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Pre - K
[|**Arthur**]**- Read along and play games with the world's most famous aardvark.** [|**Brain Train**]**-Have fun while learning to count and spell words.** [|**BBc Education**] **- A fun site for 5 - 7 year olds where they can find poems, puzzles, games and activities to help with phonics, spelling and numbers.** [|**Card Maker Tool**]**- Create your own Halloween Card.** [|**Fun School**] **- Lots of educational games and activities for kindergarten through sixth grade.** [|**Kindergarten Math**] **- Learn your numbers through interactive practice, exploration and games.** [|**Let's Make Weather**] **- For younger students to learn about the weather.** [|**Moo Milk**] **- A dynamic adventure into the dairy industry. Play connect the dots and view a virtual tour of the story of milk ,** [|**Nutrition and the Food Pyramid**]**- Lots of fun things to do plus riddles.** [|**The Five A Day**]**- learn about your favorite fruits and vegetables.** [|**Scholastic**] **- Enjoy interacting online with the characters from your favorite books.** [|**StoryVille**] **- Interactive stories about halloween, a winter day, time capsule, a broken toy and more.** [|**Suessville University**] **- Visit Suessville University where you can play games and have fun interacting with characters from Dr. Suess books.** [|**The Green Forest**] **- Easy to maneuver and educationally stimulating games for all ages 2+**
 * [|PBS Kids] - Arthur, Barney, Berenstein Bears, Clifford, etc are all here with games, stories, music and coloring features. It also offers lessons plans for teachers.**



1- 2
[|**Arthur Goes to School**] **- Provides fun clicks for Kindergartners to practice using the mouse as Arthur gets ready for school.** [|**Primary Games**] **- A fun place to learn language arts, math, social studies, science. Games and activities to reach all your curriculum needs.** [|**Holiday Fun -**]**Holiday games from primary games.** [|**Jim's Crankophone**] **- What sound can you hear in the middle of the words that Jim is making?** [Activities|**Nutrition**] **- Interactive games, puzzles and songs to help you eat right.** [|**The Whirlyword Machine**] **- This activity encourages phonic and spelling investigations** [|**Words and Pictures**]**- Poems, games and activities to make learning phonics fun.** [|**Yukon Butterflies**] **- Watch an on-line metamorphosis and learn about the life -cycle of the Painted lady Butterfly.**
 * [|Change Maker] - Helps second graders practice making change.**
 * [|Words and Pictures]- Poems, games and activities to make learning phonics fun.**

3 - 4
[|**Nutrition Cafe**] **- Where eating out is fun.** [|**Mr. Bones**]**- Human skeleton assembly kit.** [|**Seuss Lorax's**] **- Save trees and have fun in the process with this game.** [|**The Underground Railroad**] **- Harriet Taubman will assist you as you in this simulation as you make choices that may lead you to freedom.** [|**The American Girls Collection**] **- Learn about American history through games, events, activities and simulations.**

5 - 6
[|**Build your Own Solar System**] [|**Book Adventure**] - **FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read offline, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes.** [|**Guide to Grammar and Writing Interactive Quizzes**] **-This guide is maintained by Professor of English Charles Darling. It is one of the most comprehensive sites I have seen on writing and grammar. It identifies and describes very part of speech with quizzes on each.** [|**Planetary Puzzles and Games**] **- All kinds of puzzles to solve as you test your knowledge of the solar system.** [|**Window to the Universe**] **- the purpose of this site is to develop a fun and different web site about the planets. Use the fun and games section of the site to learn about the planets in an entertaining way.**
 * [|Time or Kids Election Connection] - Lets you "Be the Nominee," play "The Great Debate" or take part in the "Electoral Craze" -- just a few of the great games you can download or play online to help you learn all about the electoral process.**



**All Disciplines**
[|**EPals**]**- Makes it easy to learn and work together with anyone, anywhere using the Internet! A completely free service, ePALS provides members with the collaborative tools, ideas and community needed to communicate worldwide.** [|**OnLine Learning Center**] **- Interactive activities on diet and health from many different providers** [|**Track Star**]**- Track Star is an online interface that helps instructors to organize and annotate web sites (URL) into lessons.** [|**Quiz Star**] - **a free** **web-based test generator which allows multiple choice, true/false, essay quizzes to be taken online.** **Open only to your students.**
 * [|Nice net]- Nice net is a free site set up to facilitate online discussion and conferencing. It brings powerful web based conferencing, personal messaging, document sharing, scheduling and link/resource sharing to distance education and collaborative academic projects.**

**Art**
[|**The Museum of Modern Art**] **- M****any interactive activities to explore.**


 * [|Make Your Own Art]**
 * [|Art Safari]**
 * [|Peter Hailey's Exploding Cell]**


 * The National Gallery of Art**


 * [|On Line Tours]**
 * [|Kids Adventures With Art]**


 * [|Art Edge] from the Kennedy Center of the Arts**

**Language Arts**
[|**Book Adventure**] - **FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read offline, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes.** [|**Grammar Blast**] **- On EduPlace Houghton Mifflin presents support materials for it's books.**
 * [|Guide to Grammar and Writing]- Interactive Quizzes. This guide is maintained by Professor of English Charles Darling. It is one of the most comprehensive sites I have seen on writing and grammar. It identifies and describes every part of speech with quizzes on each.**
 * [|EduPlace] - Houghton Mifflin's comprehensive site on language arts.**
 * [|Interactive Grammar] - Use Perdue University's interactive grammar exercises to hone your grammar usage.**
 * [|Exercise Central] - the largest collection of editing exercises available online that provide practice for mastering the skills of editing grammar, style, punctuation, and mechanics.**
 * Essay Edge - Essay editing service not all free but enough tips on writing and expert help that it is worth a visit.//**


 * Math Virtual Manipulatives**

[|**Arcytech**]- **Click into the available tools -Integer Bars, Base 10 Blocks, Fraction Bars and link to a description of the tool, instructions on how to use it and a list of prepared lessons.**Suitability: Elementary, Middle School //[|**AAA Math**]// **- Learn mathematics through interactive practice, exploration and games.** //**[|Calculators on Line]**// **- Find a calculator for every conceivable purpose.** //**[|On-Line Conversion] http://www.onlineconversion.com/**//** [|Change Maker] - Helps second graders practice making change.// [|**Cynthia Lanius ­ No Matter What Shape Your Fractions Are In** -] Lessons and activities for teaching and learning fractions using pattern blocks. **//Suitability: Upper Elementary// [|**Fun Brain Math**]** - Dozen of interactive math games for various grade levels. [|Math-a-Rama]- Use Houghton Mifflin interactive math site with grades K - 5. A fun site to learn math with brain teasers, eManipulatives, eGames, test taking tips, and extra help.** [|Math Slice]**//- This site offers a wide selection of online activities that test math concepts from counting to algebra and statistics. Practive test allow students to check their scores and see the areas they need to focus on.// [|**The Cool Math Site**]**- Contains both an elementary and secondary section featuring games and engaging activities that help develop a greater understanding of sophisticated concepts. [|Teaching Time] - This site has many interactive time games for grades 1 through 5. It also offers the Whole Class Clock allowing teachers to set any time and transfer between analogue and digital displays. The teacher also has complete control of the movement of the hands and can therefore pose questions such as 'What will the time be in....?' [|Teaching Treasures] - On-Line interactive mathematics. Practice addition subtraction, multiplication tables, telling time and time test.
 * [|A+ Math] - This web site was developed to help students improve their math skilss interactively with games and flash cards. The homework helper allows you to input a problem and your answer. It will then figure out if your solution is correct.**
 * [|**Multiplication Table Applet**] -** Interactive multiplication grid, displays the correct answer. Representational view only,
 * [|**//NCTM Electronic Examples of Virtual//** //Manipulatives **Pre-K through 12**//] -** Examples of the uses of technology in the teaching of math. Includes virtual manipulatives, simulations and static manipulatives. Offers sample tasks and activities. **//Suitability: Examples range from Pre-k to grade 12.//
 * [|**Virtual Fractions**] -** Award winning site that has static images and representations using lines and circular representations of fractions. **//No only Static// manipulatives but an excellent site to reinforce and display all work with fractions.**

Modern Languages
[|BBC Languages] - The is site will help you learn almost any foreign language, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Chinese, Portaguese, etc. Contains tutorials for beginners and audio files for intermediate students as well as areas to guage your level and aid your improvment listening and learning. [[[|http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/#|University] of Texas French Interactif]] - This is a full-feature interactive encounter with French speakers in real life scenerios. Includes grammatical concepts, vocabulary, listening comprehension and exposure to French Culture. [|The French Tutorial] - This site designed by a native speaker is a complete online tutorila covering pronunciation, conjugation, comparative, adjectives,possessives, senetence steucture, etc. [|Learn French, Off-Line Learning Materials] - About.com has gater sites to help you learn French. [|Europe 1] - Listen to radio news summaries or read the articles on a varity of subjects. Also gives an RSS feed to subscribe to the PODCAST. [|NRJ] - The most popular radio station in Frenc with the 16 to 26 year olds. Also gives an RSS feed to subscribe to the PODCAST. [|Spanish Grammar Exercises: Pronunciation] - Fantastics site for learning the basics of Spanish pronunciation. [|Learn Spanish a free On-Line Tutorial] - Fantastic tutorial for beginning and intermediate Spanish learners which covers pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, verbs and some culture. Ample practice is provided, together with quizzes and tests. [|La Viaje al Ecuador] - Journey into a fascinating adventure to Ecuador in this fun reading exercise where you have to select the preterite or the imperfect tense for the given sentences. What a great way to learn! [|Las Descripciones] - Learn how to describe things and people by using the verbs ser, estar and tener. At this site you will be asked to describe the photos that you see using these verbs. A fill in the blank exercise is also included at this site. View the correct answers at the bottom. [|Espoñal ¡Hoy!] - Improve your ability to speak by listening to properly pronounced Spanish words for body parts, weather, temperature, family members, etc.. Practice with the flashcards as they flash before you and practice a few sentences using the vocabulary that you've learned. Excellent site! [|Test Your Spanish] - An online multiple choice quiz of 12 questions that test's your knowledge in Spanish. The questions are in English and the multiple choice answers are in Spanish. If you get one wrong the program corrects you and offers suggestions on how to improve.

Music
[|New York Phil for Kids] - Includes the game room, the composition workshop where you can compose your own piece of music; composer's gallery where you can access information on each composer and listen to his work; the instrument lab where you can make your own instrument; the instrument storage room where you can listen to any instrument and access its history and musicians lounge where you can become familiar with the musicians of the NY Philharmonic. [|Music Theory]- Practice music theory, learn the notes through practice will also keep score of results for teacher. Offers personalize staff paper for print. [|Kranky Kids] - Learn music theory through games and more.
 * [|**Dallas Symphony for Kids**]** - A very robust site where you can hear any instrument of the orchestra played, listen to major and minor scales, and access information on all composers with attached audio files.

Science
[|Build your Own Solar System]- This page will teach you the real meaning of the word "space". [|The Hubble] - Find spectacular pictures, science behind the scenery, tour the universe through multimedia experiences and fun and games for all ages. [|Fun And Games with Hubble] - Do you know were stars are born? Want a hubble of your own? Do you want to explore the galaxies, black holes, and other celestial objects? This is the place. [|NASA Tour the Cosmos] - The Hubble Space craft helps you tour the cosmos. [|NASA Spacelink to Interactive Projects] http://spacelink.nasa.gov/Instructional Materials/Multimedia/Interactive Projects/.index.html[|Earth Observatory - Access to data and images] http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ [|Visible Earth Data Base] http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/ [|Virtual Courseware for Earth and Environmental Science] [|http://www.sciencecourseware.com]
 * [|**NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Home**]** - Find out about and see multimedia presentations on Earth, the Solar System, Stars and Galaxies, etc.
 * [|**Solar Max.**]** - The eleven year solar cycle reached its maximum in 2000. See images of the sun, follow solar max news, and keep up with NASA missions.
 * [|**Earth and Moon Viewer**]** - View and interact with the images of the Earth and moon in real-time.

[|Terra Server] - http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/ [|The Field Museum On Exhibits] - Interactive activities [|**Web Elements**]**- Online Interactive Periodic Table
 * [|**Little Shop of Physics OnLine Experiments**]**http://littleshop.physics.colostate.edu/experiments.html
 * [|**Visual Elements**]** - A visual interpretation of the table of elements.
 * [|**Your Age in Space**]** - Find out how much you weight on Mars, Venus, Pluto, etc. How do we define he time intervals we measure?
 * [|**David Whizzy's Interactive Table**]
 * [|**Modeling the Periodic Table**]** - An interactive simulation. What if you had to group elements by their characteristics and place them on a table close to the other elements in their group, while at the same time logically arranging the atomic weights? What decisions would you make?

Social Studies
[|Discovery Mummies]- Dig deeper into the mysterious world of mummies. Take a media rich, interactive journey to discover how the dead are living. [|**The Oregon Trail Virtual Tour**]** - The Oregon Trail Website provides a virtual tour of landmarks along the historic trail. Visitors to the site can see both a modern map and a 19th century map of the trail. Landmarks can be clicked on the map to lead the visitor through paintings, drawings and photographs of trail sites. [|Anglo-Apache Conflicts]-This website provides an interactive map, summaries, biographies, and primary documents about major conflicts. [|Schools History] - This site offers a number of different Interactive lessons and forms part of the Teaching History Online group based on the Spartacus Encyclopedia web site. [|Library of Congress Activities]- Offer an interactive, "hands on" experience and focus on a specific topic, rather than broad themes. They require teacher direction, but invite students to participate. [|Nebraska Partnership For American History Education] -Interactive activities from colonial era to post World War II era.
 * [|**The Big Myth**]**- How do people from other cultures view themselves, the world and their origins?
 * [|**National Geographic Remembering Pearl Harbor**]
 * [|**Jamestown OnLine Adventure**]** -This unique game was created by History Globe as a learning activity for elementary and middle school history/social studies students. http://www.historyglobe.com/jamestown/

Multimedia in the Classroom
[|**Problem Solving and Thinking Skills in the Classroom with Flash**] [|**Kate at the Zoo**]- See what elementary students are doing with multimedia. [|Edublog] - Free hosted blog solution for any educator or researcher. [|Learnerblogs] - Free k-12 student blogs [|Elgg] - Offers teachers and students an impressive suite of tools: Weblogging, social networking, privacy control, wikis, syndication, and podcasting. Wikispaces - Powerful social editing tools free. [|Educational Podcast for Teaching and Learning from UK] http://recap.ltd.uk/podcasting/ [|The educational Podcast Network] http://epnweb.org/ iTunes New version iTunes 6.0 or later has a built in Podcast directory. Launch iTunes Click the Podcasts icon in the Source panel. Categories are listed on the bottom-left of the screen. Perform a search.**

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====This list compiled by Carol Siwinski, [|Curricular Technology]Specialist, for the teachers and students of [|Germantown Academy].====