Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Language Arts / English
Using Colons Effectively: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/nova/nova5.htm
Kids Word -tenses : http://www.pitara.com/activities/wordplay/online.asp?QName=tenses
Homonym Quizzes: http://a4esl.org/q/h/homonyms.html
Level 2 Reading: http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/200/reading/index.htm
Level 3 Reading: http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/reading/index.htm
Fact and Opinions with Binky: http://www.pbs.org/teachers/connect/resources/5515/preview/
Quotation Marks: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/quotation.htm
Quiz on quotation marks: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/quotes_quiz.htm
Breaking Down Compound Words: http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/vocabulary.cfm?num=8&act=2&que=1
Quia Compound Words: http://www.quia.com/jg/123083.html
Sentence Speedway: http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/sentence_speedway/index_pre.html
Sentence Sort: http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/sensort/index_pre.html
Fragments: http://www.chompchomp.com/frag02/frag02.htm
Language Arts / English
Quiz Words in Context 1 : http://www.english-zone.com/vocab/vic01.html
Quiz Words in Context 2: http://www.english-zone.com/vocab/vic02.html
Reading Skills Context Clues: http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00001821.shtml
Main Idea: http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/h/mainideap24.cfm
Conjuctions: http://www.better-english.com/grammar/conjunctions.htm
Correlative Conjuctions: http://esl.lbcc.cc.ca.us/eesllessons/correlative%20conjunctions/corconfb.htm
Correlative Conjunctions: http://esl.lbcc.cc.ca.us/eesllessons/correlative%20conjunctions/corconmc.htm
Conjunctions and Interjections: http://www.quia.com/pop/32188.html
Conjunction Junction - School House Rock: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkO87mkgcNo
Interjections - School House Rock : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhHpJ45_zwM
Commonly Confused Words: http://homepage.smc.edu/reading_lab/words_commonly_confused.htm
Apostrophes: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/apostrophe_quiz2.htm
Language Arts / English
Persuasive Writing: http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/reading.cfm?str=reading&num=4&act=3&que=1
Writing and Grammar Lessons: http://www.sfreading.com/resources/ghbgrd5.html
Word Jungle: http://www.fekids.com/kln/games/wordjungle/wordjungle.html
Prepositions at Crosswords II : http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/cross/cross_prep2.htm
Prepositions at Crosswords: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/cross/cross_prep.htm
Quiz on Prepositions: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/preposition_quiz1.htm
Online Writing Lab: Prepositions: http://depts.dyc.edu/learningcenter/owl/prepositions.htm
Grammar Blast Prepositional Phrases: http://www.eduplace.com/cgi-bin/hme-quiz-start.cgi?Grade=6&Unit=7&Topic=Prepositional+Phrases&x=25&y=9
Language Arts / English
Reading Test: http://www.brainchild.com/gen/readingtest.asp?study=0&mixed=1&testCatLevelID=180&testname=&catlevelname=Reading+%2D+Grade+5&testCatLevelStrandID=-1&qsName=am&testmap=1
Punctuation: http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/language_arts/goforgold/content_builder/dswmedia/g1c26/nadia.htm
Double Negatives: http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/grammar/texttypes/negatives/worksheet.shtml
Gnomes Fishing Plural Game: http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/spelling/plurals/pluralrules/game.shtml
Quia Sequence Game: http://www.quia.com/rd/37983.html
Level 3 Sequence: http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/book_buddy/test/coyote/test_coyote.html
Blast the Rocket: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/starship/english/games/blast_the_rocket/small_no_sound/standard2.shtml
Capialization: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/par_numberless_quiz.pl/caps_quiz.htm
Idioms: http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/idioms/
Paint by Idioms: http://www.funbrain.com/idioms/index.html
Language Arts / English
Suffixes: http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/5_6/fishtanks1/fishtanks1.htm
Prefixes Say Plenty: http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/vocabulary.cfm?str=vocabulary&num=1&act=4&que=1
Putting Down Roots: http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/vocabulary.cfm?str=vocabulary&num=6&act=3&que=1
Suffixes say A Lot: http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/vocabulary.cfm?num=10&act=2&que=1
Suffixes Make New Words: http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/vocabulary.cfm?str=vocabulary&num=10&act=4&que=1
Adverbs and Adjectives: http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/330/grammar/parts.htm
Grade 5 Reading Tests: http://www.pearsonlongman.com/ae/marketing/sfesl/tests/grade5.html
Grammar Blasts: http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/quizzes/index.html#five
Proofreading Makes Perfect: http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/language_arts/pmp/interactive_guide/g05/g05home.htmQuia
Practice Tests (4-5 grade): http://www.quia.com/pages/hostetterenglish.html
History/Social Studies Videos
Bombing of Pearl Harbor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj1kbAlDNu4&feature=fvw
Charles Lindbergh's Flight and Return: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz41ToPYhQM
Progressive Era Women Suffrage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k_0jgSRp7g&feature=related
League of Nations song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxhlpDktAMI
The Great Lusitania: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sURi21sJsWc
Spanish-American War: http://videos.howstuffworks.com/hsw/5386-a-new-world-power-spanish-american-war-video.htm
Jim Crow Laws: http://www.howstuffworks.com/search.php?terms=jim+crow+laws&media=video
Desert Storm: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/final-report/2774/Photos#tab-Videos/02302_00
Gulf War: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/
Sacajawea: http://videos.howstuffworks.com/hsw/9832-sacajawea-the-journey-home-video.htm
The Alamo: http://videos.howstuffworks.com/hsw/6145-lone-star-legacy-the-alamo-video.htm
Underground Railroad: http://www.howstuffworks.com/search.php?terms=underground+railroad&gallery=1&media=video
American Civil War: http://videos.howstuffworks.com/hsw/6368-american-civil-war-resources-video.htm
Reconstruction: http://history.howstuffworks.com/american-civil-war/reconstruction.htm
History/Social Studies Videos
Vietnam War: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhuu2rxhP5c
Vietnam War: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC4tpeN6pj4
Eye on the Prize (Civil Rights): http://www.pbs.org/teachers/connect/resources/101/preview/
1920's: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=684n8FO68LU&feature=related
Roaring 20's: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SclJ94h2oyQ
Lost Journey of Amelia Earhart: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4COKAGaGN9U
Help with History/Social Studies
Modern Marvels: http://www.history.com/video.do?name=modernmarvels&bcpid=1767981841&bclid=1799152915&bctid=1604855703
American Pioneers: http://history.howstuffworks.com/american-history/american-pioneer-frontier-life.htm
Westward Expansion and the Pony Express: http://people.howstuffworks.com/usps2.htm
Homestead Act of 1862: http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/homestead-act/
History Lessons: http://www.prontolessons.com/
Help with History/Social Studies
Boxer Rebellion: http://www.smplanet.com/imperialism/fists.html
Boxer Rebellion: http://history.howstuffworks.com/asian-history/boxer-rebellion.htm
The British Raj: http://history.howstuffworks.com/asian-history/salt-march1.htm
Booker T. Washington: http://www.nps.gov/archive/bowa/btwbio.html
Mohandas Gandhi: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/gandhi_mohandas.shtml
Queen Victoria: http://history.howstuffworks.com/european-history/victoria.htm
Victorians: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/victorians/teachers/
Civil War: http://www.howstuffworks.com/search.php?terms=civil+war
The Rise of Captialism: http://money.howstuffworks.com/capitalism3.htm
How Socialism Works: http://money.howstuffworks.com/socialism.htm
Life on a Plantation (Underground Railroad): http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/underground_railroad/plantation.htm
Lost Liners (Lusitania): http://www.pbs.org/lostliners/lusitania.html
Spanish-American War: http://www.factmonster.com/ce6/history/A0846162.html
Spanish-American War: http://history.howstuffworks.com/american-history/spanish-american-war.htm
Treaties of World War I: http://www.infoplease.com/search?q=treaties+of+world+war+I&in=all&fr=iptn
World War I: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/
World War I: http://www.teachervision.fen.com/world-war-1/teacher-resources/6679.html?detoured=1
Rise and Fall of Jim Crow: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/tools_quiz_1q.html
Jim Crow Laws: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAjimcrow.htm
Farmer's Freedom's Song: http://www.freedomssong.net/lessons.html
Help with History/Social Studies
Ben's Guide to the Branches of the Government: http://bensguide.gpo.gov/3-5/government/national/scourt.html
1st Thanksgiving, Letters from the Mayflower: http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/letters.asp?msg=done
Korean War: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War
World War II: http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwii/index.htm
Stories of Courage (Holocaust): http://teacher.scholastic.com/frank/stories.htm
Holocaust: http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/blholocaust.htm
The Great Depression: http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/depression/depression.htm
The Great Depression: http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/depression/overview.htm
Help with Math
Homeschool Math: http://www.homeschoolmath.net/
Ratios: http://www.aaamath.com/B/g62b_fx1.htm
Ratios: http://www.aaamath.com/B/g62a_rx1.htm
All About Ratios: http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/proportions/
Place Values: http://www.aaamath.com/B/g51c_px1.htm
Percents: http://www.coolmath.com/prealgebra/03-percents/01-percents-what-is-a-percent-01.htm
Percents: http://www.aaamath.com/pct.html#topic1
Various Math Worksheets: http://www.helpingwithmath.com/by_subject/geometry/geo_worksheets.htm
Various Math Help: http://www.aaamath.com/
Fraction Lessons: http://www.coolmath4kids.com/fractions/index.html
Convert Fractions to Decimals: http://www.homeschoolmath.net/worksheets/fraction-decimal.php
Help with Math
Square Roots Worksheets: http://www.homeschoolmath.net/worksheets/square-roots.php
Reading a Measure tape worksheet generator: http://themathworksheetsite.com/read_tape.html
Various lesson plans: http://www.cimt.plymouth.ac.uk/projects/mepres/primary/default.htm
Math Worksheet Generator: http://www.homeschoolmath.net/worksheets/fraction.php
Geometry / Working with Angles: http://new.learnalberta.ca/content/mesg/html/math6web/lessonLauncher.html?lesson=m6lessonshell16.swf
Geometry: http://www.mathleague.com/help/geometry/geometry.htm
Dividing angles and Segments: http://www.sparknotes.com/math/geometry1/constructions/section5.rhtml
Circumference of a Circle: http://www.aaastudy.com/geo612x4.htm
Circumference of a Circle: http://www.onlinemathlearning.com/circumference-worksheets.html
Addition of Mixed Numbers: http://www.aaastudy.com/fra66dx2.htm
Worksheets and Workbooks: http://hotmath.com/help/homework/workbooks-library.html
Dividing Decimals: http://www.aaastudy.com/div66rx2.htm
Division: http://www.aaastudy.com/div55_x2.htm
Math Games
Various Math Games: http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=FractionGame
Various Math Games: http://www.mathplayground.com/wpdatabase/wpindex.html
Multiplication: http://www.multiplication.com/interactive_games.htm
Measurement: http://www.funbrain.com/measure/index.html
Measurement: http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/meas.cgi?A1=s&A2=1&A3=1&INSTRUCTS=1
Measurement: http://www.apples4theteacher.com/measure.html
Measurement: http://www.rickyspears.com/rulergame/
Counting Money: http://www.mathplayground.com/Count_The_Money.html
Square Roots: http://www.quia.com/mc/65631.html
Word Problems: http://www.mathplayground.com/wpdatabase/Percent1_1.htm
Percent Shopping: http://www.mathplayground.com/percent_shopping.html
Math Videos
Geometry Help : http://www.onlinemathlearning.com/geometry-help.html
Geometry and Algebra : http://people.howstuffworks.com/search.php?terms=geometry&gallery=1&media=video
Percentages : http://www.mathplayground.com/howto_perfracdec.html
Teacher Tube
http://www.teachertube.com/?utm_source=TeacherVision&utm_medium=banner&utm_content=300x250&utm_campaign=UPLOAD
Help with the 50 states
Fifty Nifty Song (50 states): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_HeLofy7IE
Free DVDs for school
You can go to izzit and get a free educational DVD every year that you teach. We have gotten one on the Great Depression and one on the Pilgrims. The DVDs come with lesson plans and stickers.
Free Homeschooling ID
http://www.homeschoolbuyersco-op.org/homeschool-id/
Just fill out your information and upload a picture of your child, and you are all set.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
More worksheets and lesson plans
Printouts -- http://www.theteachersguide.com/printouts.htm
Worksheets -- http://www.superteacherworksheets.com/
Math and English -- http://www.dositey.com/homek2.htm
K-1 worksheets -- http://www.billybear4kids.com/worksheets/start-math.html
Educational Links -- http://www.homeschoolingadventures.com/worksheets.html
Web Lessons -- http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/WebLessons/
Lesson search -- http://www.thinkfinity.org/
Educational links and lessons -- http://www.kidsites.com/sites-grownups/teachers.htm
Lessons -- http://www.teachersdomain.org/
Lessons and worksheets (limited free) -- http://www.instructorweb.com/
Arts and Crafts -- http://www.crayola.com/free-coloring-pages/cut-and-color/
Historical Games
Various Worksheets and Lesson Plan Sites
Free Wordsearch Maker -- http://www.superkids.com/aweb/tools/words/search/
Curriculum Standards -- WorldBook -- http://www.worldbook.com/wb/Students?curriculum
Hundreds of different lessons -- http://www.education-world.com/
Free Federal Education Resources -- http://www.free.ed.gov/
Lessons -- http://teachers.net/lessons/
Lesson Plan search -- http://www.lessonplansearch.com/
School Express -- tons of free worksheets and books -- http://www.freeworksheets.com/
Thousands of worksheets and lessons -- http://www.teachervision.fen.com/
Keyboard typing game -- http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/flash/stage1.shtml
Worksheets -- http://www.tlsbooks.com/fifthgradeworksheets.htm
Links to lessons,links and more for all grades and subjects -- http://www.internet4classrooms.com/k12links.htm
Help with Science
Solar System -- http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level1/solar_system.html
Touch of Class (classification game) -- http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/class.html
Animal Classification lesson -- http://www.junglewalk.com/classroom/Animal-Classification-Lesson-Plan-1.htm
Classification game -- http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/6_7/variation.shtml
Classification -- http://anthro.palomar.edu/animal/default.htm
Paleontology -- http://www.paleoportal.org/
Science
Cell structure -- http://www.tvdsb.on.ca/westmin/science/sbi3a1/Cells/cells.htm
Inside a cell -- http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/insideacell/
Cells Alive! -- http://www.cellsalive.com/ouch.htm
Cloud types -- http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/cloud3.html
Weather activities -- http://www.edheads.org/activities/weather/
Forecasting -- http://www.oar.noaa.gov/k12/html/forecasting2.html
Simple Machines -- http://www.edheads.org/activities/simple-machines/index.htm
Plants - The Great Plant Escape-- http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/gpe/gpe.html
Plants -- http://www.abcteach.com/directory/basics/science/plants/
Science Experiements -- http://www.topscience.org/
Human Body -- http://www.kidskonnect.com/content/view/337/27
Virtual Body -- http://www.medtropolis.com/VBody.asp
USFA (fire safety with printable certificate) -- http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/kids/flash.shtm
Language Arts/ English
Various reading, letters, and more --- http://www.starfall.com/
Poetry -- http://www.poets.org/page.php/prmID/87
Lessons to go with Random books -- http://www.randomhouse.com/teachers
Test that kids can take on books -- http://www.bookadventure.com/index.asp
Online Spelling Program -- http://www.spellingcity.com/
Adverb game -- http://www.smccd.net/accounts/sevas/esl/gramcheck/8-7.html
Cause and Effect -- http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/fwalters/causeconnect.html
Prefix & Suffix game -- http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/5_6/fishtanks1/fishtanks1.htm
Prefix game -- http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/vocabulary.cfm?str=vocabulary&num=1&act=4&que=1
Root word game -- http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/vocabulary.cfm?str=vocabulary&num=6&act=3&que=1
Suffix game -- http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/vocabulary.cfm?num=10&act=2&que=1
Suffix game -- http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/vocabulary.cfm?str=vocabulary&num=10&act=4&que=1
History/ Social Studies
Branches of Government -- http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/teacher_lessons/3branches/exec_toc.htm
Holidays around the world -- http://www.kidsturncentral.com/holidays/glossary/holidaysgloss.htm
National Geographic -- http://www.nationalgeographic.com/index.html
Plimoth Plantation -- http://www.plimoth.org/
Underground Railroad -- http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/j2.html
First Thanksgiving -- http://plimoth.org/education/olc/index_js2.html
Xpeditions -- http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/activities/02/getoriented.html
Civil War for Kids -- http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/civilwar/cwar.htm
United we Stand -- http://www.beaconlearningcenter.com/WebLessons/UnitedWeStand/default.htm
Homestead Act of 1862 -- http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/homestead-act/
Black History Month -- Top ten Inventors -- http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/inventors/index.htm
The Great Depression -- http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/depression/overview.htm
Help with Math
Fractions to Decimals -- http://www.homeschoolmath.net/worksheets/fraction-decimal.php
Ratios -- http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/proportions/
Ratios -- http://www.aaamath.com/B/g62a_rx1.htm
Fractions -- http://www.coolmath4kids.com/fractions/index.html
Geometry Sheets/ Lesson -- http://www.helpingwithmath.com/by_subject/geometry/geo_worksheets.htm
Measurement Game -- http://www.funbrain.com/measure/index.html
Various Math games -- http://www.mathplayground.com/wpdatabase/wpindex.html
Various Math -- http://cemc2.math.uwaterloo.ca/mathfrog/main.shtml
Multiplication -- http://www.multiplication.com/interactive_games.htm
Percentage -- http://www.aaamath.com/pct.html#topic1
Percentage -- http://www.coolmath.com/prealgebra/03-percents/01-percents-what-is-a-percent-01.htm
Place Value -- http://www.aaamath.com/B/g51c_px1.htm
Percentage Game -- http://www.mathplayground.com/mathatthemall2.html
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