Educational Websites and Games

Skill Building
ABCya	Free educational kids’ computer games and activities for elementary students to learn on the web. All children's educational computer activities were created or approved by certified school teachers. Grade level lessons incorporate areas such as math and language arts while introducing basic computer skills.
Dance Mat Typing	A fun colourful website with animation and games introducing touch typing to children aged 7 to 11.
Multiplication Games	Big Brainz offers an amazing base version absolutely free to everyone. Besides teaching multiplication table mastery, there are skill building exercises for addition, subtraction, and division. Click HERE for home use instructions. Teachers will provide students with the password to access the program at home.
Funbrain	Sef-proclaimed "Internet's #1 Education Site for K-8 Kids and Teachers"
CoolMath4Kids	Math Games, Math Puzzles, Math Lessons -- designed for kids and fun!
IXL Math	All of IXL's dynamic math practice skills are aligned to state standards, making it easy to find the right skills to practice. IXL assesses your students' performance on each standard instantly, so you'll have all the information you need to prepare them for standardized testing.
Kahn Academy	The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) with the mission of providing a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. What started out as Sal Khan making a few algebra videos for his cousins has grown to over 2,100 videos and 100 self-paced exercises and assessments covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history.
MrNussBaum	Place Value Pirates: Math Exercises and Games
Multiplication.com	Fun learning activities -- all grade levels. This site contains the techniques, tips, and secrets used by master teachers!
Handwriting For Kids	Free handwriting lessons to teach kids and adults how to write alphabets, numbers, sentences, and even their name! Interactive math such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
QuizHub	Math, Language Arts, Social Science and Other Skill Building Activities Available through February 3, 2012
Time Line Maker	This timeline generator can be used to make a simple timeline of six to nine events. Just select a Vertical or Horizontal layout, Enter a title, type your dates & events, select a border then GENERATE your timeline!

Interactive Games
URL	Website/Description
Bees and Honey	K-1 Mouse Practice
Gamequarium	The site that swims with learning fun!
Animals - Creature Feature	Facts & Photos about Vampire Bats! Fun activity for 3rd grade.
Area and Perimeter	Practice calculating area and perimeter
Second Grade Math Skills	(a) Number, Number Sense and Operations Standard;Working with coins and making change;Fractions; (b) Measurement Standard; (c) Geometry and Spatial Sense Standard; (d) Patterns, Functions and Algebra Standard; (e) Data Analysis and Probability Standard
Jigzone	JigZone is an online Jigsaw Puzzle where you choose the level of difficulty from a simple 6 piece cut to a challenging 247 piece cut.
PBS Kids	Play educational games, watch PBS KIDS shows and find activities like coloring and music.
Learning Planet	Educational online games for kids preschool through sixth grade.
FreeRice	Play the vocalublary game to improve your comprehension and read faster. For each answer you get right, FreeRice will donate 10 grains of rice through the World Food Programme to help end hunger. FreeRice is a non-profit website run by the United Nations World Food Programme. FreeRice has two goals: Provide education to everyone for free. Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.

General Education
Eduplace	Education Place for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt textbooks -- Grades 1-6 Includes links for Students (Kids Place), Families, and Educators!
Garden of Praise	Garden of Praise is an educational website created in 1999 by a veteran classroom teacher with 35 years experience. Their purpose is to provide free online and printable teaching materials. You are free to print material for your own use at home and in the classroom, but you may not reproduce it for profit.
California State Symbols	Enchanted Learning presents California Facts, Map and State Symbols. The site includes State Flag and Map Quizzes, Printouts and Interactive lessons for K-12.
The Futures Channel	The Futures Channel Videos and Activities Deliver Hands-On, Real World Math and Science Lessons for the Classroom.
Tagxedo	Tagxedo turns words -- famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your spelling words -- into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text. You may save the tag cloud as images for printing and sharing.
Wordle	Wordle allows students to input text and then generate a word cloud emphasizing the most frequently used words. Use this to help you practice high frequency words, letter recognition, turn an essay into a work of art!

Research
African-Americans
Gale Cengage Learning	Links to biographies of notable African-Americans

Biography
Biographies for Kids	On the Garden of Praise website, presented in categories, there are stories of presidents, inventors, educators, scientists, artists, business men and women, and many others.

Bibliography
Draper Library Bibliography Maker	Select Source Type, Select Details, Complete The Form, then click Create. The site will create the bibliography reference which you can copy and paste into your document.

California Gold Rush
Gold Rush	This site preserves and supplements four major exhibitions celebrating the gold rush sesquicentennial, at the Oakland Museum of California.

U. S. Colonies
Colonies Maps	Select and drop the colony name on the dot
Original 13 Colonies	Locate the original 13 colonies

Native Americans
Cheyenne	Link to Cheyenne Fact Sheet
Kwakuitl	Link to Kwakuitl Fact Sheet
Navajo	Link to Navajo Fact Sheet

Animals

bats4kids Bat Conservation International, Inc. National Georgraphic Kids
	Research Bats
National Geographic	Enter the word bats* in the Search box to locate magazines, videos, pictures, etc.about bats on the National Georgraphic site.*

Polar Bear International	According to the site this is the Web's most complete source of polar bear information.

Constitution of the United States
Constitution Day was September 17, 2010. Click this link: Constitution Day Resource List for websites with information and activities for students or go to U.S. Constitution on the Springbrook website for other links.