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Internet Resources |
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Elementary and Middle School Level |
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1. Nutrition Explorations: Kids Nutrition/Food Guide Pyramid This site includes an Interactive Pyramid where students can click on a food group within the pyramid to find out more information about that particular food group. This site has ten different interactive activities for kids to use their nutrition knowledge and to learn more about nutrition. Students can track their meals through a nutrition tracker link, make a virtual milkshake, and feed a monster muncher the correct foods. This site consists of a Kid’s Panel, which offers information and advice from real kids’ individual experiences about nutrition. It also offers an opportunity for kids to become a member of this panel. Recipes, contests and fun links offer a variety of information for teachers and students who are studying nutrition. This site is geared toward elementary students. This site offers scavenger hunts to educators organized by months of the year. There is also a link for “Anytime Scavenger Hunts.” This is where I found a scavenger hunt for the Olympic Games of 2004. I will be very interested in using this site for the 2008 Olympics and hope they update the scavenger hunt. This site also offers learning games, fact monster activities to improve literacy skills, writing activities, science lessons, tech lessons of the week, teacher lesson plans, geography activities, book report forms, Reader’s Theatre scripts, math links and a variety of other resources especially for educators. Many of the activities have a PDF file and are easy to access. This is a great site! This site has activities at all grade levels. This site can and should be used in the classroom with your students. It offers interactive games, a scavenger hunt, and a Kid’s Talk section where the students have an opportunity to ask their own questions and get them answered. There is a multitude of subject matter involving healthy living for kids. A few things it includes are health problems grown-ups have, health problems kids have, and a glossary. You can sign up for KidsHealth express mail to receive activities weekly. This site is geared toward elementary students This site offers a variety of quirks, and oddities of the English language called word play. Students can play boggle online and hang man. This site offers an online wordplay book store. It includes a funny sign gallery, loads of word puzzles, games, fun facts and amazing lists. This site is mainly for educators, yet it does offer interactive games for kids to play. This is a great site for English/Language Arts teachers at all levels. This site is a great resource for language arts teachers who teach figurative language. It gives the definition of and examples of many different types of figurative language. It is a site that could be used in a computer lab with students. It offers a practice link for the students to identify a variety of figurative languages. This is an interactive web site where the students learn about a type of figurative language and then practice using it. This site is geared toward middle school students. 6. Dog Breeds: This site is a great resource for research reports I do in my classroom on dog breeds. It is a virtual encyclopedia of dog breed information. It profiles each breed, gives pictures, offers new articles, and links to other sites, which offers more information to my students. This site is geared toward middle school students. This site offers an alphabetical and geographical directory of children’s authors and illustrators. It also offers writing tips from children’s authors. It has multiple listing links for children’s books. It would be a great resource for a “Meet the Author” research report I do in Language Arts class. This site includes a lot of links geared toward becoming a better writer. This site is geared toward elementary students. This site offers teachers a variety of poems. Yucky poems, comic strip poems, animated poems and many more. There are links for poetry theatre, poetry to songs, and a poetry class where the students learn how to write limericks, nursery rhymes, and many more. Great site for elementary age kids and teachers! This site offers a variety of sites related to elementary math skills. It features sites from different states, holidays, and different subject areas involving mathematical problems. If you are looking for a site with a multitude of resources, this is the site for you! This site offers a variety of informational resources for the classroom teacher. This link takes you to the science page and gives detailed descriptions of the human body systems geared toward upper elementary grades. The home page takes you to FactMonster where you will find a map of the United States offering different links to different subjects such as people, sports, math and money, games and quizzes and a homework center. Great resource for teachers.
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