everything. Check it out!
Kids Click web
searches for kids designed by librarians
Citations (Bibliographies)
Tek Mom's website color codes the various elements required in a
citation
refdesk.com claims to be the single
best source for facts on the Net
Copyright sites: Copyright
with Cyberbee, UW
library help guide, Copyright
Bay from the University of St. Francis
Creative
Commons Search: search for material (text, audio, video, etc. that
you can use for non-commercial purposes, build upon, etc.
Internet Safety:
Disney
Online: Safety 'Net online, animated adventures with familiar Disney
characters teaching about privacy, and internet safety. K-6 appropriate.
Media
Awareness Network: Jo Cool or Jo Fool. Teaches about making good
choices in cyberspace. Appropriate for grades 6-10
CourtTV.com:Al
Roker Investigates: Katie.com
NetSmartz Teens: Comic-book-style
characters address social networking and cyberbullying through animation,
videos, and webcomics.
How Stuff Works Gives a
look at the inner workings of tons of everyday items
Atlas of Human
Anatomy
del.icio.us: social bookmarking. All your bookmarks in one place for
easy access.
http://www.rachelschallenge.com/
http://www.channelone.com/
http://www.tolerance.org/teens/index.jsp
http://www.payitforwardfoundation.org/links.html
http://www.payitforwardmovement.org/
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Academic
Enrichment & Help
Funbrain.com- Super site for on-line
games and quizzes.
Education
Place-
educational games such as Wacky Web Tales, GeoNet, Brain Teasers and
Fake out
Gamequarium Portal to hundreds of free
on-line games (K-6)
Figure
This!
Math Challenges for Families
Fun
School games, activities, printables, etc.
BrainPop watch fun animated
movies on many different topic
Discovery
School: Homework help and more! Study tools, games, clip art, adventures.
Visit this site when you have some time to look around!
Homework Helper:
refdesk.com Homework helper, reference, links, etc. for students in
grades 1-12
Keyboarding
Skill Practice
Learn to Type: This site offers
a great keyboarding practice with servers to track your progress, but
a user account with email but be created. Not ideal for young kids because
of this and the excess advertisement.
Touch Typing:
Site that allows you to exercise and practice typing.
Typing Pal Online
Free Online Typing Course
Typing Web
Improve your typing skills on your free time. All you need is an Internet
connection and a browser! (Windows only) Practice typing ANYWHERE! No
downloads. No installation. No payment!
Typing Master
Test and train your typing skills .
All Touch Typing
Tutors: Freeware, Shareware, Online courses and timed tests. Loads
of links.
Typing
Practice: games, tutorial etc. Lots of links
Keyboarding
Games
Type
Me
Choose from three different
levels of games to play
Disney
Typing Program- Cute and fun, -must have Shockwave installed to
play
Typing Bubbles
Game
a game designed to improve your typing skills
Kids
Domain
learning to type online. Links to various games and skill practices.
Reading
& Writing
Book
Adventure
created by Sylvan Learning Foundation, book adventure is a free reading
motivation program for children in grades K-8.
Children's
Literature Web Guide a
wealth of information and links, but geared towards older kids
Language
Resources
Sign
Language: An American Sign Language Browser with QuickTime Video
Additional
Sign Language Sites Fairfax County Schools
Spanish language, culture, resource
information, etc.
Braille Bug: American Foundation
for the Blind
Math
Math Dork
Algebra games
Student i-Math Investigations This Illuminiations
site is hosted by the National Council for Teaching Math Mathematics
Math Manipulatives
for kids of all grades. Great math manipulates to move and arrange on
screen. Fun! Teachers click on "Standards" for NCTM info.
School
Time Games (math, elementary)
Algebra.help
Metric
Conversions Metric conversions of all type of units. Includes a
fraction to decimal converter.
Graphing What's
the Point, a FunBrain web activity; Graph
Mole, funbased learning; Top
Quark, Jefferson Lab activity
Math
Playground Lots of colorful, quality math games for ages K-6
Social
Studies & Science
Plimoth
Plantation: An interactive way to learn about the first Thanksgiving.
Very neat!
Liberty's Kids PBS companion website for the animated TV series
America's
Library Library of Congress website shares interactive stories about
America's past
History Link: an excellent
resource for historical information about Washington state including
photos, documents, video, etc.
Seattle
Waterfront Panorama (1907- 2002) Watch the panorama of the waterfront
change before your eyes! Click here for more images.
GlobeXplorer: see satellite images of
you city, neighborhood and house!
Digital History: Loaded
with great info such as maps, images, speeches, music, multimedia, games,
documents, etc. In partnership with University of Houston, the Museum
of Fine Arts, Houston and more.
Ben's Guide to U.S. Government
for Kids
Weird Science Guy hosted by
Science Bob and his mobile science lab.
Ology: American Museum of Natural
History has links to genetics, Einstein, Ologists, Biodiversity, Astronomy
and Paleontology. Check it out!
Woodland Park Zoo If you haven't visited
this great site yet, take some time to explore it now!
Jurassic Park Institute
very cool site, even for non-dinosaur fans!
National
Geographic: This kids section is packed full of fun games
3D
Body Scanner: Cornell University
Leonardo
DaVinci Webquest. Learn about DaVinci's life and contributions at
this site. The "invention" link on the page doesn't work,
so use this
invention site instead. Additional information and fun activities
can be found at the Universal
Leonardo site.
Environmental
Science
Ecological Footprint
Quiz Earth Day is April 22nd. Check out earthdaynetwork's Ecological
Footprint Quiz
http://www.cogcon.com/gamegoo/gooey.html
http://www.ecokidsonline.com/pub/splash.cfm
Learning Planet
The Arts
Music Sounds
& Images David Ahmed's site. Check out links under "Flash
Fun"
Haring Kids: Keith Haring's
colorful, animated cartoon drawings. Interactive coloring books, picture
puzzles and tic-tac=toe. Lesson plans!
ArtsConnected Playground for Kids. Make
things, watch things, explore and more.
Bembo's Zoo:
cool animation of ABC's using a stylized alphebet. Try it out!
Money:
Enomonics, Savings Quests
NEFE
High School Financial Planning
My Savings Quest
Big
Money Adventure
Orange Planet
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JUST
FOR FUN!
Last
Brain Standing BBC web game for a group
Halloween Sites: online
pumpkin carving
pumpkin carving#2 optical
illusion
Timeline
Generators:
Armored
Penguin & Discovery
School: Two great sites- these links will take you to the section
for creating word searches. Armored Penguin has more options for cutomizing
the puzzle.
Devices
of Wonder
Make-A-Flake
Design and download a snowflake using Flash technology. Fun! Also check
out many other games and activities at Look
and Feel New Media Snowflake
templates: Downloadable PDF files. (Go to the bottom of the page.)
Web Sudoku puzzles for every
level. Keeps track of how long it takes you to solve, averages your
speed and compares you to other solvers.
Pandora.com: uses melody, harmony,
rhythm and other song attributes to find tunes that match your tastes
and sets you up with a streaming radio station.
Words
at Play Can't explain it. Just check it out!
Shamrock
Lane Poetry, Probability, Light and Fun
Brain Pop
Animated movies on health, science and tech- for kids!
Useless
Knowledge.com Facts,
quotes and word of the day. Also, this-day-in history, trivia etc.
Shockwave
must have Shockwave plug-in to use these resources and web-based
activities. Lots of fun choices from this site.
Kids Domain
Yahooligans
KidsCom: a fun site for kids with
games, webtoons, chats, ecards, etc.
Thunk.com: secret messages for kids
only!
Zeek
Games:
Academic area, games, etc.
Build
a Mr. Potato Head:
just for fun!
Learn
to Juggle 3 Balls
HP Home Fun: Creative
Projects with your computer & printer
MissOandFriends: web site
tweens (ages 8-12). Includes games, contest, and info about the characters.
Also submit your fiction on for publication. Common Sense Media approved.
Photoshop Tutorials & Projects
About.com Photoshop Elements Tutorials (Graphicssoft)
Photorealism:
Drawing what we see
DevClever.com: All
types of Photoshop tutorials organized into categories
Wanna
Learn.com: tons of links to sites with tutorials, so'll you'll have
to do some digging here.
On-line
Greetings
Blue
Mountain
123 Greeting
Castle Mountains
Hallmark
Back
to School Links
America
Goes Back to School designed to make learning fun!
Crafts
with school supplies for back-to-school time
Kids Domain-
activities, crafts, coloring sheets, lesson plan links, etc. (younger
kids)
Links
for Primary Students
Primary
Games Tons of fun activities for learning and play!
Scholastic
Read books, play games, practice skills and more.
BBC Learning Resources, movies and games for
home and school
Guinness World
Records
wacky &
bizarre!
Fake
Out! Guess the definition of these words at Education Place website
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MULTI-MEDIA
TOOLS:
On-line Resources
/ Web Design & Site Hosting / Free email
Multimedia Resources (clipart, sounds, movies, etc.)
Microsoft's
Design Gallery
Pics4Learning copyright-friendly
images for education
Classroom Clipart
Awesome Clipart
for Kids
Discovery School's
Clipart Gallery part of Discovery.com
Ditto.com
Getty Image: a leader
in digital, film and imagery. Royalty-free images available.
YotoPhoto
FreePhoto
American Memory
Historical
Collections for the National Digital Library
Google
Image Search
AltaVista Image
search
Animation Factory Multimedia
builder site
The Daily Wave sound files
Find Sounds easy
to use interface at this site
Wave Central
TV Land
AltaVista Mp3/Audio
Search
Song Lyrics: Lyric Depot, Lyric
Server, Song Crawler, Lyric
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Photo
Editing & Activities
Graffiti Creator
GIF
Works
edit, retouch, recolor, transparify photos on-line. Upload your own!
Or, try Media
Builder
Flaming Text create your own headings with custom
fonts, colors, animation, etc. Or, try Cool
Text
Blibs.com & Big Huge
Labs: online photo and video editor
Gifs.Net free animated clip art
WirePlanet edit,
retouch, recolor, add effort to photos by uploading your own!
dafont
What the Font?
Adobe
Digital Kids Club: digital photography resources and activities
for teachers, students, and parents. Lots of great ideas here.
HP digital
photo projects
HTML/Web
How Stuff Works
great, easy-to-use site with basic overview about how web pages work
along with links to info about tags, tables, images, etc.
Draac.com links to virtually everything
HTML related here. Called the 'complete guide to html'
Webmonkey: The web developer's resource
Dynamic Drive DHTML scripts
to use on your pages
Javascript Kit
& Javascript Source
Ribbon Generator:
Labpixies: create cool gadgets
for your page
Widgetbox: widget directory & gallery
Springwidgets: design your
own widgets
Visibone Color Lab:
provides hexidecimal numbers for web-safe colors
Palette Man: Clear Inks's Palette
Man hosts this easy-to-use site that gives hexidecimal values for web
colors
Response-o-matic: add
forms to your website with no programming!
Survey Monkey: powerful tool
for creating web surveys.
Add-A-Form: an easy way to add
forms, questionnaires, surveys, polls and feedback to your website
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