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Art
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- Art and Craft ideas using recycled items. Fun for a rainy day!
District
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- Important district information
Expressions
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- This is the website that goes with the new curriculum - games and activities for kids!
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- This is the the new curriculum website for all areas. You can see what teachers, parents and students have access to.
Geography
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- This fun website has tests you can take on geography of the world. Marianne and I will give a candy bar (or similar prize) to anyone who can score a 90% on a test (page printed)! Check it out!
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- This site rocks for math, social studies and more! Check it out for the state quizzes! Click on "US States Level One" and if you pass, go on to level two. It's great practice and very fun! (I did level one with 100% in 128 seconds. Can you beat me?)
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- Download Washington State maps and information.
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- Download maps and information about Washington State.
Health
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- Description of food pyramid changes and suggestions for a healthy lifestyle
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- Find out how many servings of food you need, and more!
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- This website offers articles that are pretty readable for kids, but really infromative for adults. You should all be able to benefit from this one!
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- Information on the human body and how it works.
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- A great resource for kids to find information on healthy tips and information about their bodies and minds. This is a great resource, and there is a link for parents too!
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- Cool information on the human body! Learn about the skin, heart, lungs, eyes and more!!!
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- Learn about nutrition and healthy eating habits!
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- Really interesting facts about your body!
Math
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- Created by a teacher in Australia.
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- Convert weight, volume and distances.
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- A fun site for math practice and games
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- Calculate any conversion, easliy and get the conversion for both ways!
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- Create any graph with any information! Very user friendly.
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- Math facts practice
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- Interactive math games.
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- I went into the 4th grade practice and chose to play with triangles (because we worked on that today in class!) and it was EXACTLY like what we did in class! Thanks, Lua, for bringing this to my attention. I think it is a good site to learn more and practice math skills for ANY age group! Hooray!
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- This has cool math games and word problems. Check it out!
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- A power point type presentation explaining terminology and aspects of mathematics.
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- Math facts practice
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- Go to this website and answer questions so that we can be a part of setting a new world record!
Parent Resource
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- MIT information and Madrona school information
Pioneer Farms
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- THis website was the only one I found that tells what kinds of clothing was worn during the Pioneer Days. It is interesting what materials were used!
Poetry
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- Ken Nesbitt's website of humorous poetry for children.
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- Welcome to the Internet School Library Media Center (ISLMC) Poetry for Children page. The ISLMC is a meta-site designed for elementary and middle teachers, librarians, parents and students to preview selected WWW curriculum related sites.
Reading
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- Read short stories by topic, genre, and author.
Resources
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- Madrona's website with links and resources for students. Check it out!
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- This is an online encyclopedia that anyone can submit information to. It can be a rich resource, but needs to be monitored by an adult.
Science
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- Fun space games, information and a million other things, all in one place!
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- This website has lots of different symbols you might need for designing your schematic.
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- Lots of scientific data available
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- Like it says...
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- THis has the visual of the tides and the extreme high and low tides in Nova Scotia.
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- This lets you pretend you can take pictures with the Hubble telescope and collect data. Really cool!
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- I like this website! It has a lot of information and cool pictures and games.
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- You can see pictures of planets and many moons, get data and find out about missions to them for data collection
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- A cool website to learn information, see pictures, and interact with space.
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- Click on the picture to see a new and wonderful picture of our amazing universe, every day!
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- Scroll down. This website has cool pictures of planets and moons, as well as good information.
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- This site has all of the phases of the moon available to explore.
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- Amazing information, games, study guides and answers to questions.
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- Database of information on the sun. Links to other sites with information on the sun.
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- This website has a cool cut-away of the sun's center and its layers. Also has great pictures of the sun taken with different wavelengths (x-ray, ultraviolet, etc.).
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- Click on this website to play with variables. Are they controlled variables? Manipulated variables? Or Measured variables?
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- This website has pictures of the surfaces of planets, as well as information you can use.
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- This site has fun games and lots of cool info about the sun and other planets. Check out the Myth and Culture link, and the Solar Concentration game!
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- John found this great website that tells you how old you would be on other planets. You can also link to other websites and find out information about the planets. Thanks for sharing!
Social Studies
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- Pictures of artifacts, information and links to other websites.
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- Lots of information on the Anassazi people and culture!
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- Click here for info on all cultures offered for research and MANY, many more!
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- Links to more lost cultures than not. Really interesting!
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- Click on the stone to enter the world of the ancient Aztec!
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- Want to know more about ancient China? Go here!
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- Information on ancient China's religions
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- This website links to many, many important topics for researchers.
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- Ancient Chinese people worshiped their ancestors like gods, and had several other gods too!
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- Use this website to navigate to other sites for most civilizations offered for research.
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- This website has some general information about generic civilizations. Might not be the best to use as a resource, but fun to look at.
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- This page has info to link to aobut ancient Hebrew cultures.
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- Links to different cultures, many are offered for study.
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- This page has amazing pictures and on the right side, there are links to pages on specific cultures. From those pages you can link to really specific info on your culture of choice. Most of the text is adult level. But a picture can tell a thousand words!
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- Great map, good information, awesome pictures!
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- This is a page that you can link ot many different cultures from.
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- A brief history of a powerful reign.
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- Cool links to things to know about the Aztecs.
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- This site has links to other sites for more information on aspects of Chinese culture.
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- Links to information about the Anasazi.
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- Links to Ancient Aztec info.
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- This site has links to other information all throughout.
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- This website will link you to the near east, China, Islam, and India, as well as Greece, Egypt and Rome
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- This page is for people studying ancient Hebrews.
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- Israel's self history on their ancient culture.
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- A classroom's compilation of information on the Anasazi.
Songs
Spelling
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- Use this website to practice understanding compound words.
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- Wacona Elementary school in Georgia has a great website for practicing spelling this week! Check it out!
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- Play a matching game by Quia! Great fun to get better with homonyms.
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- Use for spelling homework 3-12-07
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- Spelling Homework for the week of 5-14-07
States
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- The information on this site comes from a .gov website, so it means "the government" supplied it, and it is probably good stuff!
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- In case you need it!
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- If you'd like to spice up your report and have a colorful picture of your state, here is a place to get an outline (black line) copy.
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- This website allows you to click on a state and get lots and lots of fast facts!
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- This is the official likning site to state info from the US government. It gives you links to state government websites and cool info.
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- This link allows you to see pictures of the quarters for the states, their flags, and get information about them. Cool!
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- Just click on your state and find out amazing facts!
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- For Peter!
US History
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- This is a cool link! A book online that you can use to learn information about world history and what happened in the early American exploration.
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- This website has links to other sites so kids can learn about the history of the United States and its exploration
Uncategorized
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- Play the vocabulary game and help earn rice for people who need food. This is a great way to give to the world community.
Water Writing Project
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- This site is a research paper written about the health effects of drinking contaminated water. It's pretty interesting.
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- From August 2005
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- From March 11, 2004: health clinic falsifying reports of health of workers at Hanford.
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- From September 17, 2000 - The cleanup begins...
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- The fourth link down is the story. It's about how water usage in the US is DOWN! Pretty cool story!
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- This website has a bias (tree hugger!), but it also has some interesting data that you should look at when thinking about population increases, how where one lives affects water consumption, water contamination, and how developed countries conserve water (or don't).
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- This website is from a trusted source and details how different countries use fresh water - which kinds of industry, agriculture and domestic uses, as well as combinations thereof.
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- This website is a .org, and is a good indicator of how much water one person uses.
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- This is information put up by a business website, Swivel.com, but I don't know much about it's truthfulness.
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- This has a list of the top ten reasons why people need clean, fresh water. A couple of them are a stretch, but this is still a good resource.
Wonka
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- This is a reading website to support early readers.
Writing
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- This has cute cartoon drawings of the main Olympians, and also some good information.
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- This is a kid friendly website for understanding grammar. Use it to help with writing.
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- This is a more kid friendly version for understanding grammar. Follow links to understand how to use different parts of English grammar.
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- This link has further links to many Greek goda and goddesses. There are more posted here than I have put in the homework, so that you can keep on learning!
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- This kid friendly website has lots of information on the Greek gods and their relationships.
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- This website links to information on gods, goddesses, titans, nymphs, dryads, and many, many other mythological creatures.
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- Links to specific information about different gods and goddesses.
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- Print your own cursive worksheets! Design your own page, even write your name!
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- This is a grownup friendly website; a really good resource for understanding how and when to use different grammar and puctuation. Use for help in writing.
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- You will find the Greek and Roman names of all of the Olympians on this website!
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- This link is great for information on the Greek gods. Find the picture of the Olympians and click on pictures to learn about them.
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- This has links to great pictures and lots of information.
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- Check out what kids are doing in writing, art, and poetry! See if you get inspired!
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