Student Resources

Below you will find links to sites that can help you with school projects or inspire you to learn more! Every reasonable attempt has been made to ensure the web pages are educationally safe and do not contain links to materials that violate the district's acceptable use policy.

Search Engines

• Yahoo for Kids
  Ask Jeeves for Kids
  Google
  Lycos

• Or search multiple engines with only one search:
• Metacrawler
• Dogpile
• Hotbot

Resources

• Picture Dictionary
• Webster Net Dictionary
• Atlas
• Spark Reference Tools  
  

Social Studies Biographies - Search for information about  famous people's lives 50 States  facts
State - City - Town  Information

Encyclopedias Free Internet Encyclopedia -an easy to index source of encyclopedia information  Another Internet Free Encyclopedia Online Encyclopedia Index at Surfnet

General The Internet Public Library by the School of Information at the University of Michigan. The first public library of and for the Internet community. So You Have To Do A Research Project?  Help

LINKS BY GRADE

Kindergarten

• http://www.starfall.com/

First Grade

• http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/picturematch
• http://www.billybear4kids.com/animal/whose-toes/regions/AnimalPictures.html
• http://pbskids.org/lions/games/unlimited.html
• http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/games4a.htm
• http://funbrain.com/cgi-bin/getskill.cgi?A1=gba&A2=6
• http://www.learningplanet.com/stu/kids1.asp
• http://www.billybear4kids.com/games/mapedit/mapedit.htm

Second Grade

• http://sense-lang.org/typing/
• http://www.funbrain.com/cashreg/index.html
• http://www.learningplanet.com/stu/kids2.asp
• http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/

Third Grade

• http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/
• http://www.backflip.com/members/LFoote/7994350
• http://gardenofpraise.com/leaders.htm
• http://www.germantown.k12.il.us/html/intro.html
• http://www.funbrain.com/cashreg/index.html
• http://www.learningplanet.com/stu/kids2.asp
• http://www.planets4kids.com/title.htm
• http://www.mbayaq.org/efc/efc_hp/hp_kelp.asp
• http://www.germantown.k12.il.us/html/intro.html
• Yahoo - Native American Indians
• http://www.sandiegozoo.org/
• http://www.aquarium.ucsd.edu/
• http://www.yahooligans.com/Science_and_Nature/Living_Things/Animals/Endangered_Species/
• http://www.yahooligans.com/Around_the_World/Countries/United_States/History/Biographies/

Fourth grade

Explorers

• http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/1500a.shtml
• http://anza.uoregon.edu/

Gold Rush

• http://www.museumca.org/goldrush.html
• http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist2/gold.html
• http://www.calgoldrush.com/
• http://www.goldfever.com/
• http://www.isu.edu/~trinmich/home.html
• http://www.pbs.org/goldrush/journey.html

Missions

• http://www.californiamissions.com/cahistory/index.html
• http://www.escusd.k12.ca.us/mission_trail/MissionTrail.html
• http://www.californiamissions.com/menu.html

General

• http://www.escusd.k12.ca.us/mission_trail/MissionTrail.html
• http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov/Sites/ExternSite.asp?url=%2F
• http://funbrain.com/?wtlAC=tablinks,Lnhome
• http://www.californiahistory.net/index.htm
• http://www.history.org/
• http://www.learningplanet.com/stu/kids3.asp
• http://www.papermodelsonline.com/?OVRAW=California%20Missions&OVKEY=california%20missions&OVMTC=standard
• http://arcytech.org/java/patterns/patterns_j.shtml
• http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/
• http://www.americanwest.com/pages/fwpnfron.htm
• http://teacher.scholastic.com/researchtools/researchstarters/missions/
• http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/goldrush/
• http://powayusd.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/projects/webresearch/
• http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/our_america/westward_expansion/index.htm

Fifth Grade

General

• http://www.britannica.com/
• http://www.library.ca.gov/history/cahinsig.cfm
• http://www.encarta.msn.com/
• http://www.encyclopedia.com/
• http://www.flushing.k12.mi.us/fjh/bbrown/exploreres.html
• http://www.bham.wednet.edu/bio/land.htm
• http://www.funbrain.com/
• http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/History/By_Topic/Exploration/Explorers/
• http://www.history.org/
• http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/searchkids.pl?title=Encyclopedias+&keywo
• http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/kidsclick!/
• http://www.learningplanet.com/stu/kids3.asp
• http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/schools/argylems/task1-2.htm
• http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/our_america/westward_expansion/index.htm

Colonial America

• http://pilgrims.net/plymouth/
• http://www.bham.wednet.edu/colonial.htm#Life
• http://www.history.org/
• http://earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/index.html
• http://library.thinkquest.org/J002611F/introduction.htm
• http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/mayflow.html
• http://history.org/life/trades/tradehdr.htm
http://web.iximd.com/nhes/FifthGrade/colonial.htm
• http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/colonial.htm#K4
• http://www.bham.wednet.edu/colonial.htm#Life
• http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~sam/occupation.html
• http://www.history.org/
• http://earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica/index.html
• http://library.thinkquest.org/J002611F/introduction.htm
• http://bulldog2.berwick-academy.so-berwick.pvt.k12.me.us/projects/colonial/crafts/index.htm
• http://teacher.scholastic.com/thanksgiving/plimoth/index.htm
• http://www.law.ou.edu/hist/mayflow.html
• http://nye.sdcs.k12.ca.us/classes/b4/trades/trades.html
• http://rims.k12.ca.us/market_to_market/pages/trade.html
• http://www.svusd.k12.ca.us/schools/De_Portola/school/tescher/Colonial%20Wlliamsburg/CWpage1.html

Other Links

• http://puzzlemaker.com/
• http://sense-lang.org/typing/
• http://funbrain.com/?wtlAC=tablinks,Lnhome
• http://www.kidwizard.com/
• http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/kidsclick!/
• http://www.k111.k12.il.us/king/math.htm#-----
• http://tekmom.com/search/index.html
• http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/usaquiz.html
• http://powayusd.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/projects/webresearch/
• http://www.yahooligans.com/
• http://www.enchantedlearning.com/school/index.shtml

 

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