Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Language Arts / English

Using the Colon: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/exercises/grammar/grammar_tutorial/page_43.htm
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

Cows context clues: http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/5_6/cows/cows.htm
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

7 Good Writing Traits: http://printables.scholastic.com/printables/detail/?id=24189&No=12&_TL=Br&N=665+274&Nty=0&_N=665+274
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 Comprehension: http://www.rhlschool.com/reading.htm
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

Cause and Effect: http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/fwalters/causeconnect.html

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

The Great Depression: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWrX6kC9Nhs
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

World Trade Center Bombing (9/11): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSfXQ2LXigg

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

Social Studies Homework Help: http://school.discoveryeducation.com/homeworkhelp/socialstudies/social_studies_homework_help.html

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

The British and the Boer: http://history.howstuffworks.com/african-history/history-of-south-africa1.htm
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
Chasing the Sun (Charles Lindbergh): http://www.pbs.org/kcet/chasingthesun/innovators/clindbergh.html

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

Would you like an alternative to youtube? Well Teacher Tube is the place for you. There are many of videos that with help with almost anything that you are teaching.

http://www.teachertube.com/?utm_source=TeacherVision&utm_medium=banner&utm_content=300x250&utm_campaign=UPLOAD

Help with the 50 states

States & Capitols song (Animaniacs): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fePNo4Fge4w

Fifty Nifty Song (50 states): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_HeLofy7IE

Free DVDs for school

http://www.izzit.org/index.php

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

Are you looking for a free homeschooling ID for your children? If so, click on the following link to get a free one that you can print out. They do have an option to pay for it if you would like one mailed to you.

http://www.homeschoolbuyersco-op.org/homeschool-id/

Just fill out your information and upload a picture of your child, and you are all set.