Art

Museums

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Museum of Science, Boston.

Webmuseum in Paris - links to biographical information about artists and their works.

English Language Arts

Authors and Books

Author Study Webquest:  Here is a wonderful web activity designed by Ms. Hutton.

Scholastic Kids Fun Online:  Here you will find books to read and activities to play.  Includes a Homework Hub with great tips.

Random House Children's Books - Authors and Illustrators.

Scholastic's Authors and Books.

Internet School Library Media Center's Index to Children's Book Authors.

Yahoo Directory of Children's Authors.

Children's Literature Web Guide.

Infotrac's Biography Resource Center.

Chris Van Allsburg, sculptor, artist, author.

Chris Van Allsburg, an interview by Stephanie Loer.

Tomie dePaola, a short biography and descriptions of some of his books.

EL Konigsburg, Go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art to explore where Claudia and Jamie had their great adventure.

EL Konigsburg, Test your knowledge about the book From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.

Laura Ingalls Wilder Scavenger Hunt

Dr. Seuss - Here is a great website with interactive games based on Dr. Seuss' books.

Bibliography

OSLIS Middle School/High School: How to Cite Works. A wonderful site developed by the Oregon School Library Information System.

Landmark Citation Machine- an online bibliographic format website. Find the citation machine under the Web tools section.

Biography

Biography.com - The A&E television network maintains this site containing a database of more than 25,000 biographies.

Who is That? - This Funbrain game asks visitors to identify famous individuals in two categories, United States Presidents or Famous Scientists and Mathematicians, from pictures and historical clues. Simply select a category and a level of difficulty, then choose from among four possible answers. What a great review for students!

Book Review

How to write a book review.

Comic Strips

Comic Strip generator from Readwritethink.

The Official Peanuts Website - Snoopy, Charlie Brown and Friends - Charles Schulz

Library Media

Sample pathfinder from Methuen High School Media Center

Do we really know dewey?  A great site for learning about the dewey decimal system.

How to do research - prepared by the Kentucky Virtual Library.

Evaluating websites – Prepared by New Mexico State University

Website evaluation

Myths

Myths writing workshop from Scholastic.

Zeus, the God.

Newspapers

News Writing - How to write a news article.

Note Taking

Fact fragment frenzy - interactive note taking from readwritethink.

Poetry

Diamante Poem generator.

Poetry.com's rhyming dictionary.

Rap - garageband examples.

Reading

Between the Lions - Get wild about reading.

Clifford stories.

Create-a-Reader - learn about letters, numbers and reading.

Game Goo - Learning that sticks.

Kidsplace Brain Power - reading activities.

Kidsplace reading activities - wacky web tales, geonet, fake out!, power proofreading, and spelling match.

Kidsread -authors, books, book clubs, book reviews and more!

Starfall - Learn to Read.

Reading Zone - Internet Public Library list of websites about reading and authors.

Grammar - A guide to grammar and writing.

BJ Pinchbeck's guide to English websites.

Storytelling

Folktales: What are they?

Handbook for Storytelling - Lots on information and tips for telling your story.

Scholastic Storytelling Workshop with Gerald Fierst.

Storytelling WebQuest - Click here to start your adventure!

Whootie Owl's Stories - Lots of stories from around the world.

General

Lycos Zone - Check out the games zone!  Also a great search tool which allows the user to search also by subject or to search an almanac, dictionary, encyclopedia, or atlas.

Kids Connect -  Favorite Web Sites for K-12 Students. Point-n-click your way to the web sites our KidsConnect school library media specialists have found most helpful for K-12 students!

The Internet Public Library Youth Division subject list of super internet sites.

700+ Great Sites: Amazing, Spectacular, Mysterious, Colorful Web Sites for Kids and the Adults who care about them from the American Library Association.

Enchanted Learning - Awesome site!  Contains subject index and the Zoom series; dinosaurs, whales, sharks, inventors, butterflies, astronomy and more!

Kid's Web goal is to present students with a subset of the Web that is very simple to navigate, and contains information targeted at the K-12 level. Each subject section, contains a list of links to information that is understandable and interesting to school kids.

AOL Kids Only - Has search engine and links to really fun sites!

Check out BJ Pinchbeck's Homework Helper.

Multnomah County Library Homework Central has a great subject directory of websites.

Health

Health Research Project

Math

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives - Great site with loads of interactive games for different grade levels.

Shodor interactive math games.

AOL at School great math games.

NCTM Illuminations math interactive web site.

Math Webquest - Amber Deweerdt's Math game webquest.

BasketMath Interactive Learning - Has games on all sorts of math topics.  Use your number keypad on the right side of your keyboard.

Cyberchase - web activities.

Mathmovesu

Aplusmath.com! This web site was developed to help students improve their math skills interactively.

All math - create your own flash cards and play some math games.

ArithmAttack - How many computer-generated arithmetic problems can you answer in 60 seconds?

Ask Dr. Math - Questions and answers to common math problems.

Base Ten Counts - This activity is useful for young children who are just beginning to learn how numbers are made up.

Discovery School's Webmath - Click on a problem solver below, enter your math problem and click for an explanation of how it's done and the answer.

Funbrain - Lots of interactive math games.  You can choose by your age.

Math Forum - Internet Mathematics Library.  Here you find web links to all sorts of math topics.

Multiplication.com - links to interactive internet games that use multiplication skills.

Sock Math - a funny website with math problems to solve.

Music

Music

The Music Room at the Capistrano Elementary School in California.  Excellent site will all sorts of information about music.

The Music Heritage Instrument Network Encyclopedia.  Provides a  sampler of some of the world's most interesting musical instruments.

The Sound of Music. Check out this website with loads of information about the Sound of Music!

Physical Education

Bike Safety

Kids Health - Bike Safety.

League of American Bicyclists - Bike Safety.

Football

Great football website!!!

Science

Houghton Mifflin Science - science book web connections. Kidsplace.

BJ Pinchbeck's web links on loads, and loads science topics!

Internet Public Library - Science Net will help you explore science fun and facts on the Internet. You'll find experiments to try, interesting stuff that's just cool or maybe even something that can help you with your homework.

IPL - Earth Science Net - Explore the earth and learn about volcanos, hurricanes, weather, or how to save the environment.

IPL - Science Net - Air and Space.  Learn and read about things in the sky, from planets and stars to airplanes. 

IPL -Science Net - Plants.  This section has information about all kinds of plants including Carnivorous ones!

IPL - Science Net - Animals.  This is the place to find your favorite animal or learn about a new one.

Cells

Life Science connections - Check out the five types of living things.

Chemistry

Chemicool - Information about elements in the Periodic Table.

Dinosaurs

Dinosaur activities on the web.

Dinosaur Encyclopedia

Zoom Dinosaurs - all sorts of facts about dinosaurs.

Earthquakes

Earthquakes - learn about earthquakes at the US geological survey website.

Whyfiles - all about earthquakes.

Electricity

History of Electricity.

The Shocking Truth About Electricity.

What is Electricity.

Energy

An investigation of energy webquest.

Flight

100 Years of Flight - Learn about the history of Flight.

Invention of Flight 

Insects

Koday's Kids Amazing Insects.

University of Florida index of insects.

Life Sciences

Scott Foresman Science site about amazing sponges.

Natural Disasters

Natural hazards website has information about all sorts of disasters.

Nocturnal Animals

Jayzeebear - find the nocturnal animals.

National Geographic - Nocturnal animals.

Nova Online - Night Creatures

Enchanted Learning - Nocturnal Animals

Oceans

Treasures at the Sea - Search for Ocean Facts and information about tides and currents.

Ocean information websites compiled by Mr. Holt.

Penguins

March of the Penguins interactive site.

Emperor Penguin information from Enchanted Learning.

Penguins in Antarctica.

Penguin Puzzle from Kidzone.

Penguins facts and activities from Kidzone.

It takes a rookery webquest on Penguins.

Plants

Plants and Our Environment.

The Great Plant Escape - Help Detective Le Plant and his partners Bud and Sprout the amazing mysteries of plant life.

Pollination Adventure Webquest.

Plate Tectonics

Plate Tectonics - A wonderful interactive site with loads of information.

Pollution

Types of pollution from Thinkquest site.

Rocks and Minerals

Rocks and Minerals Information.

Rock and Minerals - Franklin Institute Online guide to rocks and minerals.

Simple Machines

Edheads website has a wonderful interactive activity on simple machines.

BrainPOP simple machines - cool video.

Pyramid construction.

Space

KidsAstronomy.com

Starchild offers a first-rate treatment of the solar system and the universe, with lots of kid-friendly graphics.

Cosmic Quest - The Children's Museum of Indianapolis presents this interactive site as a Field Guide to the Universe.

The Nine Planets is an outstanding multimedia collection of solar system information for a general audience—music, graphics, animations, links and more.

Windows to the Universe is a user-friendly learning system about the Earth and Space sciences for the general public.

Solar System and Space - great list of websites.

Volcanoes

Volcano Webquest

Volcano World - Great source of information!

Types of volcanoes.

Zoos

Roger Williams Zoo - This website has loads of information about interesting animals.

Social Studies

American Revolution

The American Revolution Homepage - Timeline of the American Revolution from 1765 to 1783. People, battles, biographies, events, links, and bibliographies.

The American Revolution a site for Kids - The links on this page will lead you to biographies of people connected with the American Revolution.

The Federalist Papers
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/const/fed/fedpapers.html
The Federalist Papers, a series of 85 essays urging New Yorkers to ratify the proposed United States Constitution, are often used to help interpret the intentions of the men who drafted the Constitution. All 85 papers are posted here, and the entire site is fully searchable by exact words or their variants.

Liberty! The American Revolution
http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty
This companion to the PBS special on the American Revolution has a great set of resources for classroom use. Note especially Chronicle of the Revolution and the game The Road to Revolution, both designed to stimulate student interest and make learning fun. Interactive quizzes and fictional newspaper accounts add to the excitement of experiencing history right in the classroom!

Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt Brainteaser from National Geographic

Teacher Oz – Loads of links on everything Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt - website of the Snaith Primary School.

Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece - a play about Sparta and Athens from the Snaith Primary School.

Ancient Greece and Rome - This web site was designed to introduce third grade students to the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome.

Ancient Greece Webquest from Thinkquest.

Mr. Dowling’s electronic passport – Ancient Greece.

Links to ancient civilizations - China, Egypt, Rome, Greece, Mesopotamia.

Ancient Rome

Life in Roman times.

Mr. Dowling’s electronic passport – Rome.

Odyssey online:  A site about ancient Rome including information about mythology, daily life, death and burial, writing and archaeology.

Research sites for ancient Greece and Rome.

Aztecs

Aztecs - website from the Snaith Primary School.

Black History

Martin Luther King, Jr. - I Have A Dream Speech.  Text.

Martin Luther King, Jr. - I Have A Dream Speech. Audio.

Martin Luther King, Jr. - I Have A Dream Speech excerpt. Video.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Birth Home Virtual Tour

My Brother Martin
http://www.soentpiet.com/martin.htm

This is the illustrator's web site and provides information about the book, "My Brother Martin: A Sister Remembers." It also includes a picture of the author and illustrator. Note that the site does include links to buy the book and to purchase other works by the illustrator. If your school has restrictions on commercial sites, be sure to review this site before using it with your students.

Web Resources - from Readwritethink.org

Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in 1929.
http://www.readwritethink.org/calendar/calendar_day.asp?id=396

Choose among additional Web and text resources as well as find links to lesson plans and classroom activities that can be used to supplement or extend this lesson, from the January 15 entry from ReadWriteThink calendar.

The Martin Luther King Papers Project at Stanford University
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/

The primary location for information about Dr. King, this site includes a chronology, encyclopedia, biography, videos, lesson plans, and more. The overseeing board for the Project is chaired by Coretta Scott King.

Today in History, for January 15, from the Library of Congress
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jan15.html

The Library of Congress entry for King's birthday provides a linked overview of King's life and the struggle for Civil Rights.

The Nobel Peace Prize 1964
http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/1964/index.html

The Nobel Prize Web site includes the text of the committee's presentation speech, awarding the Peace Prize to Dr. King, as well as Dr. King's Nobel Lecture, his acceptance speech, and biographical information.

Photo Essay: Martin Luther King in His Own Words
http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/mlk/index.html

This Time.com collection pairs ten photos of King with excerpts from his writing. Each could provide a starting place for a classroom discussion of King's carefully chosen words.

MLK Jr. Classic Images, from Life
http://www.life.com/Life/mlk/mlkpics.html

This site provides a wealth of pictures of Dr. King, including photos from King's protests, speeches, and life with his family.

The Underground Railroad - This is an interactive web site from National Geographic.

Underground Railroad - a wonderful web site with all sorts of great information.

Colonies of North America

Colonization of North America - wonderful links about the history of American colonies.

Jamestown and Plymouth Webquest 

Jamestown Discovery Webquest

Country Research

Connect to the Country Fact Books and click on the search button to find information about your country.

The United Nations Cyberschoolbus has great information about countries that are in the United Nations.

Check out the Atlapedia website you can find loads of information about different countries.

Connect to MSN Encarta to find even more information about your country.

Geo-Globe - Interactive geography.

Lonely Planet country information.

Geographia - world travel destinations.

CIA World Factbooks.

Classbrain's country reports.

National Geographic.

Mexico webquest - Cinco de Mayo Webquest.

Mexico for Kids.

Mexico - General information including holidays, culture and history.

Halloween

Halloween links from Education World.

Islam (compiled by Mrs. G. Boden)

The Islamic World to 1800

Medieval Economy - Money and Trading

Islamic Art

Islamic Art - Discusses the Islamic view of the cosmos, fine craftsmanship and Arabic Calligraphy

The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Collection:  Islamic Art: Introduction

Arabic Calligraphy Instruction

Islamic Medical Manuscripts Home Page

Islam. Knowledge, and Science

Mathematics in Medieval Islam

Lascaux Caves

Take a virtual tour of the Lascaux caves.

Lewis and Clark

Lewis and Clark an epic journey - wonderful site!

Magic

Great Magic web sites.

Massachusetts

Birds of New England.

Mesopotamia

Mesopotamia - learn more about ancient Mesopotamia.

Mesopotamia - all sorts of information.

Cuneiform - write a Babylonian.

Middle Ages

Life in the Middle Ages - A Thinkquest website.

Annenberg/CPB Exhibits - What was it really like to live in the Middle Ages?  Explore this web site and find out.

Castles of Britain is a site dedicated to the study and promotion of British Castles.

Castles on the Web.  This site has loads of information about castles, including a glossary of terms, links to castle tours, information on heraldry, and myths.

Middle Ages Webquest - Learn about the people of the Middle Ages, Castles, and Knights by studying their Tales and Legends.

Renaissance Faire

National Geographic -Ghosts in the Castle. You will discover that castle dwellers still roam the halls of this castle.  Explore and learn about parts of castles and what life in a castle was like.

Native Americans

The Five Native American Cultures. Web site designed for third grade at Germantown Elementary, Illinois.

American Indians and the natural world from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.

Native American Shelters from Minnesota State University, Mankato, EMuseum.

Native Americans - The First Americans.

Native American website for children.

Native Americans - list of wonderful websites.

Native Americans - activities.

President's Day

President's Day web site with a great virtual museum with great information about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.

States

Stately Knowledge - Facts about the United States.

50 States - This site has basic information about every state in the U.S.A.

Funbrain interactive geography game.  Students learn location and names of states and race the clock.

Vikings

Vikings - website from the Snaith Primary School.

Women's History

Women in American History by the Encyclopedia Britannica.