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Art

National Gallery of Art In Washington, D.C. has some wonderful activities and projects.

Technology

A demonstration of Scratch.

Charting the weather for October 2011

Global Schoolnet has lots of collaborative projects all over the world.


Social Studies

Mummy Tombs

Mummy Interactive from the Oriental Institute of Chicago.

Ancient History


Voyage Back in Time

Ancient Civilizations Projects

Teacher Tube Ancient Civilization

Yahoo Kids

Ancient Greece Millionaire Game


Science

Life Cycle of a Mayfly...in one day.

Butterfly Links


the butterfly collection at the field museum
The Butterfly WebSite
The Butterfly Conservatory, American Museum of Natural History
Welcome to Fermilab Butterflies!
Sophia M. Sachs Butterfly House & Education Center
Art and Linda's Home Page

Internet Projects

Top Ten LInC Projects
Yukon Quest Student Home Page
Global SchoolNet Foundation's Global Schoolhouse
Thinkquest
Collaboratory
Webquest

Introduction to Science

Understanding Science was developed by the University of California Museum of Paleontology and funded by the National Science Foundation.

Science Rules! Mr Guarino created this page for his 5th Grade Science Class.

Animals

Fox Domestication
See how wild behavior in foxes is changed by humans.

Animal WebQuests

PBS Nature
Use this site to research one animal.

National Wildlife Federation
Find information about squirrels for your squirrel report.

Optical Illusions

Lilac Chaser is made by Jeremy L Hinton and posted on the web site of Michael Bach.

Space

The Space Place   is created by NASA and available in both English or Spanish

Water

Water Science for Schools is made by the USGS for

Weather

Horace Mann was recommended by a member of the AERA-K listserv

Science Links

 The Franklin Institute Science Museum
Frank Potter's Science Gems
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

KinderGarden

All About Turtles Home Page
Sierra Club Environmental Education
Earth Day Network
National Weather Service
Sea and Sky
Journey North
What's It Like Where You Live?
Spiders and Scorpions
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Science Daily Magazine -- Your link to the latest research news
Energy Quest

Summer 2007 PHS

Read about Pentominoes, then go to puzzle 35 and solve the puzzle.

Dirty Laundry in Space

Why can't we have more interesting stories like this in the Daily Herald?

Epic 2015 is a view of the future created by Robin Sloan for the Museum of Media History

Links on Writing

The Writing Fix

Writing skills based on the Six Writing Traits are given lots or resources. Definition here.

Barbican has audio files of poets reading their work.

The Craft of Poetry is a class taught by Vince Gotera.

Poetic Form from Wikipedia lists forms alphabetically.

The English Room has a rubric for good writing with four traits.

Books we're reading.

The Give first WebQuest.

The Giver second WebQuest.

Red Badge of Courage , the text.

The English Room resources for Red Badge of Courage.

 

A Single Shard
Both Trackstar and Filamentality have many resources for this wonderful book.

Random House has a curriculum for teachers using this book.

Red Badge of Courage

updated 11/16/11

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