Instructional Web Sites
compiled by Judy Kelley
 
Resources:
1.  DKC - Digital Knowledge Central A Virtual Libraries
     A username and password are required for access.
      Includes access to Britannica Online School Edition, Newsbank, EBSCOhost/Searchasaurus, and DKC databases. 
2.  DKC - Digital Knowledge Central Brochures
3.  DKC - Digital Knowledge Central Spotlight

Tutoring:
1.  TEA - Student Assessment Resources - Reading
 

Staff Development:
1. Texas Performance Standards Project
2. Missouri Assessment
3. Science TEKS Toolkit
4. Social Studies Toolkit, grades K-5 (pdf)
5. SSC - Understanding by Design
6. Mathematics TEKS Toolkit
7. Mathematics Benchmark Performance Assessments

Language:

1.  Grammar
2.  Cinderella
3.  Poetry
4.  Great Search Site - KidsClick
5.  Beyond Number The Stars
6.  Museum of Tolerance:  Children of the Holocaust
7.  Enchanted Learning
8.  Little House On The Prairie
9.  Holes - ThinkQuest, The Hole Truth (and Nothing But the Truth)
10. http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/authors.html
11.  http://www.harperchildrens.com/catalog/author_interviews.asp
12.  http://www.penguinputnam.com/static/packages/us/yreaders/appear/bios.htm
13.  http://www.randomhouse.com/kids/author/index.html
14.  http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/authordate.html
15.  Aesop's Fables - Online Collection
16.  Authors & Illustrators
 

Math
<>1.  FunBrain
2.  Numbers Through Time
3.  Great Search Site - KidsClick
4.  AAA Math
5.  Distance Calculator
6.  Currency Exchange
7.  Multiflyer (practice math facts; flashplayer 6 is required)
8.  Elapsed Time
9.  How To Measure Time (pdf document)
10.  Virtual Manipulatives
11.  Primary Math Manipulatives
 

Social Studies

 1.   American Revolution
 2.   Trades and Tools - Colonial America
 3.   Texas Parks and Wildlife Webcast
 4.   Presidents
 5.   History of Inventions
 6.   Civil War - Spies
 7.   Civil War - Civilan Woman
 8.   Civil War - Surgeons
 9.   Civil War - Timeline
10.  Great Search Site - KidsClick
11.  Texas Indians
12.  President Portraits
13.  The American Presidency
14.  50 States
15.  School Discovery
16.  Library of Congress
17.  Meet Amazing Americans
18.  Distance Calculator
19.  Currency Exchange
20.  HyperWar:  World War II on the Wide World Web
21.  World War II Commemoration
22.  The Holocaust:  A Learning Site for Students
23.  Anne Frank (Netherlands)
24. Anne Frank Center USA
25. Texas Our Texas - created by Mrs. Welch
26.  Enchanted Learning
27.  A Native American Tale
28.  Veteran's Day
29.  Black History Month
30.  Black History Biographies
31.  Lewis and Clark sites
32.  Texas State Parks - Wildflower Information Page
33.  Amazing Americans Web Quest
34.  United States Website Directory
35.  How The States Developed, 1650-1907
36.  Maps  (good outline maps)
37.  Presidents
38.  Constitution
39.  Core Documents of the U.S. Democracy
40.  Teen Government
41.  America's Story
42.  Archiving Early America
43.  State and County QuickFacts - U.S. Census Bureau
44.  CIA - The World Factbook - United States
45.  Yahooligans! - Around The World:  U.S. Guide
46.  American Embassy London:  Ready Reference:  U.S. State Facts
47.  InfoPlease
48.  Veteran's Day Program   (This is a pdf file.  A hard copy is available in the office)
40.  Texas Explorers
50.  The Alamo (pdf file; 4 activities; you may need to save the file to your desktop)
51.  The World of Benjamin Franklin
52.  Law Focused Education
53.  TEA:  Celebrate Freedom Week
54.  American Revolution - Harcourt
55.  President's Day Celebration
56.  Harcourt:  United States History
57.  Ben's Guide
58.  Industrial Revolution
59.  Explorers in Texas and Mexico
60.  Christopher Columbus
61.  Civil War Wiki - Wallace
62.  Civil War WebQuests
63.  Texas Crossword Puzzle Activity
64.  Decades History Timelines
65.  American Cultural History - Twentieth Century
66.  List of Decades - Wikipedia
67.  Decades
68.  Ask Thomas Jefferson
69.  Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century
70.  Hubble Space Telescope (student created)
 

Science
 1.   Science Made Simple
 2.   Experiments
 3.   Solar System
 4.   Great Search Site - KidsClick
 5.   National Earthquake Information Center
 6.   Volcano World
 7.   The Heart:  An On-Line Exploration
 8.   African Americans in the Sciences
 9.   The Weather Channel
10.  NASA Human Spaceflight
11.  NASA
12.  The Nine Planets
13.  NASA
14.  Animal WebQuest
15.  Rain Forest - Kellogg's Toucan Sam
16.  Distance Calculator
17. Threatened and Endgangered Animals and Plants (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
18.  World's Rarest Mammals
19.  Critical Species (The Mammals of Texas)
20.  Threatened Species
21.  Threatened Species - Image Captions
22.  Natural Perspective
23.  Virtual Frog Dissecting
24.  Rocks and Minerals
25.  The Nine Planets
26.  Periodic Table
27.  Eyes, Eyes, Eyes
28.  Enchanted Learning
29.  State of Texas Threatened and Endangered Species Listings
30.  Kids Corner, Endangered Species, US Fish & Wildlife Service
31.  Texas Endangered Species, AgNEWS
32.  Pangea
33.  Nutrition Facts
34.  Scholastic Science
35.  RainForest
36.  A Look Inside The Human Body
37.  Human Anatomy Online
38.  Sea Life
39.  Foss
40.  Intel Education:  Circuits & Switches
41.  Continental Drift
42.  KidWings ... Owl Pellets
43.  National Hurricane Center ... Saffir Simpson Hurricane Scale
44.  National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
45.  Weather.com
46.  Raising Your Water IQ (Texas Water Development Board)
47.  Where's The Water?
48.  The Living Skeleton:  A Tour Of The Human Body
49.  Frog Dissection
50.  Weather Wiz Kids
 
 

Fine Arts

1.  Great Search Site - KidsClick
 
 

Supplemental
1.  Language Translation
2.  Scholastic
3.  Great Search Site - KidsClick
4.  Language Translation
5.  Enchanted Learning
6.  Internet Scavenger Hunt
7.  ABC Teach
8.  Kindergarten
 

More Resources
1.  Seussville Games - Enchanted Learning (http://www.seussville.com/seussville/games/)
2.  Ben & Jerry's Winter Holiday 
3.  Virtual Snowman
3.  Virtual Snowman