The following sites below are just a general list of student-approved sites. These are intended for use only after weekly usage of Education City,Study Island is sufficient as outlined by each division’s Director.

Panther Pride TV

Primary/Elementary Resources

Reading / Spelling / Language Skills/Arts & Humanities

• Wordle:www.wordle.net
• ABCYA:www.abcya.com
• Reader’s Theater Titles:www.timelessteacherstuff.com
• Reading Site:http://www.speakaboos.com/
• Sight Word Buddies:http://www.quiz-tree.com/sight-words-buddy.html#
• Starfall:http://www.starfall.com/
• Alphabetical Order:http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/online/alphaorder1.swf
• Interactive Stories for Kids:www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/onlinestory.htm
• Read-Write-Think:http://www.readwritethink.org/
• Writing Articles:http://letterpop.com/
• Spelling City:www.spellingcity.com
• Scholastic for Kids:http://www.scholastic.com/kids/stacks/
• Audio Stories online:http://storynory.com/
• Audiobooks Online:http://www.curiosoft.com/news/audiobooks.php
• Spelling Challenges:http://www.spinandspell.com/
• Interactive Reading Games:http://www.roythezebra.com/reading-games-word-level.html
• Make a Word:http://www.inklesstales.com/games/makeaword/index.shtml
• Art Resources:http://www.wga.hu/index1.html
• Free Play Music:www.freeplaymusic.com
• Find Sounds:www.findsounds.com/ISAPI/search.dll
• Creating Music:www.creatingmusic.com

Math / Science / Social Studies

• Math Dictionary for Kids:http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com/
• Games and Activities:http://illuminations.nctm.org/Activities.aspx?grade=all&standard=all
• Math Manipulatives:http://www.aplusmath.com/games/index.html
• Math Games:http://nlvm.usu.edu/
• Interactive Math Games / Math Playground:http://www.mathplayground.com/index.html
• Cool Science for Curious Kids:http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/forkids/
• Why does something happen? (Science behind the news):http://whyfiles.org/
• How everyday things are Made:http://manufacturing.stanford.edu/hetm.html
• NASA Space Place (Science games and activities):http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/index.shtml
• Kids National Geographic (Great research site):http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/
• Stately Knowledge:http://www.ipl.org/div/stateknow/
• Geography Games:http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/geography.htm
• Library of Congress:www.loc.gov/index.html
• American Historical Documents:www.archives.gov/historical-docs/
• Global Trek:http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/globaltrek/index.htm
• Field Trips:www.efieldtrips.org
• Journey into Amazonia:www.pbs.org/journeyintoamazonia/index.html
• Spotty’s WhiteHouse Tour:www.whitehouse.gov/kids/tour(NOTE the .gov)
• Map Puzzles (IWB resource):www.yourchildlearns.com/map-puzzles.htm

Interactive Educational Games for All Subjects

• Student Interactive Games for K-2:http://www.uen.org/k-2interactives/index.shtml
• Student Interactive Games for 3-5:http://www.uen.org/3-6interactives/
• Brain Games:http://brainconnection.positscience.com/teasers/
• Game Goo Learning:www.earobics.com/gamegoo/gooey.html
• Sheppard Software Games:http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/
• Bitesize Games (British accent):http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks1bitesize/literacy/
• Games and Activities for Learning:http://www.starfall.com/
• Bitesize Games Revision (English version):http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/
• Resource Page for PPT presentations:http://www.pppst.com/
• Great site for picking numbers, student order, or projects:www.random.org
• Classroom Resources – Templates:http://www1.center.k12.mo.us/edtech/resources/index.html
• SMART Board/Airliner Resources:http://www1.center.k12.mo.us/edtech/
• Secure site for young children:www.zacbrowser.com

Webcams

• Panda Web Cams:http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/GiantPandas/
• San Diego Zoo:www.sandiegozoo.org/videos/index.html
• Pyramid Cam:www.pyramidcam.com
• Monterey Bay Aquarium:www.mbayaq.org/efc/cam_menu.asp
• Old Faithful:www.nps.gov/archive/yell/oldfaithfulcam.htm
• Yellowstone Live:www.nps.gov/yell/photosmultimedia/yellowstonelive.htm

News for Kids

• TIME for Kids:http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK
• New York Times:http://www.nytimes.com/learning/
• Newseum Front Pages:http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/
• Science News:www.sciencenewsforkids.org

Typing / Keyboarding Activities

• Dance Mat Typing:http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/
• Tux Typing 2:http://tuxtype.sourceforge.net/(Free download site)
• Wordle Art:www.wordle.net
• Learn to Type:http://kids.learn2type.com/Tots
• Free Typing Games:http://www.sense-lang.org/typing/games/index.php?lang=EN#
• Mouse / Pointer Awareness Lesson:http://www.tvokids.com/play/bees/bee2blueback.swf
• Typing Tutor:http://www.visibone.com/type/
• Free Touch Typing Practice:http://www.freetypinggame.net/play10.asp?lesson=1&goal=15&AGo1=Start+Lesson

Middle School/High School Resources

Google Search Story Creation:http://youtube.com/searchstories

Our Courts (Argument Wars / Constitutional Law):http://www.ourcourts.org/play-games

Free Audio Owls:http://www.audioowl.com/

Web 2.0 Project Book:http://www.ictineducation.org/free-stuff/

US History / Avalon Project:http://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp

Videos / VoiceThread Lessons – Smart History:http://smarthistory.org/

Math Lessons / Animated Stories:http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/me5l/html/math5.html

MadLibs-like Activities:http://www.eduplace.com/tales/

Animated, Narrated Historical Maps:http://www.the-map-as-history.com/

Game Play:http://www.placefy.com/index.html

Build Planet Earth:http://www.reachtheworld.org/geogames/index.html

XP Math Games:http://www.xpmath.com/

Word Twist:http://www.wordtwist.org/

Free Editing Tools:http://aviary.com/

Puzzles:http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/

Puzzles and Logic Games:Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection

Wiki Spaces:http://www.wikispaces.com/site/for/teachers

Math Tutorials:http://mathtrain.tv

Historical Photos of Places around the world:http://www.histografica.com/

Astronomy Resources:http://www.exploratorium.edu/observatory/index.html

Romeo and Juliet:http://www.rsc.org.uk/romeo/home/home.html

National Portrait Gallery:http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/ballyhoo/index.html

Smithsonian Institute on Civil War:http://www.civilwar.si.edu/

Free Plagiarism Detector:http://www.plagiarismdetect.com/

Malware / Adware / Spam / Phishing:http://www.securitycartoon.com/

Free Curriculum Content:http://readwritethink.org

Monterey Bay Aquarium:http://www.mbayaq.org/

Highlight Parts of a Webpage:www.awesomehighlighter.com

Make your Own Worksheets:www.mathfactcafe.com

Check-Out / Compare Size Button:www.pyramidcam.com

Explore 450 Objects:http://historywired.si.edu

Resources / Lessons:www.nytimes.com/learning

Newspaper Frontpages:www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/

Wordle – Word Cloud Tool Generator:http://wordle.net

Study Guide for Literature, U.S. History, and Poetry:http://www.shmoop.com/literature/

Virtual Art Museum:http://www.wga.hu/index1.html

American Presidents Reference Source:http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident

Periodic Table of Comic Books:http://www.uky.edu/Projects/Chemcomics/index.html#table

Element Hang Man:http://education.jlab.org/elementhangman/

Free Classic Music:http://www.classicalarchives.com/bach.html

Music Flash Cards:http://www.wwnorton.com/college/music/musictheory/flashcards/index.html

Basic Science Information:http://www.sciencemaster.com/

Collection of “Classic” Video Clips:www.archive.org/details/movies

American Memory Project Primary Source Documents:http://memory.loc.gov/

Interesting Class Activities / Orange Tab:http://primarysourcelearning.org/index.shtml

Creating Internet Trails for Users:www.trailfire.com

Science News for Kids:www.sciencenewsforkids.org