LINKS OF INTEREST

LANGUAGE ARTS
 
MATH
SCIENCE
 
SOCIAL STUDIES
PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND HEALTH
 
REFERENCE TOOLS
E-ZINES
 
SEARCH ENGINES
FUNS SITES


Language Arts

Book Adventure

Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 6,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read offline, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes.

Book Hive

This site contains hundreds of recommended book reviews in a variety of reading levels and interest areas.

Elements of Style: a Writer's Style Guide

This classic online reference book is a must-have for any student and conscientious writer.

Global Story Train

Story Train is an illustrated, collaborative story project for creative children.

Grammar Rock

Take a retroactive trip with those cute little animations and songs from the 70's. Learn about grammar, multiplication, science and America. Read the synopsis, trivia and facts.

Kids Authors

The home of writing for kids, by kids. Young Authors can publish stories/poems and receive feedback directly from the reader.

Kids on the 'Net

Online writing center web site by children at home and at school all over the world.

Little Explorer's Picture Dictionary

A multi-lingual picture dictionary with links to educational activities and games.

Newberry Books

Online Rhyming Dictionary

A language arts reference tool and comprehensive search engine for words. Includes the functions of a rhyming dictionary, thesaurus, and spelling checker, as well as an integrated full-text search engine for all of Shakespeare's works and thousands of quotations and poems.

Poetry for Kids - by Kids

It's funny, whimsical, clever and zany, and it's the biggest collection of hilarious poetry for kids anywhere on the net.

Reading Rainbow

This classic online reference book is a must-have for any student and conscientious writer.

Wacky Web Tales

This site is geared for grades 3 and above.

Young Hoosier Book List

Math

A+ Math

This web site was developed to help students improve their math skills interactively.

BBC Number Time

A website for children, parents and teachers interested in Key Stage 1 Maths, providing games, songs and animations and ideas for numeracy hour.

Brain Teasers

Weekly math challenges divided into three age categories: grades 3-4, 5-6, and 7-8.

Cool Math

This site include very cool math stuff such as Algebra, Calculus, Geometry, math puzzles and problems, tessellations, functions, limits, and math links.

Figure This! Math Challenges for Families

Ongoing series of colorful award-winning math challenges (with hints and solutions) for middle-school kids, with helpful parent guides. Can be downloaded and printed.

Math Baseball

Improve your math skills. Fun game teaches addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and elementary algebra. For kids and children of all ages and grades.

Math Cats

A magic chalkboard leads you to interactive math activities: 3D geometry, tessellations, symmetry, polygons, conversions, number stories, multiplication, estimation, probability, using money, real-life problems, a math art gallery of geometric designs, MicroWorlds projects, and more.

Math in Daily Life

How much will you have saved when you retire? Is it better to lease or buy a car? Learn the answers to these and other mathematical questions that affect our daily decisions.

Math Forum: Student Center

This site provides resources for students to talk to others about math and find resources to explore math using the Internet. It also has links for fun math learning.

Math Mastery

This site includes daily word problem challenges, family fun math activities, and online flashcards.

Math Story Problems

With over 8,000 math problems, the goal is to help elementary and middle school children improve their math problem solving and critical-thinking skills.

World Paper Money Gallery

This is a gallery of many thousands of images of banknotes world-wide.

Science

American Museum of Natural History

This is one of the world's preeminent institutions for scientific research and education, with collections of more than 32 million specimens and artifacts.

Atlas of the Human Body

View various areas of the body.

Brain Pop

Animated movies, comic strips, activity pages and 24 hour homework assistance via email for Kids.

DIVE AND DISCOVER: Expeditions to the Seafloor

Join scientists as they dive to the mid-ocean ridge thousands of meters deep. Explore towering underwater volcanoes, black smokers, and bizarre creatures that live there.

Great Idea Finder

This is a place to explore the exciting world of innovation. Whether you're a student, teacher, writer, inventor, history buff, or just looking for innovative consumer products, you'll find things you can use here.

Keep Kids Healthy

             A pediatrician's guide to your children's health and safety.

BMI Calculator
            Keep kids healthy by using this BMI calculator.

Kids Health

Kids, you can find great articles, fun features and interactive activities about health!

NASA for Kids

This site includes a variety of exciting games and activities to help kids learn about aeronautics, earth, and space.

National Geographic for Kids

Features games, stories, jokes, postcards, screen wallpaper, and ideas for science projects, crafts, and more.

Science Fair Project Resource Guide

This site will guide you to a variety of web site resources, leading you through the necessary steps to successfully complete a science experiment or science fair project.

Sport Science

This site examines the science behind the most popular team and recreational sports.

United States Department of Agriculture for Kids

Designed for kids, this site offers a wealth of scientific information

Social Studies

Active History

Learning history doesn't have to be all about reading textbooks and watching drab documentaries.  Here at Active History, interactive games add a completely new dimension to your history studies!

Ben's Guide to US Government for Kids

Designed especially for kids, this provides a basic introduction to the Federal Government.


            The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a nationally recognized source of career
            information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about
            their future work lives.  Revised every two years, the Handbook describes what workers
            do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and
            expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations.

Constitutional Law

This site features US Supreme Court briefs, opinions, orders, calendars and more.

Cyber Schoolbus

Published by the United Nations, this site promotes education about international issues and the United Nations.

Digital History

Digital History enhances history teaching and research through primary sources, an online textbook, extensive reference resources, and interactive materials.

FBI Kids and Youth Educational Page

Created for Kindergarten through 5th grade students, this site offers an inside look at some of the FBI activities.

GeoNet Game

This is a fun way to study geography!

Interactive History

 Test your knowledge of history with an interactive challenge.

Odyssey Online

Use this site to explore the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and 19th - 20th century sub-Saharan Africa.

School History

Interactive History Games

States and Capitols

This site includes state information resource links to state homepage, symbols, flags, maps, constitutions, representatives, songs, birds, flowers, and trees.

US Department of Treasury for Kids

This site introduces to students how money is minted and engraved.

White House for Kids

This kid-friendly site offers a wealth of current information about the White House and past presidents.

World History Hyper History

This site navigates through 3 000 years of World History with links to important persons of world historical importance; civilization timelines; events and facts; and historical maps.
 

Physical Education and Health

Keep Kids Healthy

             A pediatrician's guide to your children's health and safety.

BMI Calculator
            Keep kids healthy by using this BMI calculator.

Kids Health

Kids, you can find great articles, fun features and interactive activities about health!

Sport Science

This site examines the science behind the most popular team and recreational sports.

Reference Tools

Ask-An-Expert

Suitable for all grades the Ask an Expert Page provides links to experts in a number of different categories.

Big Chalk

Bigchalk offers K-12 learning and classroom resources plus subscription research products for teachers, students, library media specialists and parents.

EasyBib

This website is dedicated to helping writers create bibliographies that adhere to the 5th Edition of MLA Handbook for Writers and Researchers, and the 5th edition of the APA Publication Manual.

Exchange Rate

Hancock County Public Library

Homework Zone

This site offers great resources for homework help.

Info USA

INSPIRE (for Indiana Students Only)

Indiana's virtual library - Offering cover-to-cover full-text for over 2000 general interest, business, academic, health and children's publications.

Library Spot

Find the best library and reference resources, including top dictionaries, encyclopedias, newspapers, maps, quotations and much more.

Webster Dictionary Online

This site provides a free, on-line dictionary (with audio pronunciations), thesaurus, Word of the Day, word games, and other English language resources.

World Almanac for Kids

This site includes facts, games and helpful stuff for kids ages 8 and up.

World Book Encyclopedia Online

The Student Resource Center contains World Book resources to help students with their school work. It also offers educational games and activities that help make learning fun.

World Fact Book
            This site includes facts about the world.

E-Zines

ABC News for Kids

A news web site for KIDS with weekly interactive stories about everything from NAPSTER to VOLCANOES to OUTER SPACE!

CyberKids

On this site you can find fun games, articles written by other kids and a great learning center for all ages.

MidLink Magazine

This is an award-winning magazine for kids 8-18 that highlights exemplary work from the most creative classrooms around the globe.

National Geographic for Kids

Be a National Geographic kid! Find tons of games, e-mail postcards, photographs, pictures, animal facts, cool links, NG Kids Magazine stories, and more!

Sports Illustrated for Kids

You can send e-cards, read great sports informational articles, and participate in polls and more on this site!

Time for Kids

Designed for kids, this site offers games, research tools, news, poll zones and more!

Washington Post for Kids

This site offers discussion groups for kids, polling activities, and a hotlist of their pick of sites for kids.

Weekly Reader

This organization publishes 16 periodicals for grades PreK through sixth grade. This website is divided into these different age levels and offers great interactive information

Social Studies

Active History

Learning history doesn't have to be all about reading textbooks and watching drab documentaries.  Here at Active History, interactive games add a completely new dimension to your history studies!

Ben's Guide to US Government for Kids

Designed especially for kids, this provides a basic introduction to the Federal Government.


            The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a nationally recognized source of career
            information, designed to provide valuable assistance to individuals making decisions about
            their future work lives.  Revised every two years, the Handbook describes what workers
            do on the job, working conditions, the training and education needed, earnings, and
            expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations.

Constitutional Law

This site features US Supreme Court briefs, opinions, orders, calendars and more.

Cyber Schoolbus

Published by the United Nations, this site promotes education about international issues and the United Nations.

Digital History

Digital History enhances history teaching and research through primary sources, an online textbook, extensive reference resources, and interactive materials.

FBI Kids and Youth Educational Page

Created for Kindergarten through 5th grade students, this site offers an inside look at some of the FBI activities.

GeoNet Game

This is a fun way to study geography!

Interactive History

 Test your knowledge of history with an interactive challenge.

Odyssey Online

Use this site to explore the ancient Near East, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and 19th - 20th century sub-Saharan Africa.

School History

Interactive History Games

States and Capitols

This site includes state information resource links to state homepage, symbols, flags, maps, constitutions, representatives, songs, birds, flowers, and trees.

US Department of Treasury for Kids

This site introduces to students how money is minted and engraved.

White House for Kids

This kid-friendly site offers a wealth of current information about the White House and past presidents.

World History Hyper History

This site navigates through 3 000 years of World History with links to important persons of world historical importance; civilization timelines; events and facts; and historical maps.
 

Fun Sites

BrainPop

Animated movies, comic strips, activity pages and 24-hour homework assistance via email for Kids.

Children's Museum of Indianapolis

Games are divided into three age categories: K-2, 3-5, and 6-8.

Crayola

Crayola Creativity Central offers Kids Arts and Crafts Projects and Ideas for Rainy Day Fun.

Drive of Your Life
          
 Career Exploration

Fun Brain

FunBrain is the Internet's premier location for interactive, educational games (math, grammar, science) for children and kids of all ages.

Fact Monster

Fact Monster is the largest free reference site just for kids! Get homework help and find facts on thousands of subjects, including sports, entertainment, geography, history, biography, education and health.

Funology

Funology.com is the premiere online destination for kids. They offer tons of fun, creative activities, games, jokes, trivia, and you might even learn something! It's all here and it's all free!

I Know That

This site offers free registration and interactive information that will help strengthen reading, writing, and math skills.

Kid's News Room

This site is loaded with stories, pictures, games, contests and opportunities for learning. Each week, a new issue is added to the site with the latest news in sports, music and entertainment, and more!

Kid's Place

Kids' games and activities for math, reading, language arts, social studies, and more!

Kids' Space Connection

Kids' Space Connection is an international meeting place for children and schoolteachers. Find penpals from around the world! Check out interesting projects you can contribute to, and cool clubs you can join.

Owl Kids

Created by the people who make OWL, Chickadee, and Chirp Magazines, this site offers three age levels for fun interaction: kids 3-6 years old, 6-9 years old, and 9-13 years old.

School Express

The School Express website has a variety of educational materials. Teachers, parents, children, and grandparents use our site.

Sounds of the World's Animals

Explore the sounds of the world's languages through the sounds of the world's animals.

Search Engines

Ask Jeeves for Kids

Kids can search the web in plain English! The fastest and easiest place for kids to find answers online!

Fact Monster

Get homework help and find facts on thousands of subjects, including sports, entertainment, geography, history, biography, education and health.

 

Google   

         Search engine.
 

Kids Click

Find help arranged by topic for easy reference.

Yahooligans

Another great reference tool that is arranged by topics for easy reference. 



   
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