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Research Sites | Language Arts | Math |Web Suggestions for Primary Students | Web Suggestions for Intermediate Students |Early Learning | Childrens' Authors
This page is designed for our students. A place to come for help with finding appropriate research sites as well as activities that they can do at home any time.
Any time you are on the internet, you want to watch your manners. Check out Netiquette for Kids to review the rules and find a review of Safe Surfing tips.
In an effort to keep our students' searches successful and to keep them from getting lost on the web when doing research, we have compiled this list of kid friendly research tools. If you find others, please let me know.
| At Kids' Tools for Searching the Internet find links to a number of kid friendly search engines. Also includes links to help students select search words and find basic info | Great Sites for Kids has quite a collection of kid friendly web sites. Sites are organized by subject area for easy identification. |
| KidsClick! - A database of over 6400 sites compiled by librarians. |
Awesome Library
- 18,000 carefully reviewed resources. |
| ThinkQuest Library - Over 5000 student-created Web sites. |
Surfing the Net
with Kids Archive - Archived
suggestions from Barbara Feldman's syndicated column. |
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KIDS.NET.AU
- Kids.net.au is a non profit search engine just for kids, which is operated
by volunteers. Long list of links. Easy to get distracted |
At Pics4learning find free photo images for use in reports and presentations. Find clip art for your use at Discovery. |
| Visit our own Reference Sites for links to online encyclopedias and other kid friendly resources. | Find a super collection of curriculum related clipart photos from the Dorley Kindersley books for use in student projects. |
| Yahooligans is a good place to start for information for biographies. | |
| Visit Giggle Poetry and find fun poetry to read and share. | Magnetic Poetry – Create and unscramle poetry with a selection of magnetic word strips. |
| Find great interactive reading activities at Starfall. These activities are arranged to focus on short and long vowel sounds and are great for young children. You need Flashplayer to display pages. If you don't have it you can download the free player. | A terrific picture dictionary for early childhood can be found at Little Explorers. Available in French, German, Portuguese and Spanish as well as English |
| Find great sites for fun with words at Word Play Visit Word Wonders and do some online practice with homophones, antonyms, etc. | Use Mad Libs. to practice different parts of speech. |
| A Plus Math Flashcards Interactive flash cards for practicing and reviewing addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, square roots, and rounding. |
Math
Mayhem Interactive games from Learning Planet. Addition, subtraction, multiplication or division. Requires shockwave. Sound may be turned off. |
| The Product Game A fun interactive game that exercises your skill with factors and multiples. A 2 player game that is a variation of tic-tac-toe. |
Visit Math Playground and find a host of math activities including word problems! |
| Having trouble with a math problem? Visit Web Math and find options to help you solve it. |
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Add ‘Em Up & Take It Away Quick games for addition and subtraction practice. Be advised there are distractions that may encourage extra "clicking". Supervision is advised. |
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| Triple A Math has lots of interactive activities for all grade levels from Adding to Money to Fractions to Place value | Two
Minute Warning See how many flashcards you can solve in 2 minutes. Choice of operations. |
| Fresh
Baked Fractions FUNBRAIN will show you four fractions. Click on the fraction that is not equal to the others. |
Fraction
Frenzy The is a game like Concentration. A group of fractions will appear on the screen. You must group the equivalent fractions. |
| Pizza
Slices
Match the pizza to the fraction. |
Maybe you can get the Ladybug to the Leaf or take the challenge of the Ladybug Maze. |
| Can
you get the Turtle to the Pond? |
Shape
Maker Find the area or the perimeter of the rectangle shown. You uncover a puzzle piece for each correct answer. The game is over when you get all the puzzle pieces. |
